Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

After taking a casual glance at the environment inside the toilet, Ah Shu controlled the protagonist who was already able to operate and hurriedly walked outside.

After all, this small and dirty toilet, combined with the slightly dim lighting, always feels a little depressing.

He was afraid that in the next second, a ghost would come out from a place like the urinal and startle him. After all, in horror-themed games or movies, the toilet is always a high accident-prone area.

Walking out of the toilet and seeing the scenery outside, Ah Shu couldn't help but be slightly taken aback.

Not frightened, but some doubts.

Is this really a horror game?

Looking at the surrounding environment can confirm that this is in the outskirts of a small town.

You can see mountains and lakes in the distance, and the game is still a daytime, not the dark scenes like "Escape" and "Resident Evil".

The only thing that is wrong is that the surrounding low walls and roads look weathered, and the whole town is very quiet.

But this has absolutely nothing to do with terror!

If he hadn't known that "Silent Hill" was a horror game, Ashu would have really thought that he was playing some kind of leisure vacation game.

Looking around, barricades, trash cans, and a car with the door open, it seems that this should be the car driven by the protagonist, and there is nothing special about it.

Taking two steps around, the game enters an uncontrollable cutscene.

The protagonist in the game slowly walked towards the low wall, and at the same time a female voice seemed to be speaking in his ear, apparently something that someone in the protagonist's memory said.

'I see this town in endless dreams - Silent Hill. ’

'You promised to bring me back again. ’

'But you didn't. ’

'Now I am just alone. ’

'In the old place...'

'I've been waiting for you. ’

With this memory, the words fell.

The background melody in the game also changed immediately.

Sometimes the high-pitched, sometimes low-pitched guitar sound, like the rapid drizzle, is cheerful but mixed with an inexplicable sense of urgency.

The atmosphere of the whole game suddenly seemed to have some mysterious throbbing.

'I received a letter with Mary's name on the envelope. ’

'That's my wife's name...'

'It's absurd, it must be fake...I keep telling myself that. ’

'Because a person who is dead... can't write. ’

'Three years ago, Mary died of a terrible disease. ’

'But, why am I here to find her? ’

‘Old place… what does this mean? ’

‘Does she mean Lake Heart Park? ’

'We used to spend a whole day there, just the two of us... staring at the water. ’

'Mary...is it really here? ’

'She's really alive...is she still waiting for me? ’

After the inner monologue of the protagonist James ended, Ah Shu was able to manipulate the protagonist of the game again.

At this moment, layers of white mist appeared in the distance.

It is completely different from the smog in reality, which is gloomy.

However, the white fog in this game is very bright, and when you look at it, you can see a vast expanse of white fog, and you can't see anything behind it at all.

All kinds of graffiti in the toilet, a bit of infiltrating music melody, letters from the dead wife, and the male protagonist who came after receiving the letter, the town of Silent Hill shrouded in white mist in the distance.

Now Ashu feels that he can take back his previous views, and he is a little panicked. .

Ashu swallowed a mouthful of saliva silently, watching the barrage in the live broadcast room, at this time he felt a little better.

Although there is absolutely no high-energy information right now.

But unlike the previous "Fireworks", although this does not seem to be a sequel to the previous PT, but because of the PT, he understands that there are monsters that can kill the protagonist in this game, just like the previous PT. Killed like a ghost.

This potential threat suddenly raised the atmosphere, for fear of a scary thing coming out of nowhere.

After the cutscenes in the game ended, Ashu was able to freely control the character.

Among them, Ashu still clearly found some points of "Silent Hill".

That is in the game, Ashu saw the long-lost air wall.

Of course, the air wall cannot be said, but it restricts him from going to other places, and there is only one way to move forward.

If you go to other places, James in the game will whisper to himself: "Mary... she may really be in Silent Hill, and I can't leave now."

In addition, Ashu found that there is almost no UI interface in the game.

This has also happened in the original "Uncharted Sea" and "Detroit: Become Human", which maximizes the player's sense of immersion.

It's cool in those games, but it's in Silent Hill.

Well, this setting has become sour.

Ashu surveyed the surrounding scene and found a map of Silent Hill from the open car door.

Apparently it was James' car, and it was supposed to be the car that came to Silent Hill.

Then after arriving here, I went to the abandoned public toilet to go to the toilet.

It's just this map, he feels more like a consolation.

Because it's not very useful.

Although the various locations of Silent Hill Town are marked, it can be used as a paper map, and players still need to explore by themselves.

"This town looks really big. If you want to reach the 10,000 quota of President Chen, it is estimated that you will suffer."

"Of course, this has nothing to do with us. Our goal is to get through the main line. As for the rest, it has nothing to do with us!"

Ashu put away the map he got, and then issued a goal declaration in the live broadcast room.

As for what’s in the live room, ‘This is it? ’ ‘Brother Shu, what about your ambition? ' This kind of barrage of fire, he just ignored it.

Whoever wants to challenge who will challenge, he will not go anyway.

There is only one road at present, and that is the road down the mountain.

Ashu took a deep breath and started to walk along the road, but this is the big event.

Originally staying in place, Ashu didn't feel much.

But after leaving, Ah Shu suddenly felt different.

"Brothers...have you noticed that the fog seems to be getting bigger and bigger!"

"Also, apart from the faint background music in the game, there is no sound at all!"

Ashu controls James in the game to take two steps and stop.

Different from the toilet door just now, after walking towards the path, Ashu keenly noticed that the fog in the game was getting bigger and bigger.

Visibility ahead has become very small.

And the most important thing is that in the whole game, in addition to some throbbing and mysterious background music, there is only the sound of his leather shoes stepping on the ground.

And the gasping sound of the protagonist James.

The sound itself is nothing, but the key is that it is particularly harsh when combined with this very quiet environment.

No disgusting scenes, no scary monsters, and no darkness.

Even the entire game's screen is very bright, but it makes Ah Shu feel extremely depressed.

At first, Ashu was still a little afraid, whether a monster would appear when he was walking.

But in fact he walked a distance, and this did not happen at all.

But that doesn't mean he's not afraid anymore, on the contrary, in this environment, he is even more worried.

Because as she moved forward, the fog was getting bigger and bigger.

When he came to the small road, Ah Shu could only see a range of one or two meters around him, and he could only see the white fog if it was further away.

In the whole game scene, there is no sound at all, and even the faint background music melody has disappeared.

The only sound in the whole scene was his own footsteps and gasping.

Deathly silence.

It was too quiet, no insects, no birds, no signs of living beings, not even the sound of wind, just the boundless white fog.

Even now he hopes for a terrifying monster, but there is nothing but boundless fog.

What is created in Silent Hill can be said to be pure psychological horror.

Challenge your psychological endurance step by step, and finally fear will completely overwhelm the defense line.

Now Ashu can fully feel this sense of oppression.

The rhetoric before the game and the fright after the game is the most suitable portrayal of his current mood.

Looking at the live broadcast room, also because of this deadly atmosphere, he kept swiping the barrage to ease the barrage of the viewing experience. After hesitating, he finally made a decision.

He glanced at the country road that he didn't know how long, and then looked at the barrage in the live broadcast room, Ashu coughed lightly: "Everyone knows that, "Silent Hill" and many horror games are decrypted Essentially, there are high requirements for the player's intelligence."

"But... my IQ is the same as the intellectual growth of the troll general in "DOTA", which may not be enough for this kind of game."

"So what I mean is... or else we'll be here today, and I'll get smarter after a while, then let's go back and play this game? To be reasonable, you can't ask a person with a handicapped IQ, there is such a thing. high demands."

Ignore the countless '? ’, Ah Shu silently turned off the game.

If possible, wouldn't he want to treat the world in horror games as his own back garden?

But the **** experience told him that there is a gap between ideals and reality.

Compared to being slapped in the face by his own words, he felt that his own life was more important.