Thursday, November 05, 2009

First Try - A fork edits his daylight

I have started my first "Random Game". I followed the directions set out in the previous blog post. Here are my results.

Random Sentence: A fork edits his daylight.

Your random word is: poetry

The initial idea:

The game takes place over a number of days. Each day is a complete phase. As the sun comes down its light can be broken up into shadow and sun with simple objects. The player is forking the sunlight. As the sunlight hits things they grow. You are actually growing words. Some words like a lot of sun, some like a lot of shade. They can also burn from too much exposure. How they are treated over the course of their lifetime effects the words. When they are plucked the words get modifiers based on how they were treated (adverbs if they are verbs, adjectives if they are nouns). Once they have grown enough they can be harvested. The order in which they are harvested in matters to the end game.

I will further develop this into a real design document and make posts as the game itself progresses.

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