This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

Zhonghai, Magic Dragon Studio.

As one of the top game studios in the country, Molong has a very good reputation in the industry.

Their masterpiece, the Demon Sword series, is also a famous Xianxia RPG masterpiece in China!

This time Chen Ba brought people to visit and study at Molong Studio. In fact, he wanted to learn from Molong Studio and exchange development experience with them.

This is also common.

In the domestic game industry, there are only a few studios that produce single-player games. There are also frequent exchanges and collaborations with each other, and everyone is an acquaintance in private.

"This shouldn't be..."

Zhong Shengwei muttered: "Normally speaking, we and these colleagues are not at odds with each other. You feel unhappy with me and I feel unhappy with you?"

"Should we make a game, they would have to jump out and ridicule us, belittle us, or even compete with us and buy trolls to blackmail us?"

"Is not it?"

Chen Ba: "..."

This kid, has he read too many novels?

How could there be such a brainless villain in reality? Maybe your new work will crash, but in that case, usually just say it.

As for ridiculing, belittling, or even buying a game from a friend or businessman who is being hacked by a navy army, this situation is not unheard of, but that would only involve a friend and businessman with a particularly high hatred value!

Under normal circumstances, everyone is in harmony with each other. You take the narrow Yangguan Road and I cross my single-plank bridge. How can there be so many intersections?

Moreover, among the people who make stand-alone games in China, they all have a sense of "heroes cherish heroes". Private communication is frequent and there is no so-called communication barrier.

"The mobile game circle and the online game circle may be a little chaotic, and the relationship between big companies may be more tense and sensitive."

Chen Ba explained: "As for our small workshops and teams that exist in the form of studios, we don't have to pay so much attention."

Although Magic Dragon Studio is far away in Zhonghai, Chen Ba is no stranger to them, because when developing the 3A game "Global Evolution", Magic Dragon Studio also participated.

Therefore, the meeting between the two parties was quite friendly and harmonious.

The person in charge of Magic Dragon Studio also took Chen Ba to visit their wall of honor, introduced several games they had developed in the past, and introduced several core executives of the studio.

"The Magic Sword series is such a shame."

After Chen Ba visited, he said with regret: "I was born at the wrong time. In the peak period, I did not encounter a good era when players supported the genuine version."

There are seven generations of the Demon Sword series.

Among them, the third generation is recognized as a masterpiece and is also the most fun generation of Magic Sword game so far.

It's a pity that in that era when pirated and cracked versions were rampant, Magic Sword 3 did not create huge profits for Magic Dragon Studio, and it was all made by various pirates.

Devil Sword 7 was just released last year, and the results were not bad. The steam platform barely sold more than 1.2 million copies, which can be regarded as recouping the production cost.

"In fact, this should be the last generation of the Demon Sword series!"

Xu Hong, the boss of Magic Dragon Studio and known as the "Father of Magic Sword" in the industry, sighed: "The Magic Sword series has been with everyone for more than ten years, and it's time to say goodbye."

Their new work is also about fairy tales, but it is no longer a magic sword series.

The IP of Magic Sword will stay in the seventh generation without a sequel. It will be replaced by a new game series called "Shushan".

"Shushan?"

Chen Ba listened to Xu Hong's introduction to "Shu Mountain" and nodded: "It sounds pretty good. Your game should be a big seller!"

"I'd like to lend you some good words."

Xu Hong said with a smile: "Why are you interested in the fairy tale theme? Could it be that... Tianba Studio's new game will be a fairy tale game?"

"Most likely yes!"

Seeing Xu Hong's serious expression, Chen Ba quickly waved his hand and explained: "But don't think too much, this time we are not making a stand-alone game, we are making an MMORPG multiplayer online game."

"Online games..."

"Then you should check out games like Ni Shui Han, Tian Dao and Jian San!"

Xu Hong explained: "We at Magic Dragon Studio have never done MMO, and we don't have any suggestions for you. You are in the wrong place."

"That's right. I learned a lot of new things from you!"

For example, flying with a sword!

This is actually a quite interesting system. Magic Dragon Studio has specially designed a set of movements for flying swords, and the effect is smooth and neat, full of a fairy tale feel.

This is one of Chen Ba's gains.

In addition, during the visit, he also learned about many unique settings of Xianxia games and their corresponding forms of expression.

Like a “multi-currency” system!

In traditional RPG games, the currency system is generally relatively monotonous. There is nothing new about gold, silver, copper or copper coins.

But in Xianxia games, the currency system alone is a whole new discipline. Copper coins and silver taels are used as the first-level currency, and spiritual stones are used as the second-level currency. On this basis, a third-level currency can also be added.

This is a quite complex system. Compared with traditional gold coins, silver coins and copper coins, it is more complex and has more Chinese cultural characteristics.

In addition, there is another point in Xianxia games that deserves attention, and that is "naming"!

Magic Dragon Studio has a special naming tool that can give the moves, skills, characters, weapons and equipment, map scenes and other elements in the game an ancient and fairy-like name.

Don't underestimate these names.

As soon as some names are marked, you will know that they are from a Xianxia game, and you can even guess a little bit about their functions and effects. This is the benefit of names.

For example - Water Control Technique!

Just by hearing the name, players can probably guess that this is a magical power related to the "water element". As for the effect, it should be to drive and control the water element?

Do you see, this is the change that a suitable name can bring to a Xianxia game!

certainly……

Xu Hong also said with a smile that instead of making things up in this regard, it is better to read more books, not only online fairy tales, but also folk legends about gods, ghosts and strange things.

If you read a lot of books and have something in your stomach, you won't get scared when you come up with a name or a plot, let alone make a joke.

"That makes sense!"

Chen Ba deeply agreed.

He just doesn't read enough and has no money in his stomach. That's why Tianba Studio's game plot copywriting is always unsatisfactory, causing countless players to complain.

If he had read more books, would it still be like this?

As the saying goes, you are a guest from afar.

As meal time approached, Xu Hong enthusiastically ordered a table of delicious food to entertain Chen Ba and his entourage who had come from afar.

At the dinner table, Xu Hong asked Tianba Studio if it would participate in this China Overseas Game Show, and received a positive answer.

Exhibiting at an exhibition is a must.

You’ve come here, it just doesn’t make sense not to go to the exhibition for a walk.

What's more, the news that Tianba Studio is about to develop a new game must be made public through this exhibition, otherwise where will it get any attention?

"Will the exhibition be announced to the public?"

Xu Hong took a sip of tea and said slightly curiously: "So soon? I thought it would take a while for you to announce it to the public!"

"We've always been fast..."

While biting the big crab, Xiao Lu explained to Xu Hong: "Did Mr. Xu forget that we are the quick shooters of Tianba Studio?"

"Hahaha, it's true!"

When Xu Hong heard this, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "I would have forgotten if I didn't tell you, your Tianba Studio is really fast and is famous for being a fast shooter."

Not only is it fast, it’s almost as fast as riding a rocket!

While others were still holding back on game planning and hadn't even finished the PPT, Tianba Studio launched a new game project.

When others finally created a new folder and were confidently preparing for formal development, I looked back and saw that Tianba Studio’s new games had begun to be pre-booked for early testing!

Simply inappropriate...

If Rockstar could develop at this speed, let alone GTA6, it would probably be GTA100 by now.

After making a joke, Xu Hong used the toast to inquire about Tianba's new game.

Chen Ba lowered his head and thought for a moment.

Anyway, my participation in the China Overseas Game Show will be announced in two days. It doesn’t hurt to reveal it now. Lao Xu is still reliable.

So, he picked up a bit of the general framework of the game and told it to Xu Hong.

The new game is an MMORPG online game.

The theme of Xianxia, ​​the main gameplay is to play a cultivator, adventure in the vast world of cultivation, and finally become a true immortal in the free world!

The game has multiple realms.

Qi training, foundation building, golden elixir, Yuanying, spirit transformation, body integration, void restoration, Mahayana...

To put it bluntly, it’s stitched!

Chen Ba did not feel embarrassed and publicly stated that his settings were all stitched together from novels.

Bad news: Stitches!

Good news: It’s all sewn in!

In essence, the game still follows the standard MMORPG process of upgrading and fighting monsters.

Upgrading is to improve your cultivation level. Fighting monsters cannot be called fighting monsters, it should be called killing demons and bandits. Downloading a dungeon cannot be called a dungeon, but is called exploring the secret cave!

PK is also available.

The cultivators are full of blood, and the world of cultivators is extremely cruel. Isn't it commonplace to kill people and seize treasures?

So the game has a PK system.

But in order to limit the fighting and PK behavior between players and protect relatively weak players, Chen Ba added a "merit" system.

The so-called merits are naturally the merits of heaven!

This thing is very common in those ancient novels, and the benefits are obvious. It can reduce the difficulty of natural disasters, increase the speed of cultivation, and can also be used to refine magic weapons and so on.

In short, merit is rare...

Indiscriminate killing will increase the evil spirit, and the evil spirit will consume the merits, and obtain various unknown curses, such as being struck by lightning when walking, being covered with red hair, etc.

Merits can be obtained by doing good deeds, eliminating demons and protecting the Tao. The game encourages everyone to do good deeds and be a good person. Don't kill people and seize treasures all day long, and do all the bad things that are useless.

Unless you don’t need merit and don’t mind the ominous curse…

But that's not possible.

In this game, merit is the most valuable game currency! If you have enough merit, you can even have a better time than the gold-earning players.

"real or fake?"

Xiao Lu touched a chicken leg out of nowhere and said while chewing it: "It's even better than a krypton gold player. Isn't that merit too perverted?"

"Sure!"

"How else can there be such a thing as becoming a saint through merit? Think about it! If you have enough merit, you can even become a saint. So what does this little effect mean?"

Chen Ba naturally has his own plans for defining merit as a third-level currency.

Krypton gold players can certainly have a better time in this game, but they still can't compare to the merit boss. After all, merit is something that even krypton gold players can't get.

In other words.

Krypton, gold, and krypton are secondary currencies such as spirit stones and fairy jade, which are only one level higher than copper coins and silver taels.

Merit is a third-level currency, its status is still above the second-level currency, and merit does not support exchange, and it cannot be bought with krypton gold.

Boy, practice is not about fighting and killing, but about merit. Do you understand?