Chapter 154 Lilith’s suggestion (fourth update, please vote for me!)
Gu Fan said excitedly: "Mr. Li, this two-player mode is the real essence of this game!
"I even think that the negative emotions generated by the two-player mode should be more than three times that of the single-player mode!"
Lilith was a little surprised: "It means that players can generate more negative emotions when playing in two-player mode? Why? If two people play together, the combat difficulty of this game should be reduced, right?"
Gu Fan explained: “The attributes of enemies in two-player mode will also be adjusted, but this is not the point.
“The essence of the two-player mode is that the two players’ field of view is not shared, they will only see a fixed field of view.
"One can only see the world of fairy tales, and the other can only see the world of science fiction."
Lilith understood instantly: "Oh! That means they will see each other do some weird things, such as inserting intestines into the corpse of a puppy?
"In addition, the game goals of the two of them are completely opposite, so one person killing monsters seems to the other person to be killing NPCs, while the other person doing tasks normally seems to the first person to be killing them. Making trouble...
"If you continue playing like this, you will definitely lose your friends, and negative emotions will naturally arise!"
Gu Fan nodded: "Yes, this is a top-notch effect that can only be seen under the game mechanism of "Ascension"!
“And there is no such game on the market yet.
“A big reason is that doing this requires two sets of art resources. Compared with the development cost of a normal game, the expenditure on art resources directly doubles.
"But our art resources all come from hell, so there is no such problem."
Lilith frowned and asked: "There is no such game on the market. Isn't this good news?
"Will it attract many players?"
Gu Fan smiled slightly: "Isn't this exactly the effect you want, Mr. Li?
“The more people come to play, the more negative emotions will be generated!
“At that time, we can do a crazy marketing campaign, bragging about the new engine and the mechanics of the two worlds, and combined with the reputation accumulated from our previous games, we will definitely be able to trick as many players as possible into the game in the early stages!
"When the time comes, Mr. Li, you will send it!"
An uncontrollable smile appeared on Lilith's face. It was obvious that she had imagined the beautiful scene when tons of negative emotions entered her account.
She went over the design plan for "Ascension" from beginning to end.
It has to be said that Gu Fan fulfilled her request perfectly. He met all three demanding conditions and came up with new ideas. He indeed delivered a perfect answer.
"Mr. Li, do you have any other suggestions? But it doesn't hurt." Gu Fan said very calmly.
Lilith fell silent.
As a Party A, if she says "no suggestions" at this time, she is definitely an unqualified Party A.
But the plan given by Gu Fan seemed to be comprehensive. Even Lilith felt that it would be difficult for her to design such a vicious game.
Any suggestions?
After thinking for a moment, Lilith suddenly had an idea and thought of something.
"I really have a suggestion.
"Just...when developing this game, can you help me develop a special modification tool?
"The kind that allows me to defeat these monsters."
Gu Fan nodded: "What kind of request is this? It's already there.
"In order to conduct better testing, we would have made a simple modification program, which has functions such as blood locking and one-hit kill."
Lilith shook her head: "No, what I mean is that it is best not to use tools that directly lock blood or kill with one hit. We need to lower the difficulty of some games, but not too much..."
Gu Fan understood clearly, why did Lilith make such a strange suggestion?
Obviously, the devil’s suspicious character is still at work!
So far, Lilith has not trusted Gu Fan at all, so no matter how reliable this game seems and how capable it is of collecting negative emotions, Lilith cannot be completely reassured.
After all, this game was designed by Gu Fan, so Lilith must try it herself.
The reason why she had never made similar requests before was because she had designed all the games in the past, and she knew all the design details very well, and the design drafts could not be modified at all.
If something goes wrong, Gu Fan can be caught easily.
But this time, the design draft was written by Gu Fan.
This design plan has dozens of pages, and the various functions in it are quite complex.
Not to mention whether Lilith can read them all, even if she does, she may not be able to understand all the mechanisms. If something goes wrong by then, wouldn't it be troublesome?
Even if Lilith came to Gu Fan to accuse her, Gu Fan could still say, "The design plan has been written a long time ago, but you didn't understand it yourself."
Therefore, Lilith thought about it and felt that to be on the safe side, she had to experience the game and find out the problems.
But if it is a general modifier and is directly changed to lock blood or kill instantly with one hit, it may not be able to detect anything, and it is easy to miss many details in a quick glance.
That's why Lilith wanted a modifier that "can reduce the difficulty, but not too much".
However, Gu Fan didn't show it. He just continued to maintain a puzzled expression and didn't seem to think about it in detail.
“Of course it can be done.
"For programmers, there is no program in the world that cannot be made. There are only two points: first, how much time and resources are you willing to give programmers to do it; second, do you mind if this thing is made? There were a lot of bugs after that.
"If you want to be more precise, this modifier may be a bit complicated to operate and use. Can you do it?"
Lilith was silent, the answer was obviously not good.
"Can't it be done directly in the game program? For example, adding a special prop or special code can be easily activated.
"Just delete these codes before the game is released."
The corner of Gu Fan's mouth twitched slightly: "Do you know that deleting code is a very painful thing... Well, since Mr. Li asked me to do it, I will try my best."
Lilith was very happy and continued: "One more suggestion is to add some illusions!
"It's a bit too merciful to switch between the two worlds only at specific times. I think it's completely possible to intersperse hallucinations in between.
"For example, when players are in the world of cultivating immortals, the science fiction world will flash across their field of vision from time to time; and vice versa.
“Or there may be auditory hallucinations, causing the world of cultivating immortals to play the sound effects of the science fiction world.
"In short, these hallucinations will seriously interfere with players' thinking and immersion, further create more negative emotions, and can also maximize the use of the settings of the two worlds!"
Gu Fan couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, Mr. Li, you are better at being a human being."
Lilith waved her hand: "Oh, Mr. Gu, you don't have to give in too much."
The two people looked at the game design draft in front of them, each letting out a villainous laugh.
"Okay, then it's finalized and ready for development!"
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Monday, October 21st.
Gu Fan slept for twelve hours in one breath in order to make up for his sleep. After getting up, his head was still a little groggy.
When he came to the villa where he worked, he handed the design plan to Xiao Mingyu, asked her to print it all out, and then handed it over to everyone.
While others were looking at the plan, Xiao Mingyu also began to report the recruitment situation to Gu Fan.
"Mr. Gu, after we issued a recruitment notice last week, we have received more than a hundred resumes. I screened them a little and found more than forty that are more qualified.
"However, new resumes are being submitted one after another these days."
Gu Fan nodded: "Well, let me take a look."
He opened the resumes on his computer and started looking at them.
After a brief scan, I can only say that it is at a normal level, and there is no particularly eye-catching talent.
This may be because Nitiantian’s income is currently kept secret from the outside world. Everyone does not know the specific method of bonus distribution here. They only know that this is a stand-alone game production company that has successfully produced several consecutive games.
Otherwise, the person submitting the resume should have to at least double it.
However, Gu Fan doesn't want to make a big deal about this at the moment.
He simply picked out a few resumes and prepared for interviews.
At this moment, Xiao Mingyu came over again.
"By the way, Mr. Gu, there is one more thing. We also received some resumes from referrals, and I printed them out separately.
“And what’s interesting is that most of them are from Shengjing Group.
"For example, this producer Wei Chengjie."