Lapse
Lapse: Full narrative document for an FPS I am currently working on. Lapse tells the story of Bote, an android that believes he is human, as he travels backwards through time trying to save the people that he believes are his race. The story is full of lies, misunderstandings, irony, and twists as the backwards progression reveals no one knows exactly what their true desire really is. Lapse has a unique story structure that is rarely found in games. It has a backwards progression that allows players to find out more about the story as they travel through it in reverse order. Major influences for the story structure in Lapse include films such as Memento. To my knowledge, there are few to no games that use this structure even though it can be very useful in building up suspense and twists in the story arc. It would be very interesting to see how players play through a game that has this set up. 33 pages.


