The long dark

Larios · July 27, 2014, 9:20am

Our story structure is inspired by episodic television, in the sense that The Long Dark will have threads of Stories (missions) unified together in a cohesive narrative thread that we're calling Episodes. An episode is typically made up of 4-5 Stories (missions), each of those Stories combining the survival sandbox mechanics with some more authored objectives and specific plot points. Each of these Episodes will have a beginning and an end. Like a television series, the Episodes will be combined to form a Season, and the Season itself will have a clear narrative arc, a beginning, middle, and end, with a conclusion and possibly a cliffhanger as to what happens next.

So, like this:

Stories --> Episodes --> Season

Our intent with The Long Dark is to ship Season One of this experience: Winter. We see Winter having 5-6 Episodes, each of those Episodes having 4-5 Stories (missions). We estimate this will result in about 5-6 hours of gameplay time. (It's a little hard to pinpoint this number since the game is a simulation and the player has a lot of freedom regarding when they want to do things.) That's what we call "Survival Story" mode.

To us, this structure is similar (if not identical) to what you see in many open-world games, like Fallout 3 or Red Dead Redemption, for example. They just use different names to describe their structure: quests, missions, etc.

In addition to the Survival Story mode, we will have a non-narrative Survival Sandbox mode, which lets you play in a freeform sandbox environment where your goal is simply to survive as long as possible. We'd like to provide a variety of "Territories" for the Survival Sandbox, and let you play with presets like the general weather conditions, abundance or lack of wildlife, abundance or lack of other Survivors, supplies, etc. Each of these "Territories" would draw inspiration from one of the major "Territories" in the Story Sandbox game. So, things like Mountain Wilderness, Coastal Highway, Crossroads Town & Environs, etc.

If we are fortunate enough to have a strong following and good success with the first Season of The Long Dark, we'd like to expand it with future Seasons, each of them having roughly the same amount of content as The Long Dark Season 1 (Winter), but focusing on a different Season (both narratively, and literally). So, Season 2 would be Spring, and would continue Mackenzie's story -- as well as the story of all the supporting characters you encounter along the way -- in a brand new locale, with new weather conditions switching up aspects of the core survival simulation (ex. more wildlife, easier access to water, fewer remaining man-made supplies, more disease and sickness, etc.).

You can think of these future Seasons as the sequels to The Long Dark. They would be complete stand-alone game experiences as well, just like the sequel to a popular triple-A game would be a complete stand-alone experience that would extend the previous game and iterate on its core mechanics.

So, when we talk about the game being Episodic in structure, we're really talking about narrative structure as opposed to how much content you'll be getting, or how and what we might expand it in the future.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/305620/discussions/0/613936673394961517/

The.End · July 27, 2014, 9:29am

è il gioco fatto da alcuni profughi Bioware?

Lucasart · July 27, 2014, 9:47am

Non sembra niente male, visivamente lo stile utilizzato mi è piaciuto già dal primo screenshot presentato, l'atmosfera ne sa a pacchi.
Bisogna vedere se si discosta dai tanti survival fin qui usciti.
Gli sviluppatori vengono da diverse compagnie, vedi la pagina kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hinterlandgames/the-long-dark-a-first-person-post-disaster-surviva

Larios · September 22, 2014, 6:48am

esce oggi su EA

sembra procedere bene ma aspettero la release

Se qualcuno di quelli che fanno le recensioni qui lo volesse provare e dare un parere

Galaahd · September 22, 2014, 9:45am

A me attira come concept, finalmente un survival dove non ci sono zombie o mostri dimmerda. Però è ancora indietro come development, vedremo in seguito.

skiele.gaglioffo · September 22, 2014, 2:13pm

su steam come si fa a prendere l'early access?

Pastaiolo · September 22, 2014, 4:01pm

Aspetti che lo sblocchino (che dovrebbe succedere in questi minuti), paghi e ci giochi

Ho visto pure io qualche video in giro, sono un po' tentato

skiele.gaglioffo · September 22, 2014, 4:09pm

l'ho preso su humble bundle... su steam è sbloccato ma ancora non mi danno la key

Fr4g · September 22, 2014, 4:16pm

Steeve · September 22, 2014, 4:28pm

Fr4g · September 22, 2014, 4:35pm

Pastaiolo · September 22, 2014, 4:46pm

Dai, qualcuno si sacrifichi. Pensavo fosse 12 euro, non 20

d8bc51b33570f59657de50e2b4d45026 · September 22, 2014, 5:01pm

Sinceramente, se c'è un genere che tendo ad evitare su steam early access, è quello dei survival.
Questo sembra carino, ma il genere ha troppa carne al fuoco e soprattutto è troppo dipendente da features e aggiunte.

La mia regola è sempre puntare su progetti semplici, già in buono stadio e con ottimi contenuti da poter godere anche in stato di beta.

Steeve · September 22, 2014, 5:23pm

Mi accodo, a sto giro aspetto

bodybank · September 22, 2014, 7:34pm

sembra una figata davvero ...sono tentatissimo ma non mi immolerò per voi merde!

Fr4g · September 22, 2014, 8:13pm

Regà prendetelo, ne vale

bodybank · September 23, 2014, 6:22am

l unico dubbio che ho è sul fatto che sia vero free roaming o no.

Steeve · September 23, 2014, 1:48pm

ci credo! recensisci grazie

Pastaiolo · September 23, 2014, 2:33pm

Eh vabbè, io me lo son preso

Però non ci ho giocato molto per ora, sono spawnato vicino ad un lago, ci sono tipo 6 piccole casette più un'altra grande, mi son fatto quasi 30kg di materiale.

Il problema ora come ora è l'acqua. Ah, e nella zona del lago non ho trovato un singolo lupacchiotto

skiele.gaglioffo · September 23, 2014, 3:07pm

per l'acqua, accendi le stufe in giro, sciogli la neve e poi usa la stufa per purificare l'acqua.

il problema mi pare il cibo, è poco realistico e bilanciato l'apporto calorico dei cibi e il consumo di calorie...