Game Writer and Narrative Designer
To be with You Beyond the End
To be with You Beyond the End is an emotional card-based roleplaying narrative-driven board game about befriending someone on a journey through the apocalypse.
This game was created as a solo project for the CTIN 488 emotion game assignment, in which my primary experience goal was for my players to feel a certain emotion while playing. The emotion I needed players to feel was wistfulness.
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The development process of To be with You Beyond the End is special for me because it gave me an opportunity to be vulnerable. In creating To be with You Beyond the End, I decided to tap into some of my personal fears about losing someone close to me, especially through death, as that tied most closely with my feeling of wistfulness.
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The premise of the game involves the two players roleplaying as two people with different occupations and motivations journeying together to save their world from the apocalypse while bonding closely with one another along the way. The climax of the game brings the players to a difficult decision. This is because despite which ending scenario they get, someone will end up being left behind or sacrificed the two newfound friends must part ways.
Thanks to Sara A. and Bianca S. (pictured below) for playing To be with You Beyond the End.
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