Once upon a time, in 1893, there was a very large and forboding 'Sanitarium' called 'Cobblepots Home for Distressed Children.'
(Cool pic of the Sanitarium on the opposite page)
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Wow, well that's a short paragraph - nice and to the point I think, what d'yall reckon?
PS Label your replies 'Story' so we can find this blog-post again later, unless you choose to comment instead :P I'm not like a bloody teacher...god!! :))
Showing posts with label Story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Story. Show all posts
Monday, 19 April 2010
Story Write Up Idea
Hiya chaps! Yay! I'm so glad we've got the ball re-rolling with this again. It's been a manic few months, what with portfolios n stuff, so it's great to get back to this. The chat in the pub on Saturday was very cool (despite me getting all teacher-like, apparently - PAH!!). Hey you! You boy, sat at the back, BEHAVE!!!
Right then, I had an idea tonight about the story and working on polishing it up, bit by bit. D'ya remember at school you'd do that thing where one kid would say a line of a story, or a word, and the next kid would say another? Well, how about I write up the scrawlings, that we wrote on Saturday, here on the blog - page by page (a blog-post for each page), which as you might remember we agreed should be short paragraphs and the rest of you guys can write comments or follow up posts on each page/paragraph that I write up from my scrawlings of notes?
That way we can smooth out the snippets of dialogue, descriptions of the room, what your choices are etc. How's that sound? It'll speed up the write up process in a fun, casual and collaborative way :D *Pearly white grin*
The blog post following this one will be the first page describing the building etc...k, here comes page one of **sounds of trumpets blasting** 'The Curious Malady of Eudora Fortesque.'
Right then, I had an idea tonight about the story and working on polishing it up, bit by bit. D'ya remember at school you'd do that thing where one kid would say a line of a story, or a word, and the next kid would say another? Well, how about I write up the scrawlings, that we wrote on Saturday, here on the blog - page by page (a blog-post for each page), which as you might remember we agreed should be short paragraphs and the rest of you guys can write comments or follow up posts on each page/paragraph that I write up from my scrawlings of notes?
That way we can smooth out the snippets of dialogue, descriptions of the room, what your choices are etc. How's that sound? It'll speed up the write up process in a fun, casual and collaborative way :D *Pearly white grin*
The blog post following this one will be the first page describing the building etc...k, here comes page one of **sounds of trumpets blasting** 'The Curious Malady of Eudora Fortesque.'
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Storyline
Ok here's what I had for the storyline:
As Katherine mentioned, I was thinking that Eudora should start the game accidentally locked into a cupboard. This gives the player a small room to get warmed up in. Nothing too fancy, just a simple puzzle to get out of the cupboard.
The nurse is indeed a bit of a white rabbit nod though she is murdered (by the doorman but on the orders of the matron since the nurse is all set to report Eudora's bad treatment). Eudora will discover what has happened fairly early into the game at which point reality can begin skewing more and more the further she progresses. This means lots of fun artworking up the wacky, twisted backdrops and characters :D Eudora's outfit will be the first change I think for practical reasons (we don't want to re-animate her completely! Rather she will be 'normal' for the intro sequence and then alterered for the game itself).
Overall the game follows Eudora as she discovers why she is being held there, what happened to her parents to make her an orphan in the first place and of course why the nurse was murdered.
One twist I though of was that perhaps her parents are in fact still alive, perhaps they are the master and mistress? OR are they being held prisoner? Perhaps the master and mistress are in fact scared of Eudora and want to keep her under their thumb so she can't find out her true power? Or heritage?? So many possibilites there!
Since this is no longer an action game we have to make the killings more clever and puzzle based. E.g. a trap could be formed using various items and a character lured to walk into it? Maybe the Matron is outside and everytime you creak a floorboard she storms in to tell you to get back to your room? That way you can set up the trap and then creak the floorboard.
We'll need to have a meet up to discuss the storyline furtehr AND the puzzles we'd like to include (Ste you mentioned looking at existing game that we liked or specific puzzles). Sounds a good way to go.
As Katherine mentioned, I was thinking that Eudora should start the game accidentally locked into a cupboard. This gives the player a small room to get warmed up in. Nothing too fancy, just a simple puzzle to get out of the cupboard.
The nurse is indeed a bit of a white rabbit nod though she is murdered (by the doorman but on the orders of the matron since the nurse is all set to report Eudora's bad treatment). Eudora will discover what has happened fairly early into the game at which point reality can begin skewing more and more the further she progresses. This means lots of fun artworking up the wacky, twisted backdrops and characters :D Eudora's outfit will be the first change I think for practical reasons (we don't want to re-animate her completely! Rather she will be 'normal' for the intro sequence and then alterered for the game itself).
Overall the game follows Eudora as she discovers why she is being held there, what happened to her parents to make her an orphan in the first place and of course why the nurse was murdered.
One twist I though of was that perhaps her parents are in fact still alive, perhaps they are the master and mistress? OR are they being held prisoner? Perhaps the master and mistress are in fact scared of Eudora and want to keep her under their thumb so she can't find out her true power? Or heritage?? So many possibilites there!
Since this is no longer an action game we have to make the killings more clever and puzzle based. E.g. a trap could be formed using various items and a character lured to walk into it? Maybe the Matron is outside and everytime you creak a floorboard she storms in to tell you to get back to your room? That way you can set up the trap and then creak the floorboard.
We'll need to have a meet up to discuss the storyline furtehr AND the puzzles we'd like to include (Ste you mentioned looking at existing game that we liked or specific puzzles). Sounds a good way to go.
Once Upon a Time
Following up on the jabberings from my last post, I'd like to suggest that we begin with ideas for the story. It's what will give the game a good foundation and once we have a solid story line we can think about Character Design, Levels/Areas, GUI, etc. Over the last few years we've discussed ideas and I think we have a story it's just not all in one place.
We've also mentioned a few times about having chapters, I think that's a great idea and fits in with the whole graphic adventure style. Plus, we can use cool titles for each chapter (for e.g. Chapter 1: 'Escape from the Bog of Doom') Ste, you emailed a bunch of crazy titles ages ago, kinda Indy style and funny.
So...Once Upon a Time...
Here's what I can remember....I think Eudora starts in the dormitories/ ward ... Maybe she's hiding in a nearby cupboard and listening in on a converation between the governess and her nurse. Johnny had a whole intro written out somewhere... The nurse (a metaphor for the white rabbit?) is annoyed about how Eudora is being treated. She leaves and then gets attacked by ... (who?) Eudora sees all this and it triggers a huge explosion of anger and WHAM! she heads off on her psychotic rampage through the workhouse, factory floor, kitchens, gardens, master/ mistresses house.
Thoughts?
We've also mentioned a few times about having chapters, I think that's a great idea and fits in with the whole graphic adventure style. Plus, we can use cool titles for each chapter (for e.g. Chapter 1: 'Escape from the Bog of Doom') Ste, you emailed a bunch of crazy titles ages ago, kinda Indy style and funny.
So...Once Upon a Time...
Here's what I can remember....I think Eudora starts in the dormitories/ ward ... Maybe she's hiding in a nearby cupboard and listening in on a converation between the governess and her nurse. Johnny had a whole intro written out somewhere... The nurse (a metaphor for the white rabbit?) is annoyed about how Eudora is being treated. She leaves and then gets attacked by ... (who?) Eudora sees all this and it triggers a huge explosion of anger and WHAM! she heads off on her psychotic rampage through the workhouse, factory floor, kitchens, gardens, master/ mistresses house.
Thoughts?
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Curious Malady
Just to get the ball re-rolling because my last two posts (which by the way were due to Andrew sarcastically saying that the blog would keep him in the know about my eating habits and current feelings, chicken soup today quite nice - warm happy happy soup feeling) funny as they were, stopped our blog posts in their tracks.
So if you're done reeling around on the floor from that, I thought I'd put a quick post about this cool coincidence. Johnny did a search on Google for our blog - obviously no search results because I've hidden it from all prying eyes, top secret like ya know duh - BUT this is what came up on Google:
http://quantumperspectives.blogspot.com/2009/04/white-queens-strange-memory.html
Google search>>> curiousmalady.blogspot>>>
"The Queen finds this to be a curious malady, and tells Alice that her memory is certainly flawed!"
Note there's no search terms/ keywords for Alice in Wonderland there, it's just come up with Alice by coincidence. Isn't that cool!!?
It's such a cool title for the game: The Curious Malady of Eudora Fortesque
Hip Hip Hurrah!
Now then, how y'all doing? C'mon say something! Feelings? Eating habits? Let's have em c'mon!!
So if you're done reeling around on the floor from that, I thought I'd put a quick post about this cool coincidence. Johnny did a search on Google for our blog - obviously no search results because I've hidden it from all prying eyes, top secret like ya know duh - BUT this is what came up on Google:
http://quantumperspectives.blogspot.com/2009/04/white-queens-strange-memory.html
Google search>>> curiousmalady.blogspot>>>
"The Queen finds this to be a curious malady, and tells Alice that her memory is certainly flawed!"
Note there's no search terms/ keywords for Alice in Wonderland there, it's just come up with Alice by coincidence. Isn't that cool!!?
It's such a cool title for the game: The Curious Malady of Eudora Fortesque
Hip Hip Hurrah!
Now then, how y'all doing? C'mon say something! Feelings? Eating habits? Let's have em c'mon!!
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