I had this really brilliant idea for a game, and I can't seem to let it go. =D
System: Wii U
Setting: Future. The main part of the story takes place in a dusty central town, but it diverges into different areas in the same general area.
Story Premise: A girl named Mina lives in a society where girls are strictly forced to do intelligent mentally challenging work while men are forced to do labor and other physical tasks. While in the future, most common families have little technology, at most limited to household items such as fridges, stoves, televisions, and so forth. No devices such as computers or internet connecting devices are allowed. Disturbing beasts of abnormal size and appearance roam the land. Around the edges of the land is a barrier, that cannot be touched, passed through, or broken using anything.
The game begins with her at her graduation, nervously waiting to see who will be selected to move on to higher studies. Unfortunately, she is not selected, meaning that she will be forced into some job she does not want such as accounting, banking, stocking, etc. Depressed, she goes home to her room. Her mother, feeling sorry for her, walks into her room. Her mother works at the Ancient Devices storeroom, where, as the name implies, ancient devices are stored and recorded in an orderly way. Mina has a strange love of these odd technologies, and so her mother secretly (and against protocol) brings her an old tablet. The tablet advertises an “endless battery life” and “no need to charge”. Mina happily thanks her mother, and opens the package. As she plays with the forbidden device, she accidentally taps on the Video Calling button, and calls a number unintentionally. On the other end, another young girl picks up. The two begin to talk, and the girl (Pauline) doesn’t believe Mina when Mina describes her world. Pauline describes a world much like our own, with technological advances, confusing Mina. Eventually, the two realize that, for some reason, Mina’s society has been cut off from regular society and technology. Mina sets out to find out why with Pauline and her tablet at her side.
Similar to the character design I posted- a very bare and simple art
style- the environments are lineless and extremely simple in idea, yet considerably detailed. (So, the objects themselves are simple, but the whole environment has a lot to it.)
Gameplay: The Wii U gamepad will function as Mina’s “tablet”. Using the tablet, she can access various “apps” to help her on her journey, (ex. Flashlight, map, camera, etc.) The tablet (as it is the future) can also transform into tangible objects when needed (rope, items, weapons, etc.). She can fight, explore, solve puzzles in the environment, hack technologies (including monsters) and even waste time playing mini-games on the tablet. She can also use the “call” button to call Pauline, who will function as a hint system when called.
So basically, the gamepad can transform into anything, it functions like a real tablet with apps, it can hack devices and monsters, she can use it to fight, solve puzzles, explore, get hints, and essentially do everything in the game.
To add to the realism, when Mina turns the tablet “off”, the screen will go black, but it will display the reflection of what it’s around in the environment. So, if Mina turns it off in front of her face, on the Wii U screen , you can see a hazy dim reflection of her face, similar to how you would in real life.
Continued Story: As Mina and Pauline explore, they meet a boy named Paulo who is very scrawny and small. He is very smart however, but hates having to do laborious work. They travel throughout their world, trying to find out what’s going on. Eventually, they find that the government cut them off from society in order to test what would happen if a society were ever placed in a deadly environment, and learn from what they observed. At times, various technologies are dropped into the land for the leader or found in odd place for unknown reasons. The leader of the society, a smiling happy woman, is the only one who knows about everything and reports back to the government. Mina and the others are horrified, and set out to stop her. Pauline decides to go to the press with evidence of Mina’s horrible world. However, when Mina is about to begin filming her life, the smiling happy woman literally DESTROYS her tablet. Mina is horrified, and she goes home depressed. The mayor puts Mina’s mother on house arrest and fines them for possession of illegal devices. Mina is heartbroken, but then Paulo appears at her house with a gift… another tablet, almost identical to her first one. Paulo made it himself after observing her tablet. He admits to secretly taking apart her tablet to see how it was made. Mina calls Pauline again, and converges what happened. Mina then begins filming, and sends it to Pauline. Pauline then gives it to the press. The next day, the mayor finds Mina and Paulo at the top of the town’s clock tower, and begins screaming at them, threatening to destroy them for what they’ve done. She then begins a fight with them, during which Mina must fend her off, but Paulo finds that the Clock Tower is really a communication device and a WiFi tower that the mayor uses to contact the government. Mina then has to fend off the mayor and hack the tower. After hacking the tower, the WiFi on her tablet goes out, the little power that the town uses dies out, and all the monsters begin falling dead on the spot. The mayor, horrified, jumps towards her to throttle her… and Mina steps out of the way, causing the mayor to plummet to her untimely death. Mina and Paulo then realize that the mayor’s henchmen are after them, and run to the edge of the barrier. As they approach, suddenly, the barrier begins shattering- all around them, even the sky begins falling to the ground. The camera zooms to outside the barrier, camouflaged as clouds in the sky. Mina and Paulo take cover from the falling shards, and after a massive earthquake, they look up to see the barrier gone, and the true sky looking down on them. They walk towards the edge of their world, and look out to see a country below them, full of cities and skyscrapers. A plane passes by them, as realization hits them. Their world was a floating island above Pauline’s country, hidden from view… and right below them is the real world.
So yeah what do you think? =D Feedback is welcome!
I had this really brilliant idea for a game, and I can't seem to let it go.
=D
System:
Wii U
Setting:
Future. The main part of the story takes place in a dusty central town, but it
diverges into different areas in the same general area.
Story Premise: A girl named Mina
lives in a society where girls are strictly forced to do intelligent mentally
challenging work while men are forced to do labor and other physical tasks. While in the future, most common families have
little technology, at most limited to household items such as fridges, stoves,
televisions, and so forth. No devices such as computers or internet connecting
devices are allowed. Disturbing beasts
of abnormal size and appearance roam the land. Around the edges of the land is
a barrier, that cannot be touched, passed through, or broken using anything.
The game begins
with her at her graduation, nervously waiting to see who will be selected to
move on to higher studies. Unfortunately, she is not selected, meaning that she
will be forced into some job she does not want such as accounting, banking,
stocking, etc. Depressed, she goes home to her room. Her mother, feeling sorry for
her, walks into her room. Her mother works at the Ancient Devices storeroom,
where, as the name implies, ancient devices are stored and recorded in an
orderly way. Mina has a strange love of these odd technologies, and so her
mother secretly (and against protocol) brings her an old tablet. The tablet
advertises an “endless battery life” and “no need to charge”. Mina happily
thanks her mother, and opens the package. As she plays with the forbidden
device, she accidentally taps on the Video Calling button, and calls a number
unintentionally. On the other end, another young girl picks up. The two begin
to talk, and the girl (Pauline) doesn’t believe Mina when Mina describes her
world. Pauline describes a world much like our own, with technological
advances, confusing Mina. Eventually, the two realize that, for some reason,
Mina’s society has been cut off from regular society and technology. Mina sets
out to find out why with Pauline and her tablet at her side.
Art style:
https://plus.google.com/photos/117021056461997671318/albums/5896508262269721841/5896508259907888194?pid=5896508259907888194&oid=117021056461997671318
Similar to the character design I posted- a very bare and simple art
style- the environments are lineless and extremely simple in idea, yet considerably
detailed. (So, the objects themselves are simple, but the whole environment has
a lot to it.)
Gameplay:
The Wii U gamepad will function as Mina’s “tablet”. Using the tablet, she can access various “apps”
to help her on her journey, (ex. Flashlight, map, camera, etc.) The tablet (as
it is the future) can also transform into tangible objects when needed (rope,
items, weapons, etc.). She can fight, explore, solve puzzles in the environment,
hack technologies (including monsters) and even waste time playing mini-games
on the tablet. She can also use the “call” button to call Pauline, who will
function as a hint system when called.
So basically, the gamepad can transform into anything, it functions like a real tablet with apps, it can hack
devices and monsters, she can use it to fight, solve puzzles, explore, get hints, and essentially do everything in the game.
To add to the realism, when Mina turns the tablet “off”, the screen will go
black, but it will display the reflection of what it’s around in the environment.
So, if Mina turns it off in front of her face, on the Wii U screen , you can
see a hazy dim reflection of her face, similar to how you would in real
life.
Continued Story: As Mina and Pauline explore,
they meet a boy named Paulo who is very scrawny and small. He is very smart
however, but hates having to do laborious work. They travel throughout their
world, trying to find out what’s going on. Eventually, they find that the
government cut them off from society in order to test what would happen if a
society were ever placed in a deadly environment, and learn from what they observed. At times, various technologies are dropped
into the land for the leader or found in odd place for unknown reasons. The leader
of the society, a smiling happy woman, is the only one who knows about
everything and reports back to the government. Mina and the others are
horrified, and set out to stop her. Pauline decides to go to the press with
evidence of Mina’s horrible world. However, when Mina is about to begin filming
her life, the smiling happy woman literally DESTROYS her tablet. Mina is
horrified, and she goes home depressed. The mayor puts Mina’s mother on house
arrest and fines them for possession of illegal devices. Mina is heartbroken,
but then Paulo appears at her house with a gift… another tablet, almost
identical to her first one. Paulo made it himself after observing her tablet.
He admits to secretly taking apart her tablet to see how it was made. Mina calls
Pauline again, and converges what happened. Mina then begins filming, and sends
it to Pauline. Pauline then gives it to the press. The next day, the mayor
finds Mina and Paulo at the top of the town’s clock tower, and begins screaming
at them, threatening to destroy them for what they’ve done. She then begins a
fight with them, during which Mina must fend her off, but Paulo finds that the
Clock Tower is really a communication device and a WiFi tower that the mayor
uses to contact the government. Mina then has to fend off the mayor and hack
the tower. After hacking the tower, the WiFi on her tablet goes out, the little
power that the town uses dies out, and all the monsters begin falling dead on
the spot. The mayor, horrified, jumps towards her to throttle her… and Mina
steps out of the way, causing the mayor to plummet to her untimely death. Mina
and Paulo then realize that the mayor’s henchmen are after them, and run to the
edge of the barrier. As they approach, suddenly, the barrier begins shattering-
all around them, even the sky begins falling to the ground. The camera zooms to outside the barrier, camouflaged
as clouds in the sky. Mina and Paulo take cover from the falling shards, and
after a massive earthquake, they look up to see the barrier gone, and the true
sky looking down on them. They walk towards the edge of their world, and look
out to see a country below them, full of cities and skyscrapers. A plane passes
by them, as realization hits them. Their world was a floating island above
Pauline’s country, hidden from view… and right below them is the real world.
So yeah what do you think? =D Feedback is welcome!
Edited by Noby Raghavan