I recently played a horror survival video game called Until
Dawn. I want to create a 21st-century horror survival game and I
want to pitch it to the video game developer Supermassive Game that created Until
Dawn. The player will play as every single character that is Arthur's friend. The character will take different
paths and will have to make different decisions in order to survive. The game
can have many possible endings and there will be one best ending where every
character can survive except the ones that have died in the main story. Arthur
is the protagonist and the setting is on an island named Camelot. Arthur and some
of his friends arrive on a helicopter on the island and stays at his father’s
cabin for a week. Arthur knows that Lance (Lancelot) likes Gwen (Guinevere) but
Gwen likes Arthur. Lance catches Gwen and Arthur getting intimate with each
other. Lance gets upset and runs out of the cabin in the middle of the night
and gets lost and scared. He gets scared because he hears a noise in the woods.
He sees a black deer with red eyes that chases him and bites his leg. He limps forward
to get away and he falls in a ditch and hits his head on a rock and dies. Lancelot
comes back as a demon. The land is cursed to trap lady of shallot, but the curse
brings demon deer to life because she left and escaped her asylum. The demon
deer is hunting her. King Arthur meets a stranger that carries an Excalibur rifle
and tries to help them, and he gets torn apart by a demon. Arthur takes the
rifle and has to find the lady of shallot and kill her in the asylum instead of the
woods in order for the island to not be cursed anymore.
This sounds really cool! I watched a Let's Play of Until Dawn, didn't play it myself, but I like the parallels you made. As I was reading, I was thinking to myself what would be the supernatural parallel to the original, then you mentioned Lance becoming a demon. That is terrifying. Since there will be multiple endings, have you considered what would happen if Arthur is unsuccessful in ending the curse?
ReplyDeleteThank you! and yes I have thought of some alternate ends and if he is unsuccessful in ending the curse then the player will be given the option to let another one of his friends Merlin take over and try to defeat her but if Merlin has died before already due to the player's previous decisions then the player will only be able to let Arthur run away and escape with whoever is alive. Or they can try to convince the lady of shallot to sacrifice herself because she is not portrayed as an evil character just someone who is clueless and lost as everyone as else. If she refuses then player will be given the option to kill her or leave and run away from the demons. They will be given the option to escape the island using an old row boat or use the helicopter if it is still in tact from previous play. Overall Arthur's only option would be to escape the island unless he has died trying to run away by getting caught by demon Lance. He or whoever escapes the island they will let the authorities and his father know. They will try to go back and search for the island with intentions to destroy it but they will not be able to find it again because the island itself acts as a barrier if it feels threatened it will not reveal itself.That is information only the player will know while the characters are clueless. So the curse and the island of Camelot will live on if Arthur or whoever is unsuccessful in ending the curse.
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ReplyDeletehmm, intriguing! I'm definitely interested to see how this will work out overall. Be sure to explain in your pitch letter how and why the Arthurian characters and situations are a good fit for this particular video game genre - maybe in a horror game setting, the idea of reincarnating figures from the past could be both cool and creepy. Bringing in the Lady of Shalott (note the spelling!) is an interesting twist - that the curse is not just for her but that by staying inside her tower/asylum she is somehow protecting the order of things. I'd love for you to somehow bring Lancelot into her plot since he is the reason she leaves her tower in the poem.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing your project, Shawn!
This game would be super creepy, and considering how much we have read on these characters, it would be super cool to see them in this setting (one so different from the one we are used to). I think you would have to bring in more of the original stories to the video game so the connections are clearer and stronger, but other than that, it seems really cool.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Yes I absolutely agree with you. I have decided to bring them back through the modern day's characters mind. The Arthurian legend characters' souls are attached to their modern descendants. They will be able to communicate and when the characters are turned into demons then their Arthurian legend character is reincarnated into a demon with their medieval attire.
DeleteI really like the idea, Shawn! I think it would be super creepy, but also with a twist. If I had to have a question, how on the nose would the depiction of the characters be? More specifically, would the characters be identifiable from their appearance and personality alone, or would there be different takes?
ReplyDeleteThanks Henry! Great question! The characters would be depicted through the similarity in their names and I have added that they are the descendants of each Arthurian legend character. Their souls are attached to each other so when the modern day characters feel a high level amount of fear then their inner medieval character will awaken and be their guidance. They will be able to communicate and get to know each other. For example, King Arthur is speaking to modern Arthur inside of his mind.
DeleteYeah I agree with the other comments this should really be great. It will be cool to design the specific reactions for each character based of events in Arthurian legend. I look forward to playing it!
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