Words, Wilting
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🏳️🌈 Why it’s here
What we found
- Queer storyline central to play
According to the game’s rulebook
“This game is written with the assumption that the lovers must hide their relationship because they are of the same gender” - Queer themes
According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io - Queer creator
According to our queer creator directory - Tagged queer by its creator
According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io
“itch.io tags: lgbt, queer”
🤝 Inclusive design ⓘInclusive design is separate from a game’s queer labels. It marks games whose design is deliberately inclusive even when not queer-themed: romance or marriage mechanics with no gender constraint, character creation without a forced gender binary, gender-neutral rules language, or table safety tools. Each marker shows where we found it.
- Safety tools (X-card, lines & veils, session zero)
According to the game’s rulebook
“have one of the index cards set aside with a clear symbol on it such as a big X, and when uncomfortable point to or grab the card”
Description
In Words, Wilting you and a friend will take the role of two young lovers of the same age whose love must be concealed. To aid in this, the lovers have created a way to communicate secretly through flowers adorning their outfits, inspired by the Victorian floral language of love. Play consists of you selecting index cards, each featuring a flower from the language you create together, and interpreting the card the other player selected, hoping to remember the hidden meaning you crafted together. You then create a scene together around what the cards meant and if the lovers remembered the language they made. PDF: If you downloaded it before the file was named WordsWiltingV2 please redownload. Not only is the minor image issue fixed, it should now also have...Screen Reader accessibility!