The structure of the World

Welcome to the world of Being The Game! This is my first project that I have been developing on the Unity engine for half a year. I have divided the project into several stages of development, and at the moment I have already completed the fifth phase and am actively testing the game. In addition, I began to engage in the media part of development, communicate with the audience, record videos, stream and talk about the development process and its successes. The first video with the tests of the project was recently released on my YouTube channel.

So, let's return to the question of the structure of the world in the game universe. This universe represents the ancient era by the standards of our reality, with all the charms and complexities of that time, but with one distinctive feature - all the peoples in the world of Being The Game are descendants of an ancient civilization consisting of many peoples and races. Over time, they lost most of the technological and cultural achievements of their common ancestor and followed completely different paths of development.

The main part of the human race, over time, united around a talented politician and speaker, who later became the head of all the western lands of the continent and created an Empire under his command. Living an incredibly long life among his subjects, he constantly sought to increase his skills and the power of his Empire. Proclaimed emperor and named defender of humanity, he became a living legend. They began to deify and perpetuate him during his lifetime, and it was for something — after living for the third hundred years among his entourage, among whom no one lived to be seventy, he was a real miracle.

The power of the Empire was largely created thanks to the legions, who became famous as a result of many wars and organized in a closed city on the territory of the Empire, about which there were rumors of terrible experiments on humans or even divine miracles. At that time there was no accurate information about the structure of those lands that were located beyond the pass in the Valley of the Empire's Beginnings, but it was known that the legions that came out of there no longer looked much like people who obeyed the Empire and were called up for military service from all districts. They, with a cold and ruthless gaze, unconditionally carried out the orders of their commanders and carrying the word and will of the Emperor, were located in the territories, formed a network of roads, residential complexes and fortifications, thus strengthening the influence of the Empire in the regions. In addition, they built fortifications for the arrival of expeditionary units with suspicious devices similar to huge blue crystals. Special units consisting of veteran legionnaires who reported personally to the Emperor sacrificed ten captive slaves and then activated a strange mechanism that created a sphere around the crystal. Then the whole squad disappeared inside the sphere.

The legionnaires who arrived at the place formed militia and work detachments from local residents who wanted to join the Empire. The remaining people were sent through a strange device, along with the incoming troops of the emperor. After these detachments took away new slaves, they immediately left the fortification and disappeared into the depths of the buzzing sphere.

Legionnaires who lived longer than ordinary people had enough skills and authority to establish settlements and train the mortal warriors of the Empire

They had less strength and experience, so they did most of the hard work in the Empire, relying on quantity. They were easy to recruit, but also easy to lose, because due to the high mortality rate, the turnover of this group was significant.

Some of the peoples who continued to wage war against the Emperor and his legions used their astral strongholds as fortifications and bases. However, most preferred to live in the relative safety of the astral, far from the troops controlled by the Emperor.

Over the centuries, the Empire gradually expanded, and the invasion of their fortified astral became more and more difficult and dangerous, while the legions took most of the astral known to them under their control, but these dimensions still became monstrously dangerous for all parties to the conflict. Some even said that the Thestrals had powers that the ordinary world did not have, and that powerful beings lived there that could destroy entire armies.

Thus, the astral became a kind of fortress for everyone who was against the Empire and who did not want to live under its rule. And although their inhabitants were different and often waged war among themselves, they had a common enemy - the Emperor and his legions, whom they gladly provoked and repulsed on their astral borders.