I've been baking an idea for a game in my head for a jiff now and this is a post to sorta amalgamate all the junk together for archival purposes
>>>>>>>>>>>I call it directive, the name doesn't mean a lot, its only there to give you a general idea of the game, that is machinery, robot and directives it follows you /a rover/ exploring whatever you can with the fucked up rover body you're given Its set on a planet of which's name is irrelevant, for all intents and purposes it will be the rover's home eventually you will come to face with the fact that you are completely alone in this 'endeavor' to survive
>>>>>>>>>>>rover/User Interface
the idea that seeded this game in the first place was this random vision i got for a UI that fills nearly all of your available space with data and information you can barely make out, it being overwhelming on purpose to simulate
'being born' in a way
how infants when born, cry because living is so stressful, because moment before they were just another organ in their mothers body and now they have to breathe and see and hear and touch and comprehend and cry about everything
"the game should be overwhelming just like that
other things to note are
how unwieldy the rover should feel
the rover should feel deformed, uncomfortable and annoying
its body horror, in a way
you are born and you are forced into this ruthless world and this horrible body and you have no choice but to keep going
This is a mockup of the UI i could make a whole another post describig everything but I'm lazy /if someone wants that I'll make it/ //plus i think i did a good enough job marking everything// red marks the space i havent filled with anyuthing yet >>>>>>>>>>>Themes and characters >>>themes themes should include stuff like body horror, existential horror,space horror/?/, sci-fi, love, family, loneliness and depression >>>characters characters will be shown in the data and memorabelia /and other notable junk/ you find "throughout" the planet /you will only be able to explore so much after all/ >>the rover should be more of a self insert, as you ARE the conscience that is inhabiting it >>C/creator/ your creator, a depressed inventor that creates machines out of loneliness and guilt
their story will be shown through the data you decrypt that is kept in your own hard drive
they will explain all the UI junk and controls to you in notepad messages and after that you can read their personal heartfelt letters towards you and their personal diary entries to discover more about them
their diaries will reveal that they're isolated from their family and horribly desperate for love
eventually you find that they used a piece of their own brain to make a machine capable of conscience, which makes them feel like they've created something horrible,
an unholy union between silicon frames and sacred flesh something like that
thats about it for them >ive thought about other characters but i dont wanna type it all out, maybe if someone tells me to i'll type it out for the fans
>>>>>>>>>>>stuff you may or may not find
other robots /none functional/
ghost of the once residents /diaries, notes, letters, messages, newspapers, books, files, videos, broken usb drives, sometimes hard drives full of games/
underground housing and abandoned buildings
traces of biomass /skeletons, burial sites, flora, tattered clothes, sometimes foccils/
>>>>>>>>>>>Design and others /sketches/
>>>rover design the thing i thought about when making the rover design was that i wanted it to be hard to control and to look odd, weird even.
Rover designs are already very strange in the real world so i took a but of inspiration from a those /mainly curiosity/ rover sketch, old
slightly more recent rover sketches
Rover if they were a bird
rover if they was a reptilian
Underground shelter sketch
possible controller support idea /lmao/
That's about it folks i REAAAALLLLLYYY want to see what anyone thinks of this idea, please do leave a comment or message me or reblog this post with all the tags and whatnot if at least one person tells me they wanna see more i will show yall other sketches and mockups :DDDD tell your aunt tell your baby mamas tell whoever u wanna im glad i got these out, if you wanna make me make this into an actual game u can punch me in the f ace :D