In my opinion “you are the villain” is a difficult theme, for the three act story formula doesn’t work. If it’s a “introduction, everything falls apart in the middle, protagonist prevails in the end” kind of thing, then you are not really the villain anymore, but an “evil” hero instead. However, a narrative where everything goes well from beginning to the middle and then falls apart in the end strikes me as rather frustrating. Hmmm, what to do,what to do?<\/p>\n
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Perhaps it’s better to focus on what kind of game I want to create and what’s possible in the alloted time span.<\/p>\n
The first thing that springs to mind is Grand Theft Auto, but something like that is too complicated to realize.<\/p>\n
That dungeon game where you had to defeat heroes would be a possibility. Kind of like a reverse tower defense, but apart from the flavour you could easily interchange hero and villain.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I could keep the disappointing reverse narrative to stay true to the “you are the villain” theme after all and then make this an 80s style game where it’s about obtaining a high score rather than winning, since the villain has to be overcome by the hero in the end.<\/p>\n
Considering how many hours I’ve wasted with analysis-paralysis I might not finish at all…<\/p>","time":"December 15th, 2012 2:12 am","title":"Difficult Theme"}