Game Making: The Latest Chapter Begins With Healing the Player

Listening to Chen Xu's brief summary of the world view and background of the new game, everyone also had a rough impression.

Apparently the next thing they want to develop is a fantasy game.

"So Mr. Chen, will this be an RPG game?" Yang Xin asked curiously.

Although it was just a few words, Yang Xin still analyzed a lot of content.

In the introduction just now, the xenophobia and coldness were clearly emphasized, and the protagonist is a demon hunter.

So obviously in the game, demon hunters, including so-called warlocks, do not have a good relationship with humans.

At the same time, countries and forces are mentioned in the game, so there must be more than one country in the game.

And since they are countries and they are in a fantasy world environment, it is obvious that these countries cannot be just playing house.

The demon hunter played by the player will definitely participate in it.

This is a perfect template for RPG games.

Otherwise, Chen Xu would not emphasize the world view setting of the game so much.

"Yes, this will be an ARPG with open world gameplay." Listening to Yang Xin's words, Chen Xu smiled and nodded.

In terms of influence, "Resident Evil" and "Bloodborne" are very popular topics.

But in terms of sales, it can be said that it is still not as popular as the phenomenon.

During this period, after zeus acquired FOW, the "Medieval: Deliverance" launched by "Medieval: Deliverance" initially bumped into "Assassin's Creed", but its excellent quality is not actually a failure.

And after that, FOW's technical strength, combined with the wealthy Zeus, launched two very high-quality games during this period.

This has also increased zeus' market share a lot.

On the other hand, at World VR, although Chen Xu developed "Resident Evil" and "Bloodborne", they were both released simultaneously on PC, and due to their own game characteristics, they did not have much influence on World VR.

As for domestic manufacturers such as NetDragon and Tenghua, Tenghua launched two games in succession after the disastrous failure of "Syndicates".

But it can only be said that it is not bad, but as a facade, it is still not good enough.

As for NetDragon, after experiencing the Waterloo of the previous sequel, NetDragon did not focus on the VR platform in the second half of last year and the first quarter of this year.

Instead, it is targeting the switch of Nebula Games.

Combined with its somatosensory mode, NetDragon directly turned on the cold rice mode, that is, it pulled out a very classic game of its own, but it has died of old age due to the times, a game called Dance Party.

In the early years, this was considered a big IP that was well-known in the world, but it needed to be equipped with special dance mats and other equipment. Before VR and PC became mainstream, this IP could be said to be a global hit.

But later, with the development of the times, it gradually became lonely.

But after NetDragon ported it to the switch and specifically optimized the gameplay module, sales exploded.

It can be said that NetDragon has now seen the door to a new world.

The new VR game over there is Waterloo, and the revenue decline has made the financial report very ugly. Investors in the industry have lost confidence.

But here I was sucked directly through the switch, eh! Live!

As a result, the Net Dragon’s attention has directly shifted to the switch.

As for other well-known overseas game manufacturers, zeus is also showing off its gold-dollar policy, causing many manufacturers that were originally affiliated with Universal VR to switch to zeus.

This suddenly made the game department a little panicked. During this period, Yang Chen also had a private conversation with Chen Xu.

In addition, Chen Xu's current identity is not only the BOSS of Nebula Games, but also has an honorary position in the game department.

Of course it is an honorary position, but there are still some special rights.

For example, some of its games can pass the review process better.

Otherwise, Chen Xu would not have thought of making the next game.

"The Witcher", or the third "Witcher: Wild Hunt", is the game Chen Xu will choose next.

Compared with soul games and horror games, ARPG can be said to be the genre with the widest audience of players worldwide.

Even beyond FPS.

Although the previous life of The Witcher series was adapted from one in Poland, it actually doesn't matter at all.

In its previous life, "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" was able to take the world by storm and was once hailed as one of the greatest ARPG games.

Most of the players have never played the previous game or read the original work.

And this does not affect players at all from experiencing the story of Geralt the White Wolf.

Because although it is an adaptation, in addition to the world view, it uses the world view of the Witcher series.

The story of the entire game is completely different from the original work. Starting from the first generation of "The Witcher" game, it is a direct continuation of the original work.

Because in the original work, the white wolf Geralt stepped forward to protect several dwarf friends during a riot against inhuman races, but was fatally wounded by a farmer with a pitchfork.

At the same time, his lover Yennefer exhausted her life force on the spot in order to try to save him, and the two died together.

In the end, the adopted daughter Ciri took away the bodies of the two. In the original work, this was Geralt's final ending.

In the adapted game, it is directly continued and some settings in the original work are changed.

At the same time, the reason why I chose "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" as my goal is that in addition to its own gameplay and settings being more mature and complete, it is also the story of the entire game.

The first game is more about showing the various states of life, while the second game focuses on depicting the political wars in the northern countries. In both games, Geralt is actually just a bystander who is passively involved at the beginning. In some kind of power war and big event.

In the third game "Wild Hunt", Geralt really started his main story.

"The size of this game will be quite large. At the same time, we need to depict the scenery and customs of different regions. I will focus on this point later."

"In addition, before that, Qin Yi and Ruan Ningxue, you still have some work to do. Some related easter eggs will be added to the Nebula World. They are in the development of the game. We need to continue to warm up the game." Chen Xu looked at He slowly spoke to everyone.

After hearing Chen Xu's words, everyone was instantly shocked.

You know, there are very few games that have received such treatment before!

And this time, the project has not even been approved yet and we have to start painting! ?

In the past, I only started by creating a new folder!

"What is Huabing? Don't say it so harshly. Only oral content, such as putting a poster on the official blog or writing a title, is called Huabing. And we are going to use the Nebula world to combine some of the background of the game Display relevant information to players.”

"This is called an Easter egg, not a painted cake!" Chen Xu said seriously as he looked at everyone.

How to speak? If you can't speak, you can consider not speaking.

Can this be called painting a cake? This is clearly a precious easter egg presented to players.

Of course, in addition to mobilizing players' enthusiasm and expectations, this move is actually quite important in Chen Xu's opinion.

Although the quality of "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" in the previous life was quite excellent, many people were persuaded to quit.

As for the reason, it is not a problem with the quality of the game, but because there is too much information in the game, making it confusing for players.

Coupled with the content of the White Orchard of "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" in the early stage of the game, the pace is too slow, which directly leads to many people unable to play here, and naturally unable to access the huge world view of "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" later.

Therefore, during the production of "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", Chen Xu also planned to reveal some game-related background content to players bit by bit through various Easter egg linkages in the Nebula world.

For example, the Witcher's Trial of Green Grass, and some basic worldview settings, etc.

So this is definitely not a painting, this is a serious easter egg linkage, for the sake of the players!