Chapter 678: Ready for sale
Although said Mike. Mo Huaimi's ability is good, but it's just that his ability is good.
If he really had a talent for developing games, he wouldn't have given up his game development position in the future and moved to Blizzard's administration.
If Jester could have been a little more detailed, then maybe Mike. Mo Huaimi could still hear the mysteries of this game, but Jester only mentioned it in passing, originally wanting to open up his mind to the two of them, and he hadn't thought about it in detail before.
Jester saw that the two of them had different looks.
He also groaned.
"Actually, the reason why I say this is that I still have a lot of ideas for StarCraft, and I had a lot of ideas for RTS games when I was developing Warcraft, but because of technical limitations, there was no way to achieve it, so I gave up, so I plan to wait a few more years, and with the improvement of technology and hardware, StarCraft can also achieve the real perfection in my mind."
Hearing Jester say this, the two looked at each other in the same way.
For them, Jester didn't need to say so much, and it was a great favor for them to be able to personally take charge of the development of a new game.
What else do they have to pick and choose.
……
Jester retracted what he had done with Mike because of Diablo. Mo Wymmy and Rob. Pardo's recollection of a meeting and talk.
Two years have passed since this happened, and now Diablo is close to completion.
In the internal closed test conducted in the company, this ARPG type game is very popular, especially in this game, the unprecedented addition of the ladder and season system has made many people in the company brush up on the monster every day as soon as they have time.
However, because it's only an internal test, a lot of in-game equipment. None of the systems are implemented.
Many colleagues tell the Diablo development team every day that they can't wait for the release of kuài, of course, the role of testing is still very large, they have fixed a lot of strict zhòng vulnerabilities that they did not find in the development and DEBUG before, and now they have been testing internally for several months.
It's almost time for the release.
Rob. In the past two years, Pardo has had time in addition to devoting himself to the development of Diablo. Just keep thinking and perfecting, the "Heroes of Invincible" that Jester told him about at the beginning.
This game, at that time, Jester just started and talked about the gameplay of this game.
It's not very detailed.
However, for a game, its core is the gameplay, an interesting way to play. Can a great game be born, and the interesting gameplay may not be complicated at times, just like the human desire to collect. It's just something that everyone knows. But is Pokemon great or not? A great game, of course.
So, when the hardest thing has been solved by iJester, Rob. Pardo's to do. It's to perfect all the branches and leaves of this game.
A game is like a towering tree.
You can't just have a straight trunk that reaches to the sky. It also needs to have dense foliage, and only such trees can be healthy.
And in the past two years, Rob. Pardo has made a lot of improvements around the gameplay of "Heroes of Invincible" proposed by Jester, and it can be said that although this game has not yet begun to be made, this game has long been in Rob from the framework, to flesh and blood, to the core. Pardo had a prototype in his head.
If only he had to start developing the game right away.
Then it will save a lot of time, Diablo has been developing for almost two years, which is a very long project within Mars Entertainment, although the development team is not much, but two years means that the cost is twice as high as some other development teams of the same level.
If this game fails, maybe Mike. Mo Wymmy and Rob. Pardo and the two of them have a lot of difficulties if they want to get the opportunity to develop an independent leadership team.
Although this game is popular within the company.
But it doesn't mean that it's just as popular in the outside world, Mars Entertainment itself, there are many games that are applauded internally, but players are not cold, so, before the game is officially released, no one dares to say that Diablo may be able to sell well.
Despite Mike. Mo Wymmy and Rob. Pardo is confident in the game.
"I heard you don't plan to work with me on Heroes?" While the final touches on the game were underway, Rob. Pardo asked Mike out of the blue. Mo Huaimi said a word, and heard Rob. After Pardo's questioning, Mike. Mo Huaimi was stunned at first, and then smiled bitterly.
He said: "Yes, I have been very happy with you in the past two years to develop Diablo, I think we have worked well together, but I have also considered the game "Heroes of Invincible", it is indeed a type I don't like, and BOSS, I have said countless times, don't force yourself to develop games that you are not interested in, if you have no way to have fun in the game you develop, then you definitely have no way to make the game you want to develop fun." ”
As he spoke, he paused slightly, then said in an accentuated tone.
"I agree with the boss very much, so, I told the boss before, I hope I can participate in other projects in the next game, but there are not many projects planned in the company now, so the boss said let me wait for ...... first"
Hear his best friend's explanation, Rob. Pardo was also a little helpless.
In the past two years, he has talked to the other party several times about "Heroes and Invincible", and the other party is indeed lacking in interest.
"Then let's wait for StarCraft to work together on it......"
Rob. That's all Pardo can say.
"By the way, don't forget to meet the boss in the afternoon, when I met with the boss before, the boss asked me to inform you, he wants to discuss with you, Diablo is on sale, you know, for the past two years, the boss has been going on' The development of the era's project, this is the biggest secret in the company, even we don't know much, there are very few games he asked, but only before the release he asked, all of them were extremely valued by him, and finally after the release, it was a great success. ”
Finally, Mike. Mo Huaimi reminded. (To be continued......)