T r a c e s

Hello, and welcome to my passage in time. To ensure the best experience, I have created a dark mode, which you can find here. The colors are intentionally made argumentative due to the odd atmosphere of a lost childhood, but I wish the game to be as accessible as possible. 

T r a c e s is a journey through a flow of thoughts of someone navigating the tracks of forgotten memories. What started as a project of raising awareness of childhood amnesia in its extended form became a personal journey to regain control and to feel connected again. How can you connect with other people, if you cannot even connect with yourself?

Creating T r a c e s has included hours spent on Reddit forums r/Depersonalization and r/CPTSD to understand others' experiences, and essentially to see that I am not alone - nor are the others.  From one angle, the aim of the narrative is still to raise awareness, but the focus is now more shifted in a direction where the hopes are in it reaching other people going through similar things and perhaps finding something to feel connected to - after all is connection and being seen not what we all desire?

Making the game was a way to channel the anger, confusion and sorrow of a loss. It gave me an arena, where nobody judged or questioned, and my ideal is to create a haven for any emotions. This is not a hero-driven narrative, this is a passage through being human. 

T r a c e s was created as a part of DIKULT304 course that is a part of Master's studies in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. 

Thank you for interacting!