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Project Infomation

 

Genre:  3D platform /AVG/ Story Game  

Platform:   PC 

Software&Language:   Unity, C# , Adobe PS, AE, PR, 3DSMAX 

Duration:  3 Days                   

My Role: 3D Artist, Technical Artist, Effect Artist, Animator

​Other Team Members: TaoYuan Zhang  (Designer)

                                        Qian Yang (Elena) (Graphic Artist)

                                        Jie Luo (Programmer)

Introduction:

 

A narrative AVG game which tells what a dying old man thinks and sees.

In the story, an old man is about to die. He had no faith when he was young, so he was afraid of where to go after he died. Before he died, he had a dream. The god of the dream told him that he had signed a rebirth insurance agreement in his previous life. This life can be a chance to be born again if he do no evil. Finally he was reborn in his dreams. He woke up and found that it was just a dream before. After all, rebirth is not real.
Our team originally wanted to convey that a real world is cruel, but we can't escape the truth, while though the fantasy is not true but it has the positive meaning. But later we discovered that the story can be further sublimated. Although reincarnation in the religious sense is likely to not exist, the reincarnation in the natural sense still exists. It is well known that the cells in the human body will be replaced every 7 years. But if we think about this paradox from a positive perspective, we will find that the eternal life is the subject. The dead life continues to exist in other life or non-life, which is also a rebirth. The rebirth in the natural sense is more touching than the rebirth in the religious sense, because it is an inevitable and plausible logic.
The old man finally realized this truth and got rest.
Our game name is "Cross". It crosses from the shore of trouble to the other side of liberation. This is also the journey of the protagonist in the story. "Cross" has the meaning of cross in English, which is also the metaphor of the hero of the story.
In order not to undermine the narrative coherence of the game, we agree that it is more suitable to adopt the form of narrative AVG. 

 

[Core Game]: Players choose to click different buttons to trigger different ends of the complete story.

 

[Remarks]: Because of short development in the three-day game jam, the models are from POLYGON--vikings pack 1.0. The background musics are from “http://www.aigei.com/”.
If you have copyright issues, you can contact my mailbox "jonathonsongdesign@gmail.com" directly.

 

Motivation of creation:

From December 7th to December 9th, 2018, I was fortunate enough to be selected to participate in XINDONG INDIECAMP.
The theme of the development camp was “Rebirth”.

 

Live game screenshot
Start interface
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Story of the start
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The progress
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The end
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bandicam 2018-1[00_02_15][20181209-11482

Play Lines

All flowers perish, all elderly vanish.
People stood by the bed sadly, priest said the future rebirth in rapture land hopefully.
Young people don't believe miracle and god, everything runs by physical law.
Plant dies and turn to mud, people dies and goes to void.

Old man once was a boy, times took his beauty.
Even sun was shining, it will always descend.
The candle of life became shorter and shorter, old mind filled will horror.
The pain of old and disease can bear, the void after death is endless fear.

In a bed lied the dying man, in the dream he came to a heavenly land.
His spirit wandered in fairy plants, bird sang, flower bloomed, butterfly danced.
There is a bank in a ground, a waiter with holy halo greeted him in the front.
Old man felt this scene familiar, the waiter said he is a insurance operator.

He signed a Rebirth Insurance contract in his previous life, all kinds  and evils after that will add into summarize.
Premium is not gold or silver, instead is his kind behavior.
Behave kindly means premium paid, who do harms and evils will be paid.
When honest contractors die, Rebirth Insurance commit him an afterlife.

Old man's whole life was checked, operator gave him a check.
According to contract the old one would rebirth as mankind, before leave he had the contract once more signed.
Transmigration door opened and angels came down  ,embraced by hope and joy the old man go forward.
The old man was glad that what after his death is not void, he appreciated the contract and to his prejudice he felt sorry.

Holy halo was start to disappearing, the old one found he was still dying.
All before was just dream and illusion, there is no afterlife and heaven.
The fear to death came again, lights and hopes was totally drained.
Physical laws can not be disobeyed, eternal soul belief is like a star in space.

Aside the bed appeared a phantom, he persuaded the old one to build faith and decision.
Rebirth illusion is not negative, terminal care is a kind of  positive.
The old one could not be persuaded, phantom itself was also a fake.
An identified lie lost its effect , self cheating can not make the void be forgot.

Breath was fading out, molecular went in and out.
Past and present are the same people, the substance in body is not stay still.
Part of the elderly came from cloud, part of the cloud came from cow.
The vein of cloud carries parts of cat, the memory of cat stores parts of rat.

The flow of life is endless, the energy after life is restless.
The burned corpse turn to earth, the eaten flesh swim with fish.
Cat's death breed the bee, flowers's rot irrigate the tree.
Life dies from some forms to others, the flow of energy is also a kind of rebirth.

All flowers perish, all elderly vanish.
People stood by the bed sadly, priest said the future rebirth in rapture land hopefully.
Peacefully the old one halt its breathe, energy of life start new trace.
To overcome the fear need no god, rebirth is physical laws.

INDIE CAMP live picture
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