Chapter 45: The so-called rhythm
There is a Liudao Hall in Chang'an City, which is the place where Mr. Guigu, the national teacher, placed all kinds of strange people and strange people he hired from all over the world.
Since it is a strange person, it is inevitable that there is a sense of mystery that the dragon does not see the end, these guys often don't know where to run for three years and five years, and occasionally they will only appear once in the Liudao Hall. However, they often search for qualified orphans or eye-catching juniors to send back. Regardless of whether these teenagers came from the clan of gods, demons, immortals, Buddhas, humans, and ghosts, they were all raised and educated by full-time gentlemen in the Six Dao Hall, who taught them all kinds of magical powers, fighting skills, and medical skills.
A human boy appeared in the Liudaotang with the words "cold-faced scholar Duan Cangping", and he was one of the orphans who were sent to the Liudaotang by the strange people. After his greetings with the janitor, the plot of the game gradually unfolded - a strange epidemic suddenly appeared in Chang'an City recently, and the gentlemen were busy going out to the streets to practice medicine and save people. Liudaotang had just gotten the latest rumors that the source of the epidemic might have come from Daoxiang Village outside Chang'an City, but unfortunately no one had time to check if something strange had really happened there.
Duan Cangping volunteered to say that this matter can be handled by me, and there is no need to bother the gentlemen to take the time to go on a trip, so he received a few pieces of self-defense equipment and some talismans and medicinal materials to prevent accidents from the uncle who was in charge of the warehouse in Liudaotang, and left Liudaotang and went straight to Daoxiang Village.
Daoxiang Village, which used to be an idyllic scene, now looks very strange, the harvested grain and vegetables are discarded at random on the edge of the fields, the roads are deserted, there is no one, and even the livestock do not know where to hide. Duan Cangping came to the entrance of the village in confusion, and only then did he see a few villagers huddled in the corners of the wall and shivering. According to them, some time ago, the village began to lose their livestock at night for no apparent reason, and everywhere they could not be recovered, but a few days later the situation became even more serious, and several able-bodied men disappeared one after another. Then I heard from the children in the village that there seemed to be a monster like a zombie drought.
After listening to the villagers' stories, the self-proclaimed chivalrous Duan Cangping naturally wanted to come forward to find out, so he refused to be retained by the villagers and went to the zombie-infested barn alone. Unexpectedly, he was attacked by a zombie as soon as he broke into the barn, and after winning easily, he found that there were several zombies in the barn, and after a fierce fight, Duan Cangping finally cleared the barn, and then returned to the village to ask the villagers for more information. After getting the villagers' advice, Duan Cangping invited the land lord of Daoxiang Village in the land temple in the village, and the frightened land lord tried his best to dissuade Duan Cangping from taking risks, but the confident Duan Cangping decided that a few zombies were definitely not his opponents, so the helpless land lord told him that there was a strange man in the peach blossom forest in the east of the village, and the zombie drought should be his ghost.
Breaking through the zombie interception along the way, Duan Cangping finally found the strange man dressed as Miao Li, the man admitted that he attacked the villagers to create zombies, but arrogantly claimed that Duan Cangping could not use his mantis arm as a car to destroy his plan, and after the negotiation was fruitless, Duan Cangping defeated the culprit of the Daoxiang Village zombie case, but the other party committed suicide by taking poison after failure, Duan Cangping only found a mysterious map from him.
After returning to Chang'an, Duan Cangping found Mr. who was busy saving people on the street, and Mr. recognized that the map was drawn as the Imperial City Water Prison, a place where the statues of the four gods were used as a magic circle to suppress evil spirits and ghosts......
After the fat man used the role of "man" to run the task of the first thirty levels, he changed to "demon girl" and ran again, he carefully read the content of the dialogue word by word, and the "man" won the Liudaotang servant and the villagers' heartfelt dependence, the experience of the "demon girl" was obviously guarded against and rejected by human beings; when faced with the small boss, the attitude of the "man" was disdain and hatred, and the "demon girl" was regarded as the same kind by the other party at the beginning, and after repeatedly rejecting the other party's solicitation, the other party revealed the regret that the "demon girl" was in the same league with the old enemy, and was full of regret and anger for its misfortune.
The same mission content, the same plot flow, but get two different story experiences. The fat man rubbed his chin with satisfaction, about the design of the dialogue system, after so many twists and turns, he finally achieved the effect he wanted.
Recalling the arguments in the face of Liu Kewei and Xu Zhuce, he took over the picks left by Cao System when he was intrigued, and went to the program department to talk to Gong Zhucheng about the implementation.
As Liu Kewei and Cao System often boasted, we plan to be the creator god, the creator, to build all the illusory scenes that originally only existed in our minds in the game little by little, until it becomes a complete and three-dimensional virtual world.
The trembling of excitement and the throbbing of joy, although almost invisible on the surface, these two emotions easily dominate the entire perceptual world of the otaku fat man.
Until...... Liu Kewei dragged him into the conference room with a black face.
A basin of cold water fell from the sky, ruthlessly extinguishing the ambition of the fat man.
"There is a problem with the rhythm. Liu Kewei took a big puff of cigarette and waved his hand to emphasize again, "The rhythm of your task is problematic." ”
Since the test server was set up, Liu Kewei has been like a different person, and he has completely devoted himself to the work of level planning without distraction. Except for the May Day holiday, I never saw him watching Girls' Generation's music videos or Korean variety shows when he was at work, and every day he either wrote various configuration sheets on his seat, or went to the art or program department to urge progress, and even went to smoke less frequently.
Even during this time, Liu Kewei basically didn't talk to Sophie, Ruoying or other sisters, and only work was left in his eyes.
According to Cao System and She Guankan, this is what Liu Kewei looks like when he enters the working state.
Focused, serious, once there is a problem, absolutely do not talk about any feelings.
Originally, the fat man just listened to Cao System and She Guanka, and he really didn't take it to heart, but he didn't expect to taste it with his own body today.
"What's wrong with the rhythm?" asked the fat man, puzzled.
He ran the task process several times with his heart, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong? After all, he is also a hardcore player with twenty years of gaming experience, is there really any problem that he can't see?
"Not compact enough. Liu Kewei made a positive conclusion, "I'll give you an example, in the previous ten missions, there are three types of monsters killed, three types of items collected, three types of dialogue and message transmission, and one type of items used in a designated location. This pace is unreasonable and does not capture the emotions of most players. ”
The fat man folded his arms to his chest, leaned back in the chair, and asked, "Then what do you mean?"
"The tasks are all reversed and re-disassembled, and the rhythm should be tight. Liu Kewei's tone was unquestionable, "Out of every ten tasks, at least six must be the type of monster killing, one type of collecting props, one type of dialogue and sending letters, one type of items used in a designated location, and one type of maneuver, you can decide for yourself according to the situation." ”
The face of the fat man became a little ugly, if he did what Liu Kewei said, the task sheet, the dialogue table, and the conditional display text table would all require major surgery.
It's not that he doesn't want to do the finished work again, but he thinks that with his current game experience, the current version of the mission flow actually feels pretty good, and it's unpredictable whether he can achieve the current effect if he gets it again.
The point is that Liu Kewei said that the rhythm of the game, is there a so-called standard answer? If so, who has the final say?
"Didn't you say that I don't set limits in terms of plot copywriting, what do you say about this rhythm now?"
"Two different things. Liu Kewei shook his head, "I still don't ask about the plot, whatever you write or how you write it, but it is divided into the type of task, and it must be according to the rules I require." ”
"What if you can't dismantle the exact same type, for example, this is supposed to be a messenger mission, but you want to fight monsters......" The otaku fat man asked.
Liu Kewei replied without hesitation: "Then change the plot, but I still don't care how to change it, you can do it yourself, I only see if the result is the type of task I request." ”
The other party's aggressive attitude made the fat man very unhappy, so he replied angrily: "What if I can't do it?"
"If you can't do it, you can go home! I won't keep you this time, because you can't do it at all, you don't want to do it!" Liu Kewei slapped the table, startling the fat man, "You can do it, you know it yourself." And you also understand that you yourself are a niche player, and you are not as good as me in terms of the mentality of mainstream players, so the pace of the game must follow my requirements. ”
Since the night of the Shanghai concert, the fat man saw Liu Kewei really lose his temper for the first time, and he wanted to refute it, but he couldn't deny that the other party's statement actually had some truth. When I first joined the company, I discussed the differences in game orientation with the other party, and I really didn't have much confidence in the mentality of mainstream players. Between messing around and accepting it with an open mind, the fat man suddenly felt in a dilemma.
"I've been busy lately, and I don't have that much energy to convince you slowly. You have to believe that I am more determined than you to make a good game. Liu Kewei pressed down his irritability, stared at the fat man's eyes seriously, and said.
Looking directly at Liu Kewei's eyes, the fat man sighed and decided to back down: "Okay, I'll do my best." ”