But you don’t need to be a programmer to understand this concept; for example, you can think about what each of these words means, and how each of them are connected to one another.
The reason I talk with you about this is because it’s part of the game mechanics that we have a hard time explaining. It sounds like a lot of your interactions are made up of how you’re supposed to describe a scenario that you’re building, how the characters interact with each other, and the way they appear in the game when they’re alone.
I would say that the majority of interactions are actually determined by the way the game has set up its dynamic. If I’m playing a game, I’m interacting with an object, and the game will give me a description for how those objects interact with each other, and the way they will appear in the game when they are alone. And when you’re making a game, you’re building an environment in your game that will require you to interact with other game objects.
Since the vast majority of the game is dynamic, which means it will change based on the actions Im taking, it is a good way to ensure that you will be interacting with other objects.
The game is not the only thing it will have to make dynamic, it will also have to make the objects that you interact with dynamic. So we had to build the game with the same philosophy, so we had to create an environment where you could interact with dynamic objects, but the game itself is static.
Our first challenge was with the dynamic objects. You have different abilities (like you can shoot, move, jump, etc.) with different costs. You also have different attributes (like strength, endurance, etc.) with different costs. For example, a gun is strong if it has a certain amount of ammo, but it also takes a certain amount of time to reload. So you have different amounts of time to do things with this gun, but that gun also has different attributes.
It’s great that we’ve got such a variety of different attributes. We also have different costs, so you can’t just go buy a gun with 5 bullets and get the same amount of ammo. But in Deathloop, these attributes are static. Instead they are “activated” when you do certain things. When you shoot a gun, you can only shoot for a certain amount of time. If you get hit, you can only shoot for a certain amount of time.
Weve come up with a system where you can spend 34 seconds shooting, after which you can spend another 34 seconds shooting. We have a mechanic for each attribute that lets you choose how long you want to spend on a specific attribute. So you can shoot for three seconds, then for five seconds, then for ten seconds, etc. This system has the advantage that it doesnt cost the same amount of time to shoot as one with a fixed set of attributes.
Deathloop has become a thing we’ve seen in the past few days. But this is the first we’ve seen where we’ve actually seen the mechanics work. The game’s been in development for the past few years, but we were surprised that it had not been released yet.
Deathloop, due out on December 11th and it looks as vibrant and murderous as ever. The devs have a few new tricks up their sleeves. The idea of a time loop is to change the events that occur in the game, in the same order and in the same way, so that any time that the player has an active role in a story, it will loop. It makes sense since the player that is active is often in a position to stop an event from happening.
