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hi everyone we're here in LA at
Universal Studios for the first ever
hands on gameplay event for Jurassic
world evolution
my name's Edie I'm part of the committee
team here at frontier developments and
I'm joined today by lead designer Andy
Fletcher and executive producer rich
newbould so obviously like I said we
came all the way out to LA for this it's
been a really really special event we've
been working on drastic world evolution
for quite a long time now today we've
been finally able to show the game off
to people outside of frontier so how was
that felt for you guys who've been
working on it for so long it's been
amazing we were really proud and excited
to be working on this game and it's been
amazing just to see people's response to
earth they're seeing that the gameplay
for the first time yeah fantastic the
feedbacks been really positive you know
the game is what people wanted and and
more so you know it's it's just so good
seeing that reaction after so long
working on it and not being able to talk
about it yeah it's great to finally
actually be able to share some of the
details with people so for this video we
thought we would show off the gameplay
demo that we've been showing to people
behind the scenes so we've been showing
the press and content creators some of
the features in a bit of a sort of slice
of the drastic world evolution gameplay
so I suppose why don't we just jump into
the game right away and show people what
it's all about so rich I think you can
set this up where where where are we in
there in the Jurassic world so you're
part of the Hammond foundation they're
entrusting you with the five islands
that lasts in co-op Huertas the first
island you get given is Isla
mattandsarah
which is like a little starter Island
this park is a bit built up to be
with just to allow us to to demo we've
already got I mean he can't make a dress
at game without dinosaurs it's kind of
like the key thing so in our part we've
got a couple of brachiosaurid
in place we you know the key thing is
the dinosaur so we have a dinosaur ready
in the Hammond creation live just to
just to show you what we've been working
on so we've been putting a lot of
attention in detail into the dinosaurs
to make sure that these dinosaurs are
the best dinosaurs you've ever seen in a
video game but a lot of work into how
they look how they move how they sound
and how they behave game it's just
amazing to look at Ceratosaurus she
seems very happy they're matching down
on the on the meat so I think in
addition to the dinosaurs there's a load
of structured objectives that you can do
in the game too so I'm going to complete
this active contract what we call a
contract here so we've got a science
contract active here to perform an
expedition for at least one herb for
fossil their contracts are jobs that you
undertake for one of the three divisions
in the game so we've got science
entertainment and security and this is
for science so this will improve my
standing with that division and that
will lead to further unlocks and further
consequences later down the line so I'm
gonna head to my expedition Center and
look at the expedition map it shows me
all the dig sites I've got available
around the world so one part of the game
that we've burned a lot of detail into
is the authenticity of the game the big
sites that you're using in the game are
based on real-world dig sites and the
fossils and the dinosaurs that you find
in there or based on real-world science
you want it to be as real as possible
and there's a lot of information about
the big sites themselves and the lore of
the game and dinosaurs that your
engineering but we keep all of that
stuff inside Indian database which is
like a repository of information that if
you want to get access to all that depth
and detail if you're a big fan of that
kind of aspect of the Jurassic franchise
you can go into here and start reading
up about them for instance the
formations in the game and you can see
when these formations were forming in
the world when you what you can find
inside them and the dinosaurs in there
so this it's one part of the aspect of
the
we're putting a lot of detailing - all
right so I I'll kick off an expedition I
think I'm gonna go to hell's Creek yes
that's got Triceratops fossils in it and
that means it should return with a nice
home for fossils so my expedition
choppers going to head off there and
kick off that expedition now I have
released a dangerous kind of oil into my
herbivore enclosure so that's not a
great idea I'm gonna I'm going to try
and move this Ceratosaurus to a smaller
enclosure of its own over here now I'm
going to create that enclosure first so
I'll hip to the fence tool and start
building the outline of this new
enclosure the address of all devolution
is a management game and it's about your
building these facilities and expanding
them out as you progress through the
game and he's using one of the creation
tools which is the fence torch allows
you to really quick and easily make
these enclosures for your dinosaur so
he's using this light steel fence to
begin with as you progress through the
game you get access to sturdy offenses
and then electrified fences just to make
sure that the new dinosaurs don't your
engineering oh really
make sure that you're kept inside the
enclosure because they're not inside
that's when the running and the
screaming happens so it's a key thing of
the game is to make sure that your
dinosaurs are kept away from your guests
also got a basic fenced enclosure there
now I need to make this more of a home
for the source so I'm gonna put some
water in there a water source that can
drink from so if I head to the landscape
tools I can create really easily create
a quick water source for it to drink
from keep it keep it quenched and then
if I go to the nature brush I can add
forests and this will make it feel more
at home in its habitat so different
dinosaurs have different kind of habitat
needs and I'm going to put those in to
make you feel more I I can also one I'm
in here I can also adjust the slope
around the enclosure so I can raise
lower flatten smooth terrain just kind
of cool from an aesthetic point of view
you see the defense actually conforms to
any trainers that I could make and then
to finish off the enclosure or to make
sure at least that it can be it can be
got to from my range of teams which
we're going to talk about a little bit
later I'll stick a gate here and that
allows the range of teams to drive in
and out but they're four by fours
which is really important for dance or
welfare to talk about in a little bit
and then finishing touch I'm gonna add
the feeder in here because our Cerreta
source is gonna want to eat something
when it's touchdown
so don't if you cover that there but
this said the offense is that you're
placing down they look kind of soft they
don't look like they're going to be
particularly strong against some of
those those larger panels are these
things that you can upgrade and placing
are appropriate for the dinosaurs you
trying to keep behind them so that the
the smaller herbivores you can get away
with the lights to your friends but as
you say that the bigger dinosaurs is
more teeth you know you want to make
sure that they're really kept in so you
want to make sure the offenses are as
strong as possible what we needed
well done completing that contract so
I've now boosted my science reputation
by completing a contract because my
exhibition chopper came back and that's
unlocked something for me to hit I've
got an interesting opportunity for you
to consider it will allow us to work
together to create life pure life if
you've been listening to dr. Malcolm
then you know how important this is to
us and to me alright so this is the head
of the Science Division offering me a
mission which is a multi-stage a series
of objectives which take longer than the
contracts to do but they they have
greater rewards and more sort of
narrative depth to them so I'm going to
start this mission and see what was
involved I knew you were my kind of
person inquisitive driven and I knew you
couldn't resist this opportunity so
let's get started
together we can create a more authentic
version of our dinosaurs that means a
complete genome and I think you are up
to the challenge don't disappoint okay
so the first part of this mission is to
acquire 50% of their Triceratops genome
so in order to do that I'm gonna head to
my fossil centers where all my dig site
finds get delivered and see here I've
got a very high quality amber fossil
which will give me Triceratops DNA so
whenever extracted this DNA I should
have enough to complete this section of
the mission so another option there as
well to sell so you can sell them just
to gain money and that will yes so
that's there's kind of a trade-off there
is you can focus just on the wrong
stores or use fossil dig fines for short
term financial gain one part of the game
that really focus on it's not just
making sure the dinosaurs are the best
dinosaurs you've ever seen but the
environments that they inhabit are
amazing as well so we put a lot of care
into the building systems as well as the
islands themselves so each island has a
lot of working attention being done to
make sure it looks amazing and as it can
be and we put work into a weather system
as well so as you're playing through the
game there's different weather events
that might happen things like light rain
or heavy rain some of the later islands
have more extreme weather events so
there's a lot for you to do there these
things aren't just aesthetics things
though the tropical storms that might
hit you later on have a gameplay aspect
they might come in knock your fences out
that might can take out your power
station so there's these things for you
to be worrying about if you're managing
not just these these dangerous dinosaur
and your facility but things that might
cause them to escape and how's our
dinosaur then we will know if our
efforts will have been worth it okay
cool so my fossil was attracted and that
meant I've got enough of a Triceratops
genome to incubate the triceratops
dinosaur egg so if I go to my home
creation lab I can see all the available
genomes I have I've only got a few here
offices just the start of the game but
one of those is my newly available
Triceratops so I'm going to incubate
that right now for this mission
so this is going to be my herbivore
enclosure I've got two big herbivores
here I've got another one on the way so
I'm going to make sure that this
Ceratosaurus is not around when when all
those herbivores are roaming because
yeah he's got a dangerous animal so in
order to move into my new enclosure I'm
gonna head to my ACU Center and this is
where I can give commands to my ACU
chopper teams so if I head over here and
click on the serratus source they will
start flying off and they will try and
tranquilize him so they can be safely
transported a really really nice element
a drastic world evolution is that
although I can manage these vehicles
from afar I can also click on them if I
want to and take direct control so I can
I can interject whenever I ask them to
do something and try and do it myself
and since on PC we've kind of designed
the game to work seamlessly with
controller and with keyboard and mouse
so I can just switch to the game packs
and all the menus and all the interfaces
and all the controls going to work just
as well immediately as well there's no
yeah actually no switch there you can do
Andy no pressure
nice so we really wanted the dinosaurs
to behave and move in realistic ways
it's the way they look and the way they
moved the way they fall when you
tranquilize them a little bit sorry for
him now all right well she's safely
trained tranquilized now I need to
transport so transportation is also at
the ACU center now quick way to go
between buildings is to switch to the
schematic view the map of the island and
this shows me the whole island area I've
got and I can really quickly see my
dinosaurs my vehicles State my buildings
it's really really useful for quickly
accessing buildings and here I'm going
to get in touch with the transport team
and ask them to transport this
Ceratosaurus for its current enclosure
into the new one that I built and that
poor goat that you you created earlier
doesn't know what's coming it might be
fine I can't assume that this red saw is
is gonna go right my out live good hider
there she goes
can you name maybe dinosaurs as well
yeah you can name the buildings in the
game and the dinosaurs themselves if you
want if you just want to have that
personal connection with the with the
animals I'm not sure wired will not get
a personal connection with a carnivore
but the option is there for you each to
their own yeah okay well she's on her
way so now I can safely release my new
Triceratops into the herbivore enclosure
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our new specimens sorry dinosaurs are
meeting expectations but we want them to
thrive that's your next assignment
making sure our specimens are properly
cared for
in other words dinosaur welfare the
difference with dinosaurs is that they
have no point of reference to understand
humans so don't expect much in the way
of thank-yous and another part the game
that we're really excited about is the
opportunity to add F : yeah he's a
reprising his role of dr. Ian Malcolm
and he's throughout the game he's there
as a narrator is like a voice of
conscience you're gonna be making some
decisions in the game as to which
division you're pursuing the missions
for and there's gonna be some
consequence to that and he's there just
to remind you that these are these
dinosaurs should never have been brought
back this has been a mistake from from
day one and that there's gonna be a
consequence of some of these decisions
and you just can't keep some things like
that in your enclosed and they will
always find a way to escape or something
will find a way to just go wrong and
he's always there just to just to keep
reminding you of that fact that's it's
been a race is such an amazing thing as
a developers to work with someone like
him in one of our games all right well
this next stage of the mission is all
about as the head of science said dance
or welfare so it wants me to build a
ranger station so I need to make a bit
of space here because my my island is
just adding less space so what you need
to do before you build when you start
expanding your part you need to kind of
clear the ground so that you've got
space to build on so I'm just clearing
some forest area here and this is
costing you mate to do this is custom
you money so I've got it I've got to
build up the funds before I can really
expand to make a huge huge island part
so yeah you might need to flatten the
terrain as well if it's if it's rough
and uneven which is another factor so
this looks like enough space so I'm
gonna put my ranger station down and
these guys are going to help me look
after my dinosaurs
dress really Lucian's and management
games to build a game so you have to use
these tools to expand out your
facilities and you have to worry about
things like an in infrastructure system
in your park as well making sure that
your buildings are connected together so
that guests and staff can access them
and also that there's a power supply to
these buildings so there's a concept of
power in the game so that you've got to
build these power stations and connect
up pylons to make sure there's enough
power to make sure that your buildings
are operational and that your if you
have electrified fences that there's
electricity running through those
because there's not gonna be much of a
deterrent if there's no electricity in
them I see your dinosaurs might be more
likely to escape from them that's right
and then additionally on some of the
buildings you'll have a number of
upgrade slots so here you see you've got
five on the ACU Center what I can do is
I can purchase components that I can put
in there and they will augment the
efficiency of that building so they'll
make my ACU team better tranquilizing
dinosaurs automatically for example or
allow me to give them more tasks at once
the power station has upgrades as you
saw there for things like output and and
cost and management things like that so
that's a really important way to kind of
maximize the usefulness of each building
but it also has implications for how
much power is being drawn on your power
system and how much money you're
spending of course okay well my ranger
station and the lovely 4x4 is now built
ready to use but the next bit of this
task is to increase my Triceratops
genome so I'm going to go back to the
fossil center find another harris
triceratops fossil and extract and that
should create a more pure strain
Treacher triceratops genome for me - for
me to satisfy the science division with
and in the game it's not just about
you're making dinosaurs I'm putting down
buildings we have a research system in
place as well so that as you progress
through the game you can research new
things for you to build and add to your
park so as a new word makes you move the
building upgrades that's an aspect of
the research system as well you can
research new upgrades you can research
new fence types and medical treatments
as well the ranger station that we just
put down there tasks with medicating
your dinosaurs if they get sick but you
need to make sure that they've got
access to the relevant treatments and
the vaccines for that so that's one part
of the
system as well so they can do their jobs
and because it's a Jurassic game we're
trying to be faithful to the
authenticity of Jurassic science so you
taking these genomes of dinosaurs from
long ago and then combining that with
modern DNA to try and fill the gaps so
that we can create these dinosaurs so
you can research new gene types and that
will then change their base statistics
or you can change how long they live for
and things like that or you can change
their cosmetics genes as well so you can
change how your dinosaurs look as well
right so my fossil that are just
extracted should be finished now and
that means that I can yeah so I've got a
I've got a more pure strain Triceratops
here he's 77% genome completion
I'll incubate him but just before I do
that I'm going to modify his genome and
show you the genetic modification
options so along the top there that's a
representation of the genetic sequence
and in there there's a number of gaps so
each of the gaps is currently filled by
tree frog DNA and that's not doing a
whole lot for my for my dinosaurs traits
and stats so I can switch out this one
for example for toughness gene from a
different animal and that will make it
more defensively capable associated
getting to fights
it's going to with those dinosaurs it
could more likely survive if I add more
these kinds of genes this is a lifespan
gene so this is really useful one it
means that my dinosaurs are more likely
to live longer if I had had more
lifespan and these Alling increased
incue bation cost of the dinosaur and
the slightly reduced the likelihood that
it's going to be successful as well
which is quite an important factor but I
think that's enough modifications just
to quickly show up and I'll I'll
incubate that diner and that should be
once his research is complete the last
step in the mission the game is not just
about dinosaurs and the dinosaur welfare
at frontier WIPP you've got a history of
making management games in part builders
so you have to worry about your guests
needs as well making sure that they're
you know as happy as they can be we have
multiple buildings once for operation
types to fight the ranger station
building for your dinosaurs and
buildings for your guests so you need to
make sure those fast-food restaurants in
their Tomatoes
they're getting the food then you can
adjust the things that they're selling
and the prices that they're selling and
Matt so that you can make profit so you
need to make sure that your parks are
maximizing them out of profit because
that's how you get access to expanding
out your part new buildings new
dinosaurs so there's a lot of different
things for you to be managing in the
game or worrying about and just making
sure that everything's running as
efficiently as possible and a lot of
these things feed back into thing and we
called the island rating which is like a
measurement of how successful you're
being on your current island and that
all then feeds back into a progression
system with the five islands that
they've you've been tasked with so this
is on aslam at and saris to the first
island if you true if you prove yourself
with this island they're gonna give you
another one and then another one in
these islands aren't just the same again
they're going to have different
challenges and different aspects to them
to really challenge you so some might be
quite a small area so you have to be
quite efficient in how you're building
in that area so challenge so might have
really extreme weather effects that are
quite frequent so you can have to deal
with a lot of storms and that taking out
some of your facilities or power outages
this is gonna be a lot of things for you
to worry about but as you progress
through those islands you're gonna get
access to new research new fossils new
buildings new dinosaurs and then you can
always go back so if you're on island 4
for instance you get access to a new
dark new dinosaur you can go back to
Matt and serous and put that dinosaur in
that island to improve the rating of
that island which then opens up more
things for you to play with so this is
just a glimpse of what's on offer in
Jurassic world ocean we're really proud
of you know as Ceratosaurus is nice and
happy now about to have dinner or maybe
not they seem to be getting away with it
and go it's party brave so thank you
guys for that amazing gameplay demo it
really does look absolutely amazing and
it's not that long before people can
play Jurassic world evolution themselves
because the game comes out on June the
12th 2018 which really isn't that long
way it's very very exciting stuff so
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