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Question: Which one of Franz Kafka's short stories do you like best to be turned into a Not-Game?
Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart [Der Unredliche in Seinem Herzen]
Description of a Struggle [Beschreibung eines Kampfes]
Wedding Preparations in the Country [Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande]
The Judgment [Das Urteil] (it's different from The Trial)
Contemplation [Betrachtung]
The Stoker [Der Heizer]
The Metamorphosis [Die Verwandlung]
In the Penal Colony [In der Strafkolonie]
The Village Schoolmaster (The Giant Mole) [Der Dorfschullehrer (Der Riesenmaulwurf)]
Before the Law [Der Prozeß]
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor [Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle]
The Warden of the Tomb [Der Gruftwächter]
A Country Doctor [Ein Landarzt]
The Hunter Gracchus [Der Jäger Gracchus]
The Great Wall of China [Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer]
A Message from the Emperor [Eine kaiserliche Botschaft]
A Report to an Academy [Ein Bericht für eine Akademie]
A Dream
Up in the Gallery
A Fratricide [Ein Brudermord]
The Next Village
A Visit to a Mine
Jackals and Arabs [Schakale und Araber]
The Bridge
The Bucket Rider
The New Advocate
An Old Manuscript [Ein altes Blatt]
The Knock at the Manor Gate
Eleven Sons
My Neighbor
A Crossbreed (A Sport)
The Cares of a Family Man [Die Sorge des Hausvaters]
The Refusal [Die Abweisung]
A Hunger Artist [Ein Hungerkünstler]
Investigations of a Dog [Forschungen eines Hundes]
A Little Woman [Eine kleine Frau]
The Burrow
Josiephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk
A Common Confusion
The Truth about Sancho Panza
The Silence of the Sirens
Prometheus
The City Coat of Arms
Poseidon
Fellowship
At Night
The Problem of Our Laws
The Conscription of Troops
The Test
The Vulture [Der Geier]
The Helmsman
The Top [Der Kreisel]
A Little Fable
Home-Coming
First Sorrow [Erstes Leid]
The Departure [Der Aufbruch]
Advocates
The Married Couple
Give it Up!
On Parables

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Jon N/A

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« on: September 22, 2010, 08:48:19 PM »
We're doing a research to see which one of his short stories you like most to discuss it's adaptation process to a not-game over at Contests & Studies sub forum here.

Of course it's a lot of options and I'm sure most people (including me) haven't heard of 90% of it!
But I just put them there in case anyone have read one of them Wink
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Michaël Samyn

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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2010, 05:25:19 AM »
I've read Kafka in Dutch. So the titles are unfamiliar. Any chance of having the original German titles? Or links to the stories?
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Henrik Flink

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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2010, 12:11:55 PM »
I've only read The Castle, and i liked it really much. Have two other novels by kafka lying around, so i will read them pretty soon.
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« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2010, 01:02:40 PM »
Quote from: Michaël Samyn on September 24, 2010, 05:25:19 AM
I've read Kafka in Dutch. So the titles are unfamiliar. Any chance of having the original German titles? Or links to the stories?
I took the names from this page in wikipedia.
Some of them had no German names so I guess you can check Google Translate to see if the translated name is familiar or not.I didn't do it myself because I was worried if the translated name wasn't the same as the original German name, doing it would lead to confusion.
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« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2010, 10:57:50 PM »
Despite not having read any of them, I looked at some of the wikipedia pages and 'Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor' seemed pretty interesting. I only read a general outline of the plot though, and the story was never finished, so I'm not sure how well it would actually translate.

Apparently someone's already made a game out of 'The Metamorphasis' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Mojo.
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Jon N/A

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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2010, 01:24:19 PM »
I managed to find a great collection of all kafka's short stories with a great Persian translation and I read "Blumfeld" and it was awesome! thought it was unfinished it was really understandable ... and I found an English translation online here for you to read, check it out
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Apparently someone's already made a game out of 'The Metamorphosis' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Mojo.
yeah but it's a very very very (!) loose adaptation of it and they have changed the whole story.
it's not Kafkaesque at all
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« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2010, 06:08:39 PM »
Cool, I'll check that out soon.

I found another game based on Kafka (I stumbled across it by chance). Again, I haven't played it yet, but I plan to soon.
http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/05/browser_game_pick_before_the_l.html
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