Eastward is a self-contained narrative entity; it has a linear storyline where players' choices have no impact upon anything that happens. I wanted to change this, so I wrote my own quest for Eastward: one with branching narratives and psychological ramifications.
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Welcome to Week Four of my project, “I Created A Video Game in 8 Weeks, Using RPG Maker MZ,” where I create a self-contained video game quest with impact, choices, and multiple endings, from scratch, using RPG Maker MZ!
Last week, I created my video game’s intro! (Did anyone order a boatload of exposition?) Read all about it, here!
This week I focused on the soft skills of game creation: narrative design, theme, and how to create complex, interesting villains…all while implementing the hard skills that I have gained over the course of the project.
It was a hodgepodge of creation.
A flurry of activity.
A hotbed of ideas.
...We’re talking theme, we’re talking sex dormitories, we’re talking sympathetic villains. It was a little bit of everything, all rolled into one (cue Alanis Morisette voiceover).
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Spec Script for “Talking Tom & Friends” about an Alien Prince on the Run
When Outfit7 posted a job opening on their website for a “Narrative Designer,” I had a lot of fun creating a personalized project for my application.
For my project, I:
Created a brand-new character to add to the Talking Tom & Friends universe
Wrote the script for a “Talking Tom & Friends” episode that introduces this brand-new character
Provided base outlines for two games based on said character
Meet Kyle, the Fugitive Alien Prince!
Kyle (K.Y.L.E.), which stands for “King of Your Little Earth,” is a prince from space who is on the run, and he needs the gang’s help to stay hidden where his alien parents can’t find him.
Young by alien standards but old by Earth ones, Kyle is inquisitive, impulsive, and used to getting what he wants, when he wants it. He wasn’t allowed to have many friends growing up because of the security risk, so when he meets Talking Tom and friends, he is eager to fit in.
Episode Description:
An alien prince named Kyle lands on top of the garage and demands that Talking Tom and his friends help hide him from his intergalactic parents! The best way to keep an alien hidden on Earth is to teach them how to blend in…right?"
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I Wrote Backstory Scene Scripts for Zoink’s Video Game, “Lost in Random”
Zoink recently released their brand-new game, Lost in Random, and I’m crazy about it.
Lost in Random combines everything I love about video games: amazing storytelling, beautiful graphics, and a brand-new, imaginative world that you get to explore and experience at your own pace.
I loved roaming the teapots of Onecraft, meeting the multiple personalities of Two-Town, resolving the civil war in Threedom, receiving a pep talk from Death outside of Fourburg, arguing with the alchemist in Fivetropolis, and confronting the Queen in Sixtopia...all with my trusty Dicey by my side.
By the time I finished the game, I was hungry for more. I wanted to learn everything I could about the world and the characters within it.
I went on a lore hunt, chasing down all of the information I could find.
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…A recently orphaned boy, on the verge of adulthood.
...A mysterious summons from an ineffable presence.
...A cult that sprang out of a famine.
...A choice that impacts the lives of many.
Welcome to Visiting G.R.A.N.D.M.A., a video game I made from scratch using RPG Maker MZ!
Grounded in emotional realism, yet swimming in absurdism, Visiting G.R.A.N.D.M.A. is a hilarious romp with a dark storyline. It has multiple endings that each emphasize the impact and consequences of the players’ choices and will stay with you long after you finish playing.
What will happen to the people you encounter? How will meeting you affect their lives? Only you can say.
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