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 7: Unity. More Unity.
April 16, 2024
A Short Video Showcase Kind of took a break from research and stuff due to last week’s fiasco, haha. Mainly spent this week wrangling Unity (again). Before I get into anything, in celebration of this infuriating website FINALLY supporting media uploads after six whole weeks of nothing, here’s a short showcase video of what’s in […]
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Week 6: Why is Everything Falling Apart
April 9, 2024
The Problem So…. I realized a flaw in my research, a little too late. See, originally I planned to complete my research using four total games, two with different endings and two without. And that was going fine until last week, but then things just got a lot harder this week. This is something I […]
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Week 5: May You Find Your Book in This Place.
March 31, 2024
Progress This Week This week, I spent my time completing research on Library of Ruina. It was quite a bit more troublesome than OMORI’s… I’ll discuss that in a bit, though. Ruina is set in a hypercapitalist hellscape known as the City, where morality has been thrown out the window, violence is the norm, and […]
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Week 4: Meow? (Waiting for Something to Happen?)
March 24, 2024
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s… OMORI….? …Wait, something’s off. Progress This Week This week, I finished my research for OMORI! Yay! I spent so much time this week just scrolling through Steam looking for reviews… OMORI is an RPG-style psychological horror game created by indie studio Omocat. […]
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