Creative Vision / Rationale / How Did You Incorporate the Theme
We were inspired by the given theme image and associated it with the famous painting The Creation of Adam, as well as a key phrase—“almost touching.” In the image, the fingers are in a state of nearly touching, which gave us our design inspiration. In our game, the protagonist is split into two characters: one inherits all the happy memories, and the other inherits all the painful memories. The player directly controls the upper character and simultaneously controls the lower character through mirrored movement, allowing both upper and lower characters to work together to complete levels. We believe this effectively expresses the theme both in gameplay and story. First, in terms of gameplay, the upper and lower characters can never meet—they are separated yet always close at hand—and they must cooperate without physically touching to finish each level. In the story, we aim to explore how experiences and memories shape a person. By splitting one individual into two parts in the narrative, we show how this leads to different outcomes. We believe a person is continuously shaped by their experiences; every experience makes up who they are. Life inevitably includes both good and bad memories, and what we need to learn is how to reconcile with our past selves, gain wisdom from past experiences, stop dwelling in the past, and avoid being trapped by it. Our past, present, and future selves are just like the almost-touching hands in the theme image—closely connected, yet never able to truly touch.