Netherworld Game Producer

Xiao Tian operates the mouse to enter the game.

Please select a difficulty:

Simple

normal

The game has two difficulties, which is a decision made by Li Wen and the game team after consultation.

In the simple mode, the enemy NPC can only rely on the program settings, without the intelligent AI bonus, you can easily clear the level with only the back panel, and the difficulty will not be too high.

Of course, the game is also quite scary, especially when the player first comes into contact with the game, the fear will be even greater.

The normal difficulty is exactly the idea that Li Wen has always used when making games.

The game is difficult, and the enemy has intelligent AI, which can make a lot of unbelievable actions, making players unable to guard against it when playing.

At the same time, the key decryption props will also be hidden by the enemy...

Every time you open the game to play, there will be a new experience.

In addition to the fixed scene of the game, both the behavior of the enemy and the location of the decryption props will change.

Of course, the game does not hide the decryption props where the player cannot find them, and there are usually clues left by enemy NPCs.

However, most players can't stand the escape of normal difficulty, and only some players who like to challenge high difficulty will like it.

Therefore, making it simple and difficult is also the performance of Li Wen and the production team compromising with the market.

He is very clear that if a game is full of horror and difficulty, then the sales of this game must not be good.

Not all players like to challenge difficult games.

Just like before Li Wen crossed.

When Devil's Soul was just released, there were a lot of bad reviews, and few players liked it. It was also because later that as players played more and more, it gradually gained some fame, but the sales were really not good.

Dark Souls, the masterpiece of Devil's Souls, has good sales and reputation after its release. The reason is very simple, because the difficulty of Dark Souls is simpler than that of Devil's Souls...

Let more players enter the pit.

The sales volume of Dark Souls 2 in the back is average, the word of mouth is average, and many players have even been directly expelled from the soul. The reason is very simple, and it is also because of the difficulty...

Bloodborne, which was released at the same time as Dark Souls 2, as an exclusive game, has good sales and a good reputation. It is even called "the best in the world" by soul game players.

It is also because the difficulty of Bloodborne is more moderate.

The following Dark Souls 3 directly brought the Dark Souls series to the top and became one of the most popular games in the world.

Dark Souls 3 is even less difficult than Bloodborne.

Although Sekiro does not have a stamina bar, the game is difficult, and there are too many places that require a backboard, resulting in not as many sales as Dark Souls 3.

In the end, there were only more than 5 million sales, and because it was popular in the country, basically half of the sales were provided by the country.

The old thief's latest game, Ayrden's Circle, has reduced the difficulty of the game to the lowest level in the history of soul games due to numerous strategies for skipping classes, and the game's sales have exceeded 10 million copies in one week.

In many cases, the sales volume of a game is actually related to the difficulty.

Therefore, in order to sell the escape, Li Wen and the production team had to compromise on the difficulty of the game.

Of course, difficulty is only one reason that affects game sales.

The above examples are only used for the Old Thief Soul series of games to illustrate.

The core point of game sales is actually whether the game is fun or not, and whether it can let players enter a state of flow.

Flow state is a state in which time passes quickly after someone is addicted to something.

There was a joke once, when I got off work on a Friday night, I turned on my computer and played a game of civilization.

When I waited for the next round, I suddenly found that it was Monday morning...

This is the flow state.

If a person can reach a state of flow at work, then this person is definitely an elite in the workplace and very rich!

Xiao Tian in the live broadcast room seemed to be hesitant. The mouse cursor kept hesitating between easy difficulty and normal difficulty.

The barrage on the screen began to come alive.

‘Xiao Tian, ​​you are a technical anchor, how can you choose easy difficulty? Although I don’t know why the game has difficulty selection, I suggest you choose normal difficulty. ’ (As mentioned in the previous chapter, there is no difficulty selection in this world game, it is all easy mode.)

'Hi! You are also a technical anchor, you dare not play on normal difficulty, and you are still technical! ’

'This game has easy difficulty? Isn't this insulting... If it's my word, I will never let the game production team insult, so I choose not to buy it! ’

‘Come on, wait so long for you to live stream the game, why are you still putting this tangled difficulty? ’

Every barrage despised Xiao Tian.

When Xiao Tian tried it out before, she was playing the normal difficulty. The game was very scary and the difficulty was super high. She was really worried that the car would overturn today.

After all, the part she played was only a small part of the whole game.

The rollover is not terrible, but after the rollover, the benefits of the fans are promised...

Well, she gritted her teeth and regarded it as giving benefits to fans.

In the end, she chose normal difficulty.

A dialogue pops up in the game: 'Normal difficulty will give you the ultimate heartbeat, and there are no save points, if you die, all progress will be lost, and you will need to start from scratch, you are ready to be abused ? ’

She clicks the Yes option.

The game prompt appears.

""Escape" contains strong violence, blood, sexual abuse graphics, and very rough language, this game is an R18 level game...please enjoy it. ’

'You are Miles, Apsher, an investigative reporter on a journey to the most sinister hell on Bluestar, always looking to risk unearthing stories that other reporters dare not touch, and you will uncover the mountain mentality. The dark secret of the core of the hospital, survive as much as possible, and record everything. ’

'You are not a warrior. If you want to travel back and forth in a terrifying mental hospital and reveal the truth, the choice you have to make is to escape, hide or die...'

When the audience in the live broadcast room saw the game prompt almost the same, Xiao Tian clicked the continue button.

The game's opening CG starts to play.

The protagonist from the first-person perspective is driving a car on a ragged country road.

It was dark at the moment, and only the headlights provided the illumination.

The night is like a beast, engulfing the light source of the car, leaving only a short visual distance.

The radio in the car is playing, some backstory in the escape.

After driving for a while with the bumpy vehicle, the giant mountain mental hospital built in the wilderness finally appeared...

Against the backdrop of darkness, the Jushan Mental Hospital became extraordinarily strange.

The gate of the giant mountain mental illness is open, and the protagonist drives a vehicle into it.

The vehicle stopped, and the main perspective turned to look at the co-pilot, with a camcorder and two batteries on the seat.

There is also a printed document.

'September 17, 2013'

'From: XXXXXX@xx.'

'Send to: XXXXX@xx.'

'Title: Illegal Activities of the Mukoff Psychiatric Research Group. ’

‘You don’t know me, let’s talk quickly, they might be watching me. ’

‘I was a software consultant for the Mukoff Psychiatric Research Group for two weeks at the Giant Mountain Asylum. ’

'The number of new drug applications of all types here is staggering, and in a word, the people here are beasts. ’

'There's something terrible going on here, I don't understand, I can't believe even the slightest bit of what I've seen. ’

'The doctors kept saying that dream interpretation therapy waded too deep, something was waiting for them in the mountains, people were being tortured and Mukoff was making money. ’

'The truth needs to be revealed. ’

According to the document, it seems that the sender of the message has become a little confused, and his logical thinking is confused.

However, the protagonist still drove to the Jushan Mental Hospital to find out.