"Undead Realm:Ego" has finally passed the review and will meet you all on January 10th, 2025.
First of all, I'm really grateful to all the buddies who have been following my FMV. And a big welcome to the new friends who just started to follow. Thank you so much. It's because of your attention and the many emails from friends who encouraged me that I've got the confidence to make more. Just like what I said in the game introduction before, the previous FMV had a lot of flaws. "Undead Realm:Ego" still has quite a few shortcomings too, but I hope you can see more of my new attempts in this FMV. Many problems are just like humen life. You can't make everything perfect. All you can do is do your best and leave the rest to fate.
As a small team, especially for FMV, what's different from traditional indie game developers is that for traditional indie games, many of our peers (including myself) can work on an indie game's planning, programming, and art with passion over a long period of time. But for FMV, it's a bit different. The film crew and actors can't work just out of passion. They need to be paid by the day. And I can't act by myself either. Even if I did, you guys probably wouldn't like to watch it. After all, acting and filming are very professional fields. In 2024, there were over 80 FMV, and most of them were made by relatively big companies. You can tell that just by looking at the scale of filming, the length of the game, the costumes, makeup, and props and so on. So my FMV are all made with small investments, and there's nothing to be ashamed of. You get what you pay for.
Secondly, the reason why I'm making horror FMV is simply that I love this genre. But precisely because it's the horror genre, for reasons we all know in my country, when it comes to previous products, there might be quite a few people who can write horror novels, but very few can film them well or even act them out well. Especially acting well, combined with the reason of small-budget production, there are even fewer good ones. All I can say is that I'll try to improve bit by bit in the subsequent FMV.
Finally, I'm still working on the scripts and gameplay designs for the future horror FMV. I believe there's still a lot of room for improvement, whether it's in the game process, game functions, or the filming and acting of the game scripts. These improvements will only be achieved little by little with your encouragement, suggestions, and criticism.
All in all, this is the first announcement for "Undead Realm:Ego" . I hope to receive your criticism after its release.
(To be honest, I myself feel that there are quite a lot of problems like awkward acting and poor script logic. Haha. And these can't be redone. Unlike traditional games where you can fix bugs, but I guess that's the specialty of FMV.)