{"id":13488,"date":"2025-05-04T22:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=13488"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:02:29","slug":"ideas-for-a-text-based-choose-your-own-adventure-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=13488","title":{"rendered":"Ideas for a Text-Based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ideas&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Saying goodbye during a long distance relationship. Have scenes that are fun and light-heartened and then there is just an emptiness&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Having a relationship but you are having anxiety but you can\u2019t always talk; you need someone to talk to but you just feel so alone despite being in a committed relationship&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daily anxieties | (Title: Rabbit Holes<\/strong>??)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excuse the word vomit. I&#8217;m likely going with this idea and I&#8217;m going to use these concepts. The game is supposed to feel sporadic and chaotic, imitating how overwhelming it can feel to have some of these thoughts and not being able to suppress them. This chaos of this list imitates how I want the game to feel lol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Checking someone\u2019s location. Not knowing where they are. Assuming they\u2019re dead\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Check facebook to see if there was a car crash. Check their friends\u2019 locations. Check their families facebooks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Someone hasn\u2019t responded in a while\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They hate me&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or they died and I don\u2019t know it&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if my grandma died and I just don\u2019t know it because I have been so busy lately? It wouldn\u2019t be the first time it happened<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if my boyfriend secretly hates me\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He doesn\u2019t want kids but maybe it\u2019s just because he doesn\u2019t want kids with ME and he thinks I would be a bad mother. It would be a different story if he was with someone else&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if I have been tricked this whole time and he has a whole different life with a whole other person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Driving\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Road is closed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if I accidentally hit someone\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What if I hit someone and I don\u2019t even know about it&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if I\u2019m driving down the wrong side of the road&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thinking about if I am supposed to be in class right now? Have I forgotten about class the whole semester and didn\u2019t realize it until now\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I\u2019m going to fail if so&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Feeling like I am going run into the guard rails and walls&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seeing roadkill\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trying not to run it over&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Close your eyes&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What happens if I get pulled over?\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Idk what to do&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do I run away&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hitting a pothole<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do I do if there is an ambulance coming down the road??<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What happens if a trail derails right now&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What happens if I get stuck on the train tracks, what do I do?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do I do if I witness an accident?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>School\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What if my professors hate me and I\u2019m gonna fail\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I\u2019m probably failing right now<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They haven\u2019t emailed me back do they think I\u2019m stupid or hate me&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I\u2019m I even going to be able to finish this assignment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if i don\u2019t graduate on time&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if there is no parking when I get to Wheatley?\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I\u2019ll have to go back home&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I\u2019m gonna miss class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if I choke\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I\u2019ll die and People are going to make fun of me, that&#8217;s so embarrassing.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Someone is going to rescue me and that is even more embarrassing. I\u2019ll have to live with that for the rest of my life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if I forgot to put deodorant on&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if I forgot to unplug my straightener&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if my plants are dying because my air conditioning got way too cold&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if I forgot to brush my hair and the back of my head looks like a tangled rats nest&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if someone parked me in at school and I can\u2019t get out&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if I left my creamer out on the counter and it\u2019s gonna get all smelly and I\u2019m gonna have to through it all away&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if the CAs decide to do a surprise room check and my room and they are going to kick me out because it\u2019s so messy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What if I smell bad and no one wants to tell me?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas&nbsp; Daily anxieties | (Title: Rabbit Holes??) Excuse the word vomit. I&#8217;m likely going with this idea and I&#8217;m going to use these concepts. The game is supposed to feel sporadic and chaotic, imitating how overwhelming it can feel to have some of these thoughts and not being able to suppress them. This chaos of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=13488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ideas for a Text-Based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,90,1],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-13488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design-studio-2","category-serious-game-ideas","category-uncategorized","tag-marked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13490,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions\/13490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}