Critical Play: Mysteries May 7, 2024 For this critical play, I played Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture on PS5, a narrative-driven walking simulator by The Chinese Room. The game’s target…
Concept Doc 1 (Team 17) May 7, 2024 Synopsis This game is a seedling’s journey to find herself and her unique strength. Our main protagonist, Sapp, is an adopted seedling in a…
P2 Checkpoint 1 Individual Deliverable May 7, 2024 Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7lJAPzopskjQAzxsn2xwQn?si=6fc05b68793a4ede Direction 1: You are a crow who just hatched from their egg. You chirp for your mother yet no one arrives, so…
P2 Checkpoint 1: Concept Doc – Team 5 May 7, 2024 Synopsis This game is about uncovering a hidden narrative, namely about a murder that takes place in an abandoned, dilapidated building. The player wakes…
Critical Play: Her Story (Mystery) May 7, 2024 “Her Story” masterfully weaves its narrative into the mystery by utilizing a unique interactive mechanic of video clip databases and keyword searches, which not…
P2 Checkpoint 1: Individual Deliverable May 7, 2024 Emotions: Thrill Mystery Horror Creepy Eerie Playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYKSzhDfLcshYijkZeTjwPLMrfLfUk4kO&si=HjsBIZJNG5AhW4O0 Moodboard: Three directions: The Revenge: A samurai who lost his family and his wealth to an…
Gone Home | Critical Play: Mysteries May 7, 2024 Developed by The Fullbright Company, Gone Home is a first-person mystery and walking simulator intended for audience 13 years and above who are interested…
Concept Doc 1 Individual Deliverable (Team 17- Phuc) May 7, 2024 Direction #1 (Fantasy, Discovery, Emergent Narrative): The magical plant, Sap, must build its forest from scratch after a disastrous forest fire. As they construct…
Checkpoint 1: Concept Doc (Edith Finch Style) – Alexander Worley May 7, 2024 Emotions I want to evoke: Stress Chill Zen Moodboard: Spotify Playlist: Songs I added to this playlist: Directions for the game: A resource management…
Team 16 Individual Checkpoint 1 – Nils Forstall May 7, 2024 Moodboard Playlist Link to playlist: Note: apologies–it is longer than 20 minutes since there are many long songs on here. Only the first 3…
[Project 2] Individual Checkpoint 1 – Jenny May 7, 2024 Moodboard: Soundboard: a mix of mystical and light-hearted adventure with whimsical songs and a wisp of wistfulness or nostalgia Direction 1: A…
“Rooted: A Plant’s Tale” Checkpoint 1 – Individual Component May 7, 2024 As a recap, our game revolves around a seedling whose growth is stunted and is lost of their purpose in the world, traveling around…
Critical Play: Mysteries May 7, 2024 Game Information Name: Life is Strange Creator: Dontnod Entertainment, published by Square Enix Platform: PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, IOS, and PC Target Audience: Ages 17+…
Sketchnote: Game Architecture; Amy Zhou May 7, 2024 “Candy Crush Saga” epitomizes the addictive simplicity that has come to define modern mobile gaming, sporting an architecture that belies its ostensibly straightforward gameplay….
Critical Play – Mysteries May 7, 2024 NOTE: This entry contains spoilers for Year Walk. This week, I sat down to play Year Walk, an eerie puzzle game developed and published…
Critical Play Mystery: Diner in the Storm May 7, 2024 Peter Ling Mystery Critical Play “Diner in the Storm” is a narrative based mystery game that targets young adults as well as older…
Critical Play: Mysteries, Amy Zhou; Life is Strange May 7, 2024 The Narrative Genius of “Life is Strange” “Life is Strange,” developed by the imaginative minds at Dontnod Entertainment and published by Square Enix, captures…
Checkpoint 1: Concept Doc – Team Submission – Cardinal Conquest: Hoover Horror May 7, 2024 Cardinal Conquest: Hoover Horror Synopsis: Cardinal Conquest – Hoover Horror is a 2D, 8-bit puzzle adventure game where players control a Stanford student navigating…
Team 16 – Checkpoint 1: Individual by Ngoc May 7, 2024 Moodboard: Spotify Playlist: The mood of this playlist goes from happy to curious to grim! Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1isoJ8UL8eyQczKw7bDcPQ?si=44d62a92717c4301 Directions the Game Could Go: 1 – Quest…
Abhi Desai – P2 Checkpoint 1 Individual Contribution May 7, 2024 Emotions: Mysterious Curious Whimsical Mood Board: Spotify Playlist Directions: A 2D puzzle game where Stanford students are trying to prevent an evil wizard, TML,…