Game Making: The Latest Chapter Begins With Healing the Player

For the players of "Dark Souls", it can be completely described as another Chinese New Year.

Even hearing the news about the prequel, for many avid Dark Souls players, they are more excited than the New Year.

In Nebula Game's office, Yang Xin, Ruan Ningxue, Qin Yi and the others who were sitting in the conference room looked confused.

Outside players are extremely excited, and major game media have also reported the news of the sequel to "Dark Souls", and fellow designers and manufacturers in the game industry are watching silently.

But my family knows their own affairs, this so-called prequel is really not even created a folder!

Even the picture posted by Chen Xu on the official blog was temporarily taken from last year's publicity picture.

Today's meeting, everyone's heart is clear, is basically for the game "Dark Souls" prequel.

"Mr. Chen, it's just over a month away from the exhibition. It's not realistic to want to come up with a demo version!" Before the meeting started, Qin Yi, who was sitting under Chen Xu, whispered. Talk to Chen Xu.

"Yeah, although the overall framework is there, but one month is too late, right?" Ruan Ningxue also said.

Everyone has the same meaning, that is, it is too difficult to come up with a test version for players to experience at the exhibition.

Even if I work overtime every day, I feel that the progress is too late.

"Why are you so panic? Whether it's an interview or an official blog, didn't I say it? During the exhibition, new content will be brought to the players. Isn't the trailer not the content?" Chen Xu looked at the crowd and sighed. in one breath.

In terms of business ability, Ruan Ningxue, Yang Xin and Qin Yi have continued to learn and improve in the past two years.

He was able to complete the tasks he assigned very well, but this person still lacked some understanding of it.

As a game practitioner, the most basic abilities are not enough.

Can a gamer who can't draw cakes be considered a qualified gamer?

Take a look at the famous game makers and producers in the previous life, which one is not proficient in all kinds of cake painting skills?

The co-production of various posts on the official blog with celebrities makes people suspect that they are chasing celebrities with public funds. Occasionally, there is a photo of traveling and cooking. When the player asks how the game is progressing, the answer must be done.

There is also a company that starts with the letter B, which is even worse.

A game title was placed directly at the exhibition, and then a magnificent series of theme songs was placed with the scene map lens stretching, and it was over.

Anyway, he is preparing to do a promotional CG here!

After listening to Chen Xu's words, everyone was speechless for a while, but they also relaxed.

Because if you look at it this way, the time is really loose.

You must know that at this time last year, they were developing two games, "Three Kingdoms Kill" and "Jelly Bean Man", while producing and promoting CG.

This year, the time is about a month shorter than last year.

Just focus on one project.

And the framework of "Dark Soul" itself is ready-made, which can also save a lot of time for subsequent development.

Glancing at the time, all the staff from various departments had arrived, and Chen Xu also stood up for today's meeting.

"Okay, I believe everyone knows the theme of today's meeting." As Chen Xu said, he opened the laptop on the meeting table.

A document appeared on the projector behind it with the title: Dark Souls Prequel.

At the same time, there is a subtitle below: The Age of First Fire.

The people in the meeting did not show too much surprise.

Because on Chen Xu's official blog before, this game of prequel nature has been revealed to players, and the game background setting is set in the ancient era, that is, the era of the beginning of fire.

So this subtitle is also in line with the game plot.

The only thing that makes everyone curious is that this prequel game is different from the previous one.

"The prequel to "Dark Souls" doesn't make too many changes in the combat system, except for some numerical corrections." Chen Xu looked at the crowd and identified a cornerstone of the game.

Chen Xu did not plan to change the core combat system.

Because in fact, the battle system styles of Soul 1 and Soul 3 in the previous life are the same, because they are both played by Miyazaki.

It's just because of technical reasons that there are some 'difficulties' in the details.

The most direct example is the time to drink the element bottle in the game.

In Soul 3, players can move in small steps when drinking medicine, so the biggest advantage is to make the battle more smooth.

In Soul 1, it is a standing-style drinking medicine, which is a kind of technical lag. After all, when Miyazaki Hideko developed Soul 1 in the early days, it can be said that there was no money at all, and the artistic map was not It was decided to do so early in the morning, but it was a compromise because the cost was not enough, but it unexpectedly became the most classic existence.

Of course, drinking medicine in Soul 1 is not the most painful thing. What is even more painful is Soul 2, which was expelled from Soul membership by many Black Soul players. In the game settings, a quick attribute was added. As a result, in the early stage The experience of drinking blood has become extremely painful, especially the speed of being born with nothing, which makes countless players complain that it is not a urea bottle, otherwise it is so difficult to swallow.

Of course, Soul 2 is not without its advantages. Apart from the design of the map, Soul 2 is closer to a 'realism' in the combat system, but this is completely different from the style of Soul 1 itself, which also causes a In this case, some players who have played Soul 1 like to think it is a kind of transcendence, but those who don't like it feel that it is extremely stretched, because as a series of games, it has directly changed the game style.

Therefore, in the battle system, in general, Chen Xu is not going to make changes, just make some changes in details.

As for the setting of bosses and monsters, Chen Xu temporarily skips it, because for now, he doesn't need to worry about it.

Therefore, at present, Chen Xu is mainly explaining the game mechanism of a map design of the game, so that everyone can understand the differences of this game.

"The biggest difference from the previous game is that we have to do a large number of redoes on the map. The feature of penetration design will be more vividly expressed in the prequel, and it will even be one of the core experiences of players, so in order to be able to Let the players feel the charm of it more subtly, and there will be some small changes in the game mechanics." Chen Xu looked at the crowd with a smile.

Small changes to game mechanics?

Hearing Chen Xu's words, Ruan Ningxue, Yang Xin and the others looked curious, but when they saw Chen Xu's faint smile, they always felt that this small change in the mechanism might not be a real small change.

Sure enough, the next moment, Chen Xu's explanation shocked them.

"For example, the bonfire in the game cannot be directly transmitted." Seeing everyone curious about the baby's appearance, Chen Xu seemed to think of something and smiled happily.

"Bon... bonfire can't be teleported!?" Qin Yi's eyes widened. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

Including Yang Xin, Ruan Ningxue and other employees in the conference room, everyone was shocked.

Did they hear it right?

The bonfire of the map in the game cannot be teleported?

If you say "Dark Soul", what is the most reassuring place for players?

That's the bonfire.

Because when you come to the bonfire, you can return to the fire sacrificial field to communicate with the fire girl sister, which is equivalent to storing a progress.

But now the campfire can't teleport?

This game is still playable! ?

If I want to go back and take a look at the fire prevention lady, I am afraid that I have to travel through mountains and rivers and pass through many obstacles.

And if you have tens of thousands of souls on your body, you want to go back and upgrade, and you die twice on the road, wouldn't the whole person be numb?