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What Remains of Me
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About the game
It is an evening in the old neighbourhood, and you have spent eleven hours in front of the television, with the uneasy feeling that your life has no objective. You are told you can either find one or take the train that leads to it. The trouble is that nobody sells train tickets to someone who has not done anything yet.
What Remains of Me is a short, light-hearted and slightly dreamlike adventure built from the author's memories of a place he used to live in. Your flat has Christmas lights, a stereo playing 1990s music and an atlas on the table; down the corridor are a friend who cannot decide what to call his girlfriend in a love letter and a neighbour's dog who has lost interest in everything except her ball. Outside, a man is washing at a public tap, a frog is terrorising the school grounds, a woman is waiting on a bench for someone who agrees with her, and your friends are in the park looking oddly sad.
The puzzles are small trades of the "give the right thing to the right creature" kind. The dog likes fish, the friends like a ball, the frog and the bathing man want something quite different, and each favour opens the way to the next. Sensible answers get sensible results, and silly answers usually get a funny line, so there is little to lose by trying. The game ends with the train, and a run takes about fifteen minutes.
Playing it here
What Remains of Me was written for TIC-80, a fantasy console: an imaginary 1980s-style computer with a 240 by 136 screen and 16 colours, for which independent developers write new games. ronynn made it for the 2021 Interactive Fiction Competition, as a parser game dressed up as a retro graphical interface. It runs here in the official TIC-80 web player.
Click Play, wait for "Click to start" and click. The title screen then asks you to press Z or X. The game is meant for a mouse and works with a touch screen; the arrow keys are only a shortcut for walking. Nothing is saved, and the ending screen offers a fresh start. Esc opens the TIC-80 menu. The game has no sound, and its text is in English.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Click or tap a bottom icon | choose a verb (go north, take, use, examine, talk, look...) |
| Click or tap a name in the list | choose which object the verb applies to |
| Arrow keys | walk north (up), south (down), west (left) and east (right) |
| Z or X | start the game; restart after the ending |
| Esc | TIC-80 menu |
A few things worth knowing
Start in the kitchen. There is something in the fridge that somebody down the corridor would love, and what they give up in return leads further on.
Not everyone wants a thing. Some neighbours are happy with a favour, and a few react badly if you use the wrong object on them; examine people before you try.
Look everywhere you can walk. The map is small, but several rooms hide an object that only matters much later, so "describe room" and "examine" are worth a click in each.
Credits and licence
What Remains of Me was created by ronynn, who wrote the code and drew the graphics. It is free software under the GNU General Public License version 3, which the author published in the repository that holds the game. The source code of the exact game served here, and the script that turns it into a TIC-80 cartridge, are hosted alongside it and linked from the licences page. It runs here in the TIC-80 web player (MIT licence). The licence text is linked from this page.