Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 615 A strange world
The previous PVs and the game's official website have already clearly explained the core settings of Star Core World.

In short, the protagonist's planet is a world that has undergone "heart surgery".

After the surgery, the advanced civilization was able to continue developing and eventually left the planet. In this process, the old civilization departed and a new civilization was born.

This emerging civilization has no connection with advanced civilizations, which is why the PV shows a group of hunters carefully tracking their prey, each wielding a spear made of high-tech alloy.

The leader was not wearing animal teeth around his neck, but a necklace made of energy crystals.

This is because these "new inhabitants" of this planet are a "deformed" civilization that developed on the basis of a previous civilization, essentially by "forcing growth."

For example, a civilization that emerges in a wasteland is certainly different from a civilization that developed from a primitive society.

And this is the kind of world that players need to explore.

The game's basic tutorial ended quickly.

Ye Feiyang still put the two crab legs, which were thicker than his arms, into his backpack. The game backpack interface was quite simple, just a row of slots, without too many fancy decorations.

He continued along the mudflats.

Soon, the "protagonist" sensed something was wrong, because after leaving the canyon, a straight "road" appeared on the horizon, as if drawn with a ruler.

The road has a dull metallic gray color and a smooth, flat surface, which is out of place with the surrounding bumpy, sandy terrain.

On both sides of the road, there are strange plants that are taller than a person. Their leaves are like blue crystals, reflecting a mesmerizing light in the sunlight.

[Huh?? There's a Star Federation standard road here!? What's going on??]

As the character talks to himself.

New information emerged, instantly shifting the worldview from Western fantasy to science fiction.

Then, the next second, the appearance of a character pulled this world back to... a completely inexplicable world.

That was a horse.

A magnificent brown horse with glossy coat was making steady strides along the metal road at a leisurely pace.

This should have been a fairly normal Western fantasy scene, however, behind the horse was something that made Ye Feiyang's eyes twitch.

It was a metal platform about two meters wide and three meters long. It had no wheels and was suspended about half a meter above the ground, gliding smoothly as the horses moved forward.

The platform was piled high with all sorts of goods, including animal hides, ores, and some plants he couldn't name.

A middle-aged man dressed in linen clothes and with a stubble beard was sitting on horseback, humming an off-key tune and leisurely swinging his legs.

A horse is pulling an anti-gravity levitation cart.

Ye Feiyang felt his brain freeze for half a second.

"Holy crap... what is this thing?"

He couldn't help but complain, and his complaint was exactly the same as the protagonist's complaint in the game.

Actually, it ends here.

The "convenience" of the game's protagonist setting is already here: the protagonist, like the player, is experiencing this world for the first time.

Therefore, the protagonist's monologue is actually the first interaction from the player's perspective.

The visual impact of this scene is far stronger than that of the previous giant crab.

It perfectly embodies the concept of "disjointedness," like driving a tractor to participate in an interstellar war, filled with absurd yet strange harmony.

However, Ye Feiyang's interest was completely ignited.

Because this thing is exactly the same as the abstract thing shown in the PV.

The game's story continues.

At the same time the protagonist spotted the man, the man on horseback also noticed him, immediately pulled on the reins, and the horse snorted and stopped.

The man watched him warily, his hand already reaching for a short sword hanging at his waist. The hilt of the short sword looked like a section of industrial steel bar, with threads on it. Ye Feiyang didn't make any rash moves; he simply stood still, raising his hands to indicate that he meant no harm, and a speech bubble appeared above the character's head in the game.

Hello, I mean no harm, I'm just lost.

Hearing the player speak, the man relaxed his guard slightly, but his hand still did not leave the hilt of the sword.

"Who are you? Where are you from? There aren't any villages around this 'God's Path'."

"The road of God?" Does it refer to the road beneath his feet? Ye Feiyang memorized the phrase.

I came from across the sea, encountered a storm, and woke up here.

The man looked him up and down, his gaze lingering for a moment on the clothes that seemed to belong to another world, then at the "strange iron rod" in the man's hand, his expression deepening with doubt.

"The other side of the sea? A storm?" he muttered, seemingly pondering the truth of the words.

Ye Feiyang didn't urge him, waiting patiently. He noticed that after the suspended cart stopped, it remained steadily floating in the air, emitting a faint blue light and a continuous humming sound from its bottom.

"Okay, you don't seem like a bad person."

The man eventually released his grip on the sword hilt.

"Where are you going?"

I don't know. Could you tell me where the nearest village is? I'd like to find a place to rest and get something to eat.

Ye Feiyang chose a relatively safe option.

The man scratched his messy hair and sighed, "If you want to get to the other side, there's only our Shijiao Village. Come on up, judging by your appearance, you won't get there even if you walk until dark."

Thank you so much!

Ye Feiyang controlled his character and climbed onto the suspended platform without any hesitation.

When the character sat on it, the platform only wobbled slightly, but remained steadily suspended.

Then the protagonist popped up in a bubble and glanced at the number on the floating platform.

Wow, a factory transport platform being used as a horse-drawn carriage? These people are really ingenious.

"Sit tight!"

The man gave a shout, flicked the reins, and the horse started moving again.

The suspended platform silently followed the horses and began to move forward steadily.

Hey friend, your car...it's amazing! How can it fly?

Upon hearing this, the man turned around and glanced at him, his face displaying a sense of self-righteous pride.

“These are called ‘floating stone slabs,’ a gift from the sky god to our ancestors. As long as there is a ‘divine stone,’ they can float indefinitely.”

"The Divine Stone?"

"Correct."

This time, the characters in the game won't even need to speak.

Ye Feiyang immediately understood that the so-called "divine stone" was probably some kind of high-energy battery or energy block. And this "floating stone slab" was clearly some kind of anti-gravity transportation tool.

Interestingly, these people who possess anti-gravity transportation tools still use the most primitive animal power to pull them.

The characters in the game are clearly aware of this as well.

Why don't you just let it walk by itself?

The man looked at him like he was a fool: "What nonsense are you talking about? Stone slabs are for carrying things, walking is for horses. Hasn't it always been this way?"

(End of this chapter)