A SLING BACKWARDS: ABBA'S STORY

Abba's Story is an autobiographical game about remembering memories in order to move on from them. Inspired by my father's stories of his childhood, his immigration experience, and his struggles settling into a foreign community. In the game, the player plays the character, Abba, and aims to sling to the other side of the lake, onto the boat. However, due to a restricted sling, the player is forced to fail and fall into the water, thus submerging into a memory. In each memory, the player must click through dialogues in order to understand the context of the scene, ultimately selecting right object in the scene to delete in order to exit the memory. Only after accurately remembering the memory, can the player sling farther across the water. In the end, the player will be able to successfully sling onto the boat, thus ending the game.




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