Spill your Tea
A pitch
Our main idea revolves around personal struggles that we have overcome and what we create out of them and the clash between the true self and the perceived self. Our Twine game is a narrative of the oppression of an individual through the perceived self versus true self with the physical tea “making” is the individual’s written feelings on the oppression/climax of story.
The making of the tea/consuming of tea as a metaphor for the conflict of the true self versus the perceived self - the conflict of expectations and struggles versus who you are and what you want. The Twine game is the “perceived self” and use Twine to ask questions about life and perspectives “get a feel for the audience member”. We use the answers to see what story or line of tea in the tea box would appeal to them. For example: “As a child did you feel pressured to succeed?”... And then, “Since you felt pressure to succeed…” Then we will trail into Kevin’s story in first person. This progresses into the physical interaction, starting with a tea recipe/instructions and move into the narrative and “make” tea while reading.
Our physical interaction is the reflective process, you start the tea, which is who you are/what you want to accomplish. The story continues in Twine - Twine will tell you when to refer to the physical interaction, the narrative is the distraction from creating the tea. We will have one giant box and inside will be rows of tea “bags” which are the stories that the player will go through/read. Each row will be a different story. At the climax of the clash of the “true self vs perceived self,” the player will open the tea.
Inside the tea bag, there is tea and the rest of the story typed out/possible future that was created through the choices made in the climax. The tea types are a personification of aspects of the story. The tea bags also contain instructions to the next story. End Result: Through the use of digital/physical interactions, we will create an experience that has the audience contemplate their relationship between their true self and perceived self and their perceived self - who they are versus who others think they are and how this struggle shaped who they are.