History of an Apartment

Walk around an apartment teeming with stories.

Walk around an apartment that has a story to tell in every nook and cranny. Listen to the stories, the laughs, and strong opinions of the people who live here as they adjust to their new life.
This is a simple flat game and our first assignment back to school in Major Studio, as a chance for us to reflect on what we'd done over the summer! 

Content Warning

Swearing (1 use of the s-word), NSFW innuendo (vague) and slight political reference.

·········• FEATURES •·········

• Simple controls: use the ARROWKEYS to move!
• Discover an apartment full of stories
• Go close to furniture items to learn about them and where they came from! Occasionally, you can hear into the apartment dweller's thoughts and opinions..
• Short and sweet game about the stories that a location/place can hold

·········•  CREDITS  •·········

• Kimya Taheri - Game Design, Writing, Art, Programming
• Media:
  • A few sounds from Freesound.org with some mixing and editing. 

·········•  INFO  •·········

• Engine: Unity
• Date: September 2024
• Time to Make: 1 Day
• Made For: 1 week rapid prototype project for a studio game class, NYU Game Design

·········•  AUTHOR'S NOTE  •·········

With this game, I wanted to showcase what took place for the majority of my summer: moving. I’m finally settled into my new place, and every item in the apartment has a story behind it, mostly from this summer. As such, I drew up my floor plan (extremely roughly), added my furniture pieces, drew up a little sprite designed to look like me, and created some code that allows the player to walk through items to learn more about them. The comments for each item are snarky, but tell the story of that particular item, albeit in a vague and funny way. I also wanted to make the place feel more alive, so instead of animating each object, I added “wiggle frames” to both the player and background.

Overall, I wanted to share my experience moving into my apartment, and to help the player see the apartment through my own eyes. As I walk through it, I think of the months of planning, moving, buying furniture, moving belongings, etc. By letting others explore this, I hoped I could convey what I had done this summer, as well as create a small environment for people to roam around in.

Fun Tidbit: All these are stories from me moving into my first apartment with my partner in New York. Looking back, it's really nice to reflect on the earlier days haha.

·········•  KNOWN BUGS  •·········

• made in a few days so anything is possible, lol
• mac builds don't always work (blame apple)