BSA228, video game story and image research, 12 July, 2016

Big write up assignment due 19 August


Nightmare Nursery:  Maybe Fox and Bunny go chasing each other through ghastly topiary bushes and ornamental mazes?  Maybe they have to fill an apothecary box with the things they find?

They move through levels that are endless variations of Victorian decadence reclaimed by nature- sagging shelves in giant libraries, topiary mazes, cobblestone streets that cover sinkholes/catacombs, children's playroom filled with creepy marionettes, decoding the deadly language of flowers, quilt being stitched/embroidered with phantom needle and thread and they have to race to get out before they're sewn down?  Target market:  pre-teen goths who shop at Hot Topic but are tired of Emily the Strange stuff.

Bunny and Fox have to chase through books that open up into eerie Victorian environments?
Poisoned wallpaper that they touch as they walk down the hallway makes them hallucinate.

Player flips through character options to create their avatar/player.  Like this image, each part of the character could be made up of characters from famous (public domain!) books.  It looks like the chest is from Tin Man from Wizard of Oz.  Is that book public domain?  Alice in Wonderland is (Curious brain or pinafore with pockets to hold collectibles), so are Edgar Allen Poe's books (super-hearing from Tell-Tale Heart), Cowardly Lion's courage medal, etc.  Full of strong character traits that could help them get through puzzle.

  Player has to battle character who must give them a token when they win or answer riddle?
Bunny and Fox move through old Victorian house defeating the house's former human occupants.  Kitchen, nursery, library, hallways, garden and gazebo, bathroom, attic, lots of staircases to slide down.  Mad scientist whose experiment went out of control like Island of Dr. Moreau, giving animals human qualities and giving humans animal qualities?  Must evade head human of each domain: The Nanny, the Gardener, the Housemaid, the Chauffeur, the Mistress of the house, the master of the House, etc. Theme song:  Say Say Oh enemy, come out and fight with me, bring your dollies three (something meaner in real version, what is it?) slide down my (not rainbow) and through my cellar door and we'll be enemies forever more more shut the door.  Ask Heather.   Also find out if these words and music have a copyright on them.





Book town?  Book world?  character made of book pages chases words through books with a butterfly net until she creates a sentence?  The butterflies are thesaurus words? to finish a sentence?
















Maybe I finally explore the children's stories I've been thinking about?  Polar bear and Kangaroo correspond via "sea-mail".