{"id":187,"date":"2025-12-01T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:40:00","slug":"week-5-further-ideation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/2025\/12\/01\/week-5-further-ideation\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 – Further Ideation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week was spent analysing feedback on our 4 topic research and deciding on which of the 4 topics we want to delve further into for our game proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the ways I chose to do this was one-on-one or small group talks with my peers about our game ideas, one of these talks – the most fruitful one – was with Xane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of confirming my thought that the ‘Star’ idea was the best topic of mine to choose, we also looked into his ideas more – one of which was ‘moustaches’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After he explained to me the importance of moustaches throughout history, and wanting to potentially make a game about a owning a barbershop. I came up with the idea of a game similar to that of ‘Papers, Please’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Papers, Please is a narrative game made by Lucas Pope. It is a commentary on war, immigration and general corruption in many governments around the world. But the main inspiration I got for my ‘moustache game’ idea was to use the mechanic of owning a barbershop as a medium to tell an overarching story. Like what Papers, Please does – as you play as a border control inspector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the context of this ‘moustache’ game, I thought that it would be interesting if the barbershop was a time travelling one. Where the player would be able to cut hair from prominent figures from all across history, and they would be able to talk to these figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We thought it best to prototype this idea once we had settled on our own individual game topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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