Game Changers 2016: Reinventing Storytelling Through Video Games Exhibit

To the Moon

Storytelling Reinvention:
focuses on exploration of a world and interactivity with the story rather than puzzles or battles

Game Information
Release Date: November 1st, 2011
Developer: Freebird Games
Publisher: Freebird Games
Rating: Teen
Genre(s): Adventure, role-playing, exploratory
Price: $9.99
Website: http://freebirdgames.com/to_the_moon/
To the Moon is an indie 2D adventure role playing game (RPG) about two doctors traveling through the memories of a dying man to fulfill his last wish, to go to the moon. Rather than focusing on puzzles or battles, To the Moon focuses on exploration of a world and interactivity within that world.
The player controls two doctors who have peculiar jobs -- they give people another chanceto live. The player uses a technology that allows the doctors to create artificial memories, so that a patient can request to alter their mind, and wake up with memories of things that did not actually happen. The artificial memories are permanent and clash with existing memories, which causes the person’s ability to function to cease. This means that the operation is only done on people who are on their deathbeds ­­ to give them a new life, or fulfill what they wish they could had done. The doctors go through the memories of an old man named Johnny, and discover that his last wish was to go to the moon.


References:
1. http://freebirdgames.com/to_the_moon/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Moon

Researcher: AJ Schock

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