Twilight Zone Game
Setting-Mid to late 50’s
Idea-You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone. Yeah I just copy-pasted it, so lets get to the idea, character(male or female) is moving to a town where all the residents are obese, some even immobile(you can choose whether the male or female residents are fat. The character has a feeling that there is something wrong with this town, maybe the government has a hand in it, or the reds, maybe it’s nothing. Whatever it is, you want to find out, you moved here for a job and have noticed the high population of obese people, teenage girls on mobility scooters, somethings wrong here. You decide whether or not you should eat the food, this has an impact on the story. You interview the people here and try to find out what’s going on but everyone thinks you’re the weird one. I mean you just moved in and are asking why everyone is so fat, to them you must be the one who by their standards is unappealing. You are either gaining weight or not gaining weight based on if you ate their food. Slowly you try to unravel the story of why everyone is obese, trying not to join them in their blissful ignorance.
Mechanics-Weight Gain- pretty obvious, weight will impact your stamina, size, health, and opinion.
Opinion- opinion has to do with the publics opinion of you and your own opinion of yourself, if you get larger public opinion grows while personal opinions decreases. Higher opinion means more people are willing to help by joining your search or giving you evidence of what’s happening. But increased weight has downsides, your personal opinion will effect how interested in the search, if you lose too much personal opinion you won’t have enough motivation to find out the truth and this will be a game over.
Stamina- stamina has to do with what you do throughout a day, if you have gained weight you will lose stamina more when doing tasks, requiring you either to sleep or eat, too bad eating increases weight.
Size- size has to do with where you can fit, casual things like fitting into a booth or maybe things that are more tense like a chase after someone. Size also has to do with clothing and not wearing clothing will come at the price of public opinion but you will have better stamina, best do it at night though, police are watching.
Health- for some of you, health problems are a kink that you dislike, me included. But this being used as a mechanic will help balance things out a bit more, eating foods that are greasy or unhealthy will result in health problems but these foods give more stamina then regular foods and add a lot of weight, downside is that there is a chance after eating unhealthy food many times in a row that you will have health problems, nothing serious but things like being short of breath and things like becoming more of a slob if you eat it constantly, I don’t think I’d want a game where you are hospitalized or something. And yes, descriptions of eating would be changed to become slobbier with each progression ending with you eating with your hands and eating food off the plate like its a trough. Slob stuff will negatively effect your public opinion, but will increase personal opinion.
Stores- There are of course food stores, fast food, sit down restaurants like diners, and fancy restaurants but there are stores for clothes and accessories, stores for furniture as you may outgrow your bed and need a larger one, and of course, mobility tech stores which have mobility scooters and eventually if it comes to it, a motorized bed to move you around, this tech is necessary for mobility and if you reach a certain weight without one you will get an ending, but with a mobility scooter you will be able to move around up until you reach the weight limit, there are multiple scooters with varying weight limits with the final one being the bed. Remember that mobility scooters have a disadvantage with weight since you aren’t walking and will gain more weight from food but you have unlimited stamina.
Endings- Gain too much weight to stand- Pretty self explanatory, you wake up one day and find yourself unable to stand up, you’ve become part of the problem you were trying to solve, too bad, well better order delivery.
Gain too much weight on scooter- you are in public when all of a sudden your scooter/bed collapses from your weight, people call the police and you are towed to your home and are placed on your bed well, I guess this is your life now.
Find out the truth (a)- you find the real reason why people are gaining weight, (I guess the government is behind it and was making the food highly addictive) and decide to try and end this conspiracy you succeed and the production of the food is stopped, you tell people what was happening and they believe you, you saved the town, blah, blah, blah.
Find out the truth (b)- you find out the truth and despite your moral qualms you increase production of the food, maybe to satiate your newfound hunger or maybe because you feel like it’s better this way. You convince the people that everything is fine and the people of (placeholder) return to their lives and you join them. Alternate ending if you don’t have high enough public opinion where they don’t believe you and find out, stopping production and giving you a bad ending.
Find out the truth (c)- public opinion ending, you find out the truth and go and tell the people what’s happening and ask them what they want to do, you democratically decide to end production of the food while calling out the government for the experiment, a formal apology is made and the town of (placeholder) stops with their feasting, you included the town is saved.
Find out the truth (d)- too much food ending(immobilized on motorized bed only), you find out the truth but you are too addicted to the food that you can’t choose to stop food production instead you increase the speed and add more nutrients effectively immobilizing the whole town, you included. Flash forward, the government arrives to find all of the people immobilized, stuck in their homes only a few people are light enough to use their mobility scooters and deliver food to the peoples homes. The government doesn’t want news to get out about this so they wall in the town, leaving you to your fates. Pretty much the worst ending.
Find out the truth (e)-secret ending, gain all of the weight you can, all health problems, worst stamina, biggest size and a high public and personal opinion. You find out the truth and are tempted to do many things, you could tell everyone about what happened, you could keep it a secret, you could stop production, or increase it. You want to end this horrible machine but you’ve noticed something about this weight, you’ve liked gaining it, you’ve liked the feeling of it, you realize your arousal and ask yourself if you could get the best of both worlds, you could tell the government you know what’s happening along with telling the people and increasing production. So that’s what you do, you increase production as well as increasing nutrients tell the people what’s happening and talked to the government, you decide that the best apology they could make is allowing the machine to be controlled by the town not the federal government. Production stays high, better mobility machines are made and there isn’t one person(male/female) under 1,000 pounds. You are remembered as a town hero, despite being so slovenly when you eat. This is the best ending.
Just leave ending- You just fucking leave the town at the start, boring ending.