Carioca Trailer – Video

Posted: Published on February 27th, 2013

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Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8oevZI4_Gw



Carioca Trailer
Carioca is a first person RPG which simulates a dangerous Brazilian favela where players can choose the course of actions which suits their self-imposed goals. The game tries to generate an emergent narrative by embedding narrative cues in the environment as well as presenting a tactile gameworld. Via their interaction with the game and its characters, the players can change the meaning of life in the favela - for better or worse. All characters in the game (including the player) are controlled by statistical values that define their needs. For example, a character #39;s hunger value increases over time making it hungry enough to warrant eating twice a day. In order to satisfy these needs, characters move to a "food area", a "rest area" etc. According to the type of NPC (civilian, druggie or gangster), they can beat, mug, kill, buy/sell drugs, have legitimate jobs or scavenge among garbage. The action to be performed by NPC is decided by prioritizing its various needs and picking the most important action at that moment. An important element of the game is that NPCs rate their relationships with every other character in the game - including the player. Having good relationships with NPCs can unlock dialogue options and features for the player, while having a bad relationship can result in them not talking to the player at all. Players interact with NPCs through a dialogue system, that has consequences on the player #39;s and NPC #39;s stats. For example, the player can talk to a ...

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