Pilares de design

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O design de Ashes of Creation adere a cinco Pilares de Design.[1]

  1. História imersiva
  2. Mundo reativo
  3. Interação entre jogadores
  4. Agência do Jogador
  5. Risco vs Recompensa

Ao projetar o Ashes of Creation, nós aderimos cada detalhe a cinco pilares principais: História Imersiva, um Mundo Reativo, Interação entre Jogadores, Agência do Jogador, e Risco vs Recompensa. Mesmo no ambiente, tudo o que você, como jogador, faz, vai amarrar a estes pilares, enquanto tudo o que sua guilda faz, tudo o que seu servidor faz, no final das contas, vai manter o mundo fresco, sempre em mudança e, o mais importante... excitante.[1]

Histórico

Originalmente existiam "quatro" pilares de design: Economia, Nodes, Risco vs Recompensa and Narrativa.[2]

Design

Ashes of Creation website redesign preview (WIP).[3]

Ashes of Creation takes place within a medieval fantasy setting, blending imagination with cutting-edge graphics. We are putting the word massive back into massively multiplayer with unique and novel mechanics that will bring meaning to player action. Ashes of Creation will incorporate the best parts of traditional MMORPGs with innovative sandbox concepts. You will choose your fate at every opportunity. Questlines will open and close based on the interactions of the players with their world, because this is a world where choice is consequential. Monsters will roam and grow in ferocity as civilization disrupts the natural order of things. From the location of towns to the size of cities, you will determine the landscape of your world. It will be unique in culture, ecology, and economy.[4]

Ashes of Creation is an upcoming MMORPG set in a world of high fantasy where player’s choices will shape and define the world around them.[5]

Ashes of Creation is a unique take on the MMO experience. Our world structure is dynamic and built to react to the actions of our players. Cities will rise and fall, their populations based on the history of the world as the players create it. Quests will unlock as these populations gather, their needs grow, and secrets are unlocked. As the world’s NPC structure is established in real time, players will have the ability to destroy what they’ve created, paving the way for new development, new populations, and real change. Political strife and intrigue will play a very real role in the structure of your world. Gone are the days of static worlds, change is here to stay.[4]
We will refine systems, we will iterate on systems, but we will never change the core identity of the intent and philosophical approach to what Ashes of Creation as an MMO brings to the MMO genre space... What we want to do is express that Ashes of Creation is endeavoring to build a risk-versus-reward centric PvX style game. And that intent and purpose will be delivered upon, and it will not change.[6] – Steven Sharif
  • The developers are hoping for over a million concurrent users at launch.[8]

Quando se trata de como os MMO's têm sido projetados tradicionalmente, a maioria dos jogadores está familiarizada com dois tipos distintos de loops de jogo: o "Theme park", e o "Sandbox". A grande maioria dos MMO's que todos vimos entrar e sair na indústria de jogos tem sido da variedade de theme parks - estes jogos colocam o jogador em um caminho específico, guiando-o, com muitas vistas bonitas entre os mesmos velhos quest hubs, muito pouco em caminhos divergentes, praticamente sem liberdade na progressão do jogador. Recentemente o gênero MMO tem visto alguns jogos da natureza sandbox entrarem em cena, mas apesar da liberdade final que a sandbox proporciona aos jogadores, muitos ficam querendo mais, pois não há por definição nenhum conteúdo mundial pré-construído, nenhum toque humano, apenas a vastidão da "areia" (sandbox) por falta de um termo melhor. Assim, muitos jogadores de MMO muitas vezes se encontram presos entre a rocha repetitiva do theme park ou os vastos espaços mortos do lugar duro do sandbox. Este abismo entre o estado dos loops de jogo MMO é onde pretendemos injetar o sistema de Nodes do Ashes of Creation.[5]

Para que a mecânica do sandbox tenha algum significado, deve haver um conteúdo curado para acompanhar as escolhas do jogador. O que significa que, como desenvolvedores, devemos criar esse conteúdo no estilo themebox, mas para cada caminho possível que a comunidade possa tomar.[9] – Steven Sharif

Inspiration

Ashes of Creation has taken inspiration from various other MMORPG titles.[10]

In terms of what came before, we're trying to figure out who did what best and take inspiration from that: Move the genre forward; keep things updated and bring it into the 21st century.[10] – Jeffrey Bard
A lot of the systems in Lineage 2 were based around a concept that got lost today in mmorpgs, and that's risk versus reward. You know this idea that the more you risk the greater potential reward should be present is a complete paradigm shift away from everyone's a winner, everybody gets a participation reward, and here you go, congratulations you're a player in this game; and that's boring. It gives nothing for a person to aspire to achieve something, or to feel the bite of loss when you fail. Those are the driving forces of why people want to play games and it's a reason why new games when they come out have such a short lifespan, because they are always competing with WOW. You don't have to compete with WOW. You don't have to be a WOW killer. You can focus on something that is different from a philosophical design standpoint; and I think that's just what a lot of studios today don't want to take the risk on.[12] – Steven Sharif

End-game

There is not going to be a typical end-game in Ashes of Creation.[14]

Part of the whole experience with nodes is that there is no real end-game, in that the world is constantly shifting every day. Month one is going to be really different from month two; and that's for the level 50s and level 1s.[14] – Jeffrey Bard

We want the game to be a living game, which means that all content should be relevant at all times. I’d say that we try to make as little distinction between the leveling up experience and the end game experience as possible. The whole journey is important to us, in order to maximize the fun people have during different stages of the game.[15] – Sarah Flanagan

História envolvente e imersiva

Dillia's diary concept art.[16]

Topics that reflect the past and the present of Verra.

Mundo reativo

Alpha-0 Kaelar Vilarejo node.[17]

Topics that describe how the world of Verra evolves based on player activity.

Ashes of Creation will be a living, breathing, reactive world. Your actions will shape the Zones of Influence, leveling Nodes to form massive Cities, and create the story of the world that everyone experiences.[18] – Margaret Krohn

Interação do jogador

Ashes of Creation intro sequence.[19]

Game systems and mechanics that foster player interaction.

We decided to focus on mechanics that bring the idea of community to the forefront. To get people to interact with each other meaningfully – not just to conquer a raid boss, or to get some coin from a faceless auction house, but to maybe save a city. A city that all the local residents had a stake in. A city that the players had spent weeks or months developing; the defense of that city, the attack on that city! Or building a world together as a community choosing our own fate with our friends. We believe that’s going to be a story far more memorable and far more meaningful to players than just about anything we can come up with.[20]

Agência de jogadores

Kaelar armor 3D renders. Modelled by Keith Kovach and Chris Atkins.[21]

Systems that grow and shape player experiences in the game.

We will have a lot of content that is available, but those will be behind doors that are accessible through agency on behalf of the community. In a traditional sense, no we are not a theme-park, however we will probably have more content than a theme-park does, traditionally. Just because, in order for those choices to be meaningful, there must be meaningful content behind the door you choose.[22] – Steven Sharif

Risco versus recompensa

Pre-alpha arenas.[23]

Risk is a healthy thing. Risk makes us value reward. Without risk we would not pursue certain achievements, because anybody could achieve them. Risk makes us have a sense of thrill, or have some sense of anxiety; and those are all emotional responses that get elicited when risk is present. So, risk isn't a bad thing. We like risk, not just in PvP but in PvE as well: when you can't always predict the environment or encounter you are part of, risk is something like 'Ah, I've never seen this boss do that before.' or these adds came at an ill-placed time, there's a trap here that I didn't experience before. There's a lot of elements that risk introduces that keep gameplay less stale; that keep it more dynamic; that introduce environments where the unexpected can occur. That is a good thing.[24] – Steven Sharif

Activities that reward daring adventurers and foster meaningful conflict.

The risk versus reward relationship, when, say for instance, you've dedicated time towards building a node and other players have dedicated that equivalent time towards sieging the node, there's going to be a pitched battle between those players... They spend that time doing this because they care passionately about having access to that content.[25] – Steven Sharif

Ver também

Referências

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 design pillars.png
  2. ↑ Transmissão ao vivo, 2017-05-03 (11:33).
  3. ↑ Transmissão ao vivo, 2021-01-29 (46:48).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ashes of Creation MMO.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 A reactive world - Nodes.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Transmissão ao vivo, 2022-10-28 (32:52).
  7. ↑ Podcast, 2021-04-11 (46:44).
  8. ↑ Transmissão ao vivo, 2022-10-14 (37:10).
  9. ↑ MMOGames interview, January 2017
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Entrevista, 2018-08-24 (8:35).
  11. ↑ CC effects do notapply to non-combatants.png
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Entrevista, 2020-07-29 (9:02).
  13. ↑ steven-l2.png
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Vídeo, 2018-04-05 (40:08).
  15. ↑ February 8, 2019 - Questions and Answers.
  16. ↑ Dillias diary.
  17. ↑ Transmissão ao vivo, 2018-02-09 (33:50).
  18. ↑ Blog - Know Your Nodes - The Basics.
  19. ↑ Transmissão ao vivo, 2022-01-28 (0:00).
  20. ↑ Ashes of Creation - A new Beginning.
  21. ↑ Transmissão ao vivo, 2019-09-27 (50:01).
  22. ↑ Transmissão ao vivo, 2018-04-8 (AM) (27:26).
  23. ↑ Vídeo, 2017-07-16 (0:01).
  24. ↑ Transmissão ao vivo, 2022-10-28 (13:53).
  25. ↑ Transmissão ao vivo, 2017-05-22 (38:44).
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