Bai Lan relied on the guidance of the project in his mind to recreate the roughly complete story line of "Dead Cells".
Although she was very tired from writing, after finishing writing, she found that her sister's advice was actually right.
Such a brief description made her thinking a lot clearer.
She had a misunderstanding before and wanted to directly find myths and legends suitable for localization, so as to modify the background of the entire story bit by bit.
But in fact, she should take a relatively more troublesome, but more intuitive route.
That is, first rely on fragmented plot fragments to write out the original story, then localize it, and finally split the localized version of the story, add details, and disperse it into the game.
Although this takes a lot of steps, it is the most intuitive and least prone to errors.
The audience for this fantasy worldview is actually relatively small.
Without a vast culture as a foundation, it is difficult for a cultural and entertainment work to take root in the soil.
This is one of the reasons why Bai Lan chose localization.
After reading a large number of myths, legends and allusions, Bai Lan also referred to a large number of mythological fan stories before finally settling on the background of the story.
But after she wrote a complete outline of the story.
He pulled his sister Bai Miao into the think tank.
"Sister, do you think I can change my career this way?"
Bai Lan placed an order for an electronic touch whiteboard at noon and brought it to the room as a core tool for brainstorming.
Because when making games, an ordinary whiteboard is definitely not enough.
This electronic touch whiteboard can retain the content of each piece of manuscript paper.
This will prevent you from forgetting what you just wrote after erasing the original content.
It's a bit like the kind of multimedia computer used in school, but it is relatively lighter and more sensitive, has a higher refresh rate, and is much more efficient in writing and painting.
Bai Lan said and wrote three words heavily on the top of the whiteboard.
"Asura"
While she was talking to Bai Miao about her thoughts, she was writing and drawing on the whiteboard.
"I want to keep the storyline of the original story without changing too much, and I also need to retain the core functions and settings of the entire game concept, but I need to replace the background and characters as a whole and insert them into Go to the background of our prehistoric mythology.”
Bai Lan wrote the word "Great Wilderness", circled it again, and tapped it emphatically.
"Huh? That should be possible, right?"
Bai Miao leaned on the table. She was asked to help. In addition to thinking about the plot and finding problems together, she also had to add pictures to the scenes described by Bai Lan.
"Hey, as for prehistoric times, I've actually seen quite a few."
Bai Miao also held a stylus in his hand. This one was more advanced than the one in Bai Lan's hand. It was specially used for drawing and had more functions.
"My old employer previously took over a short film related to the ancient story, and I happened to be in charge of it. I watched more of it during that time. Tell me about it."
When it was time to work, Bai Miao finally returned to her serious role as a royal sister.
Wearing a pair of metal half-rimmed glasses, she tied her originally disheveled hair into a ponytail and cooperated with Bai Lan attentively.
"I think so."
Bai Lan wrote the words "cell rebirth" and "blood rebirth" on the electronic whiteboard, and then "Lord of the Styx" and "Ashura".
"In the entire prehistoric story, there are not many legendary stories that are close to the background of this kind of bloody rebirth and hell story."
"However, there are quite a few fan stories and novels based on prehistoric backgrounds with relatively high fan followings."
"I chose a mythical character with a moderate reputation to make the blueprint."
"A common saying in prehistoric novels and stories: The sea of blood never dries up, and the river Styx never dies."
"It refers to the ancestor of Styx who has 480 million blood gods. Every drop of blood on his body can restore him to his original body, so it can also be said to be rebirth by dripping blood. This setting is actually very consistent with the game The idea of an initial cell."
Bai Lan's idea was good, and Bai Miao nodded to confirm her idea.
But she still has something to add.
"And it's based on some stories that have not been verified."
"The Nether Sea of Blood is actually the navel of Father God Pangu. The sea of blood is filled with the resentment and hostility of heaven and earth. So the background of your localized story is much grander than the story originally thought of."
"OK."
Bai Lan heard the keywords and wrote down the sea of blood, Pangu, and the resentment of heaven and earth on the electronic whiteboard.
"But we still have to consider the issue of combat power."
"If we set the background style at such a high level, our combat effects will not be that good, and it will be easy for players to think that we are downgrading the myth. So what I want to do is to put the whole story into a smaller perspective, and then in This big world view is revealed again in the fragments.”
"If this is the case, it will be easy for the games we make later to integrate into the prehistoric worldview and then link with this game."
There are still so many stories in Bailan's game library waiting for her to develop, so she will naturally think of more.
"Wow, not bad."
Bai Miao nodded. She took a pen and drew a simple sketch of the characters of Styx and Pangu next to the words written by Bai Lan.
Bai Lan thought for a while before adding the content again.
"Then we will tentatively define the protagonist's identity as a drop of blood of the Styx Ancestor, so it has the effect of an incarnation. However, if we simply replace the king's identity with the Styx Ancestor, the combat power will not be able to keep up."
"You can consider expanding the overall story."
Bai Miao thought for a while, then found a piece of information and handed it to Bai Lan.
That is about the setting of killing three corpses derived from many old legends and new stories in the ancient times.
Killing three corpses refers to the good corpse, the evil corpse and the self corpse. The so-called corpses are actually the incarnations of various obsessions.
"I have an idea."
Bai Lan's eyes lit up and inspiration came to him.
"How about creating the whole story as a miniature of Patriarch Styx killing three corpses?"
"A setting that will be mentioned in many prehistoric spin-off stories."
"Because the status of saints is limited, only the last saint's status is left for all living beings to compete for."
"And Patriarch Styx's obsession with becoming a saint is very difficult."
"He first saw that Nuwa created humans and became saints, and then he created the Asura clan, but he did not become a saint."
"Then he saw Zhunti and led him to establish the Western Sect and became a saint. He also established the Asura Sect, but he still failed to become a saint."
"After Hou Tu reincarnated, the Asura clan occupied the Shura path and gained merit, but he still did not become a saint."
"The three holy paths taught by Ancestor Hongjun are to prove the Tao through strength, to realize the Tao by killing three corpses, and to realize the Tao through merit. Ancestor Minghe has already taken the last two to the extreme, but he still failed to become a saint."
"So sanctification is his biggest obsession."
Bai Lan wrote the word "sanctification" fiercely, and connected it with the word "immortality".
"I feel like I can."
"I understand everything."
"But why is your name Asura?"
Bai Miao asked her own question.
“Because stories are just microcosms.”
Bai Lan replied calmly.
"The size of our game is not enough to show the background story of the Styx ancestor, but it can be used as the story of the Asura clan."
"The Asura clan itself was created by the Ancestor Styx. It is okay for the Asura clan to have similar characteristics to the Ancestor Styx."
"They will also have the same obsession as the Styx Ancestor."
"The protagonist can be an Asura tribesman who is fused with the Blood God Son of the Styx Ancestor, but the object of his final challenge cannot be some fake Styx Ancestor. His story should unfold among the Asura tribe."
"The background is a sea of blood, and the protagonist is Asura who is fused with the Son of Blood God."
"Considering that the enemy of Patriarch Styx and the Asura clan is the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva who shouts 'Unless hell is empty, I will never become a Buddha', the setting of the red crystal should be replaced by someone who has been planted with Buddhist thoughts. The resentful souls of heaven and earth.”
Bai Lan thought about it for a while, and after thinking about it, the whole story suddenly became clear.
She started to turn a page and wrote a new story outline on the electronic whiteboard.
The beginning of the story.
The story begins when Pangu created the world.
After Father God Pangu opened up the world, a ball of dirty blood fell from his belly button and turned into a boundless sea of ghostly blood.
In the Nether Sea of Blood, an innate god named Styx was born.
Ancestor Minghe has two accompanying swords, Yuantu and Abi, as well as the accompanying twelve-grade red lotus natal magic weapon.
The blood waves surged in the sea of blood, and no living beings came, gathering the resentment and hostility between heaven and earth.
For the sake of merit, Buddhism covets the sea of blood. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva even made a heavenly oath that "until hell is empty, I will never become a Buddha."
In a battle between the ancestors of Styx and Buddhism, Styx was besieged by the Buddhas of Buddhism. Some of the Blood God's Sons were chopped off and scattered on a rootless island in the sea of blood.
These Blood God Sons who were cut down by the Buddha's thoughts lost control and transformed into blood spirit bodies.
The Asuras living on this rootless island were originally created by the ancestors of Styx.
They have a deep respect for blood spirits from their origin.
These Asuras built temples for the blood spirits and offered the resentful souls collected from the sea of blood as nourishment, but they did not dare to approach these blood spirits easily.
But again, every world has its brave adventurers.
Asuras came into contact with these blood spirits, and they received guidance from their ancestors and acquired the natal magical power to devour the souls of living beings.
These Asuras who awakened their natal supernatural powers became the ancestors of the Asura Princess clan on the Rootless Island.
Because of their actions, the Asura princess family were regarded as violators of the saints.
With the help of their natal magical powers, the Asura princess family can not only absorb the resentful souls in the blood sea, but also swallow the souls of the six reincarnations. They gave birth to more powerful Asuras.
But the increasingly powerful Wugen Island was noticed by Buddhism, which was always paying attention to the sea of blood.
Buddhism invaded this rootless island, refined countless asuras, and used magic weapons to suppress the blood spirits, sealing them on the rootless island. They could no longer receive support and could only continue to consume their original sources until The blood spirit body dissipates.
Princess Asura's family retreated to the depths of the island, clinging to life.
The Buddhist sect, which had been unable to conquer for a long time, finally established a compassionate monastery on the island.
And at this time.
A powerful Asura came to this rootless island.
He relied on his powerful fighting power to defeat the Buddhists who invaded here.
Asura, he conquered an entire rootless island and united the Asura princess clan, blood spirits, and other Asuras.
He became the King of Asuras on this rootless island, known as the Heaven of Freedom.
And he married the island's Asura princess Umo as his concubine.
But Zi Zaitian is not satisfied with the status quo. He wants to pursue more powerful power, which is the power derived from the origin of the Asura clan.
In the story, it is implied that this is the influence of the Styx ancestor's obsession with becoming a saint.
Zi Zi Tian is on the throne, seeking powerful ways on the rootless island, seeking the eternal road of immortality.
He summoned the clan elders, doctors, and soothsayers on the Rootless Island to help him explore the method of blood rebirth.
But to no avail, he became furious and banished the seekers.
The beginning of all disasters comes from Buddha.
At that time, accompanying the broken Blood God Son to the Rootless Island, there was also the Buddhist thought that killed the Blood God Son in the battle.
The Buddha's relic took the form of a relic, but no one in the Asura tribe recognized it.
The blood spirits on the island were also buried in the cave where the Son of Blood God fell. Now there are countless relics condensed in the cave.
And Buddhism, through the Six Paths, lured Zi Zaitian, the King of Asuras on the Rootless Island, to exchange relics for the souls that escaped from the Six Paths.
So Zi Zaitian ordered the asuras to collect relics in the cave in exchange for living souls.
However, the Asuras who came into contact with these relics were affected by Buddha's thoughts and suffered from various abnormal states.
The blood spirits in the cave also warned Zizaitian that relics like this have a great influence on Asura, and they should not touch these relics.
But he was rejected by the arrogant Zi Zi Tian.
The relic soon brought disaster to Rootless Island.
Buddha's thoughts bring a state called "elimination" to Asura, just like a human disease.
The dead Asura will fall into a void, surrounded by Buddhist aura, and attack all Asuras it sees.
Even the living souls have experienced changes.
The Asuras chose to seal the area where Due's symptoms first appeared, but to no avail.
Du'e was rooted in the souls of living beings and the resentment of heaven and earth, and quietly spread to the entire rootless island.
Zi Zaitian's original right-hand man had the four great demon generals and the last blood spirit body.
The demon generals are only loyal to Zi Zai Tian, but the Blood Spirit Plans to overthrow Zi Zai Tian and then clear the Buddha's thoughts from the Rootless Island.
But Zi Zaitian's strength and ruthlessness made him fail.
But finally.
Zi Zaitian still lost control of Rootless Island, and he himself was infected with Buddhist thoughts.
He finally found a soothsayer to find a way to save himself and make himself immortal.
The diviner found the blood god son refined from the blood spirit body, and he asked Zi Zaitian to take and refine the drop of blood god son.
But Zi Zaitian did not retain his memory and body.
He was assimilated into a drop of blood by the Blood God Son...
"This is the story of Asura."
Bai Lan finished writing the general outline of the plot and let out a sigh of relief.
"Please help me see where there are still problems. I'll leave the work of checking and filling the gaps to you for the time being."
Bai Lan delegates the work to Bai Miao.
The rapid operation of her brain made her feel dizzy, and the blood supply to her brain could not keep up!
"I'm a little dizzy. I need to eat some potato chips and drink some Coke to refresh my brain."
"Shouldn't you eat pig brains to replenish your brain? You should eat whatever you eat to replenish your brain."
Bai Miao took the stylus handed over by Bai Lan, which was more suitable for writing, and responded casually.
In her hand, she held the synopsis of the story of "Dead Cells" written by Bai Lan in her notebook, as well as the information about the Asura clan and the leader of the Styx, and compared them carefully.
"What you eat is what you need to supplement..."
"Then eating pig brains shouldn't make you stupid? Because it's made up of pig brains."
Bai Lan spent a long time choosing among several bags of potato chips with different flavors, but she couldn't pick out her favorite flavor.
My mind can't move, and I can't even make a choice.
She simply chose two packets and opened them together, eating two slices on the left and two on the right, mixing them together...
Her comment was a piece of cake.
Bai Lan slumped in her chair. She felt that imagining this localized story, matching and integrating it had taken all her energy.
You have to eat snacks to replenish your food.
Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to make a complete game later.
The workload on "Dead Cells" has far exceeded the amount of work on all her previous games combined.
Sure enough, making games is not as simple as imagined.
However, the localized magic modification of this background story is not very suitable for using AI creative assistants.
And now that my sister Bai Miao has joined, the production of the game will be more refined, without the help of rough AI painting and the like.
The overall game production process will be much slower than the original rush state.
It might take them half a year to make this "Asura".
Unless, they are crazy.
"Well, overall, there aren't any big problems. As for other things that cannot be replaced logically, you can just look at them and explain them later."
Although Bai Miao specializes in animation production, it does not mean that she does not understand the plot.
She is just relatively more accomplished in art.
"So, do you have any ideas about the art style of "Asura"? If not, I can use it freely."
When it came to Bai Miao's part, she asked Bai Lan.
"I don't have too many ideas. I just want to make our game a more detailed pixel art style."
Bai Lan imagined it for a moment and made rough gestures.
"It's that kind of pixel painting, but it needs to be more detailed and can highlight various details, because I want to make a skin system, and the skin has to be different in detail and color."
Bai Lan successfully gained a pair of white eyes from Bai Miao.
"What you said is the same as not saying it, but I understand. The skin system is easy to deal with. I will just design it according to the characteristics of the plot."
"Actually, you don't need to design too much. I feel that for the same level of difficulty, you only need to create one texture. Look at the skin system and pet system I designed, as well as the pet skin system."
Bai Lan flipped forward a few pages of the notebook in Bai Miao's hand to show her her previous inspiration.
"Good guy..."
"Your matryoshka behavior will be condemned."
Bai Miao complained in shock.
This was the first time she had seen such an inhumane design. This would be the kind of collectors Bai Lan described who encountered such a complete illustrated book.
Wouldn't that drive people crazy?
"What are you condemning?"
Bai Lan pursed her lips.
"The more I do, the more diligently they collect. I call it a reward, to reward them for their hard work in the game."
"That's not all I have to offer."
"If "Asura" is really popular by then, we can also release DLC, add some side stories to supplement it, and then add more skin sets to the DLC."
Bai Lan was so proud that she could already foresee that with a wave of her hand, a new illustrated book with more than 200 skins would appear in front of the players, and it would be wildly sought after.
"You are really a devil."
Bai Miao shook her head with disgust.
She saw the pile of books on various abnormal psychology in her sister's room.
Are all these game makers so perverted?
