Eerie Voodoo Hut

Eerie Voodoo Hut

Brainstorming：

At the beginning, I think about exploration games I have played. I find that they all have the intriguing storyline, smooth operation, challenging puzzles, good level design, concept, united art style and great gating system.

Ideas：

1．     Attic

2．     Voodoo doll

3．     Wooden box

4．     Eyeball (Move the eyeball get to the attic)

5．     Uncompleted religion magic pattern

6．     Africa

7．     Collect

8．     Marshland

9．     Voodoo queen

10．   Dressing-table, mirror

11．   Crown

12．   Costume

13．   Crystal、mineral、chemical kinds of stuff

14．   Animal corpses

15．   bloody Mary

16．   Venerable man

17．   Human(Doll) experiment

18．   Nutrient solution

19．   Crystal ball

20．   Divination

21．   Sacrifice

22．   Present offering

23．   Heal  

24．   mask

25．   staves (wand)

26．   candle demon

27．   mushroom grass tree (inside)

28．   Hut

29．   Throne

30．   Thorns

After brainstorming, I then tried to search more reference and figured out how the map's layout would be. 

Reference:

Paper Map

Digital Map

Game Script

Background: Recently, a lot of kids has been missing. After Dr. Duke’s investigation, he found out that all the clues pointed to one place. Therefore, Dr. Duke invited detective Vincent to investigate a mystery voodoo hut. This Hut is in the swamp, and it belongs to a new voodoo queen of the Louisiana named Marie Laveau. This queen is said to be the most powerful in the voodoo community, and she also has the same name as the most famous voodoo queen in 1900’s.      

Scene: A voodoo hut with meeting room, basement, and bedroom(attic). Outside is the swamp, and we can only see few scenes from some windows.

Time: Dusk.

Conditions: Misty and gloomy. Limited visibility.

Characters:

Dr. Duke Male. Early 50’s

Vincent Wilson Player character. Male. Late 20’s.

Marie Laveau Female Early 40’s

Camera shooting from the front door of the voodoo hut. Text comes up on the screen telling the backstory,

TEXT ONLY DIALOG

In recent, a lot of kids has been missing. After Dr. Duke’s investigation, he decided to invite detective Vincent to investigate this suspicious voodoo hut to find more clues.

TEXT ONLY DIALOG

This Hut is in the swamp, and it belongs to a new voodoo queen of the Louisiana named Marie Laveau.

TEXT ONLY DIALOG

The front door is unlocked, and the voodoo queen just left this house. Go inside.

SECTION A1: Intro to characters and setting scene. 

Upon level load, we stay in the black. We hear a shot light sound of glass broken.

Fade up from black. We see a meeting room. The light is shining through the window, but rest of parts still look gloomy.

VINCENT WILSON

Where does the sound come from? It seems from the upper-left corner.

We are free to explore the meeting room. Out four windows of this room, there is a view of some branches of trees.

If the player walks to the exit he tells himself,

VINCENT WILSON

I can’t leave. I haven’t finished my work yet.

When we walk up to the upper-left corner, we can find some glass pieces, and also a door behind this pieces. The door to next room is locked. When we walk up to it, it checks to see if we have the key using our GATING MECHANISM. We don’t have the key yet, so the player character talks to himself,

VINCENT WILSON

The door is locked, I should look around and find the key.

SET OBJECTIVE: Objective text pops up in the middle of the screen,

TEXT ONLY DIALOG

Check the Altar

The player must walk around the room until he finds the silver key by getting close enough to activate the trigger around it. There is a sacrificial altar, which in the middle-left of the room, and he can find the key here. Once he does…

VINCENT WILSON

Got it! Now, go to next room.

We walk through the door, and we can see a damp, dark basement. It’s like a prison cell full of skulls and animal corpses. The player character says,

VINCENT WILSON

Where are the kids? It seems that they have been transferred to other places. I must find more clue.

We walk up to the next door to the bedroom. The trigger is active, and we hear a loud sound of someone opening the front door. Someone says,

MARIE LAVEAU

Hum…Did a mouse sneak in my house?

VINCENT WILSON

The queen is back, so I need to find a shelter at first.

When we get closer to the left corner of the jail cell, we can hear a louder sound of Marie opened the second door. She says,

MARIE LAVEAU

I need to take the list and back to the tree house as soon as possible.

We stay in black, and Marie will activate the trigger of bedroom’s room for us. Then, we hear a sound of Marie closed the front door.

SET OBJECTIVE: Objective text pops up in the middle of the screen,

TEXT ONLY DIALOG

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Search the bedroom.

Here are three different masks hanging on the wall. When the player walks near it he says,

VINCENT WILSON

Try to mix and reshuffle this masks.

Once the player moves it in a right way, the secret door will open.

SET OBJECTIVE: Objective text pops up in the middle of the screen,

TEXT ONLY DIALOG

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SUCCESS! You completed the investigation.

THE END (FOR NOW)