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Astronauts VS Nightmares

Event: BAFTA Young Game Designer AwardsDate: Thursday 22 June 2023Venue: VirtualHost: Inel Tomlinson-Area:

Astronauts VS Nightmares - Sophie Sterland (17)

Astronauts stranded on an alternate reality world of their home planet, forced to explore and investigate the mysterious place and the monsters inhabiting it. They must solve the mysteries behind the world, how it exists and how to escape.

The game is a non violent, puzzle solving, mystery game. The player will start the game as the character Wendy, convinced that they have just crashed on their home planet. As the player explores the world, switching between the team of Wendy, Tony and Peter, they will slowly discover that the planet is not the astronauts home planet but instead an alternate reality of it. The player will also find many monsters that live their. The monsters will appear scary and to be avoided, but soon the player will learn that not all of them need to be feared and that the way to stop them is by helping them and solving problems for them. What will help the player help these monsters is when they realise that the monsters are creations by people’s fears and nightmares on their planet, and to help calm the monsters they need to fix the dream and make it less scary. The main mystery is how the astronauts came to the world, why does the world exist and how can they leave it.