game development designer

Chapter 29 Exclusive? NO!

Compared with Chuhe's own test for the first time, the test of Game Star's interview.In Wang He's test this time, the game is almost a complete version. The background sound source of the dubbing game has been added, and the optimization is also very good. The machine that is almost 4 years behind the mainstream machine configuration can play at high speed. Stable over 60FPS under special effects.

In fact, many people have a misunderstanding about the configuration of the game. When they see the small capacity of the game, they will think that the configuration required by the game is small.

Although this is the case in most cases, the ability of the optimization team must also be considered, and the domestic optimization level technology is really not on the table. Even if the screen is a stage behind foreign manufacturers, the required configuration is higher. , Even if this is the case, there will be stuck and so on.

Tianhe Network currently does not have a dedicated optimization team. Regarding the optimization of Famine, the three of Piguet optimized the game based on the source engine.

"The art has the style of old movies from the last century." Entering the UI interface of the game, Wang He rubbed his chin and commented inwardly.

Start the game, your save file, options, and launch the game. There are four white buttons. At the same time, Wang He also found three other gray buttons that cannot be pressed in the lower right corner.

They are: Official Forum, MODS and Store.

"This UI interface belongs to the later stage. In the early stage, only the official forum will open these three contents, and mods and stores will be released slowly based on later updates." Chuhe said, looking at Wang He who noticed it.

He didn't express his own opinion, but Wang He had a higher opinion of Tianhe Network in his heart.

A team with a plan, a team with confidence.

MODS means that they clearly know what means to use to maintain the vitality of a game, especially for such small-scale games.

It is impossible for developers to continuously develop DLC for a game forever. Of course, except for some DLC maniacs, MODs made by players with love power generation are the means to maintain the long-term vitality of a game.

The store represents their confidence in themselves. Before developing games, many game developers only think about making profits through games and DLC. However, with the development of games, the costs are increasing. These costs alone are no longer enough In order to allow manufacturers to make a profit.

Therefore, in-app purchase stores like online games have arrived as scheduled.

Ordinary game makers don't even think about where to get profits from later games, but Tianhe Network has obviously thought of this, but whether the content of the store will bring huge profits or ruin the game depends on their planning and operation.

But for now, let's take a look at the quality of the game.

Two hours later...

"Fuck! You're so unlucky to be struck to death by lightning?!" Wang He looked at the black and white screen, and how he manipulated Wilson into a pile of carbon black material, and swears angrily.

This is already how many times he died in two hours. When he was drinking water, he was surrounded by rabbitmen and knocked to death. Because he forgot to check the san value, he was killed by Nightmare. When he was hungry, he couldn't find meat and was starved to death.

In the longest game, he only survived 5 days.

The famine produced by Chuhe's team, compared with the original in the previous life, although the general framework is still the same, the details have been improved a lot, and many new contents that were not there before have been added.

For example, the free destruction creation system, as long as players want, they can even make bombs to blow up a huge sinkhole in the land, and then build their own base in it.

Freedom, creativity, adventure, survival, this is famine.

After another death, Wang He only noticed the time, two hours had passed since he started the game.

More importantly, he seemed to have forgotten his mission while playing, but devoted himself to this game with all his heart.

Wang He, who came back to his senses, looked at the initial interface of Famine, and took a long breath: "What game engine did you use to make it? U3D or Unreal?"

These are the two game development engines that are often used by domestic game developers. Except for the Unreal Engine 3 that was just released, U3D is already a game engine more than ten years ago, but even so, there are very few domestic game developers. Can fully play the full effect of U[-]D.

Subconsciously, Wang He also thought that Chuhe and the others were using one of these two engines.

"Neither, in fact, this is an engine developed by ourselves, we call it 'Origin'" Chu He said with a smile.

The Origin engine is still immature, and there are still many areas for improvement. I have also discussed with Chuhe, the three of Pigg, and maybe they will need to go abroad after a while to recruit some technical personnel to participate in the follow-up development and improvement of the engine.

There is no way to do this. In terms of technology, domestic game developers are really far behind foreign technology.

"It's not just about creativity, Tianhe Network's technology is already ahead of many manufacturers." Wang He said sincerely.

Although Famine is only a small game, if everything Chuhe said is true, the engine used by Famine is an engine independently developed by them, and this technology alone has far surpassed many medium-sized game companies.

"But it's not enough. I wonder what Manager Wang thinks of our game quality?" Chu He shook his head and brought the topic back.

"Its quality is beyond our expectations. If Mr. Chu is willing to make famine exclusive to WEGAME in Chinese, I think WEGAME will do their best to promote famine." Wang He looked at Chuhe and said seriously.

After two hours of trial play, Wang He already had a definition of this game in his heart.

Definitely in recent years, no, even one of the best domestically produced games of all time.

Especially in recent years, all kinds of ghosts and snakes have greatly hurt the hearts of domestic stand-alone players through the gimmicks of domestic games. Famine, an excellent game, may have an effect far beyond the imagination of others.

As for whether it will be buried?

Wang He never thought about this at all. Even without WEGAME and the current capital of Tianhe Network, the famine would never be buried. The difference is just how high the famine can reach, that's all.

"I'm sorry, we can't compromise on this point. This is the basic requirement of the famine on all platforms." Chuhe shook his head and said.

"What about the platform-exclusive items like skins?" Wang He continued to ask.

If Don't Starve to launch WEGAME, it must be attractive enough for players to buy the version of WEGAME. Otherwise, Wang He knew that players would prefer to choose the version on the Steam platform.

"In the early days of the game, we didn't intend to open up such a system." Chu He shook his head and said.

"If it's not the first party, it's not the exclusive advantage, and the platform advantage, WEGAME will not give too much to the famine in terms of recommendation and publicity resources." Wang He was a little helpless, trying to persuade Chuhe.

"I know, but we can cooperate with WEGAME to make the price more advantageous. The game is priced on Steam and GOG platforms, and the national price is 25 yuan, but on WEGAME, we can lower the price to 20 yuan within the previous week. [-] yuan." Chu He said to Wang He.

But this is not what Wang He wants. After thinking about it, Wang He continued: "Tianhe Network does not need to bear the price, WEGAME can subsidize it, and WEGAME does not require Chinese monopoly. If you can agree to this, WEGAME will invest enough resources to promote famine."

"What conditions?" Chuhe was a little curious.

"The monopoly of domestic platforms, except WEGAME and domestic platforms such as cubes, can't be put on the shelves." Wang He said very seriously. If it was an ordinary small factory, maybe Wang He would have more confidence, and even spend money to knock the opponent unconscious. But the other party is the company that developed the Legend of the Red Moon, and the other party is not short of money at all, so Wang He's bottom-line goal from the very beginning was to make Famine only available on WEGAME in China.

Since Penguin launched WEGAME, its positioning is to compete with the steam platform for market share, but in fact, in addition to WEGAM, there are also platforms such as cubes in China, and the other party has recently represented many foreign masterpieces, which is quite competitive. force.

After listening to Wang He's words, Chu He nodded after thinking about it.

After all, WEGAME, which is backed by Penguin, is not a little bit stronger than Fangfang. If platforms such as Fangfang were considered at the beginning, Chuhe would not let people only contact WEGAME. fetal.

　In recent years, Penguin's support for independent games and domestic stand-alone games is considered to be the first in China, but in my opinion, it is for the better promotion of WEGAME to a greater extent, but anyway, it does have a lot of support for the domestic stand-alone industry. Help and encouragement.It’s really a pity and a pity for the domestic stand-alone game. I don’t know how many friends have played excellent domestic games such as Jin Yong Heroes, Wulin Heroes, Qin Shang, Da Qin Titans, Swordsman Love, and Aoshi Three Kingdoms.

　　
　
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