One of the many short stories found throughout Lost Odyssey, this would be the sort of direction I would want to take - with ambiant music, SFX and text animation at this level. I think perhaps a different painted image background for all 50 of the events, the gates and the endings. I would do a similar fade in-out and the buttons would be text that highlighted when selected, I would say that this would be the correct level of visual representation the game would need.
Implementation
At first I was concerned by the amount of content, however, if I used flash to create this game I would not have to code a great deal - most of the code would be the same page copied for different events. animation and music/graphical implementation would also be hassle-free. I might need an artist to create 70 decent images, but I am sure I can find that. SFX are easily found on the internet in large open source areas. Finally If I couldn't find a musician then I myself could create the music using Adobe auditorium. The first act would be to create the story content itself, something I would have to think about a lot (it would be the main content). At the same time I would need to prototype the game, getting a single, linear version of it running so that adding to it would be easy. I feel confidant I could finish this by the end of the degree, since I have over half a year to do it!
What would be the purpose?
Apart from creating a fun, interactive game with good replay value? I have already proven that people find it fun to tell stories, however the method by which I proved this was to randomly give players items and ask them to extrapolate a story. By the same token, I should be able to do the same thing digitally and fire the imagination of the player of my game by introducing random chance and thereby adding value to their choices.
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