{"id":6800,"date":"2025-08-26T22:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a25\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:03:57","slug":"game-concept-proposal-mason-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a25\/mjmoore\/game-concept-proposal-mason-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Concept Proposal – Mason Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ames is a setting I created in Narratives for Games (IMGD 2450)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ames is a Gaseous planet located in a solar system unlike ours. Having no surface, life on this planet is constantly flying or afloat in a habitable portion of the atmosphere. Being this system’s closest planet to its Sun, it spins quite slow and gets quite hot, creating a strong network of vertical convection currents within the planet’s many gases, zones of these currents are strong enough to keep islands and biomass afloat.
MVP:<\/strong> Level will take place on two floating islands, one with some foliage, rocks and surfers equipment. The other has a shack next to a market stand selling goods.
Reach:<\/strong> You can walk inside and see a small messy bedroom and kitchen area.
Stretch:<\/strong> A third island with training equipment, a seat, and a sleeping bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People:
The dominant creatures of Ames are referred to as Cloudsurfers. Cloudsurfers’ biological dimorphism results in the two non-speciated Bird-like Griffins and Lion-like Sphinxes. Griffins and Sphinxes are both winged, but in the modern day all lose their ability to fly early in life, as the wings’ flesh falls off their backs leaving only bone. Luckily, they have ways to get around, like surfing on the denser clouds below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MVP: Aergi
A civilian shopkeep, this Sphinx keeps a stand selling common goods needed on Ames. Since this island is far from the cities of Ames, he doesn\u2019t get much business, and mostly sits around smoking and listening to music. He\u2019s kind of an airhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MVP: Rafael
This Sphinx is the Chairman of Ames, the metal crown on his head deptics an ouroboros with a sun disk in its stomach, symbolizing his rule. He is an addict of Nhil, an extremely dense gas that can be found in Ames\u2019s core (Koma). Nhil is becoming harder to find, Rafael suspects Ames\u2019s reserves are depleted. He has spun himself out \u201ctrying\u201d to find new supplies to appease his addicted populace; he procrastinates a lot and has basically given up. Nhil doesn\u2019t seem to be helping anymore either. Rafael will take the player character role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reach Goal: Houris
Rafael’s Brother, and retired general of Ames\u2019s military, this griffin wears a bulletproof vest and carries a sword. He is training to coup Ames by fighting his beloved brother, who he sees as defeated and unfit to rule. Affiliated with a religion of Sun worshippers, founded due to the Sun’s importance to life on Ames, he dislikes Ames\u2019s increasing secularity. Being sober, he is also very against Nhil usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n