Shadow of an Absence

"i find it a bit hard to enjoy all the good things happening to me because I'm accompanied by the shadow of an absence..."

Postal Games Jam

A game developer writes a letter to an anonymous developer (“devonymous”). After sealing it with wax and handling it to the Postal Games team, they recieve a letter written the same way by a game developer in other country. The content of that secret letter will be the theme and inspiration for a short game jam. Finally, the games will be exhibited in the indie games event FIJA, happening in Argentina.

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Credits

Art and Level Design: Linda
Programming and Music: Mali
SFX: Kenney and Freesound (+ some tuning)
Font: Hawtpixel

Theme

the inspiration for this game came from a very personal letter, describing the feeling of being unable to enjoy good things happening in life fully due to a very big breakup that got in the way of important life plans.

the ever present shadow of an ex partner's abscence that will make you feel alone and gasping for air despite what's happening around you.

We'll never learn, will we :)

we totally overscoped and had to size the game down (rip 2/3 levels and a proper ending) but we still loved working  on this and wanted to stay true to the principles behind the jam.

And finally

Thank you to Nicole and Bruno for running this and to our [Devonimo] for entrusting us with their story <3