The document provides details about the video game The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. It summarizes the plot, which follows characters Javier and Clementine as they encounter a new group called The New Frontier in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. It describes the characters, settings, and mechanics of the game. Key points include Javier searching for his missing family members and Clementine's past with The New Frontier group. The summary also outlines symptoms of video game addiction according to studies.
2. Video GameAddiction
■ The results of a Oxford University study, found that boys are more likely to
spend time gaming than girls.
■ According to the article written by the BBC, video game addiction is to be
listed in the International Classification of Diseases by the World Health
Organization.The 11th addition will include the condition “gaming
disorder”.
■ The draft document describes it as a pattern of persistent or recurrent
gaming behaviour so severe that it takes "precedence over other life
interests".
■ In some countries it has already been identified as a major public health
issue.While in the UK, there are private addiction clinics to treat the
condition.
■ Symptoms for the condition has been listed as:
■ impaired control over gaming (frequency, intensity, duration)
■ increased priority given to gaming
■ continuation or escalation of gaming despite negative consequence
■ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42541404
3. ■ A study done by DouglasGentile, a research psychologist from Iowa
State University (and director of research for the National Institute of
Media and the Family), found that 8.5 percent of U.S. youth aged
between 8 to 18, are addicted to video games, that’s roughly 3 million
people.
■ https://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/8-5-percent-of-u-s-youth-
addicted-to-video-games-study-finds/
4. The game I chose isThe Walking Dead: A New Frontier
The world in which the game is set in which a zombie apocalypse has occurred,
turning humans that are bitten or die into zombies, or "walkers"; the only way to
stop this conversion is to damage the brain.The game is primarily set four years
after the apocalypse began.
There will be two playable characters: Clementine, the heroine from the previous
games; and Javier, a new character introduced this season. Players can direct the
current character under their control around the environment, examine and interact
with various scenery elements and collect and use objects to advance the story.
5. Plot
■ Javier is living with his family in Baltimore, including his brother, David and his second-
wife, Kate, and children, Gabe and Mariana, at the onset of the walker epidemic.When
their father dies of cancer and turns, biting their mother, David takes her to the
hospital, but doesn't return. After several months, Javier and Kate agree it was time to
move on and set off with Gabe and Mariana on the road.
■ Four years later, in the game's present, the four have a run-in with a group of men led
by Max and Badger while scavenging for supplies and gas from a junk yard. Javier is
driven away from the others but is rescued by Clementine. She offers to help in
exchange for their family truck, and takes him to Prescott, a fortified community
within an old airfield, where he is introduced toTripp,Conrad, Francine, and Eleanor.
Tripp and Eleanor agree to help rescue Javier's family. In the rescue attempt, Mariana
is killed by Max and Badger's men, and Kate is critically wounded, but Javier's allies
manage to repel the attack. Kate is rushed back to Prescott, while Clementine
identifies one of the attackers as a member ofThe New Frontier, a large group of
survivors she had once met, claiming they were once good people, but have since
become twisted and distrustful.
■ Kate is stable, but needs proper medical attention. Suddenly, Max and Badger appear
at the gates of Prescott, having taken Francine as a hostage and demand Javier turn
himself over. However, regardless of Javier's response, Badger kills Francine and
unleashes a horde of walkers into Prescott, killing its inhabitants. Only Javier,
Clementine,Tripp, Conrad, Eleanor, Kate, and Gabe make it out alive.
6. ■ They regroup on the road, and Eleanor suggests they go to Richmond,Virginia, where
she heard a sizable survivor camp can be found. A horde of walkers separates the
group, and Eleanor drives ahead with Kate, while the others meet Paul “Jesus”
Monroe, who offers to lead them through a shortcut via a train tunnel. Jesus reveals
that the New Frontier controls Richmond; after their past encounter, the group fear
for Eleanor and Kate's lives. During this time, Clementine warns Javier that she used
to be a member of the New Frontier, and will stay outside the city when they enter.
■ The group finds Kate near the gates of Richmond, and demand the guards to let
them in for Kate's sake.They are met by the town's chief of security, who to Javier's
shock, is his brother David. David takes Kate and Gabe to Dr. Lingard for medical
attention, while the others are kept in quarantine. David later comes to escort Javier
around Richmond, explaining that after he went to the hospital, he could not get
back into Baltimore, so he eventually took up the role as head of security for the New
Frontier. David introduces Javier to Ava, his second-in-command, and to see a
recovering Kate, who secretly warns Javier that David seems untruthful. David then
takes Javier to see the New Frontier's leadership council, which includes himself, Dr.
Lingard, Clint, and Joan, so that he may argue his case to stay in Richmond.While
there, Max arrives and accuses Javier of stealing New Frontier supplies and killing his
men at the junkyard. While David seems to accept Javier's story, Joan orders that
Javier and the rest of his group to be evicted.They are given meager supplies, but
which includes a map from David to a nearby warehouse.
■ There, they are shortly joined by David, who admits that something may be wrong
with the New Frontier. Clementine accuses David of being responsible for the death
of the infant AJ; in flashbacks, Clementine and AJ were forced to travel on their own
before meetingAva and being invited into the New Frontier.When AJ became
deathly ill,Clementine attempted to steal medicine from Dr. Lingard in order to save
his life.When David discovered her plot, he took AJ away from her and exiled her
from the New Frontier. There, they are shortly joined by David, who admits
that something may be wrong with the New Frontier.
7. ■ Clementine accuses David of being responsible for the death of the infant AJ; in
flashbacks, Clementine and AJ were forced to travel on their own before meeting Ava
and being invited into the New Frontier.When AJ became deathly ill,Clementine
attempted to steal medicine from Dr. Lingard in order to save his life.When David
discovered her plot, he took AJ away from her and exiled her from the New Frontier.
In the present, David admits AJ made a full recovery and is somewhere safe in
Richmond with Dr. Lingard.The group overhears Max, Badger & Lonnie in the
warehouse, and find that it is full of supplies taken by force from other communities,
including Prescott and the Hilltop. Badger is killed in retribution by Javier while David
interrogates Max, who admits that Joan had made orders behind David's back to raid
other communities.
■ Jesus takes his leave to warn his own group about Joan while the others return to
Richmond to confront Joan and rescue Kate, Gabe, Eleanor, and AJ. However, Joan
turns on David and labels him as a conspirator alongside Javier, and makes plans to
hang David at the town square the next day. Javier manages to escape confinement
and organizes his group to try and expose Joan and turn the people of the New
Frontier against her, as well as set off to acquire a stash of weapons and a truck to
escape once they have rescued David. Clementine and Javier meet up at the hospital
and learn that AJ is being kept at a ranch outside of town from Dr. Lingard, who
demands they kill him by injection in exchange for information as he can no longer
cope with the New Frontier's actions.
■ At the hanging, Joan calls out on Javier, accusing his group of being responsible for
many past losses. She reveals she has captured Ava andTripp, and demands Javier
determine who to spare; regardless of which he picks, Joan betrays him and kills the
one he choses, despiteClint's attempt to negotiate peace.The player has the option
of killing Joan or trying to negotiate a deal, either choice leading to a firefight among
the survivors during which Javier manages to free David. Kate, who had stayed with
their escape vehicle, races into the square with the truck, but it is struck by a Molotov
cocktail, and she loses control and crashes into one of the city's walls; the truck
explodes, and walkers start to pour in through the breech.
8. ■ Kate survives and rejoins the group, who barricade themselves in an apartment
building full of survivors and contemplate on how to save Richmond.
■ David becomes suspicious of Javier and Kate's closeness, and the group becomes
wary of David's growing aggression.The group decides to acquire a bulldozer that
can help barricade the blockade to prevent the herd from proliferating.Along the way
on the overpass eitherTripp or Ava dies, depending on Javier's choice earlier. As they
acquire the bulldozer, David views Richmond as a lost cause and suggests that they
leave the city to the walkers and return home, to which Gabe reluctantly agrees, but
everyone else heavily disagrees with. After Kate reveals her feelings about Javier out
of spite, David attacks him.Whether or not Javier decides to fight back, walkers begin
to close in on them, allowing David to leave in a truck with Gabe. Kate decides to man
the bulldozer to help save Richmond; Javier and Clementine decide whether to help
Kate or pursue David.The choice made can result in Javier losing Kate, David and/or
Gabe. Jesus arrives with backup from the Kingdom to help the survivors round up the
walkers and lead them out of Richmond, saving the town.
■ Days later, Javier memorializes the ones lost and meets Jesus, who suggests that he
steps up as Richmond's new leader. Having learned AJ's location from Dr. Lingard,
Clementine decides to leave Richmond in order to find him. Javier gives her a haircut
and bids her goodbye as she departs.
9. World
Terrain:The character walks through the
grass causing it to move as they do.
Architecture: the trees are
there for the game scene to
look realistic and unable to be
interacted with
Objects: the dog is the object because the character
can interact with it in the game.
10. Characters ■ The non playable characters in the game are:
David García is a main character who first appears inTelltale Games’TheWalking
Dead: season 3. He is the elder brother of Javier García, and was one of four leaders of the
group known asThe New Frontier, alongside Clint, Paul, and Joan, before being betrayed.
Gabriel García, also known as "Gabe," is a main character who first appears
in Telltale Games’TheWalking Dead: season 3. He is David García son
and Mariana’s older brother.
Kate García is the tritagonist inTelltaleGames’TheWalking Dead: season 3. She is the step-
mother of Mariana and Gabriel, the ex-wife of David, and the optional girlfriend of Javier.
Kate is seen progressively, developing her skills throughout the Season, from being weak to
strong.
11. Mariana García, also referred to as "Mari," is a main character who
appears in TelltaleGames’TheWalking Dead: season 3. She is the daughter
of David García, step-daughter of Kate García, niece of Javier García, and
younger sister of Gabriel García.
Joan is a main character and an antagonist who first appears in TelltaleGames’
TheWalking Dead: season 3. She is one of four leaders of the New Frontier
alongside David García, Clintons Barnes and Paul Lingard, and acts as the
group's head of diplomacy. In reality, she is also the mastermind behind the
New Frontier's raids on other settlements, her motivation spurred from their
loss of people and supplies from the past winter. Joan serves as the primary
antagonist of season 3.
12. Setting
■ TheWalking Dead: A New Frontier follows on the first game, and coincides
with events of the comic, in which a zombie apocalypse has occurred,
turning humans that are bitten or die into zombies, or "walkers"; the only
way to stop this conversion is to damage the brain.The game is primarily set
four years after the apocalypse began.
■ The protagonist of A New Frontier is Javier "Javi"Garcia, a former
professional baseball player. His group consists of Kate, the second wife of
his brother David, and David's children Gabe and Mariana. He later meets
Clementine, a young teenager surviving on her own, and a major protagonist
from the previous two seasons. She continues to look after the baby from
last season,Alvin Jr. Also returning from the previous seasons are Kenny and
Jane, whose fates are depending on the player's decisions from the previous
season. Javi's group meets new characters from the idyllic town of Prescott,
including their leaderTripp and town doctor Eleanor.The first episode's
trailer includes the group meeting Paul “Jesus” Monroe , the ambassador of
the Hilltop community from the comic series.The trailer also describes "The
New Frontier" as another group of survivors that have become twisted due
to past events
13. Avatar
■ In the game you have the chance to play two characters
Javier García, also known as Javi, is the protagonist inTelltale Games’TheWalking
Dead: season 3. A former professional baseball player, Javier's life fell apart prior to the
outbreak with the destruction of his career, and him not being there when his father was ill,
which caused a strain in his relationship with his family upon his father's death.To Javier,
the most important thing to him in regard to survival is toughing it out for the ones he
loves, though he isn't ready to lay down his life for others as long as there's a more
reasonable path to take. His voice of reason is respected among his friends and family, even
if it does not get him where he wants to go.
Clementine, affectionately nicknamed Clem by many of her companions, is a main character
inTelltale Games'TheWalking Dead video game series. She serves as
the deuterogamist of Season 1 and Season 3, and the protagonist of Season 2 and Season 4. A
mature, kind, and polite girl, she acts as the moral compass of the group, and tries her best to
maintain the humanity of the group in a post-apocalyptic world. After losing the people
closest to her, Clementine becomes hardened and more mature in her outlook, but still
bravely overcomes the dangers of a post-apocalyptic world head-on and tries her best to
maintain some of her previous faith in humanity, hanging on to what Lee taught her and her
own values. As time goes on, however, Clementine develops more brash and forceful traits,
distrusting others and doing whatever it takes to stay alive. She holds a firm belief that
nothing good will come out of being in group anymore, and regularly stays by herself. Now a
matured early teen, Clementine is a far more independent individual, making her own choices
based on her own beliefs and values.
14. Box Art
Clearly shows the
name of the
game. In a font
which relates to
the game.
The console that
the game can be
played on.
New characters
Age restriction,
with warnings.
Sponsorships
Old characters
