Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part “item Tetris”, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking. Over the course of eight house moves, you are given a chance to experience a sense of intimacy with a character you never see and a story you’re never told.

Features

Unpack a home -- from a single bedroom to an entire house
Meditative gameplay with no timers, meters or score
Explore domestic environments with all their nooks and crannies while you stack plates, hang towels, and arrange bookshelves
Discover a character's story through the items that come with her to each new home (and the items that get left behind)
Soundtrack by BAFTA award-winning composer and audio director Jeff van Dyck

Chicks Everywhere?! - July 2021 Dev Log

Hi Movers!

It's been a busy month for the Unpacking team - we're making steady progress on the game and getting closer and closer to when we'll finally be able to announce a release date... but today is not that day! Instead, here's a small dev log on what we've been up to.

Development Updates

Nintendo Switch progress

Added touch controls for the Switch (and any PCs with touch capabilities)!
Saving implemented on the Switch

Quality of life progress

Hooked up rumble system for gamepad
Got all of the text in the game localized and implemented

Game progress

All stages now have music tracks!
Designed a new UI screen and some buttons
All art for Stage 4 is now done
Environment art for final stage is done
Item art for final stage is 75% done
All views outside windows across the game are done
Credits sequence fully implemented
Made a bunch of changes to items and environments based on feedback from internal playtests
Added some secret unannounced features.........ssh!

Have you been keeping an eye out on our social media pages too? We've been having a ton of fun with the community!

Pick a Chick

We ran a community voting round to choose a couple of the chick plushies that'll appear in the game. Our Discord and Twitter community each got to vote on a different set of chicks, and the winning one from each platform will be in! Thanks to everyone who voted and helped us decide.

Twitter winner: Chick 4!

Discord winner: Chick #1!

Be proud of knowing that you had a hand in making this all happen! And make sure to join our Twitter and Discord for future community events like this.

We also got some great fan art votes! Thank you to @ronjanatt on Twitter for making this amazing cross stitch! Game Description Image

TikTok

We recently created a TikTok account for all things Unpacking! Please give us a follow there if you're interested in seeing more Unpacking action.
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That's about it on our end! We'll keep these monthly updates happening. Can't wait for you to finally get your hands on the game eventually. Can you believe 2021 is already more than halfway done?

Cheers,
Victoria and the Unpacking team

[ 2021-07-29 02:15:42 CET ] [Original Post]