| 📰 Title: | To the Moon | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Adventure & Action | 👁️ Visual: | 2.5D |
| 🏷️ Category: | Adventure & Action ➤ Classical ➤ Misc. | 🏝️ Perspective: | Third person |
| 🔖 Tags: | Adventure; Psychological; Tragicomedy; Emotional; Interactive Fiction; Story Rich; Romance; mkxp engine; Sci-fi; Retro; Casual; Pixel Art; Female Protagonist; Cute; Story-driven; Linear; Short | ⏱️ Pacing: | Point and Click |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 👫️ Played: | Single | |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) | |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: - | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 💰 Commercial | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | Commercial | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2014-10-13 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-06-22 |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
| 🎖️ This work: |  |
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 14428 |
| 📜️[en]: | An adventure RPG. Dr. Eva Rosalene and Dr. Neil Watts have rather peculiar jobs: They give people another chance to live. A technology allows them to weave artificial memories, such that a patient can request attempts to alter their mind, and wake up with memories of things that didn’t actually happen. Since it introduce memories clash, the operation is only done to people on their deathbeds, to fulfill what they wish they had done with their lives… but didn’t. This particular story follows their attempt to fulfill the dream of the dying elderly man, Johnny. And Johnny’s last wish is, of course… to go to the moon. | 📜️[fr]: | Un jeu d'aventures sur un thème de science fiction contant l'histoire de deux médecins accomplissant le souhait de Johnny, un vieille homme sur son lit de mort, en lui permettant de vivre en rêve, la vie qu'il aurait souhaité, et son rêve est ... d'aller sur la Lune. |
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To the Moon is an indie Adventure RPG, about two doctors traversing through the memories of a dying man to fulfill his last wish.
Dr. Eva Rosalene and Dr. Neil Watts have rather peculiar jobs: They give people another chance to live. Literally.
There exists a technology that allows doctors to weave artificial memories, such that a patient can request attempts to alter their mind, and wake up with memories of things that didn’t actually happen.
However, since these new memories are permanent, the conflict between them and the existing authentic memories clash in such a way that it ceases the person’s ability to properly function.
Thus, the operation is only done to people on their deathbeds, to fulfill what they wish they had done with their lives… but didn’t.
But creating a new memory is not as simple as pressing a button.
The technology requires the doctors to step into the memories of the patient, which are reconstructed as interactive scenes. The doctors then gradually traverse backwards through memories of the patient’s life until they reach childhood — at which point, the wish of the patient in present time would be transferred over.
Along with the doctors’ influence, the patient (as a child) could then lead an entire different life inside their head, working toward and fulfilling their dying wish themselves.
And if all goes well, they would wake up, having lived the dream life they never had, and embrace a brief moment of blissful fulfillment.
Shortly after, they’d draw their last breath.
Every once in a while, there comes a life that is rather peculiar.
This particular story follows Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts’ attempt to fulfill the dream of the dying elderly man, Johnny. In their mission to do so, they traverse backwards through the man’s memories, unfolding his curious life story before their eyes.
With each step back in time, a new fragment of Johnny’s past is revealed. And as the two doctors piece together the puzzled events that spanned a life time, they seek to find out just why the frail old man chose his dying wish to be what it is.
And Johnny’s last wish is, of course… to go to the moon.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
To the Moon is a 2011 role-playing adventure video game developed and published by Freebird Games. It is the fourth video game by Canadian designer/composer Kan "Reives" Gao and the first commercial production by his indie game development team Freebird Games, and was designed using the RPG Maker XP engine. To the Moon was originally released on the author's website and various digital download portals, and was later made available via Steam for Microsoft Windows on November 1, 2011. On January 7, 2014, the game was released with the Humble Indie Bundle X, making it available for OS X and Linux.
To the Moon was nominated for many awards, and was voted the best indie RPG of 2011.
Gameplay
To the Moon is built on the RPG Maker XP engine, which is used to create 16-bit 2D role-playing games, in the style of Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy. However, unlike a typical RPG, To the Moon has no battle system (aside from a joke battle near the beginning), inventory system or party system. The game's focus, being a more story-driven game, is around puzzle solving, interpreting information from the subject Johnny's life, and finding ways to get deeper into his memories.
Gameplay is primarily about exploring Johnny's memories to find significant objects and collect energy from them to strengthen the memory and connect to a more distant one, from Johnny's old age leading back to his childhood. Occasionally, the player will have to explore Johnny's house and the surrounding area for certain clues, if they cannot gather enough energy from a certain memory, or don't know how to proceed to a further one.
Once the items are all gathered and the player has seen all the memories, they can connect certain objects that exist across two different memories to move freely between them. At this point, the player can begin manipulating the memories, by changing around characters, objects and events, to make Johnny believe he had achieved his dream of going to the moon.
Plot
Sigmund Corp. uses a technology that can create artificial memories. They offer this as a "wish fulfillment" service to people on their death beds. Since these artificial memories conflict with the patient's real memories, the procedure is only legal to do on people without much time left to live.
Sigmund Corp. employees Dr. Eva Rosalene and Dr. Neil Watts are tasked with fulfilling the lifelong dream of the dying Johnny Wyles. Johnny wants to go to the moon, although he doesn't know why. The doctors insert themselves into an interactive compilation of his memories and traverse backwards through his life via mementos. With each leap to an important moment in Johnny's memories, they learn more about him and what brought him to his current position in life, including his largely unhappy marriage to his childhood sweetheart, River. Upon reaching his childhood, the doctors attempt to insert his desire to go to the moon. Supposedly, Johnny's mind would create new memories based on that desire, and Johnny would die believing he lived without any regrets.
However, Johnny's mind does not create the new memories as planned. Dr. Watts and Dr. Rosalene must solve the problem to fulfill Johnny's dying wish of going to the moon.
Ending
Eventually, it is revealed that Johnny and River met as children at a carnival. They looked at the night sky and made up a constellation: a rabbit with the moon as its belly. The two agreed to meet at the same place the following year, with Johnny promising that should he forget or get lost, the two would "regroup on the moon". That night, Johnny gives River a toy platypus which River treasures for the rest of her life. Shortly after, Johnny's twin brother Joey was killed in an accident. Johnny's mother gave him beta blockers to induce memory loss of the tragic event, also causing him to forget his first encounter with River. He later happened to meet her again, and eventually marry her, and River only realized later on that he had forgot their meeting at the carnival. (Johnny confessed that he approached her in school because she was different, and revealed that he thought that was their first meeting) River, diagnosed as an adult with Asperger syndrome (although never directly stated, the game references Tony Attwood, who wrote numerous books about Aspergers), did not tell Johnny directly about their first meeting; instead, she tried to indirectly jostle his memories by cutting her hair and crafting paper bunnies, including a dual-colored one representing the constellation they made up during their first encounter, combined with the blue-and-yellow dress she wore on their wedding. River was unable to make Johnny remember before she died, and Johnny was left with lingering guilt and an inexplicable desire to go to the Moon.
In the present, Rosalene and Watts eventually implant a memory sequence in which Joey did not die, and lived on to become a popular author, and Johnny did not meet River again until they started working together at NASA. As the comatose real-life Johnny begins to die, he imagines going on a moon mission with River. During the launch, River holds out a hand to him. The moon appears through a window on the ship, and Johnny takes her hand as his heart monitor flatlines.
In the epilogue, Johnny and River eventually get married, and build and retire to the same house where the real-life Johnny and River lived. Back in the real world, Rosalene and Watts look to Johnny's grave, which is placed adjacent to River’s. They reveal to the audience that Johnny willed the house to his caregiver, Lily. Rosalene receives a phone call, and the two move on to their next patient. While Watts is leaving, he stops and the screen briefly flashes red, the same way it did when Johnny felt pain. Watts takes some painkillers, then continues onward.
Un jeu d'aventures contant l'histoire particulière de Johnny, qui rêve d'aller sur la Lune, par le studio Freebird Games (Kan Gao & son équipe), portage Linux Edward Rudd & Jonas Kulla.
Il utilise le moteur mkxp (compatible avec les moteurs "RPG Maker XP", "RPG Maker VX" and "RPG Maker VX Ace").
To the Moon est un jeu d'aventures sur un thème de science fiction contant l'histoire de deux médecins accomplissant le souhait de Johnny, un vieille homme sur son lit de mort, en lui permettant de vivre en rêve, la vie qu'il aurait souhaité, et son rêve est ... d'aller sur la Lune.
L'auteur a ensuite publié 2 mini épisodes de 20 minutes gratuits mettant en scène les Dr. Watts & Dr. Rosalene.
Ce jeu a une préquelle : A Bird Story (dans le Bottin).
To the Moon est un RPG d'Adventure indie, contant l'histoire de deux médecins traversant les souvenirs d'un homme mourant pour exhausser son dernier souhait.
Le Dr. Eva Rosalene et le Dr Neil Watts ont des emplois plutôt particuliers : Ils donnent aux gens une autre chance de vivre. Au sens propre.
Il existe une technologie permettant aux médecins d'introduire des souvenirs artificiels, de telle sorte qu'un patient peut demander des tentatives de modification de leur esprit, et ainsi se réveiller avec des souvenirs de choses qui ne se sont pas produites effectivement.
Néanmoins, étant donné que ces nouveaux souvenirs sont permanents, l'interaction entre ceux-ci et leurs souvenirs authentiques induit un conflit d'une manière telle que les capacités de la personne cessent définitivement de fonctionner correctement.
Raison pour laquelle, cette opération n'est proposée qu'aux personnes sur leur lit de mort, afin d'accomplir ce qu'ils auraient souhaités faire de leur vie ... mais n'ont pas fait.
Mais la création d'une nouvelle mémoire n'est pas aussi simple que d'appuyer sur un bouton.
La technologie exige des médecins qu'ils entrent dans les souvenirs du patient, qui sont reconstruits comme des scènes interactives. Les médecins s'introduisent alors progressivement en sens inverse des souvenirs de la vie du patient jusqu'à ce qu'ils atteignent leur enfance - au point précis, souhaité par le patient.
Avec l'influence des médecins, le patient (devenu un enfant) pourrait alors mener une vie entière différente dans leur tête, réalisant l'accomplissement de leur ultimes souhaits.
Et si tout va bien, ils se réveillent, ayant vécu la vie de rêve, qu'ils n'ont jamais eu, et embrassant un bref moment de plénitude heureuse.
Peu de temps après, ils rendent leur dernier souffle.
Chaque tentative déroule une vie très spéciale.
Cette histoire particulière suit l'essai du Dr Rosalene et du Dr Watts de réaliser le rêve de Johnny, un vielle homme mourant. Dans leur mission, ils remontent les souvenirs de l'homme, déroulant la curieuse histoire de sa vie qui se révèle à leurs yeux.
A chaque pas en arrière dans le temps, un nouveau fragment du passé de Johnny est révélé. Et alors que les deux médecins assemblent le puzzle des événements liant sa vie, ils cherchent à découvrir simplement pourquoi le frêle vieil homme a choisi d'être ce qu'il est pour son dernier souhait.
Et le dernier souhait de Johnny est, bien sûr ... d'aller sur la lune.
🌍️ Wikipedia :
To the Moon est le quatrième jeu vidéo du développeur et compositeur canadien Kan Gao et la première production commerciale de son équipe de développement de jeux indépendants, Freebird Games. Sorti le 1er novembre 2011, il s'agit d'un jeu de rôle d'aventure qui utilise le moteur de jeu RPG Maker. Leu jeu est initialement sorti sur le site web du développeur puis sur plusieurs portails de téléchargement de jeux vidéo. Le 8 septembre 2012 il est disponible sur Steam en versions compatibles avec les systèmes d'exploitation OS X et Linux. Le 7 janvier 2014 il sort avec le Humble Indie Bundle 10.
To the Moon est nommé pour de nombreuses récompenses et remporte le prix du meilleur jeu vidéo de rôle indépendant de 2011.
Histoire
Les docteurs Eva Rosalene et Neil Watts ont un travail très particulier : ils sont chargés de s'introduire dans l'esprit de leur patient pour réaliser leur rêve. En entrant dans leurs souvenirs, ils découvrent petit à petit la vie de leur patient et la raison pour laquelle il a émis ce souhait. Après être entrés dans leur enfance, les docteurs peuvent alors injecter le souhait du patient qui le motivera ainsi toute sa vie afin de le pousser à réaliser son rêve, mais artificiellement. Étant donné la nature lourde de l'opération, qui peut entraîner de graves lésions au cerveau dues au conflit de souvenirs, entre les vrais et les artificiels, elle n'est effectuée que sur les patients sur leur lit de mort, à qui il ne reste que très peu de temps à vivre, et qui n'ont jamais pu réaliser leur rêve.
To the Moon est une histoire sur la vie de Johnny, qui rêve d'aller sur la Lune. Cependant, il ne sait lui-même pas pourquoi il veut aller sur la Lune. Au fur et à mesure que les docteurs s'enfoncent dans les souvenirs de la vie mouvementée de Johnny, ils découvrent ses secrets, comme sa mystérieuse et défunte femme River, ainsi que la raison pour laquelle il veut réellement aller sur la Lune...