Despite finding comfort in many stories during the pandemic, Before Your Eyes’ reflective take on mortality and anxieties about the future was the first story that really allowed me to open the emotional floodgates.Ĭhatting with the team just an hour after finishing my devastating playthrough, it was comforting to hear that even the game’s creators struggled to hold back tears. Thank you, I really needed that.” It’s a sentiment that I understand all too well. “Because of this last year, people are looking for a cathartic experience right now” adds Lewin, “ A lot of players have been like, “I cried my eyes out. Even on a Zoom call from the other side of the planet, the team’s sense of joy feels palpable. In the short span since their game was released, the team has been inundated with messages from players sharing their reactions to Before Your Eyes - with many using the game to tell their own life stories. Three core members of the development team at GoodbyeWorld Games - Lewin, CEO and founder Will Hellwarth, and lead engineer and designer Bela Messex - spoke with Inverse about why they believe accessibility is the future of video games, and revealed how they created one of gaming’s most unforgettable narratives.
“We always talked about wanting players to walk away with something that was meaningful,” Lewin tells Inverse, “But we didn’t expect this.” The game’s director and composer, Oliver Lewin, wasn’t expecting the outpouring of praise and emotion Before Your Eyes has elicited. Where some players can enjoy games without giving inputs much thought, complex control schemes make enjoying modern releases far more difficult for people with disabilities. While Before Your Eyes’ emotive yarn and clever tech impress, this largely hands-free control scheme triumphs for another reason – its accessibility. Reading your webcam as a controller, players use a combination of blinks and mouse movements to navigate environments, closing their eyelids to jump between protagonist Benny’s memories, as his life flashes… Before Your Eyes. Playing the debut release from LA studio GoodbyeWorld games is an incredibly powerful experience - and that’s largely down to its innovative control scheme. As the poignant riff of a guitar-led ballad softly rung out over the game’s credits, I found myself bawling uncontrollably.
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Somehow this webcam-controlled indie game had utterly broken me - eliciting a stronger emotional response than any TV show or album in recent memory. As my hour and a half journey with Before Your Eyes reached its end, I could barely see the screen, thanks to the tears blurring my vision.
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