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Mist Survival

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Mist Survival is a survival video game developed and published by Rati Wattanakornprasit in August 2018 for Microsoft Windows. The game has only a Single Player mode currently although a 2-4 player Co-op mode is planned. Mist Survival story image was based on to develop the end of the game to a full 'FPS Action' like Call of Duty or Doom but with a blend of crafting and the main survival aspect.

Mist Survival very first inspiration was from 'The Long Dark' which is a single player survival game which Rati ,loved to played with its difficulty and it being very challenging, and quoted by Rati "the best Survival game for me" Of course another inspiration was from the movie "The Mist", which did inspire the concept of the 'Mist' currently in the game, this mixed with other movie titles such as The Walking Dead, I am legend and Independence Day which gave the alien concept.

Gameplay
Mist Survival is a take on the survival zombie genre, where the player must find resources and tools to craft and hunt while keeping an eye on their Thirst and Hunger. The player must survive not only from animals like bears but also from bandits which are found around the pre-built world making any mission into unknown territory dangerous. Yet places where you think you would be safe from the open world are found to be infested with the infected, who lurk in and around buildings, requiring the player to power through to get the best loot and materials. To survive there is already a large selection of weaponry which differ from each other, being best needed in there own certain situations. For example the bow, which is silent to all bandits and infected, establishing its best role for quite entrances and exits, although don't act well over long distances. Which again, the Hunting Rifle which with an 8x scope, can easily pick off any enemy far away. Although all these weapons are required to be found or crafted, so exploration is a large part of Mist Survival. If you do not explore you will die either from nature or from starvation and thirst, so time is always against you.

The player has 6 main bars that they must keep track of, from the usual Health and Hunger to Thirst, Fatigue, Stamina and a Cold meter which goes up if the players temperature decreases. All these factors are a necessity to the player and all will effect the player if not maintained at a certain level. Such as fatigue which if the meter is low then the player will recover stamina slower and as such will become a problem if infected are chasing the player. Unlike other survival games, the infected have can not go outside so they have restricted access to the world, although this is till nightfall or till 'The Mist' appears. This gives the player a limited amount of time each day to explore and gather. One of the most fundamental mechanic in Mist is when a player dies, they will loses some of the items in their inventory from tools to materials and durability on weapons. The player re-spawns at their chosen base which may also be plundered from death, after a list is displayed indicating what was lost, further more hunger, thirst and fatigue are not restored and injuries are only tied up so recovery is required. With is mainly so that dying is not an option to regain any required bars easily which intern helps to keep the necessity to stay alive at risk of loosing a lot of gathered resources. Mist Survival has an in game time which all crafting abides by, so such making a tool like a pickaxe will take 1:30 minutes, although for Mist time there is 4 seconds in a minute, being 15x faster, further more crafting is considerably shorted in time to a few seconds for the sake of enjoy ability of the game.

The world set for the player is located in and around a mountainous, forestry area which surrounds the map. Dotted around are building varying across from homes to cabins dotted around near roads, to farms and camps located away on dirt paths. There are also buildings uniquely located in only certain particular locations, such as the the large town, which is a large cluster of flats, homes, shops and other town like buildings. These 'monuments' each have a unique purpose from high tier loot to different types of infected.

Game Events
A large and main factor which makes Mist Survival stand out is its 'Mist' mechanic which is a random game event where a fog to fall upon the players surrounding and a varied number of infected will spawn around the player, attacking on sight, so the player must be armed to defend themselves or find a place of shelter to wait it out. The main indicator for the player of the 'Mist' occurring around them is not just visually, of the thick fog like mist, but is the eerie, gloomy sound surrounding the player.

Development
Mist Survival is a one developer project by Rati Wattanakornprasit who has been working in developing the game for 1 Year 8 Months Full time till the release of the game on 15 August, 2018. Since the release many community members have stepped in to help voluntary on the game with establishing community's, wikis and support for the developer through bug and suggestion, sorting and reporting. The game has many plans before considering leaving Early Access. As such Co-op mode is a strong possibility but at this stage bug fixing and adding content to single player mode is what the focus is on, so it is a target for the future.

Reception
After a few days of the Early Access release, the game reached its all-time peak of 3,124 players at a single time. This serge of players brought Mist, on Steam, to be in the top most popular zombie game for a few weeks.

Career
Rati stated playing games since he was 5-6 on his dads windows 3.1 PC. From then he loved to play many games, such as Prehisto, VIC, Prince of Persia 12, Paper boy and many DOS games. With this love of games, when Rati started High School he grew determined to be a game developer in the future, and began to study programming since then. His favorite game types included FPS, Action and Turn-base RPG.

Rati first started in the gaming industry with a mobile app company (Yggdrazil Company) in 2014, makers of Home Sweet Home, although left his job twice, once for a mobile rpg game between 2012-2013 and the second time for Mist Survival between 2016-present.

One of Rati's most known games is his current solo developed game, Mist Survival which he worked on for 1 Year and 8 Months with 15 every day with some vacations only once in a couple months. Mist Survival was released for Early Access in 15 August 2018 and currently is still under development, receiving updates each week. After a few days of the Early Access release, the game reached a high serge of players to Mist, on the site Steam where it reached to the top most popular zombie and survival games.