Inspired by visual novels and interactive fiction, An Afternoon Rippling is a text-based 2D adventure game about getting lost after your car breaks down. In your search for the elusive Mechanic, you have conversations with a series of mysterious individuals in a valley.
I created this game as my graduation project. The beta was released in 2016, and I published the final game in 2019.
"An Afternoon Rippling feels like every late-night bus ride on a too-hot summer’s evening."
"Every now and then you play a game which has a nearly indescribable impact on you and you are not even completely sure why."
"It's weird, it's funny...well worth playing for the strange characters and scenarios and how well-written each of them is."
"It reminded me that the best adventures often happen when the guidebook is blank and your itinerary empty."
AWARDS
Best Narrative Nominee, Brazil's Independent Games (BIG) Festival, 2017
Official Selection, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) Arcade, 2017
Official Selection, Game Happens, 2017
Official Selection, Game Devs of Color Expo, 2017
Nerdeo's Game Project Of The Week
CREDITS
Created by Marcie LaCerte
Copyedited by Brian Reinken
Copyedited by Brian Reinken
MUSIC & SOUND
"Kites Are Fun" by The Free Design
"Midnight Shuffle" by Cosmos
Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 by Edward Elgar, performed by Jacqueline Du Pre (cello)
"Take It Away" by Stone Arch Isles
SFX from freesound.org, Prelinger Archives, Kenney Vleugels, and Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives
"Midnight Shuffle" by Cosmos
Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 by Edward Elgar, performed by Jacqueline Du Pre (cello)
"Take It Away" by Stone Arch Isles
SFX from freesound.org, Prelinger Archives, Kenney Vleugels, and Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Tom Schroeder and Kristen Solid
Krista McCullough, Kelsey Maher, Ameesha Tirmazi, Bree Lindsoe
Krista McCullough, Kelsey Maher, Ameesha Tirmazi, Bree Lindsoe
CREATED WITH
MCAD 2016 ♡ completed 2019
"Green pastures. Watching the horizon rise and fall as the wind swirled through the wheat, an afternoon rippling with curling lines of rain. The color of the earth, the smell of alfalfa and bread. A town that smelled like spilled honey…"
Pedro Páramo, Juan Ruolfo
