The Tree and the Giant
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After the pleasant experience of working on Macrowave Mayhem with my two friends, I felt extremely energized to do more Jam-like projects, even if there weren’t any jams that caught my interest.
As such, I decided to do some solo jams based on generated prompts, which should give me some constraints as well as inspiration.
This particular project had the prompts: “Giant“, “Rain“ & “Apple Tree“. Really had to rack my brain to think of something that would incorporate these three elements.
After writing down a few ideas, it took me another session to truly come through with a concept I liked.
You can find the description of the plot below the images.
Early Concept Art sketches for the player character
Quick exploration sketches for the Giant of Fertility
Concept Art of the weakened Giant, buried within the earth
The Plot
In the forest, there’s a small village where people live quite harmoniously with nature.
The inhabitants hunt and gather, yes, but their most important source of nutrition, mostly vitamins and minerals, is the sacred apple tree, which the village has been built around.
Lately, however, the quality of the soil has been decreasing steadily and this has caused the tree to stop bearing fruit.
It is thought that the Giant of Fertility has something to do with this.
It is now up to our player to seek out the Giant, investigate what has happened and return the Giant’s blessing to the village and it’s sacred apple tree, before it withers away.