duck bastard
lays here, staring at the ceiling. horror game where you get the creepy crow shot (circling over head, cawing), but the crows are actually trying to warn you about creep ass shit happening, and how you treat them and pay attention is how you survive
papermint tiger
this is such a fantastic idea because you know people would fuck up immediately
papermint tiger
video games have taught us to shoot birds
duck bastard
exactly
papermint tiger
so pair this idea with the concept of Undertale where the game never forgets you did that and we'll really have something
duck bastard
CROWS NEVER FORGET
papermint tiger
exactly
HIKIKOMORTIS
YESSSSSS
HIKIKOMORTIS
Just call it “A Murder”
Alice
I'd love this
Alice
crows dispensing items if you treat them well
Alice
also thinking a little of the wildlife mechanic from Until Dawn, if you treat the animals badly, nature starts fighting back and making things more difficult
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oh oh oh and make the protag a detective trying to solve a murder (as in a dead body) and the Murder (as in crows) lead you to the supernatural clues if you're nice to them
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and if you're not nice you're gonna just think it's a mystery game until act 2 begins with a boogieman jumpscare
duck bastard
oh that takes me out of the running for this game, i know fuck all about making good mysteries /finger guns
MR SEPHIROTH
imagine the Big Bad shows up and the crows start flocking overhead to warn you. if you've been nice to them you get it, if you've been mean you think they are minions
papermint tiger
nah i'm not a big fan of the mystery idea, at least not with a proper detective
Alice
detectives can be fun and mysteries can work, main key is to hide things in plain sight and keep the player/reader too distracted to home in on it
Alice
though I'm also fond of dumbass teens or college students making terrible life decisions
Alice
could blend the two with a scooby gang out to solve a mystery and fucking it up
FRIENDS HUG
Crow friends
papermint tiger
SCOOBY GANG YES
Alice
scooby gangs also provide convenient bodies to start dropping as the horror sets in
Alice
and if they're likable characters you don't wanna see die /chef's kiss
papermint tiger
lmaoooo oh that's wonderfully horrifying
Alice
they just gotta be good to the birds to prevent their bad end (a bunch probably wouldn't)
Alice
can also spice the concept up making them scoobies from a different historical period
duck bastard
alice, coming for player kneecaps
papermint tiger
a fun mechanic if they start again when someone dies, they get a different group of Scoobies
papermint tiger
bad end, they get stuck with Scrappy-Doo
Alice
that would also be fun
Alice
and lol, James, do you expect anything different
duck bastard
no, it's very in character, i'm cackling
Alice
Alice
multiple generations of scoobies all dying because they keep fucking up with the birds could be a mystery in and of itself
Alice
the mechanic itself could be why it's a mystery - people not making the connection with the crows
Alice
and trying to explain things with their own speculation and rumors have completely obscured or twisted the truth
Alice
mysteries can be fabricated simply by people talking out of their asses en masse
papermint tiger
i love how this plurk started with such a simple concept and now it's descended
into pure chaos
papermint tiger
also i just laughed so hard i almost died after choking on a piece of pizza
duck bastard
:3
Alice
chaos is fun
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a spooky maze in the game and the crows murmuration is the clue on how to navigate
Alice
ooh that's a cool idea
Guardian Bear J
Now I'm fondly reminded of the story where the guy befriends crows in the grass, but antagonizes the crows outside his office, and triggers a crow gang war.
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☽ ʀᴏsᴇ ᴋɪɴɢ
yes pls crowkin would like this
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