Remember Me
November 1, 2023 · View on GitHub
A game of love and tear, remebering and forgetting.
WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge Submission [Accepted]
How to play
Live the life of Robert.
Interact with people.
Finish objective.
And try your best to remember.
About Alzheimer's Disease
Remember Me features a brief moment in a day of a person with Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative 🧠 disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens.
As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation, mood swings, loss of motivation, self-neglect and behavioral issues. 😶🌫️
As a person's condition declines, they often withdraw from family and society. 🫥
Gradually, bodily functions are lost, ultimately leading to death. 🪦
Do you know?
More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's.
By 2050, this number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million.
1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer's or another dementia. It kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.
Over 11 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
No one should face Alzheimer's alone.
If you want to learn more about Alzheimer's, its prevention and caregiving, Alzheimer's Association is a good place to start.
About Gameplay Design
The two core game mechanics, Progressive Blur and Shinkei-suijaku (Nervous Breakdown) Game, represent the difficulty of maintaining cognition and memory, one of the greatest challenges of Alzheimer's.
The Grocery Store scene introduces the blur mechanism, and the Checkout scene teaches the basic rule of the Shinkei-suijaku (tap and pair). Then the final scene, Lost in Time, combines these two basic mechanisms to provide the greatest challenge, and also a metaphor of losing your memory piece by piece.
I want the player to feel frustrated and helpless when the objects become more and more blurry, and they have to recall harder and harder to continue playing.
The pain is no comparison to the real-life pain of losing recognition of things and memories of beloved ones.
It’s impossible to express even a little part of such pain, not mentioned is such a short experience.
But I still hope you can feel something. Let's love our life, as much as we can 🫂
