[Interview] Another girl's new work, Neural Cloud, asks for its charm

Neural Cloud, a new work of the Girl Front series, will be CBT in Korea from the 19th. 'Neural Cloud' is a work that deals with 'Cloud Mind Map', which deals with the appearance of 'Doll', a core material of the girl front world, and before becoming a tactical doll and a tactical doll. It's a work that draws. The process is not drawn as a SRPG like the previous one or another follow-up girl front 2, but it is characterized by a unique aspect of a mix of deck buildings, autoworkers and loglike. In the tory, followed by the pre-booking in July, the Neural Cloud, which is gradually disclosed to Korean users through CBT, can be asked more in detail from Lee Jong-un, a girl's front user, known as Dr. Like among the girl front users. It was.

■ Another story of the girl front worldview, 'Neural Cloud'

Q. Neural Cloud will be introduced to Korea in 2022, following the first release in 2020. I wonder when you have prepared development and Korea service.

Neural Cloud, which announced its first news in 2020, started its open beta service in China on September 23, 2021. In fact, since 2020, we have planned Korean service by publishing in korea and global development and localizing. Since the beginning of development, we have a lot of important Korean markets as in other countries, and we hope that many Korean users can have fun with the neural cloud.

Q. What is the meaning of the title 'Neural Cloud'? Also, what is the connection with the main story of the girl front?

= 'Neural Cloud' is a project name that develops a technology that backs up the doll's memory and experience to the cloud server. Since this technology was developed, it was set that even if the doll was destroyed during the battle in the 'Girl Front', it was possible to recover the loss of memory and experience with minimal losses.

Q. 'Professor' is mentioned as an alter ego of the user. What kind of person is it? In addition, please introduce the main characters who will help the professor and help them to settle in the neural cloud world.

'Professor' in Neural Cloud is actually the same role as 'Commander', the player of the previous work 'Girl Front'. In the 'Cloud Map Project', he borrows the name of the real 'professor' who was missing in an accident. Persia, an AI researcher, will play a role in helping such a player.

Q. Looking at the color of the work, the atmosphere is completely different from the previous girl front or another new girl front 2, which has a sense of military and desperate battlefield, but I wonder what story of the girl front worldview in Neural Cloud.

The purpose of the player in the neural cloud is to reclaim the mind maps of the dolls trapped in the Madrasa server in an accident that occurred during the cloud map project and escape into reality, revealing the hidden facts of the accident. In time, it deals with the story of the girl front four years ago.

Neural Cloud seems to be relatively casual because of the cute character design on the combat screen. In addition, compared to the girl front, which focuses on narrative and story of the times, the character is more focused on the characters, creating a rather bright atmosphere. It seems that it is different from the fact that it is time before a big fight begins in time and space, and a battle in a virtual space rather than a real world.

** Q. What more details would you explain about Magnesia, the main background? In addition, the characters who join the playable are called the mind map of the dolls who participated in the experiment.

= 'Magaña Super Cloud Server' can be understood as a huge web hard and VR space. The 'sector', where various companies, organizations, and individuals rent this server and stores various data, are implemented as a virtual city in the game, and the player solves various events that occur in this 'sector'.

And two main enemies that players face, one is the AI vaccine program of the Madrasa server, and I try to judge and delete the player as a malicious program. Another is the virus 'entropy' spreading inside the server.

Q. While the previous work is the title of 'Girl', the playable characters are mainly female, while this work is somewhat unusual. Is there a special reason for designing that?

Strictly speaking, neural cloud is a different setting from the 'Girl Front' only shares the worldview with the girl front. As a result, a male doll, which naturally expanded the worldview and was almost set on the girl front, appeared as a playable character in this work.

Q. In the neural cloud, there is an appearance of the past civilians of tactical dolls who appeared in the previous work, and I wonder if the Neural Cloud's boys will also appear in the girl's front series.

= I don't think it's likely that a male doll will be added as a playable character on the girl front. Of course, there is no absolute. Instead, I think male dolls can appear as NPC characters in the story. Recently, male dolls have appeared in the recent large event story, but they are not the characters of Neural Cloud.

** Q. 'Girl Front' was a way to tell not only the main story but also in the event story and add it as the main story later.

= Yes, Neural Cloud is also developing the main story as a large event. In addition to these large events, there are also personal stories of each character and mini event stories of each holiday.

Q. Since the previous girl front is a famous story, I think that users who have not played the girl front can feel the barrier to entry. Wouldn't it be hard to understand even if you don't play the girl front?

= I think there will be no problem at all. Neural Cloud is a new story for girl front users because it deals with the story of the girl front. The player character is the same as the girl front, but this is an element that helps fans of the girls to be interested in the existing girl front, and it is not a factor that interferes with the understanding of new users. Therefore, even users who have never seen previous works will be able to play naturally.

■ Doglike+Autobard Tower+Deck Building 'Neural Cloud' What charm will you show

Q. Unlike the 'Girl Front' series, which has been released so far, this 'neural cloud' has differentiated it by adding logic, autoworker and deck building elements. What is the reason for this genre and attempt to join?

= First, neural clouds are not simply combining three elements. Neural Cloud aimed to have a better game fun for users with its creative gameplay, and both the game's battles and gameplay focused on creating our own unique personality. So I added a lot of strategies and control elements to the battle, and the neural cloud's stage design has differentiated it from traditional straight dungeons.

The most important design is that it is also focused on the loglike elements. At the time of development, the Like genre was a single game that attracted the topic. From 'Isaac's burnt offering' and 'Slay the Spire' to 'Hades', all of these games inspired the neural cloud development team. Doglike has an interesting and reasonable random element, so it's a genre that provides users with a variety of strategy choices and play concepts so that repetitive play is not monotonous. Neural cloud development team members also loved Log-Lake games, so they were motivated to develop loglike mode, and naturally developed the Neural Cloud, a loglike genre.

Q. What did you consider showing a different strategy and play than other autoworkers and deck building games?

= Other traditional autoworkers and deck building games have not been much different from their creative designs, but they have been studying and thinking for a long time.

In major battles, the party will be organized as five main members+3 replacement members, and users can borrow the power of a strong doll of friend or system recommendation. Strategic elements include selection and collection of function cards, and upgrading combat skills with function set effects.

In addition to the strategy of the battle and the battle, the control element was added. The user can select the ultimate trigger timing and target of each sorting doll, and the user can set the suitable command skill over the battlefield to properly use and affect the situation. These designs make the neural cloud battles more free, fun, and strategic.

In terms of level design, I thought in many ways to differentiate it from traditional deck building games. You can experience different experiences every time with various random selection events on the stage, and in each random event room, players will not only be combat but also restore the stamina of dolls through treatment. You can also get a protocol, see a story, or challenge the hidden battle after defeating the stage boss.

Compared to the classic logic, it is a variety of user-friendly and user-friendly feelings.