The basics of game design, from getting started to entering the grave

Chapter 21
"tomorrow?"

Jiang Qiuqi didn't want to interrupt what he was doing.

"Busy now?" Chu Jukun said, looking at her screen.

"Okay, right now."

Jiang Qiuqi hurriedly pressed the lock screen and walked to the nearest conference room.

She pushed open the door of the "Liuhe Tower", turned on the lights and the air conditioner, and sat down on one side of the conference table.

Chu Jukun followed, pushed the door shut, and straddled the table casually.

The height of the table was just a little higher than her stomach, and within the range of vision, it was Chu Jukun's inelegant position.

Jiang Qiuqi felt offended, and backed away while rowing the chair.

"What are you talking about?" She looked up at Chu Jukun and asked the first question.

"Why did you come to the project team?"

"I'm about to graduate, and I'm looking for an internship. I liked playing games before, and my cousin runs a game company, so I'm here."

"Seriously want to make a game? I know some rich second generations who say they like it, but actually have another purpose."

"I have another purpose, and I still need to see if this purpose conflicts with making games. I have another purpose, and I want to be a producer."

Jiang Qiuqi's eyes were firm, Chu Jukun raised his eyebrows, and did not continue to say harsh words.

"You and Ju Dian knew each other before?"

Jiang Qiuqi didn't react, did the topic jump a little too fast?
"Yeah, I've seen it before. What's the matter?"

"Oh, no wonder." Chu Jukun returned to his usual disdainful expression. "Do you like him? Or does he like you and you catch him?"

...In any case, it's all her problem?

The red light of the projection device flickered regularly, and the time passed by every minute.

"Does this have anything to do with work?"

Jiang Qiuqi originally wanted to explain, but stopped when the words came to his lips.A person with Chu Jukun's personality would not trust her easily.Moreover, why should she explain her matter to him?

"It's okay, I just hope you can treat your work more purely." He spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, with an expression that she thought too much.

"Hehe," Jiang Qiuqi laughed angrily.

"I also want to give you this sentence. I hope you treat your work more purely! Is it interesting to target me? Will it make your life happy or make you rich?"

"Okok, I will try my best. At work, I will not have any filters because you are a relative of the boss. I will work overtime when I need to, and scold me when I need to.

Regarding what you said against you, I will pay attention to it and try to be as objective as possible.Of course, if you can't conquer me with your performance at work, then I will definitely put a cross on your application for regularization. "

"no problem."

Jiang Qiuqi stood up and looked at him.

"Okay, did you want to slip away? Let's get off work." Chu Jukun snorted, opened the door and left.

"Cut!" Jiang Qiuqi was furious. This man tried not to prejudice her as soon as he finished speaking, and immediately slapped her in the face.

She thought about it again, he wouldn't want to use aggressive methods to keep her working overtime, would he?

no!He must not be allowed to succeed!
Jiang Qiuqi returned to his seat, sent all the files to himself, turned off the computer and left.

She wants to go home and roll quietly, and then amaze everyone.

The lights of Jiang's house were lit until late at night again.

Early the next morning, Jiang Qiuqi slumped on a chair as soon as he arrived at his work station.

"...You are?" Wang Shuo looked at her dark circles and opened his eyes wide.

"Didn't I tell you to go home and have a good rest? Have you boiled the eagle again?"

He shook his head and sighed, complaining in his heart that young people don't know how to take care of their bodies.

"I yesterday..." She yawned. "Finish all kinds of endings. Then I thought, to do system planning, now we should focus more on researching system design.

I seized the time again and listed what their system has and what its features are.When I came back to my senses, it was dawn. "

Jiang Qiuqi was so sleepy that he was about to open his mouth and yawn again.

Wang Shuo smiled: "You are a planner, not a boss. It's a bit early to study the big framework."

As soon as the word "boss" came out, Jiang Qiuqi was so frightened that he yawned back.

"Yesterday I just recorded the key points, and I haven't started to think about how to write the report, right?"

She nodded.

"That's good, it's not a waste of time. Today you just think about what to write in your research report.

Let me tell you secretly that the important thing in the research report is not how they designed it, but what you think their designs have. "

The new working day still starts with the earnest instruction of the teacher and father.

Jiang Qiuqi stretched with difficulty and turned on the computer.

She randomly grabbed a piece of hair, and when she saw the amount of hair loss, she couldn't help sighing: Work makes people bald!

At 10:30, Wang Shuo asked her to go to the meeting together.

"The game demo design plan and plan have come out, why don't you go and listen together?"

So fast?Hao Zhuang is amazing.

Jiang Qiuqi picked up a pen and paper and followed Wang Shuo's footsteps.

"Beforehand, this plan is just my first version, and it hasn't reached the boss yet. If you have any comments, please don't worry."

Before Hao Zhuang started, he said to everyone.

Jiang Qiuqi is a little unhappy, she is not a tyrant, she has seen the plan, so she can't accept changes?
Sitting next to her, Wang Shuo whispered, "If you have any ideas, you can put them forward. Don't be afraid that your opinions are not professional enough."

She nodded.

Hao Zhuang opened the PPT and began to explain.

In the last meeting here, Jiang Qiuqi still sat at the back as the boss, but now she has become a member of the team.

This feeling is interesting and wonderful, and psychologically, it is also much easier.

Tian Cheng, who just sat alone at the end and was sleepy, looked a little pitiful.

Sorry Xiao Tiancheng, I will give you a salary increase next month.

Jiang Qiuqi withdrew his gaze and returned his attention to Hao Zhuang.

In just a few days, he already had a sketch with a distinctive style on his PPT.

"Let me talk about the purpose and idea of ​​demo production first." Hao Zhuang finished talking about the table of contents and started to get down to business.

"The preliminary demo is only for the verification of the feasibility of the gameplay. Based on our game, it is divided into two parts: the looping process and the level design.

Wang Shuo is in charge of the process. A general framework has been developed in the past few days, and we will discuss it in detail later;

In terms of level design, Kuner also wrote several versions of the plan. I think each has its own advantages and disadvantages, so I would like to discuss it with you.

My current thinking is that the framework comes first, and Wang Shuo assists the program to successfully build the underlying structure and process.I'm going to discuss this with my boss tonight.

Regarding checkpoints, according to today's discussion, let's see if we can give the boss a clear screening direction and verification method within this week. "

Hao Zhuang looked at Chu Jukun and Wang Shuo, and asked if they had any questions.

The two shook their heads at the same time.

"Okay, let's look at the process first." Hao Zhuang zoomed out on the PPT and clicked on the video to play.

In the video is a white model of the process.

Jiang Qiuqi has a brief understanding that this is made with unity.

Designers only need to make the game characters run and interact in different positions through simple placement and connection, resulting in different reactions.

"Amazing." Chu Jukun raised an eyebrow at Wang Shuo.

"I thought you could only do the system, and the use of tools was limited to downloading and opening and closing."

"Know more, less prejudice." Wang Shuo didn't even look at him.

"This white model is relatively simple, and it still needs art and specific design to feel the atmosphere of the alternation of day and night, as well as the sense of tension and so on."

Hao Zhuang didn't speak, just smiled and clicked play.

In the video, a character is in the middle of the screen, dragging the left joystick can control him to rotate in eight directions.

Only then did Jiang Qiuqi understand the meaning of the "eight directions" mentioned earlier.

In the games you usually play, the character rotates quickly to various angles, and it will stop there precisely according to the operation; while in the video, it only stops fixedly in eight directions similar to the word "米".

The character continues to move forward and touches the cube on the ground, and an interactive button appears on the top of the cube.

After a burst of white light, the character enters another map.There are various NPCs in the map, which are replaced by cylinders of different colors, and their heads have their own functions.

The character passes through the NPC, and a halo appears on the ground.He returns to the birth scene through the aperture.

A rectangular box similar to the game interface appears in the upper left corner, and it starts to display day and night, time, and a special conversion button.

"Let me explain," Wang Shuo said.

"This is the player's experience when entering the game for the first time. Players need to have a shuttle between the human world and the demon world, and then open the day and night, identity conversion and other systems.

I am lazy here, the two portals did not distinguish between gates and valves.

When actually doing the demo, I will design together with the copywriter and scene classmates what kind of performance will be better. "

It turned out that before the formation of a fun game, it was such a boring and lengthy model making.

She saw that Wang Shuo's work was easy, at first he just wrote mind maps, and later he always took time to guide her. She thought that what he did was very simple.

From such a model to the final exquisite level, how many days and nights, and how many overthrows and redoings will it take?
Jiang Qiuqi has a little more respect for the game creators.

Video continues.

The scene gradually becomes richer: there are alternating light and dark guide lines on the surface, which is somewhat similar to the pathfinding in normal games;
In addition to the cube-style teleportation box, there are more round bodies, spikes, etc. that require players to distinguish independently and decide whether to interact.

The character will get a golden aura when it touches the circle, and the aura will disappear when it touches the spikes; if it touches the spikes without the aura, the player will fall to the ground.

"These are the level parts I simply added in the production." Wang Shuo said again.

"For the real level design, it can only be regarded as an introduction. At that time, Chu Jukun and Hu Tao will need to design some more subtle obstacles."

In the following video content, a large number of dialog boxes and options began to appear.

"This is the narrative part. I told Wang Shuo to do it casually, and he really did it casually."

Hao Zhuang looked relaxed and smiled at Wang Shuo.

"This part of my design will be supplemented, and I will be responsible for it with my copywriting classmates. The main thing is to enrich the content of expression by scene narrative."

The video is coming to an end here.

"I would like to add that many of the things we need to verify in this part are based on numerical experience. Numerical students need to come up with a plan according to the actual situation, and then slowly optimize it according to the experience."

The part of Wang Shuo's self-reflection ended, and he nodded to Chu Jukun by the way.

"No problem!" Chu Jukun didn't bother to talk.

After watching the demo process completely, Jiang Qiuqi suddenly became suspicious of such a production method.

There is no art or scene, just simple operation and operation results, plus some simple text and digital prompts, it is not fun at all.

"May I ask, after doing this, how can I judge whether I can proceed to the next step?"

Jiang Qiuqi raised his hand to ask a question.

Chu Jukun played steadily, first "tssed" and then gave her a contemptuous look.

"Good question." Wang Shuo nodded in approval.

"This is about the meaning of doing a demo. Do you know why you want to do this, instead of just putting on art and so on based on the planning proposal and design ideas?"

"To save time?" Jiang Qiuqi replied tentatively.

"It's almost the same, and there is cost saving. Whether there is art, light and shadow changes, and beautiful scene design is not important for planning.

Some people are addicted to playing mahjong, is it because the patterns of mahjong are beautiful?More likely, he likes gambling and the thrill of randomness. "

Wang Shuo's example was so vivid that the conference room was filled with laughter.

"Old Wang, your example is wonderful. It kind of explains why men like colorful underpants."

Walnut laughed heartily, trembling all over.

"There are so many girls here, can you be more civilized?" Hao Zhuang frowned, walked over and patted Populus euphratica.

"That's right, Boss Hao is still a gentleman." It was Yin Qiang, the copywriting planner, who spoke.

She was well-dressed, with no broken hair on her smooth forehead, and she exuded an aura of world-weariness all over her body.

Yin Qiang looked at Hu Tao with contempt in his eyes, but when he came to Hao Zhuang, his eyes were full of admiration, just like a little girl.

She hadn't joined the job at the previous meeting, and this was the first time she participated in the project establishment discussion.

Hao Zhuang didn't answer, but looked in Tiancheng's direction instead.

Jiang Qiuqi keenly sensed something strange.

"Qiu Qi, do you understand?" Wang Shuo called his name.

She quickly regained her senses. "Ming, I understand!"

"For planning, these white models are enough to judge whether the game can be done well. If you think it is not fun, there is a problem with the design."

Wang Shuo continued to answer the above words.

Jiang Qiuqi nodded slowly.Therefore, there is a problem with this white model.

Where is the problem?She couldn't think of it for a while.

"OK, after reading the process, how do you feel? Let's start with Kun'er."

Hao Zhuang is a qualified meeting chairperson.

"The process is highly repetitive, and the fun of the game cannot be felt in the experience; the lack of key values ​​makes it impossible to feel the emotional transmission."

Chu Jukun paused.

"Can I watch the video again?"

Hao Zhuang played it again.

"What's more, although all the processes are in it, the levels and plot parts are not in the right place, causing the whole to be a little messy."

"Well, these really need to be adjusted." Hao Zhuang turned his head and explained to Wang Shuo.

"What he said went back and adjusted again. It was indeed a bit too rough."

"No problem. I'm also rushing to make a version that has everything, and the latter ones are really blunt."

"When will there be another edition?"

"This Friday." Wang Shuo thought for a while and replied.

"OK, does anyone else have any questions?"

The meeting room fell silent, and everyone seemed to be thinking deeply.

It turns out that those who make games are also afraid of being called out for questions. Jiang Qiuqi seems to be watching the scene in a university classroom.

"I have a question!"

The voice came from the back of the conference room.

Jiang Qiuqi followed the prestige and saw Tiancheng stood up with his eyes still closed.

"What's your question?" Hao Zhuang walked towards her, asking questions in a gentler tone than talking to them.

　A little explanation: gates and valves refer to the design of teleportation/entrance in the game (from the scene to the dungeon), gates are ordinary teleportation, which can be one-way or two-way; valves refer to one-way non-returnable doors, such as falling off a cliff, etc. It will have a more sense of design and substitution.

　　
　
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