Super Game Empire

After playing real-time strategy games of Red Alert, Age of Empires, and StarCraft, it is easy to think about how to design a Dune game.

But for sustainable development, Yang Yun cannot come up with all his ideas at once, otherwise what should Red Alert and Warcraft do in the future? Then there is no new content to do!

Besides, no matter how many creativity and the hardware cannot keep up, it can only be helpless to guard Baoshan. Let him do World of Warcraft and League of Legends against MD machines. That is a joke, so he will not be stupid enough to make a fish.

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What Yang Yun is preparing to say is the most basic design method of real-time strategy games.

"Sustainable development, reasonable military power matching, and exquisite battlefield operability are the three most important components of real-time strategy games." Yang Yun drew three concentric circles and marked the corresponding instructions.

"The biggest one is development and management. No matter whether the player destroys the enemy or is beaten by the enemy, as long as he starts the game, then as the timeline rolls, management and development will always exist. With our reality

The world corresponds to it. For example, the military confrontation between the former Soviet Union and the United States. The arms race between the two countries has never stopped. Fighters, heavy tanks, nuclear weapons, aerospace, lasers, and various weapons are all under development, and each country has garrisoned a large number of them.

The troops have been developing, but the Soviet player withdrew from the game for his own reasons and did not fight."

"Is the circle in the middle a reasonable combination of military forces? Or in terms of the Cold War, in addition to developing the economy, the construction of the three armed forces of the two countries has been elevated to a terrible height. In ordinary wars, infantry is afraid of mechanized troops, and mechanized troops cannot defeat them.

Artillery troops and mechanized troops cannot defeat the Air Force, but the Air Force is also afraid that the airplanes will be bombed at the airport and cannot stop the firepower of anti-aircraft guns. Therefore, there are always situations where the troops are incompatible, and we just need to provide a large number of troops for players to choose from.

They organize their troops according to their preferences.”

"In addition to the reasonable combination of troops, military deployment, and arrangement of continuous reinforcements, war is also a very important link. It is the smallest and most core circle. In World War II, Stalin, Zhukov Eisenhower, Patton, Hitler, and Rommel, in World War II, Stalin, Zhukov, Eisenhower, Patton, Hitler, and Rommel.

, they do not evaluate their character, but only from the perspective of war. Everyone is an extremely excellent tactical master. In the game, a good commander leads a disadvantaged unit, and can also beat an ordinary commander with a strong soldier.

There is no power to fight back, defeating the more with less and defeating the strong with weak. This is the greatest sense of accomplishment for players."

After Yang Yun finished explaining these, he turned to the notes he had just recorded and added a few of his own ideas.

"First of all, considering the computing and image processing capabilities of the computer, we need to set the minimum configuration of a game. To run "Dune 1993", the CPU needs to be 386 processors or above, that is, at least 32-bit central processors and 4M

Memory, 1M 16-bit graphics card. This data is the minimum requirement I can think of. Is there any problem?"

Everyone shook their heads and named computers after Intel's 386 series CPUs is a habit of Chinese people. The configurations Yang Yun said are very common in 386 computers. If they are not bad, they may not be able to run the game smoothly.

"Okay. Next, assuming the game is done as you said just now, we will have two ways of playing, one is the RPG single-player adventure mode. Explore on the planet Patis and execute according to the script of "Saroman Snake".

, save hostages, kill aliens, and grab mineral veins. Another way, players start with a simple force, develop, garrison troops, war, and eliminate enemies. But don't forget, real-time strategy games can be used to fight computer-controlled NPCs

, and you must be able to fight online with friends, just like Pokemon."

As soon as this idea was expressed, everyone woke up and they actually forgot about this important thing!

Many game designers have always been limited by themselves, thinking that the game can only be interacted with the smart computer, and go through the puzzles set by the game designers according to the timeline. They think this is enough.

"Mr. Yang, I understand that this is the same as King of Fighters. Fighting and competition are eternal topics for mankind. We need more of living people to play with us and get pleasure in fierce confrontation, rather than formulaic and proceduralization

The computer rival!" Hu Jun sighed.

Yang Yun nodded and said, "That's the reason. Online battles are also a fighting game. But the following question is, will you choose the same person when you play King of Fighters? Obviously not, because everyone has it.

Some people like Cao Zhijing, some like Yagami, and some like female characters."

"ah?"

Everyone was stunned. If we follow the design ideas of King of Fighters, what Yang Yun meant was to add multiple starting states?

Yang Yun nodded and said, "Since the Frorole mine vein on the Patis planet can be purified and gained powerful energy, how can only the earthlings need it? In interstellar novels, if only the protagonist is exploring, collecting and continuing

Exploring and continuing to collect such a cycle is also very boring. We need to arrange competitors for the protagonist, create conflicts and create various difficulties, so that there will be a good show."

Hu Jun asked carefully: "How many competitors do you need?"

"Two are enough!" Yang Yun said: "This is not the King of Fighters. For PC games, there are too many 24 people."

How many options are better for a real-time strategy game?

Microsoft has personally demonstrated all game production companies, and they challenged the most multiracial setting.

"Age of Empires 1" has 12 races, each of which is different in terms of food population, movement speed, attack power, defense power, and advanced military categories.

Later, the expansion pack "Roman Revival" was launched, and the number of races increased by 4 more, reaching a terrible number of 16 races, making players more selective.

Next, "Age of Empires 2" became even more intense, with 18 races, and it seemed that they were preparing to go all the way to the dark, not asking for the most, but only asking for more. At that time, people were still laughing at that time, and the third part might have at least 24 races.

However, "Age of Empires 3" has changed races to 8, and the 3G game capacity makes this 3D game extremely large. Microsoft really has no way to add 16 races, otherwise it can eliminate more than 90% of the world's computers.

Maybe Microsoft is really determined to continue doing it, and a few more added to the Asian and American expansion packs of "Age of Empires 3"...

Yang Yun cannot accept this model from the perspective of a game player.

He remembered that the time when "Roman Revival" was popular in China was around 1999. In real-time strategy games at that time, Red Alert and StarCraft occupied the kingly position, so when everyone was playing Rome, they mainly tried their best.

In Internet cafes everywhere, but the game has not even been fully Chinese. If you want to understand the complex technology tree and record the data of hundreds of troops and the counterattack attributes of offense and defense, it can make players depressed to death. If you want to play, you can master Rome.

Revival is simply impossible.

So when everyone is passing on their word of play experience, the most circulated sentence is "Choose Assyrian, the archers are invincible"!

Generally speaking, Yang Yun would play 4V4 with his classmates. In actual combat, because he chose the Assyrian race, Yang Yun was the first to enter the Bronze Age among the 8 families every time, and was the first to produce chariot archers.

He launched an attack with ten chariots to kill the farmers in his enemy's home. At the same time, he continued to produce chariot archers in the subsequent base, often defeating two opponents by himself, becoming recognized as the imperial masters by his classmates.

But after the Roman tide passed, Yang Yun was sadly aware that in such a famous game, he could only play the Assyrian race from beginning to end, and he had no idea about the other 11 races...

In addition to the disadvantages of game promotion, there are not many opportunities to play, players have too many options, and are too young to understand playing, there is another important reason that the game does not have its own characteristics, and many races are similar.

Let’s take a look at StarCraft, three races.

Warcraft, 4 races.

Home, 2 races, but because there are too few, many game enthusiasts have added a variety of mods and integrated six or seven races.

In a total war, there are 7 forces in one Japanese shogunate expansion.

Although some people like big and complete, and some people like small and exquisite, the undeniable fact is that the most widely circulated popular real-time strategy games are Blizzard's Stars and Warcraft.

There is no reason why it can become the longest-lasting event of the WCG e-sports competition.

Yang Yun concluded: "In addition to the official government forces of our Interstellar Alliance, there are the rebel group Dilem family of the Star Alliance, as well as the mysterious third-party participant Chaos Legion."

The official government forces of the Star Alliance represent justice and are the preferred race for most players, and they do the best balance in all aspects.

The Dereme family, the Star Covenant rebellion organization, represents evil, and is known for its endless research and development of anti-human technologies. Genetic drugs, cloning technology, and biochemical technology make its troops look very strange.

The third party participant Chaos Legion is a mysterious race from alien planets. Unlike human races, they can be called aliens and are also full of desire for the Frore minerals.

This is actually a version of StarCraft of the Sharoman Snake. Yang Yun set a general range based on the three tribes of humans, insects and gods as templates, but has made considerable modifications in the technology tree and military force.

Of course, it needs to be modified, otherwise how can I do StarCraft in the future...

After these contents were thrown out, the rest of the people were stunned. They knew that there should be even more crazy content next, and it was the military design!

This is a crazy game!