Initially when I heard ‘Zork’ I thought of a pirate type of adventure, with different species of humanoid creatures making up the crew of a ship. I believe this link was made due to the text-base genre later basically evolving into Point and click games. My favourite of these being Monkey Island, thus I linked pirates.
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| Monkey Island and its iconic humour |
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| Tetra and her pirate crew from Wind Waker |
As of yet I don’t have a story for the game, which is troublesome, as I can’t come up with a viable concept for a protagonist without an idea of where the story is going. I’d like to keep the idea of a pirate main character but his motivation would be hard to spin. By this I mean a pirates stereotypical motive would be treasure but I believe this would make a hollow experience for the player.
I thought of maybe having the main character run off to join a pirate crew, in a similar vein to treasure island, with the protagonist being a naïve teen. I’m not set on this idea but I like the sea travel aspect. I’m a big fan of the Legend of Zelda series and the Wind Waker instalment to the series introduced sea travel.
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| Sea for a far as you can see! |
My experience with the sea travel was rather pleasant I could lose hours just navigating the waves, it was a rather tranquil experience, one that I hope to replicate.
Wind Waker screen - http://highwayseventeenrevisited.blogspot.com/2010/08/3-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker.html
Tetra’s pirates screen - http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Tetra's_Pirates
Monkey island screen - http://www.marcopennacchiotti.com/tsomi/tsomi.html
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