First off, I’d like to thank you all for the nearly 100 notes I got on my pitch for Plague. I hardly thought anyone would care about this project as the most I’ve ever gotten on my prior projects were in the late-middle teens. Getting noticed for this project has inspired me to work harder on it than ever before, putting my full passion and research into making it the best it can be.
So thank you all so much, it means the world to me to see people tag it with such things as they want to play it when it comes out or they’re sold/interested in what I have to put out there.
With that being said I will showcase a more of what I am doing.
First of all, I made a title image change. I prefer this over my last one. However for people who did like my last title image, I have re purposed it elsewhere in the game.
I will provide a few screenshots of stuff I have done and a few features I’ll implement.
This is the item list for the game. Things you can use, and you will have many options on how to use them. I want this to be a game based heavily on choice (as much as one can within the bounds of the program itself). That being said you will have the ability to use items on others in order to gain experience or use them on yourself. The choice is yours and each will have it’s own set of pros and cons.
These may seem like I randomly assembled a bunch of junk, but in fact these are things people used in order to try and treat the plague. It was a desperate time and people would do just about anything in order to deal with the plague’s crippling grasp. Archaeic medicine was…interesting to say the least and there are some drugs like laundanum that are still used today.
Fun fact,lettuce has actually been proven to make mice resistant to the plague and have chloroplasts and proteins that have the potential to fight against it and many other diseases like Diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
What you do can pave several paths for you. You can remain an apprentice, graduate to a plague doctor or you can become a charleton. There were many types of plague doctors, and they did start out being true and legitimate doctors with certification. The man who designed the plague doctor attire, was Charles de l'Orme, the chief physican of Henri IV, Louis XIII, and Louis XIV and served the Medici family of Italy. However, over time there were charletons among the bunch as the plague became more widespread and the need for doctors became more in demand. There will be options on if you will end up falling into this category. What you become will be determined by item use and success rate of treating plagued victims. Each will be different as to avoid predictable patterns.
Here are the additional screenshots of general gameplay and stuff I have been working on.
Most things in game can be interacted with and investigated. You can choose to take items with you or not and everything may or may not have consequence.
Just stills of some of the maps. For now they look barren because I have not made npcs but they will come.
I put historical references in this game as well as Easter eggs. However, the witch trials do play a role in this story as they began at the same time the plague did. People tend to make them estranged from each other, which baffles me as I feel it’s missed opportunity…opportunity that I will take advantage of and that will play a secondary role in this story.
This post is longer than I intended and I have rambled on enough. I’ll leave it at this and give more updates later.
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