The Strongest Animator [Rebirth]

Mu Suxing spoke very briefly. After all, he just came up with a rough creative idea on the spur of the moment. He was mercilessly suppressed by Fang Lian and others before he started his more in-depth and specific self-exploration. .Considering the more busy work tasks in the new year, it is not necessarily a good choice to switch to playing games right now.

Qin Sheng didn't say yes or no.Compared with Fang Lian and the others who are concerned about the various departments of Huaying, his focus tends to be more on the game itself. At this moment, Mu Suxing only talked about it, and Qin Sheng could vaguely see his future. Do your best:

"You don't intend to make a profit?"

Mu Suxing was slightly taken aback, but he didn't expect the other party to even see this.But this is indeed not something that needs to be deliberately concealed, so he didn't mean to hide it, but simply admitted: "That's right."

The idea of ​​Shepherd Star to make this game is actually very simple:

He hopes to integrate the miniature of Huaying animation into this game reasonably.The picture of this game does not need to be so cool and high-end, nor does it need to be so complicated and cumbersome to operate. After a few years, when players open the game again, they can think of the decades of time that accompanied Huaying, facing those familiar jokes The bridge section smiled knowingly, and that was enough.

For a non-original game, the high popularity of the original IP itself is not only a guarantee for the sales of the game, but also a disguised constraint.Compared with fans of Huaying animation, ordinary gamers who do not watch animation are the real majority.

Highly popular characters can add color to the game, but they can also discourage players who don't know them.

To give the simplest example: For example, the Shepherd Star arranges a maze scene in the game. When the player is wandering around the intersections of the maze, weak, pitiful and helpless, a face is full of reliability, and three weapons are worn around the waist. When the green algae head NPC of Dao kindly asks you: "What are you doing, do you want to ask for directions?"——

Players who have never watched "One Piece" may be relieved, followed the direction pointed by the NPC and never returned, playing Gameover with question marks all over their faces.

Players who have watched "One Piece" will smile slightly, calmly walk towards the intersection that is completely opposite to the direction pointed by the NPC, and easily pass the maze level.

In short, in this game, there is a considerable difference in the overall game experience between players who are fans of Huaying animation and real passer-by players.

If Mu Su Xing decides to make this game into a purely commercial game, then he must consider the feelings of passers-by who have never watched Huaying animation, and consider deleting similar jokes, but in this way, it seems like It violates the original intention of Shepherd Star to make this independent game.

Because the feature of this game is precisely that the players watch the familiar animation scenes in the game and interact with their favorite animation characters, as if experiencing a brand new Two-dimensional adventure itself.

In other words, this will be a purely animation fan-oriented game.

Shepherd Xing has always been very open about these things: "The game was originally born because of feelings, and I am not short of money. Instead of pleasing passers-by and putting the cart before the horse, it is better to carry the feelings to the end." He smiled: "Just Think of it as a small gift to the fans for years of support."

Qin Sheng thought for a while: "If it's just a pixel RPG game, I can help you with the program. It doesn't matter if two people do it."

Pixel RPG games are no different than others. After abandoning the generally gorgeous CG screens in the current game industry, pixel games more return to the essence of the game, pursuing the gameplay itself. In this way, it requires a lot of money, manpower, and material resources It will also be much smaller.

Among independent game development teams, there are also teams with only one person.

He agreed straightforwardly, but Mu Suxing hesitated instead: "Will it be too much trouble for you?" Without deliberately inquiring, I knew that Qin Sheng probably had no less work than him.

"There is still time to make a small game." Qin Sheng said: "Besides, you only have a rough idea right now? Since you want to include the characters in the future Huaying animation, then at least you have to draw a picture yourself. Shadow’s next animation must also be well thought out.”

The indie game project that was thought to be bankrupt suddenly had a new turning point, Mu Suxing swept away the previous depression, and became full of energy: "Of course."

The game production engine brought by Jiang Yucheng can be regarded as a small surprise, but that's all.The focus of Huaying is always on the animation itself.

Needless to say, the Harry Potter series, with the success of the first part, and the follow-up plot of the original book itself is not bad. The worry, on the contrary, is that other film companies need to carefully consider whether to avoid Huaying for the box office of their own films.

In addition to the second part of Harry Potter, 2D animation films are also considered by Shepherd Star. CG animation films have the advantages of CG animation films, but 2D animation is also what Huaying is best at in the past three years. Since the center of gravity is shifting towards movies, it is time for 2D animation movies to be put on the agenda.

Not only that, TV animation and web animation are also one of the focuses that Huaying needs to take into account in the future. We must not give up the advantages of Huaying itself because we focus on animated films.

……

While Mu Suxing was thinking about the specific plans for Huaying animation for the New Year, many companies also turned their attention to Huaying, and began to pay attention to Huaying's actions both openly and secretly.

This "many" covers quite a lot of fields, from familiar animations, movies, comics and games, to clothing, publishing, snacks, stationery that seem to have nothing to do with animation...

In fact, as early as Huaying’s Sherlock Holmes series comics became popular, Huaying’s animation has become a favorite among investors: not to mention the mutual transformation between animation, live-action movies, comics and games, due to the The animations produced by Yingying are often big ip, which leads to the shortage of derivatives related to animations.

Especially after "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" broke the historical record with its super high box office, countless speculators have focused their attention on the "business opportunities" in it.

Now that Harry Potter is popular, no matter what, the uniforms of the four colleges must be set, right?Chocolate Frog with Wizard Card Don't want to collect?Do you want the same wand as the popular character?Considering the appeal of the magical world in the movie to the audience, the formula book detailing the Hogwarts setting can also be published in millions of copies, right?

However, when various companies contacted the various heads of Huaying through various channels, trying to win the copyright of Harry Potter peripherals, Shepherd Star was...conceiving the game.

Yes, ideation games.

Although Fang Lian and others repeatedly told him not to love the new and dislike the old, and to abandon the main palace of animation and go to play games, but Mu Suxing has just passed a few classic RPG games from the system mall, and now is the time to become addicted. If he doesn't have time to play games, then he can casually make up his mind and give Jiang Yucheng some ideas, right?

After all, it is a newly established game platform. If you want to have a stable number of users, it is definitely not enough to rely solely on Huaying's inherent fan base. The game production engine made by Jiang Yucheng has just been launched. Visual novels are still in the period when the eyes are smeared, so it is still necessary to make a few representative games.

So after listing his future work plan, Mu Suxing began to make a work list for Jiang Yucheng in a considerate manner.

Visual novel games are easy to handle. Derivative visual novel games are also very compatible with animation. The script and vertical drawing of the game also correspond to the writers and artists of the same people.There is a fan game competition ahead, so I'm not afraid that fans will not be interested in this type of game.

As for original games, he can also let Thorn Entertainment make a few typical mini-games, which will not only attract traffic to the game platform, but also provide some typical ideas for producers who are interested in such games.Such as the classic emperor/empress development plan, the daily routine of cultivating immortals, and by the way, it’s not bad to make a "Hogwarts Daily"?

What annoyed Shepherd the most was the pixel RPG game.

The independent game he wants to make is fine, but right now he has not yet determined Huaying's overall plan for the next few years. Considering the tedious details of this game, there may not be enough time...

As if seeing his troubles, the silent system hesitated for a while, then suddenly said: "If you just want this type of game to attract traffic to the newly established game platform, it's okay to exchange achievement points the same."

Shepherd Star was a little surprised: "You mean, I can redeem the game in the system mall through achievement points, so that it can appear directly in this world?"

"Yes," the system replied: "The purpose of this system is to 'promote plane culture', and the behavior of projecting games in the system mall to this plane is allowed under the condition that the game producer is marked."

Shepherd star's eyes brightened.

……

Ten minutes later, Huaying's core senior staff represented by Fang Lian, Wen Feihang, Qiu Fengmao and others received a chat message from their own boss, plus a game attachment.

"The company is about to open a game platform. I have a game here, and I plan to promote it as a key game on the platform. Play it first, try to pass the level, and give me a game review later. [Game attachment.zip]"

The tone is flat and natural, business-like, and there is no trace of grudges.

Mu Su Xing was so open-minded, Fang Lian and others who received the news over there felt a little bit unbearable—after all, Mu Su Xing likes to mess around, but it turns out that every time he messes up, it is in the middle of chaos. There is a spectrum, and it never really caused any trouble for anyone. Instead, they suppressed each other's desire to make independent games.

It was precisely because of this guilt that as soon as the news about Mu Su Xing came out, Fang Lian immediately replied: No problem, leave it to me, and I promise to give you an absolutely perfect game review later!The kind with both pictures and texts!

As a hardcore game enthusiast among the few, Fang Lian has always been quite confident in his skills.

It's a holiday right now, and he still has some unspeakable guilt for the pastor star in his heart at the moment, it happens that he has nothing to do, and he is idle, so he simply downloaded the game sent by the pastor star Attachment, ready to try it out now.

Accompanied by the computer's "ding" notification that the download is complete, Fang Lian made a cup of tea, and then sat down leisurely in front of the computer, looked up at the computer desktop, and fixed his gaze on the decompressed game icon , the name of the game is——

Witch's House.