The people who come through the doors of your museum go through a lot in their day. Guests marvel at your exhibits, while your staff get on with their jobs, attend training sessions, and relax in the staff room. Their actions are driven by their simulated needs: guests have different personality types and each want different things from their day, while everyone needs to eat, rest, and use the toilet.
It's a rich well of storytelling potential, and that's only the start. Why are they visiting the museum in the first place? What's their life at home like? What are their hopes and fears for the future? The game only hints at this via their guest personality type, but you can make it up.
For this reward, we want you to pick any NPC who comes into your museum - guest, staff, maybe a celebrity visitor - record their actions, and add a commentary that tells a story.
Either set the camera to follow mode and zoom in, filming a video, or use photo mode to capture several close-up images of their visit.
Add a voiceover to your video or some captions to the photos across multiple social media posts.
You can either do this in first-person, giving us their internal monologue with their thoughts and feelings, or commentate on their visit in third-person voice. Tell us what you think they're thinking, what they're at the museum to achieve, and what's going on in their lives, inventing a backstory that explains their actions where you need to. "My wife would like this", they might think, wrongly, of a fish-shaped onesie in the gift shop.
Paint us a grand Shakespearean tragedy, tell us a story of a good person going through a tough time, simply make us laugh, or something else entirely!
Submit your video or your photo-essay through connected social media. This is a time-limited reward with a podium finish. Submissions will be judged based on quality, creativity, and effort shown in the story or the internal monologue you create for your NPC and how well it intersects with their behaviour in your museum.
Pot total
$190
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