Once Upon a Spring

Mental illness is not a choice, but we can always decide how we coexist with it. After a life infested with setbacks and downturns, Chunling finds herself at a crossroads — to take, or not to take, her own life.

In this puzzle game, the player delves deep into the turbulent mental space of an elderly woman: to relive her troubled life, to uncover her many secrets, and ultimately, to decide her very fate.

My roles: I was brought on when the project needed a new direction. I synthesized the origin story with the genres that interested the founding members and essentially re-crafted the entire plan for design and development. I've been driving the project forward ever since — and became its software developer along the way.

Feel free to play a vertical slice from the link below.