In a rural town suspended between reality and memory, you wander familiar spaces that no longer feel the same, now grown strangely quiet. Retrace moments from a childhood summer as the world gently unravels, revealing what was left behind as you grew up.

Links: full documentation | portfolio site | playbyplay

This project, titled This is Home, is a narrative exploration game set in a rural coastal town that exists somewhere between reality and memory. The player accompanies a child, wandering through a version of their hometown, summer of 2014 though it seems to be eerily quiet.

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Use this site to sift through every and all details in relation to my game project, This is Home.

Glossary

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Last Log

18 - 24 May

Blockout → Sketch → Modular Assets → Paintover (for final concept art showreel)

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Key Notes: Visual Style → keeps concept unique, should prototype early for proof of concept in September show


Game Design Documents (GDD)

Full GDD


Documentations for Game Versions

Prototype Notes

Proof of Concept: Summer 2026


Entries

Entries


Bibliography/References

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcEhEUMzH8
  2. https://www.worlddata.info/asia/japan/tsunamis.php
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tōhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami
  4. https://www.jnpoc.ne.jp/en/what-we-do/tohoku-disaster-relief/

Blind child - think of Cassie’s blindnes → Blank Corners