From August 6th to 7th, Japan’s largest indie game event “BitSummit X-Roads” was held at Kyoto’s Miyako Messe.
In this article, I would like to introduce “We’re Different Winter” which was exhibited at the Kodansha Game Creators Lab booth.
“We are different in Winter” is a two-player puzzle adventure game.
Worked on works such as “Lonely Planet”tokoronyoriHis latest work, developed with the support of the indie game support project “Kodansha Game Creators Lab”.
Each player becomes a boy who has run away from home and aims for the top of the mountain for a certain purpose. The screen is common to two people, but each character moves on a different terminal.
As it is only for two-player play, obstacles such as high walls and collapsing bridges are blocking the way, and it is a stage that can not be overcome unless two people cooperate.
Communication with your partner is essential during the game. There are many situations where it is better to clearly define the roles of the two people, so dialogues such as “I will go first” and “I will support you here” will naturally occur.
By sharing wisdom and sharing the joy of success, they became immersed in the story. By going through the process of cooperating, the world view of “two people running away from home together” has naturally become familiar.
(Note: From here onwards, there will be spoilers for the story at the beginning of the story. The spoilers from here on are also depicted in the exhibition posters, and we have confirmed that it is okay to spoil them, but there is no further preliminary knowledge. If you want to play with it, please back it up.)
Well, so far, it looks like you’re just playing a good puzzle action game. However, as you progress through the stages, something like the corpse of a deer appears on the screen.
Boys who saw a corpse for the first time. Then the boys suddenly lose consciousness and collapse on the spot. When you are in a hurry, a strange creature that is hard to describe appears.
In contrast to the heartwarming cooperative play we had had up until a little while ago, something disturbing air began to drift into the air.
As I moved on to the next stage and wondered what the current creature was, the Kodansha person who played with me said, “Please look at this screen.”
Then a shocking fact came to light. Surprisingly, isn’t the world reflected on your screen and the other person’s screen completely different?
It should be the same scene, the same statement, but the world you see is completely different.
On one screen, the boys are in the form of cute animals, but on the other, they are suspicious creatures with a decadent atmosphere. The background and colors are opposite.
The trial version ended when the author unintentionally said, “What happened!?”
I didn’t think Tokoronyori’s work would end just by doing puzzles, but it left a mystery that made me wonder about the continuation…
From now on, I can’t wait to see how the element of “the two people see different worlds” will affect the story and puzzles.
“We are Different in winter” is scheduled to be released for Steam, iOS, and Android in 2022.
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