In the experience store, Su Jinyu excitedly watched Jia Peng launch Don’t Starve.
“Just try it! I’m not lying, it’s really fun!” said Su Jinyu.
Jia Peng wiped sweat off his forehead, “Ahem, calm down. This has to be your work since you’re promoting it so hard. Am I right?”
“Yeah, but the manager did provide so guidance,” answered Su Jinyu.
Jia Peng couldn’t believe it, “If I rember correctly, your last ga was Lifeline? And the story was written by Zheng Hongxi too.”
“So? Does that an you don’t believe ?”
“Ahem, it’s nothing. I’ll try it out.”
Filled with doubt, Jia Peng launched the ga.
Just like Plants vs Zombies, Don’t Starve was available on both PC and mobile and had crossplay support. As there were differences in the controls between PC and mobile, the lobbies were split into PC and mobile. However, players could still join any ga they wanted.
The ga started off with a cinematic.
In a weird, joyous, and dark BGM, a bird ca to the window of a small house. The cara cuts through the window, revealing Wilson’s failed experint, sitting in a chair very annoyed.
At this mont, his radio started talking.
“Say pal, looks like you’re having so trouble!
“I have secret knowledge I can share with you.
“If you are ready for it.”
Wilson was happy, surprised and nodded without hesitation.
“Ok then!”
A scary shadow appeared on the screen, followed by countless knowledge flowing into his mind.
Wilson tried his experint again.
Rats, nails, gears, welding, blood rituals...
In the end, he produced an ominous looking portal.
“Excellent! Now throw the switch!”
Wilson was a bit hesitant.
“Do it!”
Wilson pulled the lever. A dark shadow appeared from the ground, grabbing onto Wilson before pulling him into the ground.
And that was the end of the cinematic before entering the ga.
The UI was really clean and simple, just as advertised, with a dark humourous the.
There were four main options to pick from, Start Ga, Mods, Settings, and Quit.
Jia Peng thought the ga would be quite difficult because it was a survival ga. He decided to explore Mods and Settings to check for an option to decrease difficulty.
There were a few mods that Su Jinyu developed in Mods, such as building tutorials, show food attributes, and keep the status bar on.
These were basically the official mods that didn’t throw off the balancing of the ga while giving the players so guidance so they didn’t feel lost in the ga.
Jia Peng selected a few mods out of the bunch then moved on to check on the settings. Jia Peng was confused upon seeing the huge amount of settings, deciding to just start the ga under the watchful eye of Su Jinyu.
Generating world...
Rendering Wilson’s beard...
Dealing with ga theory...
Inserting horrible monsters...
The ga was quite dark just as advertised, unlike the horrifying style of Diablo, this was more humorous.
The terrain, trees and rivers all looked like simple sketches, which presented itself as a unique style.
Wilson layed on the ground with the weird long faced wizard Maxwell standing over him.
“Say pal, you don’t look so good.”
“You better find sothing to eat before night cos!”
Maxwell then disappeared without a trace.
Wilson stood up before the ga officially started with the cara zooming out.
Using his mouse, Jia Peng commanded Wilson to hop and skip all over the map.
The sound effects were quite rich in this ga, making the world feel less scary with the sounds of footsteps, birds, gathering, and the occasional breeze.
Of course, this might be because it was day.
There were various resources on the maps too, saplings, trees, flowers, bushes and carrots.
Jia Peng walked around and relaxed a bit after realising there wasn’t anything that could harm him nearby.
There were four attributes on the top right, days (ti), hunger, sanity, and health. Other than sanity, the others were quite self explanatory.
The higher the better, probably, thought Jia Peng.
Wilson continued to waddle around the map as Jia Peng didn’t know where to go as he picked up anything he could on the way such as saplings, bushings, rocks, or nuts.
Jia Peng still had plenty of space in his inventory after all.
After running for quite so ti, he decided to open up the map as he was lost. He realised that he had been walking in a straight line this whole ti, and the map was way bigger than he thought.
“This map is huge!”
Jia Peng felt overwheld as it felt like there was so much to explore.
Harvesting grass tufts, picking up sticks, picking up rocks, picking up pine cones...
After gathering for a few minutes, Jia Peng could tell that he was doing sothing wrong, and decided to check the tab on the left.
There were only six different options so far, Tools, Light, Survival, Science, Fight, and Dress. There were probably more to co judging from the empty space.
There were many things to pick from. He decided to craft an axe as he had the resources for it.
After a few swings of the axe, a tree fell, dropping wood on the ground.
After picking up the logs, Jia Peng looked deeper into what other things he could craft.
It seed like everything had their uses, but he didn’t know where to find those resources. He’d never seen the likes of spider silker, rope, or gold.
“Maybe I should make a pickaxe and start mining. Spider silk... maybe there are spider mobs sowhere?”
Jia Peng continued running around in search of the materials.
“Hmm? There’s a boulder!”
Jia Peng crafted a pickaxe and started hacking away at the boulder. Soon, rocks, flint, and gold dropped to the ground.
“Hmm? It even dropped gold!”
Jia Peng moved onto the next boulder and started hacking away.
Jia Peng was happily hacking away at the boulders, despite his initial impression.
The fact that he could collect rare resources for survival along with the satisfying, rhythmic clanking of the pickaxe against the bounders made the gaplay really satisfying.
Filled with glee, Jia Peng commanded Wilson to pick up everything that dropped onto the ground. At this mont, he noticed a pig house and a pig walking on its two hind legs.
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