Heimweh is a Visual Novel that was created via RenPy in 2016 as a Bachelor project. This project was endorsed and motivated by the University of Heidelberg in cooperation with the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences. This project took one whole semester to complete. (Summer Semester 2016)
- RenPy
- Notepad++, for all scripts
- Paint.NET, for all digital graphical assets and for touching up the analog prints
- Pen and Paper, lots of paper. Also a scanner capable of scanning analog prints and sending them digitally to the computer
- external Music Artist Robin Reuer, responsible for the creation of background music assets
Heiden is a small boy who lived happily with his single mother in the hustle and bustle of the big city. However, that changed with the sudden passing of his mother. He decided during the funeral of his late mother to move into the household of his distant uncle, who lived pretty far out in the modest province. Follow Heiden as he tries to find a new life together with a seemingly strange uncle and the peculiar people of the village while coping the loss of his mother. Will Heiden find the time and patience to piece together the past of his mother and what happened to his unknown father?