Life is Strange as a Mobile Game
Console to Mobile: Life is Strange as a Casual Game Figure 1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/319630/Life_is_Strange__Episode_1/ L ife is Strange (Figure 1) is a 5-part, episodic game developed by Dontnod throughout 2015. The game follows the protagonist, Max, as she discovers that she has the power to rewind time. The outcome of the game depends on your choices; sometimes, players can rewind to test the different endings. I chose Life is Strange —which I will be referring to as LIS for brevity—to reimagine as a casual mobile game because there are already several mobile games that act as interactive stories, which is what LIS is at its core. Chapter 9 of our text, The Evolution of Video Games , lays out several design components that make up casual games, which I will be following to turn LIS into a game easily accessible to mobile gamers. Figure 2: https://teamrumblebee.itch.io/lisvn The first des...
