The player will find fragments of notes, that he has to piece together to reveal the whole message. These will mostly be journal entries written by Dr. Reeves, but also other clues left by previous victims. These fragments will be in random places and not in order, and they will be portrayed as a picture/still cutscene when completed. These pictures will tell a story to the player, in a comic book style, rather than reading just plain text. These cutscenes will provide the player with an idea of Dr. Reeves intentions, including small bits from his past, how his wife got ill, how he built the vest and mechanical heart, started to neglect his own patients/career, and how he planned out and built the whole facility. It will possibly also show how previous victims were trapped within the facility.
Story Elements!
There will be messages on walls, presumably written by previous victims, messages will consist of cries for help, among clues and other thoughts they had. These will also show up as explained above, as old parchment, although these will not be in the comic book style.
Story-related Items
- Newspaper articles
- Journal entries
- Notes
- Corpses
- Mysterious writing on walls
- Small clues/items on the ground
I'm liking the sound of it. The game as it stands at the moment had next to no GUI I was grabbing straws trying to find something for it.
ReplyDeleteDid you have an idea on how you wanted any of this to be represented in-game? Like in Amnesia they have notes and journal entries. Notes being brought up abruptly on screen and journal entries being a lot more passive in how important they are.
The comicbook'y style storytelling sounds like a great way of doing it. I'm sure there are other easily obtainable digital comic apps out there but if anyone else has a PSP and has the comic book thing on there it may be worth having a look and giving feedback
Thanks for your feedback, Ben.
ReplyDeleteI've made a new blogpost explaining just this.
It's called "Inspiration: cutscenes and notes".
Hopefully that will give you an idea of how things will work. I will update it when I find more relevant stuff!