Goorillas are little monkeys made of goo. They stretch, get stuck to things and sometimes they splat!

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Goorillas Story - The Journey to ShanGoori-La

It has become obvious from making observations during a game genre analysis that these Goorilla characters should have a story, and the game should feature their journey. This should increase the immersive qualities of the game and aid in gamifying level progression.

So I've adapted the Goorillas journey from one I've witnessed during my time in Kuala Lumpur.

I used to see monkeys down the hill from the condo, which was an interesting experience for me as I'm from England.




Occasionally I would see the monkeys scampering through the condo and climb the fence at the back to get to an area of protected forest.

As building in the area increased I would see fewer monkeys down the hill as they migrated to the protected forest to escape from the construction noise and loss of their habitat.



Once I saw a group of young monkeys stop by some shrubs during their journey through the condo and it looked like they were smelling the flowers, but they were probably forriging for food.

They were soon off again over the fence and making happy sounding monkey noises grouped together in the interesting looking trees, as if they had made it through the strange land to Shangri-la.


So that's the Goorillas story, their journey up the hill to escape the destruction of their habitat, through the strange man made jungle which eventually leads to ShanGoori-La, the protected forest with cool looking trees and great big sky views.



This journey will hopefully give the game a feeling of achievement and adds to the immersive role-play and discovery elements that modern players have come to expect from games today.

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