game development designer

Chapter 236 Portia Time

Regarding the investment in Pasimiao in the mountain city where Wu Zifei and the others are located, it went very smoothly. After all, it was the other party who took the initiative to find Tianhe Network at first, and Chuhe didn't think about coming to some lions to open their mouths or something.

The project book presented by the other party does look very interesting, and the type of game is indeed a blank in China, at least including Tianhe Network, Chuhe has not seen any game manufacturer in China that has such content Handle it well.

The other party stayed in Jinling for about three days, and contacted some members of the original Paz Meow, and they all exchanged notices and various procedures. After signing the contract, Chuhe also talked to Wu Zifei, who was about to be appointed as Paz Xu Zhi of Meow's new project chatted a lot.

"The combination of simulation management and role-playing is indeed a very interesting idea, and it is true that no one in China has made this kind of game, but I have seen a lot of content, and it is mainly aimed at overseas?" In the conference room, an agreement has been signed After the contract, they are basically a family. Chuhe got a complete plan and development strategy, as well as a short DEMO developed by Pasimiao.

"Yes, my personal words are quite influenced by Europe and the United States, and considering the audience, the main style of the game is mainly European and American cartoons, and the style tends to be warm." Wu Zifei nodded and said: "Among them, the ranch, The workshop culture is more inclined to Europe and the United States, as for the biggest compromise for domestic players, it should be to join the 'novice guide'."

Speaking of this, Wu Zifei felt a little helpless, and Chuhe nodded in empathy.

It’s not that the novice guide is different, it’s just that the players in different regions are different. Most domestic games pay special attention to the novice guide, and they can’t wait to teach you every step of the game. However, foreign games do not have such a detailed novice guide. .

They are more inclined to be vague novice guides, telling you the basic operations, but not telling you too much.

Just like domestic games, when the eight characters of "Lick the dog and end up with nothing" appear in front of you separately, the novice guide for domestic games will tell you that these eight characters can be arranged into a sentence like this.

The novice guides for most foreign games will tell you how to read these eight characters, and then tell you that they can form a sentence, but how to form a sentence is up to you.

It is not to say which model is better, but which one is preferred by purely domestic players and a large base of foreign players. After all, everyone's choice is different.

But as far as the survey data is concerned, by comparison, European and American players who like to explore and discover by themselves account for the vast majority in Europe and the United States, while players who like detailed novice guides account for the vast majority in China.

The novice guide will become a bonus point or deduction point for a game, but if you only use the novice guide to describe the quality of a game, it is basically the kind of [-] cents for money.

"But it seems that it is a little different from the traditional simulation business game." Chu He nodded and looked at Wu Zifei and continued.

With a smile, Wu Zifei pointed to Xu Zhi beside him: "President Chu is going to ask Xu Zhi her. Although this is a game plan that I have already sprouted before, Xu Zhi has also improved a lot on this."

"Although it looks like a simulated business like "Stardew Valley", in fact, the positioning in my mind is still an RPG work, mainly a story-telling game, just combined with many simulated business gameplay." Xu Zhi was a little confident, but also a little nervous.

Chuhe nodded as if to listen. Combining RPG and simulation management is actually very challenging, because these two gameplays conflict to a certain extent. The former usually requires players to constantly explore new Take new adventures in different areas, so as to present a story in front of the players, but the latter requires the players to stay in one area all the time and slowly manage and develop.

Xu Zhi continued to talk about his thoughts on this game: "The key to simulation games is the sense of substitution, which is higher than that of RPG. Only when the world view is reasonable enough and the details are rich enough, you will feel that the world is real. It has a feeling of life. To this end, we will add more details to the game, such as allowing each character in the city to have a unique life routine and joys and sorrows, as well as making changes to the environment as players."

"To be honest, I can't say too much about business simulation games, but I can give you some other suggestions." Chu He looked at Xu Zhi and said to Wu Zifei.

"Mr. Chu, please speak." Hearing Chuhe's words, the two straightened their bodies and listened.

"I suggest that the Early Access model can be adopted. On the one hand, it can relieve the pressure on funds, and on the other hand, it is the most important point, to listen to the opinions of the players." Chu He said to the two.

"Actually, we think so too." Wu Zifei nodded.

Chuhe continued to add: "But when listening to players' opinions, you must also learn to say NO to players. For example, in your plan, there are only two goals, A and B, but most players want to ask you to make C. Goal, because players feel that this C goal is very cool to join the game, so you have to think about it, is this C goal really suitable? Can this C goal really not conflict with your AB goal?"

Some small and even medium-sized game developers have this shortcoming. After a project is successful, they listen too much to the players' opinions and want to satisfy the players' wishes as much as possible, so they continue to add various new gameplays to the game.

Because the voices of the players were too high, they abruptly added a new mode and a new gameplay. After joining, they found out that this is a big pit. There are so many places to modify and adjust. Can't finish.

Frankly speaking, usually the players themselves don't know what they want, and the jumping thinking makes the players always come up with some unrealistic ideas.

Players only think that maybe this is cool, but they don’t think about adding it in this way, how to integrate it with other content, whether the new content added in this way will cause BUG, ​​will there be technical requirements, What players think is the most perfect, but the reality is not always so perfect.

"I have seen your game planning, and it is more inclined to the single-player framework, so if you don't have enough technology and experience, no matter what voices the players have, you must not consider the multiplayer mode, and make the single-player mode truly Once the ones are done, we will think about more content." Chu He looked at Wu Zifei and said to Xu Zhi.

Do what you can, step by step, step by step, this is what every gamer should bear in mind, because there are too many examples in the game industry that take too many steps and then talk about it.

"By the way, do you have an idea for the name of the project?" Chu He looked at the two and asked curiously.

Neither the DEMO nor the project book has an accurate project name.

"Already, the main area of ​​the game is a small town called Portia, and the overall game according to our settings and concepts, players will waste a lot of time, so the name of the project is "Time of Portia." Xu Zhi said with a smile.

Chu He nodded, but at this moment the phone rang suddenly, and he looked apologetically at Xu Zhi and Wu Zifei, and Chu He connected the phone.

Then, under the surprised gazes of Wu Zifei and Xu Zhi, he said in a surprised but unexpected voice: "What? Am I also selected?"

　In fact, according to the original development, it should be a planetary explorer, but after thinking about it, it’s better to change it to Portia directly. In addition, I found a lot of information and didn’t make it up by myself~╰(*°▽°*)╯

　　
　
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