
While you take control of this fox as she explores a natural world, the life of the narrator leaves its mark on the landscape. In The First Tree, a man recounts to his wife a dream he’s been having about a mother fox searching for her missing kits. The First Tree is a two hour art game focused more on evoking emotion and presenting lovely sights than providing a riveting gameplay experience. Part of why The First Tree came together as well as it did no doubt comes from the aims of the project. While it does show in some small parts and there have been older tools where you could make a very simple or rigidly defined game type, after playing The First Tree it is still impressive that not only did he make a game with a distinct look to it, but it never felt like it was limited by the creator’s lack of technical know-how. Game creation tools have now reached the point that David Wehle, the creator of The First Tree, managed to build the entire game without any knowledge on how to code.
