Exploratory Game Proposals + Tech Test

Idea #1:

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I recently played The Beginner’s Guide and had a short exchange with its creator. This has really made me want to make something autobiographical, specifically something tragic yet funny. So for this idea, I want to make a small experience based off my relationship with my father. This is not a concept for a walking simulator. My dad is a trombone player and when I was a girl I joined middle school band and played trombone to please him. In the game, the player will hold a trombone and be able to slide the slide back and forth, as well as turn in space (but otherwise not move.) Across from the player there will be a larger trombone, set higher up in space, that looks down at the player. When the player moves the slide, text will come out of the trombone’s bell. The text will be actual quotes that I said to my father during that period of my life. Accompanying the text will be a mangled trombone sound or other ridiculous noise. Then the other trombone will respond in the same manner, with a clear trombone tone, with actual quotes my father said to me. As the text leaves the trombone bell, it will push each trombone further from the other in space, until the trombones are so far apart that you can’t read or hear the father trombone. I want the background of the space to reflect the subtext of the dialogue, so I want it to change color/imagery during play. This is a linear experience, no longer than 2 minutes. I have a trombone model.

Idea #2:

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I will expand on my current tech test, a humorous journey through a gut passing over what a woman ate, which ends with her husband. Features I’d like to add: animated villi (either modeled or have animated textures), more relationship stage signifier models (lockets, house key, pacifier, etc.), more nonsense models (food), a digestion sound, a longer tract to explore, and using terrain elevation and lighting as a metaphor for relationship turbulence. This would be an exploratory experience, 1-2 minutes.