Closed Hands

Closed Hands is a interactive fiction game by artist Dan Hett. The game follows the deep intertwined stories of five people thrown together by their involvement in a fictional terror attack.

This sprawling story plays out through a combination of traditional interactive text, as well as desktop computer interfaces, conversations, IM's, phone calls and more. 

A fragmented and complex narrative, the game's chapters are playable in almost any order. Some go forward in time, some backwards, and some both. Players can choose to follow a single narrative arc, or jump between perspectives to get the full picture of everything that happens to the city, and it's inhabitants.

Mark LaCroix of Noble Robot worked as a programmer and visual designer on this game, building and updating the visuals of the the faux-computer interfaces from concept art, and providing rich animation and interactivity to the game's main chapter select interface.

[Closed Hands] is a game about you, a game about me, a game about us all. What, I wonder, will it show you?
- Robert Purchese, Eurogamer

An engrossing and compelling piece of interactive fiction [...] 9/10
- Alan Wen, The Sixth Axis