Very Restrained Summer Fun

The sun is a deadly lazer, but living with the shutters closed and the A/C perpetually humming in the background of your half-light days and half-dark nights has reduced your brain to a blob of not writing goo.

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A tired and dehydrated piece of micro (interactive) fiction.

Made over a couple of days for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2025.

As such, the game is very short-- 489 words total, by my own reckoning, which fits neatly under the 500 word limit of the jam.

This was my third and last entry for the jam. I really wanted to do something with Twine this time. I had fun, but I must confess that I would have been lost making it look anywhere near this good if it hadn't been for manonamora's one-page template!

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Thank you kindly!

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Credits 

<Very Restrained Summer Fun was written by Ether Nepenthes on Twine 2 with Harlowe (v3.3.9), with the help of the One Page Template by manonamora.

Fonts used:

• Alice by The Alice Project Authors
• Montserrat by The Montserrat.Git Project Authors

both under a SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. 

The theme colours are from the Warm Summer palette by Lumeish on Lospec. (

The Milk Carton favicon is by Freepik under a Free PNG Freepik license.

The photograph used in promotional materials belongs to Ether Nepenthes, all rights reserved.