Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

Looking at the NPC in front of him, Song Ren hesitated a little.

The plot of the game is immersed in the sense of substitution, telling him how the white wolf Geralt, who is a witcher at this time, can learn to play cards?

Think about your old lover Yennefer, her safety is still unclear!

There is also Ciri, although there is not much content revealed in the game at present, only a short training plot of Kyle Mohan.

Including the old man Vesemir is still waiting for you to investigate the information, and then set off to find the trace of Yennefer!

But to be fair, Yennefer, as a powerful sorceress, should have some self-protection abilities.

Ciri has been missing for so long, it is estimated that it is not too short of a while.

And the villagers of White Orchard were threatened by griffins, which is not really a big problem.

The Princess Zelda on the Hyrule Continent in his hands has not yet been rescued from Ganon.

Moreover, the description of the Gwent card by the war scholar in front of him really made Song Ren very curious.

Because according to the other party's description, this is a very popular game in the wizarding world.

Not only Nilfgaard, but also Redania, which was at war with Nilfgaard in the north, compared to the neutral Novigrad, and even the destroyed Temeria. This card game is very good. Popular, and even some cards are very expensive.

It can be said that from the top to the dignitaries, down to the common people, no matter what class people are, they will play Gwent cards.

Such a description made Song Ren quite curious, what kind of magic does this little card game have?

So, he decided to give it a try first.

As the game started, Song Ren quickly understood the rules of this card game through a brief introduction.

It's not difficult, at least it's much simpler than Dou Dizhu.

To put it simply, it is to compare the points with the big and small, and Tian Ji's horse racing with two wins in three rounds.

Before the game starts, players can form a deck and choose their own leader commander. Each commander of different factions has their own unique special effects, such as changing the weather effect or changing cards.

Before the game starts, players need to draw 10 cards from the deck, which are the cards used throughout the game.

The soldier cards in the game are divided into soldiers, archers and engineering weapons. Simply put, they are the front row, the middle row and the back row.

In addition to weather cards, different weather cards can reduce the attack value of cards with different attributes.

For example, snow will affect soldiers, and heavy rain will affect siege weapons.

In addition, some soldier cards themselves may also have some special skills.

"It's a little interesting!" The rules of the Quinte card are not complicated, and Song Ren can understand it after a little look.

Adhering to Tian Ji's horse racing strategy, the scholar in front of him did not pose much threat to Song Ren, and it was a neat 2-0.

Obtained a card from the opponent, and a manual about the collection of Gwent cards, which records the number of Gwent cards that can be collected in different maps.

And he also received a task to find someone to play cards.

Now he could understand why the shop owner would sell Gwent cards.

"I don't know if the proprietress can play cards. Let's play cards. If I win, you will sell me the cards in the store." Song Ren did not rush to find the old man Vesemir to trigger the plot, but came to the proprietress' side. .

But what disappointed Song Ren was that the proprietress did not have the option to play cards. Obviously, this was not an object for players to play small games.

"Forget it, let's do the quest first." With a sigh, Song Ren was a little disappointed. He just learned to play cards and he was going to play with others, and from the introduction, it seemed that he could win gold coins or items. A good way to make money!

He threw some of the things on his body that he thought were useless to the proprietress, and then Song Ren bought all the cards he could afford in the proprietress's store.

If you want to win others, the cards in this hand have to be supported!

After walking around the hotel, it was a pity that Song Ren couldn't find a second person who could play cards, so he could only restart the main story mission.

After dealing with three drunken villagers looking for trouble, Song Ren is also preparing to control Geralt to go to the Nilfgaardian garrison to find out about Yennefer.

But along the way, Song Ren also did some side missions.

I have to say that Song Ren found that the map of this game didn't have much to explore.

Obviously, White Orchard is a novice village, but when you open the map, you can see many question marks that can be explored.

Of course, if it's just a lot of question marks, it's not a good thing, but the key is that Song Ren found that these side quests that represent question marks in the game are very rich and excellent.

The first is a quest about a dwarf blacksmith whose house is burned to entrust the witcher to investigate the truth.

As for the process of completing the task, there is a sense of detective mode, opening the witcher's vision, looking for clues that ordinary people can't see, and finally finding the real murderer.

There are not many points in the process, but what makes Song Ren care about is the choice of tasks.

After finding the murderer, you will find that the other party is just an ordinary farmer, because of jealousy of the blacksmith's talent and because the blacksmith sold weapons to Nilfgaardian invaders.

And the other's mother had just died, leaving him some inheritance, which he would offer to bribe Geralt with.

At this point the player will have two options, hand him over or withhold the results of the investigation.

After handing him over, the other party will be executed directly.

In addition to some side quests, some are actually linked to the main line and connected in series with each other.

Geralt went to Nilfgaard's garrison in search of Yennefer's trail, but the other party asked Geralt to get rid of the wounding griffin and tell him about Yennefer.

And in this mission, Geralt will encounter a hunter who has been banished by the lord.

Through dialogue he will tell Geralt that he is in love with the son of the former lord.

But then news spread that the lord's son couldn't stand the gossip and hanged himself, and he was also banished by the lord.

The story didn't bother Song Renduo much, but he soon discovered something while completing a quest called the Devil in the Well in a burnt-down village south of White Orchard.

The burnt village was founded by a couple who had lived under the previous lord of White Orchard, but they had a dispute with the lord and moved their family into the forest of White Orchard to make a new one. settlement.

And it was approved by the lower Vizima court of Temeria at that time, which also attracted many residents who were originally White Orchards to join.

The lord of White Orchard felt that the trouble was a little big, so he asked his entourage to go there and persuade them to return to White Orchard.

At first, they wanted to talk about it without violence and bloodshed, but the other party talked about the conversation of the lord's dead son, so the lord ordered everyone in the village to be killed, and the woman was hanged in the well, and finally let It became a daytime demon.

This time, Song Ren felt the reality of this world.

These NPCs live in the same area, it's not that I don't know you, you don't know me, and there is a close interaction between them.

Of course, what made Song Ren remember so deeply was that when he first saw this daytime demon spirit, he was beaten directly.

It was not until he found out that there was a monster illustration in the game, which mentioned how to deal with the daytime demon spirits. He needed to use 'evil spirit oil' or lay down the seal of Arden before he successfully defeated them, including the crusade against the griffins later. The same is true.

But what touched Song Ren the most was that it seems that in the game "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", it is difficult to tell who is the good guy and who is the bad guy.

For example, the Nilfgaard officer who asked Geralt to slay the griffins. At first, he was collecting grain from the local villagers. After asking how much grain the other party could provide, he also took the initiative to reduce the amount of the other party by a quarter.

However, in the end, the villagers provided rotten food and were punished according to military regulations.

Judging from these above, it seems that the villagers regard the kindness of the superior as the liver and lungs of the donkey.

Thinking about it from another angle, this piece of land used to belong to Temeria, while Nilfgaard belonged to the invaders.

It is not difficult for the villagers to make such behavior.

Of course, in addition to these plots that made Song Ren feel embarrassed, there is another point that makes Song Ren more concerned, that is the previous Gwent card game, he has talked to various NPCs in the whole White Orchard, but except for the scholar But not a single one who could play cards was found.

Does it mean that he has become the strongest player in White Orchard?

But a game has not been played yet!

I showed him a tutorial to teach him how to play cards, and he hooked up his curiosity, but you didn't give him a partner to join forces with you. How embarrassing!