Desires on a Pillow explores a Palestinian people story of a lady’s guilt & trauma over dropping her little one in the course of the 1948 Nakba ethnic cleaning.
Set in the course of the occasions that displaced a whole lot of hundreds of Palestinians, this sport follows Omm, a younger girl who additionally needed to flee the invading Zionists. Her husband murdered, she tries to retrieve her child throughout her flight, however by chance leaves her little one behind in her rush to flee, grabbing a pillow as a substitute. Unable to return, you’ll observe her on her journey by this snapshot of Palestinian historical past, feeling her intense ache as you attempt to assist her survive.
For the gameplay, Omm must clutch her pillow to be able to maintain onto her thoughts. Nevertheless, this limits her means to behave within the sport world as her arms are in use. It is a large problem, as there are a lot of harmful troopers and other people all through the locations she must make her manner by. She might want to unlock her arms to work together with issues to assist her in her escape, however meaning placing her pillow down so she will be able to climb, throw issues, and extra. Nevertheless, this permits her guilt and ache to run rampant, turning her world into an excellent higher nightmare.
Desires on a Pillow is just not completely targeted on these darkish occasions and the historic horrors of this era, as it’ll additionally discover Omm’s reminiscences of her childhood of pre-Zionist Palestine by goals she has throughout transient intervals of relaxation. By means of its play and story, it goals to assist gamers immerse themselves on this horrifying interval for Palestinians (that’s truthfully nonetheless unfolding a long time later), creating understanding and empathy as gamers really feel alongside Omm.
Desires on a Pillow is at present in growth, however within the meantime, you may assist its creation by its Launchgood Marketing campaign.
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