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Design Statement
Memories of You is inspired by the melancholy that comes with memories of a loved one, which is explored through the lens of a wind-up ballerina doll. She attempts to find her way back home. Each new environment she explores is steeped with nostalgia of when she was once cherished and held deeply by a child.
Our team interpreted the given soundtrack with a story that emphasizes the music piece’s resemblance to a clock ticking and a melody of a music box. The piece begins with a slow, somberful tone that gradually builds up to a feeling of hope and adventure. Taking these elements, it only made sense to have our protagonist take the form of a wind-up doll around a story that places an emphasis on time.
Game Instructions (launch steps, controls, and gameplay overview)
Controls:
A/D or Left/Right Arrow = Move
Spacebar = Jump
W/S or Up/Down Arrow = Climb
Enter = Interact
There are three levels to get through, each with a doll part to obtain after a set of platforms and puzzles. All doll parts are needed to complete the final level.
Gameplay walkthrough video
https://youtu.be/DxUDgmIbVDs
Did your project use any AI tools or assets? If yes, please specify.
Claude was only used for coding assistance and debugging. No other sources or assets were created with AI.
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Comments
The game is quite solid; it incorporates various mechanics, and you can really feel the progression as your options expand. Honestly, the experience of returning to places where you’ve brought happiness makes for a very lovely story.
Returning to a place where you were once happy—or where you can still make someone else happy—is a truly beautiful feeling, especially for those who associate such places with people who mean so much to them. Thank you for the memory.
Such a great game. The story is super wholesome. The game’s atmosphere immediately sucks you in. The controls feel great.
My only problem was that in some instances the level’s environment kind of blended in with the background, and was difficult to tell what I can/cannot jump on. (This was super rare.)
Loved the game.
Really gorgeous art direction and narrative. I love your interpretation of the theme, too!
I loved how naturally the wind-up doll moved! The goal of finding its missing arms and legs was clear, and the art style fit the atmosphere perfectly.
It was sometimes hard to tell where I could land and where I’d fall, but restarting right where I fell kept the gameplay smooth.
The ending left me with a mysterious, fairy-tale-like feeling. I really enjoyed it!
This is a beautiful game! I loved the story.
Very beautiful art style, I liked how you got the theme interpretation, Toy Story-like :D congrats on the game!
The game design is truly amazing, to have for each doll part a new mecanism to play with is genius, you have improved the metroidlike mecanism but with nintendo philosophy, congratulation !
Incredible visuals (including the itch page btw!) and story, I felt like I'm playing a steam demo because of how smooth the onboarding was. Though my run ended early because I got softlocked. I got stuck on the part where I am meant to get a piece of me from the bird by jumping and probably by shaking the branch doing so, but no matter how much I seemed to jump (long strong jumps, small frequent jumpts etc) I couldn't get past it and had to call it there. Maybe I missed something hmm.
Also that monkey toy almost made the game turn into a horror game for me, I was worried it would actually start chasing me haha.
I also was stuck here for a minute, but then I figured out that you have to jump while the bird is sleeping and doesn't notice. Otherwise the bird will pick it back up. I was so focused on the jumping aspect and trying to figure out how I was jumping wrong that I missed those cues at first.
Really impressive story and level design! Lighting and cutscenes were also very amazing. Good job!