Two sisters, a truck driver and a housewife, fend off a Kaiju apocalypse in the Great Smoky Mountains with their mech Mama Possum.
Mama Possum came out a few months back in December. It was commissioned by Cassandra Khaw as a contribution to her Jaeger Aunties universe, focused on older women piloting mechs. Possum Facts; Release; Videos; Links; More. How old is this baby? If it is a joey still attached to the mother's teat, it is under 2 months old. They are born pink and slowly develop hair. The amount of fur covering its flesh can help estimate a kit's age inside the two-month window if it is still attached to the teat. Opossums that young can. Johnson, a deacon in the local church, and his wife, Sally Gray Johnson (whom Crawford called Big Mama, and who is the woman on the porch in the photo), took her in and raised her as their own.
'Mama' Helen Teagarden: Possum and Taters (feat. 'Mama' Helen Teagarden).
Guide
Click on the Mama Possum title screen above to start the story. A red light will shine beneath buttons on the dashboard when they can be clicked on to progress. If there are no red lights on the dashboard, click on bold words to continue.
Content Warning
This story contains elements of body horror.
Credits
Concept: Cassandra Khaw
Story: Kevin Snow
Artwork: George Kavallines
Sound: Priscilla Snow
Many thanks to: Cassandra Khaw's Patreon backers, as well as backers of the Uncanny Magazine Year Four Kickstarter.
Paid Version
If you'd like to support us, you can purchase a downloadable version of the game for $5. Optionally, this comes with a postcard and sticker! Shipping address required. The finger puppet, Edith, isn't included. She's just helping us sell these.
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, HTML5 |
| Rating | |
| Author | Kevin Snow |
| Genre | Interactive Fiction |
| Made with | Twine |
| Tags | artgame, Atmospheric, hypertext, Mechs, Mouse only, Short, Story Rich, Twine, weird |
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Mama Possum came out a few months back in December. It was commissioned by Cassandra Khaw as a contribution to her Jaeger Aunties universe, focused on older women piloting mechs. You can unlock her incredible story in the setting through her Patreon, or wait a while for the upcoming reprint in Apex Magazine.
Mama Possum's deadline was tight and self-imposed. I promised Cass four weeks and delivered it in six, mostly because the art and music were scope creep—Cass only asked for words. Because of that, I had little research time and had to draw from what I know, which is pretty much just the South.
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So what do Southern mechs look like? I envisioned mine as rural, industrial, like heart disease, like domestic abuse, like a semi-trailer truck cabin, like a fatal run-in with a lathe. And of course, that sturdy animal that open-mouth hisses at me when I take out the trash, like I've come to carry off its hard-won dumpster.
Living in Arkansas, I drive through the Great Smoky Mountains every time I visit my mom in North Carolina. It's a breathtaking trip, so the prose describing that section of Appalachia in Mama Possum already existed in my head from past appreciation.
As far as the characters go, well, I have a sister and I'm a shitty sibling who never calls. Autobiography is easy at low word counts because I can use all that raw guilt without having to make sense of it. If she's reading this: I'm sorry I killed both of us with a malfunctioning neural spike, inside of a mech shaped like a marsupial.
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George Kavallines did the art for Mama Possum, and Priscilla Snow the sound. I can't imagine it without either.