The development of "Ancestral Tree" did not use the latest third-generation Tianba engine.

It's not that the Tianba engine is so bad that even Chen Ba himself is not willing to use it, but the game nature of the ancestor tree is not suitable for using such a large engine.

Simply set up a physics engine to simulate common phenomena such as jumps and collisions.

Where can you use so many bells and whistles in an adventurous game?

"The flow of the game is still too short, if there are no mistakes in the whole process, it only takes about 30 minutes to clear the level."

Chen Ba was very dissatisfied with this.

At this stage, the game framework is completely produced according to the standard of after-dinner consumption mini-games, and the process is not too long.

That's not good news!

Because this can only meet the needs of light game lovers, for some heavy game lovers, the game flow of "Ancestral Tree" is too short and flat.

It makes sense to stretch it to an hour.

This hour refers to the time it takes to clear the customs without making a mistake in the whole process. If you make a mistake halfway, the normal customs clearance time should be about 40-60 hours.

"Isn't that going to be too long?"

Lao Luo frowned and asked: "Our game doesn't have a save function, you can only start over if you die once, the frustration of the game is relatively strong, and it takes forty or fifty hours to clear the customs, will it dissuade some players?" ”

"If you are persuaded to quit, you will be persuaded to quit......"

Chen Ba said indifferently: "This kind of game is originally very picky for players. If you don't have brain waves, you will play very well, and if you don't have brain waves, it is normal to be persuaded to quit. ”

Play the game and don't push yourself.

When players pick their favorite games, the game also picks the right players.

There is no threshold, no player picking, anyone can easily get started, and there are games that anyone can play in two clicks, such as the classic Happy Farm and other page games, which is an example of national carnival.

There is also the king of pesticides, in fact, I don't pick players very much, anyway, anyone can make two......

Unfortunately, Ancestral Tree is not this type of game.

It was decided at the beginning of the project that this game would be very selective and may not be suitable for some glass-hearted or easily discouraged players.

After all, there is no save, and you have to start over after dying once, and the frustration is no less than that of "Digging for Progress" with a pickaxe, this kind of game is really funny.

The good news is!

Compared with the anti-human way of movement, trajectory and operation logic of "Digging for Ascension", "Ancestral Tree" is at least simpler in operation.

"Jump over obstacles and traps, fight monsters to get better equipment and weapons, and lots of gold. Along the way, you'll also encounter weapons dealers and mystery merchants. ”

Arms dealers don't mention it.

As the name suggests, this kind of merchant must be a merchant who peddles all kinds of powerful weapons and equipment, shuttling through the corners of various maps and his whereabouts are uncertain.

The Mystery Merchant is worth mentioning!

If the weapon merchant adheres to the principle that you get what you pay for, and you can get a lot of improvement by spending as much gold as you want, the mysterious merchant has no such rule.

Whether it is the props he sells, medicines, or even weapons and equipment, etc., they are all mysterious items in the nature of blind boxes.

It is possible to spend a small amount of money to do big things, or it is possible to spend a lot of money, and finally like to mention the title of "wronged leader".

However, Chen Ba estimates that after the game is released, the most popular among players will be this mysterious businessman. After all, as we all know, gamers are betting on dogs.

The next Genting game is all low-cost gambling dog lineups, and the mysterious merchant's mechanic of thinking of heaven and hell is simply too suitable for them.

"A lot of roguelike games have this mechanic!"

Yang Dong explained: "This is also a kind of game, one of the more attractive things, that is, the absolute randomness. ”

It's too useless to honestly go to a weapon dealer and spend money to improve your strength.

A real man should open the music software, click on the song "Let It Go", then take a deep breath and find a mysterious businessman for a rollercoaster-like "unbreakable challenge".

"Okay, okay, that's it, right?"

Listening to the discussion between the weapon merchant and the mysterious merchant, Xiao Lu said speechlessly, "Then why do you still keep the weapon merchant?" ”

"Not everyone can gamble! What if someone wants to be stable and likes to keep their feet on the ground? The arms dealer is a way back for them......"

Chen Ba said with a smile.

Ancestral Tree is a game where not only weapon merchants and mystery merchants appear randomly, but also a lot of special events that are generated according to the characteristics of the map.

For example, the fake ancestral tree!

Or a random quiz, there is a reward for all correct answers, and 20% of the current blood volume will be deducted if you answer a question incorrectly.

There are also some traps, which will give players different paths to choose, and if you choose the right one, you can live, and if you choose the wrong one, you will return to the west directly.

These are all designed to add fun and excitement to the flow of the game......

In addition to the game content, during the game, there will be bursts of BGM background music in the background that set off the atmosphere.

This is what the outsourced team does.

Combined with the above, the completion of the game can reach a very high level, while giving the player the best gaming experience.

"The best experience?"

Xiao Lu pursed his lips and said, "Playing this game in the middle of the night is panicking, do you call this the best game experience?" ”

The music is already very eerie.

Combined with the various strange forms of ancestral trees painted by Morris, it is even more weird, a proper horror movie style, and I was scared to cry when I played this game when I was a child.

"What's scary?"

"You're just too timid, even this kind of thing can scare you, I really don't dare to think about playing those horror games, such as Jiahui paper man, will you be scared to pee your pants?" Chen Ba quipped.

"That's why I don't play those games!"

Xiao Lu was full of curiosity and said: "To be reasonable, I still can't understand who is buying horror games?" Why are sales so high? ”

"Haha! It's inevitable that someone will always be thrill-seeking......"

Speaking of this, Chen Ba suddenly became interested, so he knocked on the table and asked, "What do you say, do you want our Tianba Studio to also make a horror game?" ”

"Horror games?"

"That's right! It's a Chinese-style horror game with a similar nature to games like "Hong Kong Strange Record" and "Paper Man". ”

Chen Ba explained: "Because I found that these games are quite popular, and the sales are okay, and the production cost is not high. ”

Forehead!

Yang Dong thought about it and felt that this was indeed a good idea.

Horror games have a fixed audience, and they are very suitable for those game anchors and game video bloggers to use for program effects, so the popularity on the Internet has exploded.

In terms of sales, in fact, it is okay!

After all, the production cost of this kind of game is relatively not so outrageous, and it is more of the "creativity" and "brain" of the graduate school production team.

As long as you have a proper brain hole or creativity, the benefits of making a horror game are quite good.

"Then it's decided!"

Seeing that Brother Dong also agreed to this proposal, Chen Bale said happily: "When the release of "Ancestral Tree" is completed and officially put on sale, let's make a Chinese-style horror game." ”

"Okay!"

"But on the side of "Ancestral Tree", when are you going to release it?"

"June!"

Chen Ba estimated that with the current development progress and the volume of the game, it will be released in June or July.

It won't drag on for too long.

After all, Chen Ba is a recognized fast gunner in the industry, and he is faster than others in making games, and the volume of "Ancestral Tree" is small, this time is definitely enough.

……

It's summer in the blink of an eye.

In Qiongzhou in June, the weather is already very hot, and you will sweat a lot when you bask in the sun outside.

Yao Mao couldn't imagine how the older generation spent the scorching summer in the era when there were no air-conditioned refrigerators before.

In this weather, it is impossible to go out, and those who are stupid and lack foreign tourists, this day is not afraid of the heat, and they are running around on the beach.

Yao Mao is very honest, hiding in the air-conditioned room and not going anywhere, playing the game honestly.

"Tianba's new tour "Ancestral Tree" is coming, and the first appointment can enjoy a community reward of 500 points?"

Swiped posts in the community, and accidentally swiped the top promotional post of Tianba's new game, and immediately became interested.

Don't get me wrong!

He is not interested in this new game called "Ancestral Tree", but in the 500 Tianba community points given away by the pre-registration event.

Not long ago, the Tianba community carried out another round of revisions and launched the so-called point system.

Points can be obtained for posting, replying, and signing in, but the amount of these points is too small, and it usually looks like one or two points.

For more points, you can still participate in official activities, such as this reservation event, as long as you make an appointment, you can get 500 points.

How generous!

Points can be exchanged for various physical or virtual prizes in the points mall, and these five hundred points are already a lot, enough for him to sign in for a month or even longer.

For the sake of these 500 points, Yao Mao did not hesitate to book a new tour of "Ancestral Tree".

Then, he received a text message that the new game was successfully pre-ordered, and a notification that the game would be released tomorrow.

"Tomorrow?"

Yao Mao, who had nothing to do during the summer vacation, learned that this game would be launched tomorrow, and immediately decided to play it.

Anyway, being idle is idle, and he just took a look, and the pre-sale price of the Nobug platform of "Ancestral Tree" is only 48 yuan, which is not expensive.

For the sake of Brother Ba and the face of 500 points, then it will be difficult to play!

Early the next morning, Yao Mao, who had breakfast, turned on his computer and logged in to the Nobug platform to buy and download the new game "Ancestral Tree", which had just been released.

The Nobug platform also has a refund mechanism, and if it's not fun, you can initiate a refund, but there is nothing to lose.

With this in mind, Yao Mao opened the game client and entered the world of "Ancestral Tree......

It's a magical world!

In this world, everyone grows a tree on their corpse when they die. It is said that the tree is the embodiment of the will of the deceased, and each leaf represents a memory of him.

And if the fruit on the tree is sweet after eating, then you will see all kinds of happy and beautiful scenes that the deceased experienced during his lifetime.

If it is bitter or sour, it is the experience of suffering in life, full of sadness and grievances......

This tree is called: the Ancestral Tree!

The older the person, the more experienced the person, the taller the ancestral tree will grow, and the more leaves and fruits will be.

A barren life can't raise a strong ancestral tree, let alone bear abundant fruits!

The story of the game begins with a child looking up at the starry sky under a tree. He doesn't have a name of his own, because he always stares at these ancestral trees in a daze, so he is also called "Tree Treasure".

The game UI is very simple.

After getting a little familiar with the operation, the game officially begins, and Yao Mao can control the protagonist Shubao's actions.

Side-by-side version of the level!

The first map is a forest, where players take control of the Tree Treasure and weave their way through a treacherous forest full of traps and monsters.

The trap is good to say, it's probably a novice level, so you won't be too embarrassed, and you can pass it with a simple jump.

The monsters are also very low in difficulty, and they are all small mobs such as hornets or poisonous snakes, which can be easily eliminated with a slingshot.

But Yao Mao was still careless!

The novice level is really simple, mainly to give everyone a chance to familiarize themselves with the operation of the keys, and it will not be difficult to get started as soon as it comes up. But the monsters in this level are all "poisonous".

So, he was poisoned and sent.

This is the first life he has given away since he started playing this game.

When he came back to life and came to the place where he had just died, he saw a small sapling.

"Does it really grow a tree?"

Yao Mao, who thought this mechanism was very interesting, couldn't help but complain: "Then do I count myself as planting trees in the game and making a contribution to a low-carbon life?" ”

Ants planting trees?

Isn't that much more fun than some ant planting a tree? The only bad thing is that the fertilizer for this tree turned out to be itself?

Tsk, it's pretty crazy to think about!

Because the first death was too hasty and hasty, and the experience was not rich enough, only one sapling grew, and nothing else was gained.

Forget it, next level!

It was a shame for Yao Mao to die at the Novice Pass, he didn't even bother to look at this ancestral tree, and he solved the Novice Pass by dividing it by two in three clicks and five times, and entered the second swamp map.

From this level onwards, the map changes randomly, and the difficulty increases tenfold.

Not surprisingly, Yao Mao was cold again.

He had just defeated a lizard and burst out of the dagger, and he thought that the second level would be on the ground, but he knew that the next second he would fall into a spur trap and be pierced into a hornet's nest.

The second ancestral tree has appeared!

Compared to the first ancestral tree, the second tree looks much better, although it is still a sapling, this tree bears something.

", my dagger?"

Seeing that after his death, the dagger that had just burst out was also hanging on the tree, Yao Mao was very distressed.

If the map is not random, he can take the dagger directly the next time he comes, but the map will change randomly. The next time he goes to the swamp map, I don't know when!

This means that perhaps the next time he arrives on this map, he won't need a dagger very much.

It's infuriating!

The setting of the game's death, all items disappearing, and skill forgetting and erasing is really speechless.

The point is, there are no save points......

It's impossible to go back, you can only accept this special fate of dying once and clearing it to zero!

(End of chapter)