The Dreadful Pursuit
This project was made to showcase and learn more about level designing and narrative designing. where most of the princeples of both of these fields have been applied and is one of the most enjoyable projects personally
A Nazi Experimental camp has been covertly operating for 30 years after the 3rd Reich because of a mad scientist and It got subjugated due to the leak of the gas that they were working on which numbs people’s senses. This set a distress call that got ignored due its desertedness and location After 4 years, We a determined state detective is being assigned in this so called rumour of a place to investigate and collect clues on, So find out the answers to the questions about some of the
characters and facility in the detective book Whilst also Figuring out a way to escape the facility
Categories
Level design, Narrative design, Game Design, Prototype
Project Type
Personal Project
LOOK DEV
MECHANICS
the level sequence
1. Enter in front of the elevator.
• Familiarize yourself with the surroundings and initial interactions.
• Turn on the main power supply. • Discover the first locked subject behind a door.
• Observe signs of struggle in the area.
• Find the first item with limited information about what happened
. 2. Encounter a jump scare near the vent room from a light enemy, forcing you to change direction.
3. Hide in a locker until the enemy leaves.
4. Realize that light attracts enemies and head towards the control room, the only visible room.
5. Encounter subjects that don’t react and must crouch near a sound enemy to avoid detection get the half of the vent room
• Divert enemies near the Warden’s room using lights.
• Discover stranded individuals near the Warden’s room who do not react to light
6. Reach the vent room
7. Reach the place where the guards live and get the other half of the map
• Learn that the Warden’s key is required to access the room.
• Find half of a map depicting the vents and their connection to the bathroom and block two.
8. Escape the subject chasing you on the second floor of block B and reach the third-floor vent.
9. Enter the vent connected to the Warden’s room.
10. Find the Warden’s diary, documenting his sadistic actions and experiments on special subjects.
• Obtain the access code to the box in the control room.
11. Return to the control room, open the box, and retrieve the vent key.
12. Take the vent from control room and go to the bathroom
• a spl subject wearing the warden’s clothes near the warden’s corpse.
• Acquire the keys to access the lab.
13. Be chased by the man and escape to a hiding spot.
• Decide whether to proceed with the objective and enter the lab.
World Building/Design
Interior
What?
It’s an underground nazi human experimental camp It has Three levels
• The first level is the prison which is where the subjects are stored
• The second level is the Lab where most of the experiments happen
• The third level is the residential where most of the doctors and MIL executives live
Where?
• Its near the borders of Finland and the soviet union
• Its under an abandoned village where during the time of war they took over that place and set camp and also use the subjects as test subjects
When?
• They built the place during the later stages of the 3rd Reich
• The place was locked up for 30 years
Why?
• During the 3rd Reich Germany needed a specific gas that would Numb people’s senses
• They sent Dr Heinrich Widmenn One of the senior member of the SS
• Its located in Finland because the gas was being developed for the soviet union and its also faster to provide aid for German soldiers
• Along the way the Doctor lost his mind and stopped his communication with his commanders i.e. when he couldn’t figure out a way to find the gas he
was told to return but his ambitions got him mad and with his other doctors they continued on finding the gas
• They had supplies that could last for 50 years
• They had a proper drainage and water system which was basically connecting to the towns close by
• They also took electricity from them but they had access to the town’s fuel storage which could get their generators going
Distress Call
• After years of trying to find the sense numbing gas he fails so many times creating different reactions with people
• The doctor loses this brain and people also slowly start deuterate from the normal way of living to one that’s more deranged
• Suicide was very common on both the guards/doctors and the prisoners
• Finally after years he’ll figure it out but he couldn’t bear the fact the his work is of no use So He decides to gas himself and everyone in the facility
Through their normal ventilation system
How?
After the incident
• Some of them were stuck cells and some of the prisoners with hormonal treatments had different symptoms resulting in aggressive behaviour and
reaction to certain senses like one reacts to light and another reacts to sound
• Some of them were starving some of them needed nothing and wanted the pain to go away
• The facility’s main electricity was cut down but the ventilation was on with the help of the backup batteries and generator
• We can also see people at places that out of peoples normal convene which is cuz they tried to escape other subjects but they still couldn’t make it
Who?
Inhabitants
• The Population was about 150 the ratio was about 65:35
• They Had T4 Gassing doctors and Gutachter as medical personals
• We also had prison warden, prison duty guards, helping securities
Some GDD Elements
Key locations
The environment is abandoned but has people who do not use the
environment You can see signs of struggle all over the place Like when
the gas hit and also a lot of remnants of half-eaten corpses and gas in
the air
A key location in this level has a lot of story elements and also information
on where to go next
• We have the control room with the dead doctor who will give us
information on the enemies and a map and an objective to retrieve
the warden’s card looks like he has lived there for more than 5 months
and killed himself
• We then have the place of the guards in the vent who will tell us
how to get to warden’s room a really make shift setup that lasted for
like a monthWarden Room has information about the entire place and
place give serious royal German vibes(Narcissist)
Player Sub Objective
As a detective You will be given a book that needs to have enough
information about the entire facility There are default question that would
already be there But you can also get special ones as you progress
The book need you to solve basic questions like how the prison works
Why it happendend(General stuff)
Whilst being inside the prison you will find notes and reports on certain
individuals which will open path ways in our note and lead us to the next
information
These would be things like taking a photo Copy past text and images
from Info paper and reports to the note that we have
Lets Work Together
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