For the development of the video game it is necessary to answer a series of key questions in order to clarify the intentions and needs of the project.

What is the game about?

The video game tells the story of Adam, a human belonging to an organization known as The Drivers, a special forces that inhabit a ship called Entelechia, which orbits around the planet Earth. The goal of Adam and the rest of the Drivers is to finish with an alien race known as the Seraphim, because they dominated the Earth and a large percentage of the human population was exterminated, being strange to find more than 500 humans in a city. What Adam does not know is that there is an entity that will help him move forward, although in the process he will lose his personality. Adam will come to realize this and will seek to reveal himself against this entity, breaking the fourth wall in the process and discovering the existence of the player.

Why create the game?

In recent years, many famous directors such as Davey Wredden, Dan Salvato or Hideo Kojima have sought the most interactive way to introduce the player as a participant in the fictional world. For this, one of the most important resources has been the breaking of the fourth wall, a tool used for the first time in Greek theater, which has been in continuous evolution until today, reaching the field of video games. Works such as Doki Doki Literature Club!, The Stanley Parable or Metal Gear Solid have sought ways to involve the player directly with the characters, being the main theme of this project to determine whether character and player can generate a direct connection through the breaking of the fourth wall and the course of a plot, making use of the analysis of different key video games and the implementation of the techniques analyzed in the development of a real video game.

The interaction between character and player is a concept that has not yet been sufficiently deepened and gives rise to mechanics yet to be studied. Therefore, a video game that has as its main axis a protagonist with personality conflicts where the player can force him to make decisions he does not want, can cause interesting situations such as the protagonist to reveal himself against the user who controls him, putting his decisions before his decisions and creating a common thread where character and player must coexist in order to reach the end of the adventure between the two of them.

What is the main objective of the project?

The main objective of this video game is to determine if the character and the player can generate a direct connection by breaking the fourth wall and the direct involvement of the player with the fictional characters.

Which are the differentiating aspects of the game?

• Direct involvement of the player by reading data from the system on which he/she is playing (username, save files, etc.).
• Mix of the genre “Twin Stick Shooter” with a level design typical of a “Soulslike”.
• Differentiation between the avatar or protagonist entity and the player himself, being both different entities that interact with each other at different points of the plot.