These pages finish up the characters and get right into the character copies. So. Many. Character. Copies. So. Many. Words. Then I thought, "I should rewrite these in Google Docs and Sheets!" So much writing and typing and editing.
Pages 6 and 7: Page 6 is a continuation of page 5. This covers the counselor NPCs however. And yes, we did name a character after the voice actor Phil LaMarr. I suggested the name Phil and everyone was cool with it :3. Page 7 is the beginning of the character copies. We needed a variety of dialogue that would mention clues, hence the bracketed ALL CAPS keywords. The challenge was to capture the characters' personalities while practically saying the same thing over and over again. This page starts with Slice's dialogue (he's my favorite character, so of course). Under that, I wrote the combinations of clues every character would use. I also set up my task with finalizing three different variations of each combination, amounting to 18 clue lines per character. I had my work cut out :)))))
Pages 8 and 9: With all of the writing, I'm not surprised that the pages immediately got dirty. Page 8 is the beginning of all the dialogue for seven characters. The reason I had so many characters to write it because one of the designers (the one who ruined my sprite placement early on) didn't follow what the lead proposed, so I took to fixing all of that. I originally had four characters, the lead had four characters, and the other designer had the remaining three. Page 9 is a continuation of Slice's copies and the start of P.B.'s copies. All of the copies with small checks next to them are the ones I wrote into my Google Doc, and eventually the game.
Pages 10 and 11: Page 10 is the rest of P.B's copies. The cut-off pink post-it at the bottom reads, "20 word max!" My lead clarified that we need the clues to be to the point, so I needed to make sure I didn't drown the players in words, haha. It wasn't hard to adjust to this; I wrote whatever ideas I had in this, trimmed the fat in Google Docs, and published the final copies to our Character Copy spreadsheet. Page 11 is a full page of Gummy's copies. The pages are about as dirty as pages 8 and 9.
I was having a lot of fun with the titles, like "The Reign of Gummy!" They were for small chuckles every time I opened my journal to those pages.
Dates: September 25 - October 12, 2017
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