Emergence is a narrative game design project that I completed as part of my course work. It consists of a comprehensive story bible and high concept design document. Overall, it is around thirty pages of documentation, detailing game play and narrative design.

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The project involved designing unique mechanics, creating and detailing a setting, writing a narrative, and detailing a handful of characters within that narrative.

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Emergence is designed as an open world, narrative, survival game. It is set within a Lovecraftian themed post apocalyptic America. The game play loop revolves around going out into the world to hunt down a monster and trying to scavenge for materials in the journey in order to survive.

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The game and its world continue on even amidst player death, as the player selects a randomized character to play as they continue their play through, emphasizing that the player character is not the main character of this story.