Super Game Empire

Pete put down his hands fighting with his sparse hair, and even Alexei was full of curiosity. Both of them looked at Yang Yun. It would be a surprising creativity to be able to make Yang Yun's solemn comments.

Yang Yun smiled: "Our Longteng Company wrote a game script two years ago called "Saroman Snake". My new idea of ​​real-time strategy games is happening on the surface of this planet. Maybe I use it

Another name you all have heard of is better, this real-time strategy game can be called "Dune"!"

Dune Dune is an American long science fiction novel with a total of six. The earliest one was published in 1965. It has received continuous awards from Star** and is very popular.

The first version of the Dune adaptation game, Dune 1, is an adventure type. Players will play the role of the successor of a family in the Dune story, collect precious spices, recruit friends from all walks of life, fight with enemy families, etc.

Yang Yun looked down on this kind of game at all. Apart from the name of a sand dune, how could Sand Dune 1 compare with other RPG games under his jurisdiction?

But Dune 2 is different. The creator of this game is almost everyone knows it. Westwood Westwood Studio has developed Dune 2, Command and Conquer, the Dark Throne, among which the most famous expansion pack is called

"Command and Conquest: Red Alert".

Ximu Studio's real-time strategy games are all based on the Dune 2 game engine and some other outsourcing games earlier. They themselves have an original game engine system.

Yang Yun really wants to take the game Dune 2 into his own private ownership, whether it is a direct acquisition or other method to make it. Anyway, he only needs one result. That is, the classic real-time strategy game was born from him.

"dune?"

Alexei and Pitt were both strangers. Alexei had played Dunes 1. Pitt had also heard of Dunes novels, and both of them were familiar with it.

"Yes, there is actually no need to give this name." Yang Yun explained: "The story takes place on the planet in the Sarroman Snake story, but the content is not much different from the Sand Dune novel. I named it like this, just want to make it happen.

You understand it more deeply. Pete, I want to make it a real-time strategy game, not the action-adventure type that is now available!”

Pete thought for a while and said, "Since it is a war-type game similar to power trading, we need to remove the adventure elements. Just add the content of military combat."

"Yes! This is a pure war game." Yang Yun took Pete's pen, took out a blank manuscript paper, and quickly drew a few sketches: "Let me tell you what an excellent real-time strategy game has.

Features!”

First of all, it needs to find resources, be full of elements such as occupation, collection, accumulation and plunder.

Yang Yun drew a schematic diagram of minerals: "If you want to fight for hegemony, you must fight a war. There is an old saying in China. Before the army moves, food and grass will come first. Without enough resources, players will not be able to recruit or produce enough troops. So the resources are very important.

An important component.”

Pete agrees with this, in power trading, food is the resource. War consumes food and population, and only enough resources can recruit enough followers.

However, what Yang Yun mentioned about occupation, accumulation, and plundering elements also include other settings.

After capturing the enemy's city and robbing the granary, players can obtain some resources. This is plundering, which is very consistent with the situation of real wars.

Yang Yun has a very deep experience in this regard. For example, in the earliest Red Alert, the enemy mine car and our mine car can jointly mine the same mine vein. Generally, players only need to send out a few tanks to attack the enemy mine car.

Explode, then fight against the enemy's harassing tanks and protect the safety of our mine carts.

In games such as Warcraft and Starcraft, minerals are simply set next to the main base, and the players' first order is to drag farmers to mine.

The competition for mining areas is very important. Once a protracted war occurs, whoever takes up more ore divisions will have greater economic advantages. The final winner of the war is usually him.

Throwing atomic bombs in the mining area, or using golden beetles to airborne farmers, or burying a puppy at the construction site of the main base, and using the Sword Saint's Wild Wind Step to cut farmers into the enemy base. There are too many tactics, which shows the resources

The importance of fighting for hegemony.

Second, the game requires multiple types of building construction.

Yang Yun pointed to the four buildings on the manuscript paper and said, "The main base, resource processing center, barracks, and houses are basic configurations, and there must be at least these four types. The main base is responsible for scientific research upgrades, and the resource processing center is responsible for classification of various types.

Resources, barracks are responsible for recruiting various soldiers, and houses are the upper limit of the total population."

The last one was strange, and the two asked, "Why should we control the population limit? As long as we have enough resources, we can recruit enough troops to eliminate the enemy!"

Yang Yun shook his head: "That would become a military sea tactic, and it lost the meaning of the word strategy. Use the least resources, the best tactics, and the most exquisite control to defeat the opponent. This is the essence of real-time strategy games. Just imagine,

Will you bring great pleasure to you by recruiting 10 soldiers from the enemy? Or will you bring 10 people with you and use the hit-and-mist n tactic to kill 100 people from the opponent?

And the final victory, which feeling is better?”

It was understandable at one point, and Pete even praised the tactical idea of ​​hit-and-breast n.

Yang Yun still has many things that he has not explained in detail, such as the Temples and Academy of Sciences in the Empire Age, the Institute of StarCraft, and even subdivided into infantry offensive and defense, mechanical troops offensive and defense, flight weapons offensive and defense, and the science and technology tree is getting bigger and bigger.

There are many barracks, including the Red Alert, the tank factory and the infantry battalion. Warcraft also has mage priest sacred land, griffin cage, chimera perch and other buildings.

As for the population limit, it is necessary. In order to reflect its operationality, Warcraft will even produce linear benefits. Blizzard's official explanation is that your hungry soldiers need to eat, their damaged armor needs to be repaired, and dull weapons need to be cut.

Forging, so the more people the gold collected by each farmer will charge a part of the repair fee!

It is to limit malicious explosive soldiers, which can make the game confrontation more exciting, rather than using the mouse to frame all the troops on the entire screen, then press a on the keyboard, click the left mouse button and then click the rear of the enemy base.

Brainless pushing soldiers...

The third feature is real-time combat and development system.

This is the most fundamental difference from the turn-based game. Pitt certainly realized the benefits. Doing so can make players stay nervous at all times, constantly operate, dispatch troops, and command troops, which can not only test the players' strategies

Level can test the player's reaction ability!

After listening to Yang Yun introduce his new ideas on real-time strategy games, Pete and Alexei were truly impressed.

Pete said: "I always thought my ideas were innovative enough and breakthrough enough, but now I know that the game can be designed like this. I feel ashamed of myself!"

Yang Yun winked at Alexei, who understood it: "Then Pete, after we complete God Crazy 2, how about picking up the power transaction and re-made it into a real-time strategy game?

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When Pete heard the aggravated word "we", he finally laughed and joked: "Alexei, do you want to be an employee of our Bullfrog Company?"

The atmosphere is very harmonious now, Alexei took the opportunity to say: "KTT, which owns 50% copyright of Tetris and Super Mary, has at least $100 million intangible assets. I can't bear to abandon it and join Bullfrog. Why not change it?

How about letting bullfrogs join KTT, how about everyone developing together?”

Peter is not sure about the real relationship between Yang Yun and Alexae, but it can be seen that KTT and Longteng are likely to be an alliance, and the relationship between the two companies is not ordinary.

Since Yang Yun has such a deep research on games, is creative and good, and KTT has mastered certain technology, both companies can completely abandon bullfrog and do it alone, thematic series of games and real-time strategy games.

Pete remained silent for a while, but did not refuse immediately, but asked, "Why choose us?"

The God of Bullfrog Company also crazily set a precedent for God’s game, while the Game of Thrones has expanded the war part and has already initially developed the concept of real-time strategy games.

However, because the power trading is too advanced, and there are 3D maps, mixed side plots and other reasons, players do not buy it. In the end, Bullfrog decided to give up the development of its subsequent version, which is an unforgivable mistake in Yang Yun's opinion.

Ximutou Studio has not yet contacted it. After Yang Yun was about to arrange for Yang Zhan to contact Ximutou after KTT was finished, he would go to Japan to do the work of RPG games.

But if Ximu Tou and distinctive encounter a lot of rags, and this one competes with the other, it will be a mess if you can't subdue it. Yang Yun must make a backup plan and find a company to do this job!

Bullfrog is the best partner. They have a real-time strategy game engine. Although they are immature, they will definitely grow up quickly after Yang Yun's guidance. It is absolutely no problem to win Dune 2.

Yang Yun took over the topic and smiled and said, "This time it's not 'us', but 'me'! Pete, Alexei is interested in you, not Bullfrog Company. I also like you very much.

Pete, if you don’t want to join KTT, how about joining us Longteng? Our market value can be $2 billion, which is 20 times larger than KTT!" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!