Game Making: The Latest Chapter Begins With Healing the Player

With the arrival of the New Year's Day holiday, many game manufacturers are also promoting their new games.

If it were the past, many game manufacturers would definitely still be taking their time.

After all, according to some information previously released by Nebula Games, this game called "DOTA" is estimated to be launched during this time.

Although from the perspective of the Warcraft RPG map, it feels like there is nothing special about this game.

But the production of Nebula Games, coupled with the previous popularity of Dragon's Blood, and various large-scale publicity, can make people feel that Nebula Games attaches great importance to the game "DOTA".

But after more information is released, this will be different.

That is, according to news from Nebula Games, this game will be a free game and will only be available on the PC platform.

These two keywords suddenly surprised many players and industry designers.

If it is only launched on the PC platform, there is nothing to say about this.

Because judging from the operation of the game, it seems that this is still the kind of "Warcraft", but it has changed from controlling troops to a pure hero unit.

This kind of operation mode and gameplay is indeed more suitable for the PC platform rather than the VR platform.

The key is to play for free.

Whether a game can survive obviously depends on whether it can make money.

Although games are called the ninth art, art also has to make money.

Including movies, paintings, music, and any traditional art.

So obviously "DOTA" is a project that relies on value-added props for charging.

As for paid content, although Nebula Games has not mentioned it yet, in fact, both players and designers in the game industry know it.

That is to say, it will definitely not involve numerical balance. It should be like games such as "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" and "Rainbow Six: Siege", adding skins and other similar value-added prop systems.

But the key is, can such a profit model make money?

After all, the promotion of "DOTA" can be said to be absolutely heavyweight.

But no matter what, it is obvious that this is definitely not going away. After all, it is the official news released by Nebula Games.

Some game manufacturers that were prepared to avoid it before, such as Atari and FOW, have no worries.

Although I am not optimistic about the gameplay of "DOTA" from the bottom of my heart, due to the reputation of Nebula Games and Chen Xu, they will avoid the schedule when the time comes.

But now it is a free game, and it is launched on a different platform, so it is obvious that we cannot achieve much competition.

Then of course there is no need to worry.

Therefore, FOW and Atari also carried out publicity one after another.

As for Nebula Games, they are still following their own promotion rhythm.

"DOTA" has successively released two new promotional CGs, namely Monkey King and Bomberman.

In the past life, it can be said that in terms of promotion, DOTA can only be described as a father who does not care for the mother and does not love it.

Now, Chen Xu plans to make a simple background CG animation short film for each hero.

Just like every operator in "Rainbow Six Siege".

Of course, considering the huge number of heroes in "DOTA", it is obviously impossible to launch them all at once, but by maintaining the rhythm of two a month, the current heroes can be used for at least a few years.

Different from the past, although the promotional CG this time was also very well-made, many Nebula game players did not pay too much attention to this aspect.

For some excited new players, they just waved their hands silently and said: Don't do it for the first time. Even if Nebula Games suddenly makes a CG animation movie one day, they won't be too surprised.

Compared with Monkey King and Bomberman, the CG animated short films of these two heroes make players even more curious about the gameplay mode of "DOTA".

Because as more and more information is revealed, the gameplay of "DOTA" is gradually becoming clearer.

Players are all discussing these video materials that have been posted online.

"Although the publicity is fierce, it feels like this new game just singles out the heroes from "Warcraft"?"

"It looks like there are a lot of heroes, so the focus has changed from racial units to heroes?"

"It's hard to tell, but Nebula Games attaches great importance to this game, even investing no less than World of Warcraft. It feels like it should be a core game."

"I'm not sure, but judging from the video and information, this game seems quite simple, right? Especially in terms of operation, you only need to control one hero unit, and it seems that the hero only has four skills and six item slots. "

"Doesn't it feel like there's no skill in it?"

Soon, players online became quarrelsome.

After all, judging from the content in the promotional video, you can’t really tell how outstanding this game is from just thinking about it in your mind, at least unlike the huge promotional campaign.

Of course, there are quite a few players who have expressed their expectations for "DOTA". After all, in the minds of these players for so many years, Nebula Games has been the endorsement of quality games.

Moreover, a huge amount of money has been invested in publicity this time, and many players also believe that this game will not be that simple.

Amid various discussions among players, "DOTA" also ushered in the day of open testing amidst the expectations of countless players.

After a total of 10 days of us Handang testing, the mall system is temporarily closed. The main reason is that Chen Xu wants to collect more data and make corrections to the game.

After all, "DOTA" is different from a single-player game. It focuses on multiplayer confrontation.

Basically, all multiplayer-based games in the industry follow this model.

Including a data collection on the habits of novice players, Chen Xu and his team have to modify the details bit by bit, but at the current stage, it is definitely better than the previous life.

After all, you have to know that the teachings of "DOTA" in the previous life belong to the purchased plus membership. It can recommend the equipment to the players and recommend them to go out and buy two last-hitting axes.

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In the specially decorated gaming room, Zhang Yi and Wang Han sat side by side on the sofa.

"It's been a long time since I played a game on the PC platform!" Zhang Yi said with emotion.

After all, the development of VR, coupled with the fact that major game manufacturers have launched VR games in the past two years.

So on the PC side, although the configuration will be updated when the latest graphics card comes out, there is very little time to actually play.

After all, whenever I have free time, I can get into the game room. It has better visual effects and it is indeed much more comfortable to play lying down than sitting on a chair.

"But I feel like this, I just don't know if this game is fun anymore." Wang Han also nodded with nostalgia.

"I am very confident that Nebula Games is a product of Nebula Games. Although Mr. Chen likes to do some tricks, either to kill people or to torture them, the quality is guaranteed." Zhang Yi said cheerfully.

"By the way, this game seems to be 5V5, won't Lao Song and the others come?" Wang Han was a little curious.

"Lao Song and the others have something to do during the day. We made an appointment at eight o'clock in the evening. The two of us will play for now and be infinitely ahead by then. Looking at the information, there seems to be allocation of different positions in the game. When the time comes, the two of us will be in charge and let Lao Song They contribute resources." Zhang Yi said with a thief smile.

"Good idea!" Wang Han gave a thumbs up.

Wang Han doesn't know where the so-called DOTA is.

But she has experience in contributing resources.

When "Warcraft" was booming, several people also formed a team to play "Warcraft" together.

At that time, they developed a tactical system.

That is to open a private room with resources that can be given, and then the two people with the most skills will give priority to developing barracks and technology. The other two people who are less skilled will first give priority to making farmers to collect wood, and then give all the wood and money to the people with the most skills. Two people.

In the early stage, explosive troops and technology were quickly formed and the attack started.

Even if you don't take it hard, you can get rich first and then get rich later when you are in a stalemate.

She estimated that the so-called location of DOTA was probably the same.