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Laurel Halbany

Games

✏️ Better Golden Cobra Challenge (2015)
✏️ The Widows' Market Golden Cobra Challenge (2018)
✏️ Catharsis Golden Cobra Challenge (2019)

Awards

Golden Cobra Challenge (2018)

The Widows' Market: Nominated, Honorable Mentions
Laurel Halbany’s The Widows’ Market does not declare itself a “game,” but rather an “interpretation.” In addition to the text itself interpreting ancient Sumerian practices documented on tablets, players are then asked to interpret the freeform procedures themselves from the sparse text provided. We found the situation evocative, feminist, and multicultural at its core. The Committee saw in this work the kind of historical imagination and creative leaps needed to make a tight, engaging game.


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