SM2254
Writing Interactive Movie
Completed Story - Daniel
Name: Mahbubani Vivek Ashok
Student Number: 50339925
Mahbubani Vivek Ashok – 50339925
SM2254: Writing Interactive Movie – Completed Story - Daniel
1.START
The thunderstorm outside of the school did not make any moment that Daniel had to spend in the detention room with his twin brother Jackson better. He was already mad at Jackson for getting the two of them in trouble because he got caught copying off of Daniel’s work during the semester-end test. It was simply ridiculous in Daniel’s opinion that he had to be punished as well just because the teacher believed that they had it all planned out because they were brothers. “For fuck’s sake! The last people that will help each other out are brothers!” The little voice in Daniel’s head decided to speak up in his mind. “Look at you Jackson, sitting there staring into the dead space like an idiot that you are, and here I am, when I should be out with my friends having a good time now that the semester’s over, but noooo! I have to spend it with you! I just hope the girls don’t see me in here, they’d have the best things to say about this when they’re out with everyone tonight.”As much as Daniel wanted to go over and give Jackson a piece of his mind, he was smart enough to realize that now was not a time to say anything, even if it was whispered since Mr. Ibanez would most probably throw a fit with the boys if he heard them say a word. “Oh, look at what’s going on here, Mr. Ibanez is fast asleep I see,” Daniel noticed Mr. Ibanez slopped over the teacher’s desk snoozing.He knew this was his chance to get out of there. As long as his stupid brother didn’t make a noise, he might just be able to escape.
Daniel looked at his brother sitting across of him and noticed him smiling as if he had this great plan to flee from detention or something like that. “You idiot, you couldn’t even pull off copying my work during the test and now you think you can get out of detention early?” Daniel could just envision it in a computer game where two siblings were ultimate rivals and they had to battle it out head to head over a series of one-on-one battles like in the game Mortal Kombat. “Yes! That’s it! That would be the best game ever!” For once Daniel actually agreed with the speaker residing in his head. He glanced over at Jackson again and saw him looking around with a grin on his face. Daniel’s new game idea would be the exact ingredient he needed in his little recipe to turn Jackson’s smile into a frown.
Daniel ignored his brother and just started moving from his desk slowly towards the room’s exit. The sound of coughing coming from Mr. Ibanez’s direction sent chills down Daniel’s spine as he thought he was done for when he realized he was almost out of the room. A part of him just wanted to run away and meet his friends while the other half wanted to get back at his brother, one way or another. He recalled the idea for a computer game and realized that it would definitely blow Jackson’s top off if Daniel managed to write a game that was recognized and admired by people all over the world! “Ah, and then I’ll slap it in Jackson’s face every single day of his life that I am the game guru while he is nothing but a measly foolish mortal!”
As Daniel neared the room’s exit, he thought about what he needed to do. First he’d need to get to a computer so that he could work on the game and he could upload the completed game online so that all his Internet buddies would know about it, not to mention the fact that Jackson’s friends would hear about it and help him rub it in his face. It would definitely be a safe idea to copy the game on a CD-Rom and mail it off to himself just to play safe so that Jackson doesn’t steal or copy the game’s code and claim that it is his own creation.
Daniel glanced back at the sleeping beauty Mr. Ibanez and sneaked out of the room.The excitement of victory flooded Daniel’s mind as he prepared himself for the adventure!
2.A – G/F, Cor3
The scent of the festive decorations filled the emptiness of the corridors. Daniel closed his eyes and took a deep breath of the fresh pine smell coming from the Christmas tree that was decorated with flashy lights and fake snow. Hopefully the storm would pass and the beauty that sparkling white snow brings would cloak everywhere outdoors with the youngest of children making snow angels while the older ones having friendly snowball fights. Daniel just stood there side-tracked as he could just see himself have a blast with his friends all through the holidays.
His train of thoughts came to a startling end when he remembered why he was still stuck in this stupid school rather than out with all his guy and girl friends. He looked to his left and saw the reflection of someone down the hallway and heard a faint mumbling coming from that direction. To his right was the continuous sound of screeching shoes and bouncing balls. He guessed that there was some sports game going on but wasn’t too sure since he was never interested in any events the school organized.
He looked up at one of the signs hanging off of the ceiling that read “Merry Chrismas” and realized that some fool must have left out the letter T in Christmas. At the same time, the mumbling sound grew louder and stronger and this made Daniel extremely curious. He took care as he walked slowly in the direction of the source of the noise and every now and then glanced around him to make sure no one he didn’t want to see was nearby.
3.C – G/F, Cor2
The mumbling turned out to be coming from the school’s only janitor as he was polishing all the trophies that were proudly displayed in one of the cabinets in the corridor. Daniel could make out a few swear words in what the janitor was saying but wasn’t too sure exactly what he was mad about, not that it really mattered in the first place.
Daniel looked straight and realized that he was standing right in front of the school’s main doors. He noticed two people standing outside talking to each other and figured that they were just passer-bys most probably waiting for the thunderstorm to weaken. With this kind of weather, Daniel had no intentions on going home anyway so he just looked around the area to see what else was going on. His curiosity led him in the direction of the school office which lay bare with no one in it.
The dangling sound of keys caught Daniel’s attention and he noticed that the janitor’s set was hanging off the slot on the cabinet’s doors. He was tempted to just leap over there, steal those keys and run off and lock himself in one of the rooms in the school so he could work, but then again, it made no sense to do that since the janitor would be chasing after him like a wacko which only meant more trouble than he was already in.
Standing right next to him was Jackson, seemingly staring at the set of keys as well. He walked over to Daniel and starting making little signs with his hands as if to say that he had some sort of plan to safely get the keys from the janitor. As much as Daniel didn’t like it, he patiently heard his brother out about this devious little plan.
4.E – G/F, Cor2
In less than a minute, Daniel stopped Jackson and shook his head basically saying that there was no way he was willing to cooperate with him like that. Jackson wanted Daniel to distract the janitor while he took the keys and the last thing Daniel could do right now was to trust his other twin.
Daniel, now even more angry at Jackson for not only getting both of them in trouble and then not even making it up to him by helping him out in any way beneficial, gave his brother the finger and went off in the other direction of the school corridor.
5.D – G/F, Cor4
Daniel walked passed the Christmas tree and as much as he loved that fresh smell, didn’t let it distract him because he knew this time he really wanted to slap his brother right in the face with this great game idea he had.
As he walked down the hallway, he noticed that the screeching noise he heard earlier on was actually just a boring basketball game which literally only had 5 spectators in the stands watching. He guessed they were most probably just the nerds and losers in the school who had nothing better to do on the last day than to watch a silly basketball match that he predicted would just add to the school’s losing streak.
However, opposite to the school gymnasium was the tiny little science laboratory. As much as Daniel hated going in there because it brought back painful memories of experiments gone wrong, Daniel knew there was one piece of treasure that he could make use of in there – the computer!
Daniel looked into the room and saw that it was empty! He put his hand on the door’s knob and once again peeped into the room just to double check that it was really bare. It seemed too unreal for Daniel as he felt like things were going far too smoothly and so he stopped and looked around him. All of a sudden the little voice in his head came alive again and started to frighten him with ideas of getting caught if he went into the room, after all, his back would be facing the door while sitting at the computer. He paused and stared at the door knob and just needed something, anything to reassure him that it would be ok.
6. i – G/F, Cor4
Daniel asked for a sign and he got the sign. When he finally got the courage to turn the door knob, he realized that it was locked! He could hear the little man in his mind laughing away at his foolishness and how he actually spent so much time worrying about going into a room without actually even checking that he could go in there in the first place! Annoyed at himself, Daniel looked back down the corridor and saw the janitor’s shadow on the floor.
As much as he knew he might stand a chance if he asked the janitor to open the Science Lab for him, he felt better off not bothering the grumpy old man after having personally seen him all irritated over having to clean the school trophies. With the coast being clear, Daniel treaded deeper into the school’s corridor and he could only hope that he would lucky soon with technology because for all he knew, Jackson could be somewhere else hatching some plan to completely ruin Daniel’s day.
7.Q – G/F, Cor6
As Daniel walked down the corridor, he noticed the faint sound of laughter coming from the front. He let his curiosity lead him down the corridor and found himself in front of the teacher’s room where most of the school’s faculty members were standing around having a good time as one of them opened up a bottle of red wine to celebrate the festive occasion. Daniel wondered for a moment what his friends were up to and hoped that they weren’t bad-mouthing him behind his back because he got detained and had to stay behind after classes. He grew even more upset about his brother but knew that flaring up would do no good, especially not in front of the teachers.
To play safe, Daniel crouched down a little bit to stay away from the line of sight of all the staff. Just at that moment, the principal’s office door snapped slightly open and revealed the left side of Ms. Vans standing in front of the principal. Daniel’s senses jumped to red alert mode and his eyes grew big with fear and anticipation. For a moment he thought he was done for but just before he was ready to give up, he heard Ms. Vans’ voice saying, “Alright, well I’ll get to it as you said, actually wait, I’ll need a copy of the plans,” before the door shut itself again.
Daniel, seeing that where he was standing was like the target spot of a war zone, swiftly traveled back to the door of the science lab to see what he could do about it.
8.D – G/F, Cor4
Daniel found himself back at square one. He peeked into the school gym again to see what was going on in the match and saw that the 5 people were still there and for some reason still had the energy to cheer on the school’s basketball team as if they were going to win the championship or something.
Opposite to where he was standing, Daniel stared as the knob firmly mounted on the door to the Science Laboratory as if it was his arch nemesis. “You better open up you little piece of shit, don’t make me go and find the damn janitor to penetrate your tight little slot with that big, long key of his!” Daniel knew he had no choice but to go find the janitor and somehow convince him to open up the room. He hated that idea but knew it was the only way to go.
9.i – G/F, Cor4
Just to play safe, Daniel once again tried to turn the door knob but to no avail. He looked down the corridor and could still hear the mumbling of the janitor as he polished the numerous awards the school had received from all the years.
Seeing that he had not done anything to offend the janitor before, he figured the worst thing that could happen was that the janitor would get mad at him but hopefully would not complain to any of the teachers. Daniel sucked in his gut, pumped up his courage and went towards the janitor in seek of help.
10.F – G/F, Cor2
Daniel took a final deep breath and walked up next to the janitor. The two men looked at each other and finally Daniel broke the silence by politely explaining to the janitor that he had some urgent emails he had to send on behalf of some of the teachers to all students regarding some information about the upcoming term of the new year. The janitor, looking suspicious at first, was put at ease when Daniel explained that he was under the orders of Mr. Ibanez who had instructed him to ask the janitor for help with opening the door to the science lab. All throughout telling this story, Daniel had to keep a straight face and put on his most convincing and sincere voice so that the old man would not see through his bunch of lies.
The janitor took Daniel to the science lab and twisted the door knob. “You numb nut! Don’t you think I would have already tried to open the door by turning the knob myself before coming up to you?” The voice in Daniel’s head exclaimed, as he stopped himself from saying anything while watching the old man try to open the door even though he knew full well that it was locked. Finally the grumpy janitor took out his set of keys and slipped in the appropriate one into the slot on the door handle, twisted it 90 degrees clockwise and snapped open the door.
Daniel felt a surge of joy stream through his whole body as he felt empowered with hope in knowing that he was that much closer to success!
The janitor muttered something but Daniel didn’t pay too much attention and just thanked him and walked into the room. He looked straight at the computer that was soon going to be his new best friend for the next half an hour and let a smile grow on his face.
The door to the room bumped against Daniel’s shoulder and broke his moment of ecstasy. He closed it and thought twice before he decided to lock the door just in case his annoying brother came in to interfere with his work.
Daniel gave his upper body a good stretch and made his way towards the computer while mentally preparing himself for what might be the most proud moment in his life.
11,12,13.K – G/F, Science Lab
This was the moment Daniel had been waiting for. He sat down in front of the only computer available in the science laboratory and powered it up. He watched as the loading screens flashed in front of his eyes as he concentrated on collecting his thoughts regarding the game idea. The thrill of doing such a thing kept coming in his way as he felt like everything was in disorder. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes as he visualized the whole game and how it would flow for the player and exactly what he needed to do to make it work out that way.
Daniel opened a virtual canvas which covered up the entire computer screen and spent a good few minutes staring into the blankness of the white monitor as he pictured everything before starting to tap away at the keyboard like a miner in a gold rush.