Game Design: Is it possible? CaiGou

The end of this Journey Cup awards ceremony was supposed to be the end of a carnival.

But this year is completely different. For players, this is the beginning of another carnival.

Everyone is looking forward to the launch of the Taipingdao full-sense virtual game platform, and even more looking forward to the release of two new games, [Tactics Squad] and [Minecraft].

For the gaming industry, this will be the beginning of a new era.

Players have been waiting for a long time, and preparations for Taipingdao are also in full swing.

All the employees at the Taiping Road headquarters were extremely busy and could not even keep their feet on the ground.

Cai Gou is also in the office, planning and calculating the annual plan.

"Knock knock!"

Cai Gou raised his head when he heard the knock on the door and saw Lanni walking in. There was a look of anxiety on his face with a hint of panic.

"Lanny, what's wrong?"

"I just got the news that after Jones left his post and returned to the headquarters, the national head of the steam platform who succeeded him was Leon."

"oh?"

Cai Gou walked to the water dispenser, took a glass of water and handed it to Lanni and asked, "Does this person have anything to say?"

"He has a strong working ability and will never give up until he achieves his goals. He is very energetic and can often work overtime for a project and stay up for days and nights." Lanny said while holding a tea cup:

"But that's not the point. The point is his work ideas. He often makes unexpected moves. He has made great contributions to the steam platform for many years. He is the most valued person by senior leaders."

"This time the Steam Platform Headquarters sent Leon to take over Jones's position. In order to maintain the current situation in the Steam Platform National District, they will definitely take action against us. Because this is the best choice for their interests."

Cai Gou nodded thoughtfully.

"Didi..."

Lanni's cell phone beeped. He opened the chat software and checked the message. He raised his head and said awkwardly:

"It's over. My backhand hiding in the steam platform's domestic area was discovered by Leon. He said that Leon wanted to have a phone call with you..."

Backhand?

Cai Gou looked at Lanni in confusion.

Lanny smiled bitterly and said:

"Actually, there are more than forty-nine employees who I successfully pried away this time. There is also an employee who is not from my faction, and I also poached him. But I specifically asked him to stay in the company for the time being, so that we can have someone. Internal response.”

"Of course, with his personality and position restrictions, he will not do anything illegal or criminal. He stays in the company just to act as a pair of eyes for me. Unexpectedly, Leon arrived at work yesterday, stayed up all night, and found me today. "

"He is in Leon's office now. He just sent me a message saying that Leon wants to have a video call with you to have a chat."

After hearing this, Cai Gou had mixed feelings in his heart. He was a little troubled by Lanni's arrogance, and at the same time he was wary of Leon.

"You, you, since the person has been discovered, let him return to the company, arrange a position for him, and let me know in advance next time something like this happens."

"Okay...ok." Lanny asked, "What about the video call?"

"As he wishes." Cai Gou nodded and said, "I also want to see what the new Leon has to say."

"Okay, I'll send the message right away."

Lanny told his internal agent all this. After a while, the video call came. After the call was connected, Lanny handed it to Cai Gou immediately.

Leon on the other end of the video call is a man in his thirties who is at the peak of his career.

His facial features are as sharp as a chisel, he is strong, and has blond hair. He looks more like a fitness instructor than a company executive, showing a strong desire for control.

"General Tiangong? Cai Gou? Hello! I am Leon."

"Hello Leon, I am Cai Gou, I am here to make you laugh."

"Where, where." Leon smiled: "If this were not the case, how could I have the opportunity to contact you?"

"Oh? It seems that you are a drunkard and don't care about drinking?" Cai Gou asked: "Tell me? What on earth do you want to see me for?"

"Let's talk about cooperation!" Leon said word by word: "Let's talk about cooperation with you."

"What kind of cooperation method?"

"Our steam platform wants to invest in Taipingdao, or the next best thing is to invest in a full-featured virtual game platform. It does not require a controlling stake, but only requires admission. You can set a price."

"It can't be opened." Cai Gou said, "We don't want to take other people to play."

"..." Leon was silent for a long time: "What about the re-listing of all Taipingdao games on the steam platform?"

"Sorry, from now on Taipingdao games will be exclusively available on the Holistic Virtual Game Platform."

"In other words, there is no room for negotiation?"

"Of course." Cai Gou nodded and said, "We have an old saying in China, a good horse never turns back."

Leon said: "But you must also know that technology explosion is never limited to one company. We have been developing the full-sense game cabin for no less than ten years, and we are almost at the stage of producing results."

"Lanny next to you also knows this. There won't be much time left for you. I also know the old saying you said, but I always like to let good horses eat grass."

"Then we'll see!"

After hanging up the video call, Cai Gou looked at Lanny and asked, "Is what he said true or false?"

"Half truth, half lie..." Lanny pondered for a moment and said:

"The holistic gaming cabin has always been a target for the gaming industry, especially gaming platforms. The Steam platform did set up a relevant scientific research team ten years ago to start research and development, but the progress has been slow."

"But now the appearance of the standard answer of Fenghuo No. 3's holistic game cabin will definitely be of great help to the research and development of the holistic virtual game platform of the Steam platform."

Cai Gou smacked his lips and said, "It seems that the newly appointed Leon is indeed not a good person."

Cai Gou said so, but he was not in a hurry.

After all, it is not so easy to overcome the technology given by the system?

The scientific research team of the Steam platform can only learn from some ideas of Fenghuo No. 3 at most, and the time left for Taipingdao is much longer than they imagined.

Leon was not surprised at all that the negotiation failed as expected this time.

The most important purpose of his trip was to maintain the market share of the Steam platform in China's game market.

When the holistic virtual game platform is about to be launched, under this dimensionality reduction attack, the chaotic world can only use heavy punishment.

Fortunately, this time, the senior leaders of the Steam platform gave him full authority to deal with these things.

On the day when the negotiations broke down, Leon held a press conference and announced that from today onwards, the share ratio of all games on the Steam platform in China will be adjusted to 30% and 70%.

Game manufacturers take 70%, and game platforms take 30%.

In addition, the Steam platform will hold various activities and promotional discounts from now on, almost continuously, and the official subsidies are so great that it is jaw-dropping.

Even some games that were only launched this year, players only need to spend one-tenth of the amount to buy them.

This set of steps started from both players and manufacturers, using real money to open the way, and forcibly took away the momentum and public opinion.

Not only that, Leon also formed an alliance with other domestic game platforms to jointly launch discount activities to form a united front.

Because the launch of the Taipingdao virtual game platform will cause inestimable losses to these vested interests, they agreed very decisively.

In this way, the entire game circle, like a raging fire, has plunged players into a weird carnival.

Leon's new official took office and burned three fires very quickly, one ring after another, using human nature and interests to label Taipingdao as a minority and stand on the opposite side of most game platforms.

The direct consequence of this is that even if the Taipingdao virtual game platform is launched, there will only be games released by Taipingdao, and no games from other manufacturers, and the volume will not increase.

If the game platform has always maintained a small volume, the market competitiveness will naturally not be strong. To put it bluntly, the big cake of the game market is still in the hands of old game platforms such as Steam.

Lanny has always been very concerned about what Leon has done. After learning about everything he has done, he hurriedly found Cai Gou and asked for countermeasures.

"Cai Gou, what should we do? Our game platform has not been launched yet, and it has encountered targeted sniping. Now the situation is very bad. It is very unfavorable for us."

After listening to Lanny's anxious words, Cai Gou comforted:

"Lanni, you just joined Taipingdao and may not understand the situation. Don't worry, he has a plan, and I have a ladder."

"Then..." Lanny asked: "Do you have a countermeasure?"

Cai Gou smiled and said: "No hurry... play with him!"

At 1:30 in the afternoon, Cai Gou took Wu Xiu to the game office of the Cultural and Entertainment Office.

At the same time, the official account of Taipingdao released the latest promotional video of the tactical team.

Douyu live broadcast platform, game area.

Qiezi sat in the live broadcast room, telling everyone about his heroic performance in Resident Evil Village.

The fans in the live broadcast room, listening to Qiezi's endless and eloquent praise, felt helpless and smiled bitterly.

They had heard the story of Qiezi's bravery in Resident Evil Village eight hundred times, and their ears were almost calloused.

Qiezi now looks like a cyber Xianglin Sao!

Tell me, who can stand this?

"No, Master Eggplant, stop reciting it. There is no way to recite the spell, right?!"

"My head hurts so much, what the hell is wrong with you! I really want to blow Eggplant's head off!"

"No... Eggplant is getting more and more exaggerated. Your performance in this version of the story is too outrageous, isn't it?"

Eggplant turned a deaf ear to it. What's the matter? He finally had a highlight moment, but he was not allowed to brag about himself?

But just when he wanted to continue speaking, the live broadcast room fans collectively swiped the screen--

"General Liu Peijia, the first promotional video of the tactical team has been released!"

As we all know, the tactical team is a civilian commercial version of the virtual military training software system. This type of game is inseparable from FPS.

As a leader in gun battle shooting game anchors, Eggplant naturally attaches great importance to the tactical team that Taipingdao is about to release recently and pays special attention to it.

In front of the promotional video of the tactical team, what is the highlight moment?

"Dear godfathers!" Liu Peijia asked, "Really?"

After receiving a unanimous affirmative answer from the fans, Liu Peijia hurriedly clicked on the Weibo homepage of Taipingdao.

[Taipingdao - Tomorrow at 8 am, the tactical team's overall sense mode will log in to the Taipingdao virtual game platform, and players can log in to receive it for free]

After waiting for so many days, the players finally see the dawn of victory.

There is only one day left, and it is free to receive, which is really nice.

Of course, if you want to fully experience the tactical team game with an overall sense, players must use Fenghuo No. 3, but this is not a problem for Liu Peijia at all.

He clicked on the video link with great interest to view the tactical team promotional video.

Before the picture was revealed, the passionate background music sounded.

The screen lights up and the camera locks on the English of the grenade beside the gate to the battlefield.

As the camera gradually stretches, two trucks filled with soldiers drive away from the base, kicking up billows of dust and heading to an unknown distance.

Heavily armed soldiers rushed forward quickly on the battlefield filled with smoke and explosions.

Desolate cities, dilapidated buildings, no life, only billowing smoke.

The mighty and domineering tanks advanced on the main road of the city, followed closely by rows of soldiers, holding various rifles and carefully aiming around.

"boom!"

An RPG bombarded the tank, the explosion sounded like thunder, and broken shrapnel flew in all directions.

The rhythm of the background music suddenly changed from soothing to sonorous at this moment, with various terrain environments and various battle scenes.

Bullets, pistols, rifles, mines, grenades, trucks, tanks, helicopters, these common elements on the battlefield appear one by one and combine into a blood-spraying killing song.

In the deserted and chaotic streets after the war, five heavily armed soldiers marched towards the camera with determined steps.

With each step forward, the equipment on the five soldiers changed, until the camera moved up and pointed at the blue sky.

In the cloudless sky, a helicopter flew by quickly, and the soldiers' communication conversations came from the troop transport truck below.

“Anyone want to be a fire chief?”

"where?"

"We're going straight to a place where supplies and tanks are shipped back and forth!"

"…or should head towards me and the hangar!"

"...attack my boots and shut down your engines when you get there."

The dialogue in the communication channel is accompanied by the map scene, and the dialogue is different for different soldiers.

While Liu Peiqia was still thinking about this conversation.

"boom!"

An RPG exploded in front of the camera again. Through the lens of the promotional video, water friends quickly experienced an adrenaline-filled battlefield.

When the bombs stop exploding, when the rifles stop firing, when the battle becomes silent, when everything disappears.

The promotional video ended abruptly at the climax, the screen immediately dimmed, and a line of large characters appeared in front of everyone's eyes——

[Tactical Team——Taipingdao]

eggplant:"!!!"

Water friend: "!!!"

The promotional video ended and the live broadcast room fell into silence.

Such picture quality!

Such realism!

This level of hardcore!

One word - simply amazing!

Liu Peiqia could determine from the contents of the promotional video alone that Tactical Squad, Armed Assault, and Digital Combat Simulation World are all civilian commercial versions of virtual military training software systems.

However, the focus of the tactical team is different from the aerial battles of various types of fighter jets in the digital combat simulation world, as well as the squad-level tactical main-perspective modern military simulation of armed raids.

Tactical Squad should be a first-person shooting game. Judging from the game name, the focus should be on the tactical cooperation of team members.

On the smoke-filled battlefield, heavily armed players are galloping in a hail of bullets, and it's also in full-body mode. What's the difference between this and cyber warfare?

It’s really... exciting just thinking about it!

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