droqen's forum-shaped notebook
Beyond Games => Fictional Games => Topic started by: droqen on May 02, 2022, 09:05:18 PM
Quote from: p447-448It felt like the right decision at the time but you know, you wonder. What might have happened next?
That's what I started working on, even though it was unplanned. I wasn't working, at all, for a while there and I didn't know what I wanted to do, I didn't know what I wanted at all so I kept thinking about what is it that I want and kept coming back to telling stories in game form. I got to thinking all of this might be a halfway decent game if it were a game. Part spy movie, part fairy tale, part choose your own adventure. Epic branching story that doesn't stick to a single genre or one set path and turns into different stories but it's all the same story. I'm trying to play with the things you can do in a game that you can't do in a book. Trying to capture more story. A book is made of paper but a story is a tree.
You meet someone in a bar. You follow them or you don't.
You open a door. Or you don't.
Either way the point is: What happens next?
It's taking an absurd amount of notebooks full of possibilities but it's getting somewhere.