ArchMaster

Ancient style fantasy rpg game design

Theme: Ancient architecture conservation

 

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Worldview background

The story takes place in the 2180 when urbanization and technological development led to the disappearance of ancient architectural relics. The player plays the role of a character called JIE who studys in the major of historical building conservation program, a completely useless profession. Although he is very passionate about ancient architecture, he feels painful and helpless with the current situation of ancient architecture. One day when he was out for a break, he was taken into an ancient village ruins located underwater by a mysterious girl who called herself Zhao er. He realized that this might be the only ancient architectural entity in the world today, so he explored in this underwater ruins, and while learning how to create ancient architecture, he uncovered step by step the secret of why this ancient village disappeared and the true identity of the mysterious girl - .... Our gameplay is centered on fragmented plot exploration, with additional mini-games related to the construction of ancient buildings, such as building architectural structures, putting together carved patterns and so on. Players need to find interaction points and clues in the ancient village map, learn the ancient building construction methods, complete the ancient building restoration tasks, collect clues, solve the mystery, and finally reach happy ending and bad ending according to the choice of plot branches.

 

 

The main character: JIE, from the name of the famous ancient Chinese architect LI JIE, set up is also the descendants of LI JIE.

 

You come from a small city in a remote area, in a university majoring in historical and architectural excavation, this major is subject to ridicule, seems to be only the last "cover". But all this has not stopped you from your love and pursuit of ancient architecture, the surrounding environment makes you feel anxious and panic; you have always longed to recreate the glory of ancient architecture, but there is nowhere to start ......

 

 

The mysterious child called Zhao er, whose real identity is the ancient legendary Goddess of Moon Marsh, is the deity who guards Hong Village, but the village fell due to the urbanization process. The Goddess of the Moon Marsh also lost her divine power due to the drying up of the Moon Spirit Spring in the center of Hong Village and became resentful.

 

The Goddess of the Moon Marsh turns to the form of a child and deceives the main character, claiming that she is the spirit of the dead who lived here as a child and then drowned without being found, to arouse the compassion of the main character, so that he can help her restore her former home. However, her actual purpose is to take revenge on humans, using Protagonist to restore the building, so as to obtain the divine power scattered in the genealogy, with the help of this power to destroy the dam, the water washed downstream of the human The metropolis, to take revenge.

 

Dialogue system sample:

 

【Protagonist】 (slowly opens eyes)

【? ? ?】 Oh, You're finally awake!

【Protagonist】! ?  Who?  Who's talking!

 【? ? ?】 You've just met me and you don't remember?

【Protagonist】! Who are you? Where am I?

【Zhaoer】 You can call just me Zhaoer, what's your name?

 【Text】 I looked up sharply, and above my head was the sparkling water, which seemed to be separated by a transparent wall ......

 But the surrounding area is a ruin of ancient buildings, the scale and the degree of decay looks like a village of long ago

【Protagonist】 Strange, I feel like I've seen this building somewhere before... where exactly?

【ZHAOER continues】 This place in front of you may look rundown, but it was also a very lively village before, called Hong .......

 

 

【Protagonist】 Hong village, It is Hong village! I remember, this is a historically very famous ancient village in the south of the Yangtze River, I have read some information in the library before!

【Zhao'er】 you actually! ...know about this place!

【Protagonist】 Right! -.... I did learn about ancient architecture in college ...... Wait, didn't this village disappear a long time ago? How come there are still people here? And! If I am at the bottom of the lake, why is there no water here? It's all so strange! You ......

【Zhaoer】 Hey wait a minute (interrupting quickly) I'm a bit overwhelmed... ...you ask me one by one!

 

【Protagonist】（After thinking calmly9  

(Asking questions to Zhaoer)

 

Three options appear on the interface, and players can select the questions they are interested in asking

 

Why are you here

 

7 The last question

 

Since we are under the bottom of the lake, why is there no water?

 

 

【Protagonist】 Since you just said we are at the bottom of Lake Windhook, why is there no water here?

 

【Protagonist】 Shouldn't this village have disappeared long ago? Why are you here?

 

【Zhaoer】 This is probably the power of 【the Moon God】! Take a look at this.

【Zhaoer】 I... actually what you see is my dead soul

The Protagonist】! I'm not sure what you're talking about.

 The Protagonist】 Well ...... read in the history before, the center of Hong village is a half-moon shaped lake, called the moon Lin Lake. For the villagers to fire, bow I with. At the same time the moon marsh around also gradually become a shared space for people, in the eyes of the locals, the village center of the pool has a beautiful symbolism of gathering wealth.

 【Zhaoer】 Well...I was killed by them, by them...

【Protagonist】? Who

【Zhaoer】 It seems like you really know a lot about it!

【Zhaoer】 It was the bad guys who were yelling about building the dam!

【Protagonist】 Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

【Protagonist】 Bad guys? ...did something happen here?

Zhaoer】 That day, everyone had to leave the village, but in fact, everyone did not want to go ...... I was sitting in the car and suddenly remembered that my favorite fairy tale book, still at home ......

So I slipped back home, but when I came out again, everyone had already left ...... I cried out desperately, but no one answered me. In the days that followed, the water became more and more wavy, and then 'I became what I am now ......

The Protagonist】 Ah...

【Zhao'er】(laughs) I heard from my mother that there is a god living in Lake Luna, and we call her Luna. Thanks to the protection of the Moon God, the people of Hong village have been able to live and work happily for generations. I think everything here now is blessed by the God of the Moon!

【Protagonist】 Gods .... You seem to have a lot of faith in the God of the Moon. But I don't really believe in these things.

【Zhaoer】 The God of the Moon is the most respected god in our village! The fact that you fell into the water and didn't die must be because the Moon Forest God had mercy on you, a mortal!

【Protagonist】 Uh, but it's hard to explain scientifically that I can appear here, and this ancient building ruins

Zhaoer】enmmm

I'll ask one last question, you brought me here, right?

【Zhaoer】 Well, for so many years, I've been seeking help from people passing by this dam, but only you felt  

My presence, this is also the first time I managed to bring someone from the outside in... Originally, I just wanted to take a chance ...... but you actually know this place and know the ancient architecture! It's really too much of a coincidence~

 

【Protagonist】Coincidence? ...... It seems that you did do it on purpose, what exactly do you want?

Zhaoeru】 I have always had a wish, since you know my hometown and also know about architecture...can you please repair my home, perhaps so that my soul can also rest in peace ......

The Protagonist】? I don't know how to build ancient buildings, as a student of sinkhole, the kung fu I learned is just on paper. Besides, you've been here for so long, why don't you fix it yourself?

【Zhaoer】 I believe in you! For the first time in so many years, an outsider has come to this village, and you must be the one who is destined to do it!

Zhaoeru】 I don't understand either... and do you think I can fix the house in my current condition?

Protagonist】 Uh

But this is really a rare opportunity, even if it's just to examine, this piece of relic may be the lifesaver for myself, or even the whole discipline ......

【Protagonist】Well, maybe I can try, but I have no way to consult the history now, and no one to teach me the way to build, how can I help you?

【Zhao'er】enmm,follow me!

 

 

 

【Operation Tips】 Disappear after operation

Left mouse button click on the target location in the field of view to operate the character to move

【Guide Method】 The Protagonist follows Zhaoyi's model to move

The two of them start a conversation by the moon marsh

Zhaoer】This is the Moon Marsh

【Protagonist】 (It looks like an ordinary pond, probably because it's too old, a lot of green duckweed has grown. The water is dark and looks like it can suck people in ......)

You can try to do this by getting close to the Moon Forest Spring, sticking your hand in the water, and praying to the Moon Forest God in your heart.

 

Knowledge dissemination sample

 

Knowledges about beam-beam structure

This is a beam-beam structure, which is mainly used in large and spacious spaces.

According to the Song Dynasty's "Building Law Style", the beam-bearing structure is divided into a hall type and a hall type from the form: the inner and outer columns of the hall type are the same height, with a horizontal paving layer above the column head, and the beam is the one that runs through the room as a whole, without splitting the seam, but in the era when these buildings were built, the wood that is intact and straight can be used to make the beam is really rare, so only particularly important buildings can use this type of structure.

 

In contrast, the hall-type frame, which is the one in front of me, has taller inner columns than the outer columns, and instead of running through the entire house with large beams, shorter beams are used to stack up between the columns. This approach requires less wood and is more approachable.

 

Knowledges about Bulkhead structure

This is a bulkhead structure, which is mainly used in small spaces such as residential houses.

There are no beams in the hopper frame, and the columns are thinner and more dense, directly bearing the weight of the roof. The available space is smaller, but the material used is also less and easier to obtain.

 

In the bucket style, a row of columns of decreasing height from the center to the sides is erected in the direction of the depth of the room, and the columns are connected by square brackets to form a bay.

 

The bays are connected by the bucket square to form a stable structure.

 

The purlins are directly supported at the top of the columns, and a row of wooden strips called rafters is erected on the purlins to carry the weight of the roof tiles. Then, the wooden structure is completed

 

 

 

 

Game clues samples

 

[File 1] October 9, 2089 Cloudy Incumbent: Lin Zhixiong

Today, at midnight, when the village people went to sleep, he met with the Goddess of Moon Marsh on the south shore of South Lake and communicated about Wang Da Xi's fornication with the engineering team to build the dam. The god was furious and said that if the people of Hong Village dare to offend the spirits of heaven and earth, they will again send down divine punishment to punish all beings. It is a pity that the power of the old man alone is too meager, and may not be able to grasp the future of Hong Village ......

 

[File 2] May 10, 2080 Cloudy Incumbent: Lin Zhixiong

Today at noon, I gossiped with village committee member Wang Daxi at his home about village affairs. I thought it was just an ordinary meal, but I guess Wang Daxi would propose to build a dam and sink the whole village into the bottom of the lake. Although it is to respond to the energy shortage problem, but Hong Village is now extremely rare in the world, with a thousand years of historical heritage of the village, how can say no. Wang family as the village's financial strength of the most powerful family, funded the construction of the village large and small, but also to help the village people employment, production, to build their reputation, plus this time to earn a lot of money with first-class enterprises, he has long been unwilling to put the old decay in the eyes ......

 

 

A letter

Dear Chen

Congratulations, Mr. Chen, all the preparations have gone smoothly recently, and as expected the construction can start as scheduled, except that the old man from the village still comes to me twice, saying something about gods and spirits. But this is no longer important, in another week, you can arrange the evacuation of the village plan.

Yours sincerely

Wang Daxi

 

Moon Marsh Academy--Culture of Ancestral Hall

Hong village is the homeland of Cheng and Zhu, where feudalism is deeply rooted in people's hearts and the patriarchal system is especially well established. As the main materialized carrier of the patriarchal system, the composition of the ancestral hall is deeply restricted by the concept of patriarchal hierarchy, and the external form, internal arrangement and detailed decoration all highlight the concept of feudal hierarchy, which is to distinguish the orderly and prioritized.