Together We Seek Harmony

Designer-Choice Twine Game: Together We Seek Harmony

For my designer-choice twine game, I decided to structure it similarly to Those We Love Alive by Porpentine. I chose my obsession with dystopia, apocalypses and technology to be the main themes and settings of the game and story. Additionally, I took inspiration from spaces which I have obsessions within and featured them within my story; museums, theaters and fashion spaces. I chose this theme as I think that it is a popular topic which is also relevant in today's world with the overbearing presence of doom due to war, climate change and other world events. It is also a theme which I enjoy writing and one of my favorite themes to read! I playtested this game myself and additionally showed a classmate. Here she originally suggested that I have more options for different paths to lead to the final ‘rewarded’ ending, and furthermore, I applied for two streams to reach that ending. I enjoyed the playtesting part of the assignment as I was able to see in real life, someone playing a story and game which I had created myself! In order to playtest effectively, we sent each other our games and played them next to each other; seeing how we interacted with story lines and roadblocks in the narrative, furthermore seeing where players had to critically think and apply problem solving skills.