extended narrative

Claustrophobic.

The story for this game is about a  band of friends/warriors who, ever since being young have had this dream of being heroes and saving peoples lives, so through-out there youth they all trained together and were taught by their fathers, who were great warriors renowned for there strength and loyalty to the people.
The village/city where they grew up in was the main trading city in the land, so therefore it was targeted by a lot of raiders, and also people who were jealous of that fact, so the city and the people who manage it, the elders, put together a fighting force that would be in charge of defending the city.

But despite all this, everything changed when a new threat emerged from within the ground, no one knows what they are but they are out for blood, that being the blood of humans. This new threat causes humanity to put aside their differences in order to work together against the new enemies. So the characters fathers which i talked about before were some of the first ones to take on these monsters, working with the best scientists in the world they came up with a way to defeat the enemies.

The way they found was to improve humans by modifying there body structure in certain ways, this meant that depending on your skills that would be found out by tests the scientists would do it would improve you based on your results. So with the information from the tests they modified peoples bodies, for example giving them increased strength and speed, and increasing how tough there skin was, or the strength in their legs so they could jump really high or run fast. As well as this weapons were also developed, from swords and bows to guns and hammers. They also found a new material to make them from within the holes where the creatures came from, which were effective at damaging and destroying them.

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But before all this countless cities were destroyed and half of the human population, the entire human population was halved.

Moving into the future the elders have now built an academy specially designed to find people who have the potential to become saviours and once that was found out, they were send off to special camps which taught them the history and helped them find their own abilities. The characters i talked about before, friend since childhood ended up being separated and send to different camps more suited to training the types with their abilities. This is where the main character comes in, named Kharn.
Kharn.

Kharn like his father was always head strong and stubborn, he knew from early age that he wanted to follow in his fathers footsteps and has been taught by him ever since being a child. This make it so Kharn didn't really have a social life and his people skills were not so good. But this changed once he went to school, he made some friends and they helped him develop these skills and bring him out of his shell, in turn he also helped them by teaching them how to fight, in the rare case that their city got attacked.

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 So moving on, when Kharn finally graduated and joined one of the camps he learned that he shown aspects of all the abilities that humans could possess making him a special case, so because of this he was sent into the fighting force at a very young age and showed his skills when he took out three of the monsters out on his own.

The weapon that most suited Kharn was a giant sword, fitted with special capabilities. It also tended to all of his abilities in certain ways. As you can imagine Kharn was prized and received a lot of 'special treatment'.

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The Khar'Gul

Beasts that came from the ground. The Khar'Gul are very strange creatures that come in different forms, the first ones to come out of the ground were small and fast, with sharp blades as arms and huge fangs. The creatures shown a lot of intelligence as they attacked the main military city in the land which produced weapons and armour, making the humans have no way to fight back, neutralising any threat they could possess to them.

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The Khar'Gul then moved on to the next stage in their plan. The huge ones came out, there job was to wipe out cities and buildings, using their tremendous size and strength.

Many attempts have been made to communicate with them but they were all ignored. They seem to have a plan and they are sticking to it, which is possibly to get humans out the picture and take control of the surface for themselves, but all you can do is guess.

Part I

 The game I chose was mine craft.

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 Mine craft is a survival/adventure/horror game in which players spawn into a randomly generated world and have to survive  and build yourself a shelter to survive the nights when monsters come out, or you can decide to build pretty much whatever your imagination can think up.

Part II

In the game you need to gather food and to build shelters, the point of the game basically is to survive and there is no end game if you will. In order to survive you need to make sure you keep an eye on your food bar because if it gets too low you will lose a lot of health and with the added threat of monsters that come out at night you will be very vulnerable, but this is where the second aspect comes in, building. The first thing you should do is establish a base so that when night falls you can retreat into it and be safe, also the next thing you should do is make a bed so that , if needed you sleep through the night which also saves that spot as your spawn, so whenever you die you will re-spawn there. You also have to gather materials and ores so that you can improve your gear and craft yourself weapons and armour to help you fight off monsters. The only end-game I can think of is killing the ender dragon, which requires you to do various tasks in order to find and repair the portal so you can go in and destroy it.
 You could compare mine craft so games of the same genre for example ark survival, which is an indie survival game you can purchase on steam. This is also a survival game but it involves dinosaurs so it is a different take on it, in this game you have to make sure you eat food, stay warm and that you make sure you don’t get killed by any dinosaurs, to help you with this though you are able to capture dinosaurs and tame them so they can fight for you and so you can use them to get around faster by riding them.
 

Part IV

The atmosphere of mine-craft is very peaceful and it gives off a good vibe at first, its bright, sunny and quite pleasant, but then it completely changes as night falls, the sounds of monsters in the dark makes you feel scared and on edge, plus if you are in a house zombies can bang on your door and that can be quite scary to. It can also give off a feeling of loneliness sometimes, the fact that you can go out exploring and not come across any civilisation for hours other than a few animals and flat plains, although sometimes you can run across a jungle or a forest biome which makes the scenery more interesting .
 

Part V

The age rating for mine craft is for people aged 7 and up, I think this is because despite there being monsters and such the actual style of the game is very cartoon-like and blocky, which makes it less violent and gory in a way. There also isn’t any swearing or nudity which strengthens the fact it is suitable to young kids. I could also see older people playing it for the creative aspect of the game, as it is fun to get into a game and just make whatever you want from a house, a castle, to an underground city and more.