In 2022, if you want to make a two-dimensional game with a double harvest of market and word of mouth, I think everyone knows how difficult it is.
As we have expressed in some past articles, in recent years, the requirements of the player group for two-dimensional games have long been not as simple as simply doing a good job of art, gameplay, and world view design, and you had better have the ability to make the player group shine.
My bright understanding of this is the so-called "stylization", the two-dimensional player group values the eye rim, in recent years, some themes are widely popular in the two-dimensional market, but this year, a large part of it has been difficult to make players excited again, there are factors of aesthetic fatigue, there are also players' boredom and protest of cookie-cutter gameplay.
That's why I first noticed The LeapIng Traveler. The game has a special style that is probably the only one on the market today, and this bold, visual impact is also integrated into all aspects of the game. Most importantly, this is still a placement game with a card RPG as the core, and placement is one of the most difficult categories in the secondary market.
Leap Traveler will be opening up the game's secondary test in the near future, and we plan to take this opportunity to talk about the dark horse of the most potential quadratic placement in our opinion.
When aliens meet retro trends
"Opening up the player's sexual fetish and the new world in a rather novel way," I gave the Jump Traveler when I took part in the first test of The Jump Traveler last November. From any point of view, the style and understanding of the two-dimensional element of "The Leap Traveler" is unique in the market, and the visual shock is undoubtedly the first to bear the brunt.
The overall art style of "Leap Traveler" is very unique, intuitive, stunning contrast color collocation is reflected in all aspects of the game, from the overall scene of the game, UI interface design, to character drawing and illustration, "Leap Traveler" gives people the feeling of color, dare to use color, which is accustomed to seeing the black white background in recent years to emphasize the simplicity, science fiction, virtual projection of the art design is extremely impactful.
Character design is a super high plus. In the context of emphasizing the combination of beauty, human body and scene characters, the character design of "LeapIng Traveler" is two words, simple. The human element of the logo reflects the uniqueness and cuteness of "Jump Traveler", but the overall look and feel of the characters is indeed very three-dimensional, which is due to the American cartoon route chosen by "Jump Traveler".
The same celluloid coloring style, the original uncomplicated character image of "The Leaping Traveler" reflects a different artistic perception under the background of color and simple lines, and the charm of "human foreign wife" is really difficult to refuse.
Incidentally, in the last test, each character in "Leap Traveler" already has at least four sets of images, the default standing painting is leading the way, the pixel villains used in combat are cute and cute, the Live2d is vivid and vivid, and the illustrations are beautiful and how to look at them.
Buy One Get Four Free? Perhaps I should also include this in the "unique style" of The Leap Traveler.
After talking about the art, let's talk about the game's interesting world view design. From the game's plot and character monologues, you can actually feel that the overall tone of the game is relatively easy and funny, which is full of slot points and MetaGame elements, and the characters are all spitting, and there is no serious look that the plot should be.
In this regard, the explanation of "The Jump Traveler" is why it is serious? In fact, in terms of world view design and main line plot, "LeapIng Traveler" has a strict logic and timeline, and there are many ways to interpret the content, and the special style of "Leaping Traveler" is undoubtedly more suitable for the expression of the cute text, and finally achieves the effect of 1+1 greater than 2.
A similar work is actually being done all the time. Plot, characters, art, music, UI design. ... "Leap Traveler" always tries to integrate all the points in a wave line at the level of player experience, so that players can always feel the core charm of the game without disconnection in the smooth game experience, which is one of the cores that contributed to the ability of "Leap Traveler" to attract a large wave of loyal fans and gain a high reputation.
Dare to do the placement of the two-dimensional RPG
Placement is a very popular category in the market in recent years, but at the same time, placement is also one of the most difficult categories to make achievements. Under the branch of the two-dimensional element placement, you will find that the number of colors that can be made here is far less than you think, and there is still a lot of room for development in this market, just to see who has the opportunity to find a breakthrough.
Where is the breakthrough? Many products are puzzled by this problem, and the answer to "Jump Traveler" is "detour". To put it simply, "Leap Traveler" jumps out of the underlying design idea of the placement itself, and uses other gameplay to give the placement more fun.
The core gameplay of "Leap Traveler" can be classified as a self-propelled chess + card RPG, players can arrange the position and distribution of the characters in advance, the displacement of the characters after the game starts is presented in the form of grid jumping, and the battle is in addition to ordinary attacks and special attacks, which can release big moves according to the energy bar, which looks like the classic underlying design of the second generation of cards.
At first glance, it doesn't look special, but the actual experience is actually more interesting than imagined. Compared with the traditional emphasis on auto, hands-free placement gameplay, the pre-war layout + big move design of "LeapIng Traveler" enriches the player's operation experience, and the setting of self-propelled chess + board displacement actually gives the game more strategic thinking, not brainless standing to watch the character on A, through the thinking of the lineup and position can have a key impact on the battle situation.
It is worth mentioning that the pixel villains that appear as pawns in battle are only presented in parts such as battles and large map exploration, which actually echoes the way we explained the content we mentioned earlier. "Jump Traveler" can use more exquisite 3D modeling to do combat and scene exploration, but in the end, the reason why they made a set of pixel designs alone is to make the content of the game more full, so that players can feel the "jump" charm of the game's game name from beginning to end.
In addition, "LeapIng Traveler" has many derivative gameplay, including Roguelike, fixed bosses, tower climbing, etc., which are not listed here. Interestingly, "Jump Traveler" puts all these modules into the UI operation interface that resembles a mobile phone communicator, and each icon represents a new function and gameplay, and you can also freely drag the icon to other pages, just like you usually do on your mobile phone.
In general, "Jump Traveler" must have made efforts to study the placement of gameplay, from the current feedback, this similar category integration practice has still won the recognition of players, and what makes people feel that this core gameplay seems to be quite mature, "Jump Traveler" really has a great possibility to pry the two-dimensional placement gate that has been silent for a long time through this set of gameplay.
END
The second test of "Jump Traveler" is coming, according to the official previously announced news, in addition to optimizing the overall main line performance of the game, the second test has also improved many details such as the battle and cultivation that players have paid attention to before, which makes people full of expectations for the new test of "Jump Traveler".
2022 has only just begun, but it seems to me that "The Jump Traveler" can't wait to be that dark horse.