Week 4: D.I.E

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Story update

  1.  The player first meets Mimi in the island shore
  2. Both Mimi and the player are in a field of flowers and vegetation…Mimi eats a fruit from the field that looks like a strawberry, she is warned not to eat the fruit and vegetables that look normal to human.
  3. Mimi face and body turns purple, and they get attacked by birds
  4. They are both in the cave, we find the player injured by a ‘rock’ hitting them. To find out it was not a rock but a crystal.
  5. The next day: They start their research starting with the cave, without the player noticing Mimi take some crystals for herself.
  6. They move from the cave to the floating trees but stop to get food. Mimi refuses to eat anything that doesn’t look ‘normal’.
  7. The player goes out to find food and come back to Mimi and offer her food again. This time Mimi reluctantly accepts the food and is surprised that the food tastes good.
  8. Mimi and the player arrive at the floating trees and begin their research
  9. They are ambushed by theses small monkey like creatures. Mimi lies about having anything from the land and creatures attack her
  10. The spaceship that brought Mimi to island is on the seashore waiting for them. Mimi is injured and finds out she has to leave the island and go back to Earth because she didn’t respect the island and stole the crystals.
  11. They are both are in the spaceship Waiting to go back to earth, just before the door closes Mimi runs out to the island and the spaceship lifts off.

Changes:

I felt unsatisfied with the first story draft as I felt as though it was not conveying the message that I wanted in the story and as stated before I didn’t really liked the idea that the player was not fully involved in the story only spectating it. The changes that I made was first the player are there own embodied character that interacts with the Mimi and the world, the reason being is because if the player has the first person point of view compared to third person point of view where they are spectating it make less of an impact.

With the addition of the player being one of the main character, I changed the story fir why they are on a new plant on a island. So I decided on Mimi and the player being researchers, trying to collect data and information this choice made a lot of sense to me as before Mimi had no real reason for being on the island.

There are more interactions and mechanics that the player get to do though out the story where they get interact with the world this addition is beduke I wanted to the player to appreciate the island with tasks and with the embodied player they get to respect the island by doing right things whereas Mimi does the opposite and does the wrongs things. Showing how to approach foreign culture, food and land etiquette the correct way though the player as they learn, emphases why I need this story to be in VR.