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Fragile Soft Machines

Factsheet

Developer:
MadameBerry
Based in Ohio

Release Date:
March 28, 2015

Platforms: 
PC / Mac / Linux

Website:

itch.io page

Regular Price:
$3

Description

You were born to fly, but you never will. As a butterfly with a torn wing, traverse the land in a way you were never meant to, as you journey to find your place in a world that has rejected you. Your choices will affect your journey as well as the world around you.

History

Fragile Soft Machines started as a project for One Game a Month, and was inspired by an experimental font called Aierbazzi.

Features

  • Environmental changes based on player choices
  • Branching storyline with multiple endings
  • Player input and writing prompts; grow flowers with your words
  • Unique art style, blending minimalist pixel art and visual effects


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Videos

Fragile Soft Machines Trailer Youtube



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Logo


Selected Quotes

  • “Diane Mueller’s Fragile Soft Machines, which uses the butterfly in similarly melancholic terms, so easily expresses the loss of beauty.“ 
    – Chris Priestman, Kill Screen
  • “Fragile Soft Machines offers the player a chance to think about life and struggling with one’s shortcomings.“ 
    – Lena LeRay, IndieGames.com
  • “Fragile Soft Machines uses the butterfly, traditionally a symbol of ephemeral beauty, as a metaphor for endurance and tragedy, which is novel enough to make it memorable in its own right. … The message is pretty blatant, but nevertheless, in a medium where achievement hunting is a popular pastime and the perfect ending always attainable, the reminder that in order to move on one must accept loss is startling.“ 
    – Melody Lee, (The) Absolute

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Additional Links

Aierbazzi Font
Available for free from fontsquirrel.com.

Patreon
MadameBerry’s Patreon for funding development costs: 
patreon.com


About MadameBerry

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Independent game designer, pixel artist, and game jam aficionado, creating unusual alternative games and monthly projects on Patreon.

More information
More information on MadameBerry, our logo & relevant media are available here.


Credits

MadameBerry
Developer

Joachim Despland
French Translation

Tiny Worlds (Rick Hoppmann)
Music

Sindwiller (Andreas Ratchev)
Music

Socapex (Philippe Groarke)
Music

Contact

Inquiries
contact@madameberry.com

Twitter
twitter.com/madameberry

Web
madameberry.com


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