C'est quand qu'on arrive ? ("When do we arrive?") is an experimental visual novel that places the player in the shoes of Lily, a seven year old girl seated at the back of a car.
October 2009. Lily and her sister Max are on the road with their dad. At the back of the car, the child observes, keeps her mind busy, tries to forget the worries that fill the air. Even if she knows her destination, the final goal seems to be unknown to her, and the motive of the trip itself even more. Between fragmented talks and comforting little games, this trip becomes a closed space where boredom and nostalgia are tangled.
This project explores how video games can convey complex and precide feelings (being here apprehension, nostalgia et comfort), and we chose to do it through a child's perspective. This prototype, made as a team, interrogates what is the place of children in a situation that overwhelms them, while inviting players to rediscover gestures and imagined games from their own childhood.
You can download C'est quand qu'on arrive ? or even play it directly on its Itch page.
