Browser game · literary · hosted on the web
Paris to Pamplona.
You are Jake Barnes: newspaperman, veteran, aficionado. Paris to Pamplona with Hemingway’s lost generation.
What this is
Hemingway’s novel, played from Jake’s chair.
Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel as a browser game. You play Jake Barnes—newspaperman, veteran, aficionado—traveling from the cafés of Paris to the fiesta at Pamplona in the company of the lost generation.
Like the studio’s Gatsby game, it follows the book and hands you the narrator’s seat.
The playable game lives at sunalsorises.netlify.app. This page is its home in the Brand New Colors portfolio.
Behind the game
What an aficionado knows.
The card for this game names Jake three ways—newspaperman, veteran, aficionado—and that triple identity is the design. Each is a lens the novel already uses: work, wound, and devotion. A game can let a player feel the pull among them instead of reading about it.
Hemingway’s readers are exactly the kind of specific audience hyper-niche games are for: people who’d notice if you got it wrong.
Who it welcomes
Made for the people who’d get it.
- Hemingway readers, and anyone who’s wanted to sit at that Paris table.
- Players who liked the Gatsby game and want the rougher companion piece.
A Brand New Colors game. Source text: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926).
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