The story of "Back to the Shore" takes place in ancient China in an unknown era. It was originally a quiet and peaceful small village, but suddenly more and more people lost their souls and became wandering souls.
These people will gradually lose their memory and reason, wander unconsciously, attack people with three souls and seven souls intact, and will unconsciously move in a certain direction in the distance.
In the mouths of some survivors, that direction is called "Yellow Spring Road."
According to the old man in the village, people who were originally dead will be captured by Black and White and sent to the underworld to be judged by Yama to decide whether they will be reincarnated as humans again, enter the six realms of reincarnation, or be thrown into the eighteenth realm. layer of hell.
But for some reason, black and white impermanence no longer attracts those who are about to die. Therefore, whether they are people who have exhausted their Yang life or those who have died unexpectedly, they can only wander on the road to the underworld and cannot go to the underworld. Underworld.
These wandering ghosts are instinctively inspired by the underworld, but they cannot find the right path. As time goes by, they become more vicious.
As a result, the world gradually turned into purgatory.
The protagonist played by the player is an ordinary dying person, whose three souls and seven souls are no longer complete. It's just that he seemed to feel something calling him in a certain direction in the distance.
In order not to become an unconscious wandering ghost, and to explore the truth of all this, the protagonist embarks on the road to hell and enters the underworld as a mortal.
The game process is roughly divided into several parts:
The initial small human village;
The town that has been completely occupied by wandering ghosts;
The dangerous terrain of the Ghost Gate;
The Huangquan Road where a large number of evil ghosts wander;
The Santu River covered with Bianhua flowers;
The Wangchuan River at the end of the Huangquan Road River and Naihe Bridge;
Wangxiang Terrace and Sansheng Stone beside Naihe Bridge;
The magnificent Yama Hall;
The chaotic six paths of reincarnation;
The deepest endless hell...
In addition, the bosses in the game will also choose characters from traditional myths, such as Meng Po on the Naihe Bridge, the Four Judges of the Underworld: Cha Cha Si Lu Zhi Dao , Zhong Kui, the punisher of evil, Wei Zheng, the rewarder of good, Cui Jue, the yin law secretary (with four main colors of purple, green, blue, and orange respectively), the ten halls of Yama in the underworld, etc.
In addition, according to Mr. Pei’s request, every time the player dies, all the mobs will be refreshed again, so there will be a Buddha statue at intervals to guide them.
Elements such as dilapidated temples, Buddha statues, earth temples, and earth statues will be distributed throughout the process.
In this world view, there is no Buddha, only broken Buddha statues, hinting at the legendary end of the Dharma era.
The Buddha statue is a save point, allowing players to restore their status and refresh surrounding mobs, while the land statue can collect nearby residual souls to enhance the character's attributes.
All these contents are actually not much, because the budget is limited, soThe entire game process only takes about twelve or three hours. Of course, the premise is that the player is familiar enough with the battle and advances steadily.
If you are a novice, the clearance time is likely to be extended to dozens of hours, or even infinite.
The game is not linear, and sometimes players need to turn back midway to get to the next scene.
For example, at the beginning, players must first go to a town occupied by evil spirits, defeat the evil spirits gathered in the town, obtain preliminary enhancements, and obtain some special props (prayer beads, charms, etc.) to deal with wandering spirits. Then return to the original small village, kill a dying old man, and follow his soul to embark on the road to hell.
If the player does not go to the town, but directly kills the old man and follows his soul on the road to hell, it will be very difficult along the way.
Similarly, in the Yama Palace, players can also choose.
Go deep into the main hall of Yama, eliminate all the judges and Yama, and become real ghosts;
Or enter the chaotic six paths of reincarnation, reincarnate and start a new life, away from this terrible world;
Or go deep into the endless hell, kill the already crazy town dwellers, and sacrifice your life to suppress the souls of injustice...
The game will set three to five endings, each ending depends on Players' choices at some key nodes.
The key tips for making these choices are hidden in the game's plot.
In the game, players will hear some fragments of words from NPCs, and can also kill some wandering souls or bosses, seize the remaining memories of their three souls and seven souls, and obtain some available memory fragments.
On some key props or scenes (such as the Three Life Stones), you can also get some very obscure tips through the prompts of these props.
Scenes like the Sansheng Stone can be used repeatedly. As the player progresses in the game, different content can be seen every time he goes to the Sansheng Stone, which affects some key plot turns.
Of course, when players embark on different plot branches, there will be different monsters in the same location, and reusing scenes can save some money.
These tips are the key to dissuading foreign players.
Pei Qian did not require these prompts to be written in poetry. After all, poetry is too difficult.
As long as it is written in relatively obscure ancient Chinese, it is enough to ensure that most people who have received nine years of compulsory education can guess the general meaning.
It's not that Pei Qian doesn't like poetry, it's mainly that even if they make such a request, Lu Mingliang and the others can't do it.
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These are only preliminary designs.
In the early stages of game development, you only need to roughly determine the scene, boss, and story flow of the game to ensure that the preliminary preparations (such as art requirements) can be completed smoothly.
More detailed content and details can be continuously improved during the development process of the game. SomeSettings and content can also be changed at any time.
Ma Yiqun told everyone in detail about the world view of the game and the work everyone needs to be responsible for.
Relatively speaking, everyone is not interested in the work of screening manuscripts, but is more interested in the plot of the game "Back to the Shore".
Because so far, the quality of the manuscripts selected by the terminal is really not good.
If there were such a good book with an interesting beginning, fast pace, novel and fascinating plot, everyone might be more excited.
But, no.
In other words, no matter how you select the manuscripts, it is basically impossible for one to become a hit and make the entire website famous at once.
As for guiding authors, that is even more nonsense. After all, most editors themselves know only a little about it. If they guide others, what if they are not helpful?
But the game "Return to the Shore" is different.
Tengda Games’ latest masterpiece!
Invest tens of millions!
Mr. Pei does it himself!
No matter how you look at it, this game is definitely going to be a big hit. Even if it cannot make a lot of money like "Sea Fortress", it can definitely earn a lot of reputation like "Game Maker".
If you participate in the development of this game, or even write a plot of the game yourself, then you can brag about it with your friends!
After listening to Ma Yiqun’s introduction, Zhu Anxing’s eyes shone.
"Brother Ma, I want to write!"
"Can we post the written content directly on our website? It can be regarded as the official version of the game."
“We can divide the tasks into one task, and each person is responsible for a part of the content, including the entire chronicle of the game, as well as the background stories of the bosses and NPCs in it, as a supplement to the game.”
"Although it may not necessarily be useful, it is much better than us aimlessly blindly working on things behind closed doors."
The Ma group thought for a while, and it seemed to be the same thing.
Anyway, there is nothing to do now. Even if they write online articles by themselves, many people don’t know what topics to write about.
Then let's just write the plot of "Back to the Shore" together, and after writing it, just select part of the plot and put it into the game.
Ma Yiqun nodded: "Okay, then everyone should think more about the plot of "Back to the Shore" while reviewing the manuscript."
"From now on, we will open it once a week Yes, let’s discuss the plot design specifically, and I’ll give feedback to the project team.”