Game Sky.

Office area.

As a glorious game editor, Wang Mao's most important task all day is simple and difficult.

It is nothing more than Twitter, Weibo at home and abroad, as well as the official websites of major game companies.

There are also players, post bar forums, and look for first-hand news worth writing about.

Four original press releases a day is not so easy to come up with.

"Wang Mao, have you finished writing today's manuscript?"

In the group of colleagues in Zhixin, someone took a look at Wang Mao.

Within two seconds, a row of snickering memes followed.

Looking at the chat content with a black line, Wang Mao's hands quickly typed on the keyboard.

"How can I finish writing, my manuscript was just killed by the editor-in-chief yesterday. ”

Wang Mao complained in the group, talking about this incident, it was a handful of sadness and tears.

He just finished writing a news headline article yesterday.

The game "Night Watchman" has been hacked in all aspects.

Although as a player, he does look down on this kind of cheating mobile game.

But it can be regarded as conforming to the people's will, after all, the game's reputation on the Internet is good and bad.

It took almost two hours for him to get into the game for his own experience.

With the pictures of the trial, it can be said that the writing is detailed and cannot be more detailed.

Then, after Wang Mao sent it to the editor-in-chief for review, the other party just glanced at it and killed him.

Accompanied by the notice of death, there was also a sentence that made Wang Mao lose his temper at all.

"People give us advertising money, do you still want this month's bonus?"

Well, this reason is too powerful!

Wang Mao couldn't find any reason to refute it at all.

Although as a game media person, his strong professional ethics make him want to shout at this kind of game on the platform is a spicy chicken!

But the allure of the bonus was too strong, so he chose to listen to the editor-in-chief.

"Wang Mao, why don't you write this news, look at the developer of "Dream Watchman in the Night", there is a new project!"

Suddenly, a screenshot and a paragraph were posted in the group.

Click on the picture is the official Weibo account of Xingyu Games, and the content inside is very simple.

"New project: a single-player sandbox game. ”

A simple line of words, followed by a group photo of everyone in the studio.

New project?!

Do mobile game manufacturers want to be standalone?

Crazy!

Seeing this news, Wang Mao's first impression in his head was this.

Stand-alone games are not the same as mobile games, so let's use an exaggerated sentence.

That is, more than eighty percent of domestic players no longer have any hope for domestic stand-alone.

In their impression, a domestic stand-alone machine is equal to spicy chicken.

Wang Mao quickly opened Weibo and searched for the Weibo account of Xingyu Games.

I saw the Weibo sent by the other party, in addition to the Weibo message promoted before.

The latest pinned Weibo is the news of this new project.

Hype? or is it true?

At this moment, Wang Mao's head was a little dizzy.

In fact, there are not a small number of players who pay attention to the movement of Xingyu Games.

Since the Night's Dream Watchman became popular, even the developer has been well-known to everyone.

Especially under the Weibo comments, it has become a territory for ordinary players to spit on directly.

The latest news about the establishment of a stand-alone project, in just 21 hours, has more than 10,000 comments.

Of course, nine out of nine reviews are like this.

"I'll tell you a joke, Xingyu Games has to be a stand-alone machine. ”

"Wow, isn't the mobile game enough for you to make money?

"It cost 300 million to build, using the latest technology, and the hope of the future of domestic stand-alone machines!

“......”

For these cynicisms, neither Zhou Han nor the Xingyu team know.

Nowadays, they don't have the time to scroll through Weibo, and these things are generally handed over to the operation department to maintain.

In the conference room of Xingyu Games, Zhou Han, Shao Mingze and others were arguing about what the main direction of the game was.

At present, "Dream Watchman in the Night" is basically stable, and Shao Mingze handed it over to the newcomer.

He himself devoted himself to the production of "Don't Starve".

"Although the direction of the game is to survive, once the player dies, everything is lost. ”

"It's a brutal setting, and players can feel a lot of frustration. Shao Mingze said.

Before Zhou Han could express his opinion, one of the members of the team had something to say.

"No, I don't think that's going to happen, first of all, we are in the design concept of Mr. Zhou. ”

"Don't have the characteristics of leveling up, learning skills, etc. ”

"If it's a traditional RPG game with raised characters, all the efforts before dying once are in vain. ”

"Well, this is indeed a very serious frustration for players. ”

"But Don't Starve is a survival game, and to survive in the game is something that players have to do. ”

"Death is just an option to lose the game, and I believe players are much more receptive to that. ”

Everyone was arguing, and Zhou Han next to him would occasionally interject his own thoughts.

did not choose to completely copy the original setting of "Don't Starve", but to a greater extent, discussed it with the Xingyu team.

Let's study together how to make the game more interesting and enjoyable.

Zhou Han is more to learn from it, to stimulate the brains of himself and Shao Mingze and others.

At this moment, he felt like a game producer, rather than simply carrying the game.

Although Zhou Han didn't have enough expertise, he made a surprise attack during this time.

Coupled with a little experience before, I can still cope with it.

After all, he is not the main force, Shao Mingze and others are the key personnel in the production of the game.

"That would make it possible to make a variety of modes, co-op, adventure, and survival. ”

"I believe the real joy of this game is playing with friends. ”

"We need to reduce the frustration of the player, and after dying, all items on the body will be dropped, but the base will still be there. ”

"Players are resurrected in a corner of the map, and they have the option to rebuild a base and start from scratch. ”

"You can also choose to go back to your base, or even come to the place where you died, and pick up what you fell. ”

"In Adventure mode, players need to do more than just survive. ”

"You also have to develop your own character, numerical development, and equipment development. ”

"From the original wooden weapons, players need to do their own quarrying, mining, and even work as a blacksmith. ”

"Craft better weapons to defeat several bosses in different regions and finally complete the level and return to the original world. ”

"To avoid the boring feeling of the same map, we can add a time machine setting to it. ”

"Players collect materials from the map, craft them, and build them into a time machine. ”

"Survival mode takes you to a random map, and Adventure mode allows you to move on to the next level. ”

Zhou Han kept communicating with Shao Mingze and others, and in addition to the setting of famine, he also said some other game settings.

It's not plagiarism, how can it be said that it is plagiarism between literati?

At most, it comes down to borrowing.

He is responsible for providing ideas, while Shao Mingze is responsible for making the game possible.

Among the players, there is a large part of the so-called party of meaning.

They play the game, not only because it's fun and fun, but also because of the point of me playing the game.

This group of people is generally distributed in online games.

Because the strength of the characters, as well as the strengthening of the equipment, will make them feel very meaningful.

And the adventure mode continues to develop, then defeat the boss and return to the original world.

Coupled with a simple plot, these meaning parties can be fully satisfied.

Of course, there is one more thing that is very important, and that is to facilitate the release of DLC in the future.