Negotiator VR

SolKutTeR · Jun 18, 2016

Negotiator VR von 4PM
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A strategic, narrative game that puts you in the shoes of a disillusioned military negotiator who's trying to run away from his past.

The Premise
Negotiator is a strategy narrative game about a disillusioned military hostage negotiator Jonathan Martell. After a mission in a South American desert airport goes south, a celebrity gets killed because of his mistake. Getting discharged from the military, he comes back to London, UK only to find that the press is all over the story and twitter is burning with hate and displeasure. This is the kind of fame nobody wants, and it doesn't allow for a normal life when everyone recognises you with a hashtag #killerofinnocents. To add insult to injury, his sister,a single mother, is getting hounded by the press and harassed at work about the situation.

An old friend of Jonathan's, from south Asia hears about his troubles and decides to invite him and his sister to start life a new in his home city, half way across the world. "Nobody cares about western problems here! Go to the embassy in London next week, my friend works there, your visa will be ready in no time." he says. Jonathan decides that this is much better compared to life in London, and goes to the embassy with his sister and her son. As they are waiting in the visa queue, a couple of masked men with rifles walk in and shout at everyone to get down and cooperate. Soon the police arrives and the world's media attention is turned onto this situation. The terrorists are ruthless and want to prove a point, the police want to end the situation as soon as possible by any means necessary and the hostages are scared and panicked. In a cruel twist of fate, Jonathan is the right person, at the wrong time for such a situation. Over the next 18 hours and several locations, he will have to overcome his failures and manage this tense triangle.
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How does it work?
There are four main game aspects in Negotiator:
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People managament:
This works by talking to people, giving into their demands, doing things for them or alternatively turning them down. This affects their stress and happiness level, something akin to managing people in Sims with their states represented in green bars.
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Physical/stealth puzzles:
In each narrative section, there will be two physical and stealth puzzles that will need to be solved in order to gain new intelligence on the terrorists and relay it to the police. For example, in the embassy scene, you will have to control your sister's son who is the only one small enough to fit into a ventilation system to crawl through, listen to the terrorists and find a mobile phone in another room, bring it back so you can send messages to the police.
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Fatal choices:
Depending on how you control/handle the situation, at the end of every chapter, one person can be killed by the terrorists or police. This is comparable to the system present in TellTale games, where the story moves on but different characters live to see the end of it.
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Time:
Each section is time limited, forcing you to act fast and make split second decisions. This is there is there in order to raise tension, but also to bring a sense of reality to the situation. Things will happen with or without your input.
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Point of View:
As demonstrated in our prototype, a key component of the game is seeing the same situation from different points of view and using different characters at different times to solve the problem. For example in the third chapter, while on the double decker bus, full of hostages and terrorists you must guide the innocents out of the way while using the sniper to pick out the terrorists in places not covered by TV cameras.
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Audiovisual style:
“Negotiator” will be a fully 3D game played from a 1st person perspective, ideal for VR and well established in PC games. The tone and style of animation, and sets design, will play a crucial role in bringing the world to life. Stylistically the game will feel like a moody action film in the tradition set by films like Die Hard, and Heat and Collateral, by Michael Mann. A key component of the game will be character performance and facial animation, for which we will use video projected textures to heighten the emotional impact. We have done a lot of R&D on our previous projects in the areas of animation and facial performance, something we are keen to use and show in this one.
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