DREAM TAPE

1 Year Team Episodic Game Project

Dream Tape offers you a series of psychological horror stories divided into episodes with each of them having its own mysterious story that will give you unique experiences. Explore and unfold the mystery and you will find the answer behind these VHS tapes.

DESIGN PROCESS

One of the purpose of Dream Tape is to create a game which every team members get to participate on creating their own episode following the main theme of the game. So I, of course, took part on creating one of the episodes. My episode is called "The Downtown" with a concept of "Fear of people", and here is how I designed it.

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Research

Understand the concept of "fear".
Know what kind of "horror" are we using.
Research types of fear.

Story & Narrative Design

Use a unique type of fear. One that our game doesn't have yet. (Fear of people)
Write the story and design its narration that portrays the fear that I want to present.

Gameplay Design

Design a sequence of events that follows the designed narration.
Design the level with fitting atmosphere and layout that keeps the player on track of the planned sequence.

Testing

Create a prototype of the episode.
Test with the team to look for technical issues/loopholes.
Fix and repeat the playtest.
Finalize with real assets.