Thank you for such a great class I really enjoyed mysef!
I began my game with my autobiographical character. I wanted the
introduction to seem like I myself was talking to whoever was playing so I
tried to literally put myself in the game. I used CharNG and N+7 in a very
similar way. I placed a passage from Hansel and Gretel into both programs
to help me start off my story since it takes place in the forest and used
some of the words that came out such as “foliage”. In Googlism I searched
“Town” and the second thing that came up was “town is weeping” this made
me include the emphasis of the town emotions towards Bob going missing. I
used crowdsourcing for the mini quiz part of my game. I made a list of 10
multiple choice questions and gave it to 10 of my friends and the top 4
questions that were answered correctly are the ones I used for my game.
After I finished about half of my story I felt stuck in where I wanted to
take them next so I decided to recite my story into Otter.ai. When I did
this I got the line, “Bob was hurt in hospital and now ohm.” Although I
have no idea what the word “ohm” was supposed to be, it made me think of
home since they rhyme. This is when I created the branch giving an option
for the character to just leave Bob and go home. The first and second
Oblique Strategies card both helped me come up with the structure of my
game. The first one said “Left channel, right channel, center channel” and
the second one said, “A line has two sides”. The format of my game relies
on one central path with branched paths to the left or right. The third
Oblique Strategies card I used said “Change instrument roles” this helped
me place my autobiographical player. As mentioned before I included myself
into the game because the role of the developer and the player are
normally separate but I wanted to combine them. The fourth Oblique
Strategies card I used said “Distort time”. I remember playing a twine
game that had a countdown which I remembered after reading this card so I
added that element into my game. The final Oblique Strategies card I used
said “Define an area as “safe” and use it as an anchor”. I only partially
used this prompt because I got this card right after I introduced the
hospital setting. I wanted to define it as a safe area for Bob, but
decided to not make it safe for the player which is where the signs of
anxiety start to come in. I use botnik how I have used it in the past and
that is for my title. Nothing that I got really worked with how I wanted
my story to go but I saw that one of the options under “Harry Potter
Narration” was the word disappear which I used in my title. I used the
Anagram Generator to get the names of Ace and Rachel. I got Ace by putting
in “Male Character” and I got Rachel by putting in “Female Character”.