How to Say Goodbye, ARTE’s next puzzle game will be released on November 3rd, 2022
ARTE France, publisher and co-producer and Florian Veltman (Monument Valley 2 / Assemble with Care / Lieve Oma) & Baptiste Portefaix (Oniri Islands), authors, are proud to announce that their game How to Say Goodbye, a narrative puzzle game full of poetry, will be released on November 3rd 2022 on Steam (PC/Mac), Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android.
| How to Say Goodbye follows a character a few moments after their death, recounting their journey in an unknown world after life. The player will have to help the ghost accept his death and pass to the other side in this liminal space after life, populated by various spirits, some of them benevolent.To do so, they will have to move the different game elements on a grid to guide the ghost to the exit symbolized by a door. But many obstacles will stand in their way, and lost spirits will try to stand in their way. What do these mysterious ghosts who have given up all hope of ever moving on called the spleens want ? Who is the wizard, whose shadow and influence seem to extend all over the world of How to Say Goodbye? |
 How to Say Goodbye offers an adventure inspired by illustration and children’s literature (Tomi Ungerer, Tove Jansson, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Maurice Sendak…). The game deals with the subject of mourning and death with kindness and subtlety, and a constantly renewed hope in the future. The ghosts of How to Say Goodbye will be able to rely on the different companions encountered during their journey in order to escape the limbo in which they are trapped and finally come to term with their own disappearance.”Grief is a universal experience unique to each individual, and one that evokes strong emotions. However, in most video games, it is reduced to a violent act: death is used as a metaphor to indicate to the player in an extremely binary way that he loses or wins, that he exists or does not exist anymore. We wanted to approach the subject in a more subtle and positive way, with sensitivity” explains Florian Veltman, designer of How to Say Goodbye.  |
| How to Say Goodbye will be available November 3rd 2022 on Steam, Nintendo Switch and mobile.A game directed and produced by Florian Veltman and Baptiste Portefaix, edited and co-produced by ARTE FranceMore information on the dedicated Discord server. Check out Florian Veltman on Twitter for more information about the game. |
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