According to the planning document submitted by Dai Wenquan at the subsequent meeting, "Red and Blue Star" is expected to be a three-part series.
The above is roughly the background of the story of the first step of "Creating the Wasteland". The main plot of the game, as the name suggests, is about the group of social scum who were forced to migrate to the North and how they built their own homeland through all kinds of troubles.
In the end, a Civil War of modest scale and intensity resulted in the establishment of the Northern Kingdoms and a certain degree of internal autonomy.
After releasing several DLCs, "Red and Blue Stars: Road to Wilderness" will enter the second part of the series, namely "Red and Blue Stars 2: Civil War".
Just like the first part, you can guess the general plot of the second part from the name, which is the war between the Northland and the Gaia Holy See in the South.
The Northland, which had been oppressed for a long time, finally showed its fangs to the south by relying on its ever-increasing population and the rediscovered fake science and technology.
They did not want to continue to be suppressed by the South in all aspects as in the past, so the second war between the North and the South broke out.
Through the second "Civil-South War", the northern countries successfully got rid of the shackles of the Holy See of Gaia in the south and embarked on a path of rapid development.
However, the biggest difference between this world and reality is that it is too small, and it cannot accommodate the existence of too many industrial countries.
What's more, the countries in the North are still just countries and have not been annexed by a unified political power. This has resulted in the originally small market share being divided up by a bunch of countries.
The final result of this was the advent of a great revolution that swept across the Northland, and the "Third Civil War" that triggered the intervention of the Holy See of Gaia. This is "Red and Blue Star 3: The Great Revolution".
The era in which the protagonist of the original game lived was a generation after the "Third Civil War". Many of the older generation characters who appeared in the game had participated in that tragic war.
However, the name in the original work is not called the "Civil War", but the "Messiah War", mainly because all the Civil War will be fought around the Messiah Islands, so it is called the "Messiah War" ".
Even Devon Guan wondered from the clues in the game whether the war had spread to the south during the "Messiah War" in the original game.
After all, depending on the situation, in a series of wars, the Holy See of Gaia has had the upper hand for a long time, so the "Messiah Islands" have become the focus of the war.
As mentioned before, the land transportation between the north and the south has been isolated by the magnificent natural moat, so communication can only be carried out by sea. If you take the sea route, the Messiah Islands are the only way, so this will become the focus of the war. .
Part of the plot in the original work made Zhong Shanze feel a strong sense of Japanese thinking. The war between the North and the South originated from the different ideas of the two sides.
In the end, the heroic sacrifices of the Thirteen Knights of the Messiah finally calmed down the North and the South who were fighting each other, and ended that "Messiah War."
When Zhong Shanze later recalled this episode, he really wanted to grab the other person's head, shake it and shout: "People just can't understand each other!"
What's the use of taking a step back and saying that even if you understand it? The South wants the North to continue to be their pressure relief valve, and the North wants the South's market and population. These are completely irreconcilable contradictions. Even if they understand each other, they will only want to strangle each other more.
Moreover, after the industrial revolution was developed in the northern countries, it was like a deus ex machina, and they were able to push the front line to the Messiah in the first war.
Zhong Shanze thinks this is nonsense. There is no way that a group of northern countries that serve as pressure relief valves and dumping grounds can develop the industrial revolution.
When Dai Wenquan was writing the plan, he was influenced by Zhong Shanze's thinking. Therefore, in the plan that was finally presented at the meeting, the process of the Civil War became more tortuous.
The intensity and scale of the "First Civil War" were not large. It was more like a child asking his parents for money to buy candy through crying and acting out.
The "Second Civil War" was the real civil war, but it was not an evenly matched conflict at all. The whole process was basically the Northland countries being crushed by the Holy See of Gaia in their hometown.
In the end, relying on the geographical advantage and the will of the people, the war continued to be delayed. In the end, the Holy See of Gaia could no longer bear it, so it could only temporarily give up the strategy of subduing the northern countries.
Even according to the content of Dai Wenguan's plan, the coastal areas will still be controlled by the Holy See of Gaia, so there is no need to push the front to the Messiah.
The Northland countries can truly compete with the Holy See of Gaia. They have to wait until the Northland Republic is established after the Great Revolution. Only then can they regain the coastal lands of the Northland, push the front to the Messiah Islands, and even invade the southern mainland.
The above is the long-term plan for the "Red and Blue Stars" trilogy, and now we are about to start the development of the first part of the series, "Red and Blue Stars: Road to Wasteland".
After that, as the development progressed, Shihai Studio successively released some development logs about the game as a pre-publicity warm-up for "The Road".
Of course, with the current popularity of Shi Hai, there is no need to release a trial version before the official version is released like in the past "Three Kingdoms". According to the plan, it is developed all the way to the official version.
This is a pain for those interested players. They can only eagerly wait for the official release of "Red and Blue Star". It is said that this will take a long time.
In an interview with Game Daily, Dai Wenguan made it clear to the reporter of this newspaper: "In order to enrich the playability of the game and increase the smoothness of the later stages, "Red and Blue Star" is expected to be developed for more than a year. time."
I have to say that Dai Wenguan is already a mature company CEO. Judging from the official statement, he is completely different from the stupid young man in the past.
The game market is changing rapidly. After Shi Hai announced the development plan for "Red and Blue Star", although development logs were released one after another, the popularity inevitably dropped a little.
After all, the biggest difference between this game and other past games of Qingyu is that at first glance, there is nothing exciting about it. Isn't it just a magical version of "Conquer Paradise"? It’s not like there haven’t been similar games in this world.
So since the subject matter cannot impress players, the factor that determines whether this game will hit the market is the specific playing experience for players.
Of course, at the end of the interview, "Game Times" pointed out the significance of Shi Hai's development of "Red and Blue Star": If this game can be a big success, perhaps the long-dormant pioneering game will usher in a second wave. spring.
