Week Three: The Cheshire Cat's Revenge!

Tomorrow is the big team meeting where we write the mega-important HIGH CONCEPT STATEMENT. Or something like that. Exact wording has never been my strong point. All I know is that Amy expects Courtney and I to be at university at nine tomorrow morning to get this concept committed to paper. One has to wonder if we've waited too long...

Still, we've done a lot of productive brainstorming. That's SURE to help. The ideas about the Hazard and Civic Duty cards are something that I'm really happy about. It's a brilliant idea.

Something that was interesting in pursuing was a sequel to American McGee's Alice. Since I haven't finished this fantastic PC-based game yet, I'm not too sure how it would pan out. I'd like to call it Alice II: The Cheshire Cat's Revenge, as a sort of prequel to Alice. As far as inspiration was and is concerned, it was just 'This is too good to be just one game. They need to make more of it'.

From what I've been brainstorming, it would be the prequel to Alice, during the time that Alice is comatose and not in Wonderland. As Alice is going mad, Wonderland begins to fall more and more under the tyrannical rule of The Queen of Hearts. It's down to the Cheshire Cat (Alice's one hope to save her sanity) to save the remaining characters that are loyal to Alice's imagination and to take them to a safe place.

It will be very similar to Alice, in that the controls will be the same, although the weapons and attacks will be different. Players will be able to utilise the Cat's abilities, such as invisibility and teleportation.

I've had a rather exciting idea of how it could link back to the "first" game. The Cheshire Cat could be forced, in battle with the Queen, to reach out to Alice's cerebral cortex, sending out a kind of S.O.S. This would trigger a kind of time/space warp, where Alice would find herself at the start of the "first" game and discover Cat's 'mangy' appearance. Throughout TCCR, Cat could get progressively thinner as the immense strain/drain on his powers allocated by Alice's imagination wastes his body away.

I quite like this idea and it may warrant further exploration. More on this at a later date..