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for week three I focused again on the ESCAPE, cementing my narrative on overfishing in the Arctic regions, creating a loose story where the player will be on a big sailing ship, and have to save animals from the dangers of overfishing.
A young adventurer who is helping a scientist on a mission, They have heard about an animal that needs to be rescued from the ice, But it isn't going to be easy! There are big fishing ships that don't want you to see the real state of the Arctic! As you move from the sea in your sailing ship, to the icebergs on foot, you realize that the Arctic is not what you expected, although there are animals there, they all need help as their home is slowly melting! (As you help the animals and learn about them you *******************) if you hadn't come it would perished from the melting ice and from the pollution of overfishing!as a first rough draft, it was enough to finish my selection of cards and start the world-building, I took a template that we made in Digital storytelling and made this:
Archetype: The questThe hero (player) often accompanied by sidekicks, travels in search of a priceless treasure and must defeat evil and overcome powerful odds, and ends when he gets both the treasure and the girl
Worldbuilding:
The world is set in 2024 In this world, it's the fishermen who control the Arctic, no one else can operate or be there without their permission. Fishermen are first, and animals are at the bottom of the list.
Protqgist is the player
Characters:
Scientist
spotter
enemy fishermen/fisherwomen note: these people are not bad people, they are forced to be careless and mean by their captains owner of the trawlers
Geography: Open ocean followed by icebergs getting denser and closer to each other as you approach the big ice of the Arctic, where the "mainland" is a dangerous land filled with crevasses and deep rivers caused by the melting ice.
Around trawlers, there is noticeably less wildlife than there is in other areas.
What is good in this world? The willpower and optimism of the crew on the sailing ship
What is bad in this world? The ruthlessness of the fishermen in this world The pollution caused by the trawlers
this along with some more work I did set the ground rules for the story, but it is important to note that this is a draft and subject to change.
I also completed the translations for À La Folie, this was a more visual rule book compared to Dino Picnic, but had the most translations when it came to the game terms, for example, the name of the game was translated to Connected, which is very different to À La Folie, which should translate to roughly "to the crazy" which is a reference to the flower plucking game - he loves me, he loves me not- which some may remember from one of Yoshi's minigames from New Super Mario Bros DS. Unfortunately due to the lack of similar terminology in the English version, we cannot make the link to the "Loves me?" game for the words in the rule book, although the imagery stayed, the terms did not.
hours worked: 35
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