Working Title: Lost One
by: Sandra Kang, Madeline Finn and Elizabeth Agyemang
Description:
First Play through:
You need to find her. That’s all you know, all you can care about at this moment. The boardwalk is shutting down. The lights are dimming, the crowds thinning and you only have ten minutes to reach her. You look in your wallet, where a picture of her resides. You need to find her.
In our game, the player takes the role of an unknown character, searching for the child depicted in their wallet. You walk through the crowds, picking up conversation, reading notes and signs and interacting with strangers and families, all in an effort to find the child. Sometimes it’s a little girl, sometimes a boy, but all the player knows is that they have to find this child and take them home.
Artist Statement: Our piece looks to explore the heightened anxiety and stress that comes with searching with searching, uncovering but being unable to find. In addition, we want to explore how identity is pieced together by the world and people around us. As the player interacts with the strange and familiar faces lingering around the board walk, they being to uncover the identity of the child and the character they are playing it.
Game Inspiration:
Heavy Rain- The scenes were the main character is search frantically for his sons were really a reference here. We want the player to feel the sense of panic and tension that this game invokes.
Assassin’s Creed II- the crowd mechanics in Assassin’s creed (the amount of people and the interactions) is something we would like to emulate
Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask- Like this game, we want to build time and multiple playthroughs as a narrative element throughout the story
Non Art Inspiration
Where’s Waldo – The notion of looking for someone in a crowd but being also intrigued by the other characters that inhabit a place
Rashamon- In this movie, the viewer and the characters have to uncover the truth of the situation based off of different accounts and perspectives. Identities are all disjointed and twisted because no perspective is the true one.
Vantage Point: In this movie the viewer gets a lot of run through of the same scene but the story unfolds from the different perspective in which it was told
