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For this Side Quest, I have chosen to examine how three of my favorite games–Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Stardew Valley, and Celeste–introduce narrative plot. While Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley are both essentially open-world task-based games, Celeste is a challenging platformer. Despite the differing game style, they all have unique plots and characters which areContinue reading “Stuck In The Loop”

While I struggle to create beautiful art with my own two hands, I do have the privilege of calling a Real-Life-Digital-Artist my sister. I contacted her with some loose sketches for inspiration and allowed her to play the game through so she could create some great cover art for the game on commission. Because ofContinue reading “Seeing Is Believing”

Attached is our completed D.I.E. and G.D.D. for the Final Boss! We worked as a team pretty well and completed everything far before the deadlines we set. While I don’t have much experience with coding, my group allowed me to do the bulk of the work in the GDD to set up the game forContinue reading “A Hero’s Courage: Re-Mix”

I chose to focus on the A.G.E. for my revision because I liked the concept the most. In fact, I might even try to revise this to a publish-able game and see about actual corporate interest in the game concept. As a result, Quinn focused on updating the graphics to be more clear, and IContinue reading “A Hero’s Power: Re-Vision”

At first I didn’t know what to put on my video game playlist, since I don’t usually pay much attention to the music in games. However, as I was doing research on soundtracks from my favorite games, like Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, and Mario games, I realized that there is a whole beautiful world ofContinue reading “Kill the DJ”

The test-playing of my game went surprisingly well. I was concerned it had gotten too complex, but I noticed that most players were able to catch on to the rules pretty quick, with only a few questions, mostly regarding trial questions. Most people seemed to have a lot of fun accusing their friends of witchcraftContinue reading “Phase 4: These Things are True… The World is Dark”

It is the year 1693, in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. You have been informed there is a Witch amongst you. Find out who the Witch is and burn them before the sixth night to save the town from an eternal curse! In my hidden role game, players will work together to figure out whoContinue reading “Phase 3: Reverse, Skip, Draw 2, Draw 2, Draw 2…”

I am interested in creating a hidden role game for my second boss fight. In these games, players attempt to identify the odd one out, in one way or another. One of my favorite hidden role games is Secret Hitler. In this game, most players are liberals who try to work together to discover whoContinue reading “Phase 2: It’s Too Late… You’ve Awakened the Gazebo…”

It’s not a weekend without a game night with my friends! Here are some of the analog games I always root for when deciding what to play, in no particular order. Secret Hitler: There’s nothing like the excitement of teaming up with the liberals to take down a fascist. Plus, it’s kinda fun to lieContinue reading “Phase 1: Roll for Initiative”

To begin my analysis on Stardew Valley, I looked to interviews with the sole creator of the game, Eric Barone, in which he reflects on his own struggle to build a fulfilling, survivable life in a capitalistic society. When he failed to find any job in which he could utilize his talents to support himself,Continue reading “Leeerooyyyyyy Jeeeeenkins!”