The Window Across

A pixel-art story adventure about light, shadow, and the words we never said.

Emi is an archivist. In three days the apartment block where she grew up will be torn down, and her job is to photograph every room before it is gone.

Seventeen years ago a boy lived in the window across the courtyard. They never needed a phone: a lamp turned toward the ceiling meant a question, a paper bird meant "come outside", a paper star meant "goodnight". Then one stormy night the lights went out, and the conversation stopped in the middle of a sentence.

Now, in the dead building opposite, a light is blinking again.

Speak with shadows

Move your lamp, tilt a paper cutout, change the distance. The shadow on the curtain is a real projection, so every small change alters the message. Learn the language of the windows and answer.

Explore places that feel alive

Courtyards in the rain, stairwells, a kitchen with a kettle still warm. Every object in every room is its own thing with its own light and shadow. Look at it, pick it up, or leave it behind.

Remember

Play as nine-year-old Emi in warm, fading memories, and rebuild the evening everything went wrong from both sides of the courtyard.

Decide what to keep

Archive an object or leave it to the house. Choose the final message you send across the courtyard, and live with what it means.

Features

• A short, emotional story of about two hours, with multiple endings
  
• A light-and-shadow puzzle mechanic built on real projection
  
• Hand-crafted pixel-art scenes with dynamic lighting, rain and mist
  
• Original guitar soundtrack
  
• Full Russian and English text
  
• Play it in an evening, remember it for a long time