I created Me, the Puzzle from a deeply personal place.
I live with bipolar disorder, and one of the ways I experience it is through a fragmented sense of identity. Different emotional states can feel like different versions of myself, each holding its own memories, perceptions, and relationship with the world. When those states change, continuity does not always come naturally. I often feel as if I am trying to reconstruct myself from pieces that no longer fit together as easily as they once did.
My memory is fragmented as well. Experiences remain with me unevenly: some are vivid, others incomplete, and some feel almost inaccessible. At the same time, I have aphantasia—the inability to voluntarily form mental images. I cannot simply close my eyes and clearly picture myself, a place, or a memory. For me, remembering and rebuilding an internal sense of self is less like replaying a film and more like assembling something from scattered traces.
That is where the idea for Me, the Puzzle came from.
The application uses your phone’s camera to turn your live reflection into a shattered puzzle. Instead of reconstructing an abstract photograph, you reconstruct yourself in real time. Every piece contains part of the camera image, moving with depth, light, distortion, chromatic aberration, reflections, and occasional digital glitches. As the pieces connect, the fragmented image gradually becomes whole again.
The mechanics are simple, but the metaphor is very close to me: identity as something unstable, fractured, and continuously reconstructed.
The mirror is not passive. It moves with you. The pieces shift with the orientation of the phone, catch light along their edges, cast shadows, flicker, and sometimes lose the signal they are supposed to carry. Even after pieces have been joined, they can still be moved. Wholeness is not presented as a permanent or motionless state—it is something assembled, experienced, disturbed, and rebuilt.
In that sense, Me, the Puzzle is not only a game. It is a small interactive self-portrait. It represents the experience of trying to recognize myself when memory, mood, imagination, and identity do not always form a continuous image.
The application is currently going through the Google Play Store validation process. Until it becomes available there, you can install the Android version directly using the link below.
Download Me, the Puzzle for Android
Because this is a direct APK installation, Android may ask you to allow installations from your browser or file manager. This permission can be disabled again after the application has been installed.
