New bonus story available! Henrietta's Gravity - A Polemic Short

When I launched POLEMIC, I made it so that, with a $2 donation, you can grab Radio, a short story prequel to the game. Now I've added another story, called Henrietta's Gravity. This one is an epilogue, but only to a select few endings. Read on to the bottom to find out which endings it applies to. Spoilers, of course!

Note: if you've already made a donation to get Radio, you should automatically have access to Henrietta's Gravity as well. No need to pay again if you don't want to!

Now for the spoilers. For this story to be applicable, two things must be true by the game's end: Henrietta must have survived, and Tess must not have. There are only three endings in which that is true. To see them, follow one of the following sets of actions:

• attack -> evade -> attack
• defend -> attack -> attack
• evade -> attack -> attack

It should go without saying that I did not plan for this story to be part of the game's overall package initially. This is something I wrote much later, basically on a whim. I liked the result, which is why I decided to offer it up, but I want to be clear that this does not make the above endings 'canon' or somehow more valid than any others. The point of the game hinges on players experiencing multiple endings and taking each of them into account when considering the game's message. Instead, I would like you to think of Henrietta's Gravity as a small thank you to those players who have supported me by playing POLEMIC thoroughly enough to appreciate it--and have made a donation, of course.

So, thank you for playing, and I hope you enjoy Henrietta's Gravity.