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warship005 · 5 years ago

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How to easily write a “Life is Strange” game

This is a parody. I love the Life is Strange franchise and I’m mostly just posting this to point out the similarities between both games for fun.

DISCLAIMER: I won’t be considering “Before the Storm” and “The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit” in this post despite them being set in the same universe because BTS was developed by Deck Nine instead of Dontnod and Captain Spirit was made just because the events in that game couldn’t fit properly in Life is Strange 2.

Let’s begin. Here’s how to write a Life is Strange game:

1)Have two main protagonists (one of them being the playable character) and make them have a very close relationship -Max and Chloe (best friends/lover) -Sean and Daniel (brothers)

2) Give one of the two protagonists a special power -time traveling in Life is Strange -telekinesis in Life is Strange 2

3)Make sure the power is never explained in the game but used as a catalyst for the plot instead -Max’s powers first went off in the bathroom to save Chloe, which resulted in a storm to come -Daniel’s powers first went off due to a great state of turmoil which killed a cop and put them on the run from the police

4)As part of the catalyst, someone innocent has to get shot and someone has to be a prick (and a direct cause of the innocent person being shot) -Chloe gets shot by Nathan -Esteban gets shot because their neighbor’s son was picking on Daniel (and the cop was an idiot)

5) Make sure the protagonist without powers is the punching bag and never feels happy for too long -Chloe almost dies every 5 minutes cause fate and also has to deal with what happened with her dad and Rachel -Sean has to constantly deal with his dad’s death, racism, the police, losing an eye and other traumas he got along the way

6) The playable protagonist has to have some interest in art and stop to “capture the moment” -Max takes pictures -Sean draws

7) A dog dies -Pompidou (determinant) -Mushroom

8) Give the playable protagonist a love interest of the opposite gender which people will take but would still rather have the same gender love interest (either way, the romantic part of the game is short term and doesn’t play such a big part outside the respective episode it happens) -Max can kiss Warren in episode 5 but people would rather have her kiss Chloe, (which she can) -Sean can end up with Cassidy in episode 3 but people would rather have him end up with Finn (after episode 3, the romance is barely brought up in one of the endings of the game)

9) Have a religious character in the second episode -Kate Marsh -Claire Reynolds

10) Have a depressed religious character that attempts suicide -Kate Marsh -Jacob Hackerman (he said that “he tried to hurt himself” but the Wiki page says he attempted suicide, and given his background, it doesn’t like that much of a stretch since Lisbeth tried to make him leave)

11) Something bad can happen to the friend of one of the protagonists (DETERMINANT) -Kate can kill herself -Chris can get hit by a police car

12) Have episode 3 end with some nice sunlights shots along with a feeling of dread -at sunset, Max goes to visit Chloe in the new timeline and she finds out she was in a car accident and barely staying alive -at sunrise, inside the ravaged house, all the characters are unconscious due to Daniel’s powers going off the previous night and Sean has a glass shard in his eye, ruining it forever

12) Have the characters SOOO close to happiness in the last episode but snatch it from them right before they can get it again and again -whenever Max thinks she’s in the right timeline she has to go back again and again to the point where she ends up in the Dark Room again -whenever Sean thinks they’re safe, the police and racists jerks are on their trail

13) Have the ending of your game be bittersweet because this series should be called Life is Unfair instead -Max basically has to deal with the Trolleybus Problem -Sean either goes to prison unfairly, or he dies, or he and Daniel live separately, or they both end up living on the run as criminals

BONUS TIP: Have David Madsen show up.

#life is strange #life is strange 2 #lis #lis 2 #max caulfield #chloe price #sean diaz #daniel diaz

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