Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

Looking at some of the information released by Nebula Games, many players and game designers in the industry were surprised for a while.

In the beginning, both players and designers in the industry subconsciously believed that the game "Uncharted Sea" would be an open-world action-adventure game.

After all, in the entire game circle, if you want to say who can best represent open world games, there is no doubt that all players and designers in the industry will mention Chen Xu.

But I never imagined that this would turn out to be a linear game.

Although this also explains why the screen of "Uncharted Sea" is so bursting, the key is whether players can buy it.

Including Atari, when they knew that Nebula Games' latest game "Uncharted" was a linear game, they were also surprised.

After all, the trend in the game industry in the past two years is the open world, especially now that "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" has only been launched for half a year.

Many game designers feel that players should be more enthusiastic about open worlds.

But under such circumstances, Nebula Games actually made a linear game?

It can only be said that it is indeed a Nebula game!

In Atari's "World of Elements" project team, Antolini, the designer in charge of the project, was also very emotional.

The year before last, although the "Beautiful World" he directed lost to "Red Dead Redemption", he felt that he lost the game and did not lose.

After all, in fact, the gameplay of "Beautiful World" has actually been affirmed by some players.

And he felt that if Atari could trust him at the beginning, with the gimmick of Western Cowboys vs Robots, it might be possible to transfer a wave of jobs.

Fighting with "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption" is pure western and cowboy, Antolini thinks that it may not be an opponent.

But the key is that you don't have to fight to the death. Once the multiplayer mode is engaged, the follow-up DLC plot will be done.

Plus it's a robot wars western cowboy.

In the follow-up, maybe you can rely on the sci-fi part and put on the skin of the sci-fi western.

At the same time, Antorini also had a little regret last year, that is, Chen Xu did not develop VR games, and he had no chance to find his way back, which also made him have a lot of regrets.

But I never imagined that this time, it was a coincidence that I ran into it again!

The only difference is that this time the game's big genre is different.

Antolini feels that his open world theme has a lot of advantages!

At that time, even if you win, it will still be a little invincible!

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In the Nebula game, Chen Xu didn't know the good attitude of Antolini at Atari.

Uncharted is just a step-by-step promotion.

On the other hand, Atari's publicity does not stop.

The No. 1 and No. 2 hot spots in the entire game circle are basically taken away by the two games "Uncharted" and "Element World".

As for NetDragon's "Operation Shadow: Communication Interruption", it is quite satisfactory, with a warm-up but not large in scale, and it just maintains a continuous popularity.

Obviously trying to avoid Nebula Games and Atari's new work.

Including some other game makers as well.

After all, Nebula Games and Atari are old enemies.

In such a world of players' attention, "Uncharted" took the lead in announcing its launch time.

Officially released on May 1.

After the news of Nebula Games was announced.

Atari, who had been fighting with Nebula Games in the publicity before, was silent for a long time.

Why?

Because the progress can't catch up!

Looking at the release time of "Uncharted", in the project room of Atari's "Element World", Antolini felt that he had knocked down Cotton with a punch.

According to the current progress, "Element World" will take at least half a month before the content development can be completed.

And the completion of development does not mean that it can be launched, and it needs to be tested in advance.

Although Uncharted is a linear game, it does require a lot less engineering than an open world game.

But your Nebula game is too fast, right?

Are you putting a rocket in your ass?

Antolini was depressed for a while.

As for the promotion of "Element World"?

Take a break for now.

After all, the promotion at this time actually helped Nebula Games.

With the silence of the promotion of "Element World", online players were also speechless for a while.

Originally, they were looking forward to the announcement that "Element World" would soon release a game launch, and then compete with Nebula Games.

As a result, you suddenly went silent?

Judging from the previous performance, it is obvious that Atari's performance is very strong, and it should not be afraid of Nebula games.

But now suddenly there is no sound for what reason?

It's just that the game hasn't been developed yet.

Then you haven't finished developing it, and the propaganda was in full swing before. Why do you want the world to focus on you?

Are you playing monkeys? Make it like the real thing!

Many online players who were looking forward to "The World of Elements" were depressed for a while.

The players who are looking forward to "Uncharted" here are buzzing with gongs and drums and firecrackers.

Of course, it's not all expectations, and many players are still a little uneasy.

Because during this period, the publicity of "Uncharted" also revealed a lot of things to players.

The content of technology and gameplay is second, and what worries players more is the subtitle of the game.

Same with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Odyssey, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Uncharted also had a subtitle, which was announced during the promotional period: A Thief's End.

As soon as this title came out, it instantly made many players tremble in their hearts.

Under Chen Xu's official blog, there are also many players replying.

But this time Chen Xu didn't mean to reply at all.

In an instant, many players showed a pessimistic mood.

They all said that "Nathan Drake" is already cold, and the only point of concern is how cold Nathan Drake is in the game.

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In the Nebula game lounge, Yang Xin and others looked at Chen Xu who was on the official blog in surprise.

"Mr. Chen, players on the Internet misunderstood you this time, aren't you going to reply?" Ruan Ningxue asked curiously.

When players made mistakes in the past, Chen Xu would always reply immediately.

The game has not been released yet, and players have even assumed that the protagonist will die in the end, but they all know that this "Uncharted Sea: A Thief's End" is completely different from what the players thought. This is really a relatively happy story. stand out?

"When players all think that this is a game that will poke their hearts, but in the end they find that it is a happy ending, they can feel enough surprises." Chen Xu smiled.

Of course, there was still a word in his heart that he didn't say.

That is, players misunderstand him now, and when the ending is revealed, that misunderstanding will turn into guilt, and the label of his knife among players will naturally become blurred.

Everything is under control!