My game is entitled SCNT Corporate. As a “choose your own adventure” game, it will have a several alternate paths for the player. In these paths, the player must choose unconsciously whether to be the person who solves the mystery in the office or if they are the one being chased within the story. As an employee of this mysterious corporation, the player begins in the break room of a corporate warehouse and encounters an emergency during the course of her/his day. Setting is the most important aspect of my game. Without being able to actually show the space as in a real video game, the text must move the player through the warehouse. The player moves through several spaces throughout the course of the game and this aspect might end up being a little disorienting for the player. The one design element I would like to incorporate is a changing color background to signify that the player is moving from room to room. For example, the break room will have a background gray color and the inside of the air vent will have a background color of black. In a way, this will incorporate a sense of space and lighting for the player. This element will hopefully convey what kind of danger they are in. For example, the player in the air vent may not be able to see their surroundings/if they are being followed. Most of all, by color coding the rooms, this may be a helpful tool for the player to remember that they have previously been in a room and that they must remember earlier clues they received. While my main focus of this game is the creation of the text of the game, I would still like the game to be more of an experience than just a simple read through story.

For  my text project, I’m creating a game that could be loosely based off of my favorite show, Once Upon A Time. Basically it’ll follow a timeline of a prince or princess, there will be a male or female option, on an adventure with Captain Hook, but the Captain Hook based off the show and not Peter Pan. I want it to be fun and interactive, so I know that this project for me will be more based on the story than the design elements, but I still want there to be some design incorporated. For example, I want to add images to the background, like in The Uncle that Works for Nintendo, to give the player an idea of where they are, as well as maybe some sounds. I will see how difficult this will be for me to do. I want to keep the design simple, because the story may be so complicated, because I became a bit too ambitious. Though, I like the way I mapped my story, and I want to to keep it the way I planned. I feel like even if there are less crazy design elements, the game will be more fun if there is more to it and more choices to be made, as opposed to a simple plot line. I am definitely going to be more creative in story line and writing style than I am in design, and i think that’s okay.

The [unofficial] title of my game is called the Pitt Haunted House, as one can assume, the game is meat to be scary. The game tells one of several stories based on the first few answers that the game players are forced to answer. Because this game is meant to be scary, color as well as image, video and sound will play a vital role in making the game player feel as if the game is coming to life and they are part of the story. The colors I anticipate on using would be a black background with white, red or gray font. While the default background is black, I feel like any other color would have less of a creepy feel and would counter the stories rather than add to them. I plan to include many pictures throughout the story, this was the game is less dry but I do not want to add a picture for every level in the game because then the game player would become distracted in my opinion. Sounds as well as video will hopefully be incorporated in my game towards the end of it to help create a dramatic and scary ending. Sounds might be okay to use throughout the entire game, but I would like to save creepy videos for the end of whatever story the reader picks. I think all these elements will make the story come to life and hopefully be scarier than the game player would have expected. Some of the stories are based off of a true story, others are fiction but I hope that regardless people find the game interesting and try to go through the whole haunted house, per say, and see which story is the scariest.

In my game I will be focusing on the written narrative of the storyline for the most part. This is because I thoroughly enjoy my story line and can think of a million different scenarios and occurrences that it could allow to happen. Because of this I won’t be putting all my effort into having extremely detailed elements, but I will be incorporating numerous design elements. I definitely will be including animation, color, font, sound and image.

For my story line there are both sexes involved. Although some of the paths may seem to have more of a female or male tone to it, a girl for boy can definitely experience any of my storylines in real life. So, I am looking to remain neutral on the design. I have chosen to use a green color scheme. On the outside is a darker green surrounding a smaller box with a lighter green background fill. Above the light green box will be an image running horizontally across the top of the screen. This image will be of a party scene most likely, to set the vision I had as the creator. I have yet to decide if I will have this image stay there throughout the storyline, or if it will disappear so the player can use their imagination more. On the smaller text box, the font will be calibri and be the color black. There isn’t a necessarily “spooky” or “happy” undertone to the story for example, so I don’t think it is necessary to try and find a special font. Again, I would like the player to focus on the narrative provided and I think too much going on where the player would be reading can only take away from the most important aspect. I plan on having animated transitions. Not anything distracting but most likely a fade in/out between stages in the game. Lastly, I will be including sound. I have not figured out if this would be possible, but what I want to do would start off without any sound. Then, the player is presented with the first choice which leads to two very, very differing scenarios. Depending on which path the player choses at the start, I hope to be able to include low background music that kind of represents the “space/place” the storyline has taken the player to.