“A murder of Crows” is a Twine game by Design Youkai. I chose this because it came near the top of the randomized list, and the blurb looked inviting. The game delivers what it promises; a day in the life of a crow. We (my crow friends and I) had a series of adventures involving dogs and humans and the flock (collectively, “the murder”). The crows speak in a rhyming cant, a speech pattern which effectively imitates the repetitive “caw caw” sounds of a real flock, but regrettably detracts from the representation of the birds high intelligence, something I think the author also meant to show.
There are a lot of circular paths through the text, which might be true of a crow’s life (repeating the same series of actions again and again) but this made the game feel like a menu maze, as I struggled to find a path to the end game. There were a couple small spelling mistakes, and a Twine syntax warning message on one passage. Overall, this was an interesting and ambitious project for someone who may be relatively new to the Twine medium. I hope to see more from this author.