"Zhefeng has told you about the main technical data of the first generation of arcade machines, and I think you can understand why our first three games are all in the form of simple geometric shapes. ”

After having lunch with this group of newcomers from the new department, Zhang Heng returned to the conference room, and Zhang Heng continued the training course.

"That's what I said in the morning, Game Design First Principles, the game has to match the current hardware. ”

He walked to the blackboard, picked up the chalk and wrote: picture (scene), main character, sound and light, plot, operation.

"Now I'll give you an hour, summarize the detailed analysis of the three games we have under these five items, and then set the sub-standard for the new game according to the technical data of the second-generation arcade main core DHJ-73 of Daheng Technology that you roughly learned a few days ago, Miyamoto Shigeru, here is your responsibility. ”

Zhang Heng left the conference room to these newcomers, went back to the office to deal with official business, and when he went back an hour later, he saw that the blackboard was not as dense as expected.

Naturally, there will be no problem with the analysis of old games, and he cares most about the new games.

Picture (Scene): Simulated Reality (Can Move?), Protagonist: Man (Animal?), Sound and Light: Hollywood Movie Effects, Plot: Or Hollywood, Operation: Combined Operation?

Eh, it seems to be a very bold idea, Zhang Heng touched his chin and looked at him quietly, and a group of novices looked at him quietly.

After watching it for a while, Zhang Heng turned his face and asked, "Miyamoto Shigeru, do you have anything to explain in detail?"

"Boss, we analyzed the previous three games and found an essential problem, that is, the player is a controller beyond the picture, and his various operations are acted on the controlled objects on the screen through the arcade, so why not directly control a character, even an animal, such as a dog, or a dinosaur, in that case, the immersion should be better. ”

"Sense of substitution!"

"Yes, you summed it up very well, which is the sense of immersion that the game gives the player. ”

You go on. ”

"Since the player can directly control a character, then the picture needs to simulate reality as much as possible, at least houses, trees, vehicles, other characters and animals, etc., should be properly expressed, and then the manipulated character can constantly connect and conflict with this built world, this is the new world you said. ”

"Yes, if what you say is achievable, it's a new world. Zhang Heng looked at him appreciatively, and looked at everyone one by one, everyone held their heads high, with excitement and anticipation on their faces.

"So, have you thought about how to represent the connection and conflict between the characters and the world in a fixed picture?"

"Is it okay to follow the Hollywood plot?"

"For example?"

"We thought that the best movie for such a fixed set would be Red Dead Redemption, and maybe we could design a western bar and then control the characters to shoot. ”

Zhang Heng was a little confused, "Red Dead Redemption" is a very good western adventure game, I have played it in my previous life, I didn't expect Miyamoto Shigeru to take this group of novices to think of this theme at the first time, and the success is really not accidental.

In fact, he had already chosen a new game, and the reason why he didn't rush to come up with it directly was to let these newcomers really understand the real game design concept in this training course, so as to rejuvenate their own spark of inspiration.

He was very pleased with the result, and he hadn't even had time to think about this kind of character shooting game, and he hadn't wasted all his hard work.

"You're an interesting idea, but don't you think about operability?"

Shigeru Miyamoto smiled and said: "It is definitely inconvenient to use the handle, I heard Director Zhang say that the company has Odyssey's light gun patent ....."

Zhang Heng teased: "Then what's the use of you, the protagonist, on the screen, just to let the player look at the back of his head?"

Miyamoto Shigeru frowned and thought for a while, then said with a bitter face: "I understand, this kind of shooting game is actually not much different from arkanoid. ”

"Yes, but there should be a lot of potential for shooters, after all, every man wants to shoot. Zhang Heng smiled.

"Let's go back and continue to talk about the conflict and connection between the scene and the characters, which is actually the plot of the game, and now we can design a scene that simulates reality, and then design a character to immerse him in the scene as much as possible, so that the player who controls the character can get the greatest sense of immersion, and this is the direction we want to break through. ”

"We can get back to the characters themselves!" exclaimed one employee, Yanagimototsu, an artist who drew a good Japanese-style manga.

Zhang Heng gestured: "Yuantong, you can talk about it." ”

"Boss, I like to read Japanese manga, and I think we can completely learn the expression of manga to design games, such as Astro Boy who uses his body to fight all kinds of bad guys, so that the connection and conflict between the protagonist and the scene are very strong, and the player should have a sense of substitution. ”

Zhang Heng looked at the others, and everyone was thoughtful.

"Boss, we can design action games, or kung fu!" Miyamoto Shigeru quickly realized, without consent, he stood up directly, assumed a traditional kung fu pose, and then waved his fists and feet, "Hey, hey, hey!"

"Sorry, boss, I lost my temper. Quickly realizing his recklessness, he blushed and hung his head.

Zhang Heng smiled and shook his head: "Daheng Technology doesn't pay attention to these, and the creative design department needs to be imaginative, by the way, what did you just imitate?"

"Bruce!" Shigeru Miyamoto grimaced, "I was completely hooked on him after I watched his movie for the first time, and I had all his movie posters in my cabin. I heard that he passed away last month, and I wanted to fly to Xiangjiang to see him off, but unfortunately I didn't have the money. ”

Zhang Heng walked over and patted him on the shoulder, "I'm a friend of Bruce, I sent him last month, you don't have to be too sad." ”

Liu Yuantong whispered: "Miyamoto, the boss is one of Bruce's soul supporters. ”

"That's right. Shigeru Miyamoto looked at Zhang Heng expectantly, "Boss, can you take me to worship him?"

"He's buried in Seattle, and I'll have a chance to take a few of you there this year. Zhang Heng motioned for him to sit down, returned to the blackboard, picked up the chalk and wrote down three Chinese characters: "Bruce Lee!"

"As a friend of Bruce, I've always wanted to honor him in my own way since he left us, and today you reminded me that I decided to design the first game on the second arcade according to the ideas of Mototsu and Shigeru Miyamoto. ”

Zhang Heng's expression was solemn, and his voice was low.

"If you've seen a Bruce movie, you should have an impression that he went to the Japanese martial arts gym to kick the gym, and this game, I set the name "Kick the gym". ”

"Kicking the Hall", a game based on Bruce Lee, first appeared in the cassette game used in Xiaobawang and its flip machine, I don't know which manufacturer developed it, there should be no copyright payment, Zhang Heng played crazy in the first year of junior high school, but unfortunately because of the monotony of the picture and action, this game disappeared after more than a year of popularity, and I didn't see a follow-up, until ten years later, "Double Dragon", which was also based on Bruce Lee, was born.

After participating in Bruce Lee's funeral ceremony, Zhang Heng had already chosen this game.

In the 90s, the game was not very viable, and in the 70s, it was definitely different.

According to his request, the work of the members of the game design department of Daheng Technology in the next few days is to go to Golden Harvest's internal viewing room to watch all Bruce Lee movies, and then draw the first draft of characters, scenes and actions as soon as possible.

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