Because the environments are two different styles, when I was designing the backstory, my first consideration was how to reasonably connect the two styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first thing that comes to mind is VR (Virtual Reality) technology, which allows players to relive past scenes through virtual reality. However, this would feel like the player is controlling a character to play a game, giving it a Sims-like feel. So, I’m considering setting the story in the future and designing the AI as a character specially made to relive past events. Players would then control the AI to enhance the sense of immersion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Based on this, I refined the details, which led to the final background story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The stories for the first and second levels didn’t actually go through a very difficult creative process. Basically, when I saw the scenes and the mechanic of needing to deduce the story, I thought of real historical events that I could refer to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the story needs to offer players different interpretations, it needs to be complex or even confusing. Combined with the medieval church setting, the first thing that came to mind was the Black Death (plague) of the Middle Ages. In my memory, medieval people, due to their lack of understanding of plagues, often demonized them, attributing them to divine punishment or natural disasters. So, I immediately began researching it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n