game development designer

Chapter 76 Host?

There are too few domestic talents with experience and skills, or too few who can be recruited. Most of them are in the studios of Wangyi and Penguin, and even if this group of people compares The high-end talents of foreign game development, among them, there is a big gap in technology.

Of course, if the two teams of Plot and Pig are counted, Chuhe's Tianhe Network can be regarded as the top game development team in China.

Listening to Chuhe's words, Plot and Pig are all hands-on.

"Do you want to go to other exhibitions together?" Chuhe felt a little regretful that he didn't get the result he wanted, but then he said with interest.

There is Xuchang in my own exhibition area, and the staff of the Cologne exhibition will not have any problems, and I basically understand the feedback I want.

In addition, in order to satisfy his own curiosity, Chuhe really wanted to know whether other manufacturers had brought new works.

Instead of going to EA and other exhibitions first, Chuhe went to several booths in China first.

The Penguin team is led by an old acquaintance of Chuhe, Wang He, the person in charge of WEGAME, but it can be seen that Penguin is still quite interested in the Cologne Game Show this time, instead of leading the team like Wangyi and other manufacturers. It's just a domestic online game. Basically, it's just a visit to the Cologne exhibition to gain attention.

To put it bluntly, it is exporting to domestic sales, and plating a layer of gold on one's money-making game.

In addition to the newly acquired Penguin Fantasy, Penguin also has a special WEGAME exhibition area, in which there are many WEGAME exclusive games funded by Penguin.

Many of them are of good quality, and they are not purely domestically oriented, attracting the attention of many foreigners.

On the other hand, at Wangyi, Chuhe just looked at the exhibition area for a while and then left.

A martial arts online game, in terms of the screen, it is indeed very good, and the CG of the game is also very good, it can be viewed as an animation.

But from what he heard from the domestic industry, and thinking about the characteristics of Wangyi's previous online games, Chuhe knew exactly what this game was without thinking too much.

The same is true for most of the other manufacturers, and Chuhe has no way to say anything about this phenomenon. After all, for these companies, games are just a commodity.

What's more, the domestic environment itself is like this. If you want to change it, you can only make the environment change. Manufacturers will make more money by choosing good games than making these rubbish games.

But how difficult is it to make the whole environment like this?

Even with the development of foreign games in recent years, the trend has changed somewhat.

"The actual picture of the game is not bad, but I just don't know how to play it." said Plot, who came out from the Wangyi exhibition area and followed the Chu River.

"Of course not bad. After all, Wangyi is said to have invested more than 3 million RMB in this project. It may be exaggerated, but 2 million RMB is almost enough." Chu He listened to Plott who was next to him and said.

Is there a big investment in online games?
In fact, all games are the same, they can be big or small.

I don't dare to say too much about an online game with an investment of hundreds of millions, but there are definitely a lot of words in China.

And because the market is different, even if the online games are rubbish, as long as the game screen is good enough compared to similar online games, powerful first-line manufacturers can use them to make a lot of money.

But if it is a stand-alone, it will not work. This is the characteristic brought about by the different player groups.

Therefore, domestic manufacturers have never been willing to invest large funds to try the stand-alone field.

Are you saying that the game project department of Wangyi and Penguin is short of money?

Of course there is no shortage, but because of the complicated group relationship, there is no way for these projects to pass the review.

The trouble of project application and the consequences of failure are all very important factors.

Even if a person with little ability or fame makes a project application form, it is impossible to pass it.

And a person with ability and fame has too many scruples, such as the consequences of project failure, which may even prevent him from gaining a foothold in the domestic game circle. These are all too realistic things.

After leaving the Wangyi exhibition area, Chu He first went to the Blizzard exhibition area, and did not bring much shocking news. Since the release of Diablo 2, except for several patch updates for Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne, no matter It is the StarCraft 2 speculated by the outside world, Diablo 3, and the mysterious World of Warcraft, but there is no news at all.

As for asking the person in charge of the Blizzard project, the replies I got are also planned, and they are doing it internally. Please look forward to this kind of formula.

On the other hand, Ubisoft and EA have made a lot of noise. Among them, Ubisoft's project is also guessed. It is the latest series of Assassin's Creed that is going to be released in October. This time, the assassins returned to 1715. According to the trailer released by Ubisoft, this time the player will play the young and frivolous rebellious assassin Edward Kenway, who is also the grandfather of the previous protagonist Connor Kenway.

From the very beginning, Assassin's Creed has many shadows of Prince of Persia, but after its peak Ezio trilogy, Assassin's Creed has become a global hit and has become one of Ubisoft's most classic IPs. The leap of faith has also become a signature.

"Compared to works of the same era, the graphics of Black Flag are not qualified, probably because the console has not yet developed all the functions, but it can be seen that Ubisoft has great ambitions this time." Plott next to him said.

The platforms that Black Flag lands on are mainly host platforms. Among them, Microsoft’s XBOX ONE and Sony’s PS4 are new-age hosts that have just been released. The first batch of games on the console of the new era.

An undeniable problem is that although stand-alone games have enough audiences on PCs, such as Assassin's Creed and a series of stand-alone masterpieces from European, American and Japanese factories, the main sales volume is still from the console platform.

"The new platform will not appear so soon. It can completely squeeze out the performance of the mainframe for monster-level games." Chuhe nodded and said.

Console games Actually, Chuhe’s Tianhe Network also has plans in this regard. Both Sony and Microsoft have approached Tianhe Network, wanting it to port Famine to the console platform, and they will provide development prototypes and provide technical support.

But because the main work at that time was on the development of "Jianghu", Chuhe didn't immediately agree.

"Tell me, can our Tianhe network technology try to develop games for console platforms?" Chuhe asked Plott next to him.

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