"Forbidden" Areas (Previously unreachable Areas)
Posted: 04 Oct 2016, 21:19
Hello,
I apologise if this question has been asked before:
I saw this beautiful project and have been watching some of the videos, and I was curious. Has the project thought at all about creating any areas that were not in the original game? (ex. player being able to leave Gehn's building, or go inside one of the Jungle Island village houses). If so, was that idea scrapped because it would be too much work or involve too much imagination?
Here's how I thought of that.
When I first played Riven (I was like 11 or so) I tried for ages to get out of the building in age 233 (out of the door that Gehn comes in from). I was wondering if there was a way to cheat and get to that area (without realising that the area had not actually been designed to be accessible by the original creators). Part of what made the game exciting was being able to see areas but not being able to go to them.
Examples of parts of the game I tried to get to but couldn't:
--Catherine's prison (beyond the elevator barrier- and where the outdoor barred walkway she goes to across the room leads to)
--age 233 outside- (what was Gehn doing when he went outside? DId he have a boat?)
--The village in the Moiety hive in Tay
--Other parts of the village (ex. inside houses, such as the one where you known and the girl opens and shuts the window) on Jungle Island village
--any others people know of?
Seeing one or some of these "forbidden" areas would be really creative and make it seem as if the player were exploring unknown Riven territory again for the first time.
I apologise if this question has been asked before:
I saw this beautiful project and have been watching some of the videos, and I was curious. Has the project thought at all about creating any areas that were not in the original game? (ex. player being able to leave Gehn's building, or go inside one of the Jungle Island village houses). If so, was that idea scrapped because it would be too much work or involve too much imagination?
Here's how I thought of that.
When I first played Riven (I was like 11 or so) I tried for ages to get out of the building in age 233 (out of the door that Gehn comes in from). I was wondering if there was a way to cheat and get to that area (without realising that the area had not actually been designed to be accessible by the original creators). Part of what made the game exciting was being able to see areas but not being able to go to them.
Examples of parts of the game I tried to get to but couldn't:
--Catherine's prison (beyond the elevator barrier- and where the outdoor barred walkway she goes to across the room leads to)
--age 233 outside- (what was Gehn doing when he went outside? DId he have a boat?)
--The village in the Moiety hive in Tay
--Other parts of the village (ex. inside houses, such as the one where you known and the girl opens and shuts the window) on Jungle Island village
--any others people know of?
Seeing one or some of these "forbidden" areas would be really creative and make it seem as if the player were exploring unknown Riven territory again for the first time.