There is a thing that matters a lot in a game, as I wrote in my previous blogs, game treatment is vital, game concept is necessary, what else? A game flow. A game flow is more like playing through the whole game and experienced all the possibilities in the game by words. For me it is very interesting, like in a game concept, you draw what you think in the head, but in a game flow, you write it. Here is a game flow I wrote for my own designed game–Diving in Purgatory.
Start
Jack woke up in his bedroom, he felt the anger in his stomach, and the hangover consisted, another drunk day, of course. Jack leaned against the wall and spoke in a hush. “Screw it.” He was angry about everything, his life, his family, always wondering why his parents were not rich as others, he never believed anything, he hates god and he shows irrespective to his parents and be very main to his sister. “Huh…drinking too much last night, but…life is about having fun, what the point living if I don’t have my drugs alcohol and women” he said. Then he saw the bible on the ground (bought by his parents)
Check the bible
Choose_leave it be_step on
Then he stepped on the bible, “I’m a man of sins!” He said. He didn’t realized that he was becoming a shameless man and he was pound of what he was doing.
“A bible…!” he thought, “Really had enough of this crap!”
Check the bottle
“Huh, drinking too much last night, but life is about to gave fun, what’s the point living if drugs alcohol and women are not with me.”
The phone rang on the coffee table in the darkened living room. He climbed down the stairs from the bedroom to get it. The evening dusk of the devil was tilting through the plate-glass windows.
Music in
He sat on the edge of the chair and picked up.
“Who is this? No body is here!”
“Jack…Come to me…!”
The voice sounded distant, and static flared on the line. Like the caller was phoning through an electrical storm. He raised his head and gazed out the window, the sky has became gray and purple. The snow was tinged red with the color of the sky. He walked to the windows. “What’s happened to the sky?” He wisped, “Snow? But it’s summer!”
Jack suddenly hang up the phone, he realized the weirdness of the world today. The quietness was surrounding him; he heard the clock was ticking, like the only thing he could hear. Was he crazy?
Jack running through the living room, a glace of the armor on the corner of the wall comforted him, and then he saw the piano, reminded him the night he beats his sister. “It’s not a good time to think of that crap.” He said, “I need to get out of this place!”
Check the save point
The phone rang again on the coffee table. Jack is scared, he rapid the door and went through to outside, he thought he would went outside, but he close the door he realized that he was not going anywhere. He leaned against the wall and shake his head.
“It’s cannot be true.”
“How am I still in my house?” He screamed.
Expect that everything in the house was a bit different. The crack on the floor, the broken wall, the imposition furniture… However there were few things didn’t changed like the armor on the wall, the piano and his alcohol. Jack remembered the phone rang earlier tonight, he had a feeling that he is on that electrical storm right now. He walked to the coffee table, almost like the longest path in his life.
He picked up. “This is Jack.”
“……” Silence on the other side, but Jack heard breath.
“I know you are there, what do you want?”
“I can help you young man…”Distant voice spoke.
“Who are you?” Jack asked.
“I’ve been watching you for quite while.”
“What do you mean?”
“We are quite similar, don’t you think? You are a man of sins, check, you hate God, check, we make a perfect match!”
“What are you talking about? Let me out of hear!”
“You want out? With me you can have the world, come with me…”
choose
“Yes, let me be your pet, master.”
“Good…Now your soul is mine!”
“No, I want my life back!”
“Oh, what a shame, I’m very disappointed, now rot in hell, then I will take your soul, trust me, you belong to me.”
Jack was disparate, he start to think his life, what he has done and the people he herds. He saw the piano on the corner, in this world the piano is broken.
Check the piano
“I used to think that my sister is really annoying when she plays it, just because I want some ‘quite’ day so that I beat my sister, gosh…am I crazy?”
Check the armor
“I love my armor, it still here.”
Choose
Put on, leave it be
Jack went back his room and saw the bible lying down the floor, when he tried to reach it, he saw an electrical storm was upon his head, suddenly he knew that this storm is create by that devil. He tried to run but the storm absorb him in.
(Scene)Purgatory
Choose
Wear armor live
If not
die when get into Purgatory Scene.
Jack was into another world again. “What is this place? How do I get out? Devil, I want my life back!”
“You want out? You lead me to yourself, now you are mine!” The voice spoke again.
Jack saw a broken wing on the corner.
Check the wing
“Come find me, I’m a victim like you.”
“Who are you? Wait…” The voice disappeared.
Check saving point
The weather in purgatory was killing Jack.
“Freezing, I’m dying…Mom, dad and my little sister, I wasn’t a good son, a good brother, I’m sorry, I really do. At least let me see them one last time.”
Jack saw a dead body on the corner of wall.
Check the body
“Hi, I’m Alice, that devil, he brings you here right?”
“Who…Who are you?” Jack spoke weekly.
“Don’t be afraid, I was a victim too. Human won’t survive long in Purgatory.” She paused. “After I died, he collected my body, but my soul is pure, he couldn’t take it away, I don’t have much time left, I will show you a path.” She paused again. “When demand rot in ice and burned in heat, you can find you way out.”
“But your destiny is changed forever.” She blinked away the stinging in her eyes and turned back to Jack. “Never mind…You need to get out as soon as you can.” “Thank you for your help.” Jack thank people for first time in his life.
“Now, go!”
Puzzle
Jack found two devil’s statue and push them into fire and ice hole.
Jack wake up in his bed, he heard the phone call.
“A dream?” He thought.
He got off bed on stepped on the floor, he saw a crack.
End.