Analysis: Don’t Look Back – Cavanagh’s Alternate Game Viewpoints
Writer and designer Emily Short looks at storytelling techniques in Terry Cavanagh’s unique indie games Don’t Look Back and Judith to uncover "the methods by which a masterpiece will one day be written."
Emily Short: "Terry Cavanagh has written a game, Don’t Look Back, recapitulating the journey of Orpheus to the underworld to retrieve his dead wife, Eurydice.
You know how it goes, I hope. Orpheus is the greatest musician in the world, but his gift does not protect him from misfortune. His beautiful young bride steps on a viper shortly after their wedding. (According to Ovid this is clumsiness; Vergil has her fleeing a would-be rapist.)"
