world building idea: The legend of K'ya

there needs to be a post apocalyptic video game that takes place in world where humans go underground after a nuclear holocaust almost destroyed earth's surface. during that time when humankind was gone from the overworld, the earth rebuilt itself as a green utopia. this is where we meet our protagonist, a young girl name k'ya whom was raised by the beast that roam the birtera forest. Later on as time passes, k'ya is now blooming in her late teens .during this time she encounters a group of humans who happen to be explorers and scientists for the underground colony of pullofftimer. One of the explorers, a 17 year old boy name Matthew Ryde wanders off from the research group to do exploring this new earth on his own terms which leads him into great danger by some kind of tiger like beast. Thankfully he was saved in a nick of time by K'ya who's very curious of Matthew after she saves his life. At first K'ya only had some grasp of the human language due to her only understanding the language the creatures she was raised by spoke. Matt tries his best to teach K'ya the way humans act but she doesn't understand it however she is very curious for the most part about humans.

Here's that guys. Anything you'll like to add , like how to expand the game's lore, character ideas, and making it visualising appeasing for the player

Will T'ya understand the concept of cloths? This is very important.

I need to know what kind of rating you're going for. How dirty or clean with this story be? How much gore/sex are you going to include? What's the overall flavor of the story?

It's gonna most seem geared towards older kids so it won't be too dirty and gritty. Due her upbringing by tribe of beast men, she could possibly have clothing in the more animal skin variety.

Just keep in mind that this might be confused with The Legend Of Korra. Also, I find it a little bit cliche to see another Jungle Princess raised by animals and needing to learn how to be human.

Why can't there be a forgotten tribe of people who are equally developed as the underground ones?

edited 30th Jul '15 3:03:27 PM by Sharysa

Hmmmm...actually why not I make them a subspecies of humans with a different culture of there own. Like managing to create a mix with shamanism with low level of technology.

That's a magnitude easier to work with. Human tech and society might be millenia more sophisticated than a tribal people but people haven't dramatically changes since our hunter gatherer roots.

You'd have to walk them through all the steps to modern society but as long as they had A society to begin with it's just a matter of study and acclimization.

"Matthew Mc Awesome Ryde" is too cool of a name. (That's not her middle name? It might as well be, for how overdone that last name is.)

Here, try this: how many years have passed since the world broke in your story, and how many names from an equivalent number of years in the past of our world have survived into the present day? "Matthew" might as well be "Cain" or "Herod".

Seems good.To answer your question, my idea takes place in 3435(closest of enough for some changes in the environment i guess)

So basically, that's a big enough gap in years that they could feasibly forget their past. (Or be in hibernation of some kind, but y'know.) Culture now does not in any way resemble that of (20XX - 1400 = ...) A.D. 600.

The other thing: climate, local and global. Does Matthew (and I'm assuming that's a name that has gone 360 and turned into a girl's name, like Leslie or Drew), surface explorin' go girl that she is, suddenly find that she needs to put on or take off a thick-ass wool coat upon seeing the surface again?

I'd suggest looking at the old Avernum series (III is kickass) as well.

Transportation: my recommendation is Combat Mecha Xabungle style Landships and Walker Machines, though a Spartus-style all-in-one mobile combat platform would probably be more effective for keeping a group of explorers alive.

edited 10th Aug '15 11:02:04 PM by DeusDenuo

Oh! And K'ya's name. Notice how awkward it looks when you need to add a possessive S to the end of it? I'd go ahead and go with a vowel-heavy language, to aid pronunciation. "Kooya", perhaps? (Which apparently sounds close to an AU Aboriginal word for "fish"...)

some names have changed over years of my story but Matt's still a guy.sorry about that however the story will have a female protagonist to focus on instead of the male protagonist of the story.