Welcome to A Scroll Down Memory Lane 

a walking simulator developed as part of a Master’s thesis project.

This video game prototype is part of a voluntary research study on video game narratives. Participation involves completing short surveys before, during, and after gameplay. You may withdraw from the study at any time without penalty.

How to participate:

1. Proceed to the PRE-PLAY SURVEY available here:   https://forms.gle/kBgWuXsP3xsuVKym9

2. Go to the bottom of this page and download the game. Installation instructions are available below.

3. Play the game! Explore and have fun.  When you are done playing, please press "ESC" and click on the "Submit Gameplay Experience" button, and follow the instructions.

4. Once you've pasted your data on the Google form provided after the gameplay, please continue to fill out the post-play questionnaire.

If you have arrived here independently, you are more than welcome to participate either way! If you simply wish to play the game without participation, that is completely fine. 

Game map with all memory locations available in the screenshots!

***Game Download File at the bottom of the page!***

If you have questions about this study, please contact Michaela via email:  up202409852[at]up.pt (replace [at] with @)

This game was developed independently by one person within the timespan of 6 weeks and is currently in an early alpha stage. As such, bugs, errors, or crashes may occur. 

Known issues:
- The game may show a black screen after the "made in unity" screen and a moment to load before starting the game.

- Footstep sound doesn't work in downhill movement

- The memories will sometimes start but not play sound. This is resolved by pressing "ESC" and exit the memory, then start it again.

Download Instructions

1. Choose a file location where you want the game to be, and Download the game folder available below (it's less than 500MB).

2. Then, extract the .zip folder in the desired location. You will now see 7 different items. Please read the Readme file for futher information about how to play the game and information about the study. 

3. To launch the game, double-click on the "A Scroll Down Memory Lane_HDRP" executable (.exe). This will start the game, and a consent form with all information and user agreement will appear.

Once/if agreed to to the consent form, a tutorial will appear upon game start. Please read it thoroughly.

Have fun!

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CREDITS

Voice Acting

                                              Joran Borreman
                                              Kiko Ribeiro
                                              Madeleine Gripenstam
                                              Michaela Gripenstam
                                              Raquel Gouveia
                                              Tiago Azevedo

Electric Guitar

                                              Pedro Sousa

External Textures, Materials & 3D Assets

Assets sourced from Poly Haven (https://polyhaven.com).
All assets from Poly Haven are provided under a CC0 (public domain) license and are free to use without attribution. While attribution is not required, it is included here in acknowledgement of the quality and value of their resources, which significantly contributed to the visual development of this project.

Sound

Most sound in the game was created by the researcher, such as recording voice acting and foley, pther sounds were created using programs such as Krotos Studio, and the sound library Soundly.

External Sounds

Some sound elements were sourced from Soundly and are used under their respective licensing terms.

Examples include:

• Animals, Insect, Cicada, Close Up, Very Isolated
• Animals, Insect, Cicadas, Isolated, Calm Surroundings, Forest
• Animals, Insect, Fly, Buzz Around, Close Up 01
• Animals, Amphibian, Frogs, Distant Insects, Night, Reservoir, Sub, Tropical, Australia
• Birds, Crow, Call, Cawing, Single
• Wings, Bird, Pigeon, Wing Flaps, Fly Away
• Musical, Song & Phrase, Guitar, Mediterranean, Trumpet

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License & Usage Terms

This video game prototype, A Scroll Down Memory Lane, was developed as part of a Master’s research project investigating non-traditional narrative structures in video games.

All original content created by the researcher—including, but not limited to, visual assets, audio, text, design, and underlying concepts—is the intellectual property of the author and is protected by copyright under applicable law.

This project includes certain third-party materials (such as audio and 3D assets) used under their respective licenses. All rights to such materials remain with their original creators.

This work is provided for personal, non-commercial use only.

Users are permitted to:
- Play and interact with the game for the purpose of participating in the study

Users are not permitted to:
- Copy, reproduce, or redistribute the game or any of its components
- Modify, adapt, or create derivative works based on the game
- Extract or reuse assets, audio, text, or code
- Use any part of this project for commercial or public purposes

All third-party materials remain subject to their respective license agreements and may not be used outside the scope permitted by those licenses