The Winchester Collection

🖨️ No printing required

🖊️ Writing "game" 

This is a collection of two games —The Winchester Document and The Winchester Exorcism— that use the same system. You get both in this purchase!

The Winchester Document

After being dared to spend a night in the Winchester Mystery House, you woke with a piece of paper in your hand stating that the next time you wrote would be your last. 

That's absurd, though, and clearly your friends messing with you! So you immediately started writing when you realized the curse was real: if you stop writing within the next 5 minutes, you'll die and what you wrote will be lost forever.

If you survive, the curse means each subsequent time will require you to write for even longer... Sarah Winchester will get you eventually!

The Winchester Exorcism

Your demons have resided within you for years. Decades, maybe. They mock you, taunt you, make you feel small, make you feel worthless. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, either they're going down or you are... and they won't go down without a fight.

Using your keyboard or something to write with, dive into your mind and battle them with your words. Write about why they're wrong, why they need to go away, why you're valid and worthy of joy. But if you stop before ten minutes is up... they win.

The Winchester Exorcism also includes a second page that explores my own demons —dysphoria and bipolar— and my battle with them. A battle I win for short bursts of time, but the demons always return. It's what this game is based on, actually, as I often have to journal them away or go on LOOOOOOONG walks with loud music to think them away.

The Hyper 1 HOUR Game Jam

This Winchester Document was created for Hyper 1 HOUR Game Jam #39 (Keep Movin'), which means I literally made it in an hour! WHEW! I highly encourage you to check the jams out 🧡 They're every Friday at 6 pm Eastern, and Lýz livestreams them, including the theme reveal and playing entries after. She's super fun and encouraging and awesome!

You can watch Lýz talk about it and play it in the video to the right, it starts right before she gets into the game.

And Angel made a game for this jam too!

More Hyper 1 HOUR Games

You can check out our other Hyper 1 HOUR Creations (and games inspired by the jam) here, along with some of my favorites below:

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