Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

"Mr. Chen, you bought these game manufacturers not to expand our first-party studio lineup, but for the technology of these game manufacturers?"

Inside the office, Ruan Ningxue and the others were stunned.

Including Qin Yi and others next to him were also surprised.

The acquisition of many game manufacturers by Nebula Games, although it did not spread to the outside world, was covered up by the fervor of the "war zone".

But every employee inside Nebula Games is actually quite clear in their hearts.

At first they thought it was to expand the company's production scale.

But now Chen Xu told them that it was only for cutting-edge technologies in different fields.

And these technologies are only used to develop a game?

This really subverts their three views.

"Of course, if we only rely on our own accumulation, how long will it take to achieve such an effect?" Chen Xu said as a matter of course.

Game development, especially the development of 3A masterpieces.

In addition to the creativity of the game and the core elements of gameplay, industrial technology is also very important.

"More cutting-edge technologies need to be developed by ourselves. We need to conquer and develop them in order to win in the future, but can we rely on krypton gold to make up for the general technology?" Chen Xu said with a smile on his face.

Listening to Chen Xu's words, everyone was speechless for a while.

Well, they have almost understood one of Chen Xu's meanings, things that can be solved with money are not things.

No technical accumulation?

One word: buy.

It was this number of krypton gold that made them a little dizzy.

However, after a short recovery, everyone paid more attention to what was revealed before.

"Mr. Chen, do you already have an idea for a new game? What game is it?" Ruan Ningxue asked curiously.

Everyone wants to know a little bit, what kind of game is it. Can let Chen Xu treat him like this.

Looking at the curious crowd, Chen Xu didn't say anything but just smiled, but he didn't answer.

"We will not talk about new games for now, because we still have a lot of work to do before that, such as handing over to the technical staff of various studios to ensure the use of technology, and in new games, we have to create a more In the huge world, the art work in it is very important, and we have to do it in advance." Chen Xu looked at the crowd and said.

"Of course, in this process, we can use some tricks, such as letting players participate in the development process." Chen Xu said with a smile.

Crowd: ? ? ? ? ? ?

Everyone was full of question marks, not understanding what Chen Xu meant.

"The volume of the new game will be our largest project so far. There will be a relatively long vacuum period in between, and it will also involve a lot of testing."

"So we can make a part of the content into the corresponding VR themed login interface. Others often spend 50 yuan or 60 yuan on the theme. As long as the player spends a certain amount on the Nebula game platform, we will directly give it to the player for free! Of course, it will come with you. Players can also help us test it, and this is also a kind of warm-up." Chen Xu coughed twice.

After listening to Chen Xu's words, everyone was instantly speechless.

You mean, free tester?

But people are more curious, it sounds like the new project will be a particularly huge existence.

How huge is that?

However, to everyone's disappointment, after saying this, Chen Xu returned to his office without any explanation at all.

Leaning on the chair in the office, Chen Xu turned on the computer and wrote some simple content.

The game to be developed next is actually a game that Chen Xu has always thought about.

At present, Chen Xu has also communicated with the game department in private about the Universal VR platform.

Judging from the current effect, it is clear that the "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" trilogy has made a very good start.

In the follow-up, major domestic manufacturers also have new plans one after another.

But for the zeus platform, although it suffered a slump in "Operation Storm", the overall lineup is still very large.

And in the overseas market, the influence of Huanyu is indeed not as good as that of Zeus.

In addition to this is the development of the Nebula game platform itself.

Although in this part of the country, the Nebula game platform has become the largest platform.

But abroad, it doesn't have much influence.

After acquiring the target software, Nebula Games also began to independently build an overseas game platform.

Next, the overseas strategy for Nebula Games is very simple, which is to compete for users.

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" has a great influence, but one Call of Duty is obviously not enough, so Chen Xu is also going to put a killer on the follow-up piece.

One of the targets chosen was "GTA", or "GTA" with three men and one dog.

"GTA", the full name of the game is GrandTheftAuto in English, the direct translation is also very straightforward, that is, major auto theft.

This is a crime in the law.

At the same time, it is also a gameplay directly linked to the core of the original game.

Grab a car, this is a tradition that has always existed from the first generation of "GTA" to the back.

Of course, the Chinese translation is not so straightforward.

The most well-known of them is "Grand Theft Auto".

But this title is beautified, after all, car theft and crime have nothing to do with Xia.

Moreover, the well-known protagonists familiar to players in the past dynasties, whether it is Tommy, CJ, Nick, etc., are also irrelevant to justice.

So later this series had a very harmonious name "Give Him Love".

Regarding the "GTA" series, Chen Xu thought about it a long time ago.

However, due to various reasons such as technical strength and personnel, it was not produced.

How huge was GTA5 in the previous life.

Nearly 300 million US dollars, more than 2,000 developers, and even a year of delay in the middle, took 5 years to develop this real next-generation masterpiece.

Of course, this handwriting and record were also surpassed by GTA5 developer R Star with a God-made Red Dead Redemption 2.

Back to GTA5.

Because of a technical problem in the parallel world, Chen Xu obviously did not need to spend 5 years.

But some problems must also be faced.

For example, shooting content in the game, action content, racing content and so on.

These need to be technically polished.

Let’s take the simplest example, all the products of R Star in the previous life.

All for the GTA series.

Max Payne is for a breakthrough in shooting content, and Wangan Midnight Club is for cultivating the feel of in-game vehicles.

L.A. Noire is to study the performance of the characters in the plot.

Red Dead Redemption, on the other hand, is for a new era of technological breakthroughs.

In the final GTA series, all these technologies will be used, that is, the master.

But fortunately for Chen Xu, as long as he is willing to spend money, then these are not big problems.

Technology, either accumulate by yourself, or buy someone else's.

Of course, the development of the entire game was quite challenging for Chen Xu.

The most complicated part is the ubiquitous details in the GTA series.

In San Andreas, the amount of food a player eats will affect their weight. If you eat too much, you will really gain weight, and if you eat less, you will really lose weight.

You can even control your character to lose weight.

In GTA4, when the car hits the wall, the sign on the top of the taxi will fly out, and it will really hit the police.

Every object has a collision effect, and the soda cans on the ground can also be picked up.

In "GTA5", there are actually a lot of details that have been deleted.

On the one hand, it is limited by the compromise of functions, and on the other hand, R Star tries to make GTA5's performance tend to be at the boundary between fantasy and reality.