Inevitable Risk of Brutality

Title: Inevitable Risk of Brutality

Programming: Ivan Martinez-Aria, Yi Xie

Writing: Ivan Martinez-Aria, Yi Xie, Ryan Cai

Editing: Ryan Cai, Yi Xie

Description: 

This interactive fiction is an assignment for CMPM 248: Interactive Storytelling in UC Santa Cruz (Winter 2025). The narrative structure centers around Storylet with waypoint narrative design, where the player must converse with the other 4 NPCs to gather information and figure out how to influence them in a way that can get you to survive. The NPCs will traverse through a predetermined set of narrative waypoints (storylets) if the player does not intervene, leading to the ending where the player is left out to die. 

Inspirations:

-  Zero Escape: 9 Hours, 9 Peoples, 9 Doors

- Mingle Game in Squid Games Season 2

Other interesting stuffs (updating):

- Daru is a direct reference to the character Daru from Steins;Gate

- *Doki* Miki: *Kira* Miki from VA11-HALL-A

- The protagonist's dream of becoming a robot pilot is Ryan's dream to become a GUNDAM pilot

- Strasbourg and "powder snow" is a direct reference to White Album 2

- Title Inevitable Risk of Brutality (IRB) might be a reference to IRB (cough)

- Second person perspective writing is heavily inspired by The Stanley Parable