WEEK2 – BRAINSTORMING & STORY…

This week is all about brainstorming and story. In last week, we outlined three basic ideas as following:The first story starts with the guest finding himself/herself in a space where there is a dangerous creature coming towards him. The guest will be startled at first, then the creature will become cute and start to have interaction with the guest. After the guest builds up the relationship with the little creature, it will become scary and the scene stops here, which is kind of cliché.

The second story is about guest as a doll, waking up in a room which looks like a factory. The guest will follow instructions on the screen or the book and make something that is similar to the doll. After the guest finishes, the doll stays inanimate. The guest will try several ways to wake up the doll but discovers that only he gives out his life will make the doll to become alive. After the guest give out his life to the doll, the guest become dead. The final scene will be a far view of the room showing that the newly made doll is doing the same thing.

The third story is a cursed story, which is more like a combination of the previous two. The guest will discover a creature crying and try to comfort the creature with all sorts of interactions, but finally discover that himself to be the little creature while the creature will become a human. The the player will see another man coming in the forest and choose whether he/she should trick the new comers.

We presented these story ideas to ETC faculty and get a lot feedback and brand new perspectives. Faculty prefers the 2^nd and 3^rd story most, so starting from these two, combined with the Sophia loop, we went through details of our story and drafted the basic script and storyboard for these two stories.

Storylines

Demon Storyboard

Reincarnation Storyline

For branding, our artist has been working on several iterations of logo design, we have sent out the designs to ETC faculty for advices. We will have a final version next week.

Logo Design

Apart from that, our whole team is learning Unreal engine, since we plan to use this powerful engine this semester and make an aesthetically pleasant game with rich resources of the Unreal engine.

For next week, we plan to settle down on one story, start to make a detailed storyboard for each scene and interactions, have a rough character and environment design. Our engineer team plans to make prototype based on the current design and play around with the unreal engine.