Perspective

IGMC Contest Entry: Version 1.4

Complete: 1.4

Perspective stars Amelia, the player, who discovers her attribute: memory. Guided by a therapist, she'll figure out how to use this ability in helpful ways for the patients. Evelyn Catarina, the lead therapist in the office, and her assistant Mr Pharell attempt to show Amelia what she can do, by having her perform the technique on a patient in order to solve their problems. She'll do this by entering their memory and finding the answer there. But Evelyn hopes for an even greater benefit: finding information on a multi-country conspiracy!

The player will enter the patient's memory where they must follow clues. How do you obtain clues? By spectating the memory and watching where people go, hearing what they say. Based on your observations, you'll follow each lead to be in the right spot at the right time, and discover the mystery behind the memory! You can only be in one place at one time and when you discover something, you may have to just go back to an earlier part of the memory to follow the lead. Jump from stage to stage in the memory, each lasting a few minutes long.

The game experience will be very different for everyone! You can choose to find clues however you like. Follow this one person through the whole stage. Run around aimlessly to happen across something luckily. Choose a room and stay the entire stage. Do what you want to figure it out. Do the stages in any order! In the end, you'll need to have each piece of the mystery to prove the answer to it! (Although using your deduction skills is the preferred strategy)

Amelia will enter a patient's memory and begin in the "Mystery Room". Here, she can see the clues she needs to complete the memory. Entering through the door she'll find the Memory Map, where she will look for two things:

• Memory Stages

• Collectibles

In those stages, she'll have to spectate the time limited memory for two more things:

• Main Memory Clues

• Conspiracy Clues

Collecting all nine collectibles will unlock lore crystals, to learn more about the world this game takes place in(a world where other games will be taking place in as well!).

The game is aiming for an hour length. Future, more enhanced versions will have more levels. But for this contest, this first version will feature ONE memory the player must complete. It'll have four stages to complete, as you try to find the conspiracy and solve this patient's problem.

Resource credits to:
Celiana for the tileset
Kread for an Event Update script
N.A.S.T.Y. Text Pop Over Events -Nelderson, tomoaky, and IceDragon
Gab Window - Yanfly
RMN Music Pack for the Soundtrack

Other than my work, includes level design, narrative design and writing, and all things gameplay, Seiromem mapped the level. And then thanks are due for my testers!
Veronica Bennie(Younger Sister)
John Bennie(Younger Brother, AKA: Seiromem)
Adam Rice
Andrew Clifford
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