"Oh!"

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The masses of the people of the Great Mirican Empire are obviously more interested in the appearance of this machine.

"What kind of game is Dark Souls?"

"Garden Wars seems to be a fully networked online game, just like the hero's trajectory. Hell, I only have dial-up internet ...... at home"

"Hey guys, I just want to know what that dragon hunting game is, why wasn't it at the press conference? Was it overlooked?"

The forums on the Lighthouse Nation side are full of posts discussing related topics.

"Hoo ......"

Richard returned to his room in Paris, and then finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He also had in his hand the materials he had brought back from the lighthouse nation of California.

At the press conference, Senxia mentioned the policy of opening up the two engines to the outside world.

One is the Ark Engine, which is used for 2D development, and this engine has excellent technical support for 2DLIVE.

The other is a 3D engine.

A 3D engine with "visual film" as the main axis.

Richard is a developer.

But unlike the average game developer, he prefers a more pure narrative performance.

But Richard himself couldn't tell what he wanted.

What exactly?

When Richard was making the game, he wanted to ask himself this question more than once.

He once thought about it for a long time and found that what he wanted was actually a little different from ordinary games, and it was closer to the feeling of an American drama.

Yes, that's what I want to do.

He was so convinced.

But at that time, Richard only had a vague idea of the game he wanted to make.

But now, the feeling in Richard's mind is clear: interactive movie!

That's right, the kind of story and world that works as smoothly as movies and TV series, but players can interfere with!

It's such a world, not the kind of traditional RPG that needs to fight monsters, bosses, and treasure chests one by one, nor is it a so-called high-quality game with high gameplay, but a game that is more similar to storytelling.

His last game did just that, and that game was "Evil Dead City", and this game will be released early next year.

Yes, Richard is a member of Quantic_Dream company, and the game Evil Dead City was developed by their company.

At the beginning of the evil spirit game, it tells the story of the player playing the game in front of the computer, and then was brought to the city in this game by a futuristic person, and the player finally went through a lot of hardships to finally get the city out of the control of the boss, and then the player himself returned to his own world. At the beginning of the whole story, the "player" is playing the game, and this sense of substitution is very subtle, and is this a very "Galgame-style" game?

Well, that's right, this game is the ancestor of the so-called AVG 3D image-based interactive movies.

How to say, Evil Ghost City is a very subtle game in terms of gameplay, and when Evil Ghost City was developing, their group of developers were actually not very clear about their own ideas, and they also wanted to make a very powerful game, and as a result, they added all kinds of elements to the game, making it an "all-encompassing" game in terms of genre.

Because of the all-encompassing genre, the controls of this game are unimaginably complex.

In normal times, the player is in adventure mode, where the player controls the character to move around the city, as in later games, but in addition to this, the game also offers a fighting mode, the former is a 3D combat that unleashes combos, and the latter is a "tribute" to the game "Mjolnir".

And these are not the most important things about this game...... Belch...... How to say it, after the makers made it, they found a subtle problem, that is, in this game, all of the above are useless, maybe this makes the game very game, but what they like the most is the plot of the game.

But at that time, they didn't understand what they were doing - because there were no games on the market that felt like that, and the story was very important, and that kind of thing was really subtle.

It wasn't until now that he made it clear what he wanted.

"Interactive Cinema".

That's right, this is it!

Although Senxia only passed the news of this engine, Richard couldn't stop after hearing the concept of "interactive games".

The game "Evil Spirit City" they made is already on the market.

But how to say it...... On the screen, it was absolutely killed.

Don't look at Senxia's strict pursuit of Dark Souls, but Richard's game is ...... Well, although it can't be said to be mosaic, but it's all angular and angular, that's for sure, even the characters are angular.

3D is a novelty, and while it feels crude, it's enough for people who haven't seen many 3D games.

However, at this time, the appearance of Senxia slapped them in a resounding slap.

For technical reasons, Senxia did not show a demo of the interactive movie at the front desk.

But backstage, the development of a certain St. Euliana Hospital on Senxia's side appeared - by the way, this St. Euliana Hospital game was finally scheduled to be released before Christmas, so that the single dogs have a place to spend their energy......

After all, the new demo didn't work well, and now this demo version is not suitable for public play.

――Can you think about it, Mori Xia is showing suspicious images on all TV stations?

It's like someone is showing a completely unedited video of the Uniqlo dressing room on a news broadcast, and something big is going to happen!

However, as a technical verification product, this work of a certain hospital is still technically okay.

This game provides two modes, one mode is the strategy mode that controls the man, which is divided into three chapters and controls three different characters to attack the heroine.

But in fact, players actually prefer to see the picture in front of them as a sister paper, so the game has another career mode that controls Nanase Koi. After all, watching the sister paper in his hand gradually degenerate or be redeemed, this feeling is still different from a simple strategy, and Nanase Love, as a Kanban girl, naturally got her own game mode.

Of course, this version of Mori Xia refers to the OVA, that is, Nanase Koi, Yagami Yu, and Kazama Ai, not the characters in the original work.

Richard recalls what he saw.

In the game, the modeling of the characters is not modeled on real people, but is modeled according to the two-dimensional character image, and then corrected according to the human image in the real world - in fact, Senxia originally wanted to use a rendering appearance that was purely similar to the two-dimensional character, but the effect after rendering was very bad, so I had to give up this plan for the time being.

When doing 2D animation, it is actually very difficult to imitate the real person, but when this thing is changed to 3D, the human body is much better than the animated character.

It's not just the characters.,In the game,It's part of Nanase Love's career mode that is open to everyone.,And all the content of the mouth is blocked.。

But that doesn't stop a technician like Richard from discovering the incredibleness of the system.

In this unknown game (Senxia didn't reveal a hospital game), players can see that the game is not only well modeled, but the characters' movements also give a very natural feel.

"That's definitely good motion capture – especially facial expressions. ”

Facial expressions must have been made by motion capture.

The engine used in Senxia's interactive film is very good at portraying the face, although it cuts corners in other places, but the vivid expressions of the characters can still make people ignore those corners in the past.

Richard patted his stubble with his hand as he looked at the document in his hand.

He recalls the scene.

The content of the scene is very simple, that is, Nanase Koi goes to the ward rounds, and then asks the patients, some patients will go up and down, and at this time there will be another female nurse character to appear, and then solve the crisis.

Throughout the process, there are probably only a few choices for the player to do, and the player can control the character's actions and make things go in several different directions.

And after each choice, the story changes.

Behind each change, it will have a subtle effect on the whole story.

At this point, Senxia refers to the game "Until Dawn".

Until dawn, manufacturers came up with the concept of the "butterfly effect" and began to hype.

But unfortunately, the so-called "butterfly effect" only affects the deaths of a few characters.

In fact, it is of no use at all.

The general script will not change, only some side quests will change.

Of course, Senxia would not do such an undisciplined thing.

This game was made when Senxia was still in the festival.,So the options in it,It's really huge.,Some of the plots are even completely opposite to the previous ones - of course,The so-called opposition and reversal,There's no such setting in a hospital.,This game shouldn't add this kind of subtle things.,Or to push down and raise it as the main line.。

For Richard, the game itself is not very attractive to him, and what attracts Richard the most is the kind of scenes, characters and interactions in the game.

At the end of the day, it's the mode of interactive cinema.

"Why don't you make a new game with this engine?"

Richard pondered in his mind.

Will the boss push back?

"No, it doesn't matter. ”

After looking at the situation of QICQ, he knew that he might be able to pass this proposal.

Because in the company's QICQ group, several executives -- that is, the executives of the company -- were talking about the engine at this time.

Yes, their company is more fashionable, and when everyone is still trying it out, the company's important task has been to make a group in QICQ, a live chat software, to chat about work - this is only QICQ can do, in addition to QICQ, including ICQ, the originator of communication software, it is difficult to do a good job of group this thing.

"I think it's nice that the motion capture technology is better than ours. ”

――I forgot to mention that Richard's company, when it opened in the past, they were a company that helped people do outsourcing and action, but the two founders started making games with a slap on their heads.

And this game is the city of evil spirits.

Of course, in the future, there will be games like Phantom Killer, Heavy Rain, and Transcendent Twins, but that's another world.

"Technically it's okay, but will the requirements for the system be too high?"

Richard looked at the technical specifications, and he felt that the technology was naturally excellent, but to what extent he could do it, Richard was not sure.

Because this technical specification is not a finished version, Senxia said above that this engine is still being optimized.

After all, the requirements for small butter and for the general public are not the same.

In the little butter, sometimes the background is not needed, and at that time, you can leave resources to the characters, making the game characters more vivid and cute.

But in general-oriented games, in addition to characters, there are also interactive scenes, and a large number of NPCs, and sometimes the requirements for action and special effects are very high, which are not available in Little Butter.

Therefore, in a hospital, when there is a shortage of resources, the system can lag behind the processing of the background, and deal with the characters in a limited way, so that the characters look vivid, which is enough - because the characters who play this game are also going to PRPR for Nanase Love, so they don't care what hospital, what school, etc., that kind of scene is simply a background board.

It can be said that Senxia even needs to pre-render the 3D scene like Final Fantasy, and then make a 2D screenshot, which is fine, although that kind of pseudo-3D looks very pitty, but it is actually very easy to use.

But because Senxia is doing technical verification, there is not only a real 3D background, but also light and shadow and special effects in the game.

Of course, this engine is not a panacea, at least it is still more difficult for Senxia to make a water surface and a pool or something, because the water body itself is a super difficult thing to do.

Mori Xia felt that his side had failed a little, but Richard felt that they were already in the middle of the second.

"I think we can get in touch with the Order of the Phoenix?" he said, trying to post his message in the work group.

Then, the group at QICQ was quiet for several seconds.

"Great idea!"

Then the founders, David Cage and Guillaume, made a decision.

......

Today's two-in-one.

Another day without soul stripping......

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