On the eve of the Spring Festival, the domestic game industry ushered in a new batch of version numbers, including the open-world survival mobile game "Dawn Awakening: Life" developed by Tencent Photon Studio Group.
The game was established as early as 2017, and after several tests, it has been widely praised by players, and now it has achieved a good result of 70 million reservations on the whole network. Previously, due to the lack of a version number, "Dawn Awakening: Life" was put on hold for a long time, but this wave of release numbers in January this year activated it instantly.
During the Spring Festival holiday, there were rumors on the Internet that the project team of "Dawn Awakening: Life" was going to make a big move.
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According to sources, the "Dawn Awakens: Life" project team has returned home for the New Year, all recalled to work overtime, and the arrival of the version number seems to have brought the game into the final development stage of full speed and full.
Sure enough, on the evening of January 31, the game "Dawn Awakening: Life" officially started live broadcasting, and it was officially announced that it would be tested for unlimited numbers and no deletion in February.
Survival gameplay drives big world exploration
All open-world games face a crucial question: what kind of goals should drive players to explore large, rich worlds.
In single-player games, this problem is usually solved with a main story. As an open-world exploration game featuring a multiplayer experience, the development team is not satisfied with pure narrative driven, they hope to find a logical way to unfold the open world outside the plot.
In a previous interview with Zak, the game's mastermind, Gyro-kun said that "survival is the lowest and most primitive driving force", which will drive players to run, explore, and fight every day of survival in the game. As a result, much of Dawn's Awakening: Life is designed to complement survival gameplay.
First of all, in the natural environment dimension of the game, the R&D team created a large seamless map open world, and based on different geomorphological features, climate and lighting real scenes, it showed players a variety of landforms such as woodlands, hills, valleys, plains, deserts, as well as diverse weather such as winds, thunderstorms, and sandstorms.
Players must perform their daily activities in such a dangerous environment for a realistic, exciting gaming experience. The R&D team also designed according to the principles of ecological cycle and natural competition, implanting a huge ecology composed of nearly 50 types of species, and making the player's survival journey full of unexpected variables.
Of course, in order to allow players to better cope with many difficulties and challenges, the game not only prepares more than 50 vehicles based on physical calculation systems for players, but also provides rifles, submachine guns, sniper rifles, shotguns and other types of combat weapons with realistic feelings, as well as cold weapons, drones, decoy bombs, automatic turrets and other non-conventional weapons, adding help to players to develop combat strategies.
The official and the player work together to create and polish
In a previous interview, game curator Zak said that they hope that the user group of "Dawn Awakening: Life" can be more popular and extensive.
"We want to do more coupling between open world and survival gameplay, and we also want to give open-world content experience players more means of experience." In other words, the development team wants to preserve the richness and diversity of the world as much as possible, not only excluding players who are interested in hardcore content such as open world and survival building, but also meeting the needs of other types of players.
Open world, survival building, multiplayer socialization... How to balance and choose between each keyword is a difficult problem in game content design. The solution the Dawn Awakens: Life development team sought was to respect, listen to players, and adjust content based on player feedback.
For players of the game, this is clearly not a "blank cheque".
The game project team represented by "Big Bear Planning" has been continuously active in various players' positions, through many official live broadcasts, player visits, offline art exhibitions, sincere discussions and other forms, combined with each round of testing to encourage users to speak out and provide suggestions for the game. Many player ideas were collected and researched by the team and landed in the game one after another.
For example, in last night's live broadcast, the official added pet system, instrument system, extreme weather and other content to the game according to the needs of players.
At the same time, more than 2,000 exploration points with rewards have been added to the game world, and many random events and hidden dangers have been added to make the game more playable. In response to the problem of reducing the burden of players, the development team also sincerely listened to the suggestions of players and proposed solutions such as "one set of accessories used to the old" and "equipment enhancement is 100% successful". For players with more social needs, the team has also prepared a wealth of home gameplay and pension gameplay.
The focus on quality and the player's voice have also attracted a lot of "tap water" to Dawn Awakening: Life. Many excellent creative players have produced 100,000+ UGC videos around the open world exploration, survival experience, and face pinching in the game.
Enthusiastic creation and praise from players
Combined with the staggering booking data, the expectations of Dawn Awakening: Life in the player base are evident.
What kind of sparks will a game development team from Tencent Photonics, a group of players with different preferences who can't be clearly labeled, intertwined with a game with so many gameplay? February is here, and let's wait and see.