Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 171 There are still many five seconds left.

In the footage, the camera passes through the structure of the lunar ring, revealing its internal prosperity and order.

Everything seemed so peaceful and hopeful; these scenes truly reflected the golden age of humankind.
However... at that very moment.

Changes occur suddenly.

Without any warning, a blinding white light suddenly exploded through a glass window of the lunar ring.

The camera then cuts to space.

The silent explosion appeared particularly eerie and terrifying in the vacuum environment.

The perfect circle was forcibly torn open, and countless fragments and sparks spewed out into the dark depths of the universe.

The ethereal background music abruptly stopped.

Dead silence.

All that remained on the screen was the shattered lunar ring and the ever-expanding, shocking scar.

The animation ends, and the scene transitions to the game.

When the view lights up, the player, playing the "commander," is already inside a high-speed ascending and descending space elevator. Through the porthole, the player can see the blue Earth rapidly receding into the distance.

Besides the commander, other space elevators were also in emergency operation.

[Mission Objective: Reach the "Jade Plate" and investigate the cause of the explosion.]

The task briefing was as concise as ever.

"Commander, we are about to arrive at the docking port."

The sound of 95 brought Hu Wen back to his senses.

After several PowerPoint presentations, the player's spaceship successfully docks with the lunar ring, and AK-47's Red Square squad appears before the player.

The plot of version 1.2 is actually not that complicated.

Like many classic sci-fi blockbusters, it can be summarized in a sentence or two, but in actual gameplay...

Hu Wen felt that the plot of version 1.2 was similar to the previous two versions, but also different.

In the same place, without a doubt, this is still a standard "feel-good" story.

In version 1.0, players acted as commanders to turn the tide of battle; in version 1.1, players chose the M4. These were the highlight moments for commanders.

In version 1.2, there are similar scenes throughout the overall storyline.

For example, when players enter the restricted area, they are stopped by the person in charge of the explosion zone, a security supervisor named Leonard from the lunar ring.

"We don't need a bunch of you who just get in the way."

It turns out that the players weren't the only commanders sent to the lunar ring to carry out the investigation mission.

This is, after all, a major issue concerning human logistics.

However, precisely because so many people were urgently summoned, interference naturally arose between them.

Hu Wen originally thought that this would be another classic scenario where "a soldier blocks the way," then the player, being a good Samaritan, "clears up the misunderstanding" and the game continues.

He had encountered similar scenarios in many MMORPG games, where it seemed like anyone could make the player run errands.

As a result, in the game...

The AK-47 charged straight in, declaring, "We don't have time for your nonsense." Then, gesturing to the Mosin-Nagant behind them, they shouted, "Prepare for demolition!"

"Wait!" the security supervisor exclaimed urgently.

"You can't..."

Just then, the commander said, "No need for all that trouble," and walked directly to the heavy alloy door, pressing a few buttons on the authentication panel beside it. "Highest authority command confirmed. Welcome, Commander."

A mechanical electronic sound rang out, and the alloy door unlocked and slid open slowly.

The subsequent plot explanation reveals that the player-controlled commander is not an ordinary commander; thanks to the highlights of versions 1.0 and 1.1, the player-controlled commander has gained higher privileges.
have to say
This attempt at being pretentious was quite refreshing and unconventional; Hu Wen certainly enjoyed watching this part.

However, the reason Hu Wen said that the plot of version 1.2 was different from the previous version was that the plot of version 1.2 was much more tense.

Because right at the start of the game's storyline, right after the player has finished a new battle mode in "low gravity," the second explosion occurs.

From version 1.0 onwards, the storyline of "Final Front" has repeatedly emphasized that the resources produced by the Lunar Ring are the most crucial reason why humanity is able to fight against the Omnics.

And now this crucial point is under attack.

The pressure was no less than when the city was besieged in version 1.0, and it continued as the story progressed.

Besides discovering, as the story unfolds, that intelligent machines, who previously lacked creative abilities, might have taken control of a human rocket launch site and manufactured rockets themselves—a truly terrifying fact—Hu Wen also discovers this.

In this 1.2 version of the storyline, some details were discovered that were inexplicably touching.

For example, when you get to the middle section.

The command team had to put on spacesuits and pass through several areas to reach the epicenter of the explosion. In front of the isolation door in the first area, Hu Wen saw a scene that made his scalp tingle.

It was a heavy alloy gate, now severely deformed, with jagged cracks all over its edges.

Right next to this door, several corpses dressed in work clothes floated in mid-air.

They remained in their final poses, all of them bracing against the gate with their bodies, some with their shoulders, some with their backs, and one person had his hands deeply embedded in the gate's control panel, seemingly trying to forcibly lock it shut.

Their expressions were frozen in their final moments, devoid of fear, only displaying a resolute ferocity.

There are two related segments in the storyline.

Each segment is a short audio clip.

"Electronic lock malfunctioned!! Shockwave coming! Switch to manual mode and lock! Lock! Lock!"

One of the passages is a quote from the engineer who guides the player forward.

"The enemy's attack methods were very special. They used their flesh and blood to buy five seconds for the Jade Disc to restart."

"After the shockwave arrived, the compartment was damaged, air leaked out, and the low temperature froze them in place."

Looking at the corpses that remained in heroic poses, AK-47 subconsciously uttered a sentence.

"Did they only gain 5 seconds?"

Everyone looked at the AK-47.

"No... I didn't mean to disrespect them, I meant..."

The engineer leading the way waved his hand, interrupting AK-47's speech.

"I know what you're trying to say. You can't understand why they would sacrifice themselves for those five seconds, right?"

Speaking of it.

The leading engineer pushed open the door to the vacuum.

Then, Hu Wen froze, because right before their eyes, at the lock of the door to the previous compartment, lay several corpses almost identical to those in this room.
"Because there are still many five-second intervals ahead."

There are still many five-second intervals ahead...
Upon seeing this sentence, Hu Wen, who was in front of the screen, was stunned.

Silently staring at the corpses, I felt a lump in my throat, and the excitement I had just felt for the new "space battle" gameplay vanished completely.

Instead, it was a profound and indescribable shock.

(End of this chapter)