Places:<\/strong> It takes place in the fake virtual home of the pet, it is a bit unkept for not being taken care of by it’s owner for a long time. The virtual pet is going to be from an older game device so the furniture will have a retro feel to it. When it comes to the weather the sky is clear but has an eerie fake look to it with a strange digital pattern. The player will start in the open living room and kitchen area, the human then will guide the pet to the bathroom after greeting it and feeding it. After that, the player can explore the courtyard and can discover a glitched secret path. The secret path leads to a big digital empty area where the code and programming files of the game are. However the virtual pet can’t do anything but head back to its home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Things:<\/strong> Through the game the human NPC will be taking care of the player character’s stats. Hands will pop from little digital portals that will provide the player food to interact with for their hunger stat. These hands will also unlock the door for the player to interact with the bathtub to improve its hygiene stat and the courtyard door for the player to interact with toy outside for their fun stat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Style:<\/strong> The game will be in third person and the environment will have a cartoony feel to it. The most distinctive element of the visuals will be a colorful saturated color palette with some pops of black and white. I’d like for it to feel trippy and a bit eerie but still inviting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gameplay:<\/strong> I’m planning for this to be more of an interactive experience. There’d be no objective and no way to escape the digital prison, the only choice is to explore and keep your stats up until the human NPC turns the device off, leaving the player on their own without the ability to raise their stats up again. I’d want the experience to make the player feel dependent on an NPC and a sense of abandonment when it leaves, turning all the lights off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Premise and mechanics inspired by old virtual pets<\/p>\n\n\n\n Retro colorful interior design<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eerie, artificial and liminal feel in the yard<\/p>\n\n\n\nGame Concept Sketch<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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