Sprint 4: Essential Experience Goals

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What experience do I want the player to have?

• A fun and challenging experience that gets the players to think. We want the players to have a nice sense of accomplishment after they solve puzzles.
• This will be a lighthearted adventure with a fair level of difficulty. Giving the player a fun experience, while making them feel like they accomplished something.

What is essential to the experience?

• Challenging Puzzles
• Interesting characters
• Engaging and comedic plot
• Making the player laugh
• A good sense of exploration/adventure
• A good sense of progression

 How can my game capture that essence?

• Through a fun and challenging experience that gets the players to think and gives them a sense of accomplishment after completing puzzles.
• Getting the players immersed in the world, and engaged with the characters we’ve created.
• The characters that we’ve created will have very distinguished personalities and humorous traits.

What are the players thinking as they make choices in your game?

• The players are thinking about:
• The items and evidence they have on hand.
• The characters they’ve interacted with.
• The clues they’ve gathered.
• The plot.
• How everything they’ve experienced so far ties together.

How are they feeling?

• Amused because of the humorous dialogue and general atmosphere of the game.
• Curious because of the mystery and plot.
• Challenged because of the puzzles.
• Accomplished as they’re piecing together the mystery and solving the puzzles.

Are the choices you've offered as rich as interesting as they can be?

 

• We’ll have a better idea once development of our game gets underway.
• Once we have a good idea of what we can and can’t do with our game, we’ll know what kind of choices we can provide the player with.
• However, we plan to give players various dialogue options that may change the flow of the story.
• This isn’t a choose your own adventure, the story will be linear, but we want there to be some variations on how you can advance the plot.