Thursday, June 10, 2010
her is a link
http://www.mediafire.com/?zg1uyw4h2yc
if it doesnt work let me know
kthanxbai!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Core Mechanic explained!
Ok so this lil diagram explains the crux of the game. There are two worlds which you can enter into via doorways and in each world you will have a different advantage. In reality, you will be able to see enemies in the form of shadowy figures, and the locations of charms will be marked by symbols on the walls. Here is the thing, you cannot collect charms in 'reality', you must enter into the fracture world, where enemies are visible and are able to attack you.
So the idea is that the first time you explore the level you are scouting it out; you can find out where your objective lies and the safest path to get there, and then the second time you enter the level its down to business.
This gives you a chance to strategize and really think about the gameplay necessary to complete the level.
Important things to note: Some enemies may be able to be defeated by themselves, but there will usually be other enemies close by and you won't win against alot of them, so they game is mainly about stealth and avoiding enemies. That is why it is important to plan out your route in 'reality', so that you find safe passage through the world.
When you get to the final boss guarding the charm you must fight him to get the charm it is guarding. The idea is to make these battles short because the creatures in the world are still around and the longer you fight the more they hear whats going on and come to help kill you.
When you defeat the boss you collect the charm to put on your bracelet, a little bit of your magical flask fills up with 'fracture essence' and you continue your journey to find the next charm and get to Julia. Idea being this is you are carrying the fracture essence with you as you go, which means as you progress, more and more essence is around you, and thus the game gets more and more difficult.
Kthanxbai!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
'shadow wolf' creation
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Gameplay and Mechanics hai!
- Julia opens bottle which releases fracture world and turns everything to poop
- Carson notes Julia is missing and finds the bottle and bracelet
- Carson goes downstairs and sees his bowstaff glowing, so he takes it and goes
to find Julia
- Goes into a shop to ask about Julias disappearance, but instead of people in the
shop it is filled with da evil creatures
There are charms all around Chicago that act as beacons for the power of the fracture world. Removing or collecting the charms causes the fracture to follow you and removes it from the area.
The fracture looks like a tear in the world and upon entering the world changes.
in the normal world the creatures are shadows and in the fracture world it is you who is the shadow and the creatures come to life.
In the normal world there are symbols on walls that indicate that you should go into the fracture world because there is something to see.
The main goal is to find Julia but you have to do this by restoring the world back to normal. You do this by collecting the charms.
Each charm is guarded by some kind of cool monster dude that will put your bowstaff skills to the test.
The bottle you have fills up like a meter to show how much fracture you have with you.
Charms near the bottle glow. This shows they are wicked important.
The surreal dimension of The Fracture
having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dreamAlso as Cassandra has quoted in the first post, Salvador Dali referred to his surreal paintings as "Hand painted dream photographs."
Monday, May 17, 2010
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.
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.
Ie.
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.
Ie.
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.