Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

Listening to Chen Xu's brief summary of the background of the new game worldview, everyone also had a general impression.

Obviously, what they are going to develop next is a fantasy type game.

"So President Chen, will this be an RPG game?" Yang Xin asked curiously.

Although it was only a few words, Yang Xin still analyzed a lot of content.

In the introduction just now, the xenophobia and indifference were clearly emphasized, and the protagonist was a witcher.

So obviously in the game, witchers, including so-called warlocks, do not have a good relationship with humans.

At the same time, countries and forces are mentioned in the game, so there must be more than one country in the game.

And since it is a country and a fantastic world environment, it is obviously impossible for these countries to play a family.

The witcher played by the player is bound to participate.

This is a perfect template for RPG games.

Otherwise, Chen Xu would not have emphasized the game's worldview settings so much.

"Yes, this will be an open-world ARPG." Listening to Yang Xin's words, Chen Xu smiled and nodded.

In terms of influence, the topic of "Resident Evil" and "Curse of Blood" can be said to be very hot.

But in terms of sales, it can be said that it is still not as popular as the phenomenon.

During this period, after the acquisition of FOW, the "Medieval: Salvation" launched by Zeus had hit "Assassin's Creed" at the beginning, but the excellent quality was not a failure.

And after that, FOW's technical strength, combined with the wealthy zeus, launched two games of very high quality during this period.

This has also increased Zeus' market share a lot.

On the other hand, on the side of Universal VR, although Chen Xu developed "Resident Evil" and "Bloodborne Curse", the simultaneous launch of PC, coupled with the reasons for his own game characteristics, does not have much influence on Universal.

As for domestic manufacturers such as NetDragon and Tenghua, Tenghua has released two games in succession after the fiasco of "The Hero of the Troubled World".

But it can only be said that it is not bad, but as a facade, it is still worse.

On the NetDragon side, after experiencing the Waterloo of the previous sequel, NetDragon did not focus on the VR platform in the second half of last year and the first quarter of this year.

Instead, it aimed at the switch of Nebula Games.

Combined with its somatosensory mode, NetDragon directly opened the cold rice mode, which is to pull out a very classic game of its own, but it has died of old age because of the times, a game called Dance Party.

In the early years, this was a well-known big IP in the world, but it needed to be equipped with special equipment such as dance mats. When VR and PC had not yet become mainstream, this IP could be said to be a global hit.

But later, with the development of the times, it gradually became lonely.

However, after NetDragon transplanted it to the switch and optimized the gameplay module, the sales actually exploded.

This time, it can be said that NetDragon has seen the door to a new world.

Over there, the new VR game Waterloo, the decline in revenue made the financial report very ugly, and investors in the industry lost confidence.

But here, I was directly sucked by the switch, eh! Live!

As a result, NetDragon's attention has been directly transferred to the switch side.

As for the other well-known overseas game makers, zeus also has a great gold-dollar policy, which has caused many manufacturers that were originally under Universal VR to switch to zeus.

This time, the game department was a little flustered. During this period, Yang Chen also had a private conversation with Chen Xu.

In addition, Chen Xu's status is not only the boss of Nebula Games, but also has an honorary position in the game department.

Of course, it is an honorary position, but some special rights still exist.

For example, some of its games can be better reviewed.

Otherwise, Chen Xu would not have thought of making the next game.

"The Witcher", or the third "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" is the next game Chen Xu chose.

Compared with soul and horror games, ARPG can be said to be the type with the widest audience worldwide.

Even more than FPS.

Even though the Witcher series was based on a previous life from a Polish novel, it actually doesn't matter at all.

In the previous life, The Witcher: Wild Hunt was able to become popular in the world, and was once known as one of the greatest ARPG games.

Most of the players have never played the previous game or read the original novel.

And this does not affect players to experience the story of the white wolf Geralt.

Because although it is an adaptation, in addition to the world view, the world view of the wizard series is used.

The story of the entire game is completely different from the original. Starting from the first generation of the game "The Witcher", it is a direct continuation of the original novel.

Because in the original novel, the white wolf Geralt was mortally wounded by a peasant with a pitchfork in a riot against the inhuman race because he came forward to protect a few dwarf friends.

Meanwhile, his lover, Yennefer, exhausted his life force on the spot in an attempt to save him, and the two died together.

In the end, the adopted daughter Ciri took away the remains of the two. In the original book, this is the final ending of Geralt.

In the adapted game, it is directly rewritten, and some settings in the original work have been changed.

At the same time, the reason why I chose "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" as the goal, in addition to the more mature and complete gameplay and settings, is the story of the entire game.

The first work is more about showing all beings, while the second work focuses on depicting the political wars of the northern countries. In these two works, Geralt was actually just a bystander passively involved in the beginning. Some kind of power war and big event.

In the third game "Wild Hunt", Geralt really started his main story.

"The volume of this game will be quite large, and during this period, we need to depict the scenery and customs of different regions, which I will focus on in the future."

"In addition, before this, Qin Yi and Ruan Ningxue, you still have some work to do here. Some related easter eggs have been added to the Nebula World, which is located in the game development. We need to continue to warm up the game." Chen Xu looked The crowd spoke slowly.

Hearing Chen Xu's words, everyone was shocked.

You must know that there are very few games that have received such treatment before!

And this time, the project has not yet been established, and it is about to start making cakes! ?

In the past, it only started when a new folder was created!

"What is a painting cake? Don't say it so ugly, only oral content, such as putting a poster on the official blog, or writing a title, that is called painting cake, and we are going through the Nebula world, some background of the game and related information to the players.”

"It's called an easter egg, it's not called a painted cake!" Chen Xu looked at the crowd and said seriously.

How to speak, if you can't speak, you can consider not to speak.

Can this be called a cake? This is clearly a precious easter egg presented to the player.

Of course, in addition to mobilizing the enthusiasm and expectations of the players, in fact, this move is also more important in Chen Xu's view.

Although the quality of "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" in the previous life was quite good, many people were persuaded to quit.

As for the reason, it is not a problem with the quality of the game, but because there is too much information in the game, which makes players confused.

Coupled with the content of the White Orchard in "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" at the beginning of the game, the rhythm is slow, which directly leads to many people unable to play here, and naturally unable to access the huge world view of "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" later.

Therefore, on the way to the production of "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", Chen Xu also intends to reveal some background content related to the game to the players through the linkage of various easter eggs in Nebula World.

For example, the witcher's grass trial, as well as some basic world view settings, etc.

So this is definitely not a cake, this is a serious Easter egg linkage, for the sake of the players!