Individual Team Member Deliverables – Checkpoint 1

Emotions to Evoke

1. Dread
2. Tragic Empathy
3. Moral Dilemma

Moodboard

Playlist

Game Directions

1. Interactive Visual Novel

• Format:
  2D semi-illustrated visual novel with dialogue portraits and minimal animation.

• Focus:
  Character relationships, branching moral choices, and psychological tension.

• Core Mechanics:

  • Dialogue choice system with persistent relationship tracking

  • Trust meter that influences how others respond to you

  • Multi-ending structure based on hidden information and emotional decisions

2. First-Person Psychological Thriller

• Format:
  Immersive first-person 3D experience.

• Focus:
  Claustrophobic exploration, hallucination effects, and blurred reality vs. memory.

• Core Mechanics:

  • Free exploration of ship environments

  • Contamination meter that alters visuals/audio as infection worsens

  • Interactive environmental storytelling and hallucination-triggered flashbacks

3. Narrative Puzzle Adventure

• Format:
  Top-down or side-scrolling pixel-based game with investigation and puzzle-solving elements.

• Focus:
  Reconstructing a corrupted timeline through logs, security systems, and hidden audio clues.

• Core Mechanics:

  • Solving in-world puzzles

  • Timeline reconstruction: placing logs and flashbacks in correct order

  • Environmental scanning and ghost echoes from past interactions

Kinds of Fun

1. Narrative – Through nonlinear story progression and branching dialogue, players slowly uncover the full scope
2. Challenge – Logical reasoning, piecing together conflicting information, and deciding whether to reveal or conceal the truth
3. Sensory – Visual distortion, disorienting audio, and hallucination are used to immerse players in the protagonist’s crumbling mental state