The Endless Night

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Overview

Theme:

A hitchhiker leaves his home on the East Coast to travel across the United States on a sort of “pilgrimage”.. Themes include: self discovery, “starting over”, coming of age, the hero’s quest, soul searching, exploring a part of the United States of a bygone era which is struggling because of a fast moving modern world and a new interstate. Helping people.. Mystery, Suspense!, Comedy, A bit of esoteric nonsense.. Travel+roadtrip.. American Popculture, and other such nonsense/weirdness.. The 1950’s..

Setting:

The setting takes place on an aging and mostly forgotten desert interstate. The people living along the interstate are struggling to survive because their incomes that were once highly dependent on travelers using the interstate no longer travel the route because of a new modern interstate. There’s a lot of interesting characters living on the route... and some mysterious & weird things going on... The player is hitchhiking his way across the interstate and making his way to the West Coast.. The route is slightly dangerous, mysterious, weird.. and the player needs to use his/her wits to find rides to continue their journey as well as interacting with individuals to learn more about the area.. and help out where they can.. etc... A desolate place.. with a desert community thats struggling to survive. Eventually the hitchhiker reaches a town where its always night time & has to solve the mystery as to why in order to continue on his journey... by communicating with the local people, exploring the town/surrounding areas.

Genre:

A 2d Adventure game with an emphasis on traveling/hitchhiking. It covers various genres such as... scifi, mystery, comedy, and drama.. It’s an adventure game like most others.. it has dialog & puzzles. It’s similar to old adventure game classics.. specifically Lucas Arts and Double Fine’s adventure games.. but done with some modern updates and (hopefully) some polish..