Almighty Game Designer

“A lot of people came, and I'm glad. ”

Chen Qiao looked at the stands with satisfaction and said: “First of all, introduce yourselves to your classmates. My name is Chen Qiao, the designer of the League of Heroes and Forward Watch. Most of my classmates here should know me, so I don't say much, much, as if I were showing off. ”

The audience laughed for a while. This boast is also not surprising. This stranger Chen still likes to talk like he did on live broadcast.

As the laughter slowly subsided, Chan continued: “First of all, thank the board and the world's leading game design leaders for letting me talk about this lesson. I am also very honored. ”

“Today is the first lesson, and let's start with a brief introduction to the lesson itself. This course is called Game Outlook, which is to summarize the past development experience of the gaming industry and look at the future development prospects of the gaming industry. ”

“I will not repeat some of the lessons of the past, which my classmates learned last semester. Now it can be said that hand games, PC, VR games coexist, and the future… may or may not be the world of virtual games, which is the focus of our future courses. ”

“Of course, according to the current general understanding, the future must be the world of virtual games, because virtual games can crush mobile phones and PC terminals in all kinds of experiences. Many people believe that with the continuous development and advancement of technology, with the popularity of VR gaming cabins, VR games will definitely replace mobile phones and PCs as the main and most advanced entertainment mode of the future of humankind, and will also become the mainstream game type. ”

“I would like to hear your thoughts on this first. Are there any students who would like to speak on their own initiative? ”

The students under the stage echoed very enthusiastically and raised their hands.

Chen Jiao pointed to a girl with glasses in the front row: "Tell me about it. ”

The girl with glasses stood up: "Hello, Miss Chan! I think that's a clear fact. VR games are better than mobile phones and PC devices in all kinds of performance. At present, although VR games are not very popular in the country, this is mainly limited by the cost of VR games. ”

“At present, a VR game cabin, tens of thousands less, hundreds of thousands more, is too expensive in terms of the current income levels of ordinary people in the country. But what if, in the future, we could let people enter the virtual world through a VR helmet or just a pair of VR glasses? Alternatively, if the price of a VR game cabin drops dramatically to thousands of dollars, the same price as a PC, then VR games will definitely squeeze the PC game's living space across the board. So I think the future must be the world of VR games. ”

Chen Jiao nodded, referring again to a fat boy in the middle row.

The boy stood up: “I think the VR game cabin will definitely be mainstream in the future, but there should also be room for survival on PC and mobile phones. Unless there are virtual glasses or virtual helmets that integrate phone, PC functions. Until then, none of the VR games will be able to fully unify the entire gaming market. ”

“But as things stand, it's too early for us to be able to develop technology, so the situation where mobile phones, PCs and VRs coexist will continue for a long time. ”

Chen Qiao named several other students.

Everyone has their own opinions, but the whole idea is the same. Everyone thinks that it's only a matter of time before virtual games are mainstreamed.

Until the virtual gaming market is completely unified, no other gaming platform, including a mobile PC, will suffer a fatal blow, but it will not survive too well.

Chen Jiao nodded, a view that basically represented the current mainstream view.

"That's what I'm going to say today," said Chen Qiao. "I have different opinions on that. ”

“Will the game really be completely confined to the platform? I don't think so. Really good games, no matter what platform you put them on, are good games, and possibly even saving a platform because of a game. ”

The students blinked and blinked, which is a novel statement.

A classmate asked, "Teacher Chan, are you talking about the League of Heroes?" ”

Chen said that many people's first reaction was "League of Heroes" because before "League of Heroes" PC games were comprehensively suppressed by VR games, but the explosion of the League of Heroes surprised many people and even outnumbered many VR games on the market.

And the League of Heroes can't be transformed into a VR game, which makes many realize that VR is not everything.

Chen stranger nodded: “The League of Heroes is just one example. In fact, there are still a lot of vacancies in the domestic gaming market, and VR games do not fully cover these vacancies. ”

A student asks, "Teacher Chen, what do you mean by vacancy? ”

Chen replied: "The game is equivalent to an expression, while the device is a carrier. The VR pod is just one of the carriers, and it has its strengths, but also its weaknesses, which make it impossible to meet all the needs of everyone. To give a simple example, even to this day, there is still room for survival. It's just nobody does it. ”

Everyone stunned for a moment.

Handheld?

There have also been players in parallel worlds. The so-called handheld console is actually a handheld console, and the main feature is that you can play with it.

But the world's mobile phones were not fully developed, and soon disappeared, because technology was developing quickly. With the improvement of technology, smartphones were becoming more popular, and the mobile phones had been completely replaced by mobile games.

And it's true that handsets and phones actually have a high degree of duplication of functionality, and in the eyes of the world's designers, most of the functionality of handsets can be achieved on the phone, so why pay for another handset?

So, after hearing this from Chen, everyone was surprised, because the handset is a game carrier that has been eliminated, which is a recognized fact in the gaming industry.

Several lecturers and professors in the back row are frowning. What is this? How could Chen Jiao say such a common sense mistake?

A bolder student raised his hand and said, "Mr. Chan, are you sure you have room for life in this day and age? The functions of the handset and the phone are highly repetitive, what the handset can do, the phone can do, but why buy the handset? Doesn't make sense. ”

Chen smiled and laughed: "Because I'm talking about a handset, it's not what you think it is. You all think of a handset as a phone that can't call and can't install other software, right? ”

What difference does it make when the students face each other?

You can't install other software or make phone calls, can you? What's the difference between the rest and the phone?

"Imagine if you had a handset on which we could play open world games; with real joysticks and real buttons on it, your hands feel better than the virtual joysticks on your phone; it's very convenient to play anytime, anywhere, anytime. So how many people do you think will buy it? ”