Video Game Designer

The publicity and recommendation of Gu Jian Qi Xia is already in progress. After fully understanding this game, Chuhe has to say that this is indeed an excellent game, especially for Zhang Ke’s bold and innovative design of the game .

In fact, this is not a pioneering method. Some early stand-alone games are divided into various difficulty settings. There are some hidden tasks or achievements and boss levels, which can only be triggered in the most difficult mode. Those games are actually It is similar to the current Gu Jian Qi Xia.

But in the same way Zhang Ke did it, in Chuhe's view, it was indeed a very risky action, and everything else was not mentioned, but it took players two or three weeks to experience such fun. It's not wise at all.

With the fast-paced game rhythm, there are more and more players, and few people are patient enough to play a game that requires a lot of time.

For example, strategy-type games and Zhanqi RTS-type games require a lot of time to ponder, but more players may not be interested in such games.

Even gamers who like this type of game have to admit that compared with mainstream RPG, ACT and FPS games, these games are niche games.

In other fields, if sales exceed one million, it can only be called an excellent game, but if there is a game that can sell more than one million in these game types, then there is no doubt that this is a masterpiece. Questionable things.

An RPG game, with repeated stories and processes, few people will explore for two weeks, especially a linear RPG. Even if the element of "rebirth" is added, will players buy it?

Chuhe kept a question in his heart.

For game makers, understanding players is very important, but sometimes there is a self-centered idea.

That is, this game mode looks really interesting, but this is only interesting for the creators of the game, and it does not represent all players.

"The main line process is about 7 hours, and the repeatability of the second week is 35%. At the same time, the main line process can be extended to 14 hours or shortened to 5 hours." After learning about the game, Chu He began to analyze the game of Gu Jian Qi Xia itself.

The main reason why players don't like to play the second week of the game is naturally because of the same process and plot, and the unknown is more interesting for the game.

When a game is in the first week, the plot has a strong sense of substitution and is well-made, and players will be full of praise.

But in the second week, with the same plot, the player has only one thought, whoever wants to read your stinky and long plot, let me skip it quickly.

Players who can open the second and third rounds, not to mention all but at least 80% of them, are to experience the content that has not been played in the first round, and these players usually use some things such as modifiers, Make it easier for yourself to skip the repeated plots you have already experienced.

If the repeated reading of the second week of Gu Jian Qi Xia is too high, then Chuhe is sure that this system is a design failure, but judging from the background files and the graphic plot provided by the test team, 35% of the repeated reading Obviously above the passing line.

"Actually, in the game, we still launched a MOD editor. Although there is no comparison with Jianghu's degree of freedom, basic replacement, addition and deletion of character models, and text changes are still possible." Zhang Ke looked at Chu He said.

Probably due to the influence of Chuhe, the entire studio under Tianhe Network, except web games, mobile games, and online games, will have the idea of ​​​​opening MOD as long as it is a stand-alone project.

This is a tradition that has appeared since the famine. The game has not been finished yet, and the whole team has already begun to think about how to facilitate players to make MODs.

"Players are always the ones who know how to make games more fun, and MOD is a way for players to satisfy their wishes." Chuhe nodded with a smile.

The main reason why many, many games have been able to survive for several years or more than ten years is that they are loved and extended by the players themselves.

Based on the development of MOD on the game itself, the development of fan games beyond the game can be said to be the same to a certain extent.

"President Chu, there is a press conference coming up, do you want to show your face?" Zhang Ke looked at the time and said to Chuhe.

As a domestic masterpiece that countless people are looking forward to, the press conference before the release is naturally indispensable, and the major domestic game media have also communicated with each other. When the time comes, it will include trial evaluations and various promotions. It will be sent out instantly.

"It's good to go and participate." Chuhe thought for a while, nodded with a smile and said.

Although I didn't participate in the production of the game, it is still a game of my company's studio, so it is not an exaggeration to attend the press conference.

The press conference was held in the conference hall in the park. It wasn't too big, but it was enough to accommodate one or two hundred people. I made an appointment with the park in advance, paid for it, and the scene has been set up.

The promotional posters of the Gu Jian Qi Xia game, as well as other hand-made games, and the staff are all ready. When Chu He and Zhang Ke arrived, they had already seen old domestic game media such as Game Star Sky and Player Paradise. , has arrived ahead of schedule and started taking pictures.

"Mr. Chu, how is the development progress at Red Dead Redemption?" Backstage, while waiting for time, Zhang Ke asked Chuhe.

Hearing this, Qian Bin, who was playing with his mobile phone, also put down his mobile phone and listened with pricked ears.

How could they not be interested in Red Dead Redemption? After all, it is said that this is an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, which is different from what the outside world guesses is supposed to be hundreds of millions of dollars. In fact, it is at most forty to fifty million dollars. As people in the company, they Of course, I know that Tianhe Network has opened a separate project account, and has actually invested 100 million US dollars as project funds.

"The development process was relatively smooth. The entire art team was divided into two batches. One part collected materials in Texas, and the other part collected materials in Mexico. Los Angeles, China, Singapore, and Malaysia all have our temporary offices. " Chuhe looked at Zhang Ke and Qian Bin and said.

The entire Red Dead Redemption project has more than 1,000 people involved in the work so far. Of course, this includes all the people who signed the contract in the project, such as the aunt who sweeps the floor and the employees who joined the job for a month and then left .

Many games claim to have more than 3,000 employees. In fact, it does not mean that the main developers have 3,000 people. It is likely that all people related to the game are included, including working for the game for an hour or two, providing motion material capture. extras.

Similarly, as long as you directly participate in the production of the game, even if you only work for a minute, as long as you sign the contract, the game party will also include the name of the other party in the final production team playback interface of the game.

This is why it takes an hour or two for some large games to play the credit list in the end.

"By the way, I saw a photo of you and him on Hideo Kojima's Twitter before, Mr. Chu, do you know that Hideo Kojima's death stranded the development progress?" Qian Bin said a little embarrassed.

Blinking his eyes, Chuhe looked at Qian Bin.

Good guy, so you are still an island fan?

"I don't know the progress, but anyway, there are quite a lot of stars participating in the game." Chuhe joked.

He really doesn't know about this, because just like him, Hideo Kojima will always say a word when talking about the development progress of Death Stranding.

Don't ask, I'm doing it.

When will it go on sale?

Don't ask, it's coming out soon.

Sony, which has invested in Kojima Studio, looks forward to the stars and the moon every day.

Boss, can you play games without chasing stars?

Of the 10 tweets, 5 tweets were about eating and shopping with celebrities, 4 were about gourmet tourism, and occasionally one was about games.

Originally, Sony had a good idea, and planned to use Death Stranding as the escort of the new host, but now their new IP God of War is almost ready, and even the demo data has been released.

Death Stranding, Infinite Stranding.