The concept of the former R star’s new work "MindsEye": Revisiting linear movie experience in 15 hours

2025-04-29 22:04:01|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

The new work of BARB Studio, formed by former Rockstar core members, is scheduled to be released on June 6, 2025.This game attempts to reshape the player's experience with refined 15-hour cinematic narratives.Now its assistant gaming director Adam Whiting revealed that they hope to provide gamers with a linear, shorter, cinematic experience.

Now that 3A games generally pursue the volume of content in a hundred hours, BARB Studio has done the opposite.He pointed out: "Modern games have gradually lost the tradition of learning from film art. When the industry is addicted to service-oriented games and complex RPG systems, we choose to return to the essence of narrative. "MindsEye" adopts a linear narrative framework, and through precisely arranged tension scenes and character growth arcs, ensuring that players can get a complete emotional experience for two hours of game time every night.

Technical details show that although the work has a pseudo-open world scene, its core gameplay focuses on the innovative integration of cinematic lens language and classic mechanisms such as bullet time.The development team particularly emphasized that "every frame of the picture is advancing narrative". The 15-hour main process includes more than 200 dynamic storyboard scenes. This design concept is in sharp contrast to the current industry trend that often requires hundreds of hours of clearance.

It is worth noting that most of the members of BARB studios come from narrative teams of super-large projects such as "Give Him Love 5" and "Red Dead Redemption 2". This transformation of short-term high-quality games is regarded as a reflection on the current situation of the industry.He admitted: "When the development cost exceeds the $200 million threshold, the space left for artistic innovation is disappearing. "MindsEye" is our tribute to the narrative tradition of the Golden Age and a solemn commitment to the player's time value."

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