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We should talk through the following points and establish a general direction for the game:

General

• Design pillars
  • The fundamental axioms underlying the game.
  • What is the game about?
• Genre(s) (Point and Click)
• Tone of the Game (Dark, with possible humor here and there)
• Target audience (Most likely Mature)
  • The desired ESRB rating for the game.
• Platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Vision

• Player Experience (The player is an outside observer)
  • Who is the player?
  • From what perspective will they experience the story?
  • What emotions do we want them to feel?
• Key Moments
  • Initial impression (The player is thrown into the middle of the action)
  • Struggles to overcome
  • Major achievements/victories
• Visual and Audio style
• Game World (Fairly modern, nothing out of the ordinary)
  • What is it like from the player's perspective?

Design

• Core loops
• Objectives and Progression
  • What are the short-term and long-term goals?
  • How does the game evolve from start to finish?
• Game Systems
  • What is the minimal amount of systems/mechanics necessary for the game to be playable?

Foundations is just a code name of course, we need a proper title for the game.

We need to make some decisions about the dialogue system, namely:

• General appearance
  • Where should the dialogue be displayed? (above the character / visual-novel-esque bottom of the screen / etc)
  • How should it look like? (Speech bubble / caption-like text / etc)
• Related metadata
  Character pose / expression / bubble style / etc
• Dynamic text styles
  Shaking text / changing colors / etc
• Interaction
  • How would the player initialize the dialogue? (Button prompt / entering a specific zone / etc)
  • Does dialogue require another person? Can the main character start talking to themself unprompted?

These can be expanded/changed later on but it is useful to know the minimal set of features necessary to get started.