Chapter 44: How to Realize Your Vision
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In particular, the submission date of the demo version is getting closer and closer, and there is only half a month left.
Recently, there has been a strong sense of tension in the entire Holy Grail Studio that the "Great War is near".
Regardless of the influence of personal likes and dislikes, Xu Zhuce's ability to control the progress of the project makes the fat man sincerely admire: in the working state of multi-threading at the same time, he can always accurately capture the progress of each branch route, and adjust them one by one according to the results that have been achieved and the latest problems exposed.
Every day before the end of the day, the planning department holds a progress report meeting, and each planner has to make a simple and clear overview of the results of the day's work, focusing on the procedures and art parts they have followed up. The main task of Xu is to record these progresses, and according to his predetermined plan, constantly make detailed adjustments, some work is going smoothly, will be assigned to new work goals, some work is progressing slowly, will give all kinds of help, or simply suspend this part of the work, postpone to the next version to achieve.
For example, in the planning of the demo version, the relevant content of the equipment system should be added, and the design of the equipment system includes various functions such as wearing, unloading, identification, strengthening, tempering, punching, and inlaying, but there are only two things that really need to be realized in the demo version: wearing and removing equipment. All other extensions are classified as being implemented in the next or even the next version.
Therefore, although the demo version plan is scheduled to be completed, including the scene system, NPC system, mission system, equipment system, prop system, combat system, dialogue system and many other contents, it is not necessary to complete all these systems, but only implement a relatively simple part of them, as a demonstration that says "Ah, our game will have this, these and these content".
In this working atmosphere, the vast majority of R&D personnel in the company (mainly including planning and programming) work more than 12 hours a day. From coming to the company at 9 o'clock in the morning every day, it has to be busy until after 9 o'clock in the evening, with very few exceptions.
For example, Sophie, the only one in the company who lives in the city, can live from 9 to 5 in the morning like the executives in the company (Manager Bing, Wakasakura, etc.). First of all, because she lives far away, whether it is the department head Xu Zhuce or the boss Cao System, no one can ask her to work overtime; secondly, unlike the fat man who is also a new planner, she has not yet been exposed to substantive research and development work, but she has been assigned two unimportant systems such as "friends" and "chat" from Cao System, which are not important, and let her try to write and play by herself, according to Liu Kewei's private estimation - "This kind of system document written by a pure newcomer has not been changed ten or eight times over and over again, and there is basically no value to be realized. ”。 So the progress of the demo version of the work can be said to have almost nothing to do with her.
Sophie's main work recently is to refer to the relevant designs of other games, and then write her own documents, and then hand them over to Cao System for review, and then be pulled by Cao System to the conference room to open a small stove, and then repeat the above steps, and so on.
It is said that this is the correct growth route for the implementation of the plan, and the kind of fat people who come up and directly participate in the specific work are purely not in the right way to open - this is Liu Kewei's original words.
So, at a progress report meeting after submitting his revised dialogue system planning document, the fat man who opened it in the wrong way heard Xu Zhuce say this casually.
"I glanced at the changed dialogue system, and there was nothing too much of a problem. Gong Zhucheng's work will almost end tomorrow morning, so Duan Shanshan, you can go to him tomorrow afternoon to talk about the dialogue, about your idea of showing different dialogues according to the individual player's situation. ”
It seems that Liu Kewei is not right at all, although the Xianxia Treasure is the first system planning document designed and passed by the fat man, but because of its "unimportant", the priority has been postponed indefinitely, but the dialogue system that he took over halfway is going to become a milestone for the fat man to communicate with the program for the first time.
"You can hide under the covers and laugh secretly, you can talk to the program department about the realization of the design idea in the early months of your career, or talk to the supervisor level. On the way back to the dormitory after work, Liu Kewei said half jealously and half congratulatory, "Brother has stayed up for many months to get to this point." ”
"Why is it looking for the client-side Gong master program instead of the server-side Li master program?" asked the fat man puzzled, he still couldn't figure out the functional division between the client and the server side.
"In general, important data and information such as calculations should be kept on the server side to prevent others from cheating by simply modifying the client-side data. Liu Kewei glanced at the fat man disdainfully, and tried to explain it in a concise and easy-to-understand way, "As for the data information that will not affect the game process, putting it on the client can effectively reduce the communication pressure between the client and the server, and then reduce the communication burden of the server." ”
The fat man was stunned: "What do you mean, that is, the plot dialogue or something is still not important, right?"
"That's not what you understand!" Liu Kewei explained with a smile, "Who will modify the game's dialogue when they are full and have nothing to do? It's not sensitive data such as money and experience, even if someone really has nothing to do to change the dialogue, it won't have any impact on the game and other players at all, what's wrong with putting it on the client?"
"Oh. The fat man snorted, this is what he understood Liu Kewei's words, he said that there is no risk of the dialogue system being modified, so it will be placed on the client.
After returning to the dormitory, Liu Kewei pestered Che Guanglong to learn Korean as usual, and the fat man looked at the two of them angrily, both for more than a month, one of them was still very persevering to learn, and the other was also very patient to teach, neither of them had the stinky problem of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, and even the Korean vocabulary accumulated by him, a forced auditor, was also increasing.
If this development continues, maybe this game will be made, and Liu Kewei will be able to communicate with Koreans on a daily basis, and even the fat man himself can do some simple communication.
In the afternoon of the next day, after the rest after dinner, the fat man walked to the program department with a printout of the dialogue system planning document under the encouragement of Liu Kewei and others.
Of course he knew Gong Zhucheng, who had worked in the same company for more than a month, and if he couldn't even recognize the head of the department next door, he should have been killed by a head-butt.
However, after all, this is the first time that the fat man has had a formal communication with someone from the programming department other than Che Guanglong - not even Che Guanglong, although they communicate a lot in private, but they really have no intersection in business. So the fat man will inevitably be a little apprehensive, when he walks into the programming department, a ridiculous emotion of "going deep into the tiger's den" can't help but gush out from the bottom of his heart.
Fortunately, Gong Zhucheng is a very gentle person, his white and elegant face is full of Xun Xun elegant bookish smell, and he doesn't look like an IT man who writes code at all, but like a counselor of the Youth League Committee on a college campus.
He humbly motioned to the fat man to sit down beside him, and listened attentively to the fat man's story, without a little smell of fireworks in the process.
"I roughly see what you mean. Gong Zhucheng nodded slightly, "You want to display different text messages according to different conditions, right?"
The fat man thought for a moment and determined this overview: "You're right, it's like this. ”
Gong Zhucheng casually pulled out a piece of paper from the table, took out a signature pen, lay it on the table, and began to write.
"First of all, let's design a new configuration sheet that deals with your needs, and it's called ...... The conditional display text table is ready, and the file name is. ”
The otaku fat man said that he had no objection: "OK, no problem, please continue." ”
"Secondly, its header field needs to be as follows: first, the number, second, the determination of the condition type, third, the condition and the corresponding display text are separated by ':', and the multiple conditions are separated by '|' Separate. Gong Zhucheng recorded the rules he thought of one by one, looked up at the fat man, and asked with a smile, "That's it, can you understand?"
The fat man raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, and said a little embarrassedly: "I can understand the writing rules you said, but in fact, I am still a little at a loss how to operate." ”
"It's okay, let's give you a practical example. Gong Cheng Wan'er smiled, "For example, we are now going to add the 100th conditional display text to display different information according to different occupations. Then you fill in '100' in the number column, 'occupation' in the judgment type column, and in the last column you write: 'Human Male: Male|Demon Female: Demon Female', and that's it. Then in the dialogue sheet, we agree on another identifier......"
Gong Zhucheng put down the pen and paper, operated the keyboard and mouse to open a document in the computer, thought for a while and continued: "Well, now the middle brackets have not been used, we agreed to use the middle brackets to identify the conditional display text table, you fill in '[100]' where you need to call the conditional display text in the dialogue table, and what is actually displayed in the game is the text information corresponding to the player's profession, 'man' or 'demon girl'." Do you understand that?"
The fat man nodded convincingly.
"That's it.,Every time you update the conditional display text table,Notify me.,I'll add the corresponding display rules in the game as soon as possible.,I'll give you feedback after adding.,You can actually test it in the game.。 Gong Zhucheng smiled happily and asked, "Are there any other questions?"
"No, thank you, that's it, I'll take my leave first. The fat man stood up and said goodbye in amusement.
Although it is from the same company, this Gong Zhucheng gives people a completely different impression from Xu Zhuce, and is full of a sense of relaxation from beginning to end. For the idea of the fat man, a complete and organized solution was given at the first time.
The fat man really didn't expect that his first work communication with the program department would be unexpectedly smooth.