Game Development Giant

But now, Jester placed such an opportunity in front of the two of them.

Rob Pardo has no preference for RPG games.

In fact, he likes RTS games more. His favorite games are RTS games like "Age of Empires" and "Warcraft", and some RTS games that are not from Mars Entertainment, such as "Command" by Ximu and Conquer", and its record on Battle.net is also very high.

He even made a suggestion before.

It is to add a ranking system to Battle.net, especially these RTS games.

Because although it is convenient to automatically match players now, it is often assigned to some with poor levels. It is fun to abuse players at the beginning, but it becomes boring after playing for a long time.

If you are matched with someone whose strength far exceeds yours and is abused by others, your mood will immediately turn bad and you will have no desire to continue playing.

In fact, many people within Mars Entertainment have also raised this issue.

After the feedback was given to Jester, Jester also attached great importance to it. In fact, this was considered a mistake on his part. He did not open this system when the battle network was launched at the beginning. Even Jester was better than Rob. What Pardo proposed is much more perfect.

Jester specially proposed a ladder system.

It is cleared once every season. After the new season, the results and rankings of the previous seasons will be cleared and accumulated again.

Of course, players need to play several placement matches to qualify for the new season.

If you have good results last season and get the same results in the qualifying competition, your level will be very high. Of course, this system is still in the internal testing stage. How to match and how to divide different levels are also being tested.

but. Judging from the testing during this period, although many bugs have appeared, the players are very tolerant. After all, there will definitely be a lot of bugs in the things being tested. Otherwise, what else would be tested? The most important thing is that among players, That’s why the tolerance is very high. It's because this ladder's rating system is really great.

There are distinct levels of players at all levels.

The experience of matchmaking has been directly improved by at least ten times. Moreover, after obtaining some high-level titles, many players also understand that their current level is only Black Iron or Bronze.

Naturally, you will yearn for the silver and gold ranks, so during this period, the matching time is far higher than before the launch of the ladder.

Moreover, many players also expressed dissatisfaction.

The reason for their dissatisfaction was when the ladder test just started. Because they are not good at playing, they lose a lot. Their hidden winning points are very low, and it is very difficult for them to rise to a high level. So their dissatisfaction is why the new season has not started yet.

Rob Pardo has been enjoying himself very well during this period. He has a good rank on Mars Entertainment's Battle Network. Although he is not the top platinum player, he is still at the forefront of the gold rank.

There are even many teams that want to contact him and want him to join.

Although he has no preference for RPG games. But he heard Jester say that after the development of this game is completed, he will agree to the development application for "StarCraft". Moreover, we will work with them to improve the settings and development problems of this game and make it a unique RTS game. When people see this game, they will not think it is "StarCraft". This is not a reference work from xxx games.

Although Rob Pardo is a very proud man about Jester's ability, he admires his boss very much.

It's almost the same as saying "Five body cast down to the ground".

"We can definitely do a good job." Rob Pardo and Mike Mowaimi assured in unison.

They also have to do well.

Jester gave them this task because he valued them. If they couldn't do it well, they would have failed Jester's hope. If they succeeded, they would naturally become like Itagaki Tomonobu. If they succeed, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven, and they fail, then they will have no face to stay on Mars, and other companies may not take them in.

Jester also nodded when he heard their firm tone and words of assurance.

"Where do I have a copy of what I wrote before about what kind of game Diablo is, as well as some basic settings of the world background? You can take it with you when you leave. These are just my thoughts. As for whether to use it or not. , then it’s up to you.”

I'm not very demanding about this Jester.

Of course, since this game was first proposed by Jester, and the producers were selected by Jester himself, it is of course impossible for the selected person to change the basic settings on his own.

Anyway, these things like world structure do not affect how the game is designed.

"Then let's talk about something else. We are designers, so let's talk about the inspiration for the game." After talking about Diablo, Jester saw that there was still some time, so he continued to talk to Mike Mowaimi and Rob .Pardo talked about another game, to be precise, the idea of ​​another game.

Jester himself does not have time to develop this game, but he feels that if Rob Pardo has time in the future, this game is indeed very suitable for the direction he is good at.

This game is not a real-time strategy.

It is a very similar turn-based strategy game, and the playability of this game is not lower than that of real-time strategy.

"...I call this game Heroes."

Jester didn't speak in too much detail, but briefly talked about some basic concepts of the game. However, the two people in front of him were, after all, figures who left their names in history, and Rob Pardo had The two people who were qualified to receive the GDC Lifetime Achievement Award were in public, especially Rob Pardo, whose eyes lit up as soon as Jester finished speaking.

Compared to the Diablo that Jester mentioned before, he liked this game that Jester mentioned casually even more.

Even after just listening to Jester's simple introduction, he had an inexplicable impulse. He wanted to make this game, he wanted it very much.

Jester also discovered something unusual about Rob Pardo, and he soon saw the desire in Rob Pardo's eyes, but Jester just smiled, and then inadvertently asked.

"What, Rob, are you also interested in this game?" (To be continued...)