Genius Game Planning

Chapter 96 Some questions and discussions about the new game
Liu Neng nodded, "Buyout system."

"Boss, you are preparing to face up to foreign players!"

"Not really, it's a test of the water, wait to see the reactions of foreigners. But please don't treat it as a joke, do it well, and make our reputation famous." Liu Neng said with a smile, "Ask more The problem with the game itself? It’s about the design direction.”

Xu Hao asked again, "I saw that the boss said in your design proposal that you are going to build a creative space. What does this mean specifically?"

"Simply put, it's a pinching system. This should be a relatively original design; most games at home and abroad now only have a character selection system. The designer designs multiple game characters, which may be divided into male and female characters, but the image is different. Fixed, depending on the style of the equipment at most, the appearance of the performance is slightly different. My creative space here is divided into multiple blocks, and the pinching system is just one of them."

"To explain in detail, the so-called pinching or face pinching system allows players to adjust and design the character they choose. For example, if he likes the hair color to be red or golden, he can adjust it; like thick lips? No The problem is to adjust it by yourself; if you like Danfengyan, of course there is no problem. If you like taller or thinner, you can use this pinching system to design. This will be involved in many of our games in the future. This is our first An attempt needs to be done well. Of course, this time we are pinching creatures, not people. In terms of technical difficulty, pinching creatures is relatively simple, after all, the expressions of creatures can be partially ignored."

"In addition to the face pinching system, there are also a series of vehicle designs; in the national civilization stage and the space civilization stage, some design authority can be transferred to players, allowing them to design their own vehicles, including land, ships and flight Vehicles. Of course, the most important thing is the design of the spaceship. What we need to do is to provide a wealth of design elements, and the specific design solutions can be explored by the players themselves.”

These cubs thought about it and thought about it seriously, but they were still a little confused about this design.

"But, boss, what's the point of making such a troublesome design?"

"I think that a higher degree of freedom will make players like this game more. On the other hand, I think this may be one of the future profit points of this game."

Huang Chenghao suddenly became interested, "What does the boss mean, we sell the player's blueprint?"

"It should be said that it is a share." Liu Neng has always been satisfied with Huang Chenghao's head. "We can design a mechanism. Players who purchase a certain creature will have this creature appear in their universe, and explore and If you discover this kind of creature, you will get some medals and rewards. We will share the sales income with the producers. We can even only charge 20.00% of the platform fee, and regularly hold creature and vehicle design competitions to attract more players to join the design .”

"Then I think that in addition to creatures and vehicles, architectural design can also be added to the game." Liang Ge is already quite familiar with the design plan. After the game design plan is completed this time, it is natural that Zhang Yueyang and Liu Two big bosses can check it out, but he is responsible for the main planning, and many designs must be thoroughly understood before the tasks can be assigned.

Liu Neng said cheerfully, "Yes, I mentioned this content a little bit in the design proposal, but it is not yet complete. The overall idea is similar to the mechanism of creature design and vehicle design. This glorious and arduous task is entrusted to you. "

Liang Ge shrugged his shoulders, expressing his duty.

"Although I can understand the desire to build a huge universe, 40 billion planets is still too exaggerated? Is it necessary to make it so big? And each planet must have its own independent and non-repetitive name, How to do this!"

"The total number of planets is 40 billion, but it does not mean that they will be generated at the same time. It will only be generated when the player explores the boundary. If so many planets are generated at one time, the computer can blow them up. The generation follows certain random rules Generation, don’t worry about it at all. I will determine the rules of random generation, and you can optimize it on this basis. When it comes to foreign language translation, you need to solve the localization problem specifically, which is very important. "Liu Neng was quite impressed by this.

When many games are created, the game package is very large, and then loaded in an instant, so that the CPU suddenly skyrockets.In the previous life, this was a problem that many game companies would encounter, but they were too stupid to know how to solve it.In fact, it is really simple, set a boundary value, and then there are only abbreviations in the distance, or even some star points in performance.This galaxy will only be generated when the player's fleet travels to the interplanetary system, which has extremely low performance requirements for the CPU.

No one continued to ask questions for a long time, so Liu Neng could only continue, "What is not mentioned in this design plan is another thing. I plan to design and produce a game engine while making this game. , a relatively easier-to-use and more open game engine.”

As soon as the voice fell, the meeting room immediately started whispering.

"I know that many people don't understand my decision. Now only a few large game companies have the capital and technology to make game engines, and they are not open. Every company cherishes itself. You will subconsciously I think, how can we have the capital and technology to do such a technical thing with a small studio of [-] people?"

Liu Neng chuckled, "Maybe I'm a little inflated, but to be honest, this is our best chance. In the design plan of this game, there are economic models, ACT, team battles, and RTS The gameplay, including interstellar models, etc., although the gameplay is relatively simple, isn't this exactly what is needed to make a simple game engine? When the game is finished, the game engine will also be ready, although it is some rudimentary , but our company will continue to make other games in the future, of various types, with different gameplay and styles. We can continue to upgrade and replace this game engine. At that time, we will develop a new game. The difficulty and cycle time will be much reduced. After all, we only need to build the wheel once, and repeating the wheel is a waste of our energy.”

"But why open it to the outside world? If the engine is good, we can use it internally. I have never seen any game company open its game engine to other companies and designers. Is this equivalent to giving away our technology?"

"You are still naive! We can provide it for free to small teams; but if large companies want to use our game engine, they can charge a fee."

"That's still unavoidable. If some big companies subcontract a small team to make games, isn't that equivalent to prostitution?"

(End of this chapter)