Author: Nathan

Hey everyone! Here it is. GW himself coming to save the day. Also it isn’t WASD to move.. I changed that this morning to the Arrow keys. yep.

Also make sure you hit the cherry-tree.. it gives you an ipod to use lol.

below is da game. dropbox link todownload.

daGAME

 

So here is the second iteration of the story of George Washington. One of the founding fathers, expert tree chopper, and time traveling hero.

Before we begin I want to clarify a few things. I want the game to be like playing through a storyline. That being said, I think that multiple endings wouldn’t be the best thing. I think that activating multiple timelines by George traveling back and forth would be an awesome event to happen.

The story so far… is the First 2 chapters of the game.

Preface: George Washington has made the United States a country by defeating the British in the American Revolution. In appreciation and admiration of this new country he sets out to cross the Ohio river in search of more lands and peoples that boarder this great nation. However, unbeknownst to George, he is traveling aboard a secret British time travel ship that takes him to 1771, a few years pre-revolution along the Eastern Colonies starting in Massachusetts.

CHAPTER1: He is confused, but being his bad-ass self he continues on in search of answers to why he is back in time and why he is here. He solves small puzzles and traverses ice caps. He fights bears, wolves, and stops the American colonies from going to battle with the French claims of Canada by showing them how WONDERFUL maple syrup is.

CHAPTER2: Travel to Boston and distribute the syrup to everyone you find. Avoid angry British soldiers and get to the docks to help the WONDERFUL syrup to the rest of the colonies. During his fateful travels to Boston he is confronted by a sea captain at the dock. George makes small talk and gives him some syrup and they hit it off as friends. This captain ends up being a captain of one of the time travel ships. It is revealed that he has helped shape history through use of this special ship and that another is being built at the intersection of the 3 rivers. The same on that will end up taking him back in time in the first place.

FIN

Character list

-The Cherry Tree – A tree who tells George that he has been taken back in time. (actually George Washington traveling back in time to tell himself (you) about the time traveling incident)

-Baby George – young Mohawk boy who leads Washington around the game. He initiates new places to go and is a waypoint after major advances in story.

-Ben Franklin/Big Foot- Helps you get all of the gifted maple syrup out of the French Claims of Canada and back to the farms on the frontier.

-Nathanael Green- On the frontier. He takes the maple syrup from you. He was preparing an attack on the Canadian lands, but the syrup makes him and his troops so happy that they decide that Canada is better off being left alone and that he would travel South.

-Sam Adams- In Boston. He leads you to the Quartermaster and informs you of the sketchy British ship and it’s captain on the harbor. Is also super drunk and wants to create a beer labeled after himself.

-Benedict Arnold- Is the British ship captain. This is of course a surprise to George, as Benedict Arnold is a traitor to the Continental Army. He gives up information on the time traveling ship on the Ohio. The game ends with the decision to kill him before he can defect to the British.

I have completely finished the story and completed simple concept maps (levels and such) for 2 of 3 chapters of the video game along with some dialoge elements 🙂

I will post my simple storyboards when I get time and after I scan them in.

MUSIC:Play this in the Background: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA

That being said… here is the final storyline and alternate timeline for the American History.

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CHAPTER1: George Washington has made the United States a country by defeating the British in the American Revolution. In appreciation and admiration of this new country he sets out to cross the Ohio river, South of Fort BadLuck, in search of more lands and peoples that boarder this great nation. However, unbeknownst to George, he is traveling aboard a secret British time travel ship that takes him to pre-revolution times along the Eastern Colonies. He is confused, but being his bad-ass self he continues on in search of answers to why he is back in time and why he is here. Along the way he meets many people and trees. He solves small puzzles and traverses ice caps. He fights bears, wolves, and stops the American colonies from going to battle with the French claims of Canada by showing them how WONDERFUL maple syrup is.

CHAPTER2: Travel to Boston and distribute the syrup to everyone you find. Avoid angry British soldiers and get to the docks to help the WONDERFUL syrup to the rest of the colonies. During his fateful travels to Boston he is confronted by a sea captain at the dock. George makes small talk and gives him some syrup and they hit it off as friends. This captain ends up being a captain of one of the time travel ships. George kills him in anger as it is revealed that he has helped shape history through use of this special ship and that another is being built at the intersection of the 3 rivers.

CHAPTER3a: George runs to the Ohio River (wolves and Big Foot along the way) to find the ship under construction by super advanced technology (replaceable parts, a factory, welders, workers in masks ect… like technology from the 1920’s) and the leader is actually the King of the New Britain, from the year 2095. He boards his escape ship and ends up in 1962 in the secret time room of JFK.

CHAPTER3b: Washington meets and is greeted by JFK. He informs JFK of the potential loss of the revolution because of his time travel and JFK offers his help. The US in 1962 has established time travel but at a cost… The user must travel and his current body and mind must die so that he can appear in the past.  JFK’s final words in the game are “Let us kill me now so I can save our past”. Screen goes black.

FINAL: George and JFK stand upon a field of battle with the british in retreat…. JFK looks at George and says “I know of a place where there was sent a USA time squad. Can you come help the future?” George-“I think I cannot. The country needs me now. Thank you friend”. JFK-“I understand. Well done. I must travel again to the future. To a time further than my time. I think this country may need saving more than once. Everyone hates the winner” HIGH-FIVE MOTHER FUCKERS. GAME OVER.

 

MECHANICS I WANT TO IMPLEMENT

HEALTH. A health bar and a health status bar. I don’t plan for fighting in game but this is for bears, wolves, hurtful words, and stuff like that.

TREASURE. Bits of paper/gold that can be read that reveal a crazy time traveling British empire and their future escalation of a time traveling power-struggle of the future.

NARRATOR:  Omniscient woman (who I have cast already) to help the story along between chapters. Also to read signs out loud. Ends up being the voice of JFK as well.

I want this to be ridiculous and funny. I think that the escape from reality and hilarity will be the culmination of what this game is about.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:    Also… I want to make an Arcade Machine for this. Very basic. Made of MDO/MDF/Plywood on the CNC router. Decorated in the Stripes and Stars of America and covered with beautiful glossy finish. I have already started the file and will talk literally 8 minutes to cut and some assembly will be required.

 

So you are George Washington. After a weird journey ended in a sudden realization that George had traveled back in time and must now team up with his 8 year old self to stop the American colonies from going to war with the French claims of Canada and instead be ready and willing to begin the revolution when the time comes…. Along with stopping the ever tacky use of an even number of stripes in the Colonial United States Flag.

 

I have decided this will be my final.. Because I loved making what I have so far. I am adding a coin system, health, and items to carry (albeit at a price of learning how).

Play the Demo here! Download the washington.gmk

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ntrevino/

I read Narrative Environments and Game Design as Narrative Architecture and what I believe was a common line between both of them is that creation of space inside of a video game is a romantic and rather emotional representation of what already exists in the real world. Not all games tell stories or represent reality at all, but they do strive to achieve a sense of community and action. In this way, games enable players to be apart of a group of individuals that travel through embedded narratives that exist ‘only’ in the game.

I think a quote that might be pertinent to games I create in the future is – “A story is a collection of facts in a time sequenced order that suggests a cause and effect relationship”- Chris Crawford

 

So it is very simple. 3 buttons. 1 right answer. I wish the game had more to it but I just wanted to learn how to use flash and such.

If you are wondering what happened to my other game, “BrownGame”.. I corrupted the file. Crash + Quit + Saving at the same time = file no longer opens. Thats cool though I had fun making this little guy.

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ntrevino/Chocolate.swf

 

 

Yes. I have done loads of work on this thing. I went from nothing to almost 60% of the content in 2 days. Below are images of the key parts of the game. These images all have animations associated with them that are either done or a few (5) frames from completion.

The game is about feeding a small and cute machine looking organism this chocolate that comes out of eggs from the forest. The Brown color scheme has influenced palette, concept and puzzles.

There will be 2 sequenced based puzzles in the game and the player should be able to solve and play this game in less than 20 seconds. If you pick the wrong sequence you lose and the game is over because the small cute thing dies a tragic death.

I have made conceptual progress but not any other kind. It is terrible, I know, but it is the sad truth.

I guess I may not be as fond to my idea as I could be.
Thanks though. I just want to draw landscapes.

I also drew the damn brown marker.

I want to create a point and click adventure that covers expanses of large environments. It will be very directionally based (like the homeplay I did) where arrows and small items can be clicked on to activate subtle, yet meaningful, animations.

 

So I have so much love for arcades. I spent my childhood there and I have always wanted to build an arcade style game machine. My first inclination is to make THIS game. Hunt’em, by Johan Hargne Nohagen, Teo Mathlein, Alex Batsis. It is very intuitive and it very easy to understand. Aside, from being one of the most fun games I’ve played online, it is very beautiful for a online game. I think that this game will be nicely appropriate to house in a ‘traditional’ type of arcade machine. The technical requirements are nonexistent save you need Unity.

http://games.crobasoft.com/huntem/

 

I don’t know how it will look. Just that it will look pretty swag. I would like to have a giant food chain party (like all the foods we eat represent the animals you can hunt in the game.)

 

I think that the basement of the FRAME would be an amazing place to put this arcade installation. I don’t think we have any choice but it’s cool if we could (yeah?).

 

kthxbi.

Nathan/Andrew