On November 18, the mobile game "Backlight Infiltration" developed by Empty Tower Studios announced the first concept PV, and officially confirmed that the gameplay was "a 3D real-time tactical game with stealth elements".
Since The Empty Tower Studio is a 100% holding company of Papergames, this marks the first time that Papergames has stepped out of the comfort zone of women to the track and into the full-user category, and "Backlight Infiltration" became the first self-developed non-female game of Papermaking.
In just 7 hours after the announcement, the PV has exceeded 330,000 plays on Weibo, with more than 1,000 forwards, comments, and likes, and more than 200,000 plays on Station B. The relevant comment areas almost presented a one-sided praise, and players expressed their expectations by praising the painting style and innovating the gameplay.
Senior members led the team, and different folding paper came
According to GameLook's preliminary understanding, "Backlight Infiltration" has been researched and developed for almost 2 years, and it is currently progressing smoothly. And the core team of "Backlight Infiltration" has dozens of people, led by senior members of the paper game, and the project is highly valued inside the paper.
As one of the new forces in the game industry "Shanghai Four Little Dragons", like Lilith, Mihayou and Heartbeat, Fold paper has recently developed rapidly, the current scale has exceeded 1500 people, and it has R & D teams in Shanghai and Shenzhen, in addition to the two new games that have been announced, "Love and Deep Space" and "Backlight Infiltration", Fold paper also hides a number of games under development that have not yet been exposed.
Not only self-research, Fold paper is also groping for boutique game agents, and even investing in excellent developers outside, and has already made some gains.
Last month, PaperGames co-released an internal post with TipsWorks, developer of Pascal Pact, on a next-generation 3D realistic action game. According to Yang Yang, founder and producer of Pascal's Contract, PaperGame has become a new investor in TipsWorks after Giants.
In terms of self-developed products, "Love and Deep Space" and "Backlit Infiltration" have jumped out of the dress-up and love themes that Paper is good at, which has revealed the ambition of Paper Tonna to go to the full user category, plus next year will happen to be the tenth anniversary of warm IP, which also means that in the next two years, players and peers may see a very different Paper Folding game.
Not feminine, innovative attempts to get players liked
"Backlight Infiltration" was first exposed through Weibo in late September this year. At the same time of exposure, "Backlight Infiltration" also applied for the trademark of the same name, and GameLook observed that the empty tower had also applied for the trademark "Other Shore Infiltration".
When it was first announced, the official information was revealed, only the official website, the main KV, and a famous quote by the philosopher philosopher Wittgenstein.
According to the information revealed by KV at that time, "Backlight Infiltration" is set in the future of 2194, and the goal of the game is still to save the world by "stacking the air", while the female characters stand in the KV C position, but whether it is for women to play is unknown.
At that time, "Backlight Infiltration" KV was pointed out to be a possible well-known artist and the representative artist of "Seven Days Forever", so "Backlight Infiltration" was also worried by some players that the gameplay innovation was insufficient.
However, with the announcement of the official definition of "stealth game", the player's hanging heart seems to be able to let go.
Screenshots of gameplay released on the official website show that "Backlit Infiltration" takes a 45-degree top-down view, and the player has two characters on one side and is trying to pass through a road. At the same time, the picture shows a fan-shaped field of vision in front of the enemy character, as well as a yellow dotted line of warning, and a circle of transparent ripples spreading outward around our character in action.
All indications are that "Backlight Infiltration" is most likely a typical RTT, that is, Real-time Tactics real-time tactical game, which is a vertical category that is mostly found on PC and console, but is still very new on mobile.
As a RTT game that focuses on stealth, Backlight Sneak will predictably attract a large number of male players, while its focus on strategy rather than operation, as well as exquisite artistic performance, can take into account the needs of female users.
In the PV video comment area of station B, there are indeed suspected female users who express their surprises for the game type, while popularizing the fun of RTT to more players, as well as the expectations for "Backlight Infiltration".
With less of the official game content released today, what exactly does the game look like? It may also be necessary to publish more information on the folding of paper, and according to GameLook's gossip, "Backlight Infiltration" is likely to be held in Shanghai next month at the Comic Con CP29, and players may not wait too long.
Classic category + "boat" new experience, small categories hide great possibilities
Unlike RTS, which emphasizes confrontation and operation, RTT advocates more cooperation and strategy, image understanding, and it is much like a turn-based box: in the designed level, the enemy's action trajectory is basically fixed, and players can use different characters and different skills to pass the level and enjoy solving puzzles.
Emphasizing the fun of strategy and a certain degree of operability, it seems that the combination of stealth gameplay and quadratic elements is indeed a good combination. From the PERSPECTIVE OF THE PC AND CONSOLE MARKET, although stealth itself is not a large category and is often used as a gameplay supplement to popular categories, such as Assassin's Creed, there is no shortage of well-known stealth games, and even developed into series, such as "Metal Gear Solid" and "Killer" series.
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In fact, the TapTap comment area also has player comments: "Looking at the pictures feels similar to mimimi studio's shadow tactics and bounty raiders, and I personally like it very much." This shows that the RTT category also has a certain audience base among mobile games and even paper-folding fans, and it is not completely from scratch.
In addition, the charm of RTT is not only stealth, but also squad cooperative stealth, the enemy's vision in the later stages of the game will usually take care of each other, forming a "matryoshka doll" situation that is difficult for a single character to solve, and the sense of achievement of multi-character cooperation to solve puzzles will also be higher.
"Backlight Infiltration" actually shows the characteristics of squad infiltration, such as the screenshot of the game currently released, there are two characters acting at the same time. Due to the complexity of controlling multiple characters on mobile, coupled with a preference for social attributes, it cannot be ruled out that Backlight Sneak may provide online friends.
After all, the online stealth and successful cases, in fact, there are asymmetric competition pearls such as "Dawn Killing Machine" and "The Fifth Personality", and the stealth value has obviously not been fully developed.
Of course, from the perspective of taking stealth, which is very fresh to the mobile terminal, It is obvious that Fold paper expects to provide players with a new game experience. This is the ambition of Folding Paper, and it is also the expectation of every Paper folding fan.