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《上古卷轴5:天际》可供社交游戏借鉴的3点经验

作者:Libe Goad

随处浏览、各种操作的角色扮演游戏鼻祖《上古卷轴5:天际》日前于商店正式发售,由于出现“天际”热潮,部分人翘班前往抢购。关于这款游戏,有几点经验,可供社交游戏开发者借鉴。

1. 让玩家选择自己的风格

《天际》表现最突出的一点是摒弃多数游戏存在的界限,让玩家表达自己的游戏体验,从角色外观细节(游戏邦注:从鼻子长度到下巴宽度)到玩家希望成为什么风格的玩家。你是否想要挥舞斧头冲进战场?激活手中的魔法?还是二者都想?你两者都可以做到。玩家还可以体验核心操作内容,尝试魔法,这包括收集植物和其他道具,将它们混合起来,然后查看结果。更有意思的是看到更具社交性的游戏赋予玩家更多定制游戏体验的自由。想象下玩家能够在《FarmVille》中混合紫色奶牛和某类型的拖拉机,然后获得有趣结果。

2. 让游戏更具扩展性

《天际》让玩家享有广阔的扩展空间,这是游戏的一大卖点。玩家能够在游戏中行走几平方英里,感受周围的辽阔风景。这就是开放环境所带来的趣味,仿佛什么事情都有发生的可能。《FarmVille》、《CityVille》和《The Sims Social》之类的游戏倾向在玩家自己的狭窄空间中进行。玩家能够拜访好友的房子/农场/城市,但这同样也是在狭窄空间中进行,和各种地点没有关系,完全不属于能够到达任何地方,做任何事情的冒险类型。

dragon fight from games.com

dragon fight from games.com

3. 不要忽略故事内容

故事是《天际》的必要元素,能够让玩家从一开始就融入游戏中。好的游戏故事叙述能够促使玩家持续体验,探究随后进展。在社交游戏中,故事依然是事后添加的元素。《FrontierVille/Pioneer Trail》是首款尝试通过核心故事支撑游戏活动的大型社交游戏(游戏邦注:Playdom的《Deep Realms》亦是如此),但社交游戏依然需要加强对故事叙述元素的关注。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,拒绝任何不保留版权的转载,如需转载请联系:游戏邦

Three lessons social games can learn from Skyrim

by Libe Goad

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the mother of all go-anywhere, do-anything role-playing games, arrives on store shelves today, and you can bet there are a more than a few people ditching work due to a sudden bout of the Skyrim flu. With all of the buzz surrounding this new game (and the fact that not too many people seem willing to skip work to play a new Facebook game), here’s a few lessons social game makers can adopt.

1. Let the players pick their own style

One of the things Skyrim does best is throw away boundaries found in most games and let the player dictate their own experience. That includes everything from your avatar’s physical details (right down to nose length and chin width) to what type of player they want to be. Do you want to rush into battle wielding an axe? Shoot magic spells from your hands? Both? You can do it all. There’s also the option to jump headfirst into the main action or dabble with alchemy, which involves collecting plants and other items, mixing them together and watch the results. It would be interesting to see more social games give players more freedom to craft the entire experience. Imagine being able to mix a purple cow with a certain type of tractor in FarmVille for some interesting results.

2. Make the game feel expansive

Skyrim offers players a big expansive world to play in, and that’s one of the biggest selling points in the game. You can literally walk dozens of square miles in the game, while taking in the vast landscape around you. There’s something about being given a wide-open playground that lends to the fun, as if anything can happen at any given moment. Games like FarmVille, CityVille and The Sims Social tend to take place in a small, confined area that the player can claim as his/her own. There’s the option to visit your friends’ homes/farms/cities, but that is also in the same confined area and there’s nothing connecting the various locations, taking away from that go-anywhere, do-anything sense of adventure.

3. Don’t ignore the story

Story is an essential element in Skyrim and helps you pull you into the game from the very beginning. And, as any good game storytelling should, it keeps you playing just to see what happens next. In social games, story is still mostly an afterthought. FrontierVille/Pioneer Trail was the first big social game to take a stab at having a central story to back up the action — and other games, such as Playdom’s Deep Realms, have followed suit — but there is still plenty of room for social games that take storytelling seriously. (Source:games


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