Game production: I really have landed

Chapter 165 Old Tang and His "Return to the Market"

"Old Tang! Old Lu!"

As soon as Luo Bai got off the car, he saw Tang Yunpeng and Lu Maru waiting at the entrance of the hotel.

"Mr. Luo, congratulations."

Tang Yunpeng came forward to say hello with a smile.

"Old thief, you have stepped onto the altar."

Lu Maru was also joking happily.

I remember that when Mr. Luo was just emerging in the industry, Lu Maru had the idea of ​​telling the news that Mirror was audited by himself.

Later, as Luo Bai's reputation became higher and higher, this kind of thinking faded a lot.

The three sat down in an orderly manner, and Tang Yunpeng, who knew Luo Bai's character, did not invite anyone to accompany him.

After taking two simple bites, Tang Yunpeng straight to the point and stated his intention for coming.

"Mr. Luo, Tianxing asked me to come out again and wanted to make a 3A.

After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to make a soul-like game to test the market.

So for today's meal, I mainly want to discuss with you, the founder of this type of game, the production ideas of this type of game. "

Lu Maru also adjusted his gaze and set his gaze on Luo Bai.

Luo Bai gently put down the chopsticks in his hand, and calmly looked at Tang Yunpeng in front of him:

"Old Tang, tell me your thoughts and ideas first."

"Row."

For the author of Dark Souls, there is really nothing to hide, not to mention Mr. Luo's reputation is well-known in the industry.

"The so-called soul games I understand mainly have the following characteristics:
[-]. A desperate, desolate world background.

[-]. The super-high difficulty curve requires players to find the rules of monsters after experiencing countless deaths before they can pass.

[-]. The well-designed box garden map design.

[-]. Super high death penalty.

......"

It can be seen that Tang Yunpeng has done a lot of homework and extracted all the selling points of Dark Soul that are praised by players and recognized by industry insiders.

"The game I'm about to make is called "Return to the Market".

In my opinion, Dark Souls should be a story first, and a game second.

Therefore, I designed a story based on Chinese classical mythology.

In the Dharma-ending Era, the Three Realms collapsed, and all time and space converged at one point, evolving into Guixu.

In order to avoid this catastrophe of annihilation, all sentient beings in heaven, underworld, human world, Buddha, demon, demon, fairy, ghost, and human have made various arrangements before their destruction.

But before the plan was fully implemented, the disaster had already arrived.

The protagonist is an ordinary human being, or in other words, he thinks he is a human being, and his real identity is a new thing reborn on the Ruins of Return.

The new group of Guixu who have been infused with human culture and inheritance, looking at the devastated Guixu, all the new people of Guixu are eager to reproduce the prosperity of the past three realms and six realms.

For this reason, as the protagonist, you also embarked on a road to find the backhand of those arrangements and restart the world..."

Tang Yunpeng didn't say anything about the follow-up, but Luo Bai was basically able to guess his setting.

Levels are actually Buddhas, demons, demons, immortals, and ghosts.

At that time, when the second hand was deployed, there must have been discord between these groups, which led to the incomplete deployment of the second hand.

But these things will be hidden in the text of props, items, and weapons.

The identity of the protagonist is also set. He belongs to the Guixu clan. In fact, he doesn't need to restart the world, he just needs to continue living in Guixu.

So in the end there will be two endings.

Maybe in the end it will evolve into a conjecture that Blue Star is actually Guixu.

The set is good, and it is basically the framework of the story of the black soul.

But it doesn't matter whether the cover is covered or not. Since it has been determined to make a soul-like game, these things are trivial.

Tang Yunpeng's "Return to the Market", if the level of Buddha, demon, demon, fairy, and ghost is sufficiently different, the design of the combat system, bosses, etc. is good enough.

It is definitely not a problem to easily sell a million copies in China.

But in essence, the difficulty of making soul games is precisely here.

Level design, restrictions on character abilities, weapon design, BOSS design, and map design.

These are the most important things in a soul-like game, not the plot.

Only the upper limit of Black Soul is improved in the plot, making it a masterpiece, but if you can't do the lower limit above, no matter how good the upper limit is, it can only rely on defense.

Because many players, after experiencing the black soul once, actually don't know the background story at all.

All they knew was that they had a watermelon knife in their hands and hacked all the way from the Northern Immortal Court to the Primordial Stove, killing all the bosses they saw along the way.

Among the many students of Dark Soul in the previous life, there was only one who left a deep impression on Luo Bai.

Salt and Sanctuary.

A very pure mini soul game.

Although it was criticized because the great sword and the golden wine were too strong.

But Soul is the most soulful work in terms of plot, operation feel, and ability value setting.

Luo Bai confessed all his worries and opinions to Tang Yunpeng.

Tang Yunpeng was sometimes surprised, sometimes silent, and then nodded heavily.

"Boss Luo, I understand."

"Old Tang, you probably have never played games like this before.

Races such as Buddha, demon, demon, immortal, and ghost reappeared from the ruins of the past.

If you want to make enough differences, enough "underworld", monster attack AI wants to do well, in fact, it takes a lot of effort.

In terms of maps, the creation of a sense of exploration cannot be left behind.

The most important thing is that Black Soul is not a simple game of piling up difficulty. You have to let players see the possibility of success in their challenges. This is the most important thing.

Then, there is the movement aspect of the characters.

In Dark Souls, in order to ensure that it conforms to the background of the western story, all the mods I choose are western weapon attacks.

Because I still have some contacts outside, it is not too difficult to collect these action modules.

In "Return to the Ruins", you can have more possibilities.

Two-edged and three-pointed spears, Fang Tian's painted halberd, Qinglong Yanyue knife, you can even make things like magic weapons and flying swords.

If you want to do these action modules well, you have to find folk gods to help you collect actions.

This amount of work, this amount of work.

With all due respect, Old Tang, are you really ready? "

Luo Bai asked quite directly, and Tang Yunpeng also sighed.

If it is really done like Luo Bai said, the cost will be at least over [-] million.

Now those companies on the market that are clamoring to be 3A, the most seem to be 500 million.

I am a former gold medal game producer who has just "recovered", and he is still the kind that is banned in China.

Is it really equipped with hundreds of millions of funds?
Can I get it back?

This is the problem.

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