After creating an interactive story following the Hero's Journey using Twine, our second coursework for this module involved us working together as a group to produce a narrative game prototype. The specifications remained particularly open and we were allowed to choose what platform, genre and approach to take. The only main constraint was that our game was to be inspired by up to four images that were provided to us.

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As a team of four, we initially brainstormed various ideas and keywords from the four images. From there, we produced two loose concepts for a narrative game and began prototyping parts of it in Unreal Engine 4. Unfortunately, through this initial prototyping, our two main concepts were unfeasible due to time and scope.

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Inspired by different horror films and first-person horror games such as P.T., Resident Evil 7 and Layers of Fear, we eventually wanted to produce a short first-person horror experience in a small environment. By continuing to brainstorm ideas with regards to the four images, we were able to produce a concept that we were all keen to pursue. By placing particular focus on scope and time, we planned out a short first-person horror game where the player would explore an old cabin and learn about their character's past. With regards to scope, we introduced multiple antagonists and their presence without the player ever physically interacting with them. Through significant use of a beat chart for mapping out the narrative and game events and requirements, we were able to produce a fairly polished prototype which would demonstrate our game in terms of narrative and mechanics.

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At the end of the project, we were required to do a quick presentation covering our concept, design process and production. Our slides for this can be seen as a .pdf here: click here