I Don't Think I've Walked This Stretch of Road Before

A short narrative adventure game by hexcavator.

*Walk the length of your memories on a lonely country highway.

Follow the signal. Return to the place you left behind.

Piece together a truth you can live with.*

Gameplay

-Just walk: Traverse a dreamy backroad littered with fragments from your past. -Point-and-click: Explore vignettes and manipulate objects to gather snippets of prose. -Thrills without chills: Reconstruct a hopeful story of personal reckoning. -Low stakes: No combat or failure state. Move at your own pace and let curiosity guide you. -Compact: < 30 minutes to play through.

Features

-Surreal, minimalistic 3D landscape -Guitars + brooding analog synth ambience -Shameless Jeff Nichols/Kelly Reichardt/David Lynch worship -Lo-fi, low-poly, no-budget psychodrama -Dual analog or keyboard input

Errata

I don't think I've walked this stretch of road before is a mashup of homespun 3D design, pulsating electronic sounds, and my desire to tell humanizing, hopeful stories about struggling to make sense of pain. It was built haltingly over about a year and a half using some tools I know well & others I barely understand.

I was inspired throughout by the small but resilient community of people using Gamemaker: Studio for 3D development. Like any commercial framework, GM:S has its caveats, but I appreciate its primordial, open-ended toolset, and I hope this game can be a small but interesting contribution to the scene.