nirami

its real fukin annoying

development

Make a hardlink to the cart in your pico-8 directory.

ln -s $PWD ~/Library/Application\ Support/pico-8/carts/nirami

In PICO-8, use the cart dir

CD NIRAMI
LOAD NIRAMI.P8
RUN

what do

Intial inspriation, thet route from the coffee shop to the house

"turn left at the hedge, pass the library on the right, turn some direction, then keep going the original way until you see the bakery"

Given these directions, can you find the coffee shop?

As the player sets out they encounter obstacles; the malevolent gazebos of the locals and challenges

Encounters

Someone sees you and immedately walks up to you and challenges you to a battle:

• rap battle?
• wordplay game?
• an english conversation

there needs to be a dog

• it blocks your way?

• it's trying to fetch a ball?

• the owner is chasing after it?

• fear factor: the dog increases fear until you

elderly people are serious impediments

• ? what does the old man do?
• sell ice cream?
• yell confusedly at you

crossing guard

• panics when he sees you

crossing bicyclist

• what do they do?
• bike past normally?
• stare?
• crash because they are staring at you

Player

What meters does the player have?

• hunger / satiety goes down as you walk / bike around MAX: game over, starved to death?
• fear goes down as you help people goes up as you are stared at MAX: panic
• frustration? goes up MAX: game over, you explode MAX: enter gaijin smash mode??
• heat goes up overload: 熱中症 MAX: game over, you explode Visibility meter?
• disembodied eye

item: sunglasses

• +1 scariness

item Bicycle

• lets you go faster, ignore some rjules

What kind of game?

Top down?

• would want a fog of war kind of thing

first person

• it has the navigation elements, and random encounters appear

Does sidescrolling work here? -?

start with a text adventure?

• that lets us test out the encounters, we can iterate on the navigation component later
• rather super simple navigation component

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untitled goose game vibes untitled gaijin game?

flap your arms and honk honking causes people to startle

"It's a beautiful morning in central japan, and you are a horrible gaijin"

what happens when you reach the library / coffee shop?

• conversations happen

• meet a friend?

framing device: errands list?

• go to the coffee shop?