Game Making: The Latest Chapter Begins With Healing the Player

The development process of "Sin City" was very smooth.

As early as after learning the news about next-generation VR, Chen Xu had already established this project within Nebula Games.

At the same time, the production of most 3A games, especially the art part, is actually not very different. Nowadays, the material library of Nebula Games can be said to be quite rich, and a large amount of material content only needs to be modified before use.

Moreover, most games have common content such as action, gunplay, and vehicle control.

The shooting of firearms, as well as the action system and vehicle control, in addition to the changes in the gameplay framework, the feel content of the player's operation room, unless it is a drastic reform, will at most be fine-tuned in some details. It can be said that all have something in common.

The game "Sin City" is a famous game in the previous life, and can even be said to be a legend in the history of games, because a certain hot coffee session even caused continuous criticism from the political circles, and until later, as long as something happened The shooting of a minor must be caused by this game that cannot be named.

To be honest, the public opinion caused by the game was huge, although it was still worse than the public opinion caused by the previous Sega's "Dark Night Trap" and the release of "Mortal Kombat", which directly confirmed the establishment of the classification system.

But you must know that when the former was born, the development of electronic games was already approaching maturity, which shows its great influence.

In fact, even in the parallel world, there are still many such remarks.

Many games under Nebula Games have also been under attack, including the previously launched "Payday".

After all, a big tree attracts wind, and the legal department under Nebula Games spends most of the year dealing with matters in this area.

After all, politicians and moralists are always trying to 'save' the next generation from the fire and water. Before the twentieth century, religious leaders called Yanqing 'the most capable minion of Satan. ’

After the 20th century, films and movies became new targets, and then mad magazines and rock musicians became new targets of attack. Then board games such as Dragon Dungeon took their place, and then came the video games that players are familiar with. From the arcade era, the home console era, the PC era to the Internet era and the VR era, if new technologies and projects emerge in the future, it will obviously become a new target of attack.

But Chen Xu doesn't care about this at all. The most important thing to him is to satisfy the players, and that's enough.

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After the promotional trailer for "Sin City" was released, more and more information was gradually revealed to players.

Liberty City, Luodu, Sin City, and Shenghuiluo, each map scene is displayed in front of the player.

If there was no way to be sure before, with the release of these scenes, many players have already determined one thing. This game called "Sin City" will most likely be an open world.

Looking at the new game information that is gradually being released, many players are both excited and a little worried.

The exciting part is that Nebula Games has returned to the open world this time, and this time Nebula Games is making a modern-themed open world that has never been done before.

The only one that comes close is Red Dead Redemption.

And this time the "Sin City" map developed by Nebula Games is too huge.

Many players have actually found the corresponding prototypes for several of the fictional cities.

For example, Liberty City corresponds to New York City, Vice City corresponds to Miami, Los Angeles corresponds to Los Angeles, and Saint-Louis corresponds to San Francisco.

A huge world is not necessarily a good thing for a game. Without a map that makes players feel vivid enough, the world will look empty.

Therefore, many players of this "Sin City" also have some unfounded worries, even though Nebula Games has proven its strength time and time again.

But in recent years, many outstanding designers and game manufacturers have overturned. With such a large-scale scene construction, can Nebula Games overturn?

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Chen Xu is watching the performance in the game and explaining it to the designer responsible for the animation script.

"It needs to be coherent and the plot should be filmed as a movie. Why does the game force players to complete it once they enter the main content? Because the whole world is just a stage, and people like Carl and Tommy in the game are actors. The stage is set up just for the actors to perform.”

"If you don't understand, you can take a look at how it was done in "Red Dead Redemption". Although the details of the picture have lagged behind technically, the core remains unchanged."

"Sin City" is one of the largest projects developed by Nebula Games to date. Even Chen Xu cannot cover everything. He is responsible for two main aspects, and the rest is jointly developed by other teams of Nebula Games.

Listening to Chen Xu's words, the animator and designer nodded with emotion on his face.

In addition to running, vehicles, and shooting, there are countless derivative game systems in the game.

If we talk about "Persona", eating hamburgers, working part-time, and visiting maid cafes, these small activities are just watching a cutscene and then improving attributes.

So in "Sin City", these have become mini-games that players can experience.

In addition, there are various details in the game, including every NPC on the street even having a complete set of life logic.

If the player is too idle and follows an NPC, he can even see him starting from home and then returning home at night.

Everyone involved in the project was also infected and crazily crammed all kinds of details into the game.

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Amid the daily expectations of players, Nebula Games also announced a piece of good news that makes players excited.

The release date of the game "Vice City" has been determined, Christmas Day, December 25th.

As for the selling price, it is US$25,499 in China.

This price directly stunned many players because it was too expensive.

Compared with games on the PC platform, the price of games on VR is obviously much higher, especially with the arrival of a new round of VR era, the increase in research and development costs has caused the price of games to rise to a certain extent.

Many players have complained about the price increase, but in fact it is inevitable.

In fact, the industry basically adopts three approaches to this area. The first is buyout plus internal purchase.

The second one is to buy out but split out part of the content in the game and sell it as DLC. For example, the previous game was a complete hamburger, with bread, side dishes and meat, and the DLC is based on the original Add another piece of meat.

But now it is a hamburger without side dishes. DLC is no longer meat but has become the original side dishes. ,

The last way is much simpler and more direct, and the content of the price increase remains unchanged.

Nebula Games has always followed this path, but the current price of "Sin City" is really shocking.

But although a large number of players said they were poor and left after seeing this price.

But for some players, they are looking forward to it even more.

Because after so many years, players also know the character of Nebula Games and Chen Xu very well.

It is impossible to be like some manufacturers, especially those who make niche two-dimensional games, who set prices blindly because they hate that the sickle in their hands is not fast enough to cut the leeks of fans.

Since this "Sin City" is sold at a high price, it means that its research and development costs must be much higher than other games. These players also pre-ordered it immediately, and then waited for the pre-download and game opening day to come. Let's take a look. How far can this game go and what kind of shocking experience can it bring them.

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