Our team had discussed a mystery game that takes place on a train.
The main premise I came up with for the game was a murder mystery (murder on the orient express) where the player needed to go through the cars, talk to the passengers, and figure out what happened. We discussed having a paranormal element, and I came up with the idea of having each character be a scientist, and the train was on the way to a conference. Each character would either be dead or alive, and be given a field of science, based on which they could have flavorful interactions with each other.
I came up with several characters to potentially use:
Robert M. Flannigan (Alive)
Description: Natural Gas Researcher payed off by oil barons
Nancy Hopster (Alive)
Description: Dinosaur Paleontologist
Enemies: Robert M. Flannigan (natural gas desecrates the graves of her ancestors)
Friends: Sadie and Katie Haller (birds are her progeny)
Shira Kundha (Alive)
Description: Mycologist Extraordinaire
Enemies: No one
Friends: No one
Steffan Olavsson (Alive)
Description: Gastronomer
Enemies: He’s kinda annoyed by shira
Friends: Eileen capstone saved his wife
Eileen Capstone (Alive)
Description: Neurosurgeon
Friends: Alaina
Enemies: No one
Reice Pijzse (Alive)
Description: Conductor
Cruciferous Springflower (Alive)
Description: Engineer
Alaina Cordova (Dead)
Description: Physicist
Friends: Eileen
Enemies: TalkCPU
Stephen Falconer (Dead)
Description: Computer Scientist
Friends: TalkCPU
Enemies: Riece Pijzse made him go into airplane mode or something
TalkCPU (Dead)
Description: Stephen Falconer’s AI (how did it become a ghost??)
Friends: Stephen
Enemies: No one (or everyone??? Who knows)
Katie Haller (Dead)
Description: Ornithologist
Friends: Nancy
Enemies: Sadie (Sadie’s snake ate Katie’s parakeet)
Sadie Haller (Dead)
Description: Herpetologist
Friends: Nancy
Enemies: Katie (Katie is made that Sadie’s snake ate Katie’s parakeet)
Here is my moodboard, I wanted the game to be less dark and creepy and colorful and humorous instead.
