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Into De-Forest

Finn and Alex

Finn , Alex, and Hunter

Into Da Forest

Surface Story

Main Theme/Moral

Main Character

Environment

Clues (Significant Objects and Characters)

Problem: Bob is cutting down trees in order to find the treasure

Description:

Lone traveller, has a family they care about, In need of the money for children.

Description:

A dense forest which protects a hidden city and valuable treasure.

(1) Oxygen depletion

(3) Axe, Mattock and machete for cutting down trees

(2) The Treasure in the cave

(4) Bobert- The child

Hidden Story

Description

Humans who cut down trees believing that it fuels the future.

Description

The amazon rainforest which is the world's largest tropical rainforest. It holds an estimated 2544727 species.

(1) The environmental consequences of trees being cut down.

(3) Machinery for cutting down trees

(2) The resources being extracted from the forest

(4) The Future generations which will feel the effects

Cause: Lack of resources to support his child

Effect: His children are sick and the forest is dying

Problem: Deforestation in the Amazon

Cause: Cutting for resources and expansion

Effect: accelerate climate change and natural disasters

Allegory Map

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Into De-Forest is an adventure-style game in which the main character explores the amazon rainforest in search of a mystical treasure. The character travels into and through the forest, in order to uncover a hidden city and a cave in which the treasure lies. This game was created with Unity, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator to create vector-styled artwork in the backgrounds and assets of each level. Into De-Forest is a semi-realistic take on the effects of deforestation today. The main character must clear trees en route to the treasure, emphasizing how people today take away massive amounts of forest just for personal gain. As more trees are taken away, oxygen levels within the forest deplete, making it harder for the character to stay alive. The only way to combat this is to replant the trees to replenish the oxygen level. The explorer must venture out into the forest and uncover the mystical treasure, as well as keep the environment in mind.F

Max, Gordon, and Grace

Surface Story

Main Theme/Moral

Main Character

Environment

Clues (Significant Objects and Characters)

Problem: humans are forced to create an underground civilization.

Lower class worker who mines and collects valuable items

Underground post-climate cave system

(1) natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, and tornadoes overcoming humans and forcing them underground

(3) Economic incentives like wealth growth leading to corruption

(2) people being pushed out of their home in-game due to not paying enough tax money (due to poverty) to the leader of the city

(4) "Cold material" being necessary for human life that is scarce for the lower class

Hidden Story

People working in lower wages than the value of their job

Gentrified cities such as Boston and Cambridge

(1) Modern day climate destruction such as deforestation and pollution and its dangerous effects

(3) Those in power taking more than they should

(2) gentrification and stealing from the poor to provide for the rich

(4) Resources such as food and building supplies that are being denied from the lower class

Cause: past generations destroyed the environment

Effect: Natural disasters increased at such a rapid rate that humans were forced underground with limited resources.

People who are in need of essential supplies like food and housing are being denied them

Capitalism being driven by unending production growth at the expense of depletion of natural resources, pollution, and climate change.

Many deaths and low quality of life

Allegory Map

Game Play Diagram

Scene 1: Home

Scene 2: The Town

Scene 3: Hills

Scene 4: The Caves

Gentrification: mayor steals cooling stones from the poor and gives to the rich

Climate Change: humans are forced to move underground after their world is destroyed from the increase in natural disasters.

Player completes the "Hills" level to collect cooling stones

Player completes the "Caves" level to collect cooling stones

Player completes the "Tunnels" level to collect cooling stones

Player meets characters in town and learns about the mayor (see next page for dialogue)

Player spawns in bedroom and is greeted by the guide

Scene 5: The Tunnels

1:27 minute timer when character moves between cool zones

Mayor takes a disproportionate amount of coolant for themself

Society underground eventually collapses

due to this

Max

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Caveside is a platformer adventure game where you are forced to live in an underground civilization as the world above has become ravaged by natural disasters increasing. You must complete levels to collect cooling stones and cool your underground home before it becomes fatally hot.

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QUick little sketch

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Into De-Forest

Finn and Alex

Into De-Forest

Finn and Alex

Surface Story

Main Theme/Moral

Main Character

Environment

Clues (Significant Objects and Characters)

Problem: The man needs to find a rare treasure.

Description:

Lone traveller, has a family they care about, features customizable, In need of the money for children, poor

Description:

An array of trees in a forest, when one tree is cut down, multiple take its place, as well as a hidden city depending on which path you take

(1) Huron- Its the oxygen for our world

(3) Machete for cutting down trees

(2) Treasure

(4) Children

Hidden Story

Description

Humans, The ones who go to cut down trees. While believing that it fuels the future.

Description

The amazon rainforest. the world's largest tropical rainforest.

(1) Oxygen

(3) Machinery for de-forestation

(2) Technology

(4) People

Cause: Lack of money to support children.

Effect: His children are sick.

Problem: Deforestation in the Amazon

Cause: Cutting down trees

Effect: lack of oxygen

Allegory Map

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Some causes

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Deforestation/deforestation_update3.php#:~:text=Direct%20causes%20of%20deforestation%20are,as%20road%20building%20and%20urbanization.

- agricultural expansion

- Wood extraction

- infrastructure expansion

-Road and Urbanization

-conversion to cropland(taking the trees and cutting them down to turn it into land that can be used as farmland.)

most of these causes work together and are not the sole contributor to the issue.

https://www.c2es.org/content/wildfires-and-climate-change/

- Wildfire risk depends on a number of factors, including temperature, soil moisture, and the presence of trees, shrubs, and other potential fuel.

- climate change impacts because it affects the dry areas of organic matter.(which helps to fuel the wild fire).

- Higher temperature affects the ability of a fire the most.

Forests help control the water cycle by regulating precipitation, evaporation and flows. Layers of forest canopy, branches and roots can store and release water vapor, which controls rainfall. ... Deforestation weakens this process, leading to irregular rainfall patterns including drought and flooding.

image.ai

cool idea. If this is a go ahead I will have to go in and clean the image up and create the frame for each animation

Spatial Narratives

Into De-Forest

Caveside

Drawing

Photoshop background thing

Mid Review

Forest Fire Diagram

Research

Research

Extra information about the water cycle.

Character Design!!!

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