Final Year Development Blog 4 - Research, Research, Research.

Today I will be talking about the research I did this week.

Games

Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice - This game follows a character that suffers with Schizophrenia and perhaps other mental illness. The reason I wanted to have a look at this game is because they take such care in trying to portray Schizophrenia in a realistic way even going so far as to interview people with the mental illness.

Looking at the pictures above I really wanted to take away how the psychosis is almost looming. While I won't be doing these kind of effects I can use some sort of post processing. However I will be Red's subtitles appear all over the screen almost as if its looming.

Life is Strange

This game has 2 main narrative threads one about a vision about the main characters town's destruction but also the love between 2 girls. I mainly wanted to know how this game's dialogue can make the player feel as if these two girls really do love each other. In my research I feel like simply the dialogue was very real. The circumstances around it are very unreal when when it came to their love it was very grounded and human and that was the key.

What Remains of Edith Finch

The reason this game is researched is because of the simple fact that it innovated from the simple examine text and solve puzzles to create whole different gameplay types to reinforce the person's story your are playing. The main thing about this game I wanted to pull is the way it displays text. Text is displayed in the world and they have really cool animated effets on them.