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A game where the story seeps in while you're off searching for treasure,

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Scenario

The story of Windrose begins in a world where fantasy is mixed with the Age of Discovery in 18th-century Europe.

Edward Teach, the Pirate King who leads Blackbeard, made a pact with a demon, throwing this sea into chaos.

And his evil influence eventually reached the player....

Action Game

As soon as the short story ended, the tutorial began, and after a few minutes of relentlessly teaching parrying and dodging, I immediately realized:

"This is an action game."

Today, I want to talk about 'action games'.

What is an action game?

Simply put, it is a "game that allows the player to control and move a character in real-time." 

And  Windrose is a game that focuses on the 'feel of action' more than anything else.

In my opinion, the biggest characteristic of an action game is this: it never stops the player's input. 

During combat, the player dodges enemy attacks and runs backward,

then looks for an opening to land an attack. This entire process is a continuous series of actions.

How was combat induced?

Windrose has a massive main quest, a long quest line divided into Chapters 1, 2, and 3. They even plan to continue updating it.

To approach this goal, the game lays out numerous designs. Broadly, there are three types of content: first, action; second, crafting; and third, quests.

However, if I were to cover everything, this article would be too long, so today I will talk about Windrose with just one theme 

"Windrose's Action and Story."

It's rare for action games to lack a story. Why is that?

In many action games, when an NPC explaining the story starts talking about an event in a specific area, users get distracted or skip the dialogue. 

And then, they gradually start to wonder, "Why do I have to kill the dragon?" "Why do I have to kill a man I can't kill?"

Earlier, I said, 'The core of an action game is to never stop the input,' but the moment the story progresses, the player stops and listens.

Even if the story is skimmed, the small context of the past story imbues the player with the most precious and valuable quality in an action game.

This moment is a crucial point where 'meaning' is given to the player's violent actions.

The causality of why the player must cut down this enemy or cross this sea is created here.

However, if such explanations are continuously listed, the story quickly becomes boring and didactic, compromising the feel of action input.

Windrose has created many devices to solve this problem. Today, we will explore what has been solved through 'story'.

Implication through Environment

The method is implication through environment.

Instead of simply posting a notice or directly delivering a quest saying, 'Something happened here',

it's a method of placing structures in the space that suggest, 'Something seems to have happened here'.

In each space, users naturally look around for resources or in anticipation of quests.

In the process, they infer, 'Something must have happened here,' and even users who usually don't care about the story naturally guess at the 'story of the space'.

And when they reach the end of the space's story, the events the player imagined are verified.

At that moment, the player will be amazed, saddened, or annoyed by the plausibility.

This is Windrose's way of letting the space tell the player about the world. 

But why would the player bother to scan the environment?

No matter how many elements and stories are well-placed in the environment, if the player doesn't pay attention to that space, it's all for nothing.

The cloth tied to a tree, the story of a buried box on the ground – these are all devices that are meaningless if the player 'doesn't look'.

Windrose solved this problem very simply.

By linking rewards with space. When you open the game's map, treasure chests are linked to each space (icons), and the player must fight to enter that space, naturally exploring every nook and cranny to find the hidden chests.

And this chest hunting is not just a supplementary element.

Windrose has RPG growth elements, where you can level up, allocate stats, and unlock skills.

However, the way to gain experience is peculiar. You don't gain experience by defeating enemies.

Experience is only given when you clear a quest or collect all rewards in a space.

The problem is, combat in Windrose is harder than expected.

To overcome this difficulty, where enemies have high HP and high attack power, you need to grow your character, and to grow, you need to open chests.

And in the process, the player's eyes naturally skim over the details of the environment.

Even without reading the story, as you search for chests, the story seeps into the player.

Consume the story for action.

In my opinion, Windrose's story design philosophy is:

Don't stop the player for the story; consume the story for action.

This is it.

There are no long scenes where NPCs hold you and explain, nor are there cutscenes that take away control.

The story is finely scattered throughout the spaces, and it's delivered by seeping in piece by piece as the player moves 'to become stronger'.

This allows the story to be used as fuel to drive the action, rather than an obstacle that stops the flow of action.

Windrose, a game where the story seeps in while you're off searching for treasure, binds the player to the space with rewards (experience, treasure chests) and consistently maintains a state where their hands are never idle in that space.

As a developer who makes action games, I often ask myself a question:

How can I make the world convincing to the player while keeping their input continuous?

Windrose's answer to this question is:

Make the story fuel for action.

It answered.

Conclusion

This game left me with a different aftertaste than my initial impression.

When I first started this game, I thought it would be a survival crafting game mixed with action, but I was intrigued by how strong the game's asserted philosophy of "action" was.

Even if the experience I wanted when starting the game was different, I believe the numerous battles with enemies that I enjoyed while playing  prove the high completeness of the action this game pursues.

It's a great game where you can feel the developer's love for action, connecting all content to the core of action, so I hope you all play it at least once.

I hope you enjoyed reading. This is my first article where I've written extensively about game design, and I'm not sure if everyone had a good time.

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4/17 (Fri) 03:00 ~ 4/21 (Tue) 02:59 (KST)

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2. Gold Acquisition 30% UP!

3. Hunt Crafting Material Drop Rate 50% UP!

4. Abyss  & Hunt Abyss Difficulty & Rift Gear Drop Rate 20% UP!

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6. Experience Acquisition 30% UP!

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