Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 617 Standard Thriller Novel
The villagers had never seen anything like it before. They were all stunned and retreated, some even kneeling on the ground, thinking they had angered the gods.

The elder was also shocked. He pointed at Ye Feiyang, his lips trembling, but he couldn't utter a single word.

The most ridiculous thing is that, in order to gain the trust and resources of the village, the protagonist in the game even puts on airs, slowly raising his hand and pointing to the sky in front of the horrified villagers.

Listen, the sound of the wind has changed.

The moment he finished speaking, the once clear and cloudless sky began to gather large patches of dark clouds at a visible speed.

The air became humid, and a gentle breeze began to stir, rustling people's clothes and hair.

Everyone instinctively looked up at the strange change in the sky, their faces filled with disbelief.

A few seconds later, a drop of cold rain fell on the elder's withered cheek.

Then, the second drop, the third drop...

Large raindrops pelted down, quickly forming continuous streams. A torrential downpour began!

The parched land greedily absorbed the long-awaited rain, and the air was filled with the fresh fragrance of earth.

The villagers were stunned at first, then burst into thunderous cheers! They rushed into the rain, spinning and jumping with abandon, feeling the cleansing effect of the rain.

Joyful tears mingled with the rain, flowing down their weathered faces.

In the heart of this revelry, all eyes were fixed on the young man who still stood upright in front of the tower.

The elder walked tremblingly to the player, and three steps away, he slowly knelt down with utmost piety, his forehead pressed tightly against the wet ground.

"Are you... are you an envoy sent by the Tower God?"

As the elder knelt down, all the villagers of Shijiao Village in the square and streets knelt down in unison, bowing and worshipping the player.

Through the rain, Ye Feiyang watched the grand scene on the screen.

Listening to the sound of rain and the villagers' enthusiastic shouts through his headphones, an indescribable emotion, a mixture of absurdity, comicality, and a great sense of accomplishment, surged within him.

He initially thought it was a survival exploration game, but as he played, he realized it was actually a fantasy simulator set in another world!

Moreover, the pleasure is so simple and direct, yet so perfectly reasonable.

Ye Feiyang had never seen a game protagonist who was there to act as a charlatan.

"Absolutely amazing!!!"

Actually, this kind of protagonist "acting like a ghost" trope is not uncommon in the Chinese online literature circle, and the reason why it can be interesting is that it is not uncommon.

It's because of the "information gap"

The protagonist possesses more information than others. If one had to put it in perspective, the protagonist of "Star Core Extinction" could also be titled "This planet's civilization regressed 5000 years, while I remained unchanged."

Of course, compared to those "idiotic" short dramas, at least Starry Night's script doesn't treat the players as idiots.

Moreover, as a form of performance, games can actually be just as immersive as short dramas.

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at the same time.

Europe.

Alex is also streaming this game.

He had just posted his impressions of the Black Myth demo during the day, but to be honest, even with the unlimited time for the media, the Black Myth demo only offered about 30 minutes of content. It was the kind of thing where you get excited, but the excitement fades quickly.

Therefore, after returning home, when Alex discovered that StarCraft had actually held an "online E3" exhibition, he, who was originally planning to pack up and go to sleep, immediately turned on the live stream.

Because he started playing quite early, he had already reached the latter half of the game demo while Ye Feiyang was still going through the tutorial.

In the early stages of the game.

Alex had always thought this was a survival exploration game with a relatively unconventional setting, because in the early stages of the game, after the player arrives at Stonehorn Village.

It will provide a series of missions involving exploration and combat in the surrounding area.

Although these tasks are rather bizarre, from helping villagers find their lost "tin sheep" (a type of small cleaning robot that villagers use as sheep for herding)

Go to the "Weeping Cave" (an abandoned ventilation duct that drips water) to collect the glowing "divine tears" (coolant).
What drives Alex to do the mission is not the game's rewards, but the absurdity and novelty of "I want to see what this thing is all about."

Not only the side quests, but the main quests are also very interesting.

In particular, there is a part where the player will interact with the daughter of the village chief of Shijiao Village, which will trigger a scene where the female character takes the protagonist to a high tower.

The game's camera slowly rises from a top-down perspective; this transition from 2D graphics to a fixed 3D camera is a very mature technology for StarCraft.

It also appeared in the previous "Endgame Survival Guide".

So Alex was somewhat surprised, but not that surprised.

The characters in the game are standing atop the white spire with the daughter of the village chief of Shijiao Village, overlooking the entire village.

A gentle evening breeze blew, and the girl's profile looked especially soft in the setting sun as she began to recount some of the village's history and her hopes for the future.

"Oh please, Star, it's this again?" Alex complained into the microphone. "I'm playing a post-apocalyptic sci-fi survival game, not 'Heartbeat Stonecorner.' Can you please stop giving me a romance storyline at a time like this?"

In his live stream, the chat was filled with comments expressing their agreement.

[Classic Starry Night Date]

"I took my pants off, and this is what you show me?"

[Alex, fast forward! I want to see you drive that anti-gravity cart and run people over!]

Just as Alex was about to frantically click the mouse to skip this part of the plot that he considered somewhat unnecessary, the game camera suddenly moved out of his control and began to slowly detach from the character, rising further into the sky.

This is a very distinctive narrative camera technique used by StarCraft games, which uses shifts in perspective to showcase grand scenes or reveal key information.

"Hmm? Is the big one coming?"

Alex immediately sat up straight.

To be fair, Alex does understand the stars. As the camera rises, an extremely deep and muffled roar comes from the deepest part of the planet, or as if it explodes right next to everyone's ears.

The entire game screen jolted violently, then everything returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

"What happened?" Alex asked into the microphone instinctively, and the live stream chat was instantly flooded with question marks.

However, this calm lasted for less than a second.

Soon, the character in the game was suddenly pulled down to the ground by some unknown force, and then, visible air currents began to turbulently in the sky.

(End of this chapter)