“The Bride Who Could Not Stop Crying” explores the embroideries women made in connection to marriage, and the wedding day as a day of mourning.  In this single-player role playing video game, players take on the role of a bride who cannot stop crying as she goes about interacting with other women in her family and mythical characters in the embroideries they make. The reactions and choices of the player are reflected in the “tear metre” of the bride.

The game has three possible endings depending on the choices that the bride makes.

This project was created with the support of the Goa Centre For the Arts under VM Salgoacar Fellowship Grant 2023, instituted by Sunaparanta Goa Centre For The Arts.

CREDITS

THE BRIDE WHO COULD NOT STOP CRYING
A game by: Afrah Shafiq
Programmed by: Kushal Neil
Animation and design by: Piyush Verma and Afrah Shafiq
Sound design by Alok Kotian and Ridham Janve
Research Support: Oxana Polyakova, Daria Bobrenko and Ivan Yarygin
Studio Assistant: Sara Athar

BIO : Afrah Shafiq is a multi/new media artist based out of Goa, India. Using the process of research as an artistic playground, Afrah intertwines archival findings, history, memory, folklore and fantasy to create a speculative world born of remix culture. Her work moves across various mediums drawing from the handmade language of traditional folk forms and connecting them to the digital language of the Internet and video games.