Chapter 156 ceiling-level demo version!
The news spread quickly!
《Breaking news! Golden Wind and Comella have reached a cooperation intention and want to jointly develop new games! 》
"Become Famous Overseas!" It is rumored that Gu Sheng will personally go to Neon this time to serve as the chief director of the new game of Comella! 》
《Inside Information! Golden Wind will jointly produce a horror game with Comella this time! 》
《Psychological Fear Goes Abroad! Ke Meila extended an olive branch and invited Gu Sheng to take on the role! 》
《Specially Invited Chief Director! Golden Wind has initially reached a cooperation with Comella! 》
"The Fear Returns!" Comella confirmed to develop new horror genre with Golden Wind! 》
Comella itself is a world-class comprehensive gaming and entertainment company.
Golden Wind is now the most promising product in the domestic market and the creator of many game innovations.
The announcement of the cooperation between the two companies undoubtedly stirred up waves with one stone.
For a time, there were constant discussions from all parties!
‘Hiss—Xiao Huang’s wave of pure heifers took a plane and directly cooperated with Comella! ’
‘And it was Comella who came to the door on his own initiative’
‘Psychological horror, are you kidding me? Who wouldn't want to be kicked out of the somatosensory cabin and have a wave of neural connections before leaving? ’
‘You contribute money and I contribute effort to create new miracles in the underworld’
‘Hahahahahahaha…’
‘Shadow netizens can really come up with any kind of slogans…’
‘It’s hard to imagine that the old thief will come up with so many things from the underworld this time’
‘Indeed, the previous cost of ghost phobia was only a few million, right? ’
‘A little steel ball immortal like Comella is very wealthy. I don’t know what underworld gadgets will come out in this wave of comprehensive upgrades’
“Let me tell you a ghost story. As an industry insider, we have met to analyze the form of psychological horror before, and we came to the unanimous conclusion that adding money is the most effective way to increase the fright level of this type of horror game.”
“Indeed, because the most important thing about psychological horror is immersion, the higher the quality of the game industry, the stronger the immersion and the scarier it will be”
‘F*ck, could it be that before the somatosensory cabin had time to kick me, I would have already been drinking soup down there? ’
Po Meng: Young man, you are very fast. I opened my mouth in the blink of an eye? ’
‘Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…’
‘Black and White Impermanence: Why was this month’s KPI overfulfilled so early? ’
‘On the day the game was launched, the King of Hell saw his life and death book flashing’
‘Schrödinger’s player, right? Before opening the somatosensory cabin, I was in a superposition state of being scared to death and not being scared to death’
‘Laughing to death, suddenly I’m really looking forward to this game’
‘The main thing is to see where the limit of the underworld is for the old thief with the blessing of Comela’s money ability’
‘I am mainly looking forward to the exciting live broadcast session’
‘Sure enough, the players of Golden Wind are a little perverted in their hearts’
‘…’
Speculations are rampant from all sides.
The media are rushing to report on it, while players are looking forward to it with curiosity.
Amidst this lively discussion, the “pilot cooperation” between Golden Wind and Comella is also advancing rapidly.
It can be seen that Comella is really anxious.
On the third day after the two parties reached a cooperation, Comella sent the labor employment contract to Golden Wind.
In addition to the labor contract, there is also a confidentiality agreement.
Gu Sheng has no objection to this.
After all, he is the chief game director and the person who controls the core data of the game.
It would be okay if he suppressed his mischief and secretly leaked the development information related to Silent Hill and let the media get it, but if other competitors got it, Comella would definitely have a headache.
So, in order to prevent leaks, a confidentiality agreement must be signed.
soon!
The labor employment contract and confidentiality agreement have all been signed.
There is no ambiguity about Comela either.
The sum of 200,000 U.S. dollars was quickly transferred to Golden Wind’s account, and they promised to pay the remaining balance immediately after the development of the trial version was completed.
And along with the money, there was a scrapped draft of the plan that contained only the structure.
Of course!
Because this plan is really incomplete, and Gu Sheng himself has successful experience in psychological horror.
So, Tetsuya Moritani also expressed his position on behalf of the company—
The development leadership is all in the hands of Gu Sheng. This plan is just a reference. The specific story and related settings are solely decided by Gu Sheng.
…
What to do?
It’s the weekend again.
Gu Sheng was sitting in the study, frowning in deep thought.
He has read the fragments of the project proposal sent by Comella, there are only a few pages in total.
Perhaps for this world, there are countless suspense in that incomplete plan, which is great and arouses endless reverie.
But for him, just seeing its structure and a little bit of the plot at the beginning, the complete version of the project has already emerged in his mind.
In terms of the game’s core form of horror, the former TS (TeamSilent) team chose ‘psychologically suggestive fear’.
To put it bluntly, it is psychological horror. Through various hints and images, it creates a terrifying and distorted atmosphere, bringing strong psychological hints to players and making them panic.
In some of the monster settings in the game, triangular heads, humanoid bats, women in iron cages, etc. also appear one by one.
Finally, here’s the setting for the beginning of the game’s story—
A man named James accidentally received a letter one day. The sender was his wife Mary.
Mary invited him to a small town called "Silent Hill".
The terrible thing is that his wife Mary has been dead for three years.
Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, this is just a malicious prank.
But the strange thing is that the letter mentioned many details of life and personal preferences that only he and his wife knew.
Furthermore, when his wife was suffering from a terminal illness, he also took his wife to Silent Hill to recuperate.
So obviously, this letter is definitely not a simple prank.
Where did the letter come from? What secrets are hidden in Silent Hill?
With all kinds of doubts, James embarked on the road to Silent Hill...
Gu Sheng is simply not too familiar with this plot.
Because this was the game setting of "Silent Hill 2" in his previous life!
Although the remaining part of the project ended here, Gu Sheng knew the rest of the story clearly—
Just after James came to Silent Hill, many weird things happened one after another.
The dust falling from the sky, the imprisoned butcher with a steel triangular head, the strange woman who looks exactly like his wife...
In a world full of weirdness, James experienced nightmare-like dangers.
As the exploration deepened, a shocking fact that he could not believe also surfaced - James and his wife originally loved each other very much.
But there are unforeseen circumstances.
In order not to lose his beloved wife, James traveled around and took Mary to seek medical advice and various treatments.
However, the exhausting running around did not bring about any improvement for my wife.
On the contrary, the wife's condition worsened, her originally exquisite and beautiful appearance gradually withered and deteriorated, and the long-term pain made her become more and more hysterical.
To make matters worse, the increasing cost of treatment made James more breathless and burned out his will.
This kind of despairing pain, like the fire of purgatory, made him miserable.
And this kind of pain seems to be just like Mary's hysterical sobbing:
If you don’t want me to die, why do you look so angry? If you want me dead, why do you look so sad?
James didn’t know how to answer.
He loved Mary and everything about her.
At the same time, he also hated Mary, and hated that her illness had severely shattered all the good things that had once existed.
The emotional toll of long-term care of patients has made James' nerves increasingly fragile.
Finally, when his wife was terminally ill and there was no cure, she was waiting for death.
James could no longer bear the emotional torment of despair, and at the same time, he also wanted to relieve his wife.
One afternoon, he kissed his wife deeply and then covered Mary alive with a pillow.
Yes, he killed his wife with his own hands three years ago.
The various monsters and images in the world of Silent Hill are exactly the darkness and cowardice that he has been unwilling to face.
A depressing and extremely profound core.
To this day, Gu Sheng can still recall the overwhelming and depressing emotion he fell into after clearing the game, as well as his astonishing admiration for the core emotions expressed in the game.
There is no doubt that this part of Silent Hill, whether it is the game presentation, the game plot, the core spirit of the game, or even the soundtrack, are all works of art.
It seems that in this world, the TS team wants to first produce "Silent Hill 2" in its previous life, and then complete the Silent Hill worldview through subsequent works, and then expand the story step by step.
Although the order of production has been slightly adjusted, the general idea should be this.
It is hard to imagine that the Comella in this world could accidentally kill such a landmark work in its infancy.
Oh shit! Wait a moment? !
Thinking of this, Gu Sheng was suddenly shocked!
Something’s wrong, damn!
Although, the Silent Hill project in his hands now is a fragment.
But it is conceivable that what TS showed to Comella’s senior management ten years ago was definitely not such a fragmentary project!
That is to say.
At that time, Comella's senior management must have seen this epoch-making project, but because its early investment scale was too large, its prospects were unclear, and it conflicted with another project, they axed this IP. !
This is not a good sign.
Thinking about it, Gu Sheng opened the webpage and searched for what kind of magical game it was that defeated "Silent Hill" in terms of project resources ten years ago.
Without much effort, Gu Sheng found the answer.
Because the economic situation of Comella was not very good exactly ten years ago, it did not produce many games. It only produced a total of five games, large and small.
Among these five games, the only one that is of the same size as Silent Hill is a fantasy-style action-adventure game called "Yin Yang: Demons Walking in the Night".
After learning the details of the game, Gu Sheng frowned with an unhappy expression.
Because this Hundred Ghosts of the Night is completely incomparable to Silent Hill in terms of gameplay, plot structure, and core spirit.
The only advantage is that its predecessor "Yin Yang Zhi" was sold very well on the PC, which brought a lot of profits to Comela.
Yes.
This is a money-making sequel.
But it’s such a cliched game sequel with almost no highlights, and it just beats Silent Hill to death!
What does this mean?
Needless to say much.
Because the answer seems to be obvious.
噌!
Gu Sheng was half-lying at first, but he sat up immediately!
Maybe he didn’t wear the colored glasses wrong before!
Whether it’s Konami in the previous life or Comora in this world, I’m afraid they are all worth a Fuck!
Although, this conclusion is a bit arbitrary now, after all, it has been ten years since Comera killed Silent Hill.
Perhaps in these ten years, Comora has also made progress and begun to focus on the artistry of the game.
But as the saying goes, sailing with caution will last forever!
Comela has such a criminal record, Gu Sheng has to reconsider!
Actually, originally!
When he saw the project for the remaining part, his first reaction was to reset the previous version of "Silent Hill 2" into the somatosensory cabin!
Perfectly meet Party A’s requirements.
Although such a reset requires a lot of effort due to game perspective, industrial technology and other reasons.
But Comella is rich, and the quality of this game is indeed high, so Gu Sheng is not afraid of trouble and is willing to let this classic see the light of day again in this world.
After all, Comella has no way of knowing what the original content of this project was, and the TS team has long since disappeared from the gaming circle as time has changed.
In other words, right now, he is the only one in the world who has the ability, conditions, and hope to complete this project.
He planned to add a small prologue to Silent Hill as a trial version, mainly to show the industrial level of the game and the core of pure psychological fear, and then fit the content to the main body of the game, leaving a small chapter at the end of the trial version. Easter eggs, which lead to the official version of the game.
Then, while improving the plan, we are waiting for the formal cooperation between the two parties to be implemented.
In this way, when the contract is signed, he will be able to seamlessly restart this classic masterpiece with the core team!
The plan is good.
But now!
Gu Sheng doesn’t think so anymore.
Because he could not guarantee at all whether Comella would cause trouble in future cooperation!
so!
“The content plan for the official version of the game... I’d better wait for a while...”
Gu Sheng murmured:
“Not only the official version of the content plan will have to wait, but we will wait until the cooperation is really confirmed,”
“The content of this trial version... also needs to be reconsidered...”
Comella’s saucy operations ten years ago made him suspicious.
He must have the cat teach the tiger to save his life.
The official version of the content plan will not be released for the time being.
As for the trial version, it also needs to be a little more shrouded and full of metaphorical hints, so that Comella cannot see through his own story at a glance.
Furthermore, this trial version must be refined and refined, and strive to reach the ceiling level.
Even, shamelessly boasting—only he can perfectly present this IP.
“Metaphorical hints, clouds and fog, hidden main plot, ceiling level, Silent Hill, demo version... Oh well.”
Gu Sheng closed his eyes and meditated.
For a moment, I thought silently in my heart: System?
【I am here】
Help me unlock Silent Hill P.T.
(End of this chapter)