Narrative economy and game feel in videogames

Abstract

Throughout the degree I have done many games for the subjects. Although the games met the goals requested, they lacked interest in the more interactive side. I want to take this opportunity to make a game that is fun and feels more or less complete. Short, but polished and replayable. Another area I’d like to explore is character design, not through the use of heavy dialogue and exposition, but through how they move, how they sound and how they behave. The ways to play to each character as well as their relation with the game’s systems will give the player information on their personalities and traits. Most of the workload of the project will be on making the animations and coding the infrastructure, so it can support the multiple situations derived from the characters’ repertoire of abilities and its relationships with the environment. Both making the game feel responsive and making the code easy to modify and modular are the highest priorities in the technical section.