Is the instance You Made Actually Meant for Players?
Chapter 161

Reversal

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Lu Xiu stayed in the construction space for roughly another three hours.

The framework of The Witch's House was not coming together all that quickly, mainly because she had added new characters. At the same time, she also had to turn those flat, pixel-art rooms into three-dimensional spaces one by one, then fill them with all kinds of details.

This was also a side effect of the source game being too simple.

With instances like Resident Evil, because the source game was a proper 3D game, its atmosphere was already excellent, supported by plenty of details—when constructing the Constructed Instance, there were many details Lu Xiu did not need to come up with herself.

What she had to consider most was instead how to increase the immersion for real people entering it.

But The Witch's House was different. The drawback of pixel games was that, a lot of the time, their frightening sequences could only rely purely on jump scares and music to create atmosphere.

Though The Witch's House had already done well enough in that regard.

But once it was converted into an instance, that was far from enough, especially with the Resident Evil and Outlast instances setting such a high bar before it—

Scene reconstruction, details, atmosphere building—each of them was a problem.

In addition.

After adding roles for the players to play, the entire mansion's interaction logic had to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch.

That was another troublesome matter.

But after so many instances, Lu Xiu could be considered experienced.

Lu Xiu closed her eyes and raised her hand.

The flat scenes in her memory slowly transformed, then materialized, while the furniture took shape piece by piece. Because it had to match the characters' heights, everything had been adjusted without a trace.

The dust floating

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