After playing real-time strategy games at the level of Red Alert, Age of Empires, and StarCraft, it's easy to think about how to design a Dune game.

But for the sake of sustainable development, Yang Yun can't come up with all the ideas at once, otherwise what should Red Alert and Warcraft do in the future? Then there's nothing new to do!

Besides, no matter how much creativity there is, the hardware can't keep up, then it can only be helpless to guard Baoshan, let him do Warcraft shijie and League of Legends against the MD machine It's a joke, so he won't do stupid things that dry up and fish.

What Yang Yun is going to say is the most basic design method of real-time strategy games.

"Sustainability, rational military liliang collocation, and exquisite battlefield operability are the three most important components of real-time strategy games." Yang Yun drew three concentric circles and marked them with corresponding descriptions.

"The biggest thing is development and management, whether the player destroys the enemy or is blown up by the enemy and blows up his main base, as long as he starts the game, then as the timeline rolls, business and development will always exist. Corresponding to our reality, for example, the military confrontation between the former Soviet Union and the United States, the arms race between the two countries has not stopped, fighter jets, heavy tanks, nuclear weapons, aerospace, lasers, all kinds of weapons are being developed, each country has a large number of troops, has been developing, but the Soviet Union, a player, has withdrawn from the game for its own reasons and has not started fighting. ”

"Is the circle in the middle a reasonable military liliang match, or in the case of the Cold War, in addition to economic development, the construction of the navy, land and air force of the two countries has been raised to a terrible height. In ordinary wars. The infantry is afraid of mechanized troops, and mechanized troops cannot beat artillery units. Mechanized troops can't beat the air force, but the air force is also afraid that the airfield will be bombed and the planes will run out of fuel. It also could not stop the fire of anti-aircraft guns. So there's always a situation where classes are at odds with each other, and we're just going to provide players with a large number of classes to choose from, so they can organize their troops according to their preferences. ”

"In addition to the rational allocation of troops, the deployment of military forces, and the arrangement of continuous reinforcements, tactics are also a very important part of the war, which is the smallest and most core circle. In World War II, Stalin, Zhukov. Eisenhower, Patton, Hitler, Rommel, do not judge their people, but only from the aspect of war, each of them is an extremely good master of tactics. In the game, a good commander leads an inferior unit, or an ordinary commander with a strong army can be defeated. Winning more with less, overcoming strong with weak, this is the greatest sense of achievement for players. ”

After Yang Yun finished drawing and explaining these, he turned to the notes he had just recorded. Supplemented with a few of their own ideas.

"First of all, considering the computing and image processing power of the computer, we need to set a minimum configuration for a game. To run Dune 1993, you need a CPU of 386 processors or higher. That is, at least a 32-bit CPU, 4M of memory. 1M 16-bit graphics card, this data is the minimum I can think of, is there a problem? ”

Everyone shook their heads, naming the computer after Intel's 386 series CPU, is the habit of Chinese, Yang Yun said that the configuration is very common in 386 computers, if it is worse, it is likely to not be able to run the game smoothly.

"Okay, next, assuming the game is made according to what you just said, we will have two ways to play, one is the RPG single-player adventure mode, exploring on the planet Patis, executing according to the script of "Saloman", saving hostages, killing aliens, and robbing ore veins. In another way, the player starts with a simple army, develops, garrisons, wars, and destroys the enemy. But don't forget, in addition to fighting computer-controlled NPCs, real-time strategy games also need to be able to play online against friends, just like Pokemon. ”

As soon as this idea came out, everyone came to their senses, and they had forgotten this important thing!

Many game designers have always been limited to their own thinking, thinking that games can only be interacted with by humans and intelligent computers, and they think that this is enough to go through the puzzles set by the game designer according to the timeline.

"Mr. Yang, I understand, this is the same as the King of Fighters, fighting and competition are the eternal topics of human beings, we need more living people to play with us, and get pleasure in fierce confrontations, rather than formulaic programmed computer opponents!" Hu Jun sighed.

Yang Yun nodded and said, "That's the truth, online battle is also a fighting game. But the next question comes, when you play The King of Fighters, will you choose the same person? Obviously, not, because everyone has their own preferences, some people like Cao Pheasant Jing, some people like Yagami, and some people just love to play female characters. ”

"Huh?"

Everyone was stunned, if it was according to the design idea of the King of Fighters, what did Yang Yun mean to increase multiple starting states?

Yang Yun nodded and said, "Since the Rhodium vein on the Patis planet can be purified and obtain powerful energy, how can it only be needed by earthlings?" In interstellar novels, if the protagonist is alone in the exploration, gathering, continuing to explore, and continuing to collect, this cycle is also very boring. We need to arrange competitors for the protagonist, create conflicts, and create all kinds of difficulties, so that we can have a good show. ”

Hu Jun cautiously asked, "How many competitors do you need?" ”

"Two is enough!" Yang Yun said: "This is not the King of Fighters, for a PC game, 24 people is too many. ”

How many choices are good for a real-time strategy game?

Microsoft has demonstrated to all game production companies that they have challenged the most racial settings.

Age of Empires 1 features 12 races, each with differences in food population, movement speed, attack, defense, and advanced class classes.

Later, the expansion "Roman Revival" was released, and the number of races was increased by 4, bringing the terrifying number of races to 16, making the player's options even more.

Next, "Age of Empires 2" intensified, 18 races, it seems that they are preparing a way to go to the dark, not the most, only more, at that time, people were still laughing and talking, maybe the third part will launch at least 24 races.

But "Age of Empires 3" changed the races to 8, and the 3G game capacity made this 3D game extremely large, Microsoft really can't add another 16 races, otherwise it can eliminate more than 90% of the world's computers.

Maybe Microsoft is really determined to do it, and added a few more ...... to the Asian and American expansion of "Age of Empires 3"

Yang Yun stands in the position of a gamer and cannot accept this model.

He remembers that "Roman Revival" was popular in China around 1999, when Red Alert and StarCraft were kings of real-time strategy games, so everyone was playing Rome mainly for early adopters.

It's all over the Internet.,But the game hasn't even been completely sinicized.,If you want to understand the complex technology tree.,Write down the data of hundreds of troops and offensive and defensive attributes.,That can make players depressed to death.,It's impossible to play proficient in Roman revival.。

So when everyone passed on the game experience by word of mouth, the most popular sentence was "Choose Assyria, the archers are invincible"!

Under normal circumstances, Yang Yun will play 4V4 with his classmates, in actual combat, due to the choice of the Assyrian race, Yang Yun is the first to enter the Bronze Age in the 8 families every time, the first to produce chariot archers, and then use ten chariots to launch an attack, killing the peasants in the enemy's home, and at the same time, the follow-up base continues to produce chariot archers, often single-handedly overturning two opponents, becoming a recognized imperial master by his classmates.

But after the Roman trend passed, Yang Yun sadly discovered that he could only play the Assyrian race from beginning to end in such a famous game, and he didn't know anything about the other 11 races......

In addition to the unfavorable promotion of the game, there are not many opportunities to play, players have too many choices, and they are too young to play, there is another important reason - the game has no own characteristics, and many races are similar.

Look at StarCraft again, 3 races.

Warcraft, 4 races.

Home, 2 races, but because there are too few, many game lovers have added a variety of mods, integrating six or seven races out.

Total War, there are 7 shili in one Japanese shogunate expansion alone.

Although some people like big and all, and some people like less and fine, it is an undeniable fact that the most widely circulated mass real-time strategy games are Blizzard's Interstellar and Warcraft.

It's not for nothing that it's the longest-running WCG esports tournament.

Yang Yun concluded: "In addition to the official government forces of our Star Alliance, there are also the Dilem family, a rebel organization of the Star Alliance, and the mysterious third-party participant, the Chaos Legion, who have robbed the mineral resources of the planet Patis. ”

The official Covenant government forces represent justice and are the race of choice for most players, with the best balance in all aspects.

The Covenant rebel group represents evil, the Deelum family, known for its endless research and development of anti-human technology, genetic drugs, clone human Jishu, cyborg Jishu, and make its class look very strange.

The third-party participants, the Chaos Legion, are a mysterious race from an alien planet, and unlike the Terrans, they can be called aliens, and they are also full of thirst for the Vorium mineral.

This is actually a Saroman Serpent version of StarCraft, Yang Yun is based on the three races of people, insects, and gods, and sets a general range, but has made considerable modifications in the technology tree and troops.

Of course, it has to be modified, otherwise how will StarCraft be done in the future......

After these contents were thrown out, the rest of the people were stunned, they knew that there should be even more crazy content next, to the class design!

It's really a crazy game! (To be continued......)