Instruction
Begin concept drafts for your final game design concept. Highlight mechanics and how the game may be laid out.
Purpose
Start the organization and storytelling of your game design. Communicate clearly what and how the game will take place and how it deals with conflict, goals, and mechanics.
My Interpretation
I want the game to take place over seven days, if you successfully survive to the end of the seven days you win. You lose the game if any of your four stats (health, sanity, reputation, will) reach zero. Stats are determined by which stat card/character you pick at the start of the game. Each stats card has a unique advantage and disadvantage. Stats increase and decrease when you pick up event, check, and item cards from a shuffled deck. On day one you would pick up one card and react accordingly. On day two you will pick two and react accordingly after each card. On day three you pick up three cards, and so on until you pick seven cards on the seventh day. Event cards are the majority of the shuffled deck where you pick cards from, in these cards, a particular event happens and you are given two options which differently impact stats, overall having the same net gain/loss. You may also pull check and item cards, though these are much more rare. Check cards are designed to check a particular stat, and if it fails, you suffer the consequences. However, if you are lucky enough to have an item card saved, you may use it to reverse the negative effects of a bad check card or amplify the positive effects of a good check card. The game heavily emphasizes fate and moral decisions regarding survival. Once the character is selected and the deck is shuffled, the game is already set in terms of story, but your choices on which options to pick on the event cards is the meat of the game, alongside resource management of stats and items and the risk-reward system that comes with keeping cards for saving you later or using them now for a potentially less effective play.