Book 1 Project: Gone Girl Video Game

Did you love Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn? So did we; that’s why we have created a video game called, Finding Amy, so that readers and movie-goers can not only visually enjoy the story, but also be a part of the mystery! Finding Amy will have several levels in which that Nick will have to unravel Amy’s anniversary clues in order to find where she is hiding. For example, Amy uses the clue, “Maybe you feel guilty for bringing me here. I must admit it felt a bit queer, but it’s not like we had the choice of many a place. We made the decision: we made this our space. Let’s take our love to this little brown house. Gimme some goodwill, you hot lovin’ spouse!” Like this clue, the clues in the video game will help lead Nick to Amy, although where she is hiding will not be the same as the book and will be different every level, until you beat the game.

Nick and Amy <--photo

The video game will also get the background of certain people in the book, like Desi. Nick explains him as… “Dressed in impeccable shades of navy and cream; even his shoelaces looked pressed. He carried it all off, though. He wasn’t the dismissible fop I’d been hoping for. Desi seemed the definition of a gentleman: a guy who could quote a great poet, order a rare Scotch, and buy a woman the right piece of vintage jewelry.” This is Nick’s definition of Desi after he goes to visit him as a suspect since Amy has told him that he was her stalker in the past and wanted to kill himself when him and Amy had broken up. The other characters, such as, Noelle, Andie, Gilpin, Boney, Nick’s father, and Amy’s mother and father will also get these descriptions.

                This video game, Finding Amy, will help Gone-Girl lovers stay connected to the book because it will keep them rooting for Nick. Matter of fact, they will actually be Nick in the game! The video game will be very similar to the book, but with the different twist of having new clues. I would recommend the video game player to have read the book before playing Finding Amy or else it may be somewhat of a “spoiler alert” because of the background information you will be receiving in order for you (aka Nick) to find Amy. If you are not a reader and have not or do not plan to read the book than the Finding Amy game will still be fun because you can learn the story of Gone Girl through this video game.

                I imagine the Finding Amy video game cover to be a picture of the house when Nick went home to find her missing… “I was about to go into blocking position to get the cat when I saw that the front door was open. Carl has said as much, but seeing it was different. This wasn’t taking-out-the-trash-back-in-a-minute open. This was wide-gaping-ominous open.” Therefore, I imagine the game cover to be a photograph of a house with a door flung open with a cat on the porch. The colors will be dull and the sky will be dreary to represent the mood.

                On the last level of the video game Nick will be able to publicity expose Amy for what she has done. He will also get to decide her jail sentence. I chose to do this because it is almost a “happy-ending” because that will no longer look like the bad guy, but people will actually feel sorry for him. This video game will definitely do Gillian Flynn justice!

Here's A Link to learn about Gone Girl if you have not read it & some ideas of Gillian Flynn that I would like to be portrayed in the video game!

A book is a resource in which we use to learn. Books can be about anything from politics and government to fictional worlds. Books allow you to use your mind to form opinions that cannot be wrong! Books possess lessons-learned and oddly enough, this makes me think that a book is like a mom. You may not always agree with your mom or a book, but the book/your mom has more knowledge than you and you are the one learning.

                Based upon the other writer’s responses I would have to agree with Nancy Jo Sales because her explanation was simple, yet made sense. She claimed that people like the “…physicality of a book, the way it looks and feels and even smells…” which I would have to agree with. I also like how Sales mentioned how there may be notes in the margins when you get a book from someone. I like this because you can’t keep notes right on/by the text on a Kindle or Ipad. Also, the notes in margins proves that books can be passed on from generation to generation which, in my eyes, gives the book meaning because it was a story worthy of getting passed on.

                I really hated Victor LaValle’s response to what a book is because he was mocking writers by saying, “Some man or woman spent weeks or months or years or a lifetime bleeding on the page!” I found this to be so inconsiderate, even as a person who is not a huge fan of reading, because it is understandable that creating successful books for writers is like winning the national championship for a professional football player. It is wrong to make fun of someone’s occupation, especially when a lot of time and effort goes into something meant for people to enjoy.

                With this all being said I don’t think that books should be “done away with” because there is a huge population that are die-hard book fans and would be devastated if bookstores/books were to go away. Also, if all bookstores/books were to not exist anymore I think that everyone would want them to come back because it is very common in these times for people to want what they can’t have or to want to have “old-school” type things. Hmm. Maybe is that what books need? To go away and to come back bigger than ever? This could be risky and let’s be honest, the people in the industry would not go for this. No one wants to lose their job.