Yesterday Once More is a Single Player Role Playing Game developed in RPG Maker MV, using visual scripting and JavaScript. The story is about narrating the bystander situations that people may come across sometimes in their lifetime. The project is a learning experience of Visual Story course at the Centre for Digital Media for 2019 Spring Term.
Explore the possibility that the game has with regards to story-telling. This includes better understand how an RPG works, what is the best way to incorporate conversations into a game, and how to write a plot that is meaningful and understandable.
Our protagonist Jater has the superpower to travel back to a slice of time. The story starts with a man being beaten by a group of people. Jater uses his ability under five situations and makes different decisions to piece the story together into a complete narrative and get the idea behind.
It turns out at the end that the man being beaten is a criminal at large and the group of people who have the superpower that identifies criminals are doing what they think is right, however, Jeter’s presence gives them another possibility to end this in a lawful way.
As mentioned, Jater witnesses a man being beaten by a group of people. And Jater makes decisions to unfold different storylines, based on time travels.
Storyline one, Jater walks away then finds the man is killed and police at sense. Jater regrets so he travels back time to save the man.
Storyline two, Jater tries to help, yet the man doesn’t want to be saved and yells Jater to leave, then kills himself with a gun. Jater is even more confused so he wants to know why.