Game Making: The Latest Chapter Begins With Healing the Player

"What happened? Nebula Games actually made an animation?"

"Good guy! I take back what I said before about the animation company being delayed by games. This Nebula game has not been delayed at all!"

"Speaking of which, you are actually cooperating with WIS? In recent years, WIS's animations seem to be among the best, right? How come you are cooperating with Nebula Games?"

"Ahem, a friendly reminder, WIS and Nebula Games are not on the same level."

"WIS: We don't want to either, but Nebula Games has given us too much!"

Online players and ordinary melon-eating people were all surprised.

Of course, it is actually what they thought, although WIS has indeed become quite famous in the animation circle in recent years.

But compared with some traditional animation film studios, WIS is still far behind.

Moreover, the funding for a sophisticated animation is quite high. Even with WIS’s current size, if it invests a huge amount of money to produce a sophisticated animation, it will not achieve commercial success. Even if it is said that bankruptcy will not happen, it will definitely be a stretch. .

At this time, Nebula Games came over waving banknotes. Although it was regarded as an OEM, they couldn’t help but give so much!

While players were discussing it, the first season of "Dragon's Blood" was soon launched on major video websites.

Many players who had not paid any attention to this matter beforehand were also attracted and opened it to take a look.

At first glance, many players also feel that it seems to be really good.

Although the plot does not have as many twists and turns as shocking as those in BioShock, it started out as a traditional adventure story of a dragon-slaying warrior and a princess.

But with the appearance of Moon Goddess Selemoni, Prayer Karl, and the Devil's Terror Blade, a carefully planned revenge story was staged, especially the powerful spell of Prayer Karl, as well as the tower where he lived and the people in the tower. It can be said that the library configuration reminds many players who have played Warcraft that they think of an old magician: Medivh.

With the launch of the first season, many viewers have also been attracted.

Mainly because of two points.

First, compared with the previous Dragon's Blood, because there was no shortage of funds, after getting Chen Xu's script, some expansions were made to the content, and the original 8 episodes were expanded to 10 episodes, such as the Luna Plains Disaster. In the past, etc., the production of the entire animation has become more sophisticated.

At least in terms of picture and lens performance, it is definitely at the current first-tier level.

Second, there is also a very important point, that is, the animation produced to promote DOTA can be watched for free, which invisibly increases its rating.

"It feels really good!"

"Indeed, now I'm a little curious about what will happen next."

"But to be honest, Karl is a bit annoying. Isn't this a murder caused by the husband's revenge on his ex-wife?"

"Isn't it true that Selemone is more annoying? She forced Karl and his daughter to believe in her, and even because her daughter was unwilling to die without saving her, when that old woman was violently beaten with a terrifying sharp blade, I almost applauded!"

"No! Haven't you discovered the crux of the problem! Nebula Games, or why did Mr. Chen make such an animation? It can't really be to fulfill an animation dream, right?"

"+1! This is obviously for new projects and games! The background and world view in the animation should be from the game, as well as characters such as Karl the Invoker, Davian, and Mirana. They are obviously new works. The main character in it!"

………………

As the series goes online, more and more players are focusing on the impact of "Dragon's Blood".

Judging from the background setting of the game, this is a complete magical masterpiece!

After all, he is a god, a demon and a dragon.

Is it an ARPG game?

Many players, including designers in the game industry, have such speculations.

After all, games with this theme are naturally suitable, and Nebula Games has done it before. "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" can be said to be quite successful.

As for MMORPG, no one has thought about it. After all, "World of Warcraft" is still very popular. How could Nebula Games not think about making an MMORPG to compete with itself at this time?

However, as more and more news was revealed, it quickly caused an uproar among the player community and the industry.

Because judging from more revealed content, this game called "DOTA" is actually a game on the PC platform.

At the same time, what surprises players even more is that it is said that this game is also a game derived from the RPG map in "Warcraft".

This suddenly confused many players.

"What is going on? Making an RPG map into an independent game? Is it a small game or small project?"

"How is that possible!? For a small project, Nebula Games is so full that it makes an animation specifically to promote it? To know that a game that can enjoy such treatment, this is the first one called "DOTA", right?"

"After reading the promotional content, it seems that this is a multiplayer game, and it is also a God's-down perspective, so it is an RTS?"

"That shouldn't be the case, right? And it seems like there's only one map in this game!"

"What is Chen Xu doing?"

Players in various game forums on the Internet were in a quarrel, and they all expressed that they couldn't understand it at all.

Including major manufacturers that have been paying attention to the game industry, especially manufacturers such as Atari and FOW that are about to launch their masterpieces in recent days, they are also full of confusion.

Nebula Games has not continued to launch new games on the VR platform, which is indeed surprising, but not surprising.

After all, although the current discussion direction in the industry is that the popularity of PC seems to be coming to an end due to the overtaking of VR.

But what does this mean for a huge user base?

It all represents money!

Therefore, some big-selling games are available on the VR platform and will also be adapted in terms of operation, and at the same time castrate the screen performance such as resolution, etc., and then make a PC version for sale.

What really confuses many people is that Nebula Games’ new game is actually going to adapt a World of Warcraft RPG map, and it has spent a lot of money on it.

It’s not that no one has thought about the independence of Warcraft RPG maps. In fact, some Warcraft RPG maps are very popular and have a lot of players. But the key is that the content of these Warcraft RPG maps is basically one or two hours of content, and it is only five hours long. Six hours.

As an RPG map, it is definitely more than enough, but as an independent game, it is a bit inadequate.

In addition, there are sometimes copyright issues involved. Some popular RPG maps are independently made into games. Basically, they make some money, but they are still far from becoming popular.

But now Chen Xu is starting from this aspect, and the key point is that it is not a game based on Warcraft. Even Nebula Games is trying its best to distance itself from the relationship with Warcraft.

The world view, background, and characters have nothing to do with World of Warcraft, which is worth pondering.

In FOW's Glory Warrior project team, Grayson looked at the different versions of maps on the computer in front of him and fell into thinking.

Grayson felt that he was quite unlucky. The first major game he worked on, "The Lost and Damned", ran into the DLC "Blood and Wine" of the Nebula game "The Witcher: Wild Hunt". Later, the Wasteland series that he collaborated with Alex also encountered. "The Last of Us."

But in a way, he was quite lucky.

Because although he encountered monsters every time, he never let the project get messed up due to schedule reasons.

So should we believe in evil this time?

Grayson was in a tangled state. Although Nebula Games did not disclose it, FOW, as the number one player under Zeus, could easily obtain some information about "DOTA", including poaching it from Atari and FOW. employees, and the maps they made.

Judging from these versions of the maps, Grayson can only say that the ideas and creativity are indeed interesting, but the key is, will players accept this gameplay mode and become popular?

If it were any game manufacturer, Grayson would bravely go up to the A, but with Nebula Games, he was not sure.

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Compared to Grayson's entanglement on FOW's side, Chen Xu's mood on Nebula Games is much better.

The development progress of "DOTA" is very smooth.

At the same time, most heroes have been continuously produced.

Including the next publicity plan, it has basically been determined.

The timing just so happens to be on the eve of the Spring Festival, and the key point is that this year is still the Year of the Monkey. There is a hero in "DOTA" that is just right and can be used for promotion.

That is: Monkey King.

Of course, in addition to the Monkey King, there is also a very interesting hero.

In reality, green environmental protection is advocated and fireworks cannot be set off, but in this game it is always allowed, right?

The three Bomberman brothers will also be one of the heroes that Chen Xu is preparing to launch in the first version of DOTA.

In addition, there are also heroes such as Butcher, Dwarf Sniper, Carl, Storm Spirit, etc. that are widely loved by new and old players are on the list.