Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

With a little exploration of the game.

Soon Song Ren found out that this game is special, not just the Chinese background of funeral culture in the game.

The more important point is that Song Ren found that in "Fireworks", there is no unique bridge that belongs to the horror game, that is, sudden surprise.

Jump scares, that is, you don't have any high energy for two seconds before you look in the mirror, but in the third second there is a sharp cry in your ear, and a dead fish's eyes and grimace appear in the mirror.

This kind of design, for horror games, is disgusting if abused, but if it is a clever arrangement of a certain link, it can have unexpected effects.

Including many horror games developed by Nebula Games before, such as biochemical and PT with only DEMO content, they are all applied in a certain link.

But in "Fireworks", at least so far, Song Ren has not encountered it at all. The fear of the whole game mainly comes from the depression of the atmosphere, and his own paranoia.

After playing in this environment for a period of time and never finding anything terrifying, Song Ren's sense of fear was greatly reduced. At the same time, as more and more content was collected, his attention was also placed on the game. on the plot itself.

At the same time, I have a deeper understanding of a background of the game.

In the game, Lin Lixun, who he played, has a very special physique and can see and hear some things that normal people can't see.

In an easy-to-understand description, it is psychic. In the previous scene, in the eyes of colleague Zheng Ming, Lin Lixun fainted on the ground, but in fact it was Lin Lixun who saw something that ordinary people could not see.

"So it's good to talk about science and break superstitions. It's not scientific at all!" After playing here, Song Ren couldn't help but complain when he thought of the paint slogan he saw at the gate of the village.

Controlling Lin Lixun to get up from the bed, there was some news playing on the radio behind him.

'On September 15th, a family of four in a household in Qingdan Township was found dead at home...'

‘The head of the household Tian Moumou, his wife He Moumou and granddaughter Tian Moumou died of rat poison, and the head of the household’s daughter-in-law Zhao Moumou committed suicide. ’

'The police speculated that Zhao, the daughter-in-law of the head of the household, may have killed the other three and hanged herself due to mental problems...'

Song Ren couldn't help but smack his lips after listening to the broadcast of this massacre.

That's it!

Combined with some clues collected before, it is obvious that this case of killing the house should be related to the previous fire case.

I just don't know if I want to repay the two dollars I owe Wang Jincai.

Following the prompts in the game, Song Ren controlled Lin Lixun to explore.

After communicating with Ye Jingshan, a doctor who was smoking in the health center, he got some key information. According to him, Wang Jincai was killed by a ghost.

Because he had spread before his death that the Tian family's daughter-in-law was a lunatic, and she was killed by a ghost after she went mad and killed the whole family.

But after leaving the room in the clinic, Song Ren met another teacher named Chen Qingsui.

It is different from the information given by Ye Jingshan before, according to Chen Qingsui.

Zhao Xiaojuan is also the daughter-in-law of the Tian family and the mother of Tian Fangfang, the granddaughter of the Tian family. It is absolutely impossible for her to kill Tian Fangfang.

She suspected that it was the killer under the doctor Ye Jingshan in the clinic, and believed that the other party had a complete motive.

Tian Yu, the son of the Tian family, was sent to the clinic in the town due to an epileptic seizure, but in the end, the rescue was unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead.

Tian Fangfang's grandfather thought that the doctor killed his son, and the doctor's rib was broken by the doctor's trouble.

And that doctor was Ye Jingshan, and Zhao Xiaojuan also went to the clinic on the day of the crime according to the clues provided by Chen Qingsui.

But after returning home, the four Tian family were killed.

Song Ren was exploring the game content little by little, and got a lot of information from the fragmented clues.

Zhao Xiaojuan's father-in-law, Tian Xiangrong, once worked in a bank and was fired by the bank to open a public telephone supermarket in the town, but his real identity is a tomb thief. The heart is very strong, and even if the family has no money, he must borrow money to go out, and he hopes to buy a lottery ticket.

There are also Zhao Xiaojuan and Ye Jingshan. Through some clues in the conversation between the two, we can know that neither of them are locals of Qingtan Town. Zhao Xiaojuan was married and Ye Jingshan was abducted and sold since childhood.

The death of Zhao Xiaojuan's husband Tian Yu was because Xiao Tianyu suffered from epilepsy, but Tian Xiangrong's parents-in-law never sent him to the hospital.

Tian Fangfang's diary also revealed that her former teacher never liked her and often punished her for writing.

But after Chen Qingsui Chen came, she was very kind to her, and she would play games with her, so she liked Teacher Chen very much.

At the same time, some important information was also revealed in the diary, that is, after Tian Yu's death, the grandparents found people similar to the goddess to conjure the soul.

During the whole game, at the beginning, because of various weird scenes, Song Ren had some hair.

For example, the pig's head birthday cake, the eerie mourning hall, and the Tian family mansion, sewing machines and radios that make strange noises.

But there was no high energy in the whole process, especially after meeting Mr. Chen Qingsui, who also wanted to investigate the truth of the matter, Song Ren even felt that this horror game had turned into a love game.

Especially when investigating Zhao Xiaojuan's studio, Lin Lixun and Chen Qingsui also took a photo, which made the whole game full of warmth.

But because of this, Lin Lixun saw Zhao Xiaojuan's past.

In this episode, the object of Song Ren's manipulation changed from Lin Lixun to Zhao Xiaojuan, and she seemed to be really taken by Tian Yu's soul.

She, who never smoked, started smoking, and she retched when she smelled fish, and she even started eating fish.

But the next moment the screen changed, the subject became Lin Lixun again, and he came to a hell-like scene.

Here Lin Lixun saw Tian Yu's soul. Because of his father's robbery of the tomb and he was enjoying his success, he needed to be tortured for his father.

Thinking of the role that Lin Lixun was able to channel before, if it is true that Tian Yu has been tortured in hell, who is possessed by Zhao Xiaojuan?

Or is there no so-called possession at all?

Everything was deliberately faked by Zhao Xiaojuan?

Song Ren had an inaccurate guess in his heart.

At this time, a phone from the past rang, and after answering the call, the conversation between Zhao Xiaojuan and Chen Qingsui could be heard on the phone.

It turned out that Chen Qingsui was not a support teacher but a reporter. He came to Qingtan Town to be a support teacher in order to obtain a list of accounts for tomb robbers in Tian Xiangrong's hands.

She reached an agreement with Zhao Xiaojuan that if the other party could get the ledger, she could find a way to help Zhao Xiaojuan leave the town that trapped her in the mountains.

Playing here, according to the clues that have been collected, the truth of the entire game has been gradually revealed.

Although the scenes in the game are still very underworld, the atmosphere is still very depressing.

But at this time, Song Ren had no fear at all.

Instead, it is more of a heaviness.

At the same time, I finally understood what the six characters 'Speak science, break superstitions' painted with white paint on the red brick wall at the beginning of the game meant.

Because the whole game is a tragedy born out of feudal superstition.