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Story description
A new city, a small apartment and a building full of people who are about to become something like family.
Alder Court is an interactive slice-of-life story about settling into an old brick apartment building, one neighbor at a time.
Small events, a real home
- Chat on the stairs, share the laundry room and borrow sugar.
- Build a routine: a job or study, a corner shop and a favorite bench.
- Join the building's quiet web of favors, potlucks and late-night knocks.
Mrs. Obi bakes when she is worried and has already adopted you. Farid fixes everything with a dented toolbox. Theo practices cello with the window open and says hello in three weeks. Everyone else in the building is different every time you play.
Warm, gentle and wry
No plot to uncover, no villain: just the small shape of a life with other people in it.
A tray of something warm is in your hands and the evening is empty. What do you do first?
Characters
The widow in 3B across the landing. Warm, nosy and the building's unofficial grandmother, who bakes when she is worried.
The building superintendent. Patient, practical and fixes everything with a dented toolbox and a joke.
The musician upstairs. Shy, funny and practices cello at odd hours with the window open.