CS 148/248
IF Design Document
Winter 2009
Mail these to the TA, Sherol Chen (ffpaladin@gmail.com). 

Student Name: 
IF Name: 

Describe the story arc for your game. What happens in the beginning, middle, and end? Is there a central dilemma or crisis that the player character has to overcome? 











What is the role of the player character in the game? Does the player play multiple characters? If so, what is the relationship between the multiple characters? 















Describe each location that will appear in your game. Draw a map showing how the locations relate to each other (boxes and lines are fine for the map). 








What are the significant objects in your game? What role do they play in the game?















What is the role of non-player characters (NPCs) in your game? Can the player talk with NPCs? If so, how will dialog be implemented (topic keywords, conversation dialogs, etc.)? Do NPCs move around and take action or are they primarily conversational? If NPCs move around and take actions, what do they do?

















What prior stories, story genres, or games will your game reference? If so, how will you leverage the player's prior knowledge in your design?















How will player interaction be integrated into the story structure? Will the player be uncovering a story that already happened? Will the player have an impact on the plot (and if so, how)? What will be the relationship between story and discourse in your game? In describing the interactive story structure of your game, use terminology from the readings from the first half of the class.