Industry Event: GameStorm
The industry event I went on was the GameStorm event in Philadelphia. My trip there was the first time I went to Philadelphia by myself. But the event was a very small event. More people were supposed to come. There were only two people who also went to the event. However, the event was fun to go to. I presented my story prototype to the two people who came, Gau and Nneka. Both of them were amateur game designers, who were working on their own games. It was interesting to see the experience of other new game developers. They were at least interested in my project and saw my idea had potential.
The event was only a few hours long, but Gau and Nneka gave advice for what I should do differently with my game. They suggested making the game have more emotional connections to the player through events. They thought the prototype I wrote was interesting, and did have fun with it, but the story should have an emotional impact on the characters and the player. I do not know how to fully implement them into my story, but it is something to consider when I make my game. I also learned about the games Nneka and Gau made. Nneka was making a horror game, and Gau has made an app game with Javascript, another coding language. There was also the topic of another website called RPG Maker I could use to create my game.https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1oAwyq1wupD8Z2b4mlcXxfQRccPTG9Tj1