Hilarious naming conventions aside, these imaginary mega-chains reflect the real life corporate cycle of small business swallowed up by the mighty, and people left without jobs as a result. Your dad lost his job, so he’s currently working at the nearby Ham Panther. Those whom you graduated high school with are now gainfully employed at the local Snack Falcon.
While the player is not on a job hunt, many of the people in Mae’s life are. Its ability to balance light and dark makes its themes of isolation and exploration of the experience of the working poor ring true, with poignant, true-to-life scenarios.Īs a fresh drop-out, Mae constantly runs into the problem of employment in her small town of Possum Springs. In one section of the early game, I found myself eating pizza and poking a severed arm with a stick, all within the same 10 minutes. In stark contrast to the game’s colorful tone, Night in the Woods also offers up the dark and macabre, with heart-wrenching moments of sorrow and embarrassment.
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The player is treated in every conversation with branching dialogue choices, full of humor and heart. The game is limitlessly funny, with a baseline dry wit emerging from every text bubble. There are light puzzle elements, along with some basic platforming, but the real fun comes from your dad’s horrific puns, late night conversations with friends and, of course, pizza. Along the way, the player meets a diverse cast of characters, cracks self-deprecating jokes and plays a slew of surprisingly well-crafted mini-games. Taking the role of college dropout (and anthropomorphic cat) Mae, Night in the Woods tasks the player with putting their life together, while dealing with depression. Welcome to Possum Springs, where small town courtesy is all you’ve got. You’re basically a teenager all over again, except it isn’t cute any longer, and the real adults in your life expect more. You have your friends, but not much else. You’re practicing in a band which will never play a real gig. You moved back home, you live with your parents. You dropped out of college, and are doing your best to not paint yourself as a failure. Thanks for your patience, thanks for your support, I’m excited to share soon.These are your 20s, and they’re slipping away. I’m hoping to ship this 1-2 hour experience first on Xbox and PC. I’m still pretty much a one man team, now working with an animator, + aivi&surasshu. Before that, I was still figuring out what the hell the game was, and how I was going to make it. This thing will ship - I’ve been working on this for almost a quarter of my life! Full development began in earnest in the first quarter of 2019. I’m trying to better about keeping everyone in the loop and overcoming my own expectations. My original goal was to keep totally silent until a month or so before release, however I want to let everyone know about the current trajectory with this post. Seeing that inbox light makes my heart skip a beat, haha. To be honest, it brings me a lot of anxious feelings to make public posts about it, mostly because I know some people have been waiting a long time already, and expectations are sky high. sorry, it hurts me to say but i wasn’t able to hit certain targets and its still not ready. why does my moth man have a hook hand? is he a lone rogue, searching for love? is my game Vampire Survivors, and needs no story? or is it The Walking Dead, and needs a cast of meaningful characters, with a global threat? oakhold-cheerios ask game design narrative Identify what’s exciting about your game, and give it a context.
(presentation is how the game is styled, looks, feels.) think about how your story gets told, and how the player interacts with it. i think the storyline should be highly informed by both the gameplay, and the 'presentation’ of the game. ideas might come naturally once you recognise the 'hook’. maybe your core mechanic is something in the character’s design, or something in their narrative. That 'core’ thing should be something that can extend to a gameplay idea. the core could be a fun game loop, a cute character design, a cool song, or a story that you want to tell. The first thing you figure out is the most exciting thing about the game, and this is what helps inform everything else. this ‘core’ might be the initial spark that led to you want to make the game, or something you figure out on the way. Everyone has a different process, so i’ll answer from the perspective of mine:
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