THE STORY

WELCOME to the prison-like city of KOWLOON. A cluster of conjoined buildings run by gangs where the ability of an individual to hope is non-existent. DANIEL, JIN and ARIANA are three kids who defy this life sentence. They intend to escape and are willing to go to EXTREME measures to do so. Since escape on foot is impossible, their quest leads them to the SKY.

THE CAST

DANIEL – Smart and gifted but unfocused. On the fast track to be a squandered genius, his lack of interest in academics leads to conflict with his father. He is an angry child. Even at this age you can tell the city has damaged him in some way. He is the driving force of the group.

JIN – A brilliant gear head he spends the vast majority of his time in the city’s junkyard. He experiments with his own designs and creations. His dad died in a racing accident and combined with an overprotective mother resulted in his very reserved personality.

ARIANA –Emotionally strong and pragmatic her childhood has been derailed into a life of helping her father run a convenience store. She has no social life to speak of and when she joins the group it is the first time she gets to be a kid again since her mother passed away. She soon emerges as the rock that supports the trio when times get hard.

Created by Abede Lovelace and Shaun Noel


April 25, 2011

CHOICE, CONFLICT AND MARIO BROS.





Ran across another video in the "Extra Credit" section of The Escapist website. This one concerns choice and how that makes a story.

The first thing he makes clear choice is not a decision. You can decide to walk instead of drive, you can decide to wear blue instead of red. That is not true choice. At least not story wise.


Choice is overcoming internal conflict. One such conflict is your long term goal coming in conflict with your short term goal.

He used the example of Super Mario Brothers and the super mushroom. Your long term goal is to save the princess, your short term goal - staying alive. If you get the mushroom you have more a a chance to save the princess, as you can now take two hits. But since the mushroom moves, towards enemies or into bottomless pits...well how often have you been killed trying to grab that mushroom before it falls in the hole.

Strong stories often make sure that these two goals don't always align.

Jin faces that very choice in City of Walls. Should he dissapoint his friends and give up on the missing piece needed to finish the plane or should he risk his life and go to the dangerous Gamorratown. And oh yes there are consequences to his actions...
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