Ritual, theme of this GGJ, is a series of actions out of wishes. We have discussed this theme and thought up lots of ideas and images—finally we decided to produce a game about the primitive rituals to pray for light and rain in nature. We named the game ‘Annual Ring(年轮)’ telling a story about the process of a tree sprouts from a bud, which is a metaphor of human being’s life ups and downs. We hope to do a wonderful game and provide the player with a complete emotional experience. Though the complete experience for 48 hours game development time is kind of short, we tried our best to do the game well and harmonious: in this game, the scenes are full of paper-cut style images, and compiled by a lot of natural sound elements, the music is pleasant…The game experience is moving. In a few minutes of display, bud sprouts in the nature, day and night and at all seasons, receiving gifts as well as sufferings by the nature—what it can do is to pray for light and rain in the ritual…
这次的GGJ主题是Ritual,仪式是为了内心的目的去执行的一系列的动作,对于这个主题我们团队讨论了很多,也出现了很多画面。从中我们选取了大自然中祈求光,祈求水这样最原始的仪式来作为游戏玩法的核心,用一个种子发芽成长为大树的跌宕过程去比喻人生的成长经历,游戏取名为《Annual Ring年轮》,我们希望去做一个有情感的游戏,做一个流程体验,48小时的开发时间对于这个流程体验可能比较短,但我们尽力做到完整以及和谐,配合灯箱剪影画风,以及利用大自然音效素材所精心编排的音乐,把这个体验做到更打动人心。在短短几分钟的时间,我们做了从春夏秋冬,日夜星辰的交替。一个小种子在大自然中成长,沐浴着大自然给予的滋润以及磨难,在面对大自然的无可奈何中也只有内心默默做着祈求光祈求水的仪式,成长…..
运行环境
1.Unzip AnnualRing All File.zip
2.open release->Annual Ring Mac for Mac OSX operation
open release->Annual Ring Win->AnnualRing.exe for Windows operation
鸣谢
All materials created by our team between GGJ 48 hours.