Alpha 07

A unique adventure created through Twine.

In Alpha 07, play as a genetically engineered creature that escapes from its holding facility into the wilds of the Californian Redwoods.

Alpha 07 offers multiple story paths to explore. Players can choose to be an elusive hunter, a guardian of the forest, or even all consuming predator.

This story allows players to see the world through another lens. A creature of unnatural birth and creation, introduced to wild with numerous variables that will affect how the creature sees itself as an inhabitant of the ecosystem.

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Development

This was my last assignment for my Advanced Seminar in Game Narrative.

For the story, I want to make it from a unique perspective. I wanted players to see the world through the eyes of animal. In this case, a genetically engineered one.

The titular character, Alpha 07, starts off with a basic intelligence that eventually grows to understand all the new objects and organisms it interacts with in the redwoods.

I conveyed this by using basic descriptions for everyday things like trees and eventually through the story, Alpha 07 would understand what trees were and would acknowledge them as such.

I also created alternate paths that the player would take by choosing certain actions for Alpha 07 over others. I created these branches because it seemed only nature that the development of a creature born in a research facility for biowarfare could develop in different ways based on its experience in a world unknown to it.

I created the entire story and scripted it in Twine. I also polished it with sounds effects and music.

The entire narrative was created by me, along with the scripting components that made everything work.