For the Anuramortis game project, we wanted to create several interactive panoramas. Other members of my group took the source photographs and created the sketches and linework before passing them on to me, and I colored them, added texturing, placed the interactive pieces and generally knit the whole thing together. These are the final result.
The UG is dark and damp. Water pipes have burst and flooded the lower portion. The pool tables are on their sides or have broken legs, and most of the TVs have fallen off their pipes. The hot tub is a kind of spiderfrog spawning ground and is full of clouds of eggs.
The item the player needs here is the deadly frogspawn.
The deadly frogspawn is located in the hot tub area and is protected by a single massive frogspider. There is an old plastic cup nearby which they can use to scoop up the spawn. The frogspider can be moved by fixing the TV (requiring tools from other rooms? portable generator?) behind the tub and turning it on; it will become frightened and jump away.
The guardian frogspider is as large as a cantaloupe and has horny protrusions on its head. It is aggressive but will not leave the spawning pool.
Intro:
Oh, hello! Who might you be?
I’m a golem, my name is Col,
Made of paint as you can see.
Getting out of here is my goal.
I’m not sure how I got into this mess,
But there’s no door in this room. I think I’m stuck!
If you can’t help me escape, then I guess
that I’ll have to resign myself to my bad luck.
Rules:
Give Col a text command or suggestion to help him enter the next room.
Need to Play:
Facebook, imagination
Audience:
People interested in interactive player-driven games
Runtime:
~2 weeks
Anticipated Results
A short, cute game driven by player suggestions
On his first tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sam Brown was set on fire by an improvised explosive device. He survived, only to find himself, like thousands of other vets, doomed to a post-traumatic life of unbearable pain. Even hallucinogen-grade drugs offered little relief, and little hope.
Then his doctors told him about an experimental treatment, a painkilling video game supposedly more effective than morphine. If successful, it would deliver Brown from his living hell into a strange new world—a digital winter wonderland.
The following are a handful of poignant, unique or just unusual games I’ve encountered over the years, ones that have particularly left a mark on me.
There’ll be no defending towers or flinging birds here. Many of these are in the same vein as Myst, but others take different directions. Every single one of them is worth your time.
episode 1 | episode 2 | episode 3
DayMare Town, a strange and oddly deserted town that gives the unsettling feeling that eyes are peering from around corners. It is a drab and dreary town, not a very pleasant place to be. But now you’re stuck, and you’ll do anything you can to leave.
Our coil is broken, and we don’t have a replacement. It’s useless. It’s so useless.
All that struggle with those damn machines. Is there even some kind of normal world outside this endless mess of submachine? Over and over again, no beginning nor end. What was his name? That man with one arm? I forgot even that.
I just give up. I don’t care anymore.
A game that slowly realizes that it hates you, and everything you stand for.
Throw yourself into the barbs.
Read carefully. Run and jump through the text of stories and poems, from the horror of Lovecraft’s “The Nameless City” to the simple beauty of Bashou’s frog haiku.
Take a poignant walk through the life of an alien caught in the midst of humanity. This is a game that you may not consider to be a game. It won’t tell you if you’ve won or lost. You won’t level up or defeat the final boss. It’s short. It’s simple. You might get nothing out of it at all. That’s fine. Just try and be respectful to those who do.
THIS WORLD IS A LIE
WAKE UP PETE
RING THE DORE BELL
A little bit down the road we saw this really tall guy standing in the middle of the street, just completely still. For whatever reason, this really set off Rocky, and, um, he got really scared — he wouldn’t move and he kept on pulling on his leash to go back home. There was something about this guy that was just… it was strange.
This page describes the affects on our planet, it’s environment, and human technology and endeavor in an After The End scenario. Assume mankind is wiped out by some contagious and lethal supergerm, or taken away in The Rapture. What happens to our planet, our cities, and any scattered pockets of survivors?
Invisible Seattle: The Novel of Seattle, by Seattle
