AOTDLN

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Type: RPG – Text heavy – Single Player

Gameplay: 2D

Style: Pixelated

Main inspirations: Resident Evil, Stardew Valley

Story Summary

• Follows the two sibling protagonists Lenore and Ezra.
• Lenore is a maladaptive daydreamer who has chronic <span class="NormalTextRun BCX8 SCXP4839641" <insomnia="" and="" sleep="" anxiety.<="" span="">>span class="EOP BCX8 SCXP4839641"></span>
• After hearing about it from her brother, Lenore joins the "occult club" at their school.
• The club worships the Goddess of Nightmares and Dreams,  Estella.
• Things start to take a dark, bloody turn, and the two siblings are left trying to escape their school while fighting for their lives.

Game Mechanics

• World Switching
  • Switching between a dream world and the real world. The environment, obstacles, colors, and overall theme/atmosphere would change but the setting would not.
• Puzzle Solving
  • Sliding puzzles, rhythm clicking or memorization, maze(s).
    • Item fetching such as keys or weighted items
• Enemy interactions
  • Enemy avoidance
• Dialogue
  • Choice of dialogue

Fun Aspects:

Puzzle solving:

Gratification through learning and completing puzzles.

Exciting:

Never staying in the same place forever, always moving from the real world to the dream world and avoiding enemies!

Story:

Context clues and lore give the game depth that helps players connect to it.

Map elements:

Main world:

Kind of dull colours, realistic looking objects, obstacles, and colours.

Dream World:

Bright colours, fluffy imagery, cloud-like objects and obstacles. More dreamy and nice.

Nightmare World:

Dark colours, enemies, more dangerous or scary looking objects and obstacles. More of a nightmare.