Premise:
In this story, Leon wants to keep spending time with his best friend pip, but can’t, because pip is gone and Leon hasn’t been able to accept it.
It’s after midnight and Leon is alone at his computer, in a whiteboard room he has been drawing in by himself since June. He logs in and finds that someone is there: pip, drawing a flower. Leon asks pip to play a game, but pip would rather stay in this room and doodle. So they draw. pip shows off his drawings, and Leon pins his own photos, songs, and notes on the board, which is how the player learns who Leon is. How you talk to pip shows how Leon is grieving, and the story ends in one of three ways. In one, pip says he’ll pop into a game, and Leon walks through a 3D world they started together, talking to himself because nobody answers, until he reaches the place where they would have built it together. In another, Leon finds a message that pip actually left for him. In the last, he finds the news article that shows how pip died
Story Choices Map:
Figure: Story map drawn in Our Room
Project Plan:
10/21: Premise, map, and plan posted
- First quarter of the game is playable
- One playtest done with a friend from a club
10/22 – 10/23: Build in the playtest feedback and build more ambience
- Connect the player more to Leon, starting with a wifi password hidden in the notes. Mainly have the player connect more to Leon.
- Add the different ways of talking to pip, each showing a different grief
- Polish first quarter of the game -> text, drawings, etc.
10/24 – 10/26: First draft of the endings
- The 3D world, kept to a few small places, with Leon’s lines triggered by where he walks
- The message pip left for Leon
- The news article about how pip died
- Decide what picks which ending
10/27: More playtest
- Address any more feedback and see if intended emotion shows.
10/28: Revise from the feedback
- Make sure how you grieve actually changes how pip responds
- Start on writeup
