Almighty Game Designer

Lin Xue wandered around in a dark cave, scared, but not scared to walk.

Because traditional terror games are limited in visual range, the smaller the range, the stronger the player's sense of terror.

For example, the normal person's visual range is 300 to 500 meters in the open zone, and in caves, buildings, due to the limitations of the building itself, this range may become a few meters, and if it is in the dark, the visual range will be shortened again to one or two meters, or even a pitch of black.

Darkness represents the unknown and dangerous, so the smaller the visibility, the stronger the fear inside the player.

But what's different about this game is that while it's dark around, everything around it is visible to the players.

It's just this “bat perspective."

On the one hand, darkness reinforces the fear inside the player, and on the other hand, all factors are visible and to some extent allay that fear.

So under the overlap between the two feelings, Lin Xue is less afraid.

But this brings with it the problem that the player becomes extremely sensitive to how the sound feels.

It is well known that when one's vision is limited, one's hearing becomes acute, for example, many blind people have far more hearing and touch than normal people.

At this time, Lin Xue is in such a state, surrounded by pitch black, only a bunch of white frames, with limited vision, hearing becomes very acute.

It's very quiet in the cave at this time, so every tiny sound will sting her nerves.

When the protagonist steps onto the metal platform, he makes crisp footsteps; when walking in the water, he makes loud water noises; and when the protagonist claps, coughs, and talks continuously in order to probe, these sounds are also particularly evident in the silent cave.

So a problem arises: if you want to see further, you need to make louder sounds, but louder sounds can create a stronger sense of insecurity for the player.

Think about it, if you walk in a strange, dark environment, and you don't know where the enemy will be, normal people will be careful not to make a sound, lest the enemy notice.

Yelling in the dark is something that is against the instincts of human survival, but in this game, players have to do it in order to see everything around them.

The cave is a seven-through road, but the good news is that there are no forks, it's just the same road.

However, every time you pass the corner or need to crouch through an obstacle, Lin Xue feels her whole body muscles tightened up and her hair is straight up.

About two minutes further forward, bypassing countless intersections, another sharp cry came forward.

This sound is a little like a baby screaming in a horror movie, sharp, high, long lasting, in such a quiet environment, it's just mental pollution.

And more importantly, every time this scream comes around, the white void frames are dyed red, giving a very strong sense of crisis.

Lin Xue was able to determine the location of the monster by the source of the red sound wave, and it was getting closer and closer.

“I feel like I'm dying... but all of a sudden I understand why this game is called Low Cost Terror Game, which is really low cost...”

Lin Xue said he had never seen such a cost-saving game...

Because except for the first scene of the game, the main level scene is this pitch-black environment, you don't even have to make a map, you can do it with a white line...

Like other horror games, in order to bake horror scenes, very complex scenes and monsters are often made, and all kinds of plasma, limbs, viscera, etc. are as realistic as possible.

This game is not needed at all, it's all contours, and the results are particularly scary...

Continue walking inside, Lin Xue finally saw the monster's true face.

“My God, what is this? It's disgusting, Mom. I'm going home...”

Lin Xue didn't dare to speak out and looked at the horrible monster from afar.

Sounds like a baby and looks like a baby. But this is a deformed baby, keeping the baby in shape, with a big head, but a foot about a meter and a half.

And its head and body were covered with deformed tumors or raised, and Lin Xue could not judge what those things were. After all, everything she saw now was just contours, but anyway, the monster's voice, appearance and movement only made people feel like it was disgusting.

The monster crossed the iron fence with Lin Xue, and Lin Xue tried to bypass her, but she couldn't, because as long as she stopped making noises, she would immediately fall into a dark state.

So Lin Xue could only continue to clap her hands while advancing. Each time she clapped her hands, the baby monster would scream, and then run wildly to search her location. Good thing there was an iron fence next to her, and the monster couldn't get through.

Clapping and screaming, this fluctuates and mirrors fun.

After Lin Xue confirmed that the monster could not come through again and again, this persisted with the screaming spiritual pollution and continued to move forward.

Suddenly, Lin Xue found a woman's shoe on the ground, but when she bent over to pick it up, the board collapsed!

Lin Xue was scared to scream and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, the distance is not particularly high. Lin Xue climbed up and looked up.

Definitely not going up there.

“Okay, this is the basic operation of the horror game, calm down, calm down...”

Lin Xue comforted herself and continued to walk forward.

But this time she found herself in that baby monster's lair...

This time there was no fence, and the baby monster was four or five meters ahead of Lin Xue, screaming constantly, making red sound waves.

Lin Xue panicked. She wanted to take this road to the right quickly to avoid the monster. One of them didn't pay attention and stepped into the water pit.

“Wow! Wow!”

Lin Xue walked in the water loudly, the baby monster immediately screamed and jumped towards Lin Xue!

Lin Xue was frightened and screamed. This revealed his position. The baby monster directly jumped up and grabbed Lin Xue's arm!

Lin Xue felt her left hand caught and screamed out loud, but the baby jumped straight up, and Lin Xue's screen completely turned red.

After resurrection, Lin Xue can still feel her legs trembling constantly.

“Scared me... No, this game seems to be in a death cycle. I can't see the way without making a sound. Making a sound will attract monsters again, and it will directly seconds me...”

Lin Xue panicked. After dying once, she had understood that the game, like "Escape", had no room for resistance at all, but to circle with monsters through wisdom.

But how can we lure the monster away?

Lin Xue strode forward carefully, and suddenly she saw the stones on the ground.