I WAS HERE
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
I WAS HERE is a game I made for my capstone project in order to earn my BFA in Game Design from the NYU Game Center at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Artist's statement for I WAS HERE:
I WAS HERE is a first-person narrative game where players get an intimate look into the lives of others. The player finds themselves in the consciousness of Skye Lockwood, a woman taking a retrospective look into her memories of her high school relationship with her roommate at their boarding school. Players walk through Skye's dorm room and interact with the various objects scattered around the room. Doing so, they recover short audio scenes depicting memories attached to Skye and her girlfriend Olivia's possessions in the room.
I want to invite the player to think about missed opportunity, regrets, closure, acceptance, and letting go. Players will see how Skye and Olivia had a beautiful but short-lived relationship as Skye's inevitable graduation draws nearer and nearer. Throughout the game, the tension builds as Skye and Olivia fall in love and try to determine the fate of their relationship. They will inevitably go their separate ways at the end of the year when Skye graduates and Olivia is left to complete two more years of high school. The game's ending is characterized by a somber emptiness as the girls distance themselves from each other and Skye realizes that if she truly loves Olivia, she must let her go.
By the end, the audience realizes that they are Skye, now in a place of retrospection and reflection on this era of her life. Skye realizes that though she loved and lost and never fully realized the potential of her relationship with Olivia she must now come to terms with and accept that fact. I want the player to leave with the feeling that what Skye had with Olivia was real and good despite its short life and somber ending.
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Development log
- IndieCade buildOct 16, 2018
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I remembered playing this game around three years ago and being so touched, especially since it gave major life is strange vibes (in a great way, and of course with a very much unique structure). The cover of I Miss You particularly stuck with me for some reason. I couldn't remember the name of it so thank god for reddit. I can now come back and relive it all.
such a good game! the voice acting is really good as well <3
Also, yes, we were robbed of more seasons! D8<
Wonderfully written and well voice acted. I enjoyed this and related to it a lot because of experiences in the past so it hit hard. I loved it, thank you for making this. You did a good job <3
you should do more like this, or maybe make it longer,a more interactables...i loved it nonetheless and in the end it made me really sad, but overall. great game, i recommend
the title screen made me think it was gonna be a horror game but was pleasantly surprised! Though the kick to my emotions sucked, really nice game :)
Thanks! Yeah, I've gotten that feedback a lot about the title screen/some of the promotional images. I should probably change that! Thanks for playing and leaving such a nice comment!!
life is strange vibess!! I loved it so much
I'm so glad you liked it! Life is Strange was definitely one of the main inspirations for this!
Was such a sweet and great game. The emotions, the way it was presented, it was all so well done and it was super natural like and really connects with the player.
The simplicity of the game mechanic and the few things that could be interacted with really helped shape and make the game feel like so much more.
The voice actors really did a great job as it really felt so natural and like a real conversation with real feelings and emotions. The song you used was perfect and fit right into everything and didn't feel mismathced.
I really cannot say enough words to say how good this game was and fun it was to paly and experience it all, I'm really glad I found this game. It was amazing.
i like the story it really cool and i really wanna see more to this story
i really wanna know if they ever meet
I really like this! I loved the story and the graphics UwU. I also loved the song, I wanna know what the name is ; - ; pls someone tell me what the song is.
The song is "I Miss You" by Blink-182. Thanks for playing my game, and I'm so glad you liked it!
This game reinds me of all the people I hurt and that hurt me. It's one of the few games that make me feel this way. It hurts me so much and brings back all those sad and nostalgic memories. But I kinda like them? They fell so good and refreshing?..
I love this game.
It felt like that for me as well. I connected with it on an experience-level. Really tugged at some memories
Great game! It was a short game yet it was so meaningful.
I really like the game, I'm feeling like a stalker xD
I absolutely love the song
Played...
this game definately pulls at the heart strings..
You covered a Blink song, GOTY
Great Game!!
https://youtu.be/vHn-A5Iyviw
oh ok so it was a grad project... i hate to ask but were you two really together ? :P good project overall really because: its simple, it works, did i say i really like simple, functional, working projects ?? nice personal touchs overall, all there is to say is play the game and you'll (the player) see what i mean.
Thanks! It is loosely based on the true story of my high school relationship.
This game was amazing! It was really sad at the end. Great game!
Some of the dialogue here is extremely heartfelt and genuine. Like it could be from a Raymond Carver story. This game is short but it really touched me. I hope you are very proud of it.
I just finished playing and I'm still ugly sobbing as I type. This hit me hard.
Hey! I just finished the game and i loved it very much! Great music and really sad story. Hope you make more games like this in the future! <3
I gave your wonderful game a go, and enjoyed the hell out of it. also amazing music by you!!
heres my video of it though :)
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVR_l_86PNs&feature=youtu.be
this cute and sad at the same time over all good game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kwoNE4oXhk
i really like your game.
I really enjoyed the wonderful game! Although it wasn't as long as I'd hoped, I loved the relationship between the girls and the ending really got to me. Hope you continue to make great games like this!
SO COOL
Really enjoyed the game, I have a video recorded for my YouTube channel. Currently editing it. I have viewers that want subtitles for videos so i'm having to add in subtitles as I couldn't find an option for it so I hope i'm adding them in for the correct people.
I really loved the game though, made me kind of sad at the end. The song choice was good, I Miss You by Blink 182. Loved every moment about it.
I got one pals to play the game. On twitch here is the video https://www.twitch.tv/videos/272827737
I will probably record this for my YouTube channel. The game seems amazing!
Thank you!! Send me the link to the video, I'd love to see it!
I enjoyed this short but also awesome creation you called I Was Here! So much..that i made a video an posted it to my channel. I hope that you and the rest of the itch.io gamers will enjoy the gameplay! Thanks for sharing your art with us!
I dove into this adventure not knowing what to expect, hell I didn't even read the description. But I didn't need to, as the story unfolded so does your connections towards the characters. Definitely worth playing.
This was so cool to play and really kinda hit home. I didn't expect it to be so eye opening. You did such a wonderful job!
I liked it, overall. Cute story!
Here is my playthrough:
Short but sweet <3 I really wish there was more but that was great!!
Great job!! Really charming and well executed, I love that you included your artist's statement on the Itch.io page, that's rare and it's nice to read more about your process and intentions! :)