DISCOURSE [DEMO]

(Mis)information is more than power: Is profitable

Sometimes, we convince ourselves that our choices are not important, and that a little lie can harm anybody.

But when you are a mediocre reporter struggling for fame in the early 80s, you can end up as puppet of political and religious powers.

Your choices as a reporter manipulating information and changing the story for the sake of the powerful, not only gets your career up to heaven, but also condemns some innocent people to hell.

...The controversy regarding the Bishop of The Church of The Witnesses continues. Today, another body was found, supposedly a suicide as police has initially reported...

Ten years later, you made an appointment to interview a major witness of the investigation.

But you fell asleep while waiting for the meeting in a motel room and now the phone wakes you up to end up discovering the witness didn't show up.

It's time to figure what's going on...

Main Goal

Retrieve what the witness has stored in the room's safe: It's the only way out.

Gameplay tips

This is kind of "narrative-driven high-concept demo", so, as the story and the gameplay hints are imbued into the literary texts, I highly recommend to read them as calm as possible.

Movement and Interaction controls

Keyboard & Mouse	Gamepad (Xbox)	Action
WASD / Arrows	Left Stick	Move / Navigate Options
Mouse	Right Stick	Look
E	A  Button	Interact / Submit
Q	B Button	Cancel / Back
TAB	View Button	Inventory
ESC	Menu Button	Pause

Object inspection controls

Keyboard & Mouse	Gamepad (Xbox)	Action
Mouse Left Button	Right Stick	Initiate rotation
Mouse (while pressing)	Right Stick	Rotate object
Mouse Right Button	Left Trigger	Zoom

About the demo

Welcome! My name is Vic Franco and I'm a Narrative and Game Designer from Granada, Spain.

This demo is a ~vertical slice~ of a project currently on hold. It started as a I+D project for my former job, but it scaled really quickly into a personal project -and also, became some sort of a white whale for me. After some time, I decided to pack together the most significant content  to ship a little demo :)

Regarding the cut content, if you finish the demo, you'll watch a teaser showing some of the prototyped mechanics and puzzles -yay!

Needless to say, comments are welcome. As such as bug reports: feel free to talk about the game feel, refferences, aesthetics or just about performance issues. However, as long as the feedback is aimed for a critical role seeking real and argumented improvements :)

Now, let's play the thing!