I love learning from the creator! Seriously - i am in awe of game design, and so I really appreciate your insight!
I do see your creation as a template for interpretation. But, given the idea of forgetting in real life usually means forgetting things NOT just because they are most chronologically distant, I think having gaps in memory is far more fascinating!
Thanks again! :)
Hmmm... OK. Interesting...
So the prompts do happen chronologically, and i guess that, with in each memory, they are as well. But the result is memories that overlap with each other and can cause gaps when forgotten.
so, it might look something like this:
M1 gets Experience 1 from Prompt 4
M1 gets Experience 2 from Prompt 7
M2 gets Experience 3 from Prompt 6
M1 gets Experience 4 from Prompt 10
M2 gets Experience 5 from Prompt 9
etc...
So everything happens chronologically based on the Experiences, but if my vampire forgets all of their 1st memory (M1, in the above), it will mean they loose some information that happened between Exp 3 and 5 in the timeline... Love it love it love it!
I know i'm probably being WAY too analytical in how the game is intended to be played. But I love knowing the original intent, cause it helps me think around how things unfold narratively.
Thanks again for such a great game! I'm REALLY enjoying!
Loving playing this - really fun!
Question: as you receive prompts, should the experiences be RP'ed as if they happened in chronological order - a) within each memory and b) regardless of memory?
i've played it once where I added experiences to each separate memory in a chronological order within those individual memories. However, as a whole, each prompt did not result in an experience that was chronologically following the prompt that preceded it. This worked out ok, but I found it hard to tell the actual story flow.
The second time, I forced myself to create the experiences in chronological order, regardless whether I added them to the same memory i'd used for the previous experience, creating an absolute chronology that was created exactly how I received each prompt. It makes "forgetting" more of a patchwork of things - there were gaps in my vampires memory that came in between other experiences.
I know the answer is that probably both are OK and that its just preference. I'm still curious what the original intent was and how others have been playing.
