Number One Game Designer

There is an old saying: the predecessors plant trees and the descendants enjoy the shade.

In fact, these words were broken and crushed, and the meaning is the same as that of the famous coffin board artist Mr. Isaac Newton: The reason why I can succeed is because I stand on the shoulders of giants.

The inside and outside of the words are nothing more than one meaning: the experience of predecessors is quite precious.

This is the same for Fang Xi, the difference is that Fang Xi is standing on the shoulders of a world, and the experience of more than 20 years in the last time and space is all his reserve knowledge. As it should be, it is a shock to players in this world.

For example, the full facial capture technology first applied in "Left 4 Dead" and "Assassin's Creed".

This world also has motion capture technology, but limited by the cost and the difference in vision, the motion capture in this space-time is really just a very simple motion capture, just invite actors to record the motion, so the recorded motion captured is compared to the research and development The actions debugged by the department itself are obviously more natural, and can be distinguished almost at a glance.

After Boss Fang took office, the most obvious feature of the first two masterpieces was the addition of facial capture, not only to make the protagonist have expressions, but also to allow zombies to use facial capture. The effect is also leveraged.

For example, many players in "Left 4 Dead" complained that some zombies with tattered heads are really ugly to the depths of their souls, and they are so ugly. The most famous one should be a video of a hospital looking for an NPC recorded by a well-known 13-station up master. In the video, the player controls the protagonist to find a key NPC in the hospital. The protagonist, who can only use a flashlight to illuminate at a critical moment, encounters a The new zombie, the UP master at the time, took away half of the zombie's head with a quick and precise headshot, and then on the remaining half of the head, the incomplete mouth smiled at the player, and then rushed forward.

This shot caused discomfort to the vast majority of viewers at the 13 stations at that time, and was soon reported to be taken off the shelves.

But even though the video was taken off the shelves, the half-headed zombies in the camera are doing well in the emoticons, and many people even directly claimed that the expression of a zombie in Hongyi is better than that of the protagonist in traditional RPGs. Rich!

So this year, domestic RPG games are still insisting on the use of facial expression motion capture technology. Unfortunately, Boss Fang smiled slightly, and with a swipe of a pen, added the budget for eye capture to the budget of "Assassin's Creed: Snake Slayer".

If Boss Fang in the game Spring and Autumn pays more attention to the shaping of the story and the plot, then in the new "Snake Killer", Boss Fang wants to make the heroes in it work.

The four hundred years of the Han family began and ended with Liu Bang in legend.

In the unofficial history, the story of Gaozu beheading the white snake has been processed into another interesting version: it is said that Liu Bang beheaded a white python. Return it. If you cut off my head, I will usurp your head; if you behead my tail, I will usurp your tail." Liu Bang cut the white python from the middle into two pieces with one sword. So the Western Han Dynasty was passed to Emperor Ping, and the white snake was reincarnated as Wang Mang, poisoned Emperor Ping of Han, and usurped Han as the new. After Guangwu Zhongxing, Wang Mang was destroyed, and the Han Dynasty was restored, and the Eastern Han Dynasty of the Liu family was established. The Eastern and Western Han happened to have been handed down for more than 200 years.

Although it was just a talk about ghosts and gods, Boss Fang thought it was very interesting, so because of this "Snake Killing" R\u0026D team went to Lu Tao. Here, Lu Tao needs to use his experience to make a snake-like boss to echo the beginning of the Han Dynasty. legend.

"But where are we going to find a snake to collect movements?" Although Lu Tao was pulled over, he still refused to give in to Fang Xi:

"If you want to do a boss battle, using snakes is not realistic at all. Snakes in nature are cold-blooded animals. Slowness is a common problem of cold-blooded animals. Most of them are slow even when hunting. Only when there is a fatal one Only when the opportunity to strike, will it move like lightning,

If it is collected according to the facts, this kind of boss is a shit boss, and it will be the kind of boss that is difficult to fight and has a poor experience. "

"Then what do you say?" Boss Fang has already written game plans one after another, but he still respects the opinions of professionals on this professional issue.

"I think... this question is actually quite simple." Lu Tao laughed a few times, and said embarrassedly: "Boss, as long as you can invest another five million in the research and development of my map code-named Hunting, this kind of small problem will be solved." Put it on me, and I will solve it for you in minutes!"

Fang Xi stared at the gradually unrestrained director he had cultivated, quietly watched for a minute and then said, "Get lost..."

"Hey, don't mind, boss, the price is negotiable, otherwise, 450?"

"No, it's too expensive."

"Three hundred, three hundred! It really can't be less!"

"No, I've figured out a way."

"ah?"

Fang Xi really thought of a way, the two of them are now in the office of the Holy Order, besides the two of them, there are a group of core R \u0026 D personnel of "Slaying the Snake" in the office, and they are all looking at Boss Fang and Lu Tao Talking back and forth like bargaining in a vegetable market.

But Fang Xi first gave up this meaningless argument, took two pieces of paper, brushed a few times, and a lifelike painting was born.

Standing behind Fang Xi, Lu Tao and the R\u0026D staff first praised his boss's sketching skills. A simple storyboard is very round and round, as if he is a veteran who has been immersed in this art for decades.

But these hands are white and clean without wrinkles, they are a pair of young hands. Looking up along the hand is the storyboard drawn by Fang Xigang.

The content on the paper was also very simple, a tall man with a long beard was being chased by a giant python.

When Lu Tao saw the image, he knew it in his heart. This should be the Liu Bang described by the boss. In the Han Dynasty, the old Liu family was forced not to say that the emperor was more handsome than the other, especially the earliest Liu Bang, who married just a pavilion chief. The daughter of Lu Gong, the richest man in the county at that time, why? Because he is so handsome, Lu Gong felt that a man as handsome as Liu Bang could not be a mortal, so he married his daughter directly. According to the history books, Han Gaozu was tall, with a high forehead, beautiful sideburns and beard, and he was a standard handsome man according to the aesthetics of the time. The hunted little man in Fang Xi's works also has a long beard and a tall figure.

But this snake...Looking at this snake, Lu Tao clicked his tongue a little. This snake seems a bit too big?

According to a simple conversion based on the proportion of the body, the height of Liu Bang in the picture is calculated as 1.8 meters, but in the picture his eyes are about the same size as the giant snake's eyes. One eyeball is a snake with a size of two meters. This is... Fang Anyway, this is too daring to draw.

"Mr. Fang, this white snake is going to be made into a dragon by you." Someone in the R\u0026D team joked.

Fang Xi himself smiled when he saw it, and then said: "Actually, I thought about it, and it would be somewhat inappropriate to make a boss battle or something, so I thought of a lazy way, that is, to make it a giant boss fight." Beast battle, that is, the protagonist is being chased and running around, according to the accumulated damage of some terrain kills, after the damage reaches a certain range, the beheading animation can be directly triggered."