Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

As the gameplay continued, Sun Yixie and Brother Lemon settled into a familiar rhythm of bickering. To an outsider, it would have sounded like they were teetering on the verge of a scuffle, but to the loyal viewers of the channel, this was simply the norm.

The playful atmosphere helped stabilize Sun Yixie’s mentality for some time, but when the protagonist began the trek into a dark, decrepit, underground path, an unwelcome tension stirred in his gut.

Up until this point, the game hadn’t gone truly dark yet.

Sure, there were the darkened corridors and rooms, but those were always supported by small light sources scattered about in the environment.

But this was different.

It was pitch black, with a darkness so heavy that even the small bits of light seemed like frail candles in the wind, just barely keeping themselves from being consumed and snuffed out. The visibility was basically zero.

To navigate, Sun Yixie was fully dependent on the night vision mode of the handheld camera.

And though he had mentally prepared himself, and even brought his own hype man, the dread still ate at him incessantly.

He stared at the in-game prompts sourly.