{"id":189,"date":"2025-12-10T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/?p=189"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:39:47","slug":"the-first-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/the-first-version\/","title":{"rendered":"2. The first version of GDD"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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1. Working Title: “Between Worlds\u201d<\/p>

2. Genre\uff1a A 2D\/3D Platform puzzle-solving game with a linear narrative.<\/p>

3. Intended Target Audience:<\/p>

3.1 Players who enjoy emotional storytelling and artistic games (e.g., GRIS, Journey, Inside)<\/p>

3.2 Age: 16\u201335, indie game players<\/p>

3.3 Platforms: PC \/ Switch \/ Mobile<\/p>

4. Essential Experience: Feel misunderstood and isolated by society. Meanwhile, realize loneliness is not terrifying; what matters is how we come to understand our complex selves and learn to express ourselves in a flat environment.<\/p>

4.1 Experience goal: short, emotional, immersive (2\u20133 hours)\u00a0<\/p>

4.2 Use the 2D(envirment) vs 3D(protagonist) contrast to express alienation.\u00a0<\/p>

4.3 Each puzzle is a metaphor for understanding and growth.\u00a0<\/p>

5. Pitch: Between Worlds\u201d is a poetic 2D\/3D puzzle adventure about feeling misunderstood and not being interacted with in a flat world.
By using its shadow to communicate with the environment, players discover that loneliness isn\u2019t something to fear\u2014it\u2019s the beginning of understanding oneself.<\/p>

6. Game Pillars:<\/p>

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7. Core Game Loop:<\/p>

Explore \u2192 Observe differences \u2192 Solve puzzles with shadow \u2192 Gain understanding fragment \u2192 World reacts \u2192 Grow<\/p>

8. Mock Up:<\/p>

\"\"This is my initial concept for the game’s visuals: the background, NPCs, and interactive objects all rendered in 2D. The protagonist is in 3D, completely detached from the environment and utterly out of place. Only the shadow cast onto the 2D plane by light striking it directly interacts with the surroundings.<\/p>

9. Moodboard:<\/p>

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1. Working Title: “Between Worlds\u201d 2. Genre\uff1a A 2D\/3D Platform puzzle-solving game with a linear narrative. 3. Intended Target Audience: 3.1 Players who enjoy emotional storytelling and artistic games (e.g., GRIS, Journey, Inside) 3.2 Age: 16\u201335, indie game players 3.3 Platforms: PC \/ Switch \/ Mobile 4. Essential Experience: Feel misunderstood and isolated by society. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideation-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}