I want arms long enough to hug all my friends is a solo journaling and reflection game about loving people who don't share space with you and also what you'd do if you had really long arms. It's also about bodies and transness and neurodivergence, even if it doesn't directly tell you that.

I wrote it on a plane from the US to Sweden and then some more at my friends' apartment in Sweden and finished it right before moving into my own apartment in Sweden. It is my entry in the 2022 Trans Joy Jam. Please look at all the other entries!!

The game is available free in-browser as an interactive Twine story or as a downloadable TTRPG-style PDF for a small tip. If you choose the latter you'll need a way to write a few things.

Play, enjoy, share, comment, tell your friends you love them.

CWs: Potential unreality, very mild body horror

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StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
AuthorM. Campbell
Tagsjournaling, lyric-game, Short, Singleplayer, Solo RPG, Tabletop, Tabletop role-playing game

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Shelves' Schwa2 years ago(+1)
the one who gardened, you let
the one who drove and go, you fly
the one who escaped, you had me
the one who ran to me, your here
the one who slept, you are enough
the one who raised hell, you brought it in
the one who ate the earth, you took me in
the one who gave, sit you
the one who stopped, you got me up
the one who gendered exceptionally, hiiii
the one who wouldn't, dare
the one who followed up, I'm floored
the one who 🥺🛣️🧙🏻⬛, you 🐌🌻💌⬜
the one who inked me, you hit the spot
the one who grew horns, you kept
the one who became me, you rest
"I call to task past lung breath go hug all my friends"
Finger puppets. With the Moon.
ride Bright, arms whip at 100kph
self check out, no one isn't bumping my arms
spin fire poi, satellites kept exploding
bathing, rains if I rinse my arms with clouds
stopped for breath 
giddy
I got what I wanted, future-me will understand
My arms once more form past breath, slipping as gloves off my body, to roll away together to crawl into trees and join, in a circle.

Lovely this. Runs, smoothly. Got me into a chair. Not many reads have done that.

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M. Campbell2 years ago

Ohhhh thank you so much, Schwa! And what lovely lovely answers!

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