Chapter 179 Is the studio feng shui bad?

Chapter 179 Is the studio feng shui bad?

All kinds of literary and entertainment works have always been fond of labeling the protagonists as "beautiful, tragic and strong" to deepen the sympathy of readers and audiences.

Chen Ba has no prejudice against this.

Because this is an objective fact. The more unsatisfactory the life of the protagonists of games, animations, movies and other works, the more it touches people's hearts.

As long as you observe carefully, it is not difficult to find a very strange point.

That is, in various movies and TV dramas, the protagonist either has both parents deceased or is a single-parent family. If I'm lucky, both my parents are here, and I still have grandparents, but this kind of family also has quarrels and conflicts every now and then, and it's not happy and harmonious at all.

That's weird, isn't it?

This is not to say that there are no such examples in reality. There definitely is. No matter how outrageous movies, TV shows, animations and games are, they can never be more magical than reality.

But one thing worth noting is that in reality, this kind of case is actually a "few" special cases.

But in various TV series and movies, this has become a standard. Every family where the protagonist lives must have some problems and conflicts...

“Dramatize it!”

In order to make up for his shortcomings, Chen Ba read a lot of books about screenwriting during this period and took many professional courses.

Therefore, he also has certain experience in shaping the "beautiful, tragic and strong" protagonist.

First of all, the family is not happy.

This is a prerequisite. As the protagonist, it is impossible to have a happy family. Considering this is a game, it is enough that both parents are dead.

In addition to the unsatisfactory family, he also has to bear a certain amount of blood feud, which serves as the source of motivation for the protagonist's struggle in the early stage.

Here, Chen Ba set up a monster boss at the level of a demon king.

"In the story, the male protagonist Chen Yun's parents died at the hands of this ferocious beast Boss, so Chen Yun worked hard to improve his strength just to avenge his parents."

This ferocious beast Boss is an important level Boss in the early stage of the game. Only by defeating it can the plot advance to the next chapter and start a new chapter.

"What about the next phase?"

Xiao Lu asked curiously.

The first stage is to avenge his parents. After the great revenge is avenged, how will the second stage of the protagonist Chen Yun's story unfold?

"After defeating this ferocious beast Boss, in the context of the game, Chen Yun is already considered one of the top martial arts experts in Jiangning Base City."

"It is unrealistic and illogical for a strong man of this level to arrange an enemy for him inexplicably..."

When Chen Ba said this, he threw out a new plot line, which was to change the map.

Jiangning base city is still too small.

The male protagonist needs a motivation, so he must go to a wider world, leave this base city and go to the capital base city.

"You need a reason to change the map, and the male protagonist's sister who has been set before can use it."

"My sister Chen Jia suddenly fell ill, and there was no one in Jiangning base city to save her. The male protagonist heard that the medical conditions in the capital base city were better and that there were many powerful human beings in charge, so he took his sister to the capital to seek medical treatment."

In just a few words, Chen Ba gave the male protagonist Chen Yun a reason to change the map.

This reason is very good and completely justified.

In this context of the evolution of all races and the revival of spiritual energy, it is not too outrageous to set up a special disease that requires a "strongest person" to cure it.

Anyway, in one sentence: This disease requires the most powerful person to save it, and Jiangning base city does not have such a strong person...

"After we get the new map, it will definitely not be easy to see the most powerful person and convince him to save my sister."

Chen Ba continued: "This leads to a series of side tasks. The main task of the second stage can be summed up in five words: cure my sister!"

Avenge your parents and treat your sister!

After completing the main plot and subsidiary side missions in these two stages, the strength of the male protagonist Chen Yun has become a pillar of the human race.

So the main mission of the third stage is obviously that the human race is facing a crisis of extinction. As a key figure, the male protagonist resolutely takes up the heavy responsibility, promotes a series of major events, and protects the endangered human race.

"After the tragedy of genocide has passed, the male protagonist has almost become the leader of the human race and has entered the fourth stage of the main plot..."

Chen Ba wants to create a heroic figure.

Maybe he is not so perfect, nor so handsome, but he has a little bit of personality charm in him.

To use a poem to describe Chen Yun, the male protagonist of the game, it would probably be "The world kissed him with pain, but he responded with songs."

He has experienced ups and downs since childhood and has experienced all kinds of sufferings. He is not a genius. He has been surrounded by dangers along the way and has been on the verge of death many times. He can be said to be bleeding from the tip of a knife.

But he loves life, loves everyone or things around him, and is willing to sacrifice himself for an illusory "humanity's justice."

This kind of person can be called a hero.

As a AAA-level role-playing game, according to common standards in the industry, Chen Ba believes that the plot should be considered full.

"Depending on the difficulty and collection level, the time required to clear the game is guaranteed to start at 20 hours..."

The 20 hours Chen Ba mentioned refers to the easy difficulty, about 50% of the progress of collecting achievement illustrations, and the time required to only promote the plot and do nothing else.

Moreover, this is still under the premise of having a strategy.

Without looking at the guide, a normal player would need about 40-50 hours to play, even on easy difficulty, with 80% achievement illustration collection and completion of the game.

If the difficulty is increased, or if you pursue the full illustrated book and 100% successful clearance, you may have to spend more than 100 hours.

As for a 3A game, in addition to a long plot process, the game content should also be very rich. It is impossible to play anything other than pushing the plot.

"The map needs to be bigger!"

"Thankfully we have the Tianba engine, otherwise this vast game map would be enough for us to drink..."

Xiao Lu was very happy.

In the game "Global Evolution", the map template is no different from the real world map.

However, the map in the game will definitely not be as big as in reality, and the proportion will definitely be reduced.

But no matter how you zoom out, it's still a huge world map. Without the AI ​​assistance of Tianba Engine, just relying on the manpower of Tianba Studio, I am afraid it would take a year and a half to draw the game map alone.

It’s an open world, so it’s normal for the map to be larger!

In addition to the slightly larger map, the game also contains a variety of ferocious beasts and even spirits.

The ferocious beasts refer to the animals on the original earth, special monsters formed due to mutations, and they hate humans.

Spirits are plants on the earth. They are special species that were born after mutations caused intelligence. They are divided into two factions. One faction also hates humans, and the other is neutral and neither friendly nor disgusted with humans.

In addition to the ferocious beasts and spirits on land, there are also various sea beasts in the ocean. This is the undisputed overlord race on earth after the mutation, and it is also the main opponent and source of experience for the male protagonist Chen Yun in the later period.

"The game has a buddy system!"

"Players can tame certain ferocious beasts or spirits and become partners..."

It's said to be a companion, but it's actually an alternative "pet" system.

Pets have strong combat power, which is another interesting way to play the game, that is, like Pokémon, you can catch pets everywhere and then train them.

"Cats, dogs, flowers, and plants are divided into different qualities according to the animals and plants and their respective growth talents."

"The higher the quality of the companion, the more difficult it is to tame it, and it is also more difficult to obtain it. For example, the golden companion giant panda is one of the more ferocious beasts, and players can only tame cubs."

When Chen Ba said this, his expression was a bit difficult and he said: "But having said that, it is still difficult for me to imagine what it will be like after a giant panda, an extremely lazy creature, mutates into a ferocious beast."

He laid out the framework for the background of the game.

But how to fill content into this framework is other people's business.

For animals like ordinary tigers, wolves, and brown bears, it’s actually nothing to create a “ferocious beast” version. But huskies and giant pandas, animals that look careless at first glance, always feel like they are not that easy to handle.

Especially Huskies…

Chen Ba scratched his head and couldn't figure out this thing. Even if his spiritual energy revived and turned into a ferocious beast, could Erha really sink the aircraft carrier?

If you can't think of it, don't think about it.

Anyway, he is only responsible for the general direction. As for the detailed game content, just let Xiao Lu lead people to work on it.

…

A total of about 400 people were mobilized to participate in the development of "Global Evolution".

Among them, only 47 people are from Tianba Studio, and the rest are outsourced teams who have been contacted in advance and specially work for Tianba Studio and are responsible for various branches of content.

For example, MarvelousDesigner, character clothing design and modeling requires the use of professional 3D clothing design software and a certain understanding of clothing fabric cutting.

This is also a very tedious job.

But don’t underestimate the importance of this work. The sense of immersion in a game is deeply affected by the character’s clothing style.

Those characters in two-dimensional mobile games have invested the most in this aspect. The costumes of the characters are all gorgeous, focusing on the roast chicken culture, which captures the hearts of players from a visual level.

In addition, the development of a large-scale game usually requires the participation of a large number of people who are proficient in photoshop, Substance Designer, Zbrush, Houdini and other software.

This is a massive project.

The more you invest in it, the more you will understand that 3A is really a manifestation of game industrialization and cluster industrialization.

Developing an independent game may require the game producer to "have ideas", and ideas and technical strength are more important than anything else.

But for a 3A game producer, personnel scheduling and team management are the most important abilities.

without any exaggeration.

Even if Chen Ba knows nothing about game development and doesn’t even know where the computer’s power button is... He only needs to clarify the division of responsibilities of each person in the team and make arrangements and management, and he can become an excellent 3A game producer.

This is not difficult to understand.

Independent games are about playing alone, so game producers need to master certain technologies and ideas, which is equivalent to a general leading the battle.

But the 3A game producer has too many elite soldiers at his disposal, and the role he plays is actually the emperor.

As an emperor, it is a good thing to be able to drive and conquer personally, but it is okay if you don't have that ability. You just need to know people and make good use of them, and send the most correct generals at critical moments.

Chen Ba is now in this "giving orders" state. He does not need to use actual actions to realize his ideas.

Quite the opposite.

He only needs to propose ideas and assign the right people, and the people below will naturally realize the ideas for him and wait for acceptance of the results.

"It's better for you to take it easy..."

Yang Dong is very envious of Brother Ba. He has become the main producer of a 3A masterpiece at a young age. It is so enviable.

In comparison, he was miserable.

He had to break his legs for Brother Ba's light words. Not only was he exhausted, but when the game was released, people would only remember Brother Ba but not him behind the scenes.

"Everyone just does his job!"

Chen Ba knew what Brother Dong was thinking, so he comforted him: "It's okay. If there is a chance later, I will let you have fun and be the main producer of the game!"

"Really?"

Yang Dong was overjoyed and asked excitedly: "Are you really the main producer of the game?"

"of course it's true."

There is no need for Chen Ba to lie. Brother Dong has been with him for so long, what's wrong with giving him a chance?

And he also wanted to use this to verify a certain conjecture in his heart.

The games he makes always have all kinds of weird bugs, causing the gameplay to deviate from the original design intention.

Then here comes the problem.

If he didn't interfere and allowed his employees to develop freely, would there still be such strange bugs in the game?

Chen Ba is really curious.

After the development of "Global Evolution" is completed, he must find an opportunity to let Dong Ge or Xiao Lu take the lead to verify this conjecture.

If the conjecture is confirmed, even if he is not involved in game development, the game still has all kinds of weird bugs and gameplay, then Chen Ba will have to consider whether there is something wrong with the feng shui of the studio?

Could it be that he affected the general environment?

This can't be done, right?

Chen Ba vaguely felt that although this kind of thing sounded outrageous, with the urinary properties of Tiehanhan's system, the result would most likely be like this.

After all, he does not participate in game development and leaves the entire process to others to take the helm. However, the game engine and part of the code used all come from the Tiehanhan system!

There is a high probability that something will go wrong...

But it’s okay if something goes wrong!

I just want to clear my name and let the majority of players know that Brother Ba is not the only one who can develop and defend Tianba Studio, but the others are not clean either.

Look!

Even if Brother Ba doesn't intervene, a new defense will still be born. Whose problem is this? I believe I don't need to say more, right?

Thinking of this, Chen Ba said with great anticipation: "Brother Dong, I'll see you perform then."

It doesn’t matter how many copies the game sells, there must be bugs!

If he made a serious game, where would Chen Ba's face be? Didn't Tianba Studio confirm the rumor that "Brother Ba = bug"?

If a person makes a joke, that is his own problem.

If a group of people makes a joke, then it is not a human problem, but a feng shui problem. Facts have proved that Chen Ba cannot be blamed for this. It must be the studio's bad feng shui that leads to various bugs in its games.

I have tried this for everyone. It is really uncomfortable. I have a fever, dizziness and fatigue. I try my best to maintain full attendance. This is the update today. I plan to have a good rest and conceive the plot of the new game. I hope you can understand me.