F is for Family

shundread on 2017/10/15 10:45 of shundread
— edited on 2017/10/15 10:47

After a few hours of pondering, I've finally come up with my game idea, and its requirements.

Game requirements:

• Short – There's a lot of entries and I want the reviewer to get all the fun the game has to offer in 5-10 minutes.
• Randomized – I've been thinking about developing an online dungeon crawling game, and I could use the content generation practice. This game, though, will not be online.
• Shallow UI – A good immersive UI can be pretty good production value. The next best thing is a well-themed small UI that just offers what you need to get going in the game. The worst of all is a bulky, buggy UI that hasn't been polished to fit the game.
• Simple graphics – I'm not a good artist, and I'm a terrible artist in a hurry. Let's take all the shortcuts I can take with the art and call it “artistic choice”.

Theme requirements:

• Not conspiracy related – Let's be honest, I expect that at least 1/3rd of the entries is going to be conspiracy stuff.
• Not sharknado – For similar reasons as above.

Because the theme pulls so strongly towards the conspiratorial mind, I decided to search a bit for inspirational quotes with the words “behind” and “behind + everything”, and a few interesting ones popped up:

• Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything. - Paul Rudd
• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. - William S. Burroughs
• I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward. - Fridtjof Nansen
• Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. - David Ogden Stiers

The actual idea:The quote about family is the one that hit me hardest, and second was the one about desperation. With that I'm tempted towards a short survival experience navigating dark areas, with creepy ambient audio (I'm happy to know a few places that just sound creepy so  I can spend a bit of time attempting to record it) and monsters lurking around, following you based on the sounds you make. And you gotta find your family. So it's a pretty happy setting. :^)

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Comments

Lanee on 2017/10/15 11:34:

I like how you are working through this theme and how you are molding your ideas from different sources. good start!

xmzhang1 on 2017/10/15 13:02:

well, I like the title, 'F is for Family', and I really surprised by your ideas, Good luck!