The publisher of Devolver Digital, which has published many popular independent works, introduced a lot of new games at this year’s E3 video game exhibition, and the most attractive one is a sandbox multiplayer cooperative survival game, “The Witcher Picks a Gun” ( Wizard With A Gun). After interviews with foreign media, it turns out that the inspiration for the development of this game really came from the meme diagram of the Internet.
“The Witcher Picks up a Gun” is developed by the Galvanic Games team. It is an online multiplayer cooperative sandbox survival game that will be launched in 2022. Like “Don’t Starve”, the art is a cute cartoon style, and players will Play as little wizards, survive in a wilderness full of magic, use your magic wand…
No, Harry, the “gun” is much easier to use than the magic wand, and this game can actually “change the gun”!I still don’t play blast.
Perhaps you have seen the meme of Gandalf holding a shotgun in the “Lord of the Rings” movie on the Internet, or the funny meme of Harry shooting at Buddha in the “Harry Potter” movie.
“It almost all started with this picture.” Patrick Morgan of Galvanic Games studio said in an interview.
As early as 2016, the Galvanic team often played “Don’t Starve Together” (Don’t Starve Together). Under the influence of Internet memes, they gradually came up with a kind of similar meeting in the background of the Western Wilderness. Cowboy wizard concept with gun.
In order to demonstrate this concept, they must use these meme diagrams when they show their works to the publisher.
“Every time we report with these two pictures in front of publishers, it makes us feel a bit embarrassed.” Morgan said.
It is precisely because of the not serious tonality that they finally won the favor of the same not serious Devolver Digital at the 2019 GDC conference, allowing this game to enter the formal development.
In “The Witcher Picks up the Gun”, players will fight monsters or creatures in a random world, collect resources, and return to the base “tower” to create various bullets with special spell effects without time pressure. The way to cast a spell is naturally to shoot.
Although the gameplay is multiplayer cooperative survival, “The Witcher Picks up the Gun” does not have a design such as hunger. It mainly uses monsters and the environment to form survival pressure on the player. After all, the game story is a catastrophic world with poor resources. You may need to build a robe to protect against the cold, or incorporate elements of ice and fire to deal with certain monsters.
The development team emphasized that although this game focuses on multiplayer survival, it is still possible to choose a lone wolf to play. At the same time, players will be able to meet on the same tower on the same server, which is a connection point in the multiplayer connection. , Share your configuration, equipment or weapons there.
Speaking of wizards, we cannot fail to mention wizard hats. In the game, wizard hats are not just decorations, they also have specific functions.
“The Witcher Picks up a Gun” is expected to be on the Nintendo Switch and PC Steam platforms in 2022. The game is also available on devolvermaxpassplus.com, and players can go to the official website to subscribe.
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