Number One Game Designer

For Fang Xi, his most precious wealth in the last time and space was probably his knowledge of games.

There is a metaphor that human beings have always been in a state of blind men and elephants when exploring a certain field, because you don’t know whether you have discovered all of this field, and you don’t know whether this field will cross-react with other fields to produce new ones. field. Therefore, people's understanding of each field has been constantly updated, just like the ancient people planted the fields for thousands of years. With the push of a button in the room, one person can control thousands of acres of world.

The field of games is similar.

In terms of the game industry that Fang Xi saw in the last time and space, the game industry in the last time and space in the 21st century developed rapidly. With the continuous improvement of network bandwidth around the world, the boundaries between stand-alone games and online games quickly became blurred.

Afterwards, gamers gradually figured out the two most important points of a game: gameplay, sociality, and competitiveness.

Traditional online games have gradually begun to take the path of the most extreme sociality. The competitive games born on top of traditional online games have slightly reduced the social elements and introduced the concept of "symmetrical competition", that is, the two sides compete under completely symmetrical conditions.

The game that was finally born in this environment is a mobile game. Mobile games account for two points of fragmented time and more convenient socialization, and have achieved unexpected success. There is a reason why many people are used to comparing mobile games and web games together when analyzing mobile games, because the two have similar user positioning.

That is to say, in the field of electronic games, the general public is currently divided into online games and stand-alone games.

But in the not-too-distant future, the types of this game will become PC games, competitive games, and mobile games.

Among them, the cost of terminal games is high, but the advantage lies in the safety of investment. Competitive games require high operating costs. Although mobile games have the advantage of low investment, the fighting in this field is more than ten times bloodier than that of terminal games. At that time, Huaxia established projects and produced them every year. There are close to thousands of mobile games, but no more than 50 games can finally reach the players’ eyes, and no more than 5 games can survive the test of time and operate for more than one year, and among these five games, they can earn word-of-mouth double harvest and operate for three years There may be none of the above.

Although these three types are all electronic games, they are already three types of games that are irrelevant in terms of their core. Fang Xi has also consciously classified them since there were more projects in the company. A type of game is classified into the same department, so that the maximum utilization of resources can be achieved.

So at the recent meeting, Fang Xi formally merged the WEB game department and the mobile game department, and promoted Tao Junyi as the person in charge, with Wu Zihang assisting.

The research and development departments of "Eternity", "FIFA" and "Code Name: Qiu Mingshan" officially formed a competitive game research sequence. The general person in charge is Lu Wanqi, a numerical planner. The core of this department is balance—the core of competitive games is "symmetry" , and the symmetrical translation is balance.

Finally, other games can be regarded as a large development cluster: "Assassin", "No Man's Sky", "GTA", "Bafang" and other games are not related in terms of categories, but many things can be developed by these R\u0026D teams. learn from each other.

For example, the compilation of planetary history in No Man’s Sky can refer to the Assassin’s Holy Order. The research and development side of “GTA” plans to draw some comic-style game promotional pictures. This part of the talent demand can be rented from “October”. And in fact, to put it bluntly, the core of all current client games is storytelling, and storytelling is nothing more than a burden. This aspect is common to everyone. Fang Xi simply took the lead and let the three R\u0026D clusters launch online once a month. Brainstorm online to exchange ideas.

For Hongyi, the fastest growing thing this year is the development sequence of competitive games. Fang Xi took Xiaolan and put it on his desk for some matters to be decided by himself. There was almost no fight over where this year's World Championship would be held.

Fang Xi took a look and circled Su Luo's proposal "Los Angeles" with a red pen. Because the organizer behind E3, the chairman of ESA, Doug, just discussed with himself last week about Fang Xi’s previous proposal to hold a game exhibition in Asia that can rival E3, and he reciprocated. It's not uncommon for the ESA to have a hand in a tournament with tens of millions of dollars in prize money.

After delineating the venue, Fang Xi also wrote a note: In the future, the venue for the "Eternal" World Tournament will be decided in June every year, and the venue for next year will be decided, and then announced directly at the World Tournament to arouse the enthusiasm of the players.

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The afternoon passed quickly in the office, and Fang Xi met Professor Dan after visiting the VR laboratory at dinner.

A little different from noon, Professor Dan at this time was full of restlessness visible to the naked eye, his face was excited, and he was exchanging ideas with the person in charge of the VR laboratory around him.

Fang Xi exchanged glances with the bushy-haired Dr. VR, and it seemed that the matter of poaching DAN for Hongyi was basically settled.

Dan's behavior made Fang Xi think of himself when he was a child. When he was a child, he used to think he was a young and old man, and he didn't care about any games, until the children of distant relatives brought Transformers toys.

That afternoon, little Fang Xi, who had never seen Transformers, was still excited to play "Autobot Transformation" in the room all afternoon.

For DAN, this VR is a brand-new field that he has not been exposed to, and it can change the world visible to the naked eye, and this standard American Ph.D. also made an interesting suggestion to Fang Xi.

"FANG, your virtual world that can be seen and touched, do you know what is the first thing that comes to my mind?" At this moment, DR.DAN raised this question with Fang Xi with an uncontrollable excitement on his face. .

Fang Xi said without hesitation, "War."

Professor Dan raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect Fang Xi to know him so clearly, he was a little surprised.

Fang Xi chuckled, I can't say that I have read countless movies, I can write a hundred reasons in minutes for the aliens to invade the earth:

"Once this kind of device is successful, the training of many military skills will only cost a little electricity, and a virtual world that can act recklessly can improve social stability, and at the same time, the virtual world can bring out a real virtual economy. , it will become as indispensable as air to everyone."

"So it's like a resource that is unique to us. This resource can bring great benefits, but other countries can't get a little benefit from it, so the dispute is born." Professor Dan added.

Hearing Professor Dan say "we" Fang Xi was overjoyed, and he also tried his best to hold back his smile and asked:

"What does Professor Nadan mean?"

"I want to ask you, BOSS, to make my first proposal for entry."