Theory is a first person mystery puzzle game designed to play off the popularity of CSI shows in contemporary media. Players take on the role of an asset recovery specialist for Global bank, the only bank in the entire world.
As asset recovery specialist the player's job is to retrieve stolen objects. To do this players investigate sites of thefts and then reverse engineers the method of theft to stop the same method being used and collect potential information about the thieves. Game play has two states, the first is where players investigate scenes with their camera which they use to take pictures and gather information. From there players use the pictures and things they remember from the scene to reverse engineer a machine or scenario that could cause the outcome. They can do this through directing actors or developing machines by combining parts or modelling new parts using photographs they've taken.
The more correct their model is the more clues they get from it. Players compete against a famous band of thieves who are pulling off heists around the world to try and catch them before they meet their unknown goals and disappear.
Theory is a puzzle game based around the popularity of CSI programs mixed with the classical elements of physical puzzling. Players are presented with an outcome (similar to the picture on a puzzle box) and a series of pieces they can combine (again similar to a real puzzle). They twist and hook for players is that there are more pieces than the puzzle needs and players need to use their investigative and observational skills to develop a solution or eliminate incorrect solutions until they can come up with a possible solution to submit. This combined with the fact that players are trying to catch a band of thieves before they disappear creates an intense cat and mouse game common in successful crime based thrillers
●Aspects of traditional physical puzzles
●Draws on popularity of contemporary CSI shows
●Creates a cat and mouse thriller aspect as players hunt a band of thieves
Interior is a first person stealth thriller in which players try to escape an underground earth inhabited by creatures made of living metal. After digging deep into the earth's crust players find themselves and their fellow crew members falling into a second world the "interior sphere" near the earth's core. Bailing from their falling drill craft the crew are scattered around the newly found inner sphere and hunted by strange creatures made of liquid metal.
Players endeavour to find the rest of the crew while escaping the interior sphere. They do this by sneaking through areas around the various threats to them as they proceed. Players are challenged with difficult stealth puzzles requiring players to use everything they can get their hands on to sneak past creatures by creating decoys or sound distractions as well as trying to decipher the strange systems the creatures use (puzzles) to proceed. Players will be faced with survival choices based around who to save and how to proceed which will have meaningful impacts on how the game plays out.
Players will be placed in a hostile alien environment close to the earth's core and populate largely by creatures made of liquid metals. The landscape has very little familiarity to what people would be familiar with and players should feel utterly out of place. This coupled with the hostility of the inhabitants of the interior sphere should set the tone for player's escapes. To control the players stress levels gameplay will be split into chapters which rotate around a familiar hub from that area to help players feel some kind of safety but also accentuate the fear of stepping out of the safety and comfort into a world they do not belong in.
Coupled with this players may need to make difficult decisions. For example as they progress players may come across fellow crew members that may be difficult to save or may hinder the player's progress due to injury or insanity among other things. Most companions will accompany the player for limited periods of time to keep the games atmosphere tense.
●Unique environment
●Intense atmosphere
