Warhammer 40K, a large-scale game that has been revised and improved by the game workshop for many years, is one of the company's most well-known war chess game rules, and is deeply loved by European and American players.

Players like to buy back the models officially sold in the game workshop, and then spray all kinds of paint paints, put these model armies into the battlefield sand table, and use the dice to conduct turn-based battles, like all board games, it also has its own combat rules and calculation methods, with a high degree of freedom and high combination.

Now Marcos wants to make it into a PC game, Yang Yun thought of the most important question: "Marcos, Warhammer 40,000's grand world is definitely not a game that can be completely described, you just said that you want to make "Orcs in the Universe", do you only want to use one of these chapters to make an independent game, or do you plan to make "Warhammer 40,000: Orcs in the Universe" series?" ”

Marcos' answer was sensible: "My ideal, of course, is to bring the entire Warhammer 40,000 to PC and make it an epic masterpiece." But I also know that there is a gap between reality and ideals, so if I can, I still want to make an indie game, and wait for the market to verify before starting to make a full series. ”

This is a relatively safe strategy, and everyone who heard it nodded secretly, no one thought that adapting Warhammer 40,000 was a small task, and its span of tens of thousands of years alone was enough to make game planners feel extremely tricky.

Yang Yun nodded in agreement, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "Warcraft" are both like this, first intercept a small representative story from a vast long story for in-depth processing, and show the simple and easy-to-understand view of the world to players. Unravel the entire background little by little in the form of a tear-off scroll.

If the market response is good, then move on to other expansions. Use major events such as "eating poisoned apples and sleeping for a thousand years" or "suffering under the Five Elements Mountain for 500 years" to connect different eras, and finally form a relatively complete story line. Let the old players know it, so that the new players don't feel abrupt, and eventually more and more players will join the game series.

If the market response is not good, OK, cut the project, change the shell and try again, for example, change it to "The Legend of Shushan Xianxia", or "God of Titans", a new game similar to the original world view, but with a slightly different focus. If the new game isn't enough, just give up the genre altogether.

"Personally, I prefer the orc race, and I think the most representative of the aliens should be these blood creatures, so if I had to choose the opponent of the human army, the alien orcs must be one of them."

"But Marcos, have you ever wondered what the difference would be between Warcraft and Warcraft if you moved the orc legion to an interstellar war? Only change the appearance style of the model, change the sword, spear, spear and sword to aircraft and artillery? ”

Marcos was momentarily speechless. He really saw the success of the orcs in "Warcraft", so he planned to continue to use it, and in the world of Warhammer 40,000, there are still spirits in the power of the different situation. Necromancy, Tyranids, and the latest version of the Titans.

"But. The spirits are too mysterious, and the necrons are too niche. The Zerg are too brutal and cold-blooded, and the Titans are the race in the latest rules! If you don't choose to resemble a human form. And with a certain amount of wisdom, who else in the alien is worthy of being the enemy of the human race......"

Yang Yun shook his head, stood up, walked to the blackboard specially prepared in the conference room, drew two parallel straight lines on it with chalk, and introduced: "In Warcraft 1, the human race and the orc are parallel competitors, the human race has shield-wielding infantry, the orc has axe-wielding warriors, the terran has musketeers, and the orcs have spearmen. ”

Then he drew a triangle next to him and said to Marcos: "Warhammer Middle Ages is a story that takes place on the same planet, it is a competition of gods and beliefs, it is a battle for survival with limited resources, and the war between man and beast is understandable. Warhammer 40,000 takes place in the vast galaxy, with thousands of creatures, and it is almost impossible to find such an almost perfectly parallel rival. That's why we see that the three opposing forces of humans, aliens, and the Chaos Legion are as balanced and stable as this triangle. So Marcos, I don't recommend that you use orcs as protagonists. ”

In real history, Blizzard exhibited their "StarCraft" at the international E3 exhibition, and tried his best to design the interstellar world view, racking his brains to make various balance settings, and the Zerg in it is really a large orc composed of pixels, which is jokingly called the "orc in the universe" game.

Of course, Yang Yun will not allow this to happen, he has time, he has excellent game planners, and he also has the game workshop company's unique Warhammer game adaptation rights, unless someone can guess what comes to mind in his head, or ...... Silicon & Neural Bonds Studios, which was acquired by EA, also thought of this idea!

Shocked, relieved.

Without the Warcraft franchise as a foundation, it would have been almost impossible for Silicon & Nerve Keys Studios to think of a real-time strategy game with an interstellar setting.

However, for the sake of safety, Yang Yun decided to set up a project "StarCraft", since Marcos proposed it, let him be responsible, he was originally an orthodox Blizzard, and his name was justified.

Marcos asked suspiciously, "You mean to make other races opponents of the Terrans?" ”

Yang Yun nodded, and wrote the words at the three fulcrums of the triangle on the blackboard, Terran, Zerg, Protoss.

"Since we decided to make an indie game from the start, it wasn't necessary to go with the exact same premise as Warhammer 40,000. In the galaxy of the universe, there are Terran, a terran controlled by the United Government, a Zerg who controls the strongest biochemical technology, and Protoss, a god who has strong personal combat power and spiritual combat power. ”

"Gathering resources, building multi-functional buildings, producing multiple classes, researching technology and magic, and multi-class combat are the most important selling points of real-time strategy games. All three races have common resource requirements, with ore providing money and gas providing energy, and the competition for resources and minerals has become extremely fierce in order to give their side an advantage in the war. ”

"Each race has a fast ground force, a heavy ground assault force, an air force, and a race-specific magic. In addition to the normal stacking tactics in the Red Alert game, players can also use summoning, lightning, energy concussion, matrix defense, parasitism, plague and other magic to make players' tactics more colorful. ”

"The Terrans have the most powerful air force, and the cruiser with the plasma beam cannon is the most powerful single giant warship, with mechanical tanks and individual robots, and has a high-speed air force such as the Ghost Fighter and the Wagre Fighter."

"The Zerg have the most powerful ability to reproduce, they have no ambition to rule the world, only the desire to destroy all competitors, they are crazy, bloodthirsty, violent, and most like to destroy the enemy with a quick attack, or flood the opponent's base with a sea of worms under the leadership of heavy mammoths, the sky is occupied by the dragons and lords, and all the people are soldiers is their characteristic."

"The Protoss are pure spiritual and pure energy creatures, their fragile bodies are wrapped in a powerful defensive shell, and they have the ability to transmit space, as well as all kinds of illusions and psychic storm magic. They are an ancient race with advanced technology, and although they are vulnerable, technology makes up for it, they have the most troops, and the energy defense shell can also recharge automatically at high speeds. ”

All this is the most significant feature of the "StarCraft" game, is that every player in the game needs to know the common sense of the way, for example, choose the Terran against the opponent's Protoss, then the technology ball is a must-have unit, choose the Zerg against the Terran with a puppy fast attack, choose the Protoss against the Zerg must be out of the Light Templar and the Golden Beetle, after being quite familiar with the game, they will naturally choose to make themselves more advantageous.

Marcos frowned, listening to Yang Yun say this, as if the game was outrageously simple.

Isn't this a "Dune 1993" in an interstellar skin? The Human Interstellar Alliance, the Chaos Legion with mysterious abilities, the local indigenous zerg......

He didn't know that in Yang Yun's mind, "Dune 1993" was just an expansion film in the "Saloman Snake" series, and the future "Dune 2000", the 3D version of "Dune 3000", would have a status far less than "Red Alert", let alone "StarCraft" that Yang Yun is talking about now.

Some games are destined to be transitional products, such as "Delta Special Forces", even if Yang Yun changes it to "Special Forces", it will be eliminated by the next first-person shooter game in the next two years, and "Half-Life" will stand up and carry the banner of FPS games.

The same is true of "Dune 1993", now "StarCraft" plans to set up a project, Yang Yun is of course willing to repackage this game, you must know that the "Dune 1993" he made and the real history of "Dune Castle 2" are completely different things, since 3 years ago he began to lay out the preparation of "StarCraft", now is the time!

Mr. Yang...... Will your design affect our Dune series? Ma Liang also realized the problem and asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, I've thought of this since 1993 when I first designed this game, just for this moment. Perhaps, I will come into contact with the Warhammer World Realm Realm Views before the people in this room! I will do what you wish, transfer the right people, and the upgraded version of "Dune 1993" "StarCraft" project will be officially established from now on! (To be continued......)