The Last Curator

A dying museum, one last exhibition. Choose what survives.

narrative

About

A narrative game about choosing what to remember. You play the final curator of a museum slated for demolition. You have one week to decide which thirty pieces of history will tour as the closing exhibition.

Branching dialogue with twelve characters who all want different things from the collection. Every artwork is hand-prompted; some are inventions, others are reconstructions of pieces that were actually lost.

Workflow

Tools used

Claude · narrative
12 character voices, branching dialogue trees
Flux · art
Canvas textures and aging overlays
Midjourney · art
30 museum pieces in matched period styles

Dev time

60 days

Key prompts›

Artwork prompts (Midjourney v6 + Flux dev for textures):

oil painting, 17th century Dutch, still life
with a single broken cup, somber tones
--ar 4:5 --v 6

Dialogue scaffolding (Claude):

Given a character motivation and a piece of art, write
a 90-second monologue arguing for its inclusion. Avoid
explicit pleading; lean on personal memory.

Hardest part

Branching dialogue that respects both the museum's history and the player's emotional pacing.

Creator

Theo Park

Writer and illustrator from Seoul. Studies what makes branching feel inevitable.