China's intellectual property rights are weak, coupled with the fact that the emperor is far away, and the companies that take the lead in infringing are either related to the Chinese government, or the kind of people who are afraid of playing the wrong game directly, and Longteng, a behemoth, is not the main body involved, so the unauthorized use of DND rules by Chinese companies has become a fait accompli in such a muddle.

Anyway, "Journey to the West" and "Three Kingdoms" are also best-selling in Asian countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, etc., and are very well-known in the Chinese world, but European and American orthodox players who like Western fantasy are not interested in these two games, plus TSR companies are unable to recover rights from them all over the world, and the matter is over.

But Long Teng's own goal is too big, and their "Diablo 1" does not dare to completely plagiarize DND's core mathematical rules word for word, so at the beginning of the game project a year ago, Yang Yun discussed with everyone in Blizzard Studios and set a new set of rules by himself.

From the point of view of appearance, Diablo 1 is no different from the DND rules in the game, the profession has warriors, mages, thieves, character attributes such as strength, agility, intelligence, etc., the classic red and blue double bottle of health and mana, the skill level technology tree of the character's multi-directional and multi-system development, and the free attribute points are sent to the character upgrade, etc., these contents are all similar, but the internal design rules of Diablo are more complex than the orthodox DND.

The Marcos brothers once quarreled in front of Yang Yun, whether to buy a license or imitate and design from scratch, the two fought more than once.

Marcos is the chief planner, and he wants to build every brick and tile by himself, so that he will not have to be controlled by others in the future. You can change it however you want.

Eric is the head of the program, and he has read hundreds of pages of DND rules and regulations. Programming specific things that were his job, so he saw the amount of horror after the message. It is strongly requested to purchase a genuine DND license, which is ready to use.

Eric's head shook like a rattle: "Marcos, it doesn't seem like you're the one doing the underlying coding, right?" Do you know how much of a task it would take to turn that 100-page rulebook into an unknown number of stand-alone programs, test game balance, and modify programs? Since TSR can license DND's PC game adaptation to SSI, surely they can license it to us as well, right? ”

Marcos retorted: "DND can be borrowed, but we don't want to be tied to DND and become a desktop game with a PC interface. We have computer chips that calculate hundreds of millions of times per second to help. Why stick to the simple DND table game rules? Do you think the rules of table games will be calculated faster than the rules of our PC games? ”

Yang Yun laughed at the time, others don't know, he himself knows too well, DND desktop games are really slow to play, every player has to understand the rules of the game, and let the city lord who is familiar with the rules calculate little by little by hand, and finally give a conclusion.

But PC games are different, allowing the CPU to go through complex calculations, and the player can get the results the moment they attack the enemy. And the feedback is on the screen, and there is no need for the dungeon master to calculate and judge.

The speed of manual and computer is fundamentally incomparable, and in the history of the development of the Dark series, someone once developed a TRPG of Dark DND. That is, the desktop text RPG, which is a DND table game rules mixed with the content of Diablo 2, is to attract those dark players into the pure DND board game world.

In RPG battles. Blizzard's Warcraft model is gradually becoming mainstream, and pure DND board games and DND-licensed PC games cannot reach Blizzard's influence. So they had to borrow the fame of Darkness to attract new players and put Darkness Quest. The four heroes of the Amazon Barbarian Paladin Mage are all added to the game, and the game is played with dice throwing.

But the necromancer was forgotten alone, because the necromancer's summons include skeletons, earth demons, stone demons, and countless resurrected servants, a necromancer can bring almost a full screen of followers, these things can make 95% of the time of the DND board game be wasted on calculations, who is the master of the DND dungeon, he will go crazy when he sees dozens of summons......

"Marcos, I support your idea! There is a saying in our Longteng company, rules are used to break. Longteng doesn't have to deliberately follow other rules, Longteng himself is the one who makes the rules. DND don't do it, we make a new set of dark rules ourselves, I believe that in the next few decades, the world's RPG games will be based on our dragon works as the standard! ”

Yang Yun's words are not untargeted, many of the rules of "World of Warcraft" are changed DND, and then self-development, through guò many version upgrades to add new rules, and constantly meet the needs of players, so ten years later, WOW has begun to imperceptibly influence the new version of DND rules, which is a typical latecomer.

Maybe Marcos didn't understand, and he couldn't have guessed that this kind of thing would happen, but Yang Yun knew it very well in his heart.

He didn't say a word: "WOW makes the whole world revolve around the player, and DND revolves the same with or without players, the player is not the center of the DND world, this is the difference between the two worlds, which is why Blizzard will be a huge success, the customer is always God!" ”

This is a lot of interesting things that happened when the SS version of Diablo 1 was developed a year ago, but most of it was a recontinument of the boring work of the game programmers, and now that the game has been successful, it's time to enjoy the results.

Yang Yun returned to Shanghai, "Diablo 1" is quietly waiting for him, her first listing is the most important thing in Longteng in 1996, everyone in Longteng is willing to hand over to Yang Yun to operate personally.

When Marcos took Yang Yun into the Blizzard studio, Yang Yun almost laughed out loud when he looked at the scene in front of him.

The programmers were playing the game, and even Eric was having a great time, and the testing department and the bug collection and fixing work had stopped unknowingly, and these people didn't even notice that the two people walked in from outside.

It's working time, Marcos's face is a little unbearable, and he was about to scold, but Yang Yun grabbed him.

"Although they are programmers, their other identity is that of gamers. If we don't even like to play a game that we have designed ourselves, how can we design a game that other players will love to put down? ”

Yang Yun smiled and whispered, he saw Eric use a warrior, waving a two-handed weapon, to kill the little monsters around Tristram, and at the same time shouting in his mouth: "Lippi, you wait for me a little, I will go to you after I make a few more bottles of instant vitality rejuvenation!" ”

A programmer named Lippi responds in a corner of the workspace, "OK, oh Shet, this butcher is so fast!" My Rogge has died 19 times, and he can't stop it with a single knife! ”

The others laughed: "Lippi, you are responsible for setting the balance of Rogge's character attributes, right?" Why don't you make the conversion of high agility and high dodge bigger? ”

Lippi shouted: "Hero Rogge is fine, the problem is the butcher!" Which bastard designed the butcher boss exactly? Rog's high dodge barely worked under the Butcher's real blows, and I died 19 times, and only dodged the Butcher's smashing axe slash twice at most! ”

Eric shouted, "The Instant Vitality Potion has been collected, let me fight the butcher!" ”

Yang Yun smiled, and Marcos explained in an embarrassed whisper: "Eric and Lippi are fighting online, and the others are ......"

"It's okay!" Yang Yun didn't care, and said loudly: "Eric, you are the legendary MT?" ”

All of a sudden, several people in the work area came to their senses, hurriedly shut up, quit the game, and then stood up and waited for the boss to accuse.

The big boss came back and saw them playing games, will this be criticized for not working well?

I've never heard of Yang Yun supporting working hours to play games, although they have now developed version 1.0, but they really have to find things to do, find a lot of them, test, and prepare to modify version 1.1, isn't this just found an imbalance, the butcher's smashing axe re-chop has a suppressive effect on the agile roger hero, and it will be killed in seconds with one move for players, this is not a friendly setting!

Eric stood there awkwardly, looking at Marcos with some resentment, blaming Marcos for not reminding him.

Yang Yun laughed: "As the most important tank in the team, you are under a lot of pressure!" The butcher's smashing axe resplit doesn't need to be modified.,Let him become a hated character.,As long as you don't abandon the SS version of the butcher to appear in the CG animation,The rest is free! ”

Eric breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly took Yang Yun to inspect the project, and at the same time asked the other colleagues to hurry up to work.

The game is no problem, the SS version was completed a few months ago, but Yang Yun has not been put on the Sega platform for sale and evaluation, but has asked Blizzard to develop a PC version, which is intended to be released at the same time.

"Compared to the SS version, we use the exact same rules and mechanics, as well as the 'Blizzard 1' game engine dedicated to RPGs on PC. Except for the image quality and computing speed slightly inferior to the SS console, the PC version is better than the SS version, and the operation of the mouse and keyboard is much more convenient than that of the gamepad and external keypad. Marcos explained, pointing to a computer and another set of televisions and consoles.

Yang Yun looked at the SS host and the handle on the side, and let out a knowing smile, Longteng Hardware R&D Center really made a portable handle keyboard, plugged into the jack in the middle of the handle, similar to the keyboard of the BlackBerry smartphone in the future, beautiful appearance, complete functions, looks full of high-tech content, quite bluffing. (To be continued......)