High freedom is a point that Yang Yun has been instilling in others in the past two years when designing games.

On the one hand, the presentation of the game is highly free, like the player team in "NBAGame96" can define the appearance of the player, as long as there is enough patience, you can design a famous star who is exactly like the player himself, or even a whole all-star team, "Theme Hospital" can also allow players to design it as a monastery, or even a crematorium, as long as they want, as long as they want, free to use their imagination.

On the other hand, the high degree of freedom is also manifested in the plot, for example, "Resident Evil" adopts a dual-protagonist mode, and there are eight finales according to the player's task completion in the game, and "Theme Hospital" is the same, as long as the minimum requirements for passing the level are met before the last day of each month, those players who complete the task in advance can toss as much as they want, and they can even complete the perverted task of 100% pleasure for all employees and 100% cure rate for all patients.

There were also a lot of novel ideas that popped up, and when everyone thought there were no good ideas, Marcos suddenly remembered something and asked, "Can we get the doctor and the nurse to fall in love?" Or let patients pretend to be sick or something? ”

"Aha! NBC "ER" Stories! ”

Everyone laughed and shouted out the name of this popular American TV series, because Marcos's proposal really looked like a hit TV series that premiered in 1994, which won many honors such as the TV Emmy Award and is one of Americans' favorite lifestyle TV dramas.

The TV series is full of reality about the love-hate relationship between a doctor and a patient in the emergency room. However, because it is too realistic, there is almost no research and development and cracking of incurable diseases. Therefore, there is a lot less content of slapping the face and a sense of accomplishment in overcoming problems, and emotional elements are added to the game. Drawing on those "incurable diseases" in the game, it is not a good proposal.

But with the addition of love and emotional content to the game, could it be that Marcos wanted to make a heartbeat memory version of "Theme Hospital"?

And then there's the weirdness of the game......

"Marcos, do you want Dr. Greney to treat patients with swollen brains or flaccid tongues?"

"Hah! I'm sure Dr. Ross will go crazy when he sees the werewolf contagion! ”

"There's never going to be such a ridiculous case in the emergency room, but I think it's a good idea to have a soft ad for our game in the TV show and let that playboy Dr. Ross play Theme Hospital!"

"Great idea! But then again, Dr. Ross's lover, Nurse Carol, is in awesome shape, so if there were a doctor and a nurse meeting in the break room, there would be a shot of a man and a woman in the game. Quite interesting! ”

"David, you're whimsical again, "Theme Hospital" is an absurd and humorous casual game, aimed at players of all ages, so any setting about sex and sex is not allowed."

"Don't be nervous, I'm just talking......"

After everyone finished talking freely, Yang Yun concluded: "Some good ideas are still left to "Theme Hospital 2"! If you do it all now, can you be sure that you will be able to surpass the original in the future, and satisfy the players whose appetites are gradually increasing? ”

Bullfrog's "Theme Hospital" has only been out for 1 generation. The latter 2 and 3 are all unknown companies, and even just add a layer of camouflage after some game enthusiasts crack it, and there is no officially recognized follow-up work by Bullfrog in history.

Of course, the bullfrog no longer existed. Becoming a victim of EA company, they themselves are powerless, but it is a pity that such a good brand. So Pete eventually left EA and co-developed the Hospital Tycoon game. But unfortunately, players can never find that familiar feeling again.

Hence Yang Yun's proposal. Everyone listened to it, whether the sequel in the future can surpass the original version of the first version, no one can guarantee, it's better to keep a low profile, this is a reasonable tactic.

Marcos was not the slightest dissatisfied after being rejected, but he looked at Yang Yun more and more energetic: "I wonder if our "Theme Hospital" will be adapted into a TV series or a movie?" Let George Clooney star, he is so manly and has first-class acting skills! ”

George Clooney, of course, this super handsome guy is a middle-aged high-quality idol full of male charm, and he will win a lot of awards in the future, and "The Story of the Emergency Room" is his famous work, after a few years of polishing, his acting skills should be quite good now.

"The point is, how did "Theme Hospital" make a movie? There's no main character, there's no main story, there's not even a story theme, it's just a matter of swinging all kinds of equipment around every day, waiting for the patient to come to the door, unless ...... Well...... I know that maybe we can use the name of "Theme Hospital" to shoot a similar doctor TV series in the future and create a typical image of a doctor. ”

Inspired by it, Yang Yun thought of two doctor TV series he had heard of, one was Dr. House and the other was Grey, an intern doctor, although he didn't know what the specific content of Lu Dao was about, but it was conceivable that these two TV series named after doctors must be two excellent works that highlight typical characters.

Let's have a chance to cooperate again! Yang Yun thought silently, and at this time, Pete almost wrote down the requirements he had just made, so he announced: "The "Theme Hospital" will be officially established from now on, mainly based on Bullfrog Studio, and Blizzard's David will temporarily join in, give you a year, try to design it as well as possible, is there a problem?" ”

Pete and David glanced at each other, saw excitement in each other's eyes, and replied in unison, "No problem!" ”

"OK, the next game to talk about is another game, the upgraded version of "Saloman: Dune 1993" StarCraft: Brood War, which was approved a few days ago. That's what I think, Xiao Qing, how about you merge into Blizzard Studios from now on? ”

Yang Yun looked at Xiao Qing, this sudden proposal made Xiao Qing a little caught off guard.

However, the young man's mentality quickly adjusted, he had heard this sentence from Yang Yun three days ago, he knew that the burden on his shoulders was heavier, he suppressed his excitement and said, "No problem! We have a wealth of experience in the production of the Dune 1993 project, and we will definitely be able to guarantee the completion of the StarCraft project mission! ”

Yang Yun waved his hand, shook his head and said: "The person in charge is Marcos, after you Degao people merged into Blizzard, they became the exclusive design team of StarCraft and accepted the direct command of Marcos. Although I say it's an upgraded version, this is actually a completely new game, and your previous production experience, at most, has a common structure, but the game engine needs to be upgraded many times. ”

Dragon real-time strategy games have caused "Guild Wars No. 1" application games such as "Saloman Snake: Dune 1993", "Blood Lion" series, and the upgraded version of "Guild Wars No. 2" is a special engine for "Saloman Snake: Red Alert".

Now in "StarCraft", Yang Yun decided to redevelop a new set of engines, which is the new engine used by "StarCraft" and "Warcraft 2" and "Warcraft 3".

"I wonder what new features you'd like to add to the new game engine, and if you could change them from the original engine?" When it comes to technical issues, Zhang Guoqiang immediately became serious, the fierce battle engine was designed by him, and now he can't bypass him if he wants to tear down and rebuild, or add, delete and modify.

Yang Yun smiled and said, "Strengthen the degree of freedom!" ”

"Is it open to the plot in the campaign?"

"No, the general plot setting of the battle, I have already asked Liu Cixing to start preparation, he has written similar interstellar war stories before, and with slight changes, it can be applied to the background of "StarCraft", and this game script will be sent within a month. You start with the game architecture, and that's where I talk about freedom! ”

Everyone didn't understand, Yang Yun asked someone to wipe the four small blackboards clean, called Zhang Guoqiang and Ma Liang, and called Marcos, and said: "The plot version of "Saloman: Red Alert" has not yet been announced, and I only know a rough idea, and I haven't played the internal beta version. In a certain level, we need to destroy twice the opponent's troops, how do you design this level? Each of you draws a level map with a complete story. ”

Even if they didn't understand, they did it, and the four of them wrote on the blackboard and used their brains to think about the problem.

After 5 minutes, everyone finished painting one after another, four blackboards, four completely different patterns, some people did perfunctory, such as Yang Yun, just a few strokes; Some people are extremely meticulous, such as Marcos, who has never been involved in the design of "Saloman: Red Alert" at all, and it is all based on imagination, and his blackboard is densely packed with pictures and texts.

"Very good, Marcos's idea has a very high operability, his own side stays in the lair to earn money, by the way to cultivate their own armed forces, and then use various breaking tactics to defeat the enemy's troops all over the map, a very classic tactic of winning more with less."

"Zhang Guoqiang and Ma Liang's idea is also very good, Guoqiang wants to express the importance of multi-arm cooperation in all-round warfare, while Ma Liang prefers to station troops on the ground, and then use waves to impact the rhythm of the enemy to death."

"Look at myself again, hehe, miserable!"

Everyone laughed, Yang Yun's map only had a demarcation river, with two words written on it - enemy, and one word written below - I, there was only one passage between the two armies, and everything else was covered with diamonds. (To be continued......)