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Pien 「ぴえん」 DEMO

This bundle is marked as useful / simple. Simplicity is bliss, low effort and/or may contain minor bugs.
Pien 「ぴえん」 is a horror Warcraft III custom map based on Tadasumen's free Unreal Engine 4 game: Pien. It is a 2020 Japanese trend and meme about the Pleading emoji. The Unreal Engine 4 version of the game is popular among Virtual Youtubers and Japanese Youtubers.

The definition of Pien 「ぴえん」 according to Lately Japanese:


It means “I’m sad (just a bit)”. It’s sounds funny, not serious at all. (But sometimes it’s serious. It depends.)
It’s almost word play.
This word is made by gal and trend word in gal.
At first, this word is used when the gal wants to show herself cute on Instagram or Twitter etc.
But nowadays, It sounds like just funny and Japanese gal use it anytime anyywhere.

If you want to use this word when you feel sad just a bit, you should keep serious face and say “pien” without emotion.
It sounds funny, you can make laugh!


TRAILER




GAMEPLAY

The objective of the game is to survive from the Pien creatures lurking in the labyrinth. Use your flashlight to gain clear vision and flash mysterious Signs (Circle of Pien) located at random locations. (Don't forget to chant "PIEN!" while doing it) If your flashlight is running out of power, collect the batteries scattered around the map to recharge it.

DEVELOPER NOTES

I made this map for fun. The project started because I was messing around with MDLVis and thought maybe I could use the models I made for a map.

The map uses GUI Triggers and some custom scripts.
The map is saved in 1.31.1 version of Warcraft III.

The DEMO version of the custom map only features Single Player.
The full version will feature Multiplayer with 23 players.


CREDITS

Pien: Warcraft III Custom Map, Custom 3D Models and Icons by Glint (Author)
Pien: Unreal Engine 4 by Tadasumen (Source)
Pien Song by Hari Supiko / SOUNDEVOTEE (Music)
Citrus by usagirikuhyo / Audiostock (Music)
Escape Mayhem by ISAo / Audiostock (Music)
W3Protect by Frotty (Software)
MDLVis by Alexey2005 (Software)
Warcraft 3 Model Editor by Magos (Software)
Contents

Pien DEMO (Map)

Reviews
deepstrasz
Terrain is bare minimum. The Flashlight buff looks like Holy Light but the ability like the Soul Gem. Seems like batteries respawn more in one zone than in more parts of the map. I found most in the northwest. Right now it's too simple. Maybe the...
Shar Dundred
No changes made. Moved to Substandard.

deepstrasz

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  1. Terrain is bare minimum.
  2. The Flashlight buff looks like Holy Light but the ability like the Soul Gem.
  3. Seems like batteries respawn more in one zone than in more parts of the map. I found most in the northwest.

Right now it's too simple. Maybe the original also has such a gameplay but the atmosphere is what makes it much more fun.
There are much better maps than this one at the moment, Maniac with Saw, Mansion Murderer and others.

Maybe you can spice it up with mods and more gameplay variety as well as visual atmosphere.

Awaiting Update.


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I apologize for not responding sooner since I was really busy doing important stuff.

Terrain is bare minimum.
Yes, I admit the terrain is lazily done. I was focusing on the gameplay, 3D model, and cinematics.

The Flashlight buff looks like Holy Light but the ability like the Soul Gem.
I'll replace those placeholder icons, they aren't really final.

Seems like batteries respawn more in one zone than in more parts of the map. I found most in the northwest.
That is weird, the amount of the batteries for each zone should almost be equal. Looks like I have to review the behavior of code for this one.

Right now it's too simple. Maybe the original also has such a gameplay but the atmosphere is what makes it much more fun.
There are much better maps than this one at the moment, Maniac with Saw, Mansion Murderer and others.

Maybe you can spice it up with mods and more gameplay variety as well as visual atmosphere.

Before I left this project, I was already researching about SetDayNightModels + Omnilight, and this. When you mentioned those other maps, I realized this map needs to be visually improved further.

If I have free time, I'll try my best to improve this map.
 
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