Cindy L. 2024 | BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
- Project Title: The Connections Between Empathy and In-Game Endings
- BASIS Independent Advisor: Jaymie Silva
- Internship Location: Texas A&M University
- Onsite Mentor: Mason Smith
For this project, I will be using internet research in the form of video essays or online reviews of relevant games. I will choose four games, two games with alternate endings and two games without. I will compile my thoughts regarding how the ability to interact with the story affected my engagement and will refer to internet resources to assign an overall score on how interactability changed a player's game experience. The end product will be a fully written and planned storyline for an original psychological horror game involving trauma that incorporates my findings. I will then work with Isabelle to create a short 15 - 20 minute long game demo.
My Posts
Week 11: The Word "Tasty" No Longer Looks Like A Word To Me.
May 10, 2024
Progress This Week This week was mainly a coding break because wow I am so tired of everything not working. Mainly just dialogue and battle planning. Basically, since Isabelle is busy wrangling to get cutscenes to work (RIP) and there isn’t that much coding stuff to do besides a bit of UI and I guess […]
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Week 10: Face the Void, Save the... Wait, What?
May 3, 2024
Progress This Week This week was mainly a battle system and writing week. To start off, here’s a short video demo of what the battle system looks like right now! As you can see, the battle system is pretty similar to our pre-existing dialogue system. I took the dialogue system and made a […]
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Week 9: Birb? Birb.
April 29, 2024
Research Results So now that I have three games worth of data, here’s a whole summary of everything as well as a few conclusions. – OMORI featured two main routes based on a decision made at the start of the game, as well as multiple endings due to choices near the end of the game. […]
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Week 8: Once Haunted, Can a Place Be Unhaunted?
April 23, 2024
Progress This Week Before I get talking about coding and all that good stuff, we have more research results to cover this week. This week, the game I opted to research was Night in the Woods. Night in the Woods follows 20 year old college dropout Mae, who has returned to her hometown of Possum […]
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