Protagonists

Ok, so the two protagonists in our game are taken from my (max’s) assignment. They are a man and a woman, and in my assignment I gave them the names Carson and Julia, but that was for a Texan desert situated game so maybe the names could be reconceptualised for our new Chicago setting. The main is the main character and his overall quest throughout the game will be to find the woman who is lost in Chicago, with the sub quest of restoring areas overturned by chaos and darkness along the way.

I think we have agreed on two states of play, along the lines of a normal view and a surrealistic view of the world which distorts everything.

Ideas ideas ideas

1. In the Song of Songs game i chose to have characters consumed in a black texture, this could work as the surrealistic view if it was all blurry and warped too, with the normal view just being a realistic render of the action.

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2. Last week we discussed a simplified low poly style being implemented, and a surrealistic idea which i was quite fond of being the character turns into a shadow to drift through the world with enemies unaware of his presence. In the surrealistic view here the creatures and world would look the same, with just the character changing state.

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3. The surrealism ‘mode’ enables certain powers for the main character to use. Again here it is the player that changes not the world around him.

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4. In the ideas where only the character changes, a surrealistic wash will still go over the world, making everything appear just a little eerie-er and not quite right.

I think the simplified style works well, and another idea we had to have super real flashes, like in fear ties in well, the surrealistic aspect still needs more finalization. Silent Hill is a very good reference to the type of exploration we want in the game, with stealthy stuff being an influence too. Basically the world is consumed with darkness and weird creatures at the same time as your loves disappearance, and you must go on a quest to restore the world back to normal and eventually find and rescue your love.

Kthanxbai.