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| 8s | hey y'all what's up with Samuel a |
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| 10s | miracle from the game design hey all |
| 13s | whats up it's a mule and miracle from |
| 15s | its a mule a miracle from the hey all |
| 18s | whats up its a mule a miracle from the |
| 20s | game design team today we're going to |
| 26s | talk a bit more about our philosophy and |
| 28s | our approach to game design in pagan |
| 30s | online even before pagan online was the |
| 33s | game it is now we knew we wanted to take |
| 35s | a hack-and-slash game and give it our |
| 37s | own flavor we designed the game around |
| 39s | four C's gosh we wanted to have a |
| 42s | fast-paced combat that revolves a good |
| 45s | deal around player skill it should feel |
| 47s | epic and rewarding collect as with any a |
| 50s | RPG game collecting loot should be the |
| 53s | central team apart from collecting gear |
| 55s | in pagan online we wanted to make |
| 57s | unlocking heroes as one of the top |
| 59s | things to chase craft this is something |
| 62s | that probably changed the most over the |
| 63s | course of development and will change in |
| 66s | the future our goal is to have a |
| 68s | meaningful system for crafting that does |
| 70s | not overshadow the drop that you get |
| 72s | from killing that epic boss customized |
| 75s | customization is really important to us |
| 77s | we want to create a game that will |
| 79s | enable you to have lots of different |
| 81s | play styles sometimes this requires a |
| 83s | whole new feature for the game such as |
| 85s | creating an ability tree for each heroes |
| 87s | while other times it just requires more |
| 89s | work on already existing features like |
| 91s | stat system or combat system itself |
| 93s | another thing that is part of the design |
| 96s | process is level design even though our |
| 98s | approach to designing levels has changed |
| 100s | over the years we always take several |
| 102s | things into consideration when tackling |
| 104s | each level visually the levels are |
| 106s | always influenced by narrative and the |
| 108s | way we want to tell our story we always |
| 110s | start with a visual design in order to |
| 112s | establish general sense of what the |
| 113s | level is beat I see planes of Eggman or |
| 116s | sands of Delhi blood we always first |
| 119s | create levels for our campaign for |
| 121s | creating missions we use the same assets |
| 123s | and try to create as many different |
| 124s | experiences as we can when it comes to |
| 127s | spatial organization our Liao's are |
| 129s | currently heavily influenced by our |
| 130s | encounter system and the way the |
| 132s | combat works shorten instance comet is |
| 135s | something that is a remnant from a |
| 136s | really old game design decision and it's |
| 138s | something that we're looking to alter in |
| 140s | one of the next DLCs this means that |
| 142s | we're exploring on how to improve the |
| 144s | experience by creating procedurally |
| 146s | generated content that allows you to |
| 147s | explore maps and get surprised the |
| 151s | balancing of game difficulty is |
| 152s | something we approach really really |
| 154s | carefully we have to make sure that |
| 156s | players who are not veterans can beat |
| 157s | most of the content at least on Normal |
| 160s | difficulty while still providing a |
| 162s | challenge for those players who have the |
| 164s | best gear and a lot of mechanical skill |
| 166s | for endgame and master difficulty having |
| 168s | both top-end gear and mechanical skill |
| 171s | is something that we want to make |
| 172s | equally important so one cannot work |
| 175s | without the other we also have to make |
| 177s | sure that we gradually increase the |
| 179s | difficulty of the game and power of the |
| 181s | enemies so that the progression feels |
| 183s | smooth and natural another aspect of |
| 185s | game balancing is the actual balancing |
| 187s | of heroes we want to make every hero |
| 190s | equally powerful and viable in general |
| 192s | at the same time we want every hero to |
| 195s | excel in beating a particular content be |
| 197s | it boss fight patrol defense or |
| 200s | something else the balance of heroes in |
| 202s | general is something that we are not |
| 203s | completely satisfied with and that is |
| 206s | one of the main focus points of our work |
| 208s | at the moment right now we are working |
| 210s | on improving combat feel in general and |
| 212s | these changes should make some of the |
| 215s | characters more viable to play |
| 216s | especially the ones using melee as their |
| 219s | primary attack heroes that will gain the |
| 221s | most our King which and mascha while |
| 223s | mark and mystic will also see |
| 225s | significant improvements speaking of |
| 228s | heroes let's talk about how they are |
| 230s | made there are two components when |
| 231s | designing heroes a visual component and |
| 234s | game design component sometimes you have |
| 236s | an idea for a cool hero mechanics or a |
| 238s | play style then we come up with a brief |
| 240s | and do some visual explorations in form |
| 243s | of sketches for example that was the |
| 245s | case with the mirror we knew we wanted |
| 246s | to have a hero with a companion that |
| 248s | plays off him in a way other times our |
| 250s | artists just go wild and create a guy |
| 252s | like Luke Ian then us game designers get |
| 254s | inspired and create cool ideas like his |
| 258s | dual spell mechanics once we have some |
| 260s | kind of base game design set we enter |
| 262s | the production phase we start thinking |
| 264s | on what type of personnel |
| 266s | do you want this here to have then our |
| 267s | narrative designer starts working on his |
| 269s | voice lines in parallel with that we |
| 271s | build a high poly 3d model and we |
| 273s | iterate on it until we're completely |
| 275s | satisfied with the design |
| 277s | after the 3d model is complete we are |
| 279s | making the low poly version of it which |
| 281s | is ready to be ripped and animated all |
| 283s | of our heroes have some general |
| 285s | animations like run idle walk knock back |
| 288s | so we animate those first and then we |
| 290s | start animating abilities basically |
| 292s | every asset that is produced from models |
| 294s | to animations is being important into |
| 297s | our project then set up by our technical |
| 300s | artists in parallel to animation work |
| 302s | our programs start coding the gameplay |
| 305s | and abilities and making them moddable |
| 307s | for the ability tree once animations are |
| 309s | complete along with the programming we |
| 311s | can start testing the hero see if |
| 313s | completed or it's going somewhere during |
| 316s | this phase make final adjustments and |
| 317s | then add VFX to all of the abilities as |
| 320s | a finishing touch that's all for this |
| 323s | dev blog and from our side that's all |
| 326s | from if you have any additional |
| 328s | questions thoughts or wishes for next |
| 330s | develop topic you can leave us a comment |
| 331s | in see you guys in pantheon |
| 334s | [Music] |
| 335s | [Applause] |