Still Here

Developer's DescriptionBy DADIUTheres no greater pain than losing someone you love. In the darkest state of grief, your mind starts searching for a sign.Theres no greater pain than losing someone you love. In the darkest state of grief, your mind starts searching for a sign.A ray of sunlight on your face, autumn leaves dancing around you in the wind, or a butterflylanding on your knee, as if to tell you that the ones we loved and lost might still be herewith us.Still Here is an interactive storytelling experience.The year is 1998. It is now three months since Susie passed away.Mark, her boyfriend, sits on their bed in their apartment, unable to do anything but to stare blankly out in the air, trying to cope with the pain of his sorrow. He is in his earlythirties. As were she. His grief has darkened his world; neither light nor any consolationcan reach him.On a table in the living room lie the torn pieces of a picture of Susie. She has a mothtattooed on her shoulder.The player assembles the pieces of this picture, and Susies soul appears from it in theshape of a moth. Just like the one in her tattoo.Marks grief has manifested itself as a dark fog blocking different parts of the apartment,in order to protect him from all the memories.The players purpose, in the shape of the moth, is to get through his darkness, get to him,and become that little symbol of hope that will help him let the light back into his life.To do so, the player must revive the couples memories, which are small sound fragmentsattached to different objects in the apartment. As you find these fragments, you turn onlights, which will gradually make the fog disappear and let you get closer to Mark.Some fragments you get from solving simple jigsaw puzzles torn pictures or notes written on overlapping pieces of paper, but most fragments you simply get from interacting with an object.