Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

"What's the matter, Nebula Games made an animation?"

"Good guy! I take back what I said about the animation company being delayed by the game, this Nebula game was not delayed at all!"

"By the way, it's actually a collaboration with WIS? In recent years, it seems that the animation of WIS is one of the best, right? How can you cooperate with Nebula Games?"

"Cough, friendly reminder, WIS and Nebula games are not of the same order of magnitude."

"WIS: We don't want to either, but Nebula Games gives too much!"

Online players and ordinary melon eaters were all surprised.

Of course, it is actually the same as what they thought, although WIS is indeed more famous in the animation circle in recent years.

But compared with some traditional animation film studios, WIS is still a lot worse.

Moreover, the cost of an excellent animation is also quite high. Even if WIS invests a huge amount of money to make a good animation, the commercial performance will not be successful. To say that bankruptcy does not mean that it will definitely hurt your bones. .

At this time, Nebula Games came over waving banknotes. Although it was an OEM, it couldn't bear to give a lot!

While the players were discussing, soon the first season's "Dragon Blood" also went online to major video sites.

A lot of players who didn't pay attention to this matter in advance were also attracted and opened it up to take a look.

At first glance, many players also feel that it seems to be really good.

Although the plot is not as shocking as Bioshock, it is just a traditional dragon slayer and princess adventure story at the beginning.

But with the appearance of Moon God Celimone, Invoker Karl, and the Devil's Terror Blade, a well-planned revenge story unfolded, especially the powerful spells of Invoker Karl, and the living towers and towers. The library configuration can be said to make many players who have played Warcraft think of an old magic stick: Medivh.

With the launch of the first season, many viewers were also attracted.

Mainly because of two points.

First, compared to the previous life's Blood of the Dragon, because the cost is not bad, after I got Chen Xu's script, I actually expanded the content from the original 8 episodes to 10 episodes, such as the disaster of Luna Plains. In the past, etc., the production of the entire animation has become more sophisticated.

At least in terms of picture and camera performance, it is definitely the level of the current first echelon.

Second, there is also a very important point, that is, the animation produced as a promotion of DOTA, it can be watched for free, which invisibly increases its rating.

"It feels really good!"

"Indeed, I'm a little curious now about what's going to happen next."

"But to be fair, Carl is a little annoying. Isn't this the murder caused by the husband's revenge on his ex-wife?"

"Isn't it that Selemoni hates it even more? Forcing Carl to believe in himself with his daughter, even because her daughter is unwilling to die directly, when the old woman was beaten by a terrifying blade, I simply applauded!"

"No! Didn't you find the crux of the problem! Nebula Games, or why did Mr. Chen make such an animation? It's impossible to realize an animation dream, right?"

"+1! This is obviously for new projects and new games! The background and world view in the animation should be in the game, and the characters like Invoker Karl, Davian, and Mirana are obviously new works. The main character here!"

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With the launch of the series, more and more players are also focusing on the impact of "Dragon Blood".

Judging from the game background setting, this is a proper magic masterpiece!

After all, they are gods, demons, and dragons.

Is it an ARPG game?

Many players, including designers in the game industry, have such guesses.

After all, games with this theme are naturally suitable, and Nebula games have not been done before. The Witcher: Wild Hunt can be said to be quite successful.

As for MMORPG, no one has thought about it. After all, the popularity of "World of Warcraft" is still overwhelming. At this time, how could Nebula Games not want to make an MMORPG to compete with itself?

However, as more and more news leaked, it quickly caused an uproar in the player community and the industry.

Because from the more revealed content, this game called "DOTA" turned out to be a game on the PC platform.

At the same time, what surprised players even more is that it is said that this game is also a game derived from the RPG map on "Warcraft".

This made a lot of players bewildered.

"What's the situation? Make the RPG map an independent game? Is it a small game or a small project?"

"How is that possible!? If it's a small project, is Nebula Games dedicated to making an animation to promote it? To know the game that can enjoy this kind of treatment, this is the first one called "DOTA", right?"

"Looking at the content of the promotion, it seems that this is a multiplayer game, and it is also an RTS from God's bird's-eye view?"

"Shouldn't it be? And it seems that there is only one map in this game!"

"What is this Chen Xu doing?"

Players in various game forums on the Internet were arguing, and they all said that they couldn't understand a little bit.

Including major manufacturers who have been paying attention to the game industry, especially manufacturers such as Atari and FOW who are about to launch their masterpieces in recent days, they are also full of confusion.

Nebula Games did not continue to launch new games on the VR platform, which is indeed surprising, but not surprising.

After all, although the current discussion direction in the industry is that the popularity of PCs seems to be coming to an end under the catch-up of VR.

But the huge user base, what does this represent?

It's all about money!

Therefore, some of the best-selling games on the VR platform will also adapt to the operation, and at the same time castrate the screen performance such as resolution, and then make a PC version to sell.

What really makes many people do not understand, that is, the new work of Nebula Games is to adapt a Warcraft RPG map, and it also costs money.

No one has thought about the independence of Warcraft RPG maps. In fact, some Warcraft RPG maps have a lot of popularity and players, but the key is that the content of these Warcraft RPG maps is basically one or two hours of content, and it is only five hours long. six hours.

As an RPG map, it is definitely more than enough, but as an independent game, it is not enough to watch.

In addition, the issue of copyright is sometimes involved. Some hot RPG maps are independently made into games. Basically, some are profitable, but they are still 100,000 miles away from the fire.

But now Chen Xu is starting from this aspect, and the key point is that it is not based on the plate of Warcraft, and even Nebula Games is trying to get rid of the relationship with Warcraft.

The background of the world view and the characters have nothing to do with World of Warcraft, which is intriguing.

In FOW's Glory Warrior project team, Grayson looked at the different versions of maps on the computer in front of him and fell into thought.

Grayson felt quite unlucky. His first masterpiece "The Lost and the Damned" hit the DLC Blood and Wine of the Nebula game "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", and later the Wasteland series co-operated with Alex suffered another encounter. "The Last of Us".

But in a way, he was lucky.

Because although he was brutally attacked by monsters every time, because of the schedule, he never let the project get screwed up.

Do you want to believe in evil this time?

Grayson was in a tangled state. Although Nebula Games did not disclose it, as the No. 1 FOW under zeus, it was easy to get some information about this "DOTA", including poaching from Atari and FOW. employees, with the maps they made.

Judging from these versions of the map, Grayson can only say that the idea and creativity are indeed a little interesting, but the key is that players can accept this gameplay mode and is it popular?

If it was any game manufacturer, Grayson would bravely go up, but Nebula Games would not allow him.

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Compared with Grayson's entanglement on FOW's side, Chen Xu's mood on Nebula Games' side is much better.

The development progress of "DOTA" is very smooth.

At the same time, most of the heroes have been continuously produced.

Including the next publicity plan, it has basically been determined.

The time is just before the Spring Festival, and the more critical point is that this year is the Year of the Monkey. There is a hero in "DOTA" that is just right and can be used for publicity.

That is: Monkey King.

Of course, in addition to Monkey King, there is also a very interesting hero.

In reality, green environmental protection is advocated, and fireworks cannot be set off, but this game can always be, right?

The three bomber brothers, this will also be one of the heroes that Chen Xu is going to launch in the first version of DOTA.

In addition, there are heroes such as Butcher, Dwarf Sniper, Karl, Storm Spirit, etc. that are widely loved by new and old players.