Only after I was reborn did I realize that I had green plums.

Chapter 228 The Road to Game Development

Now Mei Yue needs to take time to understand the related matters of starting the company, and Xia Yuan has just released her first album, and everyone can devote themselves to the development progress of "Journey in the Cloud" in the next time.

Many people may not know what the birth process of a game looks like, so the professional planner Mei Fang will introduce it to the newcomers——

First of all, students from the marketing department or the operation department conduct market research to understand the most popular categories, write evaluation reports, and show the bosses and executives the gameplay introduction, user portraits, market competitiveness, and payment status of these categories. etc.

In the end, under the brainwashing of professional data terminology such as DAU, MAU, and ARPU, they will devote themselves to convincing the bosses and senior management that as long as new projects are incubated with products from the above-mentioned tracks, the company will surely thrive and develop Eye-catching year-end bonus;
After that, the bosses and executives actually experienced the corresponding game based on the results of the research, estimated the development cost, evaluated the control of the game by their R&D team, and gave the project team a certain budget to let them work around the game. This category track is expanding the team's recruitment and running-in, and the pressure comes to the project leader.

The project leader of the R&D team is generally the main planner. After the main planner determines the game category the boss wants, he asks the planning team to play various games of the same category repeatedly, and on the other hand, prepares various materials for the new game and makes a project approval. The report, after tossing and modifying back and forth like this, you can start making games.

The main strategy is to determine the basic gameplay system framework first, the main program starts to write the underlying code structure according to the framework, and the main art is to formulate the art style and art specifications.

In this process, the planners, as the middle office, continuously output demand documents to the program and art according to the content requirements of the version formulated by the main planner, and improve and optimize the content of the product step by step.

This process cannot avoid all kinds of tuning trial and error, overthrow and start again, occasionally the boss will take a look at the performance of the current version and insert a few feet. If the boss is not satisfied, the team will go back to optimize and iterate until the product is submitted for review. It is the completion of the first phase of the development cycle.

The above is a relatively standard game development process, and many times it looks like an ideal process.

"Uh...it's okay, it's not too cold today, hehe...I feel like summer is coming soon."

But Ximilu Studio does not have such a problem, because everyone is united around Mei Fang in the project.

The project leader worked on it for a while, and the boss stepped in from time to time, "This game is also good, you add the gameplay of this game to the game, add the picture of that game, um, I also want the theme of this game .”

"steamed stuffed bun?"

"Ah, let me say, Yuanyuan...you go and change into your pajamas before you come over to play, okay? I'm afraid you'll catch a cold."

Xia Yuan came out of the bedroom yawning, saw Lin Youxi and Mei Fang sitting in front of the computer desk, clacking and typing on the keyboard, and suddenly said curiously:

"Why do you start working so early in the morning...have you had breakfast?"

Lin Youxi also gave feedback on this, "The effect of this villain's movement feels a little unsmooth... The skirt fluttering when he turns around is very unnatural. Would it be better if Guo Yun was asked to add some motion frames? It will add some extra memory though."

A professional planner who understands program development and doesn't come up with all kinds of fanciful and stupid needs to change things every day, and has more than ten years of running-in experience with each other, what is there to say about the degree of tacit understanding between each other?
Under the leadership of Mei Fang, Lin Youxi quickly produced a demo version of the package, and sent it out early the next morning for everyone to try.

"okay."

"I've eaten it. Yours is on the table. It may be a little cold. You can warm it up in the microwave."

"Oh, it's ready to play now! I want to play too."

"Is it necessary for me to speak human words before you can react?"

The main body of the character villain has been designed, mainly to test whether the functions of the basic framework are complete, and the performance of some art resources included in the package.

When Mei Fang was the chief strategist in his previous life, he often led novices to plan. This aspect is a job skill that he will never forget.

"Is that so..."

But after all, there is no market test for the developed game, and no one can guarantee that it is wrong to do so, or that mine will definitely not work. It is normal for everyone to argue about this.

Mei Fang supported his forehead and sighed, "Baozi, Baozi... Pay attention to your Baozi."

"It's good for you to understand this briefly. Ximilu Studio still needs to recruit some more people. I will ask Sister Yueyue to help me hire some spine animators and special effects artists. This kind of TA technology who understands procedures Art is also a key role in determining product strength."

Mei Fang continued to use his experience as a reborn person, "The effect of keel animation is like this at most... Recently, there is a new 2D animation software called spine on the Internet. I think the effect of making 2D villains is quite good. .”

Mei Fang and Zhang Ming were the planners, and now Zhang Ming's free time is at Mei Fang's disposal.Although he is still doing some execution work on matching watches, he does it fairly seriously, and occasionally discusses some gameplay with Mei Fang to understand the intention of Mei Fang's design.

Artist Guo Yun obeys Mei Fang’s demands and strives to understand and satisfy Mei Fang’s ideas. Occasional self-expression will only make Mei Fang feel bright, and she does not feel that she is out of control;
As for the program, the main person in charge is Lin Youxi and Mei Fang himself, but there is nothing to say about this.

Actual game development: The boss found one of the top 10 and top 20 games on the best-selling list and played a few times. He felt that the game was good, so he called the project leader—let’s make one, which is better than him. good.

Xia Yuan first looked at the steamed bun in his hand, looked at the external structure of the steamed stuffed bun, and then realized the meaning of Mei Fang's words, and immediately blushed a little.

Although the operation is similar, there is still a big gap between the overall effect and the "GRIS" in Mei Fang's previous life, especially in the operation feel and performance of the villain.

Xia Yuan's heavy pressure Mei Fang has actually experienced a lot in various forms, but barrier-free experience like this is still relatively rare, and it will also make him feel stressed.

But she was not in a hurry to escape, but poked Mei Fang's back to tease him, "Brother A Fang, you talk so much after just a little touch, you are too sensitive, hahahaha..."

This is still the behavior of bosses who want to make games, and those bosses who only want to make money from games have simpler ideas. He called the project leader——

Before Xia Yuan played a few times, Lin Youxi suddenly said:

Xia Yuan went to heat up breakfast in the microwave, and after eating half of it, she took the buns and trotted to Mei Fang's side. Seeing that Mei Fang was manipulating the villain to move left and right, she leaned on Mei Fang's back excitedly to watch.

Most of the pain and suffering that Mei Fang encountered in making games in his previous life came from the fact that the project leader did not have a firm determination for the project, the gameplay was changed every day, and the boss would overthrow everything and start over with a word. These are very morale-destroying behaviors.

"It's a bit difficult to expect high school students to be interested in this... plus Guo Yun herself... it seems that she is still not very good at communicating with people."

"It's just a demo version, it's still early..."

"..."

Lin Youxi couldn't help but think, "Before you asked Guo Yun to find some art that could help her with work, do you have anything to say about that?"

"Come on, this game is very popular recently, let's make a new skin, I think this thing is just like that, it should be very easy to make, and it will be made within 3 months."

"Huh... sleep well."

Mei Fang actually discovered it when chatting with Guo Yun occasionally. Except for the usual classes, Guo Yun spends all her extracurricular time on game development and fitness, and it is natural for her not to socialize.

"Speaking of which, the amount of resources on the art side seems to be a bit small, but fortunately, the quality is very stable..."

"I'll study it later."

"Yuanyuan, don't patronize and be lazy. Is there no finished product for the game music yet? In the demo, there is no progress at all on your side."

"Oh... that is being written, I should be able to give two songs today."

Xia Yuan put his arm around Mei Fang's shoulders, and whispered in his ear rather intimately: "Hmph...today I will let you all see how good I am."

　There is another chapter at around 2:[-]. My friend came over to play and make an appointment to play mahjong. Maybe I can make another update of Baiyin Meng in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)