Devlog 1

For this design challenge, I chose to research wealth inequality, with a focus on its historical origins. Its fairly easy to trace how the ultrawealthy have amassed their fortune, and how their uber privileged lifestyle alters their way of thinking. Based on my research I've decided to pitch a game depicting an out of touch, and somewhat delusional rich main character whose faced with the trials and tribulations of those less fortunate then her.

Research was conducted using sources acquired through the Sheridan Library Database and Google Scholar. These articles shone a more in depth look at how the wealthy think and utilize their wealth compared to the rest of the population, and this meant Wealth = Power. Those without the fortune of having unimaginable wealth's main concern was security, and what wealth was devoted or set aside for such a thing. The wealthy however use their wealth to amass and cement their power, making it more difficult for the majority of the population to have much share in the wealth. The wealthy have a smaller sense of limits, as their wealth grants them more power then the layperson. This lack of limitations includes social limitations as their peers are limited to the few other ultrawealthy households, they don't have a need for community aid, and thus are less likely to adhere to what is socially moral in favour of their own interests.

For my game, I endeavor to explore the limitations that money sets on the common lay person, and the extreme privilege and lack of limitations enjoyed by the rich. To have a character with near limitless power, suddenly chained by and have the gameplay surround their peers opinion of them.