The Wiind in the Willows!
All people over the age of about 60 come from a time before television, a time when books were a major source of entertainment. Not to say that they aren’t today as well, but today we have a lot more things to do on a rainy day. The Wind in the Willows was written in 1908 and has been a popular story with kids and adults ever since. The story itself has lead to be difficult to reproduce as a video game but with the Wii and the seniors as the audience, what can go wrong!
Now the emphasis here needs to be on the story. So a strong cast for the voices in definitely important, I’m thinking Steven Fry or Morgan Freeman. What this game wants to do is animate the story that our audience as read many times before with some interaction. The best way to do this is to break it down into four sections.
• Spring
• Summer
• Autumn
• Winter
Each section will include its own interactive cinematic parts and mini-games. For example Spring could have a cleaning game for the Mole or a diving game for Ratty. A sure fire hit will be getting to crash 6 cars for Toad’s mini-game, this may not be a difficult task for some. Having such a wide range of characters and locations to play with it means that every time the game is played there is a different game or scenery. The games however, do not need to be involved… or even long… or even challenging. This is about entertainment and telling a story, a much loved story.
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