You're playing an infant - scene ideas?
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 5:47 am
I need some inspiration! I was inspired by Alter Ego (the game where you're born and make choices throughout your life to see how you end up) for my current WIP and I've taken the challenge of having the player experience something similar. So far, the rest of the game is coming along great! However, that first year of life... man, it's rough to make interesting. Or at least I'm experiencing severe writer's block. My WIP is in a modern setting with room for fantasy, though it's primarily slice-of-life and focusing on relationship/character development.
I'm not looking for fleshed out scenes by any means, just fun scene or choice ideas if you happen to think of any. I've been coming up with a lot of "oh no you're in the crib alone at night, what do you do??" scenes but they're boring to write so I bet they'd be boring to play. The narrator is the PC all grown up talking about their upbringing (unrevealed) so I'm not restricted to working just through the infant's perspective. The player can make decisions about how their parents chose to parent in certain ways or how their family unit developed. I do know this phase is mostly focused on setting up whether or not the PC was an "easy" baby.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!
I'm not looking for fleshed out scenes by any means, just fun scene or choice ideas if you happen to think of any. I've been coming up with a lot of "oh no you're in the crib alone at night, what do you do??" scenes but they're boring to write so I bet they'd be boring to play. The narrator is the PC all grown up talking about their upbringing (unrevealed) so I'm not restricted to working just through the infant's perspective. The player can make decisions about how their parents chose to parent in certain ways or how their family unit developed. I do know this phase is mostly focused on setting up whether or not the PC was an "easy" baby.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!