Carry On

Game Description

You’re preparing for a move far from home and you've got 10 minute to pack one suitcase. What do you take with you? What gets left behind? 

Carry-On  turns that moment into a gentle puzzle where every trinket you pack preserves a fragment of someone’s life. Every object you consider carries the stories you attach to it.

Whose memory are you honoring, whose are you rewriting? It asks you to see memory as a bridge—across cultures, across generations—and to feel the bittersweet truth that holding on often means leaving something else behind.

By the end you may find that the suitcase is small, but the space between our stories is wide enough to carry us all.

Game Instructions 

Hover on items to see the memories they carry.

Drag items into your suitcase to pack them.

Click on notes to edit them.

*The game uploads each suitcase to an external archive. You can explore what others have packed and contribute your own story to the collection.

Developed By

Programmer: Samuel Wang

Artist: Rina

Music: "Evening" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Disclaimer

Part of the 2025 Game Residency Project Random Access Memory, organized by InterAccess and showcased at Vector Festival 2025.

Event page: Exhibitions — Vector Festival 2025