Brainstorm: Choose your own adventure game

#Graphic_Adventure

#Narrative_Episodic_Games

#Choose_your_own_Adventure_Game

Overall idea of the game

• Gameplay length: no longer than 3 hours, so you are motivated to play again in a different perspective

• Non-formal learning

• 2 Protagonists - parent and child (player can create charcters looks + gender, personality stays same)

Story

• At the beginnig of the game a tragic incident happens to the family (one parent passes away / or divorce)

• Life of protagonists change > no color in their world, they distance from each other

Goal of the Game

• Feel better again, find each other again, and build a relationship, while dealing with grief

• Plot ending point (no matter the decisions): they have a close and loving relationship, and have processed their loss

Possible situations for decision making

• Deciding to talk about your sadness with the other person, trying to do normal things again

Possible complications/plot points

• Being distant and not talking, child: problems in school and with friends, wants to run away, anger at parent, parent: problems at work and with raising the child, dealing with losing your partner

Genre

• Combination of Aventure, Role-Play, 2D visual Novel

What makes it a challenge?

• Emotional journey, visualizing emotions, getting better, find a connection to the other protagonist

Usage of Game

• Seeing different perspectives (parent and child) in traumatic situations understanding everyone is doing their best, getting people to understand that no one is to blame in traumatic situations, seeing how grief can be dealt with

Working Title: Grief Game