Les thématiques sont en effet très importantes pour moi, car j'aimerais faire un jeu qui suscite une réflexion tout en étant fun.

Je souhaite que mon personnage central ait un passé assez mystérieux qui soit la cause d'un élément relativement important de l'intrigue à un moment donné. C'est le second enfant d'un couple, alors que la politique de l'enfant unique est appliquée dans son pays de naissance pour éviter la surpopulation en raison des ressources limitées. Il a donc été adopté par un service d'espionnage pour que sa vie soit épargnée, mais ceci n'est pas révélé explicitement dans le jeu. Des ennemis et des rivalités se sont créées au cours de sa vie d'espion et il a raccroché pour une raison encore non déterminée. Le passé refait surface à un moment donné, mais ce n'est pas le coeur du jeu.

Le caractère du perso est à la croisée du Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop), Big Boss et James Bond, avec un look et des principes un peu anachroniques pour son époque (Blade Runner). C'est un détective/espion en freelance, mais qui en arrive à coopérer avec un autre type, car plus expert que lui en technologie et en piratage, avec d'autres agents (doubles ou triples) selon les besoins.

J'ai beaucoup de matière sur fichiers Word et Excel, mais voici pèle-mêle quelques extraits (en anglais car mon GDD est rédigé dans cette langue afin de pouvoir partager avec le reste de la team) :

SUMMARY
Narrative-driven point and click game, with investigation, exploration, classic puzzles, action puzzles and quick time event action sequences.

In a close future (year 2050-2099?), water is much more valuable than oil (that has been widely replaced by solar energy). Nearly 75% of the world population lives in areas where water is scarce, access-restricted, too expensive or deliberately poisoned. Big multinational water companies who privatized most rivers, glaciers and water reservoirs on the globe became almighty after “The Great Drought”, a dramatic climate change.

WORLD
The world of the game is slightly futuristic. Human civilization is mostly powered by solar energy, from roads, buildings and homes equipped or made with high performance solar cells.

Technology plays a major role in all sorts of communications, it has become wearable and in some cases integrated to the human body via nanomachines. Computers are at the centre of human activities and there is a demand for stolen intelligence obtained via hacking. Holograms, vertical urban farms, food printers and automated transports are common.

Water companies are multinational and privatized most water resources on Earth. Drinking rain is even illegal (this actually happened in Bolivia). It has become a marketed product, exotic bottled water is served in water bars and it is even transported via enormous ship bags (sometimes subject to hijacking or pirate attacks). Most beaches, rivers, reservoirs and dams are heavily secured with land mines, police or artificial intelligencies.

CONTROLS

Point and click controls to move the detective in 2D scenes by clicking on the spot where the player wants him to go, or on the objects he wants him to interact with. Touch controls for iOS and Android devices.

3.A.2 Interactions
Character interaction
The player can interact with NPCs by talking to them.
There can be simple dialogue sequences, with branching, or proper interview sequences in which the detective is trying to prove some suspect guilty by interviewing him and using the evidences he found.

Some NPCs are also interactive in the sense that if they agree to cooperate (after being threatened, convinced, bribed), the detective/the player can give them orders (“Move here”, “Say this”, “Stay put”, etc.).

Hacking
A whole hacking game system inspired from the game Intrusion by MotioTwin for “deep and complex” investigations (looking for a file into a server, generate an electricity blackout, hack a production machine in a facility, etc...).
Simple “press the button” hacking interactions (hack traffic lights, close electrical door,), mostly used in QTE sequences.

Technology – Gadgets
Thanks to the geek guy, the player will be able to use high technology devices like a contact lens that can film, take pictures, detect body heat, monitor heart beats to save or get information from the scenes he investigates or the characters he interviews.

QTE – Combat/Escape/Scouting sequences
QTE cutscenes with buttons to press or areas of the screen click on/touch/swipe/etc...
Items collected
The player will collect objects that will be used to access certain areas, solve puzzles, activate mechanisms.

Goods & information acquisition

Water
The detective will collect bottles of water during his investigations.

Money
The detective will get money for completing missions and side quests offered by NPCs. He can also steal money from the scenes he investigates (lowers prestige stats, moral choice, impact on ending: dies or not).

Information - Evidences
Information & some evidences (documents, evidences, weapons of the crime, etc...) can be bought from NPCs with money and water, or obtained through investigations, talks, interviews & persuasion.

The French tenant from The Fatale Bar is also a valuable and source (free on PC) of information she gets from clients and through her ladies.

Exploration/investigation system

2D scenes to investigate in point and click system.
The detective moves around the scene and first person view is used to get a closer picture of the items, puzzles, documents that require it.

The interactions needed to find clues get more complex as the player advances in the game.

The player can search a computer he just hacked to look for e-mails (orders, employees gossip), documents (blueprints, accounting, etc...), that can help the detective in his investigation.
Reference: Intrusion by MotionTwin

3.B.5 Interview system

Interviews can happen casually: the hero randomly meets a person in an area of the game; or be scripted: the hero HAS to talk to this character in order to get info or prove him guilty to progress further in the game.

The screen will display the detective and the interviewee's portraits in very close view, allowing the player to analyse the interviewees facial expressions (2 for lie, 2 for truth, 2 for embarrassed, 2 for doesn't know).

The detective can use the clues and notes logged in his notepad (that is accessible anytime during the interview). The interviewee's answers, facial expressions, as well as the color of the halo will give feedback to the player.

A colored halo will be displayed around the interviewees portrait depending on his answers to indicate whether he's telling the truth or not.

ART DIRECTION
General art direction – Influences
The story takes place in a not so distant future. People have gathered in massive metropolis. Very high buildings, neon lit cities, alternative ways to produce electricity (solar, geothermal energy). No flying cars, but creative public transports (open air rails, etc.), holograms, service robots, advanced technology.

Cutscenes
2D manga/BD (Cowboy Bebop, MGS Peace Walker) cutscenes for the introduction. Halfway between traditional Japanese and western animation.

General sound design – Influences
Music plays a key role in the ambiance of the game.
General tone being a mix between nu-jazz/electronic jazz, ambient, futuristic electro & retro-futuristic music.
Influences: Tron Legacy, Ocean's Eleven, Cowboy Bebop, L.A. Noire, Blade Runner soundtrack
Playlists: http://open.spotify.com/user/1117090662/playlist/74KpkKSE8kxrJU1uGOB8Yt

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