The Swan Lake (Text-Based Game)
The cover art for the game
The starting level for the game
One of the "secrets" revealed to the player
One of the beginning levels from Seigfried's point-of-view.
One of the beginning levels from Odette's point-of-view
One of the varied endings of the game, featuring information about the origins of the ballet
The Swan Lake was a small, solo university project that was my first foray into developing text-based games. As part of my "Serious Games" major, the focus of this project was to bring awareness to something. I chose to develop a game that could explore popular ballet compositions and teach the rich history of composers like Tchaikovsky to players who may not know much about that world.
Developing a game that focused on a physical theme (ballet) as a text-based game really limited my ability, and caused me to explore the best ways to highlight the composition, and research what was important about the ballet, on top of researching interesting mechanics for text-based gameplay.
I really enjoyed developing this project, and have since worked on it further on a larger scope, moving it from the text-based game to an RPG. I hope to be able to develop it into a fully fledged game in the future.
The original text-based game can be viewed here: https://lilya-030.itch.io/the-swan-lake
