Almighty Game Designer

Chen Qiao continued: “I think a lot of designers have this problem. It's obvious that their ability to compete with B and A level designers is limited. Instead of trying to think of other ways, it's stupid to stick your head in the game quality. ”

Lin Mao thought about it: “I still don't understand. ”

Chen Qiao explained: “We don't need to see each other in this relationship. Let me speak directly. If you are a player, why did you buy this game? ”

Lin Mao stunned for a moment. In his view, this was a matter of course, and he didn't even think about it specifically.

He thought about it: "Hmm... quality? Sincerity?”

"Sincerity is a very vain thing," said Chen Qiao. "If a designer falls into a selling mood, then only two things can be said. First, he used to be brilliant, and second, he is now basically out of his way. ”

“As for quality, you're a D-level designer. Can you compare to a B-level designer? ”

Lin Mao opened his mouth and felt like he had nothing to say.

Chen Qiao continued: “I asked the player why he bought it, but he was actually asking, what is the trick of this game? What's so special about it? ”

“I don't think your brain hole is completely open. For this game, there are several angles to consider. ”

“One is to consider the toy system and spend another two months fully doubling your existing combat system, adding 8 to 15 more weapons available and 20 more monster types. ”

Lin Mao wondered, “But isn't this too complicated for a hand tour? ”

Chen stranger shook his head: “It's not complicated. Do you have to relax with your hands? I don't think so. You know, the milder it gets, the harder it is to do it. At this stage, you'd rather use too much force than stop. ”

“It's very complicated to do battle systems, at least you can write propaganda phrases like this: '20 weapons at your disposal’, 'Brain burning challenge, can you pick the right weapon every time’, etc. ”

Lin Mao had some thoughts.

Chen continued: “Or the second solution, in difficulty, directly makes the whole game particularly difficult, and sets some completely unexpected organ traps. ”

Lin Mao asked, "What do you mean, totally unexpected? ”

Chen Jiao pointed to the game scene and said: “Here, for example, it looks like a hillside, but suddenly a bunch of spikes will pop up to stab the player to death. Or here, it looks like a friendly NPC, but as soon as you walk past it, it'll stab you to death. Jump over and talk to him from behind and he'll still get stabbed to death. You can only step on his head to kill him. ”

Lin Mao's mouth was slightly enlarged, with a “and this operation” look.

"If you use the second method, you can call it ‘the most unexpected little game in history', or you can change the name to 'The Knight's Pit Daddy Adventure', or something like that. ”

“There is also a third way to think about the plot, for example, where you can let players choose different routes at different nodes, or react. For example, if you encounter a previous enemy, he is badly injured, you can choose to save or not, so that many choices lead to different ends. ”

“You can design 5-8 ends, with success, failure, unexpected. ”

“In that case, you can use the 'Eight Endings, Dozens of Options', 'Can you pierce a lie, find out the truth' and so on as propaganda phrases. ”

Lin Mao touched his chin. Obviously, Chen Xiao's words were too informative. He had to think about them.

Chen Qiao was not in a hurry. He ate the appetizer and waited for Lin Mao to understand the three options he had just described.

What are the most lacking designers in the world?

It's the brain hole.

Chen's brain hole is not natural, but accumulates in another world. In the course of the birth and growth of the gaming industry, from end games, page games to hand games, there are also independent gaming flowers.

Countless game designers are trying to get their games noticed and get players to take money out of their pockets.

For games, creativity always comes first, and the little people standing at the top of the pyramid are undoubtedly a bunch of amazing brain-holes, a designer with little imagination, who can't develop games that fascinate players.

Of course, creativity is very subtle, and many of the outsiders who claim to be creative and want to save the game industry, in fact, all of what they call creativity is just fantasy. No one can say if an idea will succeed until it becomes a real game.

These three scenarios, as Chen Jiao said, are very genius ideas for people in this world, but in previous life, this was a rule that most designers knew, a design scenario that has been proven countless times by the market and has many success precedents.

Chen Jiao knew that Lin Mao was a very real man and his best friend, so just dial him a little bit.

However, Chen Qiao will not talk about the specific plan. As for what this game will eventually look like, it will depend on Lin Mao's own enlightenment.

Lin Mao thought about it for a long time and said, "Well, I get it. I think you're making a good point, and the reason my game is so trivial is because of the lack of a spot that can attract a lot of attention. ”

Chen Jiao nodded: “Yes. ”

Lin Mao said: “I see, Chen Jiao, your three schemes really inspire me a lot, I feel like I have some inspiration, thanks! ”

Chen Jiao shook his hand: “Nothing, it's no use raising your hand. I'm just giving you a direction. It's up to you to decide how to go. ”

Lin Mao nodded: “Well, I have a direction in mind. I thought the game was 80% done, and now it doesn't look like it's enough, so I'll re-plan the game when I get back. ”

Lin Mao's locked eyebrows swept apart. He always felt that his game was missing something, so he had no bottom line, and now he knows that his game was missing a flash point, a flash point that a player could see at a glance!

With this flash point, his game can stand out from countless games.

Zhao Zihao was surprised: "Chen Jiao, you can! Why didn't you feel so much of a ghost idea before? ”

Chen Qiao said seriously: “It's not a trick, it's an enlightenment. The night before the Design Competition, God of Games gave me a dream and sent me a set of game design skills treasures. ”

Zhao Zihouhaha smiled: “Fuck you! ”

The three of us ate and talked until 10 pm, during which four more bottles of beer were added, and the three of us drank until the end of the day, so we had almost a good time.

Chen Jiao himself doesn't really like to drink alcohol, often drinking alcohol is bad for his brain, it affects his thoughts and memory. It's not a good habit for designers to drink alcohol, so he doesn't drink too much.

Zhao Zihao called his little brother to drive his car, and Lin Mao was already constantly figuring out how to transform the game.

Chen Qiao was reassured that someone was driving on his behalf. After two sentences of warning, he saw them leave.

Chen Jiao went back to the experience store and packed his things a little bit. After receiving messages from Zhao Zihou and Lin Mao, Chen Jiao washed and went to bed.

Tomorrow we have to think about the new game. Tonight Chen Jiao still needs to rest, maintain the spirit and ensure the best mental state.