Hoa Giấy: Four Seasons

Hoa Giấy ("paper flower", the Vietnamese name for bougainvillea) is a gentle game about a bougainvillea, a small street and its neighbours in 1990s Hanoi. Your grandmother has left you house number 36 on Hàng Tem street, built in 1929, with a bougainvillea grown all over its front. Tết, the Lunar New Year, is coming. You look after the tree, help the neighbours with a few small jobs, paste photos into grandma's notebook, and see the New Year in on the old street. THE SPRING CHAPTER, FREE TO PLAY Three days of Tết: the 28th, New Year's Eve and the first day of the year. • Look after and shape the bougainvillea: water it, shake the branches and pick up the petals. Prune, bend branches, nail them to the wall, let new shoots grow, or choose one of 38 ready-made shapes. • The neighbours, each with a story: chị Hằng keeps the tea stall out front, cô Mai sells flowers from her bicycle, ông…