Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

With the general MMORPG game, "World of Warcraft" is different.

It has been quickly discovered that its special place, the first is the map and the task in the game.

A precise coordinate point will not be accurately marked on the map.

But it is really like in a world, giving the player a corresponding range point.

Then let the player find it by himself, which makes the task really a little troublesome, of course, the scope is not too much.

At the same time, on the top of the NPCs of related tasks, the team has made obvious UI prompts during development, so there is no situation where NPCs cannot be found.

Hmm... Of course, Lu Chi's words are an exception.

In addition to that, Song Ren felt more puzzled, that is, he has done a lot of tasks so far, but he has not yet received the main quest.

Because in general MMORPG games, there are basically two different modes of main quest and side quest.

Among them, the side quest is to enhance the player's strength, and to let the player know the role of other different ways of playing the game.

But in "World of Warcraft", Song Ren has not received the so-called main quest so far.

But even so, Song Ren didn't feel bored at all.

Because until now, his mission has not stopped.

There are many tasks in the game.

There are some common tasks of the three great aunts and seven great wives, and there are also some tasks from which you can learn some background stories of the game.

This is actually some small changes Chen Xu made to "World of Warcraft".

That is to use the law of attraction anchor in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" to design the terrain and tasks in "World of Warcraft".

Because it is the VR version, compared to the terrain of the previous "World of Warcraft", except for some iconic scenes, it is impossible for Chen Xu to completely restore every tree, every grass, every stone, and more is to restore the terrain. .

For example, Elwynn Forest, Chen Xu could not turn this forest into the sea.

In addition to the terrain, it is the task.

In World of Warcraft, there are no main quests in the strict sense.

Some are just side quests.

At the same time, for these tasks, some of them are not important, Chen Xu also made some adjustments.

Simply put, it is a nesting doll, which allows players to pass missions in the early stage and explore new locations without being confused.

The player receives a quest at Northshire Abbey, and will slowly lure it all the way to nearby Goldshire.

But it is not violent to tell the player directly that the NPC who handed in the quest is in the town of Gold.

Visual effects, quest seduction, use all means to attract players.

Like in "Curse of Blood" and "Dark Souls", why are the props designed to be conspicuous white light?

This is the most basic attraction anchor setting.

In "World of Warcraft", landmarks such as Shining Gold Town, Northshire Abbey, Stormwind City, etc., have different styles on the land of Azeroth.

This also becomes a key point where they can act as an anchor of attraction.

Coupled with the yellow exclamation mark staring at the top of the NPC's head, it is difficult for the player to ignore this situation.

Especially for some players with obsessive-compulsive disorder, if you see this yellow exclamation mark and don’t communicate with the NPC, can you sleep well at night?

Although Song Ren is not such an obsessive-compulsive player, curiosity is always there.

So in this case, Qing Qingqing felt that Song Ren couldn't stop at all.

To Song Ren, it felt like playing a single-player game.

The stories of these tasks are also in line with the background of the game.

Every story seems to be telling a story to the player, and people continue to do it unconsciously.

A perfect interpretation of the customs of Azeroth.

It was the small team that originally planned to gather together as quickly as possible, but now it is scattered.

Because of their respective novice villages, the content is quite rich.

Of course, the other point is that everyone has just started to play, and it is unclear how to get to other people's areas as soon as possible.

So now everyone decides to play with their own for the time being.

And the efficiency of a single brush is actually not low.

So Song Ren summed it up with everyone, and played his own game first and then waited until later, when everyone understood some of the ways of the game, and then gathered together.

As for the so-called copy, I still don't know where the gate is.

"However, this leveling is really difficult!"

Song Ren couldn't help but say in the discussion group.

The front side of the North County Monastery was fine, but after receiving the first robber mission about the Brotherhood, Song Ren felt a little difficult.

The monsters encountered are basically red, and they will actively attack when they walk around.

Fortunately, because the server just started, there are more people in the novice village.

But even so, some lone wolf players walking in the corners accidentally attracted the hatred of two or three monsters, and then took the lunch box on the spot and became a dead bone in the Elwynn Forest.

Compared with the previous life of "World of Warcraft", Chen Xu also adopted the original version of the setting on the visual side. After the player dies, they will turn into dead bones and will not disappear (non-human inhabited areas). In theory, as long as the number of times the player dies There are enough and it is in the kind of wilderness, which can completely show the scene of bones paving the way, and even players can tell what race the other party is based on the bones.

In addition, these characters such as the undead are also skeletons, of course, they will not be too scary, after all, this is an MMORPG.

As Song Ren's words fell, it seemed to resonate.

The rest of the friends also spoke to each other.

'yes! yes! Leveling can be difficult, skills and equipment are expensive to repair, and medicines are reluctant to take. ' Zhang Yi complained in the chat group.

'A little bit of two monsters will die. ' The man is still with Joey in Shadowvale of Teldrassil.

'Don't talk about it, the Paladin is a bit scratchy when fighting monsters! Fortunately, Zhang is by my side. ' Wang Han also complained, of course, what she wanted to complain more was not the Paladin profession, but her dwarf.

She never thought that the female dwarf looked okay, but it was so frustrating to enter the game. Isn't it good in the publicity CG.

'well enough? It's easy for me to level up a mage, but it's a bit brittle, and I've just learned to make bread now. I'm out of the battle, drinking water, and eating bread. There should be someone over there playing mage, right? Say something nice and ask the masters to order bread and water, which can improve a lot of efficiency. ' accompanied by the Versailles speech of Wang Yifan, the only mage in the discussion group.

Song Ren and three other friends fell into silence.

There was silence in the small discussion group of five people.

"Shut up!" The four said in unison.

After speaking, without waiting for Wang Yifan to reply, the four of them tacitly closed the chat group.

Was the mage so comfortable in the early days? Why is the game experience different from person to person?

Song Ren was also sighing while rushing on the road.

The only fly in the ointment is that Song Ren feels that this game is too real.

This truth is not only reflected in the customs of Azeroth, not only in the game's combat system and so on.

More feedback on his experience as the greatest future warrior of Azeroth.

Equipment repairs are expensive.

Learning skills is expensive.

Buying supplies is expensive.

In order to learn skills, he almost sold all the equipment on his body.

And when you upgrade to fight monsters, you can only fight one by one.

Otherwise, there is a high probability of life-threatening.

No blood can only slowly return to the blood.

Every time you spend money, it's like cutting flesh on your body.

But in the end, Song Ren felt very satisfied so far, and he also liked the profession of a warrior.

Compared with the previous life, the VR version of "World of Warcraft" developed by Chen Xu has an epic reinforcement for the warriors.

That is the feeling of blow, the feeling of blow from the knife to the meat, it is simply addicting.

As all occupations can enjoy this kind of pure blow the most, there are also three occupations with different postures. If you think about it a little bit, it is not unbearable.

"Forget it, let's finish this task first." Song Ren sighed with emotion.

Song Ren, who had just completed the quest of Millie's Grape, was about to complete a bounty quest named Garrick Padfoot earlier.

But when he followed the map and crossed a path to the mission target of the North County Farm, he was stunned.