I've been turning an idea over in my head the last few days. The basic concept is a streamlined merger of Quill and Microscope. Essentially, the player would start with the end of a story, and have to work their way through the events that brought them there.

I've been turning an idea over in my head the last few days. The basic concept is a streamlined merger of Quill and Microscope. Essentially, the player would start with the end of a story, and have to work their way through the events that brought them there.

The connection to Microscope is that you could price together the events in any order. However, the timescale would be much shorter and more focused. I imagine that you would insert important events and the scenes that explore those events. Microscope without the Eras essentially.

The Quill connection would come from a seed list of words or concepts that need to be worked into the storye events. Depending on some sort of randomizing mechanic you would get strong concepts that lead you to answering the 5Ws/1H of the story. Otherwise you may get sidebar concepts that lead you down a rabbit trail but would lend some sort of bonus the next time you were checking for a new concepts.

It's pretty rough, mostly I wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas on the game concept. Or perhaps see if anyone was working on something similar in nature.