In their upcoming game, ARTE France, Florian Veltman and Baptiste Portefaix take a poetic and hopeful look at the subject of grief.
Publisher and co-producer ARTE France and authors Florian Veltman (Monument Valley 2 / Assemble with Care / Lieve Oma) & Baptiste Portefaix (Oniri Islands) are proud to announce their new video game, How to Say Goodbye, a narrative puzzle game exploring the theme of mourning and loss, scheduled for 2022 on Steam (PC/Mac).
| How to say Goodbye tells the story of a character recently turned into a ghost, lost in an unknown world populated by spirits. In this narrative puzzle game, players will have to help the characters escape the liminal space between life and death in which they are trapped. To do so, the player can move the elements of the decor on a grid to guide the ghosts to the exit symbolized by a door. But a mysterious wizard is determined to keep them from moving forward… |
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Inspired by the golden age of children’s literature and illustrated books (such as The Moomins by Tove Jansson, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak), How to say Goodbye deals with the theme of grief with kindness and sensitivity. Still shocked by their recent passing, the ghosts of How to say Goodbye try their best to leave the limbo they are trapped in. Together, they will have to discover how to mourn in order to accept their own death, and “move on”. |
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How to Say Goodbye will be available in 2022 on Steam. |
