"Poof......" Yang Yun squirted out a mouthful of water.

It's messy, it's all messy!

Blizzard proposed to do "Theme Hospital", so what about bullfrogs?

Also, these foreigners are too strong, they thought of making a "theme hospital" when they went to the hospital once, so when will they go to the playground, will they make "Theme Park"? Take a train, do you want to come up with all the good ideas of "Railway Tycoon"? After staying in Shanghai for a long time, and then designing "SimCity" by the way?

"Marcos, don't get excited, let's talk about it, how do you want to design this "Theme Hospital"?"

This is a temporary idea that Blizzard came up with, it only exists in the minds of Marcos and David, there is no pen, no outline and details, only a few hand-drawn diagrams, and only three hospital plan diagrams are passed to Yang Yun's hands, and there is no content related to the bullfrog version of "Theme Hospital" at all.

Marcos didn't explain it to everyone on the blackboard, he just smiled and said: "We are thinking, the hospital is a place of birth, old age, sickness and death, people may not go to the gym in their lives, they may not have the opportunity to go to the cinema, but it is impossible to guarantee that they will never get sick." So I think it would be cool to let the player take control of a hospital, arrange all kinds of furniture, recruit all kinds of medical staff, set up different departments, and treat different diseases! ”

Of course it's cool, there are successful games to verify, the bullfrog version of "Theme Hospital" is the best example of this, more people like this game, of course, except for operating a hospital to watch it grow, worrying about it going bankrupt, and it's fun to be a firefighter in a hurry. The black humor of the bullfrog is also something that players are talking about.

"Please wait a moment, I want to ask. I've heard this phrase many times from Pete, who said that what is indispensable in this life is the playground equipment of childhood. So the year before last, they made "Theme Park", and the response was good. Do you want to make "Theme Hospital", do you have a similar reference? ”

"Aha!" Marcos laughed, David didn't come to the meeting today, but it was clear that the two of them should have agreed before, and reached a certain agreement.

"Yes, Bullfrog's Theme Park is a big source of our ideas, and I actually sent a letter to Pete last week via internal company email. But he didn't seem to pay attention, and he didn't reply to me for a few days, and I didn't find the project report of "Theme Hospital" on the company's intranet. ”

Yang Yun nodded, whether it was produced by Blizzard or operated by Bullfrog, it didn't matter to him, but the responsible person and the owner should be clearly distinguished, everyone is a colleague, and they are all employees of Longteng. Let the most experienced people do this game, how to make everyone work the most efficient and maximize the benefits, this is what Yang Yun should consider.

"Oh. Now we're at 11 a.m., 5 a.m. Paris time, and we can't reach Pitt for a while. Max. Don't be busy with the "Theme Hospital" for the time being, you and I will have a short phone call with Pete in the afternoon. Call David, and we'll dive in. ”

Marcos agreed: "OK. So I'll talk about Blizzard's second idea now. In our opinion, is it time for a follow-up version of the Warcraft series? This year, Saloman: Red Alert can lead the boom in real-time strategy games, and by the time it comes to next year's WCG battlefield, Warcraft 2 should become the new benchmark for real-time strategy games! ”

YES！ Yang Yun secretly clenched his fists, it was really "Warcraft 2".

In real history, "Warcraft" and "StarCraft" were designed by Blizzard headquarters, and they have little to do with the northern Blizzard that designed "Diablo", even if it was in order to rush to work on "Diablo", the head of the "Warcraft" project team of Blizzard headquarters was also sent to Northern Blizzard for a period of time, but this Blizzard is not the other Blizzard, this is a fact.

The Warcraft series of games is too classic, so Yang Yun is a little unsure whether Marcos and others can control it.

"Warcraft 1" was designed by himself, and then handed over to Zhang Guoqiang and his group of people at the Beijing headquarters to design the program, made into a first-person RPG game, or the SS version, although the player's reputation is good, but in the dragon company full of treasures, it is nothing at all.

Now this design team is still operating, and several core employees accompanied Zhang Guoxing to the Paris branch to design "Red Alert", leaving only two or three engineers to be responsible for post-maintenance, bug fixing, and learning Longteng's latest real-time strategy game engine technology, without breaking the plan to develop "Warcraft 2".

"Marcos, what are you getting from other teams?" Yang Yun asked.

"Yes, and I found that many of Dragon's old games have such conditions, the first game has a very solid foundation, and their subsequent versions have great potential, and the plasticity is endless, which is a huge treasure!"

Dizzy, these foreigners are really simple, Yang Yun opened his mouth, I don't know what Lu Dao said, many games were designed by him himself, deliberately, and many of them were the first acts of long masterpieces.

For example, "Warcraft 1", which gave up real-time strategy, such as "Pro Evolution Soccer 94" and "NBAGame96", which built a full set of rules for the real world, and "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", which outlined the vast Xianxia story scroll but only used less than 1%, and "Need for Speed 1", which did not look gorgeous enough because of the limitations of technology and hardware, carefully distinguished, these games are all occupying the pit, slowly waiting for follow-up development, leaving everyone with endless imagination.

Maybe for game maniac Marcos, making a fun and interesting game is the greatest fun, they only have games in their eyes, and their thoughts are more pure, as for the source of their creativity, hehe, thinking of this, Yang Yun laughed, it seems that these guys' patent and copyright awareness is not strong, they are very worthy of encouraging copycat spirit!

"Alright, Marcos, these great treasures can be unearthed by you. However, don't forget the design of Diablo 2, you also have a heavy burden on your shoulders! Or would I give Diablo 2 development rights to Bullfrog, and then you would free up your hands to design Theme Hospital and Warcraft 2? ”

Yang Yun smiled and secretly reminded him.

Marcos was anxious and protested: "No, you can't do this, Diablo is our ......"

Halfway through his words, he realized something, quickly shut up, his face was a little embarrassed, looked at Yang Yun and Ma Liang, and laughed.

Everyone laughs good-naturedly to show understanding, and everyone understands that everyone wants to have good things, and the non-original design team may see more things through the eyes of a bystander, with more novel ideas, and a lot of new games are based on the idea of a mature game, and a makeover is a shell, and it may be successful again.

"Marcos, if you have enough energy to process all the ideas, I don't mind involving you. We are all colleagues in the company, and it is common for different working groups to collaborate with each other. ”

Marcos hurriedly said: "Yes, "Theme Hospital" is mainly David's idea, "Warcraft 2" is Eric's favorite, and we are also willing to contribute to the establishment of these two games." ”

Ma Liang followed and said: "Mr. Yang, it's better to let the team of "Warcraft 1" come to Shanghai and merge it into Blizzard Studio for resource integration, how convenient!" ”

Yang Yun asked angrily: "Did you let Bullfrog Studio move from Europe as well?" Hey, I said, little comrade, where is the revolution not doing? You brought so many people over, I don't know that little ninety-nine! ”

Ma Liang smiled, he wanted to fight for more benefits for the Shanghai R&D Center, which is understandable.

Marcos said accordingly: "Mr. Yang, if we can bring them over, of course it would be the best, we have a third idea, and we really need to add more manpower." ”

Ma Liang shrugged proudly: "Mr. Yang, I'm telling the truth." The Shanghai R&D center is a bit understaffed, and the more game projects there are, the more programmers and testers we have to prepare, especially for the development of subsequent versions, and many people may only work on the same game for ten or twenty years. HAL Studio wants to add people, Blizzard Studio wants to add people, and let Bullfrog and the headquarters send people over, which is really timely! ”

Yang Yun has nothing to say, this is the case, he can't say that he can break everyone into two.

"Marcos, tell me what the third idea is, and I'll think about it." Yang Yun still planned to listen to the opinions first.

Marcos took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Everyone knows that our Dragon Teng Company has already obtained the authorization of Warhammer's World Realm View, and the background story of Warcraft 1 takes place in the World Realm of 'Warhammer Middle Ages'. This time, we plan to use the 'Warhammer 40000' from the game workshop to make a futuristic sci-fi type of "Orcs in the Universe" game! ”

Everyone is an expert, they all know what kind of thing the Dao Warhammer 40000 is, and the position of the game workshop company in the tabletop war game market, Marcos said this, and everyone knows the general content of the game "Orcs in the Universe".

"Wow! The human empire, galactic aliens, chaos legions, and the big scene of the three-way melee are exciting to think about! ”

"Imperial Guards, Star Troopers, Exorcist Hunters, Infidels, Chaos Legions, Space Skeletons, Titans, Zerg, Orcs, Protoss, Dark Protoss, Dark Undead...... Marcos, you Blizzard are so generous! ”

"Bringing the Warhammer 40,000 to the PC game, we've wanted to do it for a long time, Marcos, I've got your back!"

When everyone laughed and discussed, Yang Yun pouted, undeniable.

What, what is "Orcs in the Universe", isn't it "StarCraft"...... (To be continued......)