WEBVTT -- English 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.605 Voiceover: Welcome to The Goodbye Room... 00:00:03.741 --> 00:00:07.086 ...Recreational therapy for all the things you need to let go. 00:00:07.163 --> 00:00:09.929 We know your type. You can't let go of the time when... 00:00:10.028 --> 00:00:12.028 ...The feeling of... 00:00:12.029 --> 00:00:14.029 ...First love. 00:00:14.101 --> 00:00:16.352 It's OK. We can just take you back to your teenage bedroom. 00:00:16.390 --> 00:00:18.390 Hey, isn't that your ex? 00:00:18.504 --> 00:00:20.504 Ex: Don't you want to, you know... Do some stuff? 00:00:20.506 --> 00:00:26.368 I mean, it's just me and you and this bedroom. 00:00:26.449 --> 00:00:31.856 Spooky Voice: It all started when I bought my first pair of utilitarian sandals... 00:00:31.905 --> 00:00:34.542 ...I wore them with socks, obviously. 00:00:34.594 --> 00:00:38.259 Voiceover: In the place where you needed to feel the way you felt... 00:00:38.375 --> 00:00:41.362 ...with the first person who made you feel it. 00:00:41.646 --> 00:00:43.646 Feel it all again, in The Goodbye Room. 00:00:43.942 --> 00:00:49.316 Ex: But what if you fought it? What if you imagined all the ways that it could've been forever? 00:00:51.295 --> 00:00:54.615 Hi, I'm Max Ellinger and I'm making The Goodbye Room... 00:00:54.749 --> 00:00:57.009 ...an adventure game for VR and PC. 00:00:57.115 --> 00:00:59.548 It started a prototype I made over the summer... 00:00:59.598 --> 00:01:02.320 ...Now we're bringing it to Kickstarter for the full game. 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:05.152 The Goodbye Room is like an escape room of feelings... 00:01:05.236 --> 00:01:08.777 ...A place that won't let you leave you until you've properly grieved and worked through your issues. 00:01:08.894 --> 00:01:12.138 It's the tender and queer game I wish I had when I was younger. 00:01:12.254 --> 00:01:14.254 Here's a taste of what to expect. 00:01:14.364 --> 00:01:16.364 So you're in The Goodbye Room with your ex. 00:01:16.474 --> 00:01:19.489 Catch and combine the feelings hemorrhaging from him to unlock memories. 00:01:19.543 --> 00:01:22.478 Explore them and get closer to the truth. 00:01:22.644 --> 00:01:24.644 The moments you'll always hold close... 00:01:24.715 --> 00:01:26.715 ...And the nightmares you can't escape. 00:01:26.844 --> 00:01:30.478 Next, try and mend what's broken in the Awkward Family Dinner Remix Challenge. 00:01:30.594 --> 00:01:32.855 It's like an improv game with family. 00:01:32.933 --> 00:01:35.769 Hint: you can't fix someone's family. 00:01:35.918 --> 00:01:38.926 Face your fears when you meet the loner you’re afraid of becoming. 00:01:38.974 --> 00:01:43.944 He’s a creeper thought creature lost in his past, your own imagination turned against itself. 00:01:44.114 --> 00:01:47.549 Confront him in the Steam Room of Doom. 00:01:47.587 --> 00:01:51.198 Explore, solve puzzles, and interact with a variety of difficult people... 00:01:51.328 --> 00:01:54.123 ...including your ex in a final, climatic encounter. 00:01:54.131 --> 00:01:56.640 Anything is possible in The Goodbye Room. 00:01:56.677 --> 00:02:01.763 Featuring volumetric video performances, interactive 3D 360 video, 00:02:01.855 --> 00:02:05.500 environmental storytelling, and experimental gameplay... 00:02:05.605 --> 00:02:10.545 ...The Goodbye Room sits at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and personal storytelling. 00:02:10.627 --> 00:02:13.716 Helping me make this game is a really exciting team. 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.545 Khaela Maricich, who performs as one-half of The Blow... 00:02:16.635 --> 00:02:18.635 ...is consulting on narrative design. 00:02:18.745 --> 00:02:22.330 Nick Sahoyah, who you might recognize from Cool Mom with Jinkx Monsoon... 00:02:22.384 --> 00:02:24.384 ...is playing the ex. 00:02:24.385 --> 00:02:28.165 Hunter Dyar, a 360 filmmaker, is helping with gameplay design and cutscenes... 00:02:28.227 --> 00:02:31.391 ...along with Ryan Anderson, a gameplay designer and programmer. 00:02:31.455 --> 00:02:34.475 Finally, Karri Mikkonen is our talented composer. 00:02:34.555 --> 00:02:36.555 For backing this game, we have an exciting assortment of rewards... 00:02:36.645 --> 00:02:40.544 ...including a psychic or astrological reading from one of my parents. 00:02:40.615 --> 00:02:43.938 These are only available through Kickstarter. 00:02:44.004 --> 00:02:46.756 My prediction is that this is going to be awesome. 00:02:46.814 --> 00:02:49.389 The Goodbye Room will only happen with your support. 00:02:49.484 --> 00:02:52.188 We already have the hardware and software to pull this off. 00:02:52.264 --> 00:02:56.139 Funds that we raise will go to paying contributors and offsetting our cost of living... 00:02:56.224 --> 00:02:58.224 ...So that we can make this game. 00:02:58.555 --> 00:03:02.421 Thank you so much for your support and I hope to see you in The Goodbye Room.