04.07.2025 –, Bar Ecke I
Sprache: English
An interactive comic book about housing shortage and horror in architecture.
You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic.
Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.
Don't Get Your Hopes Up is a short interactive comic about housing shortage and horror in architecture.
Based on desperate apartment searches undertaken in 2022 and 2024, and drawing from a half decade of conversations about Amsterdam's woningnood, the game moves between documentary, fiction, and social commentary.
With disquiet and creeping unease, it dismantles the consoling fictions of abundance, and laments a feeling of home that's always just beyond reach.
https://krishraghav.itch.io/dont-get-your-hopes-up
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/Dont_Get_Your_Hopes_Up/
Remote
Inhaltswarnung –Interactive comic, 40-60 minutes. Mild horror elements.
Krish Raghav is a comic book artist based in Amsterdam. He shares a hometown in India with Dhalsim, of Street Fighter fame, but cannot shoot fireballs from his face. His work has appeared in TANK Magazine, Al-Jazeera, Real Life, and Topic. This is his first videogame.
Homepage: www.krishcat.com
Play the demo: https://krishraghav.itch.io/dont-get-your-hopes-up