Curio Cabinet Games

The trailer, in words

[Music.] An egg sits in a grassy garden by a wooden fence. It wobbles, cracks, and Pip hatches: a round, cream-colored sprout with two green leaves on her head. On screen: “MEET PIP.”

Her friend Tip, a little green watering can with a face, sits beside her, and hearts float up. A sign reads “PRO TIP: feed her!” On screen: “FEED HER.”

Pip bounces around the garden collecting seeds. On screen: “PLAY WITH HER.”

Close up, Pip tries on a bow, then a witch’s hat. On screen: “DRESS HER UP.”

Tip waters a row of seeds along the fence, and flowers come up. On screen: “GROW A GARDEN.”

Night. Pip sleeps in the garden. On screen: “TUCK HER IN.”

Morning. Hearts float around Pip as she speaks.
Pip: “I love it here with you!”
Pip: “You’ll come back tomorrow, right?”

The dialogue box closes and Pip’s smile goes flat. For an instant the screen goes dark and Pip appears as a white shape with pink eyes. Then the garden is back, and Pip smiles again.
Pip: “promise?”

[Music stops.] White text on a dark screen, over a small pink heart: “SHE’LL ALWAYS BE HERE.”

[Music resumes.] Title card over the garden, with Pip and Tip: “Hello, Pip! a tiny friend who lives in your browser.” Then: “PLAY FREE.”

The screen fades to black. Small grey text: “Hello, Pip?”

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Hello, Pip!

A little pixel pet who is very happy to meet you. Take good care of Pip.

Medium: pixel art; plays in your browser, free

Play Hello, Pip
A museum entrance hall after hours: dark marble floor, a red runner, potted palms and tall blue doors, with the Registrar’s Desk at the far end. A small black cat sits in the foreground.
The entrance hall, after hours.
Gallery 1, with green damask walls. Paintings in gold frames lean against the walls and stand on the wooden floor, waiting to be hung. A sticky note from Rosalind says the wall text by the door explains how the room hangs.
Gallery 1, before the rehang.
The black cat sits in front of a still life propped on the floor and says “mrrp.” A prompt reads: “The cat is sitting by something out of place. Click to say hello.”
The cat sits by something out of place.
Close to the north wall, an outline marks an empty hook. A painting by Jan van Goyen, 1644, is ready to hang there.
Hanging a Jan van Goyen on the north wall.
The Portrait Room: deep red walls, four portraits under spotlights, a long bench, and a closed door at the far end. The cat sits on the floor.
The Portrait Room.
A catalogue card for Ginevra de’ Benci by Leonardo da Vinci, listing date, culture, medium, size and source: National Gallery of Art, Washington, CC0.
A catalogue card: Ginevra de’ Benci.
Gallery 1 fully hung: Dutch portraits and landscapes in gold frames run along the green walls, each lit from above, with a bench in the middle of the room.
Gallery 1, rehung.
The west wall: four portraits in gold frames hang from picture wires, between the wall texts “Faces of the Century” and “Land and Water.”
West wall: Faces of the Century.
The north wall: a Rembrandt self-portrait at the corner, then the “Land and Water” wall text and a row of Dutch landscapes and seascapes.
North wall: Land and Water.
The Registrar’s Desk at 11:03 pm. Melencolia I is going out on loan to the Ashcombe Institute; the player picks a crate and packing for an engraving on laid paper.
The Registrar’s Desk: packing an outgoing loan.
A returning loan, The Three Trees, shown side by side with its condition report from August, to spot anything new tonight.
A returning loan, checked against its report.
The loupe: a magnified circle of a painting’s surface, showing cracks and canvas weave, beside the catalogue card for Winter in Holland: Skating Scene.
The loupe.
The evidence board for a suspected fake, with one of three tells found, two handwritten clue notes, and cards for the five people with access.
The evidence board.
The Collection Book: a grid of collected paintings, each with its title, painter and date.
The Collection Book.

CCG.2027.002 · Acquisition pending

Night Registrar: Tidy Up the Hollowell Museums

The galleries close at six. Someone has to put everything back, log the loans, and notice which painting wasn’t there yesterday.

Demo planned for Steam Next Fest, February 2027