Play in Isolation: Where Is My Heart?
A walk through the woods.
"There's a forest going right through the middle of the city. I didn't really go there a lot. It was just there, always."
When Bernhard Schulenberg speaks, he does so carefully and deliberately, searching his memory like carefully labeled files in a cabinet. He describes setting up shop with a fellow game designer in Copenhagen, making a trip to the Philippines with his girlfriend, going on jogs, sketching new rules for his game Where Is My Heart?. His childhood home in Germany.
Bernhard showed an early build of his game during the Experimental Gameplay Sessions at this year's Game Developers Conference. It wasn't the most mind-bending (that would be the four-dimensional Miegakure) nor the most moving (that would be Today I Die, which collapsed its own beginning, middle and end into a single screen swimming with latent possibility). It was, to me, the most distinctly personal.
