Exercise 6.7

Describe Your Game

In one or two paragraphs, describe the essence of your game idea. Try to capture what makes it interesting to you and how the basic game play will work. State your “X”—both razor and slogan—as a part of your game description.

between the dark and the light

(working game title)

Slogan: Faced with a choice between good and evil, which would you decide?

Razor: A text-based adventure game where your decision as a player will ultimately choose the path for the character.

Our game is a third person text-based adventure game. Our player encounters our character, who is recently deceased and living in the spirit world, a place between the light and the dark. It is the player's job to lead our character on the right path by making decisions to do good deeds or bad deeds, but the best decision to make isn't always obvious and straightforward. In the real world, some of our best decisions have unintended consequences or effects that we can't possibly predict, and we want the game world for our player to include situations that are ambiguous and difficult decisions that require problem solving skills. We want to challenge the player to think about the impact of those decisions on the character, NPCs and the game world.