Game Development Giant

In fact, regarding the subsequent changes to WOW, there is still a big failure.

That is, in order to simplify the difficulty of the game, Blizzard cut off countless RPG content that was originally excellent, and then once again cut off countless MMO content in order to simplify the game.

WOW has completely become an MMO with extremely weak content, and the RPG content is also extremely weak. To be honest, to be honest, as a pure game, it can bring players pure joy, which is far inferior to the original version, RPG game exploration is the greatest fun, and the sense of mystery in the game is the greatest playability that an RPG game can bring to players.

But the researchable things like WOW no longer exist. If an RPG game loses explorable elements, then the foundation of the game will no longer exist. This is why more and more players Let’s talk about the reason why WOW is becoming more and more fast food.

Of course, even WOW, which has become extremely fast-food, is already enough to dominate the entire MMORPG field.

You can even say it bluntly.

I'm not targeting anyone, I'm saying that everyone here is rubbish.

A game can be made, and it will give colleagues in all industries more than ten years, but no matter how hard these peers try, they can't make it in the same genre and eat the exhaust of a game. This game The status of WOW was naturally established. Maybe on the day WOW came out, many people would say that this is an excellent game.

However, most people may not imagine that this is such an excellent game.

After the release of Monster Hunter, whether it is the official player community or the Battle.net platform, the enthusiasm of players is beyond imagination.

Because the ladder system of Monster Hunter is not launched simultaneously, players are already very eager for the official launch of the ladder system as quickly as possible. Countless high-level players can't wait to show their unparalleled hunting through the ladder. Technology and speed.

certainly. The original Monster Hunter did not have this ladder system.

The ladder system was also inspired by Jester's games from Blizzard, because he felt that the game mode of Monster Hunter was indeed very suitable for adding a ladder system. With this system, the playability of this game can be greatly improved. When players get tired of grinding for materials, they will turn to the ladder.

After all, there will always be a day when the materials are finished.

But the ladder to heaven. Because people compete directly with each other, so on the day he hasn’t finished the game, you haven’t seen a group of people constantly grinding the ladder in the game D3, let alone a game as challenging as Monster Hunter Games of games.

Human beings will always have the desire to conquer. This is human nature and cannot be taken away or hidden.

Everyone has it.

Why am I worse than him? I can't be worse than him!

This is an idea that everyone has, and this is why the ladder system has been a great success from the day it was born, because everyone has a competitive spirit. They all have a sense of comparison and vanity.

This is why designers should rationally use players' desires when designing games.

However, the gradual opening up of game content and releasing everything at once is not a method that should be used in design. If you release many gameplays at once, players may suddenly become dissatisfied. It’s good to know what to play, and this will also waste these different gameplays and not give players enough time to experience them.

Just like the ladder system, it has actually been completed now. Several tests have been conducted internally, and there will be no problem even if it is released immediately. But the problem is that Monster Hunter has only been released for a month. Many players have just gotten the hunting badge and started their hunting journey, and do not yet have a deep understanding of this game.

He rashly launched the ladder system.

Except for a very small number of players, this is very good news. For the vast majority of players, such a thing is actually of no particular use.

Because they cannot experience such content.

So, rather than opening up prematurely. Satisfying the hearts of a small group of people is far less effective than opening up the ladder system after a period of time, when more than half of the players are ready, so that more people can experience the content of the game. This is for designers, For players, it is the best and most correct choice.

Therefore, Jester's consistent answer to all inquiries from the player community about high-level players is that they are not ready yet.

Now that the Monster Hunter thing has finally come to an end, for Jester, the busiest time has just arrived, because with the advent of the online game era, Jester is officially preparing to develop domestically. Although The Internet company he and his sister-in-law established in China has successfully turned a profit in the past two years because of its relationship as an agent for online games.

Moreover, it is also sponsoring several domestic game studios.

With this kind of funding, domestic games do not need to consider whether the game can sell well in the country. Therefore, designers can try their best to consider how the game should be designed to be fun.

Therefore, in the past two years, several very high-quality games that did not exist in history have been released.

There are also far more developers than ever before.

This is what Jester can do. He can’t control whether there will be a ban on game consoles in the country in the future, and he doesn’t want to. However, he feels that he can leave a batch of games that were truly for good in the country. And people who have developed it will never do bad things.

This is much better than having a group of people making games in the future who don't even know the most important things about games.

In fact, although online games are only beginning to take shape in China, it is foreseeable that the future profit prospects are very broad.

Not only was Mars Entertainment’s dark-oriented MMORPG, represented by the Internet company that Jester and his sister-in-law were represented by, very popular, after all, it had a promotional role in Diablo, a god-level IP.

Even other online games like Ultima Online are very popular in China.

For domestic players, this kind of online game seems to be more fun than stand-alone games. Regarding this conclusion, Jester is noncommittal. He can only say that for different players, he has different choices for games.

and. Jester is very curious about a person in the country now.

This person is called Li Kewen, and Jester has heard of this character before. In the original world, this legendary figure, this great soul who once passed away. He was very respectful.

This time he plans to return to China after a while to examine domestic work, and also wants to meet the other party. If possible, Jester would like to bring the other party into his company, because the other party is really the world's best. A rare true genius, if one person is compared, he is, to a certain extent, the John Carmack of this field.

A ban in 2000 completely ended the burgeoning electronic game industry in mainland China, but even in such a desperate situation. There are also some Chinese people who have devoted their lives to the game and deserve to be remembered. Li Kewen is one of them.

Li Kewen, a young man born in 1979, was once known in the domestic gaming circle as the number one simulator in China. Just like what everyone often says now, Liu Cixin single-handedly brought Chinese science fiction to the world level. What Li Kewen did back then was to single-handedly push China's simulators into the ranks of the best in the world.

Li Kewen, whose online name is Kevin, is the earliest independent simulator developer in China and is also a senior administrator of the Mop Forum. He appeared and passed away in a hurry. It once shocked the domestic gaming industry.

Li Kewen, who has an IQ of 16~4, always ranked first in all subjects when he was in school. He has shown extraordinary talent in computers since he was a child: the 1997 Beidi City Sitong Cup Youth Computer Programming Competition Sitong Star Title; Silver Sail Award for Primary and Secondary School Students in Imperial City; Gold Medal at the 10th National Science and Technology Invention Expo; Gold Medal at the 9th National Youth Invention and Scientific Paper Competition; First Prize for Imperial Youth Science and Technology Paper...

Because he was a heavy gamer himself, Li Kewen began to devote himself to developing emulator programs after entering college. He successively released DreamNES, DreamGBC and DreamGBA. It has also ported its own emulators to handheld and mobile terminals. Especially when Nintendo's handheld GBA was released, Li Kewen even wrote the GBA emulator DreamGBA that can perfectly run the game even when he didn't even own a GBA. As a completely free emulator, it has more features than foreign paid works. Good compatibility, faster speed. This is considered to be the first time that Chinese technology is at the forefront of the world in terms of simulators.

This is a John Carmack-like figure who has been the hero of countless people. The idol of countless players.

However, God is jealous of talents. Li Kewen, who was only 25 years old, died of uremia.

Before Li Kewen died, he was developing DreamPS2. It is said that the simulation of the CPU and graphics chip has been programmed. It only takes two more months to connect the cores of the PS2 simulator and another two months to debug it. .

However, at this time, the kidney donor he transplanted due to uremia was found to be infected with hepatitis B virus. His body began to deteriorate rapidly and he was no longer able to complete the work.

On June 30, 2004, Li Kewen received his diploma from Imperial University in the ward. He passed away the next night.

Until his death, Li Kewen still missed the simulator he developed. He left his last words to all players: I will leave tomorrow. If you still survive, you will have new dreamgba to play when I come back. As for 1.8, you can’t play the golden sun normally, but it’s really hard to adjust, sorry!”

If he can live to more than ten years later, then he can still see the bizarre handheld battle between Sony and Nintendo, see the three-thirds of the world in the video game industry, and see the release event of the National Bank game console... In this case, He will definitely be able to play more of his favorite games, and can also bring better emulators to players who cannot own consoles. Maybe he will use his own technology to embark on the road of game development... What if , who can tell.

If given a chance, he would be able to make the best console possible.

Or the best game.

As a gamer with an infinite love for video games, Jester wanted to give the legend a chance.

Jester didn't want such a talented genius to die because of a medical accident. If possible, he wanted to prevent this from happening.

It is really rare and rare for such a character to appear in the game desert in China.

Judging from the current time, he should still be in his third year of high school, and he will be admitted to Teito University next year. But fortunately, Li Kewen is also a celebrity. He is not an unknown person, so it is not a big deal to find such a person. Too difficult.

Moreover, as a senior player, Li Kewen and his online name are not unknown in China. Maybe he is among the thousands of players who often go to the Mars Entertainment player community in the United States to read posts. As for myself.

Jester contacted the domestic branch. As soon as he mentioned this person, people in China immediately expressed their knowledge - because not long ago, it was this person named kervin who completed the latest version of GAMEBOY. cracking work and launched it for free on the domestic network, which made people at the domestic branch of Mars Entertainment very angry.

But there was nothing to be done about it.

After all, this is not Europe and America.

Jester also felt a little funny when he heard the news. He didn't expect that the person who had enjoyed the benefits of Li Kewen's simulator would actually be hacked by the other party this time.

But Jester just replied nonchalantly: Let's put this aside for now. I'm very curious about this person. After a while, I want to go to China to inspect the work. If it's convenient, can you help me contact him? If possible, I would like to meet the other person. I admire the other person’s talent and I really hope to have a talk with him.”

Hearing these words from his boss, the people in the domestic branch immediately didn't know what to say.

His boss actually wants to meet a cracker? (~^~)