Colourspill

Paper Prototype of an Original Cyberpunk 2077 Questline

Design Goals

- Sharpen my storytelling abilities

- Practice shaping the moment-to-moment experience of a story into a meaningfully interactive questline

- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Cyberpunk 2077’s setting, themes, and tone to create a story that is unmistakably Cyberpunk

- Explore competing worldviews through organic, emotionally charged character-driven conflict

- Craft a meaningful emotional experience where the player meaningfully participates in the story

What Is This Story About?

Zaumoria

Two trauma-bonded street musicians synchronize their minds and embark on a series of all-or-nothing neural-linked performances, hoping to preserve their unraveling bond, while V navigates an ethically dubious corporate experiment and becomes the unwitting conduit through which the artists confront the reality of their friendship.

Project Summary

Colourspill is an original story about loving imperfectly. It follows two friends whose connection is genuine but fundamentally incompatible and unsustainable. It explores a love that matters but cannot save and an intimacy that accelerates mutual collapse rather than preventing it. Through the fusion of art and technology, this story examines emotional entanglement, where grief is conflated with emotional and psychological survival and art becomes a substitute for healing.

This project was an opportunity to continue deeply studying the craft of storytelling, allowing me to apply what I learned while continuously refining both the narrative and design. I focused on telling an emotionally resonant story about uncomfortable but meaningful aspects of the human experience and also on shaping the player’s journey through it to be engaging, consequential, and immersive.

Story Forms, Structure, and Player Motivation

“Colourspill” by I Monster inspired many of the themes and concepts explored in this questline.

Limn

21st Century Tank Girl - Jamie Hewlett

This character portrait by Jamie Hewlett is captures the muted intensity that I envision for Limn’s character.

Characters

Νόησις

(Noesis)

David Bowie - The Man Who Fell To Earth

This image of David Bowie in a promotional poster for the film The Man Who Fell to Earth captures the quiet confidence I envision for Noesis’ character.

Noesis is a street musician who romanticizes suffering, mistaking momentum for healing. Limn is a street musician who intellectualizes emotion while Noesis is a street musician who sanctifies suffering. Both cannibalize their unresolved grief. Limn perceives Noesis’ devotion as grotesque deification while Noesis perceives Limn’s stagnation as glorified emotional suicide.