The Ark
status : wip (demo available)
by : Story: flame, Art: flame + diegzumillo, Code: flame
Style : point and click
Project Ark is a point & click science fiction horror adventure game project for SEGA MegaDrive, intended as a vertical slice concept at this time.
SEGA MegaDrive was chosen as there are few games of this type on that system, and felt interesting to do something a little different.
Scenario
The Y.C.V. ECHO, with its crew of Yutani engineers—Willows, Marsson, Moss, and Hirsch—is waylaid while building a much-needed communication relay in the Epsilon Eridani star system, when they encounter a colossal space-faring entity that has traveled from the darkest corner of the void.
Intercepted by another ship, the D.S.E.V. LEVENE, with additional members—Clark, Burns, Ellis, Garland, and Song—under company orders the crews reluctantly join together to investigate, only to uncover unimaginable horrors, and the alien ship’s true intention.
An original story inspired heavily by the Alien series universe. As this is a fan-work, not officially licensed, some of the names and scenario may need to change.
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The project is split up into two main areas: A first-person onboarding sequence/cutscene, and a traditional point & click adventure style third-person experience.
The later intention is that the majority of the main game will be played in a point & click adventure, with exploration and puzzle solving, with first person narrative sections needed to traverse sections of various ships, an emphasising the feeling of claustrophobia.
At this time the first narrative segment is complete and provided in the form of a demo.
An emulator or other means of running MegaDrive/Genesis ROMs is needed.
