Echoes of Wittine
Videogame prototype
Echoes of Wittine is a game about a lost past, the search for truth, and reconciliation with one's own roots. The echoes of memories and the memory of a place blur the line between reality and illusion, bringing the past to life and revealing a long-forgotten story from the Sudetenland. Fragments of family history guide Oldřich Švarc on his escape from war in Palestine back to his native village in the Czech Republic, 70 years later. The game is inspired by the story of the Švarc family, who lived in the village of Vitín near Ústí nad Labem from 1946 to 1949, before emigrating to Palestine.