10.11.14

CHARACTERS FOR AN ADVENTURE GAME



I was bored with freelance and studies, so I decided to give myself a fascinating assignment. My job was to make sketches for characters, which will be shown when the dialogue between the player and an NPC character kicks in. So I came out with a story for the world, setting and shit. Post apocalyptic, philosophical lore where religion is playing heavy role. Kind a generic, but I had fun so… I ended up with 8 sketches for characters and finished two of them so far...

The Priest

Player meets this aged freak in an old, half devastated chapel. As time passing by, this place is slowly turning into ash. Congregations are long forgotten, as people lost their Faith in God, and only infrequent visitors resting their weary bones from time to time here. But Old man still looks after the place, and spend his days in endless prays to the Lord, begging him over and over to have mercy, and put an End to the Mankind’s Agony. He opens the secret passage to Catacombs, as the Player convinces him that he managed to keep the crumbs of Faith, deep inside his Heart. 

He also gives you a Simple Brass Watch, with words: “Take this, since the time stopped… I have no use for it anyway. But I feel that it’ll got handy at some point of your journey” You stare at frozen hands, beneath the ice of cracked glass. It shows 20:20. You twist the crown, it’s ticking, but the hands are still frozen…


Yorda

Player meets Yorda in a GCC Resistance Group Hideout. And she is scared… She’s worried for her older   brother as he and few other rebels are on preparation to sabotage the work of local Party Head Quarters.  She talks about her parents, arrested by party authorities and never to be seen again, and the fear of the same fate for herself and her brother. She blames the God, for human misery. And for he didn’t keep the promise, again, unlashing dreadful cataclysm on mankind, for self amusement? 

“Please talk to him, convince my brother not to risk his life, as his intentions knowingly disastrous. Oh, if I only could…” Shrill blast suddenly interrupts her address; you hear the coming clatter of a fight, she peers helplessly into your eyes and takes your hand…



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