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Greetings,
Writer's help needed on my (yet personal) tiny allegorical video game project, allegory is of life (mainly: life of the one coming out of crowd, who seeks living; or life of the one who is the sheep, blindly following what is given; and that, that at the end - for everyone - it's same, just one lives longer, another's life is as short as time it takes to die).
Let me first introduce myself: I'm a game designer and (3d) artist, and, well, lover of "deep things", who believes games can be art and wants to change game-dev scene by a tiny bit into this direction. And please excuse me for my "perfect" English, hope you understood the points I wanted to say..
The game I work on, as written above, is allegorical, genre wise it's something like "story driver stealth mini-RPG" (with immersive sim with player enforcement philosophy), but that doesn't actually matter, and the settings are:
It's set in giant underground cave with souls flowing as a river from 4 different branches flowing into lake center (which is like a whirlpool with something like shrine lighting the souls up). You, being a part of those souls awaken in the middle of this flow and see, that you with hard get out of this flow, or follow it. The whirlpool is the "end". Going out of this flow you see, that you're not the only one that left it, and that you're not so special as you thought at first, but you're a bit different though(that is, everyone is especial actually if they wish), unlike them you naturally have interest, i.e. you want explore. That you also find out is that that there are others, metaphorically speaking - with scythes (allegory of fate) taking those souls right to the center of whirloop, and that this place belong to them, the unhuman architecture seen every there and now seem to be of their origin.
And if this whole act is allegory, and soul flow is sheep society, part of which you currently are and if you won't resist - soon you'll reach the end; if you resist and you're not a sheep and leave that flow you'll discover other who left, sparsely standing there and here and your being becomes "longer", you discover strange scythe men walking every now and then; and after evading many or few such men you discover that no matter how hard you wont seek for "truth", seek for exit from this soul whirlpool cave, seek for immortality - the only exit is from whirlpool leading to end; Yet, maybe you can change the world? Maybe those scythe men... How can you them? And if you defeat them.. What happens them? How can you change this whirlpool, or who are those standing souls? Gods? But scythe men apparently whirl them away.. Yet some are there for a real long... Maybe those are temperament's 4 states? Maybe it's mankind's history told from different faces? Or those are "great people", who changed by a bit the world? And why is there 4 branches?(as it's not aligned to 4 geographical directions) And, more importantly, who are you? The God? Just one soul? Or the living man who accidentally got there?
This is the thing I'm thinking about, more details would be given for the one who decides to help this project. Thing is - we'll need some writing in order to get interested in my team, who are: I - the passionate (and devoted) game designer, under who goes whole artistic things(from 3d art, to level design, to artistic side of this game), sound engineer (all audio things, including soundtrack), the programmer, and your part.
At the moment is "just a hobby thing" (but actually we have close connection to local game-lab(plus plus), and when this project's production reaches shining point, we most likely get some good news)
Hope this interests you enough to donate time to this passionate and deep project.
Sincerely,
G. Janiashvili
Contact through my personal email - janiashvili@mail.ru