This week was all about story. We narrowed down our top two stories and began fleshing them out. One story was about Randy as an intern for Mayor Clayton. We liked this idea because above all, it gave Randy a reason to be handing out pillows in the first place. In this story Randy mishears Mayor Clayton when he says “hand pillows out” to “hide pillows”, however as we started to develop this we struggled with the dialogue and chain of events.
In another story, Randy is a squirrel who likes to cook, but every time she tries making the super acorn it turns into a pillow; so it’s up to the child to help Randy bake the super acorn. We liked this one a lot and managed to fully develop it and write a script. Later on in the week we met with our instructors and they gave us some great advice on shifting it so that it’s not a recipe their trying to complete, but rather, a check list to make sure the pillow is made just for them. The current script is the following:
A Visit To Randi And The Pillow Tree
Towards the end of the week a couple of our teammates were unable to make it to core hours because of class and unexpected commitments, but with everything going on, we’re happy we were also able to complete the storyboards for this story!
Next week is GDC, so we will be short one member. We hope to create a rough cut video of the storyboards with some voice recordings and playtest again, as well as getting in touch with the artist helping us with the 2D animation.