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In the office, Yang Chen talked with Hu Jun, and initially determined the follow-up parts of "The Binding of Isaac", the optimization of the source code and the outsourcing of subsequent art modeling. At the same time, Yang Chen also revealed that there may be more Will put them in charge of outsourcing news of his new game.

At present, the studio has three programs and one art, and many places do not rely on three people for outsourcing. Not to mention the time-consuming and the most important thing is that the things produced may not meet the quality requirements.

In the simplest terms, in terms of modeling game characters and objects, unless you choose to directly purchase the modules in the official game engine store, Chen Shu alone will have to go to the year of the monkey.

In terms of programming, there are three people, Wang Ye, and the convenient official game engine work. This is not too difficult. Basically, there is no need to look for outsourcing of programming. All you need is art and music. outsource.

And the strength of chasing dreams can still meet the requirements.

The contact information of Wang Ye and Chen Shu was given to Meng Chasing, and the follow-up work was handed over to them. What Yang Chen needed was for them to give what he wanted.

After solving this matter, Yang Chen returned home. As soon as he got home, Yang Chen smelled the smell of instant noodles.

Yang Chen looked at Wang Yaliang, who was sitting in the living room, with his legs crossed on a chair, with chopsticks in one hand and his phone in the other, while eating instant noodles and smiling silly, he couldn't help feeling speechless for a while.

I want to complain, but I don't know how to say it.

"Isn't there a cafeteria in the software park? Why don't you eat in the cafeteria?" Yang Chen asked Wang Yaliang helplessly.

"It's too late to get off work! There was nothing delicious in the cafeteria of the Software Park at that time." Wang Yaliang pouted and took a mouthful of noodles, then said with a little grievance.

"Does it count as a meal after get off work at 5:15? I deliberately moved it 15 minutes earlier, just to be able to go to the cafeteria to eat before other companies." Yang Chen said helplessly.

"They are all working so seriously, and I am too embarrassed to get off work by myself. I can only wait for them to be together." Listening to Yang Chen's words, Wang Yaliang felt even more aggrieved.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell them tomorrow, there's usually no need to work overtime. After all, we don't pay them overtime." Yang Chen shook his head helplessly, walked to the refrigerator next to him, opened the refrigerator door and looked at it. Take a look at the ingredients inside.

"Don't eat the instant noodles. Eating too much is bad for your health. I'll make you two egg pancakes. Just do it." Yang Chen reached out and threw the instant noodles into the trash can next to him. Take a small bag of starch and four eggs from the refrigerator.

ten minutes later

"It's a little salty." Wang Yaliang, who was eating the egg pancake, commented.

"It's good to have some food. I'll go into the room first. I already have an idea for the design of the new game." Yang Chen pouted, stood up and walked quickly towards the room.

"What are you doing running so fast?" Wang Yaliang muttered after eating the egg pancake in his hand.

But then she suddenly realized something, and was stunned when she looked at the pot on the stove and the bowl in front of her.

"By the way, after you finish eating, remember to wash the bowl and pot!" At this time, Yang Chen's voice came from inside the house.

"Ah! Why do you want me to wash!" Wang Yaliang was shocked.

"We don't cook, we only wash dishes and cook pots when we eat, we have already agreed!" The voice with a smile continued to come from the house.

It doesn't seem to be a problem, but... I obviously didn't need to wash the dishes when I first started eating instant noodles!

Ignoring Wang Yaliang's very 'grieved' voice outside the living room, Yang Chen laughed twice from inside the room. After hearing the sound of water being poured from the kitchen outside, he cautiously opened the bedroom screen a little bit, then squatted down and stretched his hand to the bed. Explore below.

After more than ten seconds, I couldn't find what I wanted after touching for a long time.

Yang Chen was stunned.

Eh, no, what about the cigarettes I'm hiding here?

He hurriedly got down and took a look inside. The pack of cigarettes that had been placed here was turned into a post-it note.

'Dear Comrade Yang, when you read this letter, your cigarettes have been confiscated by me, and I think you have to explain it to me well, what about not smoking? Where did this smoke come from#^.^#’

Yang Chen: ヽ(*.\u003eД\u003c)o゜

After half an hour...

Yang Chen sat in front of the computer and glanced resentfully at the two bare feet on the bed behind him. He rhythmically patted Wang Yaliang, who was watching a drama on the bed, with a biscuit stick in his mouth.

"What are you looking at? Smoking is not good for your health, and you definitely don't want me to smoke second-hand smoke!" Wang Yaliang said seriously: "Moreover, smoking is easy for kidney deficiency. If you want to smoke, you can eat snacks, and use snacks instead of cigarettes to stop smoking earlier. quit."

Sounds reasonable, but are you sure you don't want to eat snacks yourself?

Yang Chen looked at the three kinds of snacks in front of him speechlessly, and there were a lot of snacks next to Wang Yaliang on the bed.

If you can quit cigarettes, you can quit. After all, it is really bad for your body, but then again, when did you become addicted to smoking?

Some helplessly shook his head, no longer thinking about these or not, Yang Chen refocused on a document called "Octopian Traveler" that had just been opened on the computer in front of him, and continued to work on the game's plot design.

'Monster: weak system settings, armor value, weakness attribute, break state'

'Player: BP action point (upper limit) extra chance for basic attack, skill level increase lv1'

Just as Yang Chen announced before, this will be a retro JRPG, a pixel style JRPG.

But also Yang Chen did not intend to make it according to the pixel game. This is not the same as "The Binding of Isaac". Because of insufficient funds, he chose to use a pixel-style game. This is a deliberate retro.

Instead of compromising because of cost, copying the pixel style of the past in order to experience pixel games is just following the footsteps of the old technology and using modern technology to iterate on the pixel style. This is what Yang Chen and their team need to do.

'3D modeling, plus pixel mapping...'

Some of the game screen performance requirements were constantly added to the design document by Yang Chen.

If it is just like "The Binding of Isaac", it is not a pure pixel style, but just put the canvas to the maximum, and then directly paint the pixel painting.

This method is more convenient.

However, in "Octopian Traveler", Yang Chen wanted a more refined style of painting, which required the artist to make a clear and colored version as a draft, and then nest it into a dedicated pixel painting template, and paint the pixels one by one. Point out, which color to use, need to go through repeated consideration.

This is definitely going to blow up in terms of cost, and true pixel style is actually a very laborious and expensive style.

(The best way to save costs for indie games is to do that kind of vector style, similar to Hollow Knight and the early Isaac. If Hollow Knight is to be made into pixels, the cost will be at least three times higher. And Isaac is also the first to make money, and then the rebirth series began to go pixel style)

Even pixel art is a separate art style, and the pixel style of most independent games is not actually pure pixels.

Visually, ordinary players without research are completely unable to distinguish the difference.