Concept
I’ve started a new game and decided to try making a dev blog to cronologoge my progress making the game.
I’ve been a little wishy washy about what I wanted to do for my very first Godot game. At first I kept making game concepts in my comfort zone. I have a lot of experience with visual novels so I thought about using Dialogic to make one in Godot.
However, something kept bothering me. I can’t learn if I don’t try new things. Trying a new engine isn’t enough. So I decided that I wanted to make something a little different and make a point and click game.
I just watched the movie Fear Street recently so I’ve been on a “80s horror vibe” kick for a little while. I wanted to make something that let me use that current interest in some way. So, I decided to make a movie store game!
In the game (currently called Movie Night! I’ll try to think of a better name later) you are a cashier behind the counter of an 80s movie store. Your job is to help customers who ask you for a movie and you have to find the right one and give it them.
Because I really love writing narrative, I decided that after you give them the right movie, they stick around and talk to you a little afterwards. The same people come in over and over (I’m thinking there’s going to be like 8-10 who appear at random but never the same one after the other.) and as you play, you learn more about them.
Now, I don’t know how to program ANY of this in general let alone in a new engine I’m not familiar with. But I’ve seen how games like Sticky Business work and That’s Not My Neighbor. So, I think I can do this!
Here’s the concept items needed to make in bullets:
characters: need to make 8-10 characters each different aesthetics/looks that are distinctive from each other. They need moving mouths and making it so that it looks like they’re breathing while you’re talking to them would be cool.
Interactions: each character needs 3-4 interactions so that each time you see them, you progress in their story. Might need Dialogic for that.
Movie Inventory: i need to make a bunch of movies for them to want. in order to pick the right movie, I’ll need a scrolling side panel of movies. I don’t want to get sued so I’m making them up.
Art: I need to draw the store background, the characters, the panels, and the movie boxes. I should also make a splash page and it would cool if it was animated in some way.