Another World Under My Pen

In fact, Sun Peng didn't know how long a game would take to make before he started making games.

It was not until he started preparing for the Lao Bai studio that year and began to inquire about the game development process, the manpower and funds needed for "The Legend of Lao Bai Qun Xia 1", that he completely understood the difficulty of game production-a real big game. The production cycle is much longer than shooting a super blockbuster.

"Lao Bai Qun Xia Biography 3" is the most typical example.

"Old White Heroes 1" is just a linear story structure, which is actually relatively simple in the rpg game. And because Laobai Studio was founded at that time, although many people joined were elites in the industry, after many considerations by Chen Maolin and Chen Fengzhi, many necessary settings were abandoned.

For example, multiple choices of key plot points, different endings and so on.

To put it bluntly, the players can only follow the route set by the creators to play "Old White Knights 1", without any choice.

Obviously, this makes players a lot less fun.

But even so, it took Chen Maolin and the others nearly three years to make "The Legend of the Old White Knights 1". Among them, more than a year has been used to plan the plot of the game and create various settings of the game.

By the time "Old White Heroes 2", the difficulty began to increase significantly.

This is also an inevitable result, because Laobai Studio still continues to increase investment, is still digging around the world, and its scale has nearly doubled! And they have a boss, Sun Peng, who doesn't care whether it is profitable, but wants to make a martial arts game that satisfies him.

So an open game world, a real world, requires more time.

Even if the main factor in determining the speed of game production is investment and how many people are involved, time is still the biggest enemy for a complex game like "Old White Heroes 2".

Sun Peng's idea is that every corner of the map can be reached, every house in the game can be entered, and even every character can speak!

and……

The six door system, the justice value system, and the gang system, etc., will all appear in "Old White Knights 2".

Of course, it's just showing up.

After all, it is not easy to launch "Old White Heroes 2" in three to four years, even if the game planning has already started the year before, and now the number of artists, programmers and other personnel in Lao Bai's studio has exceeded After 800, there are countless outsourcing companies cooperating for them, but it is still very difficult to complete the production of the game before the end of next year.

When it comes to "Old White Heroes 3", it's even more exaggerated.

In addition to a larger and more realistic open map, players will see the real six-door system and interact with the four famous catchers; they will also experience the real justice value and become a generation of heroes or a generation of monsters; They can establish their own gang and develop it to dominate the martial arts; they can become a guardian, and even set up their own guard...

Of course, more importantly, "The Legend of the Old White Knights 3" will become a real online game.

Players can form gangs in the arena of the game, join six doors, be bodyguards for thousands of miles, or occupy the mountains as king!

If Sun Peng had to give a standard, "Lao Bai Qun Xia Chuan 3" should be the Chinese martial arts version of "a5"!

One can imagine what a huge workload this will be.

Therefore, the early planning of "The Legend of Old White Knights 3" actually started after Sun Peng wrote those novels, almost together with "The Legend of Old White Knights 2". But because at that time he had already made up his mind to use a dedicated game engine, so the game planning has been ongoing and continuous improvement, until today he saw the final version of the game engine!

"To be honest, I really don't understand this stuff!"

After watching the demo of the game engine, Sun Peng spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "But you are all professionals. If you think he has met the needs of "Old White Heroes 3", then start doing it! But if If there are any flaws, continue to improve it. We have time!"

Sun Peng really has patience for "The Legend of the Old White Knights 3".

In fact, if it is not for various reasons that the first and second parts have to be released, he even hopes to start making "Old White Heroes 3" directly. Even if it takes ten years to do this, it is not unacceptable-how long has he waited for "Cyberpunk 2077" on Earth? Anyway, I didn’t wait until I came over...

"Don't worry, boss!"

Seeing Sun Peng's solemn face, Chen Maolin smiled happily: "For "The Legend of the Old White Knights 3", we pay no less than you, and will not make fun of it. We have been testing the game engine for a long time, definitely No problem... and it has been two years since the third game planning has started, and many people have long been unable to bear it."

In two years, Chen Maolin and the others completed the complete structure of a huge world, and they also made countless scrutiny on the gameplay.

In their eyes, the game planning has been perfect.

The rest is actually discovering problems during the production process and then solving them. It is meaningless to rely on planners to write and draw on paper.

So after understanding this, Sun Peng did not hesitate, nodded and smiled: "Ok, then let's start! Give me a count of how much money is needed, and I will let people in as soon as possible!"

The cost of developing a "Old White Heroes 3" is too great.

It is conceivable that when the production officially starts, even if the share of outsourcing will be large, the construction of those important scenes, as well as the accumulation of materials such as the protagonist and important supporting roles, still depends on Lao Bai Studio itself. Therefore, it is imperative to recruit a large number of people.

The main cost of game production lies in labor.

So Sun Peng subconsciously wanted to take out the money and supply it to Lao Bai's studio, so that they could continue to move forward without worry.

Just as soon as his voice fell, Chen Fengzhi and Chen Maolin looked at each other and laughed at the same time. Shaking his head, Chen Fengzhi said: "No need for the boss, this time you don't need to invest money anymore."

"Uh, isn't the company funded enough?"

After listening to Chen Fengzhi's words, Sun Peng frowned.

Although I don't worry about the specific operations of Lao Bai's studio, I still receive a monthly financial statement, so Sun Peng is very clear about their situation. "Old White Heroes 1" has sold nearly 9 million copies so far. Although the number of subsequent sales has dropped sharply, it has exceeded expectations and far exceeded the level of the game itself.

After all, the number of fans of Lao Bai is really amazing.

But the cost of Lao Bai's studio is even more alarming. The billions of dollars in the game can't afford the production of the next two movies, right?

"It doesn't matter, we can get a loan if the funds are not enough."

After a smile, Chen Fengzhi said seriously: "If it was before, it doesn't matter how much you invest in it, but now that Maolin and I...including some of the company's top management have received the rewarded shares, let you have another one. It is not appropriate for people to spend money..."

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