{"id":414,"date":"2012-09-04T19:29:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2012\/?p=414"},"modified":"2012-09-04T22:27:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T22:27:45","slug":"assignment-1-ideas-eric-mackie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2012\/2012\/09\/04\/assignment-1-ideas-eric-mackie\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 1 Ideas – Eric Mackie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Idea:<\/em> The game deals with a man who has been lost while climbing a snowy peak, the person hiking the mountain to find him, and their partner at base camp who has to wait till both, one, or neither return. It takes the third-person perspective and jumps between character and time-in-story randomly. The choices to make will not be explicit actions such as \u201cgrab the ledge\u201d but will be more general, such as \u201cpush forward today\u201d or \u201cgive up hope.\u201d While it is not told in order, responses to situations presented\/choices do affect the outcome of the story (I\u2019m considering even to allow the player to decide when the stranded hiker dies, regardless of the efforts of the one trying to find him).<\/p>\n

Paragraph 1<\/em>: He grabs hold again, and lets out a grunt of frustration. A frustration filled with rage against the cold and a refusal to let it win. As he crashes the axe into the ice above him, he is counting. \u201cDid he take four, or five\u2026. Four or five?\u201d Struggling to remember how many O2 <\/sub>tank were still there when he left.<\/p>\n