game development designer

Chapter 19 Do Your Own Game

"Phase task: Word of mouth has fallen to the bottom. This is an unacceptable fact for you who aspire to be the greatest designer. Make a game to impress those who look down on you. Requirements: Cumulative global sales within three months 100 million copies. Task reward: intelligent AI program."

Here comes the mission again! ?

It has sold a total of 100 million copies worldwide within three months, which doesn't seem too difficult.

But what is the task reward, an intelligent AI program!

So awesome!
Skynet in Terminator, Red Queen in Resident Evil, does this intelligent AI program exist like that?

The heifer is upside down!

"Sorry, forgot to put the parentheses."

"Phase task: Word of mouth has fallen to the bottom. This is an unacceptable fact for you who aspire to be the greatest designer. Make a game to impress those who look down on you. Requirements: Cumulative global sales within three months 100 million copies. Mission reward: Intelligent AI program. (Only for games)”

Nick Young question mark.

Ok?
Is there still such an operation?Chu He's eyes widened.

Early August.

The average temperature in Jinling has exceeded 38 degrees, and the pedestrians on the street are wearing hats or holding umbrellas to resist the scorching sun.

In the Tianhe network of Kylin Software Park, a new project led by Chuhe has been established.

Pig and his other two team members have also successfully joined the Tianhe network.

One is a 26-year-old Russian youth named Chekov, and the other is a standard white American youth named Anthony, just like Pigg.

It has to be said that the skills of the three people are all very powerful. Thanks to their skills, even if they have just joined in the current salary level of Tianhe Network, they undoubtedly belong to the first level.

As a few 'old' employees, I have no objection to this. After all, this line of work relies on technology. My own technology is not as good as others', and the money I get is not as good as the other party's. This is also what it should be.

In addition to Pig’s technical team, Chuhe also recruited another game script designer during this period. His name is Lu Zhou. He originally worked as the main screenwriter of the puppet show in Taiwan, but he left Taiwan for family reasons. Arrived in Jinling.

I have to say that Chuhe looked at Lu Zhou's original works, and felt that it was a bit of a shame to let Lu Zhou be the copywriter for the game he was planning to make now.

Of course, these are internal employees of the company, and there are also various outsourced personnel who have undertaken such as art resources and so on.

In the Tianhe network meeting room on Saturday, Chuhe took the members of the new project team to a meeting to explain the next work arrangement.

"About the purpose of calling everyone to come to the meeting today, I believe everyone understands. First of all, let me introduce the three new employees who joined our team: Pig, Chekov, and Anthony." After everyone sat down, Chuhe told Everyone introduced.

Next is the self-introduction of the three people, as well as Xu Chang's introduction.

In addition to Pig who can speak fluent Chinese, although Chekov and Anthony can also speak some simple Chinese vocabulary, if they want to communicate normally, they still need to cooperate with some English to let others understand what they mean.

"The next thing we are going to do is a project. I have already established the direction. It is a stand-alone game. The content of multiplayer interaction may be added in the future, but that will be a matter of the future." Chuhe looked at the crowd and said.

The three Pigs who just joined Tianhe Network did not express any opinions, but Tao Fa and Ye Xun showed excited expressions.

Only Xuchang is still a little worried.

Noticing Xu Chang's expression, Chu He asked, "Old Xu, what do you think?"

"At present, the domestic stand-alone market is not so good, and there is no stand-alone platform. Like the game Starry Sky, although the player's paradise has begun to be formalized now, it started with pirated copies in the early years, and the most important thing is that after the game is produced, We don’t have a place to distribute it at all, so we can only promote it on our own, or sell it through the steam platform (steam), but at present, there are really few people in China who know about the steam platform.” Xu Chang organized his words, expressing his innermost feelings The idea speaks.

This is basically the current domestic stand-alone market environment. If there is still some vitality, but after some unscrupulous manufacturers' emotional consumption and deceit with big talk, basically it is not too much to describe it as a stagnant water.

There is a very reasonable saying in the industry: Doing stand-alone is a dead end.

Tao Fa and Ye Xun, who were next to them, calmed down after being excited. Thinking about Xu Chang's words, the two of them had to sadly admit that the domestic environment was indeed like this.

Net billion is awesome, relying on the online game department, making a lot of money, but have they touched stand-alone machines?

It doesn't mean that at all, relying on games more than ten years ago, releasing one expansion after another, and then continuing to consume classic IP.

The trend of games in the market today, the mainstream has changed from 2.5D to 3D.

What should I do if the game is about to be completed or 2.5D?
It's okay to bite the bullet and switch to 3D. Anyway, I copied it directly from my previous game, so it doesn't take much trouble to change it.

After a few rounds of internal testing, the official release of some activation codes, privately selling codes for internal testing recharge, after a year or two of testing, the temperature of the game seems to have dropped a bit, and the topic can no longer be discussed.

It doesn't matter, the role of the Propaganda Department is reflected at this time, and a relatively large amount of money is used to hype it, and I will post all the microblogs and post bar trolls.

Whether it's black or boastful, it's just to stir up the topic for me anyway.

In the end, the public beta harvested a wave of ordinary players, and then looked at the operation situation. If the benefits are good, let the planning be better.

If it really doesn’t work, close the server later, and then change the skin of this project, it’s a new game, isn’t it flattering?

"No matter what other people do, I want to really make a good game. Although this is the second project of Tianhe Network in name, it is the first project in my mind. As for the stand-alone The market is not good. On the contrary, I think the stand-alone market should come. After so many years of homogeneous RPG online games, the competition is no longer about the gameplay, but about who has the most distribution channels and who has enough funds to promote it. " Chuhe looked at the crowd and said.

The domestic online game market can basically be divided into MMORPG as the first tier, FPS and turn-based games as the second tier, and the third tier as racing, sports, and some casual games.

Players have been tired of it for so many years, and their aesthetics have also been tired.

In recent years, big companies such as Wangyi, Penguin, and Perfection have also begun to seek new types of games. Their own studios do not have that technology, so they choose to represent some large-scale productions in Europe, America, and South Korea. According to some recent news , can already see some clues.

"A good game will never be buried. As long as the game is fun, players will definitely pay for it." Piggy next to him agreed.

Although countless independent games die every year, there are also successful, fun and interesting games that stand out, and even reach the top directly with the help of a game.

It is difficult, but it is enough to show that as long as the game is really good enough, everything will not be a problem.

"Okay, these problems in the market have nothing to do with us. What we need to do is to make the next game a good one." Chuhe looked at the crowd and said.

Then, under the expectant eyes of everyone, Chuhe turned on the projector, and showed everyone the preliminary game planning plan he had written in the computer with the help of memory potion for two nights.

　I don’t want to talk about domestic online games~ Hey, but fortunately, there are still some studios that really want to make good games. Let’s look forward to Heluo’s new work in August. Consuming Lao Jin Chuan’s feelings, but I have to say that Heluo is also one of the few, and is still working on a stand-alone studio seriously. I hope they can go further and further.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)