Game Design : Creating a Story (Class work & Own Game)

In a game, There is a story which created in order to make the player feel like they are really involved in the game. How the story turns out and the change in situation depending on the choice player chooses are important for creating a good game. Also the movement, mechanic, rules and other things are important as well.

This class was all about how to make a good story for a game we are going to design. We learned about the factor of the conflict, what would be good to add into the story, why ,and what character or helper we should add.

In this exercise, we needed to create a reasonable

story from the texts provided. We also needed to

have sub events with slightly different story line but

still have to lead back to the end of the main story.

It seemed not to be too difficult but not easy either.

We spent some time on it but didn't get a satisfied

result.

I got a whole lot of ideas from this lecture but with

the time provided for this project, I realised I should

throw some ideas away and stick with the simplest

ones instead for now. When I actually have more time, I could bring those back and work on them.

In the second half of the lecture, I actually wrote down some of my ideas on my notebook just in case I forgot and also drew the main character design and its attacking too.

The first idea I had was about a boy trying to help a librarian from the hand of an evil witch. That boy really loves reading books so he often go to the library and then meet with the girl.

But shortly after becoming friends, the evil witch appears and takes the girl away to the depth of the library. He wants to help her escape so he travels through the library, fighting the witch's sidekicks with the power he absorb from books.

And here are some

drawings of how the

boy's power looks

like.

It would be interesting

to make this game.

But it would take a lot

of time, too.

Since the first idea would be a huge time consuming project, I chose another idea I had in my mind instead.

STORY

Here is Mali, the character in my second idea. She lives happily in the deep snow forest with her parents. She loves the forest just as much as she does for an adventure. She always ended up seeking for troubles.

One day, while she wanders around the forest busy collecting mushroom, suddenly the atmosphere changes. Everything starts to rot. She fights with strange creatures on her way back to her parents.

Has her friend help her and boost her power up to defeat the boss.

When She got there, the Mr.Money, who wants to cut down all trees and build a luxury castle, already captured them and destroyed everything.

Mali has to fight with the boss to free her parents and drive the enemies away.

This does not sound like it would be easy to pull out either. So there will be some changes in the character and the story line later on.