Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

Contact the motion capture studio to produce various materials.

At the same time, Chen Xu also led the entire team to develop "Escape".

The cost of this game is not low but not as high as expected.

After completing the budget report, the total development cost of the entire game, together with the follow-up publicity expenses, is tentatively set at 6 million.

Of course, there may be some more at that time, but it will not exceed 8 million.

For a horror game, this number can be said to be relatively large in this genre.

In this regard, everyone in the team is also very excited.

After all, this is their first big project.

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Time advances day by day.

Art, action, and stable output of resources.

The plot lines in the game have also been produced, and the second dubbing will be performed at that time.

The various actions of the protagonist in the game are also undergoing various trial and error.

"Now I feel a little panicky, how scary the finished product will be!"

Inside the office, Ruan Ningxue sat in front of the computer, looking at the conceptual design drawing on the secondary screen next to her, with lingering fears.

These concept drawings are mainly some scene drawings, the mental hospital building in the dark, the scene full of blood and corpses, the mental patient hiding under the bed in the dark room, and the night vision mode DV shots.

These few original concept paintings completely show the weird atmosphere of "Escape", not to mention playing and just looking at it, it makes people feel cold on the back.

You must know that during the development of "Escape", she slept very late at night.

Why?

Scared!

She didn't know what to think that day. She really took the DV that Chen Xu gave her and tried it at night. As a result, the extreme atmosphere of the underworld made her whole body feel bad.

After all, make up your own brain and then scare yourself, this is the most terrifying thing.

Of course, because of this, she followed the requirements given by Chen Xu to design the original concept art, which was very impressive.

"Yeah! And in the game, players can't resist and can only escape." Listening to Ruan Ningxue's words, Yang Xin next to him also sighed.

Chen Xu, who was doing an action design, smiled: "Isn't this very emotional? And if there is a gun, it will easily become an FPS game. After all, does fear stem from insufficient firepower?"

Why are firearms arranged in ordinary horror games?

On the one hand, it is to enrich the content of the game, and on the other hand, it is also to give players an appropriate outlet.

This approach is actually very appropriate. The previous life "Resident Evil" adopted this model.

But this also has a big flaw, that is, it is easy to turn horror games into FPS games.

After all, terror comes from the lack of firepower. As long as there is enough firepower, the fear can be suppressed.

Including the previous life "Resident Evil" is on this part, and gradually deviated.

Since the fourth generation, it has been biased towards Tututu, until the remake takes the line of fear again, and handles the whole rhythm to a very perfect level in "Resident Evil 8 Village".

Of course, although for most players, they are not concerned about how scary the game is or how good the rhythm is.

All their attention was drawn to Mrs. Hachiko and her three daughters.

"But Mr. Chen, when will we warm up the "Escape"? I see that many players on the Internet are asking about the new work." Yang Xin said.

Different from the three of them in the R&D department before, now that new employees join the company, they also call Chen Xu seriously instead of calling each other by their respective names as before.

"Yeah, the development progress seems to be very fast, and it should be online in December." Ruan Ningxue said.

The volume of "Escape" is not very large, and the main workload is also concentrated in various actions and the output of art materials.

Because in the gameplay mode, it is really fast, and there is almost no trial and error content.

Development is smooth sailing.

"If you spend money to promote warm-up, there is no rush for the time being, and we will wait until the middle and late November to start."

"Now my official blog is following more people, and what day have you forgotten tomorrow?"

Chen Xu said with a smile.

what day?

Yang Xin and Ruan Ningxue froze for a moment, then looked at the lower right corner of the computer desktop.

October 30?

"Halloween! I have already recorded the warm-up promotional materials in advance, and I just waited for this day to be announced at the festival."

"After all, players have been looking forward to it for a month, and it's time to announce our new work on this festival, isn't it quite grounded?"

Chen Xu smiled and said to Yang Xin and Ruan Ningxue, and at the same time clicked on a short video that he had put on the desktop.

The video is not long, only ten seconds in total.

At first the screen was dark, and the next moment a picture appeared on the screen, but it was not a normal picture.

It is the night vision mode of DV. At the same time, a battery indicator can be seen in the upper right corner, and a red dot in the upper left corner is constantly flashing, indicating that DV is recording.

The DV picture is Chen Xu's office.

The chair fell across the ground, and the various documents on the table were deliberately disrupted.

There is no sound in the entire video.

With the DV night vision picture, it makes people feel very strange and uneasy.

At the ninth second of playback, the DV picture suddenly trembled, as if the photographer was attacked, but the strange thing was that there was still no sound at all, and then the entire video fell into darkness after playing.

There was silence in the office, Yang Xin and Ruan Ningxue looked at Chen Xu for a long time without saying a word.

"Mr. Chen, I don't think we should go to the underworld because of the down-to-earth spirit." After holding back for a long time, Ruan Ningxue looked at Chen Xu and said slowly.

This warm-up is obviously telling players that they are going to develop a horror game next.

But the key is can this preheating method be grounded?

I'm afraid not all have been taken to the underworld.

It was released on Halloween, and a DV footage of this was shot at midnight.

You really have Mr. Chen!

Yang Xin next to him couldn't help but say what he wanted to say: "And Mr. Chen, didn't you say that you are a warrior of love? "Escape" has nothing to do with love, and we can't be on time for this warm-up. Something from the sun!"

"Why can't it have anything to do with love? In recent years, horror game lovers, haven't they always said that there are no good horror games? Why do I want to develop "Escape"? This is my love for these players! This is Can't you be considered a warrior of love?"

"As for the things in the world, don't you think this promotion fits the theme of "Escape"? And it can attract more attention than normal announcements. We have to grasp the heat!" Chen Xu said seriously said.