game development designer

Chapter 436 A small trick in game design

Tariq is a kid who has just entered high school. At this moment, he is sitting in the bedroom with his father, opening the last survivor game box that his father bought just now.

In fact, although there are rating agencies such as ESRB in foreign countries, even if it is an M-rated game, you can still easily buy such games if you are under the age of 17.

Of course, there are always exceptions, such as you happen to meet some very serious people in some stores.

In this case, you either choose to convince your parents to come forward, or you are looking for a place to sell your game.

"A data disk or a game disk? I thought it was necessary to change the disk halfway!" Looking at the instruction manual in the game box, Tarik was very happy.

And as Tariq's father, he just sat on the sofa next to him and watched as Tariq fiddled with the game he wanted.

God knows what these villains on TV mean, it's better to watch a football game.

Tariq didn't know what his father was thinking, he couldn't wait to get into the game.

It took some time to successfully install the game. When taking out the game disc, Tarik carefully put the disc in like a devout believer, for fear of damaging it due to his own mistakes.

After a while of black screens, the title flashed the logo of Tianhe Network, then the logo of EA, and the names of the technology companies involved in the game production.

Just like most players who enter the game for the first time, he is not willing to skip these screens without a little content at the beginning, even though he does not know the names of many of the companies. What kind of efforts have been made for the birth.

After a scene of waiting, there was finally movement on the pitch-black screen. With the light and shouts slowly appearing, the player has already seen the protagonist in the game, Joel who appeared in the promotional video before.

It's just that compared to the vicissitudes of uncle Joel in the promotional video, he looks much younger now, and the girl next to him is not Ellie in the promotional video.

Then the camera sweeps across the entire room, allowing the player to see the layout of the room, the TV on, the cleaned dishes, some fruits, tables and chairs.

After the camera is scanned, the player can start to control Joel's free actions and talk to his daughter.

Just like the rainstorm in QD, you can operate QTE according to the instructions of the content, and cooperate with NPC to give people the feeling that it is a very warm family game.

Until suddenly gunshots, screams, and weird roars came from outside the house.

Following the system instructions that appeared next to him, Tariq found a pistol from the side drawer, and loaded the pistol with bullets.

Then the door of the room was knocked open suddenly, and a man with blood all over his body rushed in with a grim expression.

Although he didn't understand what it was, Joel stood in front of his daughter in an instant and raised his hand to raise the pistol. At this time, a crosshair appeared in Tariq's picture.

Follow the prompts of the system, aim at the zombie's head and pull the trigger.

After that, he observed the situation outside as a matter of course, and took his daughter into the car in the garage. They were going to leave here.

The burning flames of the whole city, people fleeing in all directions, crying, screaming and roaring echoed in my ears, accompanied by gunshots and explosions from nowhere, crashes on the street and cars that were also fleeing for their lives, this Small towns are like hell.

Run away and fight back against the zombies with the only bullets in their hands. Finally, their bullets have run out, and there are still a group of zombies chasing after them, and the car is out of gas.

On the road between the mountains, Joel ran frantically for his life with his daughter in his arms, until they came to the intersection of the road, and a group of soldiers with guns was blocking the road.

I saw the soldiers of the group of zombies shoot and kill all the zombies behind Joel, and then heard the leading soldier talking through the radio.

'Sir, there are two survivors here, but one of them is a little girl...'

After a silence of about a second or two, the soldier continued: 'Yes, sir. '

For a moment, Joel seemed to understand something, and he held his daughter tighter, trying to convince the other party with words: "Listen, friend, we just narrowly escaped..."

Before the words were finished, a group of soldiers slowly raised their guns, and Joel immediately turned around and fled towards the slope next to him, holding his daughter in his arms.

Accompanied by a burst of gunshots, the camera suddenly zooms up, and what appears in the camera is the wild environment and a small town burning with flames in the distance.

Some bleak orchestral background sound slowly sounded, a list of the main actors appeared on the screen, and finally after the screen was completely dark, the name of the game appeared in the middle of the screen - "The Last of Us" (The Last of Us) .

Still accompanied by the somewhat bleak orchestral background sound before, what appeared on the screen this time was not Bill who had just been manipulated, but the game animation through real-time calculation.

Earlier cutscenes were usually played using pre-recorded CG, so there are some games with a particularly large capacity of 50G, and 40G are CG animations. In addition to considering the functions at that time, the most important thing is the current The technical performance effect is not satisfactory.

But nowadays, few games use this method, and everyone prefers to use real-time calculation, because the picture of the game itself is no longer inferior to the picture made by CG.

The sudden virus infected the small town and established a quarantine area, but then global medical experts and private companies failed to research the antidote, the news was leaked, the world fell into panic, and the virus began to spread.

Cults, armies, civil organizations, clues appear in the title of the game one by one. There is no desolate doomsday as imagined. Instead, in the ruins of this civilization, the original civilization has been preserved in another form.

But it looks even darker.

Tariq, who was sitting in front of the computer, didn't know how to describe his feelings, and he couldn't explain clearly. He just felt that the layout of this game seemed quite large.

Well, for a player of his age, fighting zombies is far less fun than figuring out the background of the game.

After the credits end, the screen goes dark, then light slowly emerges, and Joel opens his eyes.

Compared with the previous Joel, the current Joel looks a little older, his hair is even a little gray, his wrinkled and disheveled clothes, and his mouth full of stubble all show that he is already an old man.

He sat up from the bed, looked around blankly, touched his chest and took out a photo that was almost rotten. Although it was very blurry, Tariq still recognized it. It was Joel and his daughter group photo.

At the same time, a single line of white characters appeared in the middle of the screen.

'20 years later……'

It's been 20 years?

Where's Joel's daughter?

dead?
At this time, Tariq recalled the gunshots before the plot, and suddenly his heart tightened.

Did you kill your sister to testify at the beginning?No way!
Tariq had a bad premonition in his heart, and his whole heart hung up.

This scene happened to countless players who are experiencing the last survivor.

It's actually a small game design gimmick, and it's the result of a week-long beta test.

(End of this chapter)