What’s the matter Mary Jane

Ideas about designing a character and story

I will not deny, one of my main inspirations sources is music. I love listening music and the music have played a important role in my way of making art. I don’t understand the videogames without music, some of them will be not same without the music and even I have designed games based on a song, as my project Into The Ocean, based in Radiohead’s music and art.

Now I’m working on Where Are You, a exploration narrative game that I will publish very soon (in about two months I hope). Today I was working on the screenplay and narrative design of the game, finding a nice name for one of the game characters, the wife of Albert, that is the playable character.

I though that I needed a name with a deep meaning, that talks about a strong and sad character, really worried about her baby, trapped in a relationship that goes down little by little.

Then I thought, what if I try to find one song with name of a woman and a interesting meaning? I though first in Eleanor, by the song Eleanor Rigby from The Beatles, but I thing that Eleanor is too mainstream name, realated with a sad and even creepy character. I have diving in my favorite songs and then I found it, Mary Jane, the Alanis Morissette song.