In honor of today's history making moment of Mickey becoming a public domain character, here's some preliminary brainstorming for a potential KH-inspired indie game utilizing a heavy emphasis on PD properties:
Lead platforms are Steam and Switch, partially because those are the popular ones for indie gaming but also because they both got shafted by KH real effin' bad. So this game would fill a void.
-2 main characters, a boy and girl. Names undecided but perhaps something that would fit KH naming conventions like say the Latin world for fire.
*Googles* actually nevermind, that one's taken. Work in progress here.
-Player selects which of the 2 to play as. The other one gets kidnapped for TBD reasons than the player must save as the primary objective of the game.
-For the 2, 1 of them is a book nerd with an encyclopedic knowledge of classic stories while the other never cared about them before and knows very little. This makes for vastly different cutscenes depending on who the player chooses to play as and gives incentive for a 2nd playthrough.
-The worlds are all story books that player venture into. Like 100 Acre Woods but for every level. Actually this is a lot like how Yooka Laylee did it. The central hub area is a musty old library where the books in question are found.
-Since giant keys as swords is out of the question, the player's fancy marketable weapon will be a giant sized writing quill that's somehow hard enough to damage foes. Spells are cast by the protagonist quickly writing out the spell's cantations in the air.
-Short list of possible story book worlds: 1001 Arabian Nights, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, 3 Little Pigs/Little Red Riding Hood.
-Mickey "The Mischievous Mouse" (quotations are part of the name for legal purposes) is the main recurring ally NPC and has his own book that's an adaptation of Steamboat Willie. His appearance outside of the book is something of an alternative imagining of what a colorized Mickey would look like with brown fur instead of black.
-Whole most worlds would have their own local villains to contend with, there is a main enemy threat that fills the minor enemy role. They are monsters that resemble notebook scribbles in 3D.
(Was kinda hoping to find something of more edgy grotesque designs but I guess this gets the general point across).
-The monsters essentially represent how some jerk kids will vandalize library or textbooks by doodling in them. There are outside creations that don't belong in the fairy tale and yet thanks to the game's main antagonist there they are.
-which, if it ain't obvious already, said antagonist will have their own quill-sword that they used to create the scribble monsters and thus provides the obligatory duel of rivals.
