The framework of the game is something that every game developer must understand. It is conducive to understanding the structure and foundation of the game, as well as the impact of the game on players and society. I call this framework MAD for short. It includes Mechanics, Dynamic and Aesthetics. This framework is a professional game design framework.
According to these three frameworks, the game is divided into four elements, called the quaternion, which proposes: “mechanism, aesthetics, plot and technology.”
The theme and content of the game I analyzed was the game that became popular in China and even the world in the past two years: “Naraka: Bladepoint.”
Story background：
The game tells the story of a fictional fantasy world as the background. The Yin and Yang gods kill each other, causing the world to be in eternal ruin. Players need to play a hero, collect various resources in the map, fight with other players, and survive to the end.The attraction must be the world of martial arts with Chinese characteristics. From the first day of its birth, “Wuxia” has always belonged to the civilian class. In fact, Wuxia ethics is the moral standard used by civil society to regulate interpersonal relations, which is a kind of “love ethics”. It is not only combined with the “Confucian” thought, but also contains profound ethics, contains a great range, and is a constantly re inclusive culture. Cherish and respect their own countries and nations, and respect the countries and nations of others; Help the poor, punish the evil and promote the good; To uphold justice when the road is against injustice; Be peaceful and friendly, help each other, attach importance to justice and right and wrong, oppose benefiting oneself at the expense of others, pay attention to faith, and sing praises of pure love and friendship; Sing of the desperate struggle for justice; Despising despicable and selfish thoughts and behaviors.
Aesthetic design:
The characteristics of ancient Chinese costumes. Ancient Chinese clothing refers to various ancient Chinese clothing, such as clothes, hats, shoes and socks, which have become a series of clothes in the world. Its structure and style have changed with the development of production and living style. Through the study of ancient clothing, we can know the style and features of ancient clothes.
It is worth mentioning that the game of “Naraka: Bladepoint” was praised by the media of the central government of China, because most young people do not know about the ancient history of China, but spread the history through the costumes in the game. The high-level costumes of one of the characters are identical to the clothes called “Bright Armor” made by the ancient Chinese generals. In CCTV’s news, it reported that the Dunhuang Museum had restored Zhang Chaochao’s “Mingguang Armor” entity. Forged with alloy, the Mingguang Armor, with 1300 armor pieces and a total weight of up to 25kg, was made. A documentary on the restoration of Mingguang Armor was also displayed to bring the national heroes back to everyone’s view with digital technology.
Game operation mechanism:
Naraka: Bladepoint is a PC online game. The game is role-playing. Players choose their own roles and play them, which is called RPG (Role playing game) for short. The battle foundation of “Forever” is based on a set of similar stones, scissors and cloth:
General attack, dominating body and vibrating knife. This set is somewhat similar to the common stone scissors cloth used in fighting games: light hit → throwing skill → block → light hit. The blue dominating skill restrains the general attack, the vibrating knife restrains the blue dominating skill, and the general attack restrains the vibrating knife. The difference in Infernal Affairs is that once the guessing game is successful, there will be benefits immediately. Once the opponent’s knife is shaken off, he will not only be knocked away, but also have no weapons directly. If there is only one melee weapon, he may not be able to fight directly, not to mention that he can immediately pursue a high damage counterattack. The benefits are much more intuitive and large than that of fighting games.
Map mechanism：Naraka: Bladepoint is Whether it’s Tianren City or Sunset Temple, or Senluo Valley or Bailian Cave, it’s an uneven 3D map experience. In fact, it’s easy to understand. What do we think of when we mention Wuxia? Flying eaves and climbing walls and lightness skill are indispensable. However, in the mainstream MMOs, lightness skills are mostly pure life skills, and the feature that any place can become a battlefield in Infernal Affairs has made the battle more three-dimensional. The canyon and tower, caves and trees can become a battlefield. This feeling is actually very consistent with our expectations for martial arts, and hook lock links these together.
After designing a more three-dimensional map, at least according to the results, there are several excellent places in the terrain design of “Forever”:
The first is to cut the battlefield and limit the vision.
Whether Tianren City or Sunset Temple, we should all feel that there are many walls, houses and obstacles. If it’s chicken eating as a shooting game, this experience may become a ghost story. However, as an action game, “Eternal Invasion” allows us not to face too many enemies at a time, and a small area can become a battlefield without being disturbed for a short time. In the process of map running, the dense jungle and mountains also divide the battlefield, so that you don’t need to make too big a map (after all, there is no vehicle, and it is a melee), and you can also avoid the player dying too fast.
The second is to divide the battlefield so that players can not run all the time.
In many terrains, because of the existence of walls or mountains, coupled with hooks and locks, it will be very difficult to escape. When fighting with swords, one side will not run all the time. It is about a small arena. To retreat to the wall, one must fight, which also ensures everyone’s experience and forces players to improve their ability to fight.
Hero design and team design:
In my opinion, there is an obvious tendency. The popular point is the humanized design of tools. Because the hero does not change the attack mode, I think this design idea is understandable.
Heroes can be divided into two skills: one big skill and one small skill. The big skill needs to be released by accumulating anger, which is mostly functional. The small skill is in the form of CD, which is usually used in the fight. This design is a little like watching the vanguard, which is closer to the RPG idea, and also separates the current hero’s design from the battle design.
The advantage of this is to ensure the experience of core combat, but the disadvantage is that the design tendency of heroes is too obvious and the combination is not close enough.
Especially in the different single row/three row environments, the role of heroes is completely different. For example, Ning Hongye’s big moves in the single row are completely negative, while Canaan seems too weak in the three rows.
However, there will also be some heroes with strong single row and three rows, such as monks, and F and big moves are very strong, which means that other characters are not balanced enough. It must be difficult to continue to expand heroes in the future.
However, the intention of doing so is also obvious, that is, when the core battle is already interesting and complex, it is unnecessary to further refine it with the hero dimension (to the weapons level is enough). Heroes are more designed as a larger strategy level, allowing players to consider the choice of heroes from the team cooperation and overall strategy.
And after all, weapons can be changed in a single board, but heroes can’t, so it’s more likely that players can often use one hero and try more weapons.
Summary and comparison:
Naraka: Bladepointas is a popular escape and survival game, made me think about three questions: 1. Why are other games of the same type not as hot asNaraka: Bladepointas ? 2. Why is the game of Pubg so hot? 3. What are the impacts of eternal treatment of society?
1:For other games of the same type, Naraka: Bladepoint is a buyout game, and it needs to screen high-quality players. Although its price is not very expensive, it gives players a choice whether to choose this game after knowing the background and content of the game. After that, the content of the game was more integrated with the elements of Chinese martial arts and unique playing methods than the previous big escape type games. Maybe you don’t know how to play in other big escape games, but you just need to shoot at the enemy to kill the enemy after you get the weapon. But in Yongjie’s endless life, you need to learn and experience constantly to know how to cooperate with your teammates and how to use unique hero release skills to win. Its operation difficulty is much higher than the ordinary big escape game of firearms.
2:Compared with pubg, the reason why it is not so hot is that its game content and story background are elements of Chinese martial arts style, and its fighting rules and weapon categories are far more than ordinary firearms. In fact, the operation in pubg is very simple. To win the final victory by fighting with the enemy with guns, both of them need strategy and cooperation. In Naraka: Bladepoint, there is also a skill mechanism and game theory. This makes it difficult for players who do not know the operation and content of the game to correctly master the core playing method of the game with strange game background and stories. With the development of society, China’s history and culture have spread all over the world. I believe that through the spread of this game, China’s culture will get a huge response in the world, and this game will become more and more popular.
3:The impact of the game on society has two aspects. The positive aspect is that through the game, modern local Chinese and western countries can understand the long ancient history of China, and it is an opportunity to spread the national culture of different countries. Because there are not only Chinese heroes but also Japanese heroes in the game, more game characters should be introduced after the game, This game allows western countries to learn about the culture of Asian countries, which is a product of cultural heritage. Of course, the bad effect is that games are very easy to make people addicted. For those high school students or college students who have no determination, they may become addicted to games and gradually affect their normal life, which is also undesirable.
Reference list：
http://en.chinaculture.org/chineseway/2012-08/07/content_438086.htm
https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/traditional-chinese-clothes-hanfu.htm
https://msports.eastday.com/a/220505195621006616546.html?qid=qid10884
https://www.narakathegame.com/m/news/update/20220920/33459_1043100.html
https://gamerbtw.com/naraka-bladepoint-game-modes/
Video link：https://youtu.be/iCgEx4q4fjM
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