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hi bros, working on an outline for spooky interactive novel/action video game
here's my current progress

PROLOGUE
>a little girl (player) goes down to the kitchen for a glass of water
>spooky stuff happens, monstrous figure stalks her, cliche spooky stuff
>calls out to her parents, they're dead
>she eventually gets caught and dies, the screen goes red

ACT 1
>Ghost hunter (player) comes into a rural town for a job to investigate a hotel that has been experiencing spooky stuff
>He's kind of a badass, but it's been almost a decade since his last encounter with something unreal
>has become skeptical of the supernatural himself
>Meets the manager that contracted him, the current occupants... decent folks
>multi-choice (matters) dialogue system
>Early game is investigating the hotel, discovering lore, learning the layout, interacting with the guest
>Feels like a black comedy, eerie atmosphere, nothing too intense

ACT 2
>eventually he finds a group of small ghost children, they're anything but intimidating
>playful kids that have seemingly come from all over the state, not aware they're dead or where they are (the little girl from the prologue is here)
>children speak of a nightmarish creature from their dreams
>they take a liking to the ghost hunter
>one night he awakes to the children shivering in the corner
>he explores the hotel, every living person has been slaughtered
>it now becomes a serious horror survival game, the monster is both a physical and ghostly entity
>shotgun/rifle combat to draw back the creature, but it can shift into ghost mode to heal and regenerate

ACT 3
>???
>I see a lot of possibilities here to explain the spawn, the children's role, and give the player reasons to stay, fight to prevent the creature from fully manifesting and save the children's soul

EPILOGUE
>the monster is defeated
>the are ways to save all the children, or you could fail and some or all of them will fall to the everlasting abyss
>there is still evil in the world but it's time to rest up until the next spooky adventure

is this sounding worthwhile?

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