i really just want to play games

Chapter 84 The Difficulty of the Main Story

"What did she mean by falling to the ground?"

This question has been accompanied by Chen Tiancai's trip to Siam.

After An Qinghuan got drunk that night, he directly called a car to take An Qinghuan back to the hotel. After spreading the quilt for the girls, Chen Tiancai stayed in her room for a while.

He didn't return to his room until he saw that An Qinghuan's breathing was steady and he was gradually falling asleep.

After that, An Qinghuan was still the same as usual, but she never asked Chen Tiancai how she came back and when Chen Tiancai left.

It made Chen Tiancai always feel a little uncomfortable when facing her in the next few days.

Chen Tiancai led people to kill the Lich King in the Icecrown Citadel, and looked down on him in the warm and simple Yanan City, not to mention he turned the Salary King into firewood by dancing street dance in Losric.

Even after traveling through so many worlds, Chen Tiancai still feels that women are a million times more complicated than games.

Fortunately, after returning to China, the heavy work of "Legend Chang'an" came to him immediately, which made him temporarily forget that unforgettable night in Siam.

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Li Zhu's process of collecting information in Chang'an went very smoothly. In addition, he was playing at home there, and he had many acquaintances.

So he also contacted many professors at universities in Chang'an and got a lot of precious information and suggestions from them.

Efficient and detailed information also allows the development of Anthem Network to go smoothly, and the general map framework has been completed.All that's left is to make minor changes based on the main storyline and perfect the physics engine.

The map of "Legend Chang'an" is very large, conservatively estimated to be ten times the size of "Hunting Crisis", but this is only Chen Tiancai's rough estimate.

Traditional open world games have a lot of useless map designs, which are highly repetitive sidelines in Big Potato games.

Even though Chen Tiancai thinks that Big Brother Tudou is still the king of open world games, judging from Big Brother's strategic adjustments in the past two years, their own pipelined open world games also have many problems.

Fortunately, Big Brother Tudou is very shrewd. He adjusted the timeline of game development in time, so that more meaningful content can be filled in the game. Only then can the crisis be overcome.

The overall design idea of ​​"Legend Chang'an", Chen Tiancai learned from "The Witcher III" as a teacher.

Mainly to learn its open world game design ideas, as well as the plot control of the main line and the branch line.

As for the slightly cumbersome skill framework and equipment system of "The Witcher [-]", Chen Tiancai didn't plan to learn it. He felt that in today's highly fragmented game time, it was inappropriate to waste the player's game time on it.

The best solution is to deliberately downplay the RPG elements of "Legend Chang'an", only do the most basic things, and not complicate these elements.

Chen Tiancai considered this point out of the actual situation of Zange Network, mainly to shorten the development time of "Legend Chang'an".

As a product targeting 3A specifications, "Legend Chang'an" will take about a year and a half even with the help of the world engine.

If more complex RPG elements were added, Chen Tiancai felt that with the current scale of more than 100 employees, the development time would have to be increased by 50.00%.

Li Zhu's job is to pave the way for the overall framework of "Legend Chang'an", mainly a large map, art and music.

These are the general direction and small details in the game, like laying the foundation and purchasing building materials before building a house.

What's more important is the main story of "Legend Chang'an".

The Spring Festival holiday will be in a few days. Chen Tiancai still feels dissatisfied after reading several plans of the copywriting team, so more than 20 employees of the copywriting team held a small meeting in the rest area downstairs.

"In the final analysis, our games are aimed at overseas players. Although it can be seen from the Three Kingdoms-themed games that they have a high degree of acceptance of our culture, you have to remember that the era of "Legend Chang'an" is in their eyes. Not familiar."

"To use an analogy, who of you remembers what happened to the Plantagenet Dynasty, or what the history of Europe was like after the Roman Empire?"

Chen Tiancai set the tone for the employees as soon as he came up, and then he went on to clarify his requirements.

"I've seen the design plan of the third edition, and it's really good."

"But if I forget all the historical knowledge in my mind, I will find this story a bit difficult and complicated."

"The main story of the game must not be complicated. Just like "The Witcher [-]", it is actually three words 'find a daughter'. I hope that we can deliberately downplay the court at that time, and don't leave too much ink to the upper class. It is to concentrate on telling the stories of the little people at that time."

"Therefore, the protagonist's background is too high to be discarded. My preliminary intention is for your reference. It is best to be a small soldier or a low-level official."

"You can see Li Zhu's hard work in Chang'an, as well as the work progress of other colleagues in the programming team. To be honest, our copywriting work is a bit slow."

"It is certain that you will work harder, but the main storyline is one of the most important points of our game, everyone should work hard!"

The employees of the copywriting team digested Chen Tiancai's words and met his eager eyes. Although the work they had done for a while was not successful, they still rekindled their fighting spirit.

"Okay, you can go to work, Feng Bi, please stay."

After Chen Tiancai watched the employees go upstairs, he said to Feng Bi: "The work on the main plot needs to be sped up, otherwise it will delay the other details of the big map. If you have difficulties in the work of the copywriting team, I can also join temporarily."

Feng Yu smiled wryly, and said, "Boss, don't do this, or Xiao Ming and the others should laugh at me."

Then Feng Li added: "After the new year, I will definitely come up with a mature plan for you after the new year."

Seeing that Feng Bi had almost issued a military order, Chen Tiancai nodded and said, "Then it will be hard work for you."

Seeing Feng Yu walking upstairs with heavy steps, Chen Tiancai was also cruel and didn't say anything to comfort him.

The work of game development is a job with great pressure. Otherwise, why do foreign game companies repeatedly have various overtime scandals.

But Chen Tiancai still had confidence in Feng Li, so he put more pressure on him.

Just as he was about to turn around and return to the office, Chen Tiancai saw Zhang Xiaoyu running towards him, holding an ipad and said to him with joy on his face: "Mr. Chen, the person in charge of the E3 game exhibition sent us an invitation, you Take a look."

(End of this chapter)