Keepsake
Keepsake explores grief and loss, offering a playful space to reflect on meaning and memories. Players can create a “keepsake” by curating items in a box or container representing a particular person, relationship or place that is meaningful to them - whether they are present, or now in the past.
With Keepsake I wanted to explore meaningful ways to remember or treasure relationships with people online. I find photo albums on social media useful, but highly impersonal. In Keepsake, players can using objects rather than photos to represent memories and experiences. On this project I was the designer and artist.
Keepsake looks into the raw power the most innocuous object can have – especially an object that the person couldn’t have possibly made contact with. Many keepsakes have ties to the person from using it, but this game looks at the object itself as a means of representing those memories. Is it the connection with an object the person touched and treasured that’s important, or is it simply the object, and what it represents, that makes it something worth holding onto as a memory trigger? - Joel Couture, Indie Games Plus
