Build a game empire from scratch

"It's not that the 1v4 game doesn't need to be balanced."

Standing in the virtual office of the "Hunter" operation team, Lin You explained the work tasks to everyone.

On weekdays, the "Hunter: Call of the Wild" operation team has a small number of people, just a small team under Shen Ping.

But because of the launch of the new gameplay, Lin You specially recruited 18 experts to temporarily join the team, almost doubling the number of people in the office.

The purpose, of course, is to allow these people to accumulate some important experience——

"This kind of asymmetrical gameplay needs to ensure not a fairness like a straight line, but a dynamic balance."

"Such a design idea will be very difficult, and the gameplay we are launching now has not fully achieved this."

"An obvious problem is: the hunter side needs to ensure that none of the 4 people is slowing down, and tacit cooperation is required to ensure the average strength. Once one person slows down or catches fish, the team's combat effectiveness will be significantly reduced."

"But the Predator does not have this burden, he only needs to be responsible for himself."

"Besides, there is an obvious problem: If the player playing the Predator is a slave, he may completely play the game as a hide-and-seek contest, trying to start the game, fight until the late stage, and finally fully armed crushing hunter players."

"That would easily lead to a significant reduction in the fun of the game."

"In order to prevent this from happening, we only added [Xunjixiang], but the effect still needs more observation."

"So the gameplay this time is at most a prototype of the game, an experimental demo, which cannot guarantee long-term operation."

"Of course, as a short-term activity, the novelty should still be enough."

"What we need to do is to collect feedback from players as much as possible, and adjust the game balance in time based on the big data of the game, so as to find the balance point as much as possible."

"And the experience you have accumulated in this process will be the most valuable thing in this event."

...

Looking at the serious expression of the boss, the employees are also very serious.

They have realized that the boss is planning a new project, and letting them accumulate experience is to prepare for this new project.

Layout in advance has always been the routine operation of the boss.

Although they don't understand where the boss's inspiration comes from, it doesn't hinder their joy - because they have already reserved the position of the new project development team in advance.

Lin You encouraged them again before leaving the office.

The production process of "Pacific Rim" is somewhat similar to "Chang'an", and it also starts with getting the game environment.

The [Virtual Berlin] agreement has been reached. In January, a team from Yunmeng will go on a business trip to Germany. With the assistance of relevant German departments, the construction of [Virtual Berlin] will start.

After [Virtual Berlin], the next task of the urban construction department is [Virtual Hong Kong].

This is where the most important plot of "Pacific Rim" takes place, and the construction of this city will be completely in line with [Virtual Xia Jing].

In addition, [San Francisco], [Hawaii], [Tokyo], [Sydney], [Vladivostok] and other places will be built in accordance with the plot, but the construction of these cities will not be compared to [Virtual Xiajing]— ——In that case, the amount of work is really too big, and it is unnecessary.

Lin You's current plan is to turn these places into "dungeons". Players can only drive large and small mechas to fight in these places, and cannot leave the mechas and enter the city freely to explore at the scale of human height.

Or only divide some very limited areas, you can leave the mech to explore.

In this way, a lot of time and computing power can be saved, and the development time of the game can be greatly shortened.

It is also very sensible for gameplay.

Because in "Pacific Rim", the focus of players must be, and can only be, mechas of various colors, plus monsters at most.

As for the supermarket that was accidentally stepped on during the fight, the office building that collapsed... who would care?

As an alternative, Lin You will launch three models in "Pacific Rim": [Small Mecha], [Large Mecha], and [Giant Mecha]. Their heights are [within 3 meters] and [10 meters. left and right] and [more than 70 meters], meeting all the needs of players at one time.

Yes, just like Starbucks does not have a small cup of coffee, "Pacific Rim" does not have a [medium-sized mecha].

[Giant Mecha] is the absolute combat power in the plot, so it goes without saying about the role of the drama.

【Large Mech】How to insert into the game, Lin You has a few immature ideas, and has not yet made a decision.

As for the [Small Mecha], the physique is determined, it is not used to fight monsters.

However, Lin You hasn't decided whether to develop a copy specifically for the [Small Mecha].

Because in his plan, [Small Mecha] is mainly used for fighting games.

Before, many players suggested to Yunmeng, hoping to make a game similar to Daxia [Martial Arts Championship] or America [Ultimate Fighting Championship].

But Lin You hated being too petty, so he never did it.

Because no matter "League of Assassins" or "John Wick", you can just pick any venue and change it to organize the game.

Even now in Metropolis and Night City, there are similar gameplays, and there are also competitions organized by players themselves.

Why develop another game specifically?

If you really want to do it, you must do something different.

for example--

[Mecha Fighting]!

Lin You even thought of the name of the gameplay, and it's called [Iron Armored Steel Fist]!

Two small mechs stepped onto the ring, and they fought to the core, clanging and clanging, sparks flying everywhere, and when the climax hit, parts flew around!

It has the wildness and blood of broken limbs, but it doesn't make people feel too bloody-even if the loser is chopped up, it's just a piece of mechanical debris.

Under the heavy protection of the driver, even if he was injured, it was only a minor injury. At most, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, which was completely harmless.

Lin You is looking forward to seeing the battle of "Kung Fu Mechs" at that time.

Just thinking about it is exciting.

*

The time in Los Angeles is 16 hours slower than in Daxia.

Lin You has been asleep for a long time, and it has just arrived on the morning of the 24th.

Alex, a former middle school boy who was arrested by the Los Angeles police for appealing to players to protest, and who was rescued by Lin You remotely, hired a lawyer, and posted bail, received a Christmas gift in advance.

That is a brand new [Mirage 2.0].

And it was [Foundation for Freedom of Life and Democratic Rights] who sent this package.

The headquarters of the foundation is in New York, while Alex is in Los Angeles. Due to the uncertainty of logistics, this Christmas gift was delivered one day earlier.

Alex picked up the card on the console in confusion, and looked at the content on it——

"Merry Christmas, Alex.

I wanted to give each of you a game warehouse, but you also know that all Yunmeng products have been banned and embargoed by America, and the Mirage host is already at its limit, and the game warehouse cannot be delivered to you. .

I know, you all have mirage hosts, so this one, give it to your family or friends.

I hope they can also enjoy the fun of the virtual world.

Virtual worlds are a gift of the new age, and no one should be left out.

So your efforts are progressive and just, and will surely succeed.

come on!

—— Lin You

"!!!" Alec's eyes widened in surprise, "Lin You?!"