Chapter 122 Pseudo open world

Chapter 122 Pseudo open world

As soon as New Year's Eve passed, Tianba Studio returned to its former hustle and bustle, and the game development progress was greatly accelerated.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers!

When the gap in the number of people is not that big, there may not be much difference in work efficiency. For example, if 10 people work and 11 people work, maybe a team of 10 people is more efficient?

But the gap in the number of people has reached a whole new level, such as 5 people and 15 people. It doesn’t take much to know that a team of 15 people will work more efficiently.

certainly!

This is just an idealized scenario.

In actual work, due to various reasons and special circumstances, the saying "more people means greater power" may not be so accurate. Instead, there will be a strange scene where the more people there are, the lower the efficiency will be.

However, under normal circumstances, the efficiency of more people is far greater than that of less people.

As time comes to the new year, the focus of Tianba Studio has also shifted from the update and maintenance of old games to the development of the new game "Love Staff".

This is a love development game.

Players who have played such games know that falling in love is the core gameplay of the game, but in addition to falling in love, you can actually do other things...

"Open world is not bragging."

"Although our game can be considered a pseudo-open world at best, the degree of freedom is not something that ordinary love development games can achieve." Chen Ba explained.

Open World, also known as roaming game, is a type of game level design.

The core point of this design is the freedom to explore, the freedom of players, the freedom of tasks, the freedom of gameplay and the map.

Tianba Studio cannot produce large-scale open world games, such as the Morality and Rule of Law series and Girl Scroll.

Mainly because I don’t have the time.

You only know that these games are free, the maps are large, and there is plenty of space to explore, but do you know how much time the developers spent to fill the game content?

Trivia!

The map area of ​​Los Santos is 252 square kilometers, and Cousin 2 is 72 square kilometers...

Many people may have no idea about this unit of area. They only know that it is very large, but they still have no idea how big it is.

Then do the math.

The top first-tier city in China, Pengcheng, has an area of ​​1,997.47 square kilometers, while the core urban districts under Pengcheng's jurisdiction, such as Longhua District and Futian District, barely cover 252 square kilometers combined.

With this conversion, you can know how amazing the size of such a huge open world game is.

With just a dozen or so people in Tianba Studio, if we really want to make an open world game with a huge map, we probably won’t be able to make it in ten or twenty years.

Therefore, the map of "Love Staff" is smaller.

The so-called small refers to comparison with 3A masterpieces. Compared with ordinary games, the map is already very large.

“It’s very explorable!”

"We will provide hundreds of jobs and thousands of interactive scenes for this game."

When Chen Ba said this, he saw everyone's expressions were a little solemn and couldn't help but said: "Okay, don't be so serious! Although the numbers sound scary, the repetition rate is very high."

For example, interactive scenes such as movie theaters, shopping malls, parks, amusement parks, and zoos actually use the same set of templates, but with different art resources.

Not that exaggerated.

Many map designs, including career routes, are nothing more than copying and pasting and changing a set of art resources.

And now there is AI drawing. It may be a little problematic to draw characters, but it is definitely enough to draw scenes.

“As soon as you enter the game, it’s the classic stage of renting a house and finding a job after graduation.”

Chen Ba explained: “When players find a job, have a fixed income and a place to live, they can meet all kinds of handsome guys and beauties and unlock the core gameplay of the game.”

In the game, there are many specific prerequisites for characters to look at each other.

For example, for a girl who is shy and insecure, if you want to pursue her, you must have a strong physique. Regular exercise in the gym will have a good effect.

If her body is weak and cannot give her a sense of security, it will be more difficult to pursue...

"I understand."

Xiao Lu chewed his pen and thought: "Brother Ba, what you mean is that if certain conditions are met, then pursuing the character will be easy difficulty or normal difficulty. If the specific conditions are not met, it will be difficult or hell difficulty."

"right!"

"When entering the game "Love Staff", you cannot actively select the game difficulty."

Chen Ba explained: "All game difficulties are achieved through this prerequisite."

To put it bluntly, love needs to go both ways.

Men pick women, and women pick men.

Only when both parties feel that they are in line with their own wishes, it will be easier to create sparks in contact. Otherwise, if you are ugly and have no merits, will a blind girl be able to like you?

"Is the face-pinching part important?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Dong lost his composure and hurriedly asked: "Are you too ugly or ordinary to catch a girl?"

"No no no!"

Chen Ba quickly denied that this was not his original design intention, and he had never thought of it that way.

The game has a face-pinch part.

Depending on the face pinching, the system will give evaluations of "handsome guy", "pure passerby" and "cannot look directly".

This kind of evaluation will indeed affect the difficulty of conquering the character. For example, if you are a member of an appearance association and want to find a handsome boyfriend, it will definitely not be easy for you to seduce her with your "ancient god face".

But appearance is only part of the prerequisite, and each character has different criteria for judging appearance.

For some characters, she has no interest in handsome guys but likes the face of an ancient god. So what can you do?

and……

Appearance can only determine the first impression. It does not mean that if you are handsome, you will be 100% successful in conquering female characters from the Appearance Association.

It doesn’t mean that if you are ugly, you will definitely fail if you try to capture a female character who likes handsome guys!

If it were to be designed like this, wouldn't this game become "Yanzu per capita"? Everyone is squeezing their faces in the direction of handsome guys. Is it necessary to squish their faces?

"In a word, difficulty selection."

"With the appearance of "cannot be looked directly at", it is a bit difficult to conquer the regular characters, but this is also more challenging, isn't it? "Chen Ba said with a smile.

Some players, such as Wang Laoju, like to pinch the face of the ancient god, so give it to him!

Anyway, it’s your own fault. If you try to find a solution that’s too difficult and you’re rejected, you can’t blame the game developers.

And clearing the level at this difficulty is indeed very valuable, and it also makes this player even more powerful. After all, he can win beautiful women with his appearance. How powerful is he?

…

When filling in the game content, Chen Ba did not forget to test the game's online mode through the LAN.

Not to mention, it’s quite weird.

In the online mode of "Love Staff", in the final analysis, there are only two choices: ask for help from others, or help others!

Players who apply for help can open their permissions and bring players who apply to help others into their team and their own game world.

Players who apply to help others can see the dialogue options and task list faced by that player after entering someone else's game world.

Then there is a squad voice and text communication channel.

【GameBugs:? 】

[Dong: Everything is normal! 】

Chen Ba asked for help, and Yang Dong, Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei came in.

Then he initiated sharing, and a voting selection bar appeared on several people's screens.

Chen Ba started a conversation. A female character named Lulu needed to replace her computer because it was damaged. I heard that the male protagonist knew a lot about this and wanted him to give her some purchasing advice.

A. Of course!

B. No advice!

C. Am I familiar with you?

Xiao Lu was the first to speak: "Why don't you think about it? You must choose A!"

Yang Dong thought for a while and then said: "Option C is too harsh in tone and offends people a bit. I think there is something wrong with option A, so I vote for B."

Zhong Shengwei also voted A.

2:1:0, the voting results of the Love Staff came out. Chen Ba can choose to adopt it, or he can use his "veto power" to choose the answer he thinks is correct.

Then, he chose C.

"Am I familiar with you? Are you asking me for help? Aren't you afraid that I will trick you on purpose?"

I thought this answer was wrong, but I accidentally got the answer, "You are really interesting" and "I didn't know you before, but it's not too late to know you now".

The favorability curve displayed in the background actually increased!

"As expected of a dog-headed military advisor..."

Chen Ba was very disappointed with everyone. He thought everyone had a girlfriend. Not to mention choosing the correct answer, it shouldn't be difficult to eliminate a wrong answer, right?

The result was good. These people eliminated the correct answers as soon as they arrived. It turned out that the dog-headed military advisor was indeed unreliable.

"It's not our fault."

"Indeed, this question is too confusing. And the information is not complete. Who knew she would say this?"

Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei complained repeatedly, saying that it was an accident. They only analyzed the question and forgot to check the information of the character Lulu.

Start over again!

Several people were dissatisfied and had to ask Brother Ba to test it again, saying that after figuring out the routine and the character's personality, it would be impossible to miss this time.

"Okay! Let's try again."

Anyway, it was to test the online function, so it would be a good thing to test it more than once. Chen Ba did not embarrass them and continued to focus on the character "Lulu".

This time it’s not a conversation.

The prerequisite is that when you get off work, you see Lulu looking depressed after receiving a phone call.

Players can move freely. They can go up and ask about the situation, or they can ignore it. They can also tell another female colleague about the matter and ask her to help comfort her...

There are many options.

At this time, the Love Staff also started a free discussion mode. Xiao Lu and others brainstormed and put forward various suggestions.

After discussion, a plan was finally decided, which was to tell another female colleague about the matter and ask her to inquire about the situation and comfort the disappointed Lulu.

Active contact and indifference have been given up by Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei.

They both agreed that based on Lulu's personality characteristics, both methods were unreliable and might even be counterproductive.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

It was rare for Chen Ba to believe the analysis of the dog-headed military advisor, so he did as they said.

As a result, Lulu had a quarrel with the female colleague, and seemed reluctant to tell others about the incident. The female colleague was also very angry, and the protagonist did bad things instead of being kind.

"Is there still such an expansion?"

Because except for the general character design of the NPC, the other characters and identities are randomly generated, so everyone really didn’t expect it to turn out like this.

Especially Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei, their faces turned green.

Can this be wrong?

Damn it, he’s really become a dog-headed military advisor!

They both have girlfriends, and I thought that compared to the two singles, Brother Dong and Brother Ba, they must have richer experience and theory.

Unexpectedly, I was wrong both times.

"That's it for the test."

Seeing that Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei were a little bit shocked, Chen Ba shook his head and said, "Don't be so discouraged. In fact, these actions are all correct."

There is no such thing as stepping on a trap.

It's the wrong answer, but it's also the right answer. There is no exact favorability value, and there are no absolutely right or wrong options.

Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei still have traditional thinking.

Even Brother Dong has discovered that because of the greater randomness, the game "Love Staff" actually has more branch choices and routes.

The real role of the dog-headed strategist is not to help the player choose the correct answer, nor to eliminate wrong answers, but to find the route branch that is most suitable for the player.

To put it bluntly, there are thousands of roads.

Why do we have to find a shortcut among these millions of roads? Isn't it possible to reach the end by taking other paths?

"Unless you are an absolute genius and have incredible luck, you have to take some detours."

To be honest, among so many random route branches, there are really people who seem to be cheating and have a smooth journey. It is probably more difficult than winning the lottery.

Mainly meat pigeon games.

As long as "Love Staff" does not have the elements of meat pigeons and has a fixed character strategy template, it will not cause the so-called difficulty in choosing.

"The significance of the dog-headed strategist is that the rich experience you think is only useful to you, and may be useless to another player..."

Yang Dong saw through the mechanism and said: "Just because you successfully passed the level does not mean that your experience will be useful when you go to help other players."

"That's right!"

Chen Ba affirmed: "This is the confusing nature of the online mode. You think there is a great god here, and with his guidance, everything will be perfect..."

But is there a possibility that this great master’s experience is of no use to you? Or even have the opposite effect?

The purpose of the staff department is to provide you with ideas for solving problems, not to ask you to copy the answers and become a formula person!

There is no way out for formula people.

Applying other people's successful experiences and copying other people's homework will most likely not work in a meat pigeon game like "Love Staff".

The randomness is too strong.

The prerequisites, character personalities, identity backgrounds, and career routes are all different, and each player encounters different difficulties...

for example.

Player A is taking the delivery boy route, and player B is taking the civil servant route. Even if they conquer the same character, can the difficulty and process be the same?

"Then I understand."

Xiao Lu said thoughtfully: "According to different situations, formulate different strategy plans and find the most suitable branch routes. This is the meaning of online play."

It’s not about copying other people’s answers.

There is no point in copying the answers. The main thing is to listen to other people's suggestions. The final decision is made by the players themselves.