Book 1 Project: Gone Girl Video Game

My idea to make a fan experience is to make it a video game. You would be Nick or Amy and either try to find Amy or escape from Nick. As Nick you would use the clues Amy left and all the hints from the crime scene to hunt down and find Amy. To go through the suspects and piece things together like Nick did, or plant the evidence to frame Nick like Amy did.

In the book Nick's wife Amy Dunne is missing and they don't know what happen to her. It was their fifth wedding anniversary and Nick comes down in the morning to his wife's disappearance. You would play as Nick to find the first clue to start the game. Using the clue you would find the next and next and so on. Like the book you would go through and find the suspects, or anyone who had bothered, stalked, or obsessed over Amy. And visit some of the places she goes to such as Costco, but not Sam’s Club because, “Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco.” Or you could play as Amy trying to get away from her husband, Nick Dunne. You would go through and find the journal she wrote to get the police to suspect Nick and hide it where she hid it in the book. You would also go have the conversations she had during the book and before her “murder/ kidnapping”. Her talking with the neighbors or the guys in the mall. Planting the evidence and running away. You would go wherever she went in the book after running away. The people that she met and became “friends” with them and how she landed at Desi, a boyfriend from Amy’s past, home where you would have to have read the book to know what to do next.

The plot of the game with match that of the plot of the book but it would also add the option of going through Amy’s life and her back flashes through her rereading the journal to start after you find it. This will allow the fans to go through not just Nick but the option of Amy. And she needs to get away from Nick because, “Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.” To start the game it would be easy to use a quote that sums of the book. The game could start out with the quote: “The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie” and start with whichever character you decide to begin with. This quote sums up the book because both characters have made up so many lies and to go with the lies you need to prepare what you are to say and have evidence to back you up.

The game would have to be for higher level teenagers for language, some intense scenes (most scenes with Nick and Andie), major alcohol consumption along with owning a bar called “The Bar” as the character Nick Dunne—or Lance Nicholas Dunne— and violence, such as beatings, murdering, and self-harming, with character deaths. You would either go from causing a crime scene to coming into the house to find a crime scene.  The difference between the characters are big and getting to see both sides of the story like in the book but in more depth is a major fan experience for anyone that has read the book and liked it. Adding Amy’s flash backs and causing the ruckus in their Missouri home.

 

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to f*** off.” 

What is a Book?

Books are imagination. You, as a reader, complete the book. The idea is given but the creation of the world in your eyes is dependent on you and how you interpret the book. The eBook doesn’t give you the feel of the book. It can hurt your eyes and you never get the feel of the paper that the books are made of. You don’t get to feel what the book is made up of. I personally like the physical book to hold onto. I get to feel what the author went through to publish it. The weight of the book helps you understand that every word that the author wrote was in your hand. With a kindle you don't get that feeling of the weight of the hardships to write the book. I don’t mind the e-readers but I would like to have the actual thing in front of me. My imagination goes wild when the authors don’t describe a setting or character fully, because it gives me a chance to imagine them in my mind. Books help you escape from reality. Every time I read I always lose track of time. The literal definition for a book is a a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers. But, book can take us on a journey or an adventure. Many books take us on a journey. The books that I have enjoyed and have been very engaging are Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and other fantasy novels. When I read the books, I get to immerse myself and sometimes get lost in the world I finish the book too fast for my own good. I read to clear my head, and to get away from stress at school and all other places that give me stress.

Why I read

I read for pleasure. I like getting lost in the books and seeing what the characters are seeing. I read because books let my imagination go wild. I have the chance to create my own world that can be whatever I want it to be. Reading gives me a breather from all the stress I get from anywhere and lets me relax. I read when I don’t have to read from school. I read on my own and not when told to read by someone else. I have the freedom of reading whatever I want, when I want to. The choice it key, because when I have a school book I don’t have the motivation to do anything with the book and it just sits in my backpack. I don’t think I have finished any of the school books; such as: Fahrenheit 451, In Cold Blood, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lemon Tree, and others. Forcing is not what to do to make someone read a book. It may be a good book but I wouldn’t know because I wouldn’t want to read one word of the book. I am also very picky in what I read. I love fantasy books, and many realistic fictions but some books I cannot read are, The Hunger Games, Twilight, and Divergent. I read because I can.