2023-10-10 07:43:31
The 2D graffiti puzzle sketch “Draw” produced by Draw Games Developers has recently been released for free on the Steam platform. It is an independent and warm game with pencil drawing and stick figure style.
The gameplay of “Draw” is similar to current hand-drawn games. Players usually operate stick figures to move, run and jump while avoiding the messy black lines. They can also use the mouse to draw lines in specific areas to help the stick figures pass obstacles smoothly.
“Draw” itself includes a total of 5 levels including novice tutorials. The whole process can be completed in regarding 1 to 2 hours. What is special regarding the game itself is that each level has a cutscene, and the background graffiti on the way to the level is also hidden. The story behind this work.
The 2D side-scrolling puzzle indie game “Draw” has been released on Steam for free on October 7. Interested players can download it for free and save it to their collection.
“Draw” is a student work jointly developed by members of the game club at San José State University in California, USA. The game was originally Itch.io It was released on the platform and will be available on Steam for free until October.
This game seems to be a simple stick figure drawing to pass the level, but in fact it introduces the story situation from the beginning. The protagonist of the story is also a student. Because he fell asleep on the table during class, he was left by the teacher to care regarding him following class, but the teacher did not. There was no scolding tone, because something “regrettable” seemed to have happened around the protagonist.
As the story progresses, the player encounters the first partner in the game, a female stick figure drawn with green lines.
She claimed that she had been in this “painted world” for a long time, and the protagonist was the first person she met. Then the two of them passed the level all the way, and the protagonist encountered more and more difficulties. The green stickman helped the protagonist every time. The body becomes weaker and weaker.
Finally, the green stick figure seemed to have no strength left. She told the protagonist to continue moving forward, and then left the team. Before she left the group, the two of them leaned on each other’s shoulders and looked at the beautiful sun vista, so the scene following that was really sad.
During the cutscenes of the story, we began to discover that the protagonist seemed to be named “Nathan”, and he seemed to be in a situation where he had begun to skip classes and stay away from his classmates. During the process, his two good friends “Mike” and “Claire” have also been caring regarding him.
Similarly, these conversation fragments revealed that a “regrettable incident” occurred among these children. It seemed that a companion left them.
As the story progresses to the middle, players will meet a new partner, a vibrant stickman with red lines.
Facing the black threads that are regarding to come back as soon as the protagonist touches them, the red stickman has strong power to drive them away. He also protects and cares regarding the protagonist’s safety all the way until the two finally encounter the overwhelming black threads.
In the end, in order to protect the protagonist, the red stickman also left the team, leaving only the protagonist to continue moving forward.
As the second half of the level progresses, players will find that the background of the workbook paper becomes darker and darker, and in the final level, there are even a large number of black threads that are swallowing up the entire workbook.
The cutscene gradually revealed that Nathan had not gone to school for more than a week, and his friends Mike and Claire kept contacting him but never received a reply.
Usually when seeing this, most people will think that the stick figure protagonist in the game should be Nathan, who is trying hard to escape from the overwhelming black emotions in his heart.
Finally, the story reveals the truth in the last chapter and changes the player’s imagination.
Nathan met Chase, a classmate who was very good at drawing, in class, and was amazed by his drawing skills. Nathan, who might only draw stick figures, admired Chase very much, and often shared his wild imagination with him.
In fact, during the progress of the level, you can see in the background that there are many notes in the workbook, including Nathan’s notes, which also mentioned that friends Mike, Claire, and Chase met with each other to watch movies or play DND (Dragon and Underground). city) memories.
But in the end the story revealed the “regrettable thing” – Chase left them forever.
At the end of the level, the game finally flipped the player’s imagination. It turns out that the protagonist who has been venturing deep into this workbook world is not Nathan, but Chase.
At the end of the story, Nathan believed that Chase’s departure was his fault. That self-blame turned into a huge black thread and swallowed up his self. Even Claire and Mike might not reach to save Nathan.
Therefore, the green stickman’s independent departure from the team during the game is consistent with the conversation in the cutscene where Claire gave up continuing the conversation with Nathan because for both of them, Chase’s departure was a pain in their hearts.
Finally, Chase reaches the deepest recesses of Nathan’s workbook, freeing Nathan from his self-blame.
In the workbook, there is always a drawing of a horse in the background. From the poor composition at the beginning, it has gradually improved. At first I thought it was drawn by Chase, but in fact these are Nathan’s notes.
Upon closer inspection, we discovered that perhaps the real reason why Nathan fell into deep self-blame was because he wrote the message “I love you” in Morse code in his workbook.
Although there is no beautiful art, “Draw” depicts Nathan’s memories through the graffiti lines in the workbook, describing a story of friendship between students, and at the same time expressing the thought of being strong enough to get out of dark emotions.
After the game is finally cleared, players can see the identities of the four stick figures from the staff list, and when they return to the game title, they will see Nathan, Chase, Claire, and Mike.
It seems to symbolize the four children in the homework book, and they will always exist in each other’s hearts as the most beautiful scene in their memories.
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