Animated Narratives - Week 11 (KJD)

Week 11 Reflection

For this week’s work, I created a mind map. The theme for this week is Light. Light is one of the main principles needed in narration as lighting sets the mood of the narration which can be in games, animation or an interactive piece. I chose my premise for this week which is:

- The sunlight is like a human clock, it wakes us up when it shines and makes us sleepy when the sun settles.

With the help of Kate after discussing the premise. I am thinking of a game idea as shown in my drawings below in Fig.1 and Fig.2. In Fig.1, two players will be playing the game and one of them controls the human player where they have to go into the sunlight to dry themself from the rain that they have to avoid. The second player tries to block the light and has to drench the first player with rain. In Fig.2, there is a sunflower which needs light to grow, but the first player blocks the sunlight with their clouds by controlling the wind. The second player gets to help them by using a helicopter to push the clouds away by using the propellers to generate their wind.

This idea is similar to the games Fireboy and Watergirl (Fireboy and Watergirl, 2022) and We Need to go Deeper (Interactive LLC, 2019). In both of them, you work together to finish an objective but it's a similar concept to couch party games where everyone plays on the same device and that too offline.

I believe that the idea can be a fun experience as this also falls under my Studio 1 project of couch party games. In the studio 1 game, everyone has one objective but in this case, each player has its objective where one has to help the other reach the light and the other player has to stop them.

Week 11 References

- Fireboy and Watergirl. 2022. Fireboy and Watergirl. [online] Available at: <https://fireboyandwatergirl.site/> [Accessed 8 June 2022].

- Interactive LLC, D., 2019. We Need To Go Deeper on Steam. [online] Store.steampowered.com. Available at: <https://store.steampowered.com/app/307110/We_Need_To_Go_Deeper/> [Accessed 8 June 2022].