Quest Designs
Project T
Quest Flowchart and Dialogue
Project T takes place in a nightmarish realm created by an eldritch-like creature known as The Entity. The realm is inspired by elements of America's Deep South in the 1950s.
Below is a quest flowchart, followed by a text description of the quest with included dialogue samples.
Quests followed a narrative system I designed that dynamically adjusted dialogue based on the active party members.
0) LOADING SCREEN
(NOTE: Keaton communicates with the player characters over radio.)
Keaton: Thrall swarms are surroundin' us. Get a tower's generator gassed and runnin' so I can find a path through.
1) MISSION START
Current Objectives: Get Truck, Go to Pumpjack
(NOTE: VO is selected based on the active party members and random chance.)
Virgil: They're closin' in. Best get Keaton eyes on that tower.
Jacky: That idiot's driving us into every swarm out there!
Virgil: Think the problem is more gators than water.
Jacky: I don't do fucking metaphors when I'm pissed.
(5 second pause)
Keaton: Start with gettin' some gas. Get to a pumpjack.
1B) GET TRUCK
The truck is technically optional, but the mission becomes significantly harder without it. If the player has not entered a truck within 60 seconds of match start, a VO will trigger.
Keaton: Won't live long without a truck.
Current Objectives: Go to Pumpjack
2) GO TO PUMPJACK
The location is overrun with enemies.
Keaton: Fight your way in, it's our gas now.
Current Objectives: Take Fuel
2B) TAKE FUEL
Keaton: Alright, now find that tower.
Randomly triggered banter:
Jacky: *sniff* Don't smell like gas.
Layla: Carajo, does someone really have to tell you not to sniff gas?
Jacky: I'm saying it's not gas!
Layla: Yeah, it's Entity juice or something… doesn't make it better.
Jacky: Since when did you become the buzzkill?
Current Objectives: Go to Radio Tower
3) FIND GATE
A gate blocks the way to the tower.
Keaton: Y'ain't gonna let a gate stop ya.
Current Objectives: Open Gate, Go to Radio Tower
3B) OPEN GATE
Dwight: That should do it.
Current Objectives: Go to Radio Tower
4) GO TO RADIO TOWER
Keaton: See what that generator can do.
Randomly triggered banter:
Virgil: Why radio towers? Entity's buildin' our world without knowin' how it works.
Layla: Good, glad it doesn't know about Top 40 radio. This place is bullshit enough.
Current Objectives: Refuel Tower's Generator
4B) REFUEL GENERATOR
The tower activates when the generator is refueled.
Keaton: Signal's comin' in loud and clear. Get to the RV, I know the way.
Current Objectives: Escape to RV
5) GO TO RV
Mission Complete.
VOs trigger during the 'Results Screen' based on characters' accomplishments during the mission.
Virgil: Maybe they'll learn not to screw with us.
Jacky: I carried ya all but I'm not hearing any thank yous.
Willa: I have breathed in the dead—they are within me.
Dwight: Still a lot of payback owed, but that was a good start.
Layla: Middle finger to the thrall!