It's brilliant unpacking a bunch of clothes and finding a surprise toilet roll in the same box, and inferring that this is because there was a toilet roll on the desk or by the bed.Įach room is a very beautiful little diorama, and unpacking all the books and tiny cups and plates made me think of putting things away in a doll's house. A real joy, too, in seeing what comes out of the box next. There is a joy in seeing tape players get smaller, and the introduction of an iPhone and a big CRT computer screen. The first room is a child's bedroom, from around 1997, the second a first apartment or - my instinct - a student digs in the noughties. The game part is fitting in all the stuff you have in a way that makes sense. Once you've emptied a box it flatpacks itself out of existence. What you do is open moving boxes and take things out of them, and place them around the room. I and many others have been quietly cooing over the idea of Unpacking for a while, and this weekend a demo of the first two unpackenings came out, coinciding with PAX X EGX this week. Packing is hell, but Unpacking sort makes me want to move house so I can unpack. Unpacking does a very accurate representation of this, whilst also being a very satisfying and sweet game of Tetris-with-stuff.
When you start unpacking these boxes, you get to enjoy being suddenly ambushed by a load of pants or a scented candle lurking in a box of plugs and batteries. At this point you shove everything into wherever it will fit and have a lot of boxes that say 'GENERAL' or 'STUFF'. The second stage is the panic stage, which is done anywhere from about a week from your moving date up to the second you hand your keys back. The majority of your clothes go into a suitcase. You put most of your books and DVDs in smaller boxes because they are very heavy. You slowly wrap up all but one of each piece of crockery in old wrapping paper and copies of The Metro, and put them in a box with KITCHEN written on the side. The first stage happens when you have loads of time before you have to leave, and is when you box things up in a way that makes sense. There are two stages of packing for a move, as everyone knows.
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