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All I want is to go home.

One night, while Chopin was fast asleep, a storm of light swept him away. He woke in a morning town he had never seen. And every town on the road home had been thrown out of order by a star that fell.

Coming soon to the App Store

Opening movie

The morning he set out, set to song.

This plays the moment you open the game. Carried by a theme song written for it, Chopin bolts out onto the cobblestones — hear the voice this story is told in, first.

Plays with sound

How it begins

The smallest shooting star slipped and fell.

High above, a family of shooting stars was crossing the night. The smallest child slipped away and broke apart, and the shards fell like rain over the towns below. Only the Heart — the most precious part — came to rest on Chopin's own roof.

High in the sky, a family of shooting stars was passing by.

The smallest one slipped away, and broke apart.

Held too tightly, the shards unsettle the heart of whoever holds them.

Only the Heart came to rest — on the roof of Chopin's house.

Cut off from its family, it spilled a storm of light out of sheer loneliness.

That storm carried him off. He woke in a town he had never seen.

"If someone gathered the shards and sent them home, we'd be all right."

"Then I'll do it. I'll gather them all and help everyone!"

Wanting to get home. Unable to walk past someone in trouble. He set off carrying both.

Transformation

"I want to see them. I want to see my family, now."

The star shards give me power!

Star shards unsettle the heart of anyone who holds on to them. On the back of the cat carrying them home to the sky, that same light turns into wings. And only from up there, high above the water, did he finally see an island he recognised. Flying, sledding, diving — every town holds something only Caped Chopin can do.

Keep picking up shards as you run and the stardust trailing off him gains a new color at every step. Reach fifty and he turns to rainbow light: Super Chopin, faster on his feet, pulling every nearby shard toward him.

Four towns

Every town had someone in trouble.

Morning light. A night nobody can sleep through. A blizzard that will not stop. A sea turning rough. He wanted to get home quickly. He stopped in every single one of them anyway.

Morning Town

He woke up here. A strange town, a strange morning. Worried faces told him what had happened: "If someone gathered the shards and sent them back to the sky, everything would go back to normal." And at that, his eyes lit up.

Night Town

Street corners with every lamp gone dark. He looked up at a window and saw a small boy asleep, curled against his mother. "...I wonder how they're doing. Mom. Dad."

Snow Town

The blizzard never lets up, and nobody can leave their house. On a night that cold and that quiet, something ached in his chest. "On nights like this, I used to sleep all curled up with them."

Seabreeze Town

The sea has begun to turn. Save this town, and home is close. At the end of the road the townspeople threw him a feast. It's delicious. ...But the truth is.

Who is waiting

Not one of them is a bad kid.

All across the towns, animals have picked up star shards and held on far too tight. A rat, a crow, something moving in the snow, a creature under the sea. Every one of them was fine before. The shards are simply what took them out of themselves.

So Chopin doesn't go to fight them. He goes to help them. When the shards they were holding return to the sky, they blink, look around, and go back to being themselves.

How it plays

He is alive under your finger.

Hold the left side to run. Tap the right to jump. That is everything you have to learn. Nothing complicated — you jump, you dodge, you pick things up, and before you notice it you have run the whole length of the town.

He meows in his own voice, every jump

The meow was not made in software. It is Chopin's own voice, and Marie's, recorded and used exactly as they sounded. You play this game by making these two cats speak, under your finger.

The town changes color as he passes

The shards and the street lamps are not glows painted into the artwork. They are really lit, right there — so the cobblestones and the shadows on the walls brighten as he runs by.

Even one shard feels like something you caught

Time stops for a heartbeat, the screen gives a small knock, and stardust scatters. Built so that even a single shard feels like it landed in your hands. He carries a hundred of them home.

Language

For children who can't read kanji yet.

In Night Town, Chopin looks up at a window and finds a small boy asleep beside his mother. The hiragana mode exists for children that age. Chopin Adventure plays in English and Japanese, and Japanese has a third setting where every word becomes hiragana with spaces between phrases — so a child who has only just started reading can play it alone.

星のかけらを集めて、町に光を返そう。

Please take Chopin home.

We'll send one email on the day it launches.

Coming soon to the App Store

For iPhone. Free, with no ads. Not long now until it reaches the App Store.