- 1. Joe Laquinte, Isadora Dantas, and Alejandro Ghersi GRAVITY
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2. WHAT:
- Gravity is a 2D adventure game
- Exploration of the theme of relationships through a handful of
npcs, a game mechanic, and choices you make in the game world.
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3.
- The goal behind this game is introduce the players to a world
where they feel lonely, helpless, and small.Then, well introduce a
mechanic that gives the player power over the world.Once we do
that, we want to explore the fragility of relationships and their
intricacies.
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GAME 4.
- Dedicated to fixing things almost to the point it becomes an
obsession.This personality trait will manifest in the game through
the mechanic.
- Although not clear in the beginning, the protagonist is a woman
in her mid 40s.
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GRAVITY GAME 5.
- After a disaster that occurs during a docking accident on the
space station, our protagonist awakes to find herself stranded on a
small planet with flaming wreckage around her.
- Your first interaction is a radio transmission from an
astronaut stuck in the other side of the planet asking for help.
Please help me, you hear through a radio link.You two are the only
survivors of the accident.
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STORY: 6.
- In order for you to move forward and reach the astronaut, you
will have to gather broken pieces of the planet. Since they have
their own gravitational pull, you must make sure youre collecting
the right amount and size to take you tothe intended place.
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MECHANICS: 7.
- Besides the specific challenge of solving the puzzles presented
by the environment, you still have to deal with the radiation
raining down on the planet in some areas. Prolonged exposure to
radiation will kill you.
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CONSTRAINTS: 8.
- In some of the planetoids, youll going to find surviving
inhabitants of this planet. Each of them can give you some clues
about what happened to this place.Even more, a part of them may ask
you to help them fix some artifacts (puzzles).
- Throughout the game the astronaut will remain in radio contact
with you, and will build a relationship with the player (Protag
remains a silent entity)
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NARRATIVE: 9.
- Since you dont have a specific path to follow, during the game
you will have make some decisions that are going to directly
influence the lives of the npcs: For example, you may chose not to
save an inhabitant and arrive at the astronaut earlier, or try to
save as many as possible and run the risk of not finding the
astronaut alive anymore.
- A choice to explore far away may cause you to lose radio
contact and will leave the astronaut in despair.Each option you
choose may lead to a different ending.
- The course of the game will always take you to the astronaut,
but who orwhatyoull find will vary based on your choices.
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WHAT: 10.
- We will divide the game into phases, each one of them consists
in a different part of the planet. The idea is to explore different
emotions and were going to achieve it through soundtrack,
aesthetic, what the npcs tell you, and what the astronaut tells you
through the radio link.
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DEVELOPMENT: 11.
- By the end, you should be able to have solved all the mysteries
behind the wrecked planet and also helped the survivors to find
their way home, as well as saved the astronaut. But once again, the
end will depend on your decisions through the game.
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