GUACUCO
Keyboard and mouse + downloading the game recommended for the best play experience.
Guacuco is an experimental interactive diorama about confronting traumatic memories and letting them go. You're stuck in your nightmares, and the only way out is to face your pain, gather all your memories, and return them to the flow of time.
- A short, atmospheric narrative experience written and designed by FUTURE RUINS; around five to ten minutes long.
- Featuring poignant music by the incredibly talented avyary.
- Programmed by Jeremy Diamond, with support by Javier Calderón, Jannik Boysen, and Daniel Del Río.
- Produced by Oyoun, funded by Fonds Soziokultur from the program of the BKM "NEUSTART KULTUR".
Contains depictions of racism, homophobia, and transphobia.
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5, Windows, macOS |
Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (36 total ratings) |
Authors | FUTURE RUINS, Oyoun, SpitefulFox |
Genre | Interactive Fiction |
Made with | Blender, Unity, Substance Painter & designer |
Tags | 3D, Atmospheric, diorama, LGBT, Narrative |
Code license | GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL) |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
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Guacuco Mac.zip 83 MB
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Absolutely Fantastic Piece!
Thank you so much!!!
Very moving. The art direction is really strong, and the music is sorrowful yet melancholic. I loved watching the palm trees swaying in the wind and I did a second playthrough just to admire the buildings by the beach :)
Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for playing it and taking your time with it, I really appreciate it <3
thank you as well for your kind words about the music <3
The game is very laggy for me. Most of the time I move my mouse it doesn't register, and when it does, it shifts my field of vision by a very large amount, making regular turning almost impossible. It doesn't help that the environment is so dark that I can't see where I am, much less find the seashells. I am on the web version as the PC version didn't load (GPU doesn't support something, it wouldn't let me read the full error message). Can I fix this?
Hi! Could you tell me the specs of your PC? Also, are you using a mouse mouse or a trackpad/something similar?
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 1.99 GHz
(not sure what exactly pc specs are)
I am using a mouse and not a trackpad.
Thank you! With specs I mean your cpu just like you posted, but also your graphics card too, since it was mentioned in the error message!
Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620
is that what it is?
Yes! That's it. I was asking for it since the error you mentioned seemed to say something about your graphics card. You have an integrated chipset, and this particular chipset doesn't seem capable of running my game, sadly :( I'm really sorry, there isn't much I can do on my end about it. Thank you for taking the time to report the issue anyways.
thank you so much for this game, it made me feel less lonely and the end was beautiful.
I hope you are safe, happy and thriving, and I wish the same for myself too <3
Thank you so much Robin! Means a lot that you liked the game. I hope you're happy and thriving as well!!!
Really a small, beautiful gem.
Lots of the rethoric about immigrants is also very strong here in Italy too, and it's both disheartening to hear the same phrases and leit motifs repeated in another context, and reassuring that a common front can be built to face these kinds of oppressions.
Thanks for the experience, it was good to throw that last seashell!
Hey, thank you so much for playing! :)
Thank you all for this game ^_^
I absolutely loved the game! It's definitely a good game to play, but when I played on browser the mouse couldn't move very much. However, I loved the music! :)
Hi Kace! Thanks for playing! What platform were you playing the game (i.e PC, Mac, etc)? Were you using mouse, or a trackpad?
I use the Chrome OS platform (I believe that is the platform on a Chromebook) and a trackpad.
Okay, yeah! It was probably the trackpad. :( Mouse works best for the game, trackpad has mixed results.
hi, i'm glad you liked the music! :>
this is SO beautiful. the atmosphere is incredible, and feels sorrowful and nostalgic in a very real and understandable way. the end particularly got to me - even though not everyone's secrets or nightmares are the same, we all have them, and having someone else acknowledge that can be as healing as anything. thank you <3
thank YOU for playing, ellis <3 means a lot!
Me ha gustado mucho la ambientación y poder conocerte mejor leyendo tus recuerdos desde un agujerito. Muchas gracias por compartirlo!
En mi concha he tirado al mar los recuerdos de los tres chicos que me perseguían y me tiraban piedras gritándome "marimacho" por el pueblo de mi madre cada semana cuando mi madre me dejaba con mis abuelos. Los niños de ese pueblo me tenían como un chiste que contaban en el colegio y una presa a la que perseguir cuando descubrían que había venido, no tengo ni idea de por qué se obcecaron tanto. La única vez que me acerqué para que me dejasen jugar con ellos, es como si estuvieran esperando que apareciese alguien a quien perseguir y humillar. No tuve ni un ápice de oportunidad. Lo tendría escrito en la cara, y por eso lo vieron tan claro? Nunca había tenido problemas así en mi pueblo.
Un verano vino un chico de Barcelona, y a él le hicieron lo mismo llamándole "foraster" y "pixapins". Nos hicimos amigos, conseguí tener a Gengar y a Machamp y todos los Pokemon que no había podido tener porque no tenía hermanos ni amigos con gameboy, pasé un verano muy guay. Hasta que llegaron las fiestas, que me pidió que bailase con él en las fiestas del pueblo. Mi madre se alegró mucho de que le dijera que sí, pero yo no había sentido nunca tantísima frustración. No sé cómo lo sabía, pero sabía que decirle que no hubiera transformado la dinámica que tenía con ese chico en la dinámica que tenía con los niños del pueblo.
Mi madre lloró mucho de emoción cuando me puso el traje tradicional de las fiestas y me vió bailar con el chico ese. Creo que vió la luz al final del tunel, porque me dijo que se alegraba mucho de que estubiera madurando ya un poco y hubiera empezado a hacer cosas de chica normales.
Al dia siguiente fuí yo quien no quiso jugar a pokemon con el forastero, y le evité hasta que se volvió a Barcelona. No lo entendía muy bien entonces, pero creo que es el primer recuerdo que tengo en el que sentí verdadera traición.
Pero he tirado la concha al mar y creo que estoy mejor con eso ahora. Muchas gracias por esta experiencia!
Ay Ivan me alegro muchísimo que te haya gustado el juego, y que la concha final haya ayudado un poquito a procesar ese recuerdo. Valoro muchísimo que te hayas abierto aquí para contar tu experiencia también. Me siento muy identificado leyéndote la verdad, y siento mucho que hayas pasado por eso. Muchísimas gracias en serio.
the soundtrack along with it added so much to the experience!
thank you so much!
sorry for replying to this so late but i'm very glad you liked the soundtrack!
La experiencia me ha conmovido la verdad. Especialmente me han gustado el cierre y el escenario. ¡Buen trabajo! :)
muchísimas gracias!!!
A short autobio game that made me want to cry.
Highly recommended.
Thank you so much!
An evocative, gorgeous experience! @_@
Thank you!