Blue 2

So the plot of Blue 2. I don't really know it yet. I have some barebones but no plot actual. This post is basically going to be a half brainstorm stream of consciousness thing. Basically my own notes that I'll publish for everyone to see and if anyone happen to read it I'd really appreciate your ideas as well.

The basic game chill was opposites. Which meant that this game would have Blue the protagonist and then a dirty underground hacker called Red. (Red vs Blue). I don't know how much of this will remain.

These are the fragments I have:
Somone hacks The Eye. A corporation information bank. It contains sensitive information that the corporation does not want public. The hackers are a group of information terrorists who think that "information should be free" and threaten to release the information.

Another story thread is that while hacking The Eye the hackers released a virus messing up certain areas of cyberspace. This would lead to quarantine areas and a certain kind of time limit because it sort of must be stopped.

Follow that up with the story thread that the sensitive information of the corp is in fact that a devastating virus was developed by said corp for monetary gain in fighting it later.

A subplot of little consequence is also cyberspace Ghosts. That I still haven't really figured out what are but are elusive shapes that appear and disappear randomly and weirdly. They probably wouldn't tie into the main story but would be more of an atmosphere thing. (maybe setting up a sequel!) Some ideas what they might be are rogue AI avatars or maybe people who died while logged in.

These are the fragments I have. They all make for a fairly decent plot setup but I don't really know where it would go from there. Obviously the hackers have to be caught and stopped and so too the virus. But the way in which to go about this... I don't know. I hate this because tend to have these kinds of ideas about Point A and Point B but the road between them...

A couple of scenes I have in mind already.
-The hacker ("Red?") meeting Blue in an outlaw area and telling him all about how information should be free and the kind of information the corporation was keeping in The Eye. Here it would be awesome to give the player a moral choice of sorts to side with Red or not.
- An opening scene taking place in a the real world (probably a cutscene) showing Blue logging in before entering the virtual police station (a place sort of inspired by the police station in the Blade Runner game. Of course in simplistic top-down graphics but I just have the image of Blade Runner in my head)

I guess if I was all about I could make the intro scene since it comes first and it'd need some messing around with and maybe I'd get ideas for the game proper by doing it. It'll probably happen. But I'll make these simple blog posts first because I'm fairly busy and writing these takes a lot less effort than a 24 hour gamemaking throwdown :D

So now I've had these things off my chest. Next up: Characters. Maybe.