Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 383 That’s it!

Although the standard game mode is a 9-player game, in the tutorial, to help players quickly understand the rules, there are only 7 participants, including only 1 werewolf.

The scene shifts, and the six Servants have returned to the church, sitting in a circle.

Is this the discussion phase?
Before Kenji Sato could react, a clear, yet somewhat urgent, familiar female voice came from his speakers.

[Jeanne d'Arc]: In the basement! I was just about to do the summoning circle quest when I saw Kojiro lying there!

"Hey!!! They even have voice acting here!!"

Along with Joan of Arc's voice, a speech bubble with text appeared above the character's head.

[Cú Chulainn]: Hey, Miss Saint, the first person to discover the body is the prime suspect, you know? You're not just crying wolf, are you?

The one speaking is the blue lancer sitting opposite, who, like Joan of Arc, is voiced by the same voice actor as Cú Chulainn.

[Joan of Arc]: No! I just wanted to finish the mission as quickly as possible!

[Cú Chulainn]: Then it shouldn't be the Saintess. By the way, I think I just saw Gilgamesh sneaking up from the basement stairwell.
Gilgamesh: You bastard! How dare you spout such nonsense! I, the King, have never been to the basement.

Medea: Really? But I just saw Gilgamesh heading towards the basement.

As the game tutorial introduced the Heroic Spirits, a discussion ensued, with everyone offering their own opinions.

Kenji Sato suddenly had the feeling that he was playing a game with a "Heroic Spirit," a feeling that was very strange, but not unpleasant.

It even felt like watching a "FATE voice actor reading session".

Here, a new message pops up in the game tutorial, informing players that there are two game types to choose from in the actual game matchmaking: text-based and voice-based.

The voice control is very simple; it's just a microphone.

In the text-based mode, microphones are disabled, and only typing is allowed. This was actually demonstrated in the tutorial earlier. The words that players type will appear as bubbles above the character's head.

The reason for designing this model is to lower the barrier to entry.

After all, whether in China or Japan, there are indeed many players who want to play this type of game but don't want to talk about it, considering the large number of FGO players.

Xingchen then directly partitioned the system and made some corresponding optimizations to the text layout.

Of course, Kenji Sato didn't care about this. He was a broadcaster and would never play the word game. He only glanced at the pop-up and then immediately closed it.

The tutorial continued, and soon all the Heroic Spirits had finished explaining their reasoning. However, Kenji Sato had absolutely no clue whatsoever.
However, the tutorial itself was only meant to demonstrate the gameplay, so the voting phase began very quickly.

Kenji Sato had no clues and could only rely on his intuition.

Cú Chulainn and Medea's accusations seem compelling, and Gilgamesh's statement itself is unremarkable, but the voice actor's performance is a bit too faithful to the original.
The way they constantly refer to themselves as "this scoundrel" and "this king" is somewhat unpleasant.

"I'm sorry, King of Heroes."

Kenji Sato clasped his hands together, shouted in the live stream, and then cast his vote for Gilgamesh.

Ultimately, the voting results showed that a total of five votes were cast for Gilgamesh.

Accompanied by a mournful melody, Gilgamesh's portrait turned gray, and a message popped up on the screen that made everyone gasp.

Gilgamesh has been banished.

[Faction: Heroic Spirits]

Like its predecessor, Among Us, FGO will show whether a character is a good guy or a bad guy after the player is exiled, but it will not show whether the character belongs to the "survivor/evil spirit" traitor lineup.

The reasons for revealing the exiled status are twofold: firstly, to provide the remaining players with more information for deduction, and secondly, to lower the barrier to entry.

However, revealing one's exiled status would significantly reduce the enjoyment of the mystery-solving process.

Therefore, Starfall also provides a competitive mode here, in which the faction of the banished character will not be displayed until the end of the game. Currently, "FGO Assassination" has three modes: Standard Mode, Competitive Mode, and Friend Mode, with voice and text sub-modes above these three.

There are a total of 6 modes.

All modes, including the experience and rewards players receive, are the same.

The only difference is that Standard and Competitive modes can add corresponding "rank points," while Friend mode cannot. In addition, to prevent players from farming rewards in Friend mode, there is a daily limit to the rewards that can be obtained in Friend mode.

Back to the game.

Upon seeing that the person who was voted out was a good person, Kenji Sato let out a mournful cry and slammed his hand on the table.

"Huh?!? I cast the wrong ball?!"

Even though the vote was cast incorrectly, the tutorial still had to continue. Soon, a remarkably realistic white mist appeared on the screen.

This was caused by the "false servant" completing the mission.

In the standard mode, with a lineup of 2 wolves, 2 villagers, and 4 good guys, it's not easy for the wolf team to win. Therefore, in the game, besides the good guys' tasks...

Wolves also have a mission.

However, doing this kind of task is actually very risky, because if you are seen doing the task, it will be 100% confirmed.

But if you succeed, the rewards are also very high.

As the white fog appeared, everyone's vision, including the "werewolfs," became extremely limited, and they could only see a small circle around themselves.

You know what, it's actually kind of scary for no reason.

Kenji Sato, controlling Artoria, nervously walked close to the wall. Just then, he saw Cú Chulainn run past him and into a small room next door.

Without giving it much thought, he continued walking forward.

But at the next corner, he saw Medusa lying on the ground.

The tutorial prompted him, and Kenji Sato immediately pressed the report button.

Over the next few minutes, Kenji Sato became completely engrossed in the game. As a tutorial, the game's reasoning logic was actually quite clear.

At this moment, the tutorial also popped up at the right time, reminding Kenji Sato that when a fake Servant lies, various flaws may appear.

Therefore, a few minutes later.

The second round of voting was a foregone conclusion.

All the surviving "heroes" voted for Cú Chulainn.

As the blue spearman's portrait dimmed, a line of blood-red text appeared in the center of the screen.

Cú Chulainn has been exiled.

[Faction: Pseudo-Servant]

"We won! Wow! So that's how it's played!"

Kenji Sato suddenly stood up from his chair, clenched his fists, and raised his arms in a shout.

Although his reaction was partly fueled by the "anchor's excitement".

However, he did find in this beginner's tutorial the sense of accomplishment of finding the mole through logical reasoning and ultimately achieving victory.

(End of this chapter)