AKJ02 – You Can't See Everything

IDEAS

• things are censored
  • instructions to the game
  • dialogue
  • objects in the game
• voice acting from Danae
• aesthetic
  • minimalist
  • top secret document

PLATFORMER GAMEPLAY

• platformer???
• story-based
• puzzle
  • figure out which words are hidden
  • figure out conspiracy?

LEVEL PROGRESSION?

• arrow keys (left, up, down shown, right is censored)
• you know how to walk, learn to talk

DOCUMENT-BASED? :( CIA - CONSPIRACY INVESTIGATION AGENCY

GAMEPLAY - each level - a folder with documents - deciphering? - encoded document - scratch pad - calculator - reading and parsing documents - finding connections between files -

ROGUELIKE

• paper-like aesthetic
  • typewriter characters - not necessarily ASCII (more than 1 character)?
  • rooms are pieces of paper (post-it notes? numbered pages)
  • ink residue from combat
  • censor = obstacles? spreading force of evil? find the truth to remove it?
• roguelike elements
  • level, room generation
  • character sheet
    • walk in your own character sheet?
    • your character sheet is also your inventory and portable home?
    • facts sheet (things you know and carry)

TODO

• graphics
  • desk
  • paper routines
    • paper of arbitrary size
    • cut outs
    • conspiracy photos
    • folds
    • font aligned on paper
    • text entities
      • player
      • single-letter enemy
      • ?
    • animate dis/appearance
  • piece of tape for corridors
• gameplay
  • room generation
    • generate macro-grid
    • find a path in macro-grid with randomised dfs
    • place plot-rooms regularly
    • place fillers
    • compress
    • shift
    • connect with tapes
    • interior
  • story generation
    • more events, places, agents
    • times
    • suspicious story
    • newspaper clippings with text
    • text justify
    • mark words - words become enemies
    • censors
  • controls
    • moving around
    • vision cone
    • left click to see
    • attacking
  • RPG / rogue elements
    • tutorial / options / menu
    • floor progression
    • character sheet
    • items
    • event log
    • gameover
    • stats
    • difficulty scaling
    • experience
    • shop?
    • working options screen
    • cursor + click anywhere to do vision
• audio
  • some sfx
  • music ...

Ideas dump

Generating story

• purposefully vague sentences
  • "The (agent) wants us to believe that (statement), but then why (contradiction.consequence)?"
  • agents
    • government, president, agency, media
  • statement
    • (event) happened
    • (event) happened at (place)
    • (event) happened at (datetime)
  • contradictions
    • (event) did not happen
    • (event) happened at (elsewhere)
    • (event) happened at (different datetime)

Photos

https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/offshore-oil-drilling-rig1.jpg https://pixabay.com/en/bunker-fortification-fort-the-war-393533/ http://www.larrygscale.com/Toxic-Waste-50-Gallon-Drum-Miniature-124-Scale-G-Scale_p_298.html http://www.hidden-truth.org/4/1947-roswell-ufo-crash.html http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/roswell-aliens-true/story-e6frev20-1111113867042 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Victor_III_class_submarine.jpg http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/WWII-Military-Collectibles/Mosquito.jpg

"POC"

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  |We found the claims|                       x
  |to be(UNTRUE)      |                       x
  |                   |                       x
  |      (.....)      |                       x
  |                   |                       x
  |  @                |                       x
  |                   |                       x
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