31BR

31BR is a short visual novel. It was created for the TIGSource Commonplace Book competition, where games were designed based on entries in H. P. Lovecraft's commonplace book.

The game was based on the following commonplace book entry:

Man visits museum of antiquities—asks that it accept a bas-relief he has just made—old and learned curator laughs and says he cannot accept anything so modern. Man says that ‘dreams are older than brooding Egypt or the contemplative Sphinx or garden-girdled Babylonia’ and that he had fashioned the sculpture in his dreams. Curator bids him shew his product, and when he does so curator shews horror. Asks who the man may be. He tells modern name. “No—before that” says curator. Man does not remember except in dreams. Then curator offers high price, but man fears he means to destroy sculpture. Asks fabulous price—curator will consult directors.

The main character is an artist who's trying to sell a museum a bas-relief he made. The game has four possible endings, depending on the player's choices.