Hells Winter
Note: If you are easily offended, my suggestion would be not to read this. This is meant to show how a screenplay can be used to map out a dynamic story-line for your game. I included violence and tragedy in this example as an attempt to manufacture feelings of empathy and revenge in the player, just as some movie's might. This content is under the same license as Maratis assets. Everyone is welcome to participate and or take it and create there own derivative works. No contributions will be rejected.
Hells Winter
Audio (Narrator): Earth (The garden) was once a beautiful and peaceful place. The guardians would spend great lengths of time admiring this creation and its inhabitants. We called it gods last great gift. Music: Kevin MacLeod - At Rest http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-fr … 20Rest.mp3 Camera: Flying down a dirt road at night.
Audio (Narrator): We never thought that the most powerful of us, would corrupt such beauty.
Camera: Flies thru a small decimated village on fire, into a cottage and up the stairs passing two men reeking with demonic influence. As the camera approaches the bedroom door, sounds of a woman in distress and a man panicking can be heard.
Action: Door Opens
Camera: We witness three men, in the process of committing great acts of evil, One is forcing himself onto the woman he has pinned to the bed and the Other two are holding her husband down forcing him to watch. All three men notice the camera entering the room and scour with disappointment. The first man ”holding woman down” looks at the camera, shrugs with a grin, and then slowly pushes the knife he has in hand into the woman. This action signals one of the other two men(holding the husband) to quickly cut the man's throat. The first man pulls the woman by her limp arm as he is getting off the bed, resulting in the woman falling limply to the floor. Both husband & wife stare into each other eyes as they die, eyes clouding over. All three men exit the room.
Audio (Narrator): We were wrong. The Camera is an angel, this is why the 3 men (NPC's) above look up at it and scour with dissapointment. Audio: A female adult “Angelic” voice can be heard speaking to a child “Angelic” voice…
Audio: (Adult Angelic Voice) Anna let him go ….
Audio: (Child Angelic Voice in a whisper) This isn’t right!!!
Audio: (Adult Angelic Voice) You must not interfere, doing so will only result in continued suffering.
Audio: (Child Angelic Voice in anger) HE “DESERVES” A CHANCE!!!!
Audio: (Adult Angelic Voice insisting) You must not interfere!!!
Audio: (Child Angelic Voice in disgust) And Evil must not be allowed to rule this world.
Action: And with those words the face of the female child angel enters the cameras view and gently kisses the man on the head. The man’s wounds begin to rapidly heal, his color comes back, eyes clear.
Camera: Flies out the door, down the stairs and exits the cottage, continues to fly back in the direction that it had come from.
Audio: The man is heard letting out, a great scream he is hollowing with great despair. For everything he ever loved and ever was has been destroyed.
Action Right before the screen fades out ... "We hear the distant whisper" - "Seek the Necromancer" from the Female Child Angel.
Action We are at the Game Menu, presented with a save game dialog.
Scene 1 Act 1 Our player begins to wake, he is cold and weak "vision blurry". he is face down in muddy snow.
Audio Flames/Crackling - The Town is smoldering ruins. Wolves can be heard snarling, snapping at each other.
Action The Wolves are fighting over the remaining corpses not taken by the fire.
Quest A. Our character most chase the wolves off.
1. Find a weapon
