Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

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mod.

Mods!

Zhu Youxing's eyes gradually lit up.

He found a direction to break through.

That is to promote the production of modules.

The module production of a game can be said to be a game production method with the lowest threshold.

Because the basic logic of the game is already very complete, as long as there is enough open source and the game is open enough in terms of customization, players will give game developers countless surprises.

MOBA games in the form of DOTA, Chenghai 3C, Counter-Strike, and Red Alert are among the most successful mods.

This type of open source game is really something that was born for game developers to get started.

At this moment, the Battle.net platform actually just lacks an open platform for module production.

With such a platform, everyone will have the opportunity to display their own gameplay.

"Bell."

"What happened to the president?"

Bell also noticed Zhu Youxing's slightly excited expression, and he guessed that Zhu Youxing might have thought of a way to increase the game quickly.

He lamented in his heart that he really deserves to be recognized as the god of games in the industry, and now he has thought of how to expand the scale of game production in such a short period of time.

"Let me tell you a function, you can make it as soon as possible and launch it on the Battle.net platform."

Bell started recording right away.

"First of all, you should first write down all StarCraft, Counter-Strike and Stardew Valley. These games are open-produced games. We have opened a new function so that people can change the data in the game at will. If possible If so, we can also make it as convenient as possible for players to modify game values ​​and programs.”

Bell paused slightly, and then looked at Zhu Youxing in disbelief: "President, isn't this equivalent to handing over our source code to others? And from what you mean, if players modify our source code, they won't Any copyright lawsuits?"

He couldn't believe it was Zhu Youxing's words.

There was a small-scale game imitation incident in the game industry before.

However, this incident did not cause too much trouble, and Zhu Youxing directly shot him to death when it was just beginning to appear.

Later, Youxing Electronic Entertainment began to restrict the reading and copying of the game program, trying to avoid players from touching these unnecessary things as much as possible.

At the same time, Youxing Electronic Entertainment also has the strongest legal team in the world. They sue everywhere like crazy every day, but if a guy dares to copy their game, he will send a lawyer's letter first, and then find a way to make the other party Take the initiative to give up the lawsuit and stop the infringement.

So far, this method has prevented many vicious plagiarism incidents, and it has also been defined as some classic cases in the industry.

But now Zhu Youxing seems to suddenly intend to change all this, and completely hand over the production and modification rights of some games to outsiders.

So this game is no longer their game after some magic changes?

Facing Bell's surprised look, Zhu Youxing just said calmly, "Is there anything wrong?"

"This... we are afraid that we will lose control of these games."

"I don't think this is a problem. We can strictly restrict some games, because they are the core of our technology, and we can't easily show them to others, but games such as Half-Life, Stardew Valley, and StarCraft are originally The logic and gameplay of the game can be easily understood by professional game makers, and there is no need for us to hide it, so it is better to disclose it openly and honestly, and let players fiddle with it at will."

"Let the players toss? How do the players toss?"

Bell still didn't understand.

Zhu Youxing knew that this world hadn't understood the meaning of the so-called mod.

The birth of modules has also greatly lowered the threshold of game development, which will make various models that are regarded as classics by later generations attracted the attention of the world.

Any slightly creative player can easily call up the basic logic in a game to make their own game.

Then when his niche gameplay is popular, producers will be more interested in game production, and then they will find ways to study more complex game production methods to make their modules look more complete and complete .

Modules, this is something unique to the PC platform, which is incomparable to the console platform. If you don't take advantage of this advantage, the market for the PC platform will always be limited.

Zhu Youxing said with a smile: "There is a classic proverb, the difference between one stick and ten sticks, the strength in a group is great, and some fantastic things can always be born in a crowd, so I hope that these whimsical things can have the soil to bloom, instead of being stillborn because of the high difficulty of game development.”

Bell still didn't understand.

But after thinking about it, he felt that this was the president's idea after all, so there must be some deep meaning.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand now, he can wait and see.

So he recorded it and said: "President, are you sure to let the source code of these games be released directly? Also allow players to change the values ​​​​in the game at will?"

Zhu Youxing nodded: "Sure, of course this is just an attempt on my part to see if I can really dig out some talented 'players'."

Then Zhu Youxing paused and continued to say: "In order to set an example, I just have time to make some modules as demonstrations. These demonstrations can be directly shown as tutorials for players to let them understand. How low the difficulty of the mod can be."

Zhu Youxing started to act while talking.

He immediately began to operate on the computer in front of him.

The first is to modify the underlying code of Counter-Strike.

The first is to allow some limited procedural and numerical modifications from the bottom layer.

These modifications can facilitate Zhuyouxing's subsequent mod production.

"What kind of mods to make..."

Zhu Youxing thought for a moment, and then immediately thought of a module that he thought was quite classic.

How to play Resident Evil Zombie Infection.

In Counter-Strike, it is only necessary to make some simple modifications to the gameplay mode in the game, then add a countdown function to the game, and finally design a logic program.

This program is very simple, so simple that it can be copied after simple familiarization.

And the content of this logic is that when the countdown is over, a player in the room will become a zombie.

This zombie can infect others for a limited time.