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Design

Colour Palette

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Logo

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Pitch Blurb

We want to create a short story-based game trailer, it revolves around a future world where humanity has the same face because it is considered the epitome of human perfection. The face of perfection is done through involuntary surgery by a global government where individuals must receive when they reach the age of 18. In this story, the player, as a 17-year-old girl from the year 2020, found herself travelling to this horrible plan. As she later found herself is about to have her coming of age in a week. She decided to play against the propaganda of  “perfection”. By doing that, the protagonist must escape a facility that she is being held in by the government. The goal of this game is to escape the facility, and if she fails to do so, the game over. This is only the first chapter introducing the game. The player must avoid guards, unlock doors and discover the hidden history behind this twisted society, later crossing a forest to unlock the following chapters.

RESOURCES

Inspiration & Context Examples

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Human Form - Korean Body Horror Film (story inspiration)
A video about Plastic Surgery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgf30wFOlA&t=394s 

The Dolls With Attitude - Japan Comedy Short Film (story inspiration)

A video about Plastic Surgery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQgpdzXHMAM&t=312s

SOUTH OF THE CIRCLE (Game Mechanic Aesthetic and Audio Voice Style)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6frlLksXYLc

https://apps.apple.com/app/south-of-the-circle/id1477077753

Moodboard

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Mind Map

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Plan

Game Assets

  • One 3D modelling female character with a perfect “fake” face

  • One 3D modelling male character with a perfect “fake” face

  • Several 3D modelling characters for people who under 17 (with different appearances)

  • 3D assets of the environment objects

  • 3D asserts of the puzzles (keys/letters/calender/computer…)

Brief Storylines and Game Mechanism

  • WASD: moving

  • Mouse(left click): get the hints; collect things; continue the dialogue

  • Space bar: Squat down

  • A mechanism to escape the first scene: bedroom 

    • The player in the game will “wake up” first and recognize the environment around her (there  will be 2 other NPCs talking to her and help her to recognize that they are in a dorm. The dorm belongs to a lab.) 

    • The protagonist will later find that the dorm has some clues, such as a photo album, posters and a calendar etc. they will then recognize that the calendar is counting down for their 18-year-old birthday. The calendar will indicate the year is 2220 (which is in the future.) However, the identity of the protagonist is actually from the year 2020. And she realized that she just did time travel. The poster on the wall indicates that their appearance will then be changed. 

    • The character will then ask the NPCs around her why their appearance will be changed. And she will get the answer that it is because they will thus become more approach to a “perfect woman.” They all want to do plastic surgery and changed themselves beyond recognition. You thus realize that those people around you were brain-washed. 

    • You set yourself a goal-- escape this brain-washing lab. Because it is useless to convince everyone around you. And you share a totally different value with them all-- you don’t want to do the surgery, you only want to make yourself who you are.  

    • The next step is to find the way and escape the dorm. You may want to find the technique to unlock the door of your dorm. 

  • The second puzzle happens in the library. The protagonist will be led to find some clues about why they are imprisoned in this lab. After she opens the history book, she finds that people in the “future” are continuing a “perfect human” plan. This plan aims to change all human beings’ genes and eliminate their individualities. However, this plan was failed to be done due to the errors in the process of the lab. The manager then decided to do brain-washing to all the people who are tested and constraint them to do the costume surgery to achieve a “fake universal.” You determined yourself to escape this lab. At this time, you find a chat record, on the side of the library manager, it is said that “I need to register and then get out of the library.” the other person online replied to you as “You need the map where you could find it in the registration room.” ​

  • You come to the registration room where there is a map and a line of code. You then found the Deciphering password. And find a map of this laboratory, by using this map, you locate yourself and recognize that there is a way to escape from here. But first of all, you need to go across a forest…

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Storyboard Draft

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