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Follow The Wind

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Contest submissions for [link]

So the story for this one is a bit long, but since it's part of the contest I'll write it down here anyway.

Back Story
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So the game I came up for with this one takes place in a post apocalyptic world. Earth is dead, and it's crumbled up into thousands of islands floating around where earth used to be. Why? Because floating sky islands are awesome.
So anyway, most of islands are pretty small, only enough room for like a small city or something, so there aren't any huge land masses in the sky, and as a result, aren't any huge bodies of water either. In fact more often than not when it rains, the water misses land completely, and falls into space, never to be seen again. As a result of this, the world is running out of water.

Enter, the main story
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So the main character in this story comes from a long line of "Rainmen". Basically what they do is fly around the sky on their giant flying fishes, and use fans to create small gusts of winds to push rain clouds to reservoirs in the sky so the water doesn't go to waste. Now they do this for free, but usually whenever there's something that people really need, someone tries to make money off of it. At the start of the game you hear about an organization that's been basically collecting clouds, and keeping them for themselves until someone pays enough for it. But most of the islands don't really have enough money, so they've been drying up basically. So the Rainmen go out to find out where this water is being stored so they can get it back.


What does this have to do with the wind?
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Well since most of the time spent in this game is spent in the air, you're pretty much at the mercy of the wind. You follow air currents from island to island, and pretty much goes wherever it goes. As the game goes on you get a bit better at flying against the wind, but it's still a pain if the wind is blowing away from where you want to go.

This piece was written with a cutscene in mind, and basically what happens in that cutscene is you meet the goddess of wind, and she gives you the Fan of Wind (couldn't come up with a name). Now this isn't like a big fan with blades or anything, but a big chinese style paper fan. And with this fan you can control the wind. Swing the fan left, wind goes left. Swing it up, create an updraft. And you can use this power to travel, or in battle to make the enemies fly where you want em.

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So anyway, sorry about the long description. Hope you enjoy the piece.
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EonOrteaShadowmaster's avatar
This game concept is awesome!

Hey, as far as a good name for that fan goes, perhaps you should look into the names of wind gods for inspiration [link] ... Just a suggestion.