Guilt

A tiny attempt at a horror game about something infinitely larger. ******************************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************************** If you'd like to know more about the rationale behind the game, read below - but it contains a whole bunch of spoilers, so don't read it until you've played through the game completely! (It's a super quick game anyway, no more than 10 minutes in total) If you don't want to read about what the game involves, skip ahead to the Installation section. ******************************SPOILERS BELOW************************************** This game - the first one I've ever made - is an abstract representation of a reoccurring dream I used to have shortly after my mother passed away from cancer a few years ago. The dream would basically go as follows: My mother is alive again, but she's as ill as she was right before her passing. In the dream, I'm aware that she had been dead and that I had finally "adjusted" to life without her. But now that she's back - and as sick as before - I feel an awful mixture of emotions. Besides the expected hurt and confusion, I feel resentment towards her for returning in this state, and I feel compelled to run away from the same pain I felt seeing her like that the first time. And then I feel immense guilt over having those thoughts in the first place. But eventually, in the dream I start remembering everything I love about her - the comfort, warmth, protection. It all comes back to me. Then, as soon as I "get used to" her presence again, and accept that she's alive once more - I wake up.