Chapter 420: It's Time to Care for Players, "Escape"
Inspired by the idea of "Fairy Road" to deduce the prototype of a dark souls-like game, whether Wang Chen's starting point is to make a game with clever level design or simply want to trick people, to come up with this idea has already proved that he is a qualified and excellent game designer.
It's just that when he thinks that this guy never forgets the pit man even when he does VR, and even the passers-by who pit the man are going farther and farther, Gu Feng can only silently complain in his heart, "It's worthy of you".
As for the setting of the background of the game world, Wang Chen also considered Western themes, but he only thought about it, and after thinking about it, he passed it.
And a lot of oriental themes, martial arts are not good at tricking people, and fairy tales are not easy to control, thinking about it, Wang Chen chose one and chose a fantasy theme that is easy to make a fuss and not very difficult to control.
Originally, in Gu Feng's plan, "Dark Souls" was a game that would be made in the future, but now that Wang Chen has a game of the same type being made, this plan has been canceled temporarily.
When Wang Chen told Gu Feng the idea of the new game, Gu Feng was also thinking about what game to make next, since Black Soul was going to change his vest to appear, why didn't he take this opportunity to make a game with love and care for players?
At that time, he recalled many games in his previous life that tortured many players and streamers to cry and call their mothers.
"Digging for Survival", the volume is too small, the gameplay is too simple, and "Cat Leo Adventure", it's okay to do it when you're bored, and it's a bit of a big deal to do it.
"Mankind is Defeated", the strange physics system of this game makes the character's operation feel very unique, the unique operation touch brings in addition to the joy of pulling each other's hind legs when playing with friends, and at the same time brings a thing that seems very simple to do but is not good to do several attempts to be angry, although this game does contain a certain degree of torturous elements of the player, but the player still laughs a lot during the game as a whole, which does not meet Gu Feng's needs.
In addition to these two, there are seven or eight games that have been passed by Gu Feng for various reasons.
He was still thinking about this at noon, and seeing that he looked preoccupied, Jun Zilan asked, "What do you want?" I was absent-minded when I ate a meal. ”
Gu Feng naturally had nothing to hide in front of her, and he directly told him that he was thinking about the new game.
Originally, I didn't hope that Jun Zilan could give any useful advice, but who knew that Jun Zilan reminded him with a casual sentence.
"Continue to make paper wedding dresses, players have been waiting for the sequel of paper wedding dresses."
"That's right!" Gu Feng clapped his hands and praised.
Jun Zilan was taken aback by his sudden startled reaction, and she almost choked on her food, she said angrily: "You scared me." How? Are you really going to do this? ”
Gu Feng shook his head: "If you don't do this, where will the paper wedding dress go, let's make it more terrifying, hehehe...... " Yin Xian laughed twice, he lowered his head and picked up the meal.
Jun Zilan was chilled by Gu Feng's laughter, as a person who would be scared to her legs when she went to the escape room, the horror of the paper wedding dress was scary enough for her, if it wasn't for Gu Lan to play with her in the daytime, she would definitely not be able to play the customs alone, listening to Gu Feng's tone, this new game is so terrifying that it seems to be not a little bit more terrifying than the paper wedding dress, this ......
"Eat slowly, eat slowly, pay attention to your image, you are the idol in the hearts of the employees, don't eat like a starving ghost reincarnated." Gu Lan, who had just come over from dinner, saw Gu Feng gobbling up, if it weren't for the plate in his hand, he would probably have to cover his forehead with his hand.
Seeing Gu Lan coming, Gu Feng paused and said, "Sister, help me see if there is a ticket for tomorrow's flight to the Demon Capital, preferably in the morning." After saying that, it swept like a whirlwind.
"Huh? What are you doing in the Demon Capital? Is there anything to open? Gu Lan was stunned, usually when Gu Feng was busy, she also asked him to help book a plane ticket, she was strange that Gu Feng used to take a plane out to do something, and she would usually inform them a few days in advance, it was the first time that she was so anxious like this time, she glanced at Jun Zilan, and saw that Jun Zilan was also puzzled, she was even more puzzled.
"No, go find Uncle Li." Seeing that there was still a bewildered face beside him, Gu Feng helplessly explained, "The new game may not be easy to pass the trial, so I have to do Uncle Li's ideological work." ”
"Huh?" Gu Lan was even more stunned after hearing this, what kind of game did they have to fly over in person to do ideological work with the chairman of the game committee after they had passed the trial with Li Zhen's friendship in the country, she put down the dinner plate, sat down next to Jun Zilan, tilted her head and thought, "Pornography, isn't it, bloody and violent?" Politically sensitive? ”
Jun Zilan understood, but after she understood, she panicked even more, how scary is this game?
"Sister, what do you want?,It's just a horror game.,It's actually okay on PC.,At most, it's going to scare you to cry.,It's hard to pass the trial mainly because of VR.,When the time comes, it's estimated that not only will you have to restrict minors from playing.,High blood pressure.、Heart disease or something must not be played.,It's best to limit the upper age limit.,Don't let you play if you're over 30 or 35 years old.。
Jun Zi Languang listened to Gu Feng's more and more outrageous description, and her neck involuntarily shrank into her clothes, what kind of person is Gu Lan, it is a game that can scare her into tears when she enters the secret room and plays in and out vertically, her face is not red and her heart is not beating...... That's it for PC, what about VR...... Forget it, it's just a game, there's no need to risk your life in order to give your boyfriend a show, I believe Gu Feng should be understandable to her......
After the Flying Disc action, Gu Feng went back to get the design draft first.
In the first line of a new document, Gu Feng typed down the name of the game - "Escape".
To be honest, in terms of all the horror games that Gu Feng has played, seen or heard of, in terms of horror or fun, "Escape" is definitely not the best one, and it may not even be ranked in the top three, but if you want to choose a horror game that impresses him the most, "Escape" must be the first choice.
As an old game launched in the past 13 years, before "Escape", there were actually many excellent horror games, but in the year or two after "Escape" was launched, a large number of horror games have sprung up, and a large part of them can see the shadow of "Escape", which shows how much influence this game has had on later horror games.
IGN once commented that Escape can proudly claim to be a unique horror survival game. It's different from a lot of horror games on the market today, and it has even the scariest monsters that players can't kill but must stay away from, and it creates a very outstanding, creepy atmosphere that allows players to follow its pace into the horror trap step by step.
Yes, there is no shortage of the most old-fashioned jumpscare in "Escape", but compared to this low-level and cliché scary routine, the master-level atmosphere shaping of "Escape" is its killer feature that shocks the industry, even if the horror brought by jumpscare is only that moment, and "Escape" does not seem to be in a hurry to scare players in many cases, when players know that the horror is waiting for them in front or near but does not appear for a long time, The kind of terror that slowly accumulates like a boiled frog in warm water is the most direct to the heart when it erupts.