My idea for this game was a simple horror game, much like Slender or Among the Sleep. The gameplay is mostly wandering and interacting with your surroundings until you reach a cutscene/important scene that progresses the story. The plot line closely follows that of the opera but can have a different ending depending on what you do during the first time you have to make a choice- how much you have to drink at the tavern. From there, the game will still have a tragic ending and Canio will still lose his love, but in two different ways. The above drawing is a minimalist doodle for the game and what I imagine would be the main game poster, with text on it as far as the name of the game and some reviews or other things along those lines.
The driving force for this idea was the idea that the poster is basically what Pagliaccio looks like, which the player will only see once he sees his reflection at the end of the game. It is what Pagliaccio looks like in the opera, but is a bit sharper and darker, reflecting the Batman villain, the Joker, whom is based heavily on Pagliaccio and whom is one of my favorite villains. Canio does not exactly go insane as the Joker has, but instead goes through an alcohol-induced insanity.
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