Coarse Weeds
A downloadable game
"Coarse Weeds" is a solo RPG that focuses on you and your personal experiences, and your journey. Written for the 2020 Entity Jam, Coarse Weeds creates a space that is solely yours. We often find ourselves scared to be alone, perhaps out of fear of Loneliness; but as a result, we forget to tend to parts of ourselves. Coarse Weeds allows you recognize and honor yourself: your pain, your joy, your courage, your grief.
This game requires honesty and trust with yourself. Safety tools are provided, and check-ins are included within the game progression. This game is ultimately about honoring all the part of your life that make you who you are.
Content Warnings: Although the journey will go in different areas for each person, this RPG contains themes of memory, pain, grief, self-care/self-love, adversity, and survival.
Be gentle with yourself.
Note: This was updated in 2024. Typos were fixed, published named was changed.
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Development log
- Coarse Weeds 2024 UpdateMay 02, 2024
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Even just reading this I can already feel the power of the affirming words, the introspective self-loving stance that this game nurtures. An amazing game that I've had the privilege of beholding.
Thank you for these incredibly kind words!
Thank you for this beautiful game. I wrote a full 2 pages for the coarse weeds segment concerning the loss of a loved one with dry eyes, but the second I got to the lavender segment I was a misty eyed mess. The poetic aspect of the writing translated into my own in a way that helped me put into words more complicated emotions that I hadn't been able to articulate before. Most importantly, this game helped remind me of an affirmation that helped me through my most challenging days that I needed again in this season of life.
"This is not the biggest mountain you've climbed."
Thank you so much for these incredibly kind words. I'm teary-eyed just reading about how this helped you process, and how it helped affirm and remind you of things you need right now. I'm so honored that my words impacted you like this and created some space for you to connect with yourself.