Number One Game Designer

Fang Xi's original plan was to visit several newly opened studios around Christmas, and both North America and Europe went well.

Fang Xi was impressed by the three brothers' understanding of Chicago crime and Kirkel's unconstrained way of thinking. It seems that as long as they are properly checked, these two works should be fine, but Fang Xi in Linjing It's a bit dumbfounding.

Fang Xi did not find anyone at the studio address left by Qingluan in Linjing, and finally found a group of people at an adult school after calling Shao Qiulin.

Looking at the few people who have changed their regular clothes and their hair has been shaved short, even though they are a bit older but now look quite energetic, Fang Xi was a little bit dumbfounded:

"Shui Lao? How many of you are you?"

When Fang Xi was puzzled, Shui Yuan laughed and pointed to a few words on the blackboard:

"Make up lessons and learn more."

On the blackboard awkwardly written a few large characters with chalk: "Pixel painting from entry to soil"

Fang Xi sweated a bit, this course was quite appropriate.

After leaving the class for a while, Fang Xi took Shuiyuan and chatted.

It turns out that after Fang Xi and Shao Qiulin left the script, these few people are not worthy of being the one-time talents who were able to compete in the domestic game market, and they have a particularly thorough understanding of the travellers of Octagon.

Every game has its core elements, and for Octotravelers, several people think that the importance of art is as important as gameplay!

The core gameplay of Octopath Traveler, the main line of the eight protagonists intertwined with each other makes the plot deeply planted in the players' hearts with irreversible momentum. These are omitted, or these are things they don't need to worry about, Fang Xi has already done After the outline comes out, they only need to follow the script to execute it.

For Shuiyuan, the key difficulty lies in the art style.

What Bafang Traveler has set is to follow the retro pixel style, which is the first time for this world. For most people, since art entered the high-pixel era, the pixel style has been completely swept into the trash. But in fact, the pixel style was not popular and it was only a little over ten years ago. Those who grew up playing pixel games are now in their prime of life. This unique game is a gift to them.

But at the same time, this game is not completely pixel style. In the script, Fang Xi created a term called high-definition pixel style.

That is to say, it is not the traditional dot-array pixel style, but the high-definition picture is made into the same high-definition retro style by hand drawing or rendering.

In this way, when running on a high-configuration machine, the picture will not cause problems such as insufficient resolution and blur due to pixel painting.

After Shuiyuan and others hand-painted a few pictures by themselves, they also found that this acquired pixel style has unexpected heartstrings. Looking at this style makes it easy for a few people to fall into memories: remembering to play games by themselves. The lush years of growing up.

Hearing that a few people finally planned to hand-paint the entire game, Fang Xi had nothing to say except for admiration.

One of the selling points of this game in the last time and space was that the background blur image was purely hand-painted, but because of the funding, the original version only made part of it. If the people of Shuiyuan can complete the whole hand-painting, think about it. Xi looked forward to it herself.

"Come on!" At this time, of course, it was mainly encouragement, and then Fang Xi looked back at the classroom:

"Where is Shao Qiulin?"

"Director Shao has very good art skills, and after discussing with the teachers, he thought that a large number of art staff might be needed, so he has been busy recruiting these days, and his art skills do not need to come to make up lessons." Cui Yue came to explain. .

Looking at this big boy who has just run for the third time, he finally has a lot of vigor after his hair is cut short, and he is no longer somber. Fang Xi is also very happy. These people are actually poor people, the losers in the game market before. That's it, but sometimes the failure is caused by more factors, Fang Xi is not the Virgin, but you can also go hand in hand when you run into it, not to mention...

I really look forward to how strong an Octo woman is made by a group of people who are reborn from Nirvana!

A few people still have to go to class, Fang Xi was too embarrassed to bother, so he said goodbye directly. As for Shao Qiulin... No matter what, Cui Yue knew that Shao Qiulin was busy recruiting people by himself, but what he didn't know was that Shao Qiulin wanted to transfer staff from the headquarters, but After touching my nose, I can only go to work on my own.

Originally, the research and development and art of this department have always been in a tight state-everything is for the assassins, and the wave with Sorrento just said that it is necessary to redo the land of no owner. I can't dominate the player pigeons. ?

Therefore, under the already tight manpower situation, Fang Xi had to squeeze out a few people to research and develop Borders. What's worse, Borders is half supported by unique art. Fang Xishou There are still a few people on the board, but there are only three or two who fit the Borders. The people who have finally been squeezed out have to go and learn again, which makes Fang Xi extremely painful.

The market is right in front of my own eyes. As long as I make a game, it will definitely make a lot of money. The problem is that the scale of Hongyi is that it is already the limit to start construction of six games at the same time, and this figure tells other companies that it will be eye-catching, but Fang Xi Still dissatisfied, if I can drop ten more studios to the sky, and operate like this for two years, I will definitely be at the level of the godfather of the game in this world. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough staff now, which gives other companies a chance to grow, and there are some unpleasant variables. .

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Christmas is their New Year for Western countries, but for merchants in China, it is a simple holiday for promotion. This holiday clears the warehouse and marks the unsold at -50%, and then A group of people will rush to take this away: regardless of whether they need it or not, the same goes for the game.

Honghu platform has predicted that at the end of the year, Honghu platform will usher in a wave of promotions. Among them, Christmas is the first wave, and some games will be discounted. The second wave of discounts will be on China’s Lunar New Year, so stay tuned.

This consideration is also very simple. Cultural invasion has always been relative. Let Western players gradually accept the Chinese New Year. Then they will accept it faster when they play Chinese-style games in the future. Although only a little bit faster, they can accumulate more. Below, there will always be a day of complete acceptance. This is a very simple cultural invasion.

Therefore, the official language of the Honghu platform is Chinese, and the second official language is English, after Chinese.

Although all games released by Hongyi have dual dubbing in both Chinese and English, the money spent on Chinese voice is definitely several times that of English dubbing. This will naturally lead some players who pay attention to the game experience to switch to a more natural Chinese voice. , And then watch English subtitles.

Sometimes the so-called cultural identity is to experience bit by bit, Fang Xi really wants to try this kind of anti-invasion in the end.