Game Development Giant

Later, I was still a player in China. To be precise, I was a fan of Blizzard, and he was also a top game artist in China. After returning from the carnival, I used my memory to coordinate with what I had seen at the time after watching the movie trailer. I completed the instant sketch, and completed twelve full hand-painted trailer clips after returning to China.

This has made people in China and even the world interested in the "World of Warcraft" movie, and those who have never been to the carnival, full of expectations to know what kind of movie this is.

Although I have left that world forever, not to mention wanting to watch Blizzard's "World of Warcraft" movie, even looking at the twelve hand-drawn trailer clips again has become impossible, but Even after coming to this world, after so many years, Jester still remembers those twelve hand-painted paintings, so much so that they are unforgettable.

Especially the last hand-painted one, which is at the end of the trailer, a ten-second close-up of an expression, in order to demonstrate the dazzling effect after special effects production.

It was a close-up of the facial expression of Durotan, the leader of the Frostwolf clan and Thrall's father.

In the background, he was looking at his wife lying on the ground, stroking her forehead with one hand. Their camp was destroyed by fire. At this time, his eyes showed helplessness and sadness. His wife comforted him, and he looked back at her with comforting eyes, with delicate expressions and details. The artist who completed these twelve hand-painted paintings only had four simple words to comment on this set of long shots.

Already invincible.

However, now these are all things that cannot be told to anyone and remain in my mind forever.

If I could see the vast Barrens, the night-shaded Ashenvale forest, the majestic Dan Orgaz Dam, and the mysterious Tirisfal on the big screen... I think I might Uncontrollable tears burst down my face, because this is my lost youth without regrets. \u003che-horde!

After suppressing these messy things for the time being, Jester retracted his thoughts and returned to the sequel to "Quake". As well as the Unreal II engine, in fact, although the research and development plan for "Quake" has been established and even development meetings have been held more than a dozen times, most of them were for the development of a new 3D engine. In the development of 3D Before building an engine, you need to know what kind of game you want to make for your next game, and what functions this engine needs.

This is not a pity that it can only simulate 3D effects, but a powerful one. Advanced, complete engine.

"Zombie mode?"

Hearing what Jester just said, Carmack had a puzzled look on his face. He didn't understand what Jester meant by zombies for a moment. Although there are many zombie movies now, most of them are They are all stuff that is only available on video tapes and has little chance of being shown on the real screen. For Carmack, who enjoys staying in his room every day and dealing with cold codes, the possibility of seeing it is extremely slim.

Fortunately, Jester could use the story of Resident Evil to give Carmack a brief introduction. Let him understand what a zombie is.

"In this way, I will briefly talk about an idea I have for another game. However, due to technical reasons, this idea may not be possible to be completed in a short period of time. The idea is like this, in a world with an illusory background, There is a company called Umbrella, which is very powerful..."

The plot of Resident Evil. Especially the plot of the first part is not complicated, it simply introduces Umbrella and the T-Virus. And Raccoon Town told the plot of this classic game that came out five or six years later, and the definition of zombies was naturally easily accepted by Carmack.

However, after hearing Jester finish telling this story box, Carmack obviously completely put aside the question about zombies before. His eyes lit up. As a person who likes heavy-flavored games, for a very A talented game designer, and also the best 3D engine designer in the world, one can naturally hear the huge value in what Jester just talked about, which can only be regarded as an idea.

"If this thing is made, it will definitely cause a sensation!"

Carmack rubbed his palms and said excitedly. As soon as Jester saw him like this, he immediately knew that his old habit had happened again. Obviously, the story about the biohazard he just told had aroused his interest. I am very excited and curious, especially as I said, many of the ideas in this game are not yet possible with current machine performance.

But Carmack didn't care about that.

Originally, Jester didn't want to continue talking about "Resident Evil". After all, this game was very low on his research and development list, basically in 1993, and the earliest was 1992. For a 32-bit home console, if you rush to create this game, you won't be successful.

But he couldn't bear it, and Carmack kept asking questions like a barrage of questions. Finally, he got tired of his questions. Jester then said with a straight face: "If you are really interested in this game, then you can First complete your current work, the production of Unreal II engine, and the subsequent development of "Quake 2". If these satisfy me, I will personally complete the planning of this game and leave it to you to produce. Of course, to make such a game, the features we discussed in Unreal II alone are not enough. You also need to write a powerful engine that has never appeared before.

Although Carmack was a little depressed when he received Jester's affirmative answer, he still nodded. He said in an extremely confident tone: "Developing engines is a common thing for me. I can guarantee that the engine I developed will definitely be the best at the same time." generation, the best in the world.”

When he said this, Carmack's expression was extremely confident.

"By the way, ATI wants you to help them write a report for their new graphics card. They haven't been able to contact you recently and asked me about these things." Jester suddenly remembered that He Guoyuan complained to her a few days ago. He complained about Carmack and asked with a smile.

Hearing what Jester said, Carmack patted his head, and then said with some annoyance: "I almost forgot about this..." As he said that, he saw the teasing look in Jester's eyes again, He immediately smiled awkwardly and said, "Actually, I just forgot, but it's not too late to think about it now. I have been using their latest graphics card during this period, so writing a report is not a problem. big."

After saying that, Carmack seemed to want to brush this problem away directly, so he first mentioned the zombie mode that Jester mentioned before. After he understood the zombies, he also understood Jester's thoughts. went one step further.

"You mean, add a mode where players join forces to kill zombies together?"

Carmack asked tentatively.

"Not at all."

Jester nodded first, then shook his head. He said simply: "What I mean is that it's not just about adding a gameplay that allows players to unite to kill zombies in the online battle mode, at least it's not just that. , I’m still thinking, based on the lost characteristics I told you before, can we assume that in this mode, if players who have been attacked by zombies cannot get the antidote to the T-virus within a certain period of time, What if we also turn into zombies and hunt players?"

Sure enough, after hearing the model Jester said, Carmack's eyes lit up. He didn't say anything for a while, as if he was simulating something in his brain. It took four or five minutes before he finally stopped. Get out of this state.

"This is a great idea!"

Carmack gave Jester a thumbs up immediately. It seemed that he still had many ideas about this model. Therefore, after praising Jester, he also began to talk endlessly about his plans for Jester. This gameplay specifically comes to mind and some other gameplays come to mind.

"Boss, I just thought of such a gameplay. I call it a defensive gameplay. Assume that the player in this mode is an elite team guarding an important stronghold or guarding an important item. Then These zombies attack this stronghold or seize this item for some reason, and they attack in waves, with each wave stronger than the last..."

Jester glanced at Carmack in surprise. Unexpectedly, the game mode he mentioned was very similar to the defensive map type on the editor map of "Warcraft 3" in later generations, and this kind of gameplay is very interesting. , but it can be seen that Carmack may have just thought of such a mode. In terms of concept, it is not very complete and lacks playability expansion.

Therefore, after Carmack finished speaking, Jester immediately took over the other person's words.

"This is a good idea. Your idea is good. This should be another very interesting mode for players to join forces to fight against the AI... If it is changed like this, it may be more fun and more playable - for example, killing Killing these zombies can obtain something similar to currency. These things I assume are called 'currency' can be used to improve one's own abilities in this guarded stronghold or on an extremely important item, such as Talking about exchanging more powerful weapons... This will allow players to withstand increasingly powerful waves of attacks..." (To be continued.)