Released in August of 2011, Trauma is ostensibly a point and click adventure, albeit one that attempts to present feeling and tone over a complex series of puzzles and conversations. In this month's Pause:Continue, InRetroSpect's Peter Willington explores the title and interviews its creator Krystian Majewski. Krystian speaks to him about the evolution of the adventure genre and the process of creating one of the most fascinating releases of the year.
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Touch Arcade: Trauma [$2.99] gives us few concrete facts. There is a hospital, a woman in a bed, a doctor offering an uncertain prognosis. Beyond that, a series of dreams pieced together from photographs and memories, narrated by the woman, a victim of a traumatizing accident.
Growth and exploration are two themes deeply entwined in Trauma, and the game approaches them from a mature perspective. It's a tale of a young woman coming to terms with her life in the wake of an accident, dealing with her photographic dreams through a series of gestures and discoveries.
