However, some creative minds in the group joined together to build a real-life RPG that resembles Diablo pretty well. Well, the artistry required a lot of strenuous efforts to make this dream come true. It is almost three and a half hours long but the work they had to put in was fascinating in itself. It included various programs and technology. They used cardboards for making props and scenery whereas some of them acted for the NPCs. One Reddit user DavidMReynolds had described “behind the scenes” of the whole simulacrum.

He said: “[The overlays] were tricky to get right. Ordinarily, we’d just have someone doing them in real-time here – but with lockdown, we had to find a way for them to be remotely controlled.” Well, he created the graphics in After Effects. The graphics were then modified by another guy who wrote a node.js program. It was all based on the content of a twitch chat. They also created a list of short codes and also a twitch bot. This way, if you type ‘hit20!’, the graphics server would, in turn, reduce the enemy’s hp down by 20. Therefore, it plays the ‘critical hit’ animation.

He added: “One of the houses streaming to me over zoom was the combat arena. The guy there and his girlfriend were frantically changing costumes between fights: green body sprays for the goblin fight, inflatable legs for the centaur, huge gardening net thing for the gelatinous cube, etc. The only pre-recorded bits were the riddle videos (eg mirror – but there were more) and the ‘summon stags’ clip.”

Besides, there was a video uploaded on YouTube as well. Its caption described that the stag do was canceled which is why all of the friends decided to connect to each other sitting remotely and build a real-life RPG game. Well, this wasn’t the thing that they had planned for fun but surely, it is better to have a bit of amusement while staying far away from each other. At least, it abides by the social-distancing rule.

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