Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

In the game circle, "Beautiful World" and "Red Dead Redemption", which have already begun to promote and warm up, can be said to be the focus of recent players' discussions.

However, along with an official blog on Chen Xu's official blog, it has attracted the attention of many players, including the game industry.

The content of the official blog is not long, only a few simple sentences.

'For some curious and key points of online players, here are a few words about the features of "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption". ’

'First of all, it is a completely different type from "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare". Players will feel more interesting gameplay in the game, and have a seamless large map, fully feeling the freedom and charm of Westworld. ’

'Secondly, in terms of plot, this time "Red Dead Redemption" will have the choice of multiple endings, be a good person or a bad person. ’

There is no long talk, just a simple answer to the two hottest topics discussed by online players before.

However, from these simple sentences, players and designers in the game industry have drawn a lot of information.

"Multiple endings!? Be a good person or a bad person, so the implication is to be a bad person, so the ending of the protagonist is not a good ending, but being a good person is a good ending?"

"That must be what it means, and it's quite normal, right?"

"Chilled! Ghost, Xiaoqiang, Soap, Gates, Griggs, and others in heaven roared, why didn't they have multiple endings!?"

Looking at Chen Xu's words on the official blog, many players are talking about the content of the plot revealed by Chen Xu.

Multiple endings, this is not a special game operation.

You must know that for many old players of Nebula Games, it is not appropriate to say Chen Xu's old players, because Nebula Games had not yet been established at that time.

The first "Magic Mirror" that Chen Xu made was a standard multi-ending game.

Pure love and tauren, two extreme endings, even sparked a debate in the butter industry at that time when the pure love of God of War and the tauren fought.

Now "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption" is obviously the same way.

Of course, some players feel that things may not be so simple.

After all, if the protagonist in "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" is regarded as Price, in the end, although Captain Price did not die, the 141st Special Forces all died.

In the new work "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption", Arthur Morgan has a gang.

But apart from this one, the most surprising thing is Chen Xu's announcement of the game's features.

Players will feel more interesting gameplay in the game, and have a seamless large map.

This rhetoric seems to be a bit familiar, where have I heard it before.

Isn't this the publicity of the atrai side before!

Many players were shocked.

And not only the players, but also the game industry was shocked.

Red Dead Redemption: Seamless Map?

This picture is impossible!

Including atrai, after reading the news of Chen Xu's official blog, Antolini immediately opened a Universal VR and entered the environment theme of the previous Nebula game launch.

How can such a picture performance be seamless?

Antolini frowned.

Or what little tricks does Chen Xu have?

Divide the seamless big map into pieces, and then put CG to load when passing through a certain map.

For example, the player is riding a horse hide, or is it some other action?

Or when going to a certain map, the player needs to take a train?

It's just that the game shows that this scene is seamless, but it's actually still reading.

Thinking about the operations that could be done, Antolini felt that he had guessed the truth.

As for the shrinking of the screen, although it is not common in the game industry, Antolini thinks that Nebula Games will not do this.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that his idea was correct.

Mortal wisdom! Why advertise it like this?

Just a gimmick!

As for the richer gameplay, this piece of Antolini didn't care at all.

How rich can it be?

Like this environmental theme, go to the west to run a farm, raise pigs and farm?

"If it's just this level, the game "Red Dead Redemption" is still relatively hanging, and the other point is that you can't let the other party take the lead." Although Antolini was still a little worried, he was very concerned about his game. Have confidence.

Judging from the current situation, he feels that the threat of "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption" is not too great, but also needs to pay attention to the launch time.

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During the following period, atrai's promotion of "Beautiful World" was in full swing, and new game data contents were disclosed almost every day.

One by one, new gameplay and new characters make players' expectations higher and higher.

In fact, "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption" is not far behind. In addition to the previous promotional films, it is more displayed in the theme environment.

In addition to the gameplay of farming pigs and domino poker, players found that a newspaper function was updated in the environmental theme.

Every day the newsboy delivers a newspaper.

It introduces some of the situation in Westworld.

In the game, the newspaper is a very important thing.

In addition to the main line content that happened, many side tasks can find some information from newspapers.

Of course, the newspapers currently released by Chen Xu to players will definitely not involve the game content.

It is more of an introduction to the social background at that time.

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As the project progresses little by little, time passes day by day.

Finally in the expectations of global players.

"Red Dead Redemption" and "Beautiful World" have announced their launch dates.

"Red Dead Redemption" will be launched on January 16, and "Beautiful World" will be launched on January 15.

The difference from before is that before, atrai announced its own promotional content first, and then Nebula Games followed up.

But this time, "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption" announced the launch time first, and then atrai followed.

Including Chen Xu in the Nebula game was also surprised.

Because the development progress of "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption" this time is very smooth, but even so, the content that is currently online does not include online mode content, just pure plot content.

In this case, the atrai side announced the launch time so quickly, and it happened to be a day earlier than them?

But surprise is surprising, since the release time has been announced, Chen Xu is not ready to adjust anything.

Because this has already been planned, and Chen Xu believes that the impact of one day on "Red Dead Redemption" will not be very big.

Unless it's three or four days in advance, or a week.

Otherwise, the gap of one or two days in the schedule will not affect the overall situation.

Chen Xu was surprised, but Antolini at Atrai was even more fortunate. Fortunately, all of Atrai, including him, worked overtime during this time.

Otherwise, there is really no way to determine such a time.

Looking at the release date, Antolini couldn't help but smile.

He feels stable!

At least in terms of release time, he has already overtaken "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption".

The rest is left to the market to judge.

And he can have a good rest these days. On January 15th, he will have a good night's sleep.

Sleep well all day and wake up the next day to the joy of victory.

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January 15

"Beautiful World" is officially launched, and "Red Dead Redemption" is also preloaded in advance, allowing players to enter the game as soon as possible on the 16th.

Major game makers and designers in the industry are also paying close attention.

The limelight in the near-end time game circle has been robbed by these two games.

But it's hard to say who is the winner in the end.

After all, "Red Dead Redemption" and "Westworld" are both games of the same type and theme.

If there are different themes, or different types, then there will be an impact on sales, but it will not be too big.

But now with the same genre and the same subject matter, the impact is far greater.

As for the players, I don't think too much about it.

Players who purchase "Beautiful World" directly enter the game to experience.

Players who pre-ordered "Red Dead Redemption" are pre-loading, and at the same time, they are concerned about the performance of "Beautiful World" on some platforms such as live broadcasts, and look forward to the experience of "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption" tomorrow.