Agenda#
- Create backstory for main character– history, motivation, some form of character arc, what happens in the end
- Work on story structure (eg: Harmon’s story circle, Field’s act structure, Uninhabitable Earth chapter
- Initiate work on game scenarios– figure out number, increase in intensity; divide work between ourselves
- Create a PoA for online meetings in the coming days
- Abhishek: Aesthetics survey
- Abhishek and Tanvi: Meeting notes
- From survey–
- Thematic analysis of textual responses
- Clean data
Naamkaran#
- Names for factions–
- Providers: Varutri (coverer, guardian) or Prakrit (natural, nature-related)
- Imperials: Aalim (learned) or Lalit (pure/untarnished)
- Aspirants: Trushna (thirst) or Yatharth (reality)
Main Character Syndrome-#
- Main character from T-Y. BAMF woman as protagonist. In her 40-50s.
Based on Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey
- Backstory 1 – Sister Dies; knowledge hoarding; rebel group
- Election Campaign begins – Call to Adventure
- Game Scenarios 1 and 2 – – Crossing the Threshold
- Character Interaction – Runaway Greenhouse Effect discovery; - motivation solidifies – Belly of the Whale
- Game Scenario 3 – Meet a friend (character) (P.S. character dies in the end)
- Game Scenario 4 – Pseudo choice; Failure – Road of Trials
- Backstory 2 – Dream/character interaction/visiting home – Atonement of the Father
- Game Scenario 5 – Increase intensity, compromise on held beliefs,
- Game Scenario 6 – Increase intensity, compromise on held beliefs,
- Game Scenario 7 – Pseudo choice; feels real, the friend dies – Moral Reckoning
- Election Results – Crossing of the Return Threshold
- Game Scenario 8 – Last Tragedy
Online PoA#
- Meet at 1030 everyday on Discord to discuss individual assignments
- Meet at 1800 everyday on Discord to go over work that everyone
- Extensively document research/notes that are individually taken on story doc
- At the end of each day, one person summarises and adds notes to website
- Work to be divided includes
- Game scenarios
- Survey analysis
Main Character Syndrome-#
Main character from T-Y. BAMF woman as protagonist. 40-50s.
Tragic past– Tanvi suggested a backstory involving tragic past. knew the knowledge thing and was working towards something rebellious - maybe she had a rebel team or something - her and a bunch of other young people in their early 20s
Natural disaster killed her because maybe they were poor, living in bad conditions. Flashbacks of memories with sister - maybe character even carries little trinkets or whatever from her childhood with sister and parents - maybe a picture of all of them + sister stuff) and one day relevation type (think tangled) - discover the key info about the knowledge thing or something elseMotivation–
Call to adventure– Venus destroyed by runaway greenhouse effect. Prapanch too is displaying evidence of going through this. Info has been hidden by A-L.