Week 05: Hey SAW!

I'm not late this time. I'm learning.

So on Tuesday we basically set out to change everything about our game. As soon as we left the classroom I didn't know who I was anymore or what we had just discussed. In the moment changing everything felt so right, but later it just didn't seem to make complete sense. The new idea was definitely a fun one but getting it all done in a week seemed like a crazy idea (especially for our programmer).

We took time to think on it and basically, decided not to change everything, but to change everything. What I mean by that is that we're keeping our original idea, but adding this narrative to it that kind of changes everything about it in a good way.

We're adding a SAW like character to our game. The narrator. The narrator is to be presented as someone talking through the tablet. We're not sure yet who this character is or if we want them to have a face, but will hopefully discuss that at 3 today.

Brian said something interesting that I feel really resonates with our current changes. He mentioned the aspect of internet culture (mostly because the faces have that "meme" quality to them) and then talked about trolling. SO YEAH OK INTERNET WORDS ARE ALWAYS SO CRINGEY, but I don't have another word to fit this feeling. Our game essentially is pushing people to troll one another in a friendly but somewhat competitive magic circle. They are getting to know each other by each reaching this level of annoying at the same time.

I dunno, I think this all sounds wonderful. Maybe it'll all come crashing down when we start our meeting today, but as of right now, I'm feeling super good about this. We need to figure out how to represent the vocal prompts so they have a visual piece as well, because banking everything on the vocal aspect just ain't gonna fly with how tablets and party games work.

I'm excited for this! I think we can pull it off and have our rough demo by Tuesday. I'm really excited to see it all come together. We've got this team. I still love all of you, we're doing great things. Let's be strong, and make this baby come to life.