PhantoDance

Premise: Ghosts dance in order to show new generations of villagers how to honor their traditions.

Story: In the village of Dwan there is a sacred tradition: After someone has passed into the afterlife, the new generation honors their passing with dances. Lately people have begun to forget the dances of the original tradition. Ghosts of past generations have begun to notice. One of the ghosts has communicated with you so you can pass it onto the next generation.

• Music: Eric Roquel Correa (PlátanoTeam)
  
• Art/Graphics: José Luis Torres Reyes (Code Friendly Art)
• Developer: Javier O. Cordero Pérez
• Plot and concept:
  • Javier O. Cordero Pérez
  • Abigail D. Hernández Torres
• Painting: Road through a Wooded Landscape at Twilight Painting by Jacob Ruysdael, Year c. 1648. Oil on panel. 29,7 x 37,3 cm. Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague. 728. Not on view. Photo by:  Lluís Ribes Mateu

Setting: The story takes place in the village of Dwan, a remote place in the mountains.

Problem: People in the village have begun to forget their traditions

Solution: Ghost comes and teaches the dance, the villager must learn the dance (replicate it) with accuracy, so the tradition prevails.

Outcome: There are 3 possible outcomes: the tradition prevails as faithful to the original, the tradition evolves or the tradition is broken.

Reward: Successfully maintaining the tradition gives the player more score on the progress bar.

Characters:

The ghost: The ghost is the main character of every level. In the first instance it comes to show the humans of the village the first dance of the ancestors. After that, the ghost becomes the villagers of the future generations.

You: The player's character. Your motives are to preserve the tradition of the dance by learning the original form of the dance.

This game was made for the What The Jam game jam by PRGDA.