Genius Game Planning

Chapter 85 Start writing! "Spore Design Draft"

The world view of "Spore" is actually a relatively simple story, and the game mechanism is the biggest design difficulty.

A game should contain multiple types of gameplay:

1. Spore stage

2. Beast stage

3. Tribal stage

4. Stage of Civilization

5. Interstellar stage

These five stages need to be connected and progressive with each other. Certain attributes or abilities of the previous stage need to be integrated into the beginning of the next stage. There also need to be multiple evolutions in the process of each stage, but here Each evolution is not like ordinary games where there is level growth and attribute points are assigned, it mainly depends on the special settings of each stage.

In the spore stage, which is the very beginning of the game, all players play the role of a single-celled animal, which is born in the ocean and grows through continuous devouring.In the process of growing up, you can get different components, such as mouthparts-a feeding organ, there are three kinds, namely vegetarian mouthparts, carnivorous mouthparts, and omnivorous mouthparts.The omnivorous mouthpiece is the most difficult to obtain, after all, it is difficult to obtain.

The speed of the character consists of flagella, ridges, etc., and the most important is the attacking organ, including electric shock sacs, needles, mouth pliers, and poison sacs.Players need to operate the character to devour other animals or plants, and then grow, and finally make their own components more and more, and the character becomes stronger and stronger. At the end of the stage, the player can operate the character to come out of the ocean, Take to land and enter the beast stage.

The second stage is the beast stage, and the gameplay is no longer so simple.Players determine the nature of the beast at this time according to some of their organs when they are in the sea. For example, carnivorous animals must be very aggressive, while vegetarian animals have social attributes.Different attributes play different ways, and can attack or attack other different types of creatures.The strategy here is to achieve a certain degree of friendship through some social behaviors, so as to turn him into his "little brother".

The beast controlled by the player needs to constantly attack or kill other groups to obtain their special organs and constantly strengthen themselves.There are a variety of attack methods, such as jet attack, bite attack, collision attack, etc. Among them, the jet attack is the venom sac organ inherited from the era of marine life.And pleasing other creatures can also obtain special organs of their race, and there are naturally many ways to please, such as singing, dancing, and spreading seductive aura.There are multiple populations of each creature, and more than five or even more must be conquered to obtain their special organs.

Of course, there are various unknown organs scattered all over the continent, some of which are even those of some large creatures, which are very powerful.There are still many extremely powerful creatures on the mainland. When the player character has only a few dozens of health points, those large creatures often have thousands of health.But you can follow from a distance. If two prehistoric creatures meet and they have a fight, the two tigers will die when they fight. Then you can sneak up to pick up the leaks. If some special and powerful biological components are picked up, they will develop. up.

Of course, the player's role is not alone. You can obtain a partner through courtship and then give birth to your own offspring, become your own followers, fight together, and attack other biomes together.If your character dies, and your original biome no longer knows where to go, you'll still have to wade through mountains and rivers to find yours.You must remember two points, don't get close to giant creatures, don't get close to the sea, when you leave the ocean, there have been shocking changes, the appearance of some giant creatures, even prehistoric creatures can be swallowed.

When you have accumulated countless years and you have become the strongest creature on this continent, you can evolve to the tribal stage.

This is the third stage, but you are not the only group that has evolved to the tribal stage like you, and there are other creatures that crawl on the ground for unknown reasons can also evolve to the tribal stage.And what you need to do is to take their tribal totem back to you, whether it is through war or through gentle means.

It's like playing a simple rts game, you need to survive, you need to store food; there are many ways to store food, you can collect fruits on trees, you can also go fishing by the sea, of course you can also hunt Kill other creatures that have not yet evolved to the tribal stage to obtain meat; if you are patient, you can even domesticate some creatures, raise them in circles, and get a certain amount of food every once in a while.

At this stage, your strength is not limited to your own body, you can use some tools, the fishing rod mentioned above is one of them; there are offensive attacks, such as throwing spears and wooden sticks, yes, axes and torches are also necessary There are tools; of course, there are other tools. Music is the main social tool, such as flutes, drums, Tao Xun and so on.Over there, you can kill all the creatures in a tribe to get their totems, or you can use musical instruments to please them, so that they will willingly offer their tribal totems with both hands.

In this process, you have to keep storing food, and then keep giving birth to babies to expand your tribe's strength.Some newly born tribes will be hostile to the tribe of the player character as soon as they appear. If they are militarists, they can directly send an army of ten or so people to do it without saying a word; but if they want to socialize To get totems, you need to buy them with food first to gain basic favorability.

At this time, there will already be some simple division of labor in the tribe. Some members are mainly engaged in production, and some members go to attack other tribes. They hold different weapons or different musical instruments, which is a different occupation for them.And their strength has already allowed them to fight against prehistoric giant creatures.

In the fourth stage, when all the tribal totems on the road have been looted, the character at this time should be said to have civilization and enter the national stage.

The field of view that the character can see has also become wider, and the entire planet is included in the field of view. Here is the country where the player is located, as well as other countries.Different countries have different main forms. Some are commercial countries, some are religious countries, and some are military powers.Players can also modify the attributes of their own country, so the result is that the way to attack other countries is slightly different.

At this time, spices have begun to show their most important commodity attributes, which is the only way to accumulate wealth.

The simplest and crudest way to unify the planet is of course the military. Try every means to occupy the spice producing areas, accumulate wealth, build tanks, battleships and fighter planes, and then bomb them indiscriminately to win the final victory.But the more fun way is to use a civilized way to make other countries surrender.

(End of this chapter)