Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Project 2: iPad Design - Inspiration (Stanley Parable Mod)

Idea Inspiration

For my idea i have taken inspiration from a 'Half-Life 2' game mod called 'The Stanley Parable.' 

A brief summary of the game:

'The Stanley Parable is an experimental narrative-driven first person game. It is an exploration of choice, freedom, storytelling and reality, all examined through the lens of what it means to play a video game.

You will make a choice that does not matter,

You will follow a story that has no end,

You will play a game you cannot win.'

Even briefer:

'Think of it as a choose-your-own-adventure book where you can stop and stare at the walls if you'd like. '

Game Walkthrough (with all endings)


The game has a narrator all the way through it that guides you in the direction of the normal path/ending. But there are multiple opertunities to disagree with the narrator and choose a different path. In all the narrator will give you an opertunity to go back to the normal path but if you choose not to the narrator gets more irrate with you. There are a total of 6 paths or endings.

The choices you make are simple:
Left or Right door. Follow or Not.

For my story i want to use simple decisions like this aswell, where in Little Red the wolf says take the left path and the user can choose to follow what the wolf says or not.