Super Game Empire

"Puff..." Yang Yun spit out a sip of water.

It's messy, it's all messy!

Blizzard proposed to do the "Theme Hospital", what should bullfrog do?

Also, these foreigners are too strong. When you go to the hospital, you will think of "Theme Hospital". When will they go to the amusement park? Will they make "Theme Park"? Take a train,

Isn’t you going to think of all the good ideas of “Railway Tycoon”? After staying in Shanghai for a long time, then design “Simulation City”?

"Marcos, don't be excited, let's talk about it, how do you want to design this "Theme Hospital"?"

This is a temporary idea that Blizzard came up with. It only exists in the minds of Marcos and David. There is no writing, no outline and details, only a few hand-drawn diagrams, and only three pictures passed to Yang Yun.

The hospital plan diagram cannot be seen at all about the content related to the Bullfrog version of "Theme Hospital".

Marcos did not explain to everyone on the blackboard, he just smiled and said, "We are thinking that hospitals are places for birth, old age, sickness and death. People may not go to the gymnasium in their lives, and may not have the opportunity to go to the cinema, but it is impossible to guarantee that they will never be

I'm sick. So let the player control a hospital by himself, arrange various furniture arrangements, recruit various medical staff, establish different departments, and treat different diseases. I think this will definitely be cool!"

Of course it's cool, with successful games for verification, the Bullfrog version of "Theme Hospital" is the best example, and most people like this game. Of course, in addition to operating a hospital to watch it grow, worrying about it going bankrupt, and doing it in a hurry

In addition to the interesting firefighters, Bullfrog's black humor is also something that players talk about.

"Please wait a moment, I want to ask. I have heard this from Peter many times. He said that the essential thing for a person's life is childhood amusement facilities. So they made the "Theme" two years ago

Park” has a good response. Do you want to do "Theme Hospital", so do you have similar references?

"Ahh!" Marcos smiled. David did not come to the meeting today, but it was obvious that the two should have agreed before and reached a certain consensus.

"Yes, Bullfrog's Theme Park is an important source of our creativity. In fact, I sent a letter to Pitt by internal company email last week. But he didn't seem to pay attention to it, and he didn't reply to me for several days, and I wasn't in the company either.

The project report of Theme Hospital was found on the intranet."

Yang Yun nodded. Whether it was Blizzard production or Bullfrog's handwriting, it didn't matter to him, but the responsible person and the rights holder must be clearly distinguished. Everyone is a colleague and is a Longteng employee. Let the most experienced person go.

How to make this game the most efficient and maximize the benefits generated by everyone is what Yang Yun should consider.

"Oh. Now we are 11 am here, 5 am Paris time, and I can't contact Pete and the others for a while. Marcos. Don't be busy with the matter of "Theme Hospital" for now. You and I will have sex with Pete in the afternoon.

A short phone call meeting. Call David and let’s discuss in depth.”

Marcos agreed: "OK. Then I'll talk about Blizzard's second creativity now. We think it's time for the Warcraft series to be released? This year, "Sarroman Snake: Red Alert" can lead

The craze of real-time strategy games, and when next year's WCG battlefield, "Warcraft 2" should become the new benchmark for real-time strategy games!"

yes! Yang Yun clenched his fists secretly, it was really "Warcraft 2".

In real history, "Warcraft" and "Starcraft" were designed by Blizzard headquarters, and it has nothing to do with Blizzard in the North that designed "Diablo". Even in order to speed up the work of "Diablo", Blizzard headquarters "Warcraft"

》The head of the project team was also sent to Blizzard in the north for a period of time, but this Blizzard is not the other Blizzard, this is a fact.

The Warcraft series of games is so classic, so Yang Yun is a little unsure whether Marcos and others can control it.

"Warcraft 1" was designed by him himself, and then handed over to the Beijing headquarters Zhang Guoqiang and his group of people to design the program to make the first-person RPG game, and it is still the SS version. Although the players have a good reputation, they are in the treasures of Longteng all over the ground.

The company is nothing.

Now the design team is still in operation. Several core employees accompanied Zhang Guo to design the "Red Alert" in the Paris branch. Only two or three engineers are left to be responsible for post-maintenance, bug fixes, and learning Longteng's latest real-time strategy game engine

Technology has not stopped the plan to develop Warcraft 2.

"Marcos, are you getting inspiration from other teams?" Yang Yun asked.

"Yes, and I found that many of the old games in Longteng have such conditions. The first game was built with a very solid foundation. Their subsequent versions have great potential and endless plasticity. This is a huge

Treasure!”

Damn, these foreigners are really simple. Yang Yun opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. Many of the games were designed by him and deliberately made them, and many of them were the first acts of a long masterpiece.

For example, "Warcraft 1" which gave up real-time strategy, "Live Football 94" and "nbagame 96" which built a complete set of real-world rules, and "Immortal Sword" which outlined the long scroll of the vast fairy tale but only used less than 1% of the fairy sword

Legend of the Gods, and "Need for Speed ​​1", which looks not gorgeous due to the limitations of technology and hardware. If you carefully distinguish them, these games are all trapped and are slowly waiting for subsequent development, leaving endless things for everyone

Imagination.

Perhaps for gamers like Marcos, making a fun and interesting game is the greatest fun. They only have games in their eyes and their thoughts are simpler. As for their creative sources, haha, when Yang Yun thinks of this, hey, she smiles.

It seems that these guys have a strong sense of patent copyright. This is a copycat spirit worthy of encouragement!

"Okay OK, Marcos, these huge treasures can be mined by you. But please don't forget the design of Diablo 2, the burden on you is also very heavy! Otherwise, I will "Diablo"

The development rights for Destruction 2 are left to Bullfrog, and then you can free up your hands to design Theme Hospital and Warcraft 2?”

Yang Yun laughed and reminded himself.

Marcos was anxious and protested: "No, you can't do this, Diablo is us..."

Halfway through his words, he realized something, quickly shut up, his face a little embarrassed, and looked at Yang Yun and Ma Liang and laughed.

Everyone laughed kindly to express their understanding. Everyone can understand this situation. Everyone wants to have good things when they see them. And the non-original design team may see more things from the perspective of bystanders, novel ideas.

More, many new games adopt the idea of ​​a mature game, and make a makeover, and may succeed again.

“Marcos, if you have enough energy to deal with all the ideas, I don’t mind getting you involved. We are all colleagues in the company, and it’s common to collaborate between different working groups.”

Marcos quickly said: "Yes, Theme Hospital is mainly David's idea. Warcraft 2 is Eric's favorite, and we are willing to contribute to the project establishment of these two games."

Ma Liang followed and said, "Mr. Yang, why not let the "Warcraft 1" team come to Shanghai and integrate it into Blizzard Studio for resource integration, which is so convenient!"

Yang Yun asked back angrily: "Did you let Bullfrog Studio move from Europe too? Oh, I said, "I'm not going to do the revolution?" You brought so many people over, and I'm not the little one."

Not sure!”

Ma Liang laughed, he wanted to gain more benefits for the Shanghai R&D Center, which was understandable.

Marcos said appropriately: "Mr. Yang, it would be best if we can bring them over. We have a third idea and we really need to add more people."

Ma Liang shrugged proudly: "Mr. Yang, I'm telling the truth. The staff in Shanghai R&D Center is a bit insufficient. The more game projects we have, the more programmers and testers we have to prepare, especially for subsequent versions of development.

Many people may only revolve on the same game for ten or twenty years. Hal Studio needs to add people, Blizzard Studio needs to add people, and Bullfrog and the headquarters send people here, which is really timely!"

Yang Yun had nothing to say. In fact, he couldn't say that he could break everyone into two.

"Marcos, please tell me what the third idea is, and I'll consider it." Yang Yun still planned to listen to his opinions first.

Marcos took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Everyone knows that our Longteng company has long been authorized to Warhammer's world view. The background story of Warcraft 1 takes place in the world of "Warhammer's Middle Ages". This time we plan to use the game

The workshop's 'Warhammer 40000' is making a future sci-fi game "Orcs in the Universe"!"

Everyone is an expert, and everyone knows what Warhammer 40,000 is, and knows the status of the game workshop company in the tabletop war chess game market. After Marcos said this, everyone knows the general content of the game "Orcs in the Universe".

"Wow! The human empire, the Galaxy Alien, the Chaos Legion, and the melee of the three parties is exciting to think about!"

"Imperial Guards, Star Wars, Exorcist Hunters, Pagans, Chaos Legion, Space Skeletons, Titanium Stars, Zergs, Orcs, Gods, Dark Gods, Dark Undead... Marcos, your Blizzard is such a big deal!"

"We have wanted to move Warhammer 40,000 to PC game, this thing has long been done, Marcos, I support you!"

As everyone was laughing and talking, Yang Yun pursed his lips and couldn't refuse it.

What, what is "Orcs in the Universe", isn't it "starcraft"... (To be continued...)