The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes is an interactive visual novel, in which its plot is inspired by the fairy tale of the same name. The game is also the final project of my Intro to Game Design class.

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The game is mainly concentrated on the reaction of the crowd after the emperor went naked on the street. The player will be playing the game from the perspective of people from different social classes, and their reaction would determine whether the emperor would trust his "new clothes" or not at the end of the story.

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The plot of the game, while maintaining humor and creating a sense of unexpected, also reveals a lot of reflections in its plots and dialogues. The game satirizes some of the social phenomenon, such as class inequalities, double standards, etc., through the dialogue between characters of different social classes and the emperor.

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A single walkthrough of the entire game is about 15-20 minutes, including a total of 144 branch plots and three plot paragraphs. I was the main developer of the game, using the Fungus plugin for the dialogue and dialogue-selection system. I was also involved in the design of the game and writing most of the script.