Number One Game Designer

Fang Xi originally planned to visit several newly opened studios around Christmas, and both North America and Europe went well.

Fang Xi was deeply impressed by the three Ogg brothers' understanding of crime in Chicago and Kirker's unconstrained way of thinking. It seems that as long as he checks it well, these two works should be fine, but Fang Xi in Linjing It's a bit of a dumbfounding feeling.

Fang Xi didn't find anyone at the address of the studio left by Qingluan in Linjing, and finally found a group of people at an adult school after calling Shao Qiulin.

Looking at the few people who have changed into regular clothes, their hair has been shaved short, and although they are a bit older, they all look quite energetic now, Fang Xi is a little dumbfounded:

"Shui Lao? Who are you?"

Shui Yuan laughed at Fang Xi's doubts, and pointed to the words on the blackboard:

"Make up lessons and study more."

A few large characters were crookedly written in chalk on the blackboard: "Pixel Painting from Beginner to Burial"

Fang Xi sweated a little, this course is quite appropriate.

A while before leaving class, Fang Xi pulled Shui Yuan to chat.

It turned out that after Fang Xi and Shao Qiulin left the script, they were worthy of being the momentary talents who could compete in the domestic game market back then, and they had a very thorough understanding of Octopath Traveler.

Every game has its core elements, and for Octopath Traveler, several people think that art is as important as gameplay!

The core gameplay of Octopath Traveler, the intertwined main lines of the eight protagonists make the plot irresistible and deeply planted in the players' hearts. I will not talk about these, or they don't need to worry about these things. Fang Xi has already done it. After the outline is out, they only need to execute according to the script.

For Shuiyuan and the others, the key and difficulty lies in the art style.

Octopath Traveler decided to take the retro pixel style, which is the first time for this world. For most people, since the art entered the high-pixel era, the pixel style can be completely swept into the trash. But in fact, it has only been a short ten years since the pixel style was not popular. People who grew up playing pixel games are now in their prime. This unique game is a gift for them.

But at the same time, this game is not completely pixel style. In the script, Fang Xi coined a term called high-definition pixel style.

That is to say, it is not the traditional dot matrix pixel style, but the high-definition picture is made into the same high-definition retro style through hand-painting or rendering.

In this way, when running on a high-configuration machine, the picture will not have problems such as insufficient resolution and blurring due to pixel art.

After Shui Yuan and others hand-painted a few pictures, they also found that this kind of acquired pixel style has unexpected touching points. Looking at this style, it is easy for a few people to fall into memories: remember playing games by yourself The green years of growing up.

Hearing that several people finally planned to hand-paint the entire game, Fang Xi had nothing to say except admiration.

One of the selling points of this game in the last time and space was that the blurred image of the background was purely hand-painted, but due to financial constraints, only a part of the original version was made. If Shuiyuan and others can complete the entire hand-painted, think about how Xi himself is looking forward to it.

"Come on!" At this time, of course, it was mainly encouragement, and then Fang Xi looked back at the classroom:

"Where is Shao Qiulin?"

"Director Shao's art skills are very strong, and after discussing with the teachers, he thinks that a large number of art personnel may be needed, so he has been busy recruiting for the past few days, and his art skills don't need to come to make up lessons." Cui Yue came over and explained. .

Looking at this big boy who is just in his third year, he finally has a lot of vigor after cutting his hair short, and he is no longer depressed. Fang Xi is also sincerely happy. These people are actually poor people, losers in the game market in the past That's all, but sometimes the failure is caused by more factors. Fang Xi is not the Holy Mother, but he can give it a hand when he encounters it, not to mention...

I really look forward to how strong a group of people who are reborn from Nirvana will be so strong!

A few people still have classes,

Fang Xi was too embarrassed to bother, so he left directly. As for Shao Qiulin... It doesn't matter if we don't see him, Cui Yue knows that Shao Qiulin is busy recruiting people by himself, but what he doesn't know is that Shao Qiulin wants to transfer people from the headquarters, but he has a bad nose After that, I can only go to work on my own.

Originally, the research and development and art of the headquarters have always been in a tight state-everything is for the assassins, and the wave with Sorrento just now, it is said that the borderless land is going to be redone, so the players can't be pigeonholed. ?

Therefore, under the already tight manpower situation, Fang Xi had to squeeze out some people to develop Borderlands. What's more terrible is that Borderlands is also half supported by unique art. There are still a few people on the ground, but there are only three or two who meet the requirements of Borderlands. The manpower that is finally squeezed out has to be relearned, which makes Fang Xi extremely painful.

The market is right in front of my eyes, as long as I make a game, I will definitely make a lot of money. The problem is the scale of Hongyi. Starting construction of six games at the same time is already the limit, and this number tells other companies that they will probably be eye-popping, but Fang Xi Still dissatisfied, if I can drop ten more studios from the sky and run like this for two years, I will definitely be the godfather of games in this world. Unfortunately, there is not enough manpower now, which gives other companies a chance to grow, and there is a little unpleasant change .

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For Western countries, Christmas is their New Year, but for online merchants in China, it is simply a festival for promotion. This kind of festival cleans up the warehouse, marks -50% for unsold goods, and then A group of people will rush up and snatch this: without thinking about whether they need it or not, the same is true in games.

The Honghu platform has announced that at the end of the year, the Honghu platform will usher in a wave of promotions. Among them, Christmas is the first wave, and some games will be discounted. The second wave of discounts will be on the Lunar New Year in China, so stay tuned.

This consideration is also very simple. Cultural invasion is always relative. If Western players gradually accept the Chinese New Year, then they will accept it faster when they play Chinese-style games in the future. Although it can only be a little faster, but accumulate more Below, there will always be a day of full acceptance, which is a very simple cultural invasion.

That's why the Honghu platform sets the official language to be Chinese, and the second official language is English, after Chinese.

As for all games released by Hongyi, although there are Chinese and English dubbing, the money spent on Chinese voice is definitely several times that of English dubbing. This will naturally guide some players who pay attention to the game experience to switch to a more natural Chinese voice. , and then watch English subtitles.

Sometimes the so-called cultural identity is experienced bit by bit, and Fang Xi really wants to try what the final result of this anti-invasion will be.