Audiences and Experiences : Week 5

XIN XIONG
3 min readApr 15, 2021

Development and new ideas

My former idea did not change a lot since last section, it is a game in the angle of a victim 30 years later to see facts we are doing now, towards the topic that people’s action towards Desertification.

As the writing is ongoing, the news that Japanese is going to pour all the contaminated water from Fukushima nuclear power plant pops up and shocked me for a whole while, and then I desided to base the whole story on this historical event.

Japan’s decision was made, and action was taken, in 2021. And then those countries who used to feel shame for dumping contaminated water follows.

figure1,https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ga1E01

The environment was broken, and people are debating. They sent you to 30 years later by freezing to judge this historical change and when you wake up, the world has changed.

People are no more concern about environment.

Virus, fire, water, nuclear pollution, they are all deadly but people are already numb. People are numb because they are worn and fragile of these problems.

Harms are caused, damage are taken and consumed by each. It takes a cost to live, but people feel no difference to pay.

Politics no more feel any responsibility to fight polution. It costs and it is shocking to declare number that exists.

It’s like a person walk with no cover on his body, he first feels shame first but years later, he feels no difference. People’s attitude become how a lazy man deal with his dirty wear: put it into the closet, and 1 days later he will forget that it is dirty and he feels no difference to wear.

It is not a fiction, it happens. 70 years ago those who did harm in WWⅡ apologies for what did they do, and 40 years ago they begin to rewrite their history book and 10 year ago, the third generation say that their grandfather did those thing and they have nothing to do but to live with the results. It is a fact that how people forget their history.

Though this game is to educate the fact that people did causing desertification, it also talks about the fact above and the harm it causes with what is ongoing right on present.

Storyboard one : Player goes into a wasted lab in the desert where amount of wasting poured into the sea was recorded, and it was just one time from a thousand.

storyboard two : Player goes everywhere in the city and convince others to not live with harming our home.

storyboard three : Player in a cave, and it used to be a house where a forest keeper lives, and he records how the forest died and land was wasted.

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