Bygones Pitch.


Bygones is a unique story and puzzle game that aims to combine fast-paced puzzle games with a touching and heart-filling story. I have created an overworld that is an open world concept where you can interact with different people and different objects that will teach you about the characters and teach you about the world, they live in.

Bygones starts with you in a room with another person. You play as a 15-year-old boy named Matty with your friend Rick. Your character can run around freely and interact with certain things in the room. Eventually, the character will interact with a window where it will show a cut scene in which it will give the player a preview of the world. The world in bygones is designed after a utopian future type of world where everything is done by artificial intelligence and robots. Humans practically don’t have to do anything in this world because they have something to do it for them. This is the entire premise of the game. You end up going to your grandfather who’s been alive for many lifetimes because of the advanced technology. Your grandfather makes you do these tasks that seem simple in the player's eyes but are quite irregular for the people of this world as they robots that can do it for them.

The tasks in the games would be super simple such as doing laundry, cooking, washing dishes or even writing a story, but would be made into different fast-paced puzzles. The puzzles would match the theme of the task that you would be doing. The puzzles would also be the form of storytelling using cut scenes or even flashback like scenarios where you would switch from doing the puzzle as the main character, into the life of the grandfather doing the task when he was young which would tell a story along with the gameplay.

The game is styled after 8/16-bit games from a bird's eyes point of view (in the overworld) while the puzzles would keep the 8/16 bit aesthetic but would be uniquely made for that puzzle. Due to the way, the story is being written; the game is quite linear. While having an overworld, it is designed for the player to stay on the main path because there is only one path.


The game is designed for co-op play with a friend, as some of the puzzles are designed for two players working together to achieve the puzzle. But there is AI if you don’t have anyone to play with or if you just wanted to play alone. Overall, the game is packed with fast-paced puzzles that are meant to tease your mind while also telling an awesome and yet quite emotional story as all characters grow throughout it.

The game is planned to be released on PC only but is a unique storytelling game. The game is meant to have a small base price of $5-$20 but due to the nature of the game, it is not fit for a DLC to follow up.