Development of Your Kingdom Come (working title)
Start date: Mar 28, 2013,
End date: Sep 27, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The idea of the project is to create a new interactive experience for PlayStation 4 video game console. We would like to tell a simple story about the fragility of the family with a metaphor where the family members, presented as unreal monsters, continuously fight in an imaginary, generative and iterative world.The main concept of the project is to find a balance between the content and the form. We believe that by utilizing well-known gaming mechanics, we can tell a story in a more direct way and evoke feelings which are really hard to bring out with the use of traditional media.Our experimental concept relies on combining two very strong mechanics from two opposite sides of the gaming spectrum. The first is known as “notgame” mechanic. It is an experimental form that uses minimalistic gaming mechanics or does not use them at all to make the Player focus on its narrative aspect. This is what we want to achieve. We want to put a serious topic in foreground and to make players concentrate on it. On the other side, the mechanics should be suitable for mastering, and be advanced enough to gain the atten¬tion of speedrunners. They form a community of players who are focused on passing a game in a shortest amount of time. They have never received a game designed especially for them.The game refers to a significant issue–delicacy of modern family and reveals very important problem which is violence in the family and its consequences for children's mental growth. Today, when more and more often people talk about the educational aspect of video games, this important issue will be a crucial event. The design of the game is the perfect background for the understanding of psychological problems. Today, when young players have a higher degree of emotional identification with games than with the education, “Your Kingdom Come” will have a significant impact on the perception of young generation.
Get Access to the 1st Network for European Cooperation
Log In