"Can you tell us a little bit about the game you just mentioned, what kind of game is this? Tell us a little bit about his background, some of his other stuff like that......"

The first person to be named to ask a question gave Jester a difficult question to answer.

There was silence at first, then Jester frowned and showed a thoughtful look, and then replied: "Things about the game's plot will not be revealed yet, in fact, there is no way to disclose, because the current game has not yet reached this point, in fact, what this game needs to do at the beginning is to complete its system framework, and the first thing we need to know is what we can and can't do." ”

With that, Jester shrugged his shoulders at the fans in the audience.

"So, I can't answer this question, because the plot of the game doesn't save zài, and as for whether zài will exist in the future......"

Jester smiled mysteriously as he said this.

"That's not necessarily."

This sentence once again caused an uproar among the fans in the audience, they didn't understand what Jester said about the fundamental meaning of this sentence, but what he said before was very well understood, it's nothing more than that the plot was not considered at the beginning of the development of this game, but first considered how the system and framework of this game were structured, and after these were solved, then think about how to design + plot according to these things that can be completed.

But, in the end, Jester added that sentence, which doesn't necessarily mean anything?

Could it be that this is a game without a plot?

How can you play a game without a plot?

Soon, the second player who was named asked about what Jester had just said.

"Jace, what do you mean by that? Does that mean it's a game that doesn't need a story? But I think from what you just described, this should be an RPG, right? Don't RPGs need a story? ”

"The question ......"

Jester smiled this time, but after saying a few words, he stopped his words and was silent for a while, looking at the expectant eyes of the players in the scene.

“…… I can't say yet, it's just an idea I'm not sure about yet. So there's no comment at the moment, but there's one thing I want to correct, who told you that this new game is an RPG? ”

Not an RPG?

This made the players present look at each other.

In your speech just now, the game mode you described yourself is the mode of an RPG game, why is it not now?

Fortunately, this time, Jester did not let the players under the stage take the initiative to ask, but after everyone's puzzlement and surprise, he explained himself: "This is actually an attempt by me, I think." The current way of categorizing games is a bit outdated, don't you think, it's a bit monotonous and boring to divide all games into these categories? ”

Jester's words once again aroused everyone's curiosity.

This way of categorizing games, with the popularity of games over the years, has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Everyone thinks it's good, there's nothing monotonous and boring.

At least for a lot of people, just look at the game category and be able to tell whether they like it or not.

There are basically not many players. Will be interested in all game categories of games.

looked at the puzzled looks on everyone's faces.

Still smiling, Jester said seriously and carefully, "I was thinking before, there are so many game categories now, all kinds. It is conceivable that in the future, there will be more and more such game categories. There is even a point where most people can't tell how many categories there are, but at first I thought it was a good category, especially for us developers. ”

"Do you know why I say this is a good way to categorize for developers like us?"

When Jester was halfway through his words, he casually asked a question, he glanced at the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, and he didn't have the idea of asking anyone to answer, just paused slightly, looked around the scene, and then continued: "Because, after we divide the game into categories, we can easily get this type of game from players who like this type of game, what do they like about this type of game, and what do they like the most?" And with that feedback, we're able to make better games of this type. ”

"Because, we have already figured out what players like about this type of game, and how can we make this type of game based on what we have already figured out what players like?"

"But ......"

Jester, who was talking eloquently, suddenly changed his voice.

"After thinking like this for a long time, I found that there are a lot of designers who don't think about how to design games, they don't think about why I do this, whether it's fun or not, but just look at the statistics, oh, these things are what players like, these things are these things that players support, and then based on these, add features in game design."

"Over time, these designers don't think for themselves, don't know how a game should be done, and when these cookie-cutter games are done more, players play more, and when the interests of the players they collected before start to change, they suddenly find that what they used to quote as the truth suddenly doesn't work, and the players suddenly don't buy their account."

"He even cursed loudly what kind of shit and garbage they were doing, and they didn't make any progress for many years, rotten, and feces...... Something terrible. ”

"But these developers are still very curious, they said, the game we make is still the same, even better than the previous graphics, smoother, I have added some new actions, why the previous game is obviously not as good as the current one is loved and supported by fans to blow to the sky, and now this one is better named, and it will be scolded out of Xiang?"

"They didn't understand, so they died."

Jester smiled and finished speaking, and the venue that had been a little noisy before was silent: "Do you think what I said is a bit alarmist?" It's not, because this is in Mars Entertainment, in the past period of time, what often happened, some of the first and second games sold well, and they had a good reputation, and then they failed one after another on the three and four games, and were abandoned by the players, and then the studio was disbanded, and the personnel were dismissed, and they died like this. ”

"Honestly, it's very pessimistic and disappointing, and I even saw a lot of things like this happening and thought of something very bad."

"Do you know what came to mind? Or rather, what can you think of? ”

Jester asked a question again, and he looked at the people under the stage with a sharp gaze, as if he really wanted to see someone raise their hand to answer, but he waited for about forty or fifty seconds, and there was silence under the platform, all staring at him with about the same gaze.

"Well, let me tell you, I don't know how old you were when you first came into contact with games, but one of the home consoles I personally played was the Odyssey ......"

As Jester said this, a burst of cheers erupted from below the platform.

It's a kind of empathy they get with Jester.

"Yes, Odyssey, home consoles that predate Atari, and I don't know if you can remember those games back then......" Jester said at this point, pausing again, he listened intently, as if listening carefully to what the players below the table were saying, and the players below the table were indeed saying something.

"That's right, that's right."

Jester apparently understood what some of the players meant.

"It's the kind of video game that we have to put on the TV screen with a pattern on it, and then there is only a random point of light in the TV screen, and we even need to make up the story in the manual that comes with the odyssey to be able to continue...... Seriously, who of you still think it's called a video game? ”

Below the stage was a burst of laughter.

"However, when I played it for the first time, it was really fun, and I even had an idea of how there could be such a fun thing in this world."

Jester said, nodding vigorously.

That's exactly what I thought at the time...... Okay, let's get back to the question I said before, what I was thinking about at the time was the games on the Odyssey, the et, which Atari later set the whole video game industry back to square one, and this game has been used as a lesson over the years, and everyone is familiar with it, and I was thinking, even if the ET is rotten and difficult to play, it's still more fun than those things in the Odyssey period, right? ”

"But why are we able to play those games of the Odyssey and cheer at the same time, how can there be such a magical thing in the world, and we have to spit on him, curse him, curse him, and want to step on his corpse with ten thousand feet, so that he will never be able to turn over?"

Jester laughed as he spoke.

"Actually, I personally had a very interesting idea, and I thought, if we go to the desert of New Mexico in 20 or 30 years, go to the area where the Atari buried those ET cartridges, dig them up again, let them see the light of day, and let players in a few decades go back to this history that is so important to the whole history of video games, maybe it would be interesting, right?"

As soon as this paragraph was finished, the players under the stage immediately burst into laughter. (To be continued......) R1292