Trail

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Trail is an free, experimental, minimalist platformer inspired by a child's belief about death.

In Trail you play through a level forwards and then backwards from the point of your death.

When you are alive, the world is all white and you drop a trail of memories behind you in this world.
Each memory drop will increase your score. If you touch a memory when alive then it hurts you (sometimes it's painful to revisit the past)

The level is your life, so there will be a point you life will end, there is no escape from that, no one is immortal.

When you die the world turns black and you start from the point of your death, or the last solid bit of ground in the case of falling to your death. In this state your 'health' which was reset on death constantly drains. We like to think of your health in this state being your attachment to this plane of existence. In addition to this, everything that could hurt you while you were living can still hurt you.