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The Beach That Makes You Old is an interactive fiction game about the titular "care" facility and the patients/prisoners within. You play as someone on the outside who gets contacted by someone on the inside. You learn, you listen, you go through bureaucratic nonsense. It's gotta end eventually, right?

Play time is about 45 minutes. Click on colored text to go to new passages. You'll be prompted to type in specific codes throughout the game, as well as answer open-ended questions. I don't have access to any information you input.

The Beach That Makes You Old contains potentially triggering content. A full list of content warnings is available in the title screen.

Credits

Written and developed by: a.c.d

Cover designed by: a.c.d

Edited by: a.c.d with help from Darwin, Levi, Jeannette C, and nico :)

Background images take from: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries

Title taken from jokes about the movie Old (2021) dir. M. Night Shyamalan, specifically this tweet

Joke that inspired me to make that the title of the game and name of the institution depicted made by my partner as they took me to a very scary doctor's appointment

Written and completed from 2023-2024

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