Environment considerations continued [WEEK 6]

 Working with the script writer my role is to figure out what environments are needed, what specific details to add and perhaps what any lighting or visual effects to include in my scenes.

Environments: (Underlined are the most crucial areas)

Apartment MC

Campus [Maybe several views, art sector, cafeteria, street view, outside dorm block?]

Classroom

Party - House with party decorations

From perspective of items in a box, we see the main character looking into the box  [Opening scene]

Apartment Hallway?

Apartment shared space

Job interview room?

Hallways?

Campus bathroom? [Maybe scene goes black and this is a solely text based section to add more seriousness to the situation] [Floating/scrolling text box]

Mirror scene [Seeing the main character in the mirror with text]

Accommodation Reception?

Park?

Shopping mall?

Mechanics and storyboard :

We discussed that our game has a lot of content for 5-10 minutes of gameplay, this might mean that we have to look at our storyboard again and see how we can trim it down to the most important parts so that the game is still interesting but does fit in with the allotted time. We also talked about using twine to plan out our game so we can test all the routes in a readable manner. Some mechanics we might implement are :

- Multiple endings

-Player can name NPCs

- Anxiety mechanic - shows the player how the main character is feeling in response to certain choices, we're not sure how we would implement this yet as we don't know the limitations of Renpy, however we will try to find a way to do this as it is something that makes our game unique.

- Maybe a character relationship meter? it will display your current relationship with a certain character depending on your interaction choices.

Story -

On our Miro board we have noted down the rough plot points of our story, we have expanded on this further on the board however due to our time limitations we might need to prune this even further. This is our plot day by day:

Monday

"Moving into Accommodation for the first time. Set up room, unpack boxes. Set up their laptop and be introduced to the childhood friend through messages - maybe parents too."

Tuesday

"Induction Class, meets the tutor and popular girls invitation to the party"

Wednesday

"First class - Lunch - potential interactions with popular girl? - returns home to flatmate with friends - see childhood friend hasn't responded to messages and has been silent -"

Thursday

"Day off - shopping for party outfit?"

"While shopping for clothes, they might be on the phone to their childhood friend getting advice on outfits, here they may have a general catch up conversation too since they have not spoken in awhile. - returns home to flatmate cooking food and offers some to MC"

Friday

"Mention of an early class - Job interview"

Saturday

"Party"

Sunday

"Ending- Credits roll"