Video Game Designer

early may

Star Wars Battlefront 2 developed by EA is secretly testing. Although the other party invited Chu He and other game producers from the industry to visit and test, most of them declined.

It can be seen that EA seems to be very confident. If I use one word to describe it, it is probably ambitious. Although the game is just a secret test, it has not fallen behind in terms of publicity.

And the most important thing is that the latest Star Wars movie released by Disney has also confirmed its schedule for promotion, although the plot of the movie is definitely different from the plot of EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2.

But it belongs to the Star Wars series, and it happened to be in such a period. If there is no PY transaction behind it, then the devil would believe it.

At the same time, HON, which is a collaboration between Icefrog and S2 in North America, has been officially released not long ago. The name of Icefrog and the promotional card played by S2, HON, which is known as the sequel to DOTA, slowly began to carve up the original DOTA players. About About 30% of the players fell into the arms of HON.

Most of the heroes and equipment are not out of the scope of DOTA, and a strong shadow of DOTA can be seen.

For example, the crazy mask in the game - blood claw, the effect in HON is that there is no special blood-sucking effect during normal attacks, but when it is turned on, it will increase the upper limit of health and give blood-sucking effects.

Although it feels a bit strange, it is obviously a reference to the two props of DOTA, the armband and the blood-sucking mask.

Of course, it is obvious that Ice Frog also sees that if it wants to attract more players and commercialize it, reducing the difficulty of getting started is a very important factor.

Therefore, in HON, Icefrog made two changes to HON, changes in the last knife and money mechanism.

Unlike Cheng Yuqi's team who decided to completely cancel denial in League of Legends, although HON has a denial mechanism, it does not suppress the opponent's experience points like DOTA.

In other words, even if you deny a wave of pawns, how much experience should the opponent have, or how much experience, so what is the significance of this denial mechanism?

There is no way to suppress the other party to get money?

Don't make trouble, this is very important in professional and high-end confrontation, but for most ordinary players, this is like superfluous.

At the same time, after the player dies in the game, there is no need to deduct money like DOTA. At the same time, the experience and money gained by killing the player are greatly increased. Even if you have been killed countless times in the early stage, as long as you get an assist in the team battle, you Can get a lot of money.

In addition, there are many changes. Judging from these changes, Ice Frog wants to create a game that is a little different from DOTA, but it cannot ignore the influence of DOTA at all.

This is like a peerless swordsman who gave up the sword he had used all his life and changed his career to practice swordsmanship, but when he was practicing swordsmanship, he always used the sword to perform swordsmanship involuntarily.

Neither fish nor fowl, this is the feeling of HON.

"The total number of heroes has reached 65, the internal test has been carried out, and the rest is about the balance test." In the office, Cheng Yu reported to Chuhe.

"Start the internal BUG test, and invite 6 top DOTA teams at home and abroad to test the hero strength." Chu He said to Cheng Yu.

You can't count on the internal team to test the strength of relevant heroes. It would be a good choice to invite players from professional teams to test.

As for whether the other party will agree?

Don't make a fuss, can't you just give me money?

DOTA is currently the tournament with the most prize money, and the champion is only 500,000 US dollars. Of course, in traditional e-sports competitions, this prize money is already top-notch.

But unlike other games, DOTA does not have additional income such as Counter-Strike team stickers, or PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds team skins.

Such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Counter-Strike, although the prize money for the championship is only three to five million US dollars, but the real income is the exclusive skin and stickers after winning the championship.

Players purchase, teams and players all have a share, but what about DOTA?

None of these.

Cheng Yu didn't speak, just nodded.

"In addition, do a good job with the follow-up project of League of Legends, and then prepare to report to the new project team." After thinking about it, Chu He said to Cheng Yu.

Although Cheng Yu was originally a first-line game producer in China, in Tianhe Network, this aura is not so important. Even to a certain extent, it is not an exaggeration to say that Cheng Yu is a newcomer.

Because for the host platform, especially after Microsoft and Sony launched new platforms, Cheng Yu really lacked experience in this area.

Even though he has already participated in the project of Red Dead Redemption.

To put it bluntly, if he was asked to be solely responsible for a host platform project, the programmers in the project would fool Cheng Yu, saying that the functions he requested could not be implemented, and Cheng Yu might not know whether it was true or not.

The vast majority of game producers themselves have certain art and programming skills. Why is this?

On the one hand, it is the experience accumulated by the original studio, on the other hand, it is also necessary to understand the various processes of the game, otherwise the people below will fool you like a fool, and you will not know that you have been cheated.

"Yes, Mr. Chu!" Cheng Yu said excitedly when he heard Chu He's words.

Even though Chuhe didn't even arrange any positions, it didn't matter, anyway, he didn't think about other things, he just wanted to enrich himself and learn more things, maybe one day he accumulated enough things, He may leave Tianhe Network to start his own business, but before that, he just wants to learn more and make some achievements.

If you're just messing around, choosing to stay in the League of Legends project is undoubtedly the best choice.

After all, judging from the project plan, this is a game that focuses on the online game market just like DNF.

What is the most profitable game on Tianhe Network?

Red Dead Redemption? PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds?

Neither, but DNF as a free online game.

If it is more profitable than the sales volume of Red Dead Redemption when it was released, then DNF must be incomparable at that time, even the Spring Festival with the highest turnover.

But in terms of long-term profits, DNF is definitely more profitable than Red Dead Redemption.

Up to now, although the sales of Red Dead Redemption and online in-app purchases are still growing, compared with the stable monthly turnover of DNF, it is really not enough, especially when there is still a third-party share.

After chatting with Cheng Yu for a while, Chu He's cell phone rang. He opened it and glanced at the message notification. Chu He told Cheng Yu, turned around and walked towards the elevator, and pressed the floor of the reception floor.

It was the first time in my life that I was caught by the police~ I played cards with my friends in the chess and card room. The total gambling money was 120 yuan including the table fee, and then I was caught and fined 300 yuan. I was still squatting in the police station for more than an hour. I won't go to the chess room to play cards anymore, I'd better go to the bathing area to play cards~