Almighty Game Designer

In the conference room, Su Shiyu and several other members of the "Famine" project are brainstorming and thinking about some fun about the game.

"According to the manager's instructions, this is a survival game, right? Then, all settings should be built around survival."

"The two most critical factors are the materials that support survival and the various negative factors that threaten to survive."

"What kind of materials and what kind of negative factors should be there? Think about the real world, temperature, climate, monsters, food... these can be game content."

"That is to say, the core fun of this game is that the player manipulates the protagonist and survives in a completely strange world. He must explore the entire map to continuously collect materials and use materials to counter the negative factors that threaten the survival of various threats."

"Well, considering this level, the prototype of this game is already there, and the kernel is not bad, it looks quite fun."

"Then the next step is some specific design. The player needs some value to visually feel his own state of existence. For example, the simplest example, the value of life."

"When you are attacked by monsters, frozen, burned, etc., the player's health will drop. When you fall to 0, you will die and the game will end."

"What else is there? The name of the game is "Famine," and obviously the store manager wants us to add the hunger value. Players must search for food, and if they are hungry, they will slowly reduce their health. Maybe you can also reduce the speed of movement."

"It seems that the goal is clear."

"But there are still flaws. I always feel that there are shortcomings in addition to these two factors."

"Yes, the two factors are not rich enough. For example, the weather like rain, snow, hail, and hot summer will definitely affect people in reality. But how do you manifest it in the game? If it rains, it will drop blood? Or Rain is deducting hunger? It feels unreasonable."

"And, if there are only two attributes, it will make people think that this character is not a living person, but a dummies who only know how to eat and drink Lazar, will have no sense of substitution."

"Yeah, it seems that there should be another attribute..."

Everyone is thinking, Chen Mo is coming in.

"Add another attribute, spiritual value." Chen Mo said.

Su Shiyu shines: "Mental value? Used to express the player's mental state?"

Chen Mo nodded: "Yes, bad weather and some bad events will cause the player's mental value to drop. Similarly, the spiritual value can also be answered by some props."

"After the mental value drops to zero, the character will fall into a state of mental breakdown. At this time he will begin to experience hallucinations, the color of the whole world begins to change, and some monsters similar to nightmares begin to attack him."

"If the player can defeat the nightmare, he can restore a certain spiritual value. If the player is killed by a dream, then the game is over."

Su Shiyu thought for a moment: "This design is good! In this way, the hunger value, health value, and mental value, these three attributes can basically express the status of the character. Wow, the manager is still very powerful."

Chen Mo smiled and said: "In fact, there is nothing. You can think of it for a while, and this is basically an inevitable design."

Su Yuyu said: "The manager, you are also brainstorming with us. I pondered and found out that the game of "Famine" really has a lot of interesting places. If you enrich your settings, it will definitely be awesome. game!"

Chen Mo rolled his eyes: "Crap, if the game is boring, then I will let you do what. Independently complete the homework, this game is for you to develop ideas, don't always expect me to teach."

Su Shiyu licked her mouth: "Hey."

Chen Mo’s words turned and said in an understatement: “The emperor’s mutual entertainment is going to be a VR version of the “Dark” game.

Su Shiyu stunned and immediately surprised: "Ah? When? What should I do? Why are you not worried about the store manager?"

Chen Mo leaned back on the chair: "What anxious, people are doing VR games, I am in a hurry, can't do it now."

Su Shiyu hurriedly said: "What should I do? The emperor and the emperor are also really entertaining these people, and they know that they are stealing our ideas!"

Chen Mo signaled her to be a little safe: "Nothing, you should calm down a bit. Can the theme of "Diablo" be changed to VR? It is hard to say that it is likely to take a lot of time to fill the pit, the fastest and fastest. It will take another year to make it."

Su Yuyu said: "Then, the store manager, let's speed up, half a time to do a simple VR game test, and then change "Diablo" into a VR game in half a year!"

Chen Mo said without words: "If you think too much, you can't do it so fast if you play chicken blood. Nothing, I told you that this thing is to remind you that the progress of "Famine" is better, because I want to Use this game to test the players' reactions."

"When I do the game later, I have a corresponding development plan, and maybe it is a slight adjustment in order. Now it is unwise to disrupt our deployment in order to entertain with the emperor."

"My plan is that "Famine" will be launched in 2 months, that is, at the end of September. Of course, this is the initial version. After the launch, we will add a lot of new content based on the feedback from the players, and open up various mods for players to play freely. ”

"The Soul of the Soul" was developed after three months, and two or three weeks of testing was reserved, which was launched in mid-November. After that, Diablo was temporarily released.

"In November, the feedback from the players on the "Famine" side is almost the same. Everyone will free up their hands to prepare a VR game and compete with the new game of the emperor."

"Good!" Su Shiyu said, "I am speeding up the progress on this side, and I am going to make the DEMO of "Famine" early, and everyone will consult the staff."

Chen Mo nodded: "Well, but don't worry too much, 2 months is very abundant, to ensure quality."

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About the game "Famine".

Its success has not been repeated, whether it is in sales or in word of mouth, it is a stand-alone game that can write classics.

Chen Mo chose this game for everyone to practice, in addition to considering the game is suitable for divergent thinking, but also to slightly test the players of this world, the acceptance of the sandbox game.

The so-called sandbox game is a type of game that evolved from sandbox games. It is often a large map, with many elements, high degree of freedom, and strong creativity. Creativity is the core gameplay of this game, which allows players to use the objects provided in the game to create what they want.

The world also has some games with a lot of freedom, but in Chen Mo's view, they are not particularly successful sandbox games.