Research questions to iterate on and put on the template.
- Riddles design
- How to balance immersion and presence?
- How to make it fun (gamify just answering to riddles, make letters move etc)?
- How to tie it to storytelling/character design?
- Character design
- How to make player care about the characters?
- How do I make characters that are easy to grasp but hard to master (deep characters, but like, simple recognizable designs)
- Can I use locative gaming techniques to make character come alive
- Balancing character independence and player agency, having NPCs that have their own lives
- How to create an emotion evoking visuals for characters, while still keeping it simple enough so this won’t take up all my time?
- Storytelling
- How to evoke emotions in player via storytelling?
- How to write a mystery that will hold players’ attention?
- Landmarks
- How to identify the most important landmarks for this project
- The rest, how to do that? Maybe character memories you can find by visiting here?