There’s not far more that feels higher than tearing up a accomplished to-do listing on the finish of the day, which is why I’ve by no means moved to maintaining observe of my duties electronically. Destroying a diary, as you’ll be doing in If Found… could be a much less interesting course of, relying what’s stored inside. But the truth that doing so may cease a black gap from consuming the Earth might be pretty much as good a motivation as you’re prone to get. Snoop contained in the trailer under.
As demonstrated, scrubbing out the sketches and journal entries stored by protagonist Kasio will mean you can progress by way of the story. You’ll be digging into her experiences, relationships, and challenges at the same time as you attempt to avert the apocalypse.
“Erase her diary, uncover secrets, meet a diverse cast of characters, go to a punk show, break into your own house, destroy the universe, find out who you really are,” reads the outline on the game’s web site. Now there’s a to-do listing I’d love to finish.
If that is pulling at some long-forgotten reminiscence, enable me to jog it for you: Pip (and presumably you!) played an earlier version of it at EGX Rezzed in 2016. Back then it was referred to as If Found, Please Return, however the diary-erasing mechanic nonetheless shaped its cathartic basis.
“It took me a minute to figure out how the experience worked but once I did it properly sucked me in as this delicate, beautifully structured thing, peculiarly tactile thanks to the mixture of sketchy image, zooming and erasing,” stated Pip.
Designer and author Llaura McGee’s earlier work consists of Curtain, a pay what you need story a few damaging relationship that I performed a few years in the past however whose itch.io page nonetheless invokes some sharp sense-memories about its depth. So that bodes properly.
If Found…is being printed by Annapurna Interactive, and is scheduled to launch on Steam and itch.io early subsequent yr.
