Roya is excited to stay up late for a midnight feast. But things don't pan out how she imagined. For younger readers, the scariest features can be turned off in the options page.
This story stands up well to close-reading, with notes and activities available.
Themes include: drought, its impact on food security and escapism.
Explore Roya's World
- Any interactivity in Midnight Feast either moves the story forward, or it exists to create atmosphere or humour.
- Tap the screen to activate character dialogue
- Lots of rub-to-reveal scenes, to expose Roya’s imaginary alternative life
- Randomly generate strange recipes in “Dad’s Kitchen”, or movie titles in Roya’s home theatre
- Manipulate light effects
Features
- hand-drawn artwork
- professional narration by Matthias Bossi
- beautiful music score, composed by New Zealand musician Chris Hurn especially for this story
- narration plays automatically on each page
- narration can be turned off
Midnight Feast does not glorify or promote highly processed food.
We have maintained an aspect ratio of 4:3 to preserve the original artwork. You will see panels on the side of a typical 16:9 ratio computer monitor. We have provided an option to run Midnight Feast in a window on the desktop, without the panels.important Note
