AKJ02 – You Can't See Everything
IDEAS
- things are censored
- instructions to the game
- dialogue
- objects in the game
- voice acting from Danae
- aesthetic
- minimalist
- top secret document
PLATFORMER GAMEPLAY
- platformer???
- story-based
- puzzle
- figure out which words are hidden
- figure out conspiracy?
LEVEL PROGRESSION?
- arrow keys (left, up, down shown, right is censored)
- you know how to walk, learn to talk
DOCUMENT-BASED? :( CIA - CONSPIRACY INVESTIGATION AGENCY
GAMEPLAY - each level - a folder with documents - deciphering? - encoded document - scratch pad - calculator - reading and parsing documents - finding connections between files -
ROGUELIKE
- paper-like aesthetic
- typewriter characters - not necessarily ASCII (more than 1 character)?
- rooms are pieces of paper (post-it notes? numbered pages)
- ink residue from combat
- censor = obstacles? spreading force of evil? find the truth to remove it?
- roguelike elements
- level, room generation
- character sheet
- walk in your own character sheet?
- your character sheet is also your inventory and portable home?
- facts sheet (things you know and carry)
TODO
- graphics
- desk
- paper routines
- paper of arbitrary size
- cut outs
- conspiracy photos
- folds
- font aligned on paper
- text entities
- player
- single-letter enemy
- ?
- animate dis/appearance
- piece of tape for corridors
- gameplay
- room generation
- generate macro-grid
- find a path in macro-grid with randomised dfs
- place plot-rooms regularly
- place fillers
- compress
- shift
- connect with tapes
- interior
- story generation
- more events, places, agents
- times
- suspicious story
- newspaper clippings with text
- text justify
- mark words - words become enemies
- censors
- controls
- moving around
- vision cone
- left click to see
- attacking
- RPG / rogue elements
- tutorial / options / menu
- floor progression
- character sheet
- items
- event log
- gameover
- stats
- difficulty scaling
- experience
- shop?
- working options screen
- cursor + click anywhere to do vision
- room generation
- audio
- some sfx
- music ...
Ideas dump
Generating story
- purposefully vague sentences
- "The (agent) wants us to believe that (statement), but then why (contradiction.consequence)?"
- agents
- government, president, agency, media
- statement
- (event) happened
- (event) happened at (place)
- (event) happened at (datetime)
- contradictions
- (event) did not happen
- (event) happened at (elsewhere)
- (event) happened at (different datetime)
Photos
https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/offshore-oil-drilling-rig1.jpg https://pixabay.com/en/bunker-fortification-fort-the-war-393533/ http://www.larrygscale.com/Toxic-Waste-50-Gallon-Drum-Miniature-124-Scale-G-Scale_p_298.html http://www.hidden-truth.org/4/1947-roswell-ufo-crash.html http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/roswell-aliens-true/story-e6frev20-1111113867042 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Victor_III_class_submarine.jpg http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/WWII-Military-Collectibles/Mosquito.jpg
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|We found the claims| x
|to be(UNTRUE) | x
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| (.....) | x
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