Chapter 4 Book Work
Game Development Essentials
Gameplay Mechanics
The Whistler: Reborn in the ashes of the great cartoon war of long ago, he knows not why he lives now. Only his faith in the old ways of cartoonery let him know that he was brought back for a reason. He finds he had been dead for at least 500 hundred years and goes looking for his descendants, the only part of his family he can find is Eeen. Eeen was a historian on the lost Cathode Ray cartoon era. He studies his descendant for several days to see how his own blood has fared through the years, and partly because he hasn’t figured out how to introduce himself. Eeen had managed to find many cartoons from the Whistlers era, some the Whistler recognizes, and some he could not remember. The Whistler was still adjusting to his life in the future, and some memories were hazy or not there at all. The Whistler was about to enter the building that Eeen was working from to introduced himself, but then a figure next to Eeen awoke dark memories from his past and breathing was all the Whistler could do to keep from passing out as the memories flooded back into him. One word slipped from his lips with a whistle that had not been heard for decades, “Telarana.”
Eeen: Eeen was born to a loving family that taught him many things when he was young; Right from wrong, love of all things, how to make macaroni self-portraits, all the basics that a 7 year old would need to know. His parents nurtured his natural ability to sketch anything he saw with astonishing ability and his parents once referred to him as a “natural whistler,” which is how he ended up with his nickname, Nugget. Though things took a turn on the eve of his 10th birthday when he was staying over at a friend’s house, his parents had been attacked while dancing to old 1950’s records in the privacy of their own home. By the time the police got there, Nugget had seen everything. Blood everywhere and all their old records scratched and smashed violently around the house, the police had concluded it was a robbery gone wrong, but Nugget couldn’t believe that. All Nugget can think about when his parents are mentioned was the way their blood formed a spider web in the shag carpet of their house, it still gives him nightmares to this day. As Nugget gets his things ready for his foster home the very day of his parent’s funeral, he finds a present in his secret hiding spot under the floorboards of his room. He opens it to reveal an old 8mm film reel; Nugget assumes it was another old cartoon his parents had always shown him from the old days. He opens the case and reads the name of the film, “Whistle While you Work.”
Telarana: A man of many talents, who was once one of the CEOs of a corporation that threatened to take down the old art form of hand drawn cartoons in favor of their robot cartoon creations. Telarana had always competed with the Whistler back when they were just starting out in college, trying to one up him with everything and anything they did. The Whistler took it with a grain of salt, but the rage Telarana felt turned him, and he vowed to do anything to be the best so he could get his revenge. Later on in life when Telarana revealed the new cartoons they took over the media like a New York trend, they were the talk of the town, if only for a while. Soon after reports came in that kids who watched the new cartoons had been acting funny, playgrounds at school were becoming empty, kids were standing in the streets screaming out streams of binary code, losing memory, and fluxuations in the natural order of nature were being observed in correlation with the cartoons. People started revolting, and an underground group was waiting to gain clout with the masses to fight back the evil robot cartoon creations. The group was known as the Illuminati, their leader was a man in the old cartoon business who ruled the land with his art and films. Some say he could soothe the masses with just a whistle. A war began between the two mediums and it was known as the Great Cartoon War. Telarana did not just make cartoons, but images that could control wavelengths only found in children. Telarana knew it wasn’t time to release his secret weapon, but with the Illuminati rising up against them so quickly with so much support, it was the only thing he could do to smooth things over with the company president. As soon as Telarana used the TV transmitters to broadcast the final film, a haze crept through all the houses that were playing the film, slowly corrupting the children. Many couldn’t handle the film and died trying to channel Telarana’s power, but the ones that survived screamed binary till their ears bled. And at that moment when the Illuminati’s leaders had broken through the corporate funded building and clashed with the CEOs, the binary code that ripped through the skies summoned something, a beast, which was not from this world. Telarana woke up in rubble. The building and everyone around him were dust and dead bodies, and he was in the middle of it without a scratch. Before he could figure out what exactly had happened, an intense pain on his right hand had caused him to scream out in pain. He looked at the back of his hand and it revealed a glowing green spider, as he looked into the hypnotizing glow, he felt like he wasn’t alone. Someone else was there with him, and was taking over. 500 years later…
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