HISTORY
 

Bird of passage was born almost a year before we actually started making it. Alessandro travels quite a lot to Japan and during one of his first trips, he was amazed by the inner elegance shown by the taxis in Tokyo: spotless, majestic, he observed the routine performed by the taxi drivers both when they were on the road and when they were resting or performing the usual maintenance to their cars. We decided to adopt the taxi as our main environment, but to use it as seen from the outside, so that the reflections of the city neons could enhance its sleek figure. We put a Yokai on the back seat, a ghost taken both from Japanese folklore and from the well known urban legend of the ghost hitchhiker, and we made them talk about the past, ginkgo trees, the evolution of the city, and a terrible earthquake. We worked almost independently, each of us taking care of an aspect of the game, and exchanging feedbacks and opinions on our work from time to time. We developed this project over a month, with no funding and in our spare time, mostly at night or during the weekends.