The Year After

You play as Death. Travel forward and backward in time by walking through a shifting landscape. Seasons pass. Characters age.
Pay attention to details in the environment and piece together a tale of a family coping with the effects of a brutal winter.
A real Gameboy game that runs in the browser, with an emulator or on original hardware. Using memory hacks and Javascript, the browser version includes ambient sound and music and color overlays.
A chill, relaxing experience, playable in half an hour to an hour.  Game progress automatically saved.
Best played with sound.
Made with GB Studio.
CONTROLS
Arrow Keys / WASD to movealt / Z / J to interact.
TRAILER
ROM & CARTRIDGE VERSION
A cartridge version is in the works. The cartridge version will have chiptune music and, if my mad plan succeeds, perhaps the ability to plug a headphone line from the Gameboy to a mic line of a computer or a smartphone to hear the same high-def sound effects as the browser version of the game.
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PRESS KIT:
https://hadrianlin.github.io/press_materials_the_year_after.zip
ADDITIONAL SOUND CREDITS
Additional sound effects and music from Freesound.org:InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk):Ambience, Wind Chimes, A.wavAmbience, Peaceful Synth.wavBell, Candle Damper, A (H1).wav Erokia/Jordan Powell:  Ambient Wave 3 (Harmonics)eric5335: meadow ambience.wavbe-steele: Malamute Dinner Music > Igor3B.wavGoodListener: Stable Noises- Birds and Horses Neighing.wavAdditional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com