Number One Game Designer

For Fang Xi, the next experience at the film and television base was quite unforgettable and unique.

At present, there is no formal game director in the game industry, because not all, even most games do not use motion capture and facial expression capture, and what the game industry can use is not so much Director, it’s more like a scene record job. I only need to monitor and collect the expressions and movements in place. In addition, I don’t need to pay attention to the costumes, dialogues, lighting, etc. in conventional movies, so the filming It's going pretty fast.

The single-player plot of a game is often time-limited. Generally speaking, the single-player experience plot is generally more than 20 hours, and most of the market is kept in the range of 20 to 30 hours. This is a very subtle issue. If it is less than this time, unless your plot is particularly good, players will feel that it is not worth it, and the longer the plot, the better, unless you have extraordinary confidence in your plot and can also attract players to play. Let’s go on, the representatives of this kind of super long plot are Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 3, presumably the friends are no strangers.

For Fang Xi, "Left 4 Survival" does not intend to be a game with a winning plot, because if a game only has a plot, then players will only praise you constantly after clearing the level, and then use this The game...shelved, maybe occasionally there will be some plot-loving parties who will dig it out after a while to re-play the aftertaste, but how many players are there for the plot?

Therefore, Fang Xi only intends to finish the single-player plot of Left 4 Dead within 22 hours, and there are not many parts that need to be filmed—or sampled.

It only took about three weeks for the filming to be completed. Fang Xi came over empty-handed, and then transferred the sampled data to the Reaper USB flash drive, and returned to Beiyang with Xiaolan and Lu Wanqi who had retired.

While Fang Xi was having his first experience as a director in Haifang City, Lu Tao was also busy recording.

The audio work in the game is generally divided into two parts, that is, recording and dubbing. They seem to be the same, but there are still differences. Take Fang Xi's ongoing road to survival as an example.

What Lu Tao is doing now is recording. These audios are mainly the ambient sounds in the game, including the starting and braking of vehicles, the firing and reloading of firearms, even opening and closing doors, knife and fork collision and other noises, as well as the most important and most frequent noises in the game. Hear the roar of irrational zombies.

And Lu Tao was a little confused looking at Fang Xi's manuscript. The roaring sounds of zombies are classified into: meaningless, prey discovery, companion communication, threat, attack, etc., and at least five of each zombie sound should be recorded. version of. Lu Tao was also shocked: Only now do I know that zombies can communicate with each other?

However, the task assigned by the boss is to do it well, but Lu Tao encountered difficulties when communicating with the other party's tuner, how to describe the voice of the zombie?

"We wanted to record the sound of a human roaring."

Then Lu Tao got a copy of the human voice simulating the audio of a tiger's cry.

"Roar! Roar! It's not an imitation of an animal."

Then Lu Tao got a piecemeal audio of men and women quarreling.

"No... Forget it, it can be used in other places. It's roaring. It's the sound of imagining a person who has never drank water and has dry vocal cords, but is more bloodthirsty. He is particularly excited when he sees flesh and blood. .”

After difficult communication, Lu Tao finally got the first zombie audio.

"Okay, then the second copy we need is to add the threatening voice in the situation just now."

other side:? ? ?

After a difficult period of negotiations, Lu Tao returned to Beiyang with the finished audio at about the same time as Fang Xi.

As if fighting an uphill battle, Lu Tao slumped on the chair and asked:

"It's almost time for us to have our own recording studio,

Or buy a company outright? "

Fang Xi nodded: "I have ideas about these, and I have entrusted Xiaolan to look for them after I came back."

"How to say?" Lu Tao was curious: "Are we buying the equipment ourselves?"

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on Fang Xi's face: "Xiao Lan is quite reliable. She said that they had considered these issues when they were in Haifang City, and guessed that the company might also have its own shooting base and recording studio in the future. At that time She has contacted some companies to understand these related matters.”

"After coming back, Xiaolan and I researched it. She will contact two medium-sized audio companies to see if they can be acquired and become a subsidiary of Hongyi."

Lu Tao nodded. Buying equipment is not a problem for Hongyi at all, but the related personnel is a problem, so buying a company is a good option. It is best to buy a company that is not too small.

In this way, Hongyi's needs can be fulfilled in normal times, and in spare time, you can continue to outsource to other companies in the name of a single company to make money. Why not do it?

"And it's not just that." Fang Xi continued, "Do you still remember our Youth Project?"

Of course Lu Tao remembered this. As the most experienced game producer in the company, Fang Xi would sometimes discuss certain decisions with him and ask him to help him check for omissions and make up for vacancies. The Youth Project is one of them.

At that time, Fang Xi told Lu Tao about his plan for a game distribution platform. In layman's terms, he wanted to build a domestic steam platform. The game support plan is multi-purpose in this way: depressed independent game producers can see their game production completed, and Hongyi can also expand the game on its own platform, which is the best of both worlds.

Fang Xi was quite surprised at Lu Tao's idea at the time, which coincided with the "Light of Favor" on the steam platform in his previous life.

"After thinking about the Youth Project, I still feel that it is not safe to directly give sponsorship funds, because it is difficult for us to monitor every whereabouts of the funds, so the best way is to reward the work instead, that is to say, we give the first place The support of 500,000 is to give 200,000 financial support plus technical support worth 300,000, which is much better.”

Lu Tao nodded in agreement, he also thought of this later, and was thinking about telling Fang Xi about it, but Fang Xi had already figured it out by himself.

"So in this case, it is best for us to have a complete set of game industry facilities. It is the best, otherwise we have written in the contract to provide technical support, and the result is to outsource, and it will be very troublesome if there is a moth."

"And these," Fang Xi smiled mysteriously: "I have a"