Living alone can be hard, especially when you tend to be a little forgetful. Luckily you know a little game you can play in your head to organize your thoughts and memories. Make it through five puzzles to learn something about yourself.

How to play: each puzzle starts with a question, the answer to which is hidden among other thoughts and ideas. Flip cards to recall a memory about it, and use those memories to match pairs of cards. Once only a single card remains, you have found the answer you are looking for.

My entry for the AI and Games Jam 2022 (theme: Isolation).

Content warning (spoilers): dementia, brief mention of death and animal death.

A game by Sander in 't Veld. Made in Godot.

All photos of people and cats were generated by StyleGAN (https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan, https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en), and then heavily modified by hand.

Other assets used:

Card back from Cards Set by Sylly, modified;
Title tune: Sad Piano by ShortRecord;
Casino audio effects by Kenney;
Success sound effect by fisch12345;
Tadaa sound effect by Maikkihapsis;
Amatic SC font by Vernon Adams, Ben Nathan and Thomas Jockin;
Fasthand font by Danh Hong;
Stormy Beach palette by Jimison3.

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5
Author	SLiV
Genre	Puzzle
Made with	Godot
Tags	2D, artificial-intelligence, Dark, Experimental, Godot, Mental Health, Minimalist, Mouse only, Narrative
Code license	MIT License
Average session	A few minutes
Inputs	Mouse
Links	Source code

Comments

Viki1 year ago

I really liked this concept! I did have to brute force the cat level a bit, all the others seemed pretty logical.

xoana1 year ago(+1)

This was pretty fun. One thing that stood out was how incongruous that last sound effect was with respect to the rest of the game. It's a bit of a jarring tonal shift, like a toll-booth on a roller coaster.

SLiV1 year ago

Thanks! Yeah, I wanted to create a startling, dissonant ending, by contrasting the sad final statement with the cheesy sound effect and fireworks from Windows XP Solitaire. But if it felt unintentional, then I pushed it either too far or not far enough.