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>1. Dialouge with Lily – Daughter
Lily:
Guess what I found today, mom/dad ? (Reach out and rummage around in backpack) well, It’s not a surprise, just another bag of scraps. If you put it in the past, even the recycler wouldn’t want them, now become our base reinforcement and life-saving things.
You:
Well, after all, These are already the most useful things that those of us left behind can find.
Lily:
I still can’t believe those people can leave us to survive on this planet that is almost barren. They run out of this mess by themselves in a rocket.
You:
Yeah, me too. But at the moment, we still need to pay attention about the problem of survival. Thank you for your exploration Lily, I don’t know what I should do if our families hadn’t been here.
Lily:
That’s okay. By the way, it seems that Uncle Arnold was looking for you. I went to check the resources with grandma.
You:
OK, See you later then
~Analysis of dialogue 1 ideas
This will be the first dialogue that players will see during the game, therefore, it needs to show players their own identity in the game through subtext signs, and also show players the story of the overall background of the world
So I added some details to the conversation:
” If you put it in the past, even the recycler wouldn’t want them, now become our base reinforcement and life-saving things.”
- Materials that were once regarded as garbage that no one would even look at are now the key to survival in the last days, suggesting that the world has reached the end of the world environment where resources are extremely scarce.
“I still can’t believe those people can leave us to survive on this planet that is almost barren. They run out of this mess by themselves in a rocket.”
- This sentence expounds the overall background of the world outlook. Rich people leave by spaceship, leaving ordinary people to fend for themselves the Earth.
At the same time, it should also reflect the character characteristics of this role:
“Guess what I found today, mom/dad ? (Reach out and rummage around in backpack) well, It’s not a surprise, just another bag of scraps. If you put it in the past, even the recycler wouldn’t want them, now become our base reinforcement and life-saving things”
- Lily’s language is complaining about the hard life, but at the same time, at the beginning, she showed the protagonist the action of picking up the scraps, which already hinted that she was also trying her best to participate in making family’s life better.
“That’s okay. By the way, it seems that Uncle Arnold was looking for you. I went to check the resources with grandma.”
- This dialogue not only gives the whole dialogue a reasonable time to end, but also implies Lily’s close contact with her family under her rebellious appearance, even she is complaining, but still trying to find out what she can help with this family.
>2. Dialouge with Arnold- Preparation and search for weapons
Arnold:
(Come over in a hurry) Hey, there’s something I need to discuss with you. Something very important.
You:
Ok, Don’t worry, take your time, what is it?
Arnold:
I think we need more weapons for self-defense. (Serious expression)It is said that it is not peaceful around here these days…
>Yes, Looking for weapons
You:
Yeah, I think so, the available resources are limited, and it is inevitable that some people will do something to get them easier. I’ll get some people to help you find the weapon.
Arnold:
(Breathe a sigh of relief) Thanks for paying attention to our safety… I know it is not easy for us to find resources, but the ability to protect ourselves is necessary.
You
>You’re right, Arnold. I agreed.
>No, not a good time for this
You:
We really can’t spare any hands right now, Arnold. We need more resources to ensure the lives of residents. I’m sorry.
Arnold:
(Angry and anxious)Living? are you really can’t tell the situation now? Do you really think that we can still have a life without the ability to protect ourselves in any situation? All right.
Alright, when something really happens, you will know that what I said is right! (Leave angrily)
~Analysis of dialogue 2 ideas
This dialogue will appear before bandits are about to come to rob supplies for players to make a choice. So first of all, suggest that the player has this risk. Secondly, there needs to be a branch story here, so players should have room for judgment that they can refuse and agree, and at the same time, the player’s refusal option should be reasonable. And it has the same requirements as before, and it is required to conform to what the character can say.
“I think we need more weapons for self-defense. It is said that it is not peaceful around here these days…”
- Arnold’s personality is relatively straightforward, so he will choose to directly ask what he needs, such as weapons, instead of beating around the bush, but then he will add the reasons, because he may know that simply saying that he needs weapons may make others not know his intentions.
- This is also a hint that bad things may happen to the player next, but at the same time it is not a definite answer, so the player also has a choice. They can consider themselves lucky and choose to refuse without meet these bad things.
“(Breathe a sigh of relief) Thanks for paying attention to our safety… I know it is not easy for us to find resources, but the ability to protect ourselves is necessary.”
- Arnold has a high sensitivity to the crisis, and he is not unreasonable. He knows that the resources are tight, and every penny needs to be considered before use, but he really feels that the priority of having self-protection ability is higher than continuing to build the infrastructure of the base.
- So when you agreed to distribute resources to him to make weapons, He will relax and explain his thoughts to you.
“We really can’t spare any hands right now, Arnold. We need more resources to ensure the lives of residents. I’m sorry.”
- It is what the protagonist will say after the player makes a choice. I need to make the protagonist’s reply look like this choice is reasonable, so I chose the biggest problem in the initial stage of the establishment of the base, that is, the shortage of basic resources to refuse.
“Alright, when something really happens, you will know that what I said is right! (Leave angrily)”
- Arnold is quite straightforward, so after realize that you refused his proposal, his reaction was actually more like the feeling that thought you couldn’t take care of the overall situation, so he was disappointed in you and worried about the future of his family.
- Therefore, instead of reprimanding you, he is more inclined to emphasize the possible consequences of your actions and make you pay attention, and this attention is exactly what players need: it warn players that “you may have made a wrong decision just now, and your decision will bring some consequences when something happens in the future”.
>3. Dialouge with Lily- Bandits
Lily:
Looks someone trying to give us a surprise? At least we have to do something before those bandits ransack our warehouse. Dad/Mom, what do you think? It’s not our style to sit and watch.
>Yes in Scene 2
You:
It’s really a smart choice to prepare weapons in advance, bandits should not be a problem. Arnold is right. It’s really not peaceful around here recently.
>No in scene 2
You:
It’s a huge loss… I should have listened to Arnold. The situation around here is really bad, It wouldn’t be that if at least some weapons were prepared.
~Analysis of dialogue 3 ideas
This passage is what the bandits will see when they come. It is divided into two parts. One is the opening notice, which represents the event that happened today and the bandits will come. The other part is based on the different trends selected in the second scene before.
“Looks someone trying to give us a surprise? At least we have to do something before those bandits ransack our warehouse. Dad/Mom, what do you think? It’s not our style to sit and watch.”
- As explained in the beginning of the story, lily is often responsible for going out to collect materials in the team, so she is also one of the most sensitive people in the team to changes in the external environment.
- At the same time, she is still at the psychological age and actual age of teenagers. She is more inclined to actively fight back against foreign invaders and drive them away, so she will communicate with the tone of encouraging the protagonist.
“It’s really a smart choice to prepare weapons in advance, bandits should not be a problem. Arnold is right. It’s really not peaceful around here recently.”
- This dialogue is not only a compliment to the reliability of family members, It is also the affirmation and encouragement for players to make the right choice.
- The mode of self-talk is also more like the post-war summary report, which can help players to better realize what their choices have brought.
“It’s a huge loss… I should have listened to Arnold. The situation around here is really bad, It wouldn’t be that if at least some weapons were prepared.”
- At the same time, it implies that if the player chooses another option, the result may be different.
- The emotion revealed in the soliloquy can make the player bring into the character’s emotion more deeply, and be cautious when making a choice next time.
>4. Dialouge with Patty- Flora
Patty:
(Eyes flashing, Holding a roll of greenhouse design draft in arms) Listen, kid, I have an idea here, among the scraps recovered there are biological wastes that can promote plant growth and materials that can keep the temperature, If we can get mot of this material, we can build an experimental base to study new plants in this world…(These words can be played quickly)
(Realize that you don’t seem to understand) In short, if give me a new camp to build a new research institution, I may be able to study the new ecological plants in this world, who knows, this may solve some of our problems now: But the execution of all this requires your aggressive first.
>Yes
You:
Ok, mom, I believe you. No one in our camp is more professional with plants than you. I’ll ask people to pay attention to the materials you mentioned And help you build the research place as soon as possible. Looking forward to your research results.
Patty:
Thank you, my daughter/son. (Carefully put away the draft) Then I will wait for your good news.
>No
You:
Sorry, mom, We are short of resources and manpower now, so there may be no extra resources for you to Build a new camp and building.
Patty:
(Carefully roll up the drawings, sigh)All right, It’s not surprising, I won’t mention it again. (Shake her head) I hope everyone in our camp is as tenacious as those plants.
~Analysis of dialogue 4 ideas
Patty is not the conventional image of an old man who likes to recall the past and make sense, but more of an image of a scientist with active brain thinking, This is what I need to pay attention to when writing characters.
Also, players need to decide whether to let the patty work out plant research, which is the similar as last time, I need to make sure that no matter which option the player chooses, the protagonist’s reaction is like this option is reasonable. And at the same time, I need to pay attention to the fact that the protagonist will have different attitudes with different people.
“(Eyes flashing, Holding a roll of greenhouse design draft in arms) “
- Patty’s personal style is slightly idealistic, but at the same time, she also hope that her achievements can be affirmed by people, so here I choose the action with expectations(flashing eyes) and the defensive psychology of being afraid of being denied (hold draft in arms) at the same time.
“Listen, kid, I have an idea here, among the scraps recovered there are biological wastes that can promote plant growth and materials that can keep the temperature, If we can get mot of this material, we can build an experimental base to study new plants in this world…(These words can be played quickly)”
“(Realize that you don’t seem to understand) In short, if give me a new camp to build a new research institution, I may be able to study the new ecological plants in this world, who knows, this may solve some of our problems now: But the execution of all this requires your aggressive first.”
- A scientist like Patty turns his mind very quickly, so she may say a bunch of nouns that others don’t understand before she knows them. However, because the purpose of she coming here is to let the protagonist in charge of managing resources, that is, the player, agree to allocate resources for research, she will take back his divergent thinking and explain herself as simply as possible.
- But at the same time, she will add some uncertain words because she is afraid of causing trouble to other people’s lives, such as “who knows”,”this may solve something”.
“(Carefully roll up the drawings, sigh)All right, It’s not surprising, I won’t mention it again. (Shake her head) I hope everyone in our camp is as tenacious as those plants.”
- Because we can see that she is ready to be rejected, her attitude facing the rejection of the request is mostly will not produce strong external emotions, it’s more of a expression means “I knew this would happen.”
- And according to the character and behavior of such people, after being rejected once, they often don’t make the same suggestion again.
“I hope everyone in our camp is as tenacious as those plants.”
- Patty likes plants very much, which can be seen from the fact that she is very good at studying plants, Because of this, she may use the corresponding metaphor or in his speaking habits.
- In particular, she is an older character, people at this age with this much life experience will use more metaphors or other cultural content.
>5. Dialouge with Patty
>Yes in scene 4
Patty:
Good news, The research is progressing steadily, I believe that our food safety problem is being solved. I think the study of these plants is a really good development direction. You can develop more in this field, I’m also happy to help more in this regard.
>No in scene 4
You:
It seems that I made a wrong decision. Food production is not booming, and we lost some people because of it… I hope the rest of us can live safely, also hope that l can be more cautious when making choices next time…
~Analysis of dialogue 5 ideas
“You can develop more in this field, I’m also happy to help more in this regard.”
- People like Patty will be very happy to be at the contribution to the team is glowing, they will be happy that their value can be brought into play. So she will mention that you can still ask her if you need help later.
“It seems that I made a wrong decision. Food production is not booming, and we lost some people because of it… I hope the rest of us can live safely, also hope that l can be more cautious when making choices next time…”
- In addition to making players realize that they have made a wrong decision, this sentence also contains a message, which will be reflected in the next game that they have lost some residents. This is a hint of the change of game state.
>6. Make a final choice
You:
Now that the development of the camp has gradually stabilized, I think we need to consider a more realistic and urgent problem.
Lily:
What do you mean?
You:
We should think about it now. What are we going to do with the resources at hand? Should we build a rocket to leave this planet or stay here? Life in such a small camp has too many uncertainties.
We need to set a future development direction, whether to build rockets toleavethis planet like our predecessors, Or let the campdevelop, or even change theenvironment, make it more suitable for survival.
Patty:
No, no, no, I will never leave this earth(Shake her head hard),everything on this planet is rapidly adapting to the environment, which is also a great opportunity to develop a brand-new civilization. I feel more hopeful to stay here, and I will never agree to leave.
Arnold:
Leaving here is not necessarily a bad idea. At least the public security here is now chaotic, and the resources for survival are also rare, We have been attacked by bandits before, and you should know how risky it is to live in this world.For me, I’d rather go to outer space to have a try and see if we can found a new chance.
Lily:
Do you think we can really build a rocket? At our present level, it’s hard to even to make a rocket engine ourself. Interstellar travel is not as romantic as it sounds, Even if you don’t consider these, I don’t know if it would be a good idea to continue to spoil another planet.
(Shrug shoulders) But it doesn’t matter if you try, both sides have a chance anyway.
(look at you) In the end, it depends on your decision, mom/dad. Come on, what’s your decision?
~Analysis of dialogue 6 ideas
This is a scene where all the remaining characters get together, It is also the last decision that players need to make in the period of development on earth, and it will also greatly affect the final plot direction.
Therefore, all the characters need to appear in this part, and the final decision direction of the player is given through their dialogue.
“everything on this planet is rapidly adapting to the environment, which is also a great opportunity to develop a brand-new civilization. I feel more hopeful to stay here, and I will never agree to leave.”
- Since patty is an expert in studying plants, she may pay more attention to the restoration of the ecological environment on the earth. So she should be more inclined to stay on earth.
- Also, because she is more emotional, so she should take that “all creatures in the world are trying to adapt to the environment” as a harbinger of hope for development on earth.
“Leaving here is not necessarily a bad idea. At least the public security here is now chaotic, and the resources for survival are also rare, We have been attacked by bandits before, and you should know how risky it is to live in this world.For me, I’d rather go to outer space to have a try and see if we can found a new chance.”
- Although arnold tends to protect himself in the environment, he actually proves that he does not reject the sexual environment itself. On the contrary, he will try to adapt to the new environment, but at the same time he is very concerned about the future of his family.
- So if there is an opportunity, he will be more inclined to let his family go to a place with more development prospects, rather than stay on the earth where I don’t know whether it can be restored to a livable environment.
“(Shrug shoulders) But it doesn’t matter if you try, both sides have a chance anyway.
(look at you) In the end, it depends on your decision, mom/dad. Come on, what’s your decision?”
- As the only person in the team who is in the teenage stage, Lily’s personality is the most straightforward, and as the daughter of the protagonist, she is also the most determined person to stand on the side of the protagonist.
- At the same time, Lily’s habits will not be determined by everything they have experienced in their lives like other adults. This also leads to the least subjective conditions in her judgment, and her current subjective factors are almost only the dissatisfaction of previous people who left them on the earth. So she can clearly see the advantages and disadvantages of this plan.