Project Overview
Title: Rossfield family
Genre: 2D Side-Scrolling Puzzle / Horror Exploration
Platform: PC
Razor (Fantasy of Experience):
The player explores an ancient manor to uncover the family’s dark secrets and sins, solving puzzles and witnessing the family’s inevitable downfall.
Story Moments in Gameplay Context
The story is delivered through gameplay moments rather than only through separate narration. Short cutscenes are used at key points to introduce major story beats and build tension. Conversations between the player and NPCs help reveal the history of the Rossfield family and guide the player’s understanding of the manor’s hidden secrets. In addition, collectible items found throughout the map, such as notes, letters, and key objects, provide environmental storytelling and gradually uncover the family’s past sins and downfall.
How Story and Gameplay Reinforce Each Other
Narrative-Driven Experience
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Secrets are revealed gradually through diaries, letters, and dialogues.
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Each night, a family member dies, adding suspense and new clues.
Multiple Endings
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Dead Ending: All people died
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Survivor Ending: The protagonist survives, the manor is destroyed.
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True Ending: The family truth is find out.
Hidden Ending: The protagonist discovers the real killer.
World-Building/CharacterDevelopment
Setting
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Place: An isolated manor on the outskirts of a small town
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Family: Outwardly wealthy and respectable, with a lot hidden secrets
Core Story
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Players will set out to uncover the truth behind the series of mysterious deaths within this family.
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The player is both an observer and a driving force in revealing these secrets.
Characters（some）:
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Father: Cold, betrayed his lover for power.
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Mother: knows the truth but remains silent.
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Eldest Son: Ambitious, seeks to exploit secrets for inheritance.
Outsider (Player Character: Lawyer): Exposes secrets from an external perspective.