Maiden Pink

In this cyber-fantasy setting, trying to make your way to Sanctuary is hard enough as it is, but for Daughter, it’s even harder after Mother gets hurt. Daughter has to learn how to take responsibility and fast, before Mother fades to dust! Navigate through different zones, help the Locals, and defeat the Final Boss in a top-down, action RPG, coming of age story. Your decisions along the way will affect your skills, so make sure to choose wisely!

This game sketch, Maiden Pink, was created as a group project for Digital Game class at OCAD University. The game aims to explore three theoretical frameworks, based on the personal interest of each of the creators:

• Roxanne - Narration through mechanics - finding an appropriate balance between the player’s relation to the mechanics and the mechanic’s ability to tell the story.
• Yiyi - Evoking emotions in video games - applying retro style as a method in the process of creating artworks for video games to evoke player’s old memories and emotions.
• Dikla - Testing the relationship between mother and daughter through the theory of separation-individuation. And the feminist approach to parenthood, describing motherhood as one of the many aspects of a woman’s life.