Time for The Moon Night: A pixel art game about generational trauma

• Autor(a) principal: Sulzbach, Rafaela Inês Lamotte
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/13633
• topic: Game Design; Narrativa; Pixel Art; Trauma Geracional; Viagem no Tempo; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Artes::Jogos Digitais

This document is the presentation of the project Time for The Moon Night, which focuses on the creation of assets for a pixel art game, the development of its narrative, as well as well the implementation of these in a playable game to prove their coherence and functionality in a game. The game tells the story of a nameless teen who is part of a family of supernatural creatures, Agmas. The aim of this narrative is, through the concept of time traveling, to portray the impact that generational trauma tends to cause families, making it so that even those who are not aware of the real cause of their traumas see themselves affected by the reminiscent of something that happened decades before they were born. With that, the Project divides itself into two stages: The Design, which covers the process of creating the narrative, conceptualizing the characters and environments, and the development of the assets that are to be a part of the game. The second part, Development, focuses on the process of composition of the game, covering the mechanics and the implementation of the assets in way of proving that they are functional in a game. This document describes the creation process of a video game, which, on an autobiographical dimension, allowed, in an unusual way, to speak on a personal topic of extreme importance to the creator and of unquestionable historical relevance, through a mean usually associated with popular entertainment.