The Strings of Destiny

Summary:
In a world where human emotions not only shape relationships but also form a tangible force, the balance of the universe depends on that emotional harmony. Sadly an uknown event happend and all emotions dissapears leaving only nothing. Elizabeth, the protagonist, is a wandering musician carrying his trusted instrument, the Lyre of Echoes, a mystical artifact capable of influencing the world’s emotion.

Aleshani's letter: Dear Santa,

My interests and hobbies outside of games are... Cinema (old movies and especially musicals from the 50s/60s, I also like movies like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or comedies for example), piano, writing stories. My favorite movie is Labyrinth (the one with David Bowie from the 80s). I also love writing. I'm currently trying to write a novel.

My favourite video games and genres are... Undertale, baldur's gate 3, pokémon, zelda. I like narrative games and RPGs. When I create games, I like to integrate narrative. 

Platform limitations and accessibility concerns for me are... I don't have one, I have a PC and also a PS5 and PS4 controller. 

Additional details about me are... Hello Santa! My name is Orane. I'm 26 and I'm from France. I own a dog named Chelsea! I've always loved dogs. I have a degree in Game Design and currently work as a project manager and game designer in an escape game, but I'd like to get back into video games. If you want, you can check my itch.io to test my games: https://aleshani.itch.io/

My response:

I tried to replicate the old cinema by doing everything monocromatic, and added the musical part because of the musicals (even tho i didnt have time to add my own SFX and credit to the assets will be below) add a little witch because of your liking to the magic (I like it too). I wanted to add a laberyntic scenario but i didnt acomplished a lot of that. My vision was to create a zelda-ish dungeon with platformer replacing keys with songs (Actually the songs are mainly reference to Zelda Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask reference).

Due to my lack of experience with cinematics i did tried to make a narrative intro but for my limitations i only used text. Another limitation because of the time is that the game is only playable in controller, maybe later i will add support to keyboard. I also had the first idea of chelsea being in the gameplay, retrieving things or activating buttons

GameDev:

Well this was a fun mini project created for the Secret Santa Jam 2024 for the member Aleshani, I tried to get a lot of ideas but with the time it wasn't easy, so i make a little prototype of how many ideas i get to fit in those days. This was my first game created so i had to watch a lot of videos and read a lot of post and bug fixing (Im seeing you purple texture). I dont really know if im gonna continue it or keep working on a bigger vision (That depends if the people liked the vision), i only know i get a lot of knowledge and a lot to learn. 

Btw i made a full code to combinate all the colors i need with a logic behind but i didnt finish all so i only used 1 time in the game (its not premade like if ( color yellow == color green ) color blue = true or something like that)  Heres is the full combination matrix (Sorry its in spanish i get that table from my plan exel):

Neutro = Neutral

Felicidad = Happiness

Envidia = Envy

Tristeza = Sadness

Odio = Hate

	Neutro	Felicidad	Envidia	Tristeza	Odio
Neutro	Neutro	Felicidad	Envidia	Tristeza	Odio
Felicidad	Felicidad	Felicidad	Tristeza	Tristeza	Felicidad
Envidia	Envidia	Tristeza	Envidia	Odio	Odio
Tristeza	Tristeza	Tristeza	Odio	Tristeza	Odio
Odio	Odio	Felicidad	Odio	Odio	Odio

Neutro
No altera ninguna emoción.
Neutro	Neutro no altera ninguna emoción	Neutro
Felicidad	Neutro no altera ninguna emoción	Felicidad
Envidia	Neutro no altera ninguna emoción	Envidia
Tristeza	Neutro no altera ninguna emoción	Tristeza
Odio	Neutro no altera ninguna emoción	Odio
Felicidad
Potencia emociones positivas, pero puede volverse negativa en exceso.
Neutro	Neutro no altera ninguna emoción	Felicidad
Felicidad	Felicidad al doble no se alterara asimisma	Felicidad
Envidia	La felicidad se ve contaminada por la envidia	Tristeza
Tristeza	La felicidad se desvanece al estar triste	Tristeza
Odio	La felicidad desvanece al odio	Felicidad
Envidia
Generalmente intensifica emociones negativas.
Neutro	Neutro no altera ninguna emoción	Envidia
Felicidad	La felicidad se ve contaminada por la envidia	Tristeza
Envidia	Envidia al doble no se alterara asimisma	Envidia
Tristeza	La tristeza se intensifica llevando al odio	Odio
Odio	El odio se lleva de la mano con la envidia comiendosela por completo	Odio
Tristeza
absorbe o intensifica las emociones negativas.
Neutro	Neutro no altera ninguna emoción	Tristeza
Felicidad	La felicidad se desvanece al estar triste	Tristeza
Envidia	La tristeza se intensifica llevando al odio	Odio
Tristeza	Tristeza al doble no se alterara asimisma	Tristeza
Odio	la Tristeza alimenta el Odio	Odio
Odio
Siempre prevalece en combinaciones con emociones negativas, pero puede ser neutralizado por la Felicidad.
Neutro	Neutro no altera ninguna emoción	Odio
Felicidad	La felicidad se desvanece al estar triste	Felicidad
Envidia	La tristeza se intensifica llevando al odio	Odio
Tristeza	Tristeza al doble no se alterara asimisma	Odio
Odio	la Tristeza alimenta el Odio	Odio

Credits from SFX:
Helton Yan's Tranquility
footsteps_sound_pack 
Fantasy UI SFX