Tuzolev, the former head of the R&D department of 1C, Xiao Qing of the former JCDecaux Game Software Company, Hu Jun, the deputy director of the jishu department of Fengyun Game Software Company, Pete, the founder of the former Bullfrog Company, plus Yang Yun and the translator, sat in a small conference room with six people.

This is the core member of the project team carefully selected by Yang Yun, and he took the initiative to introduce it to everyone.

"Hu Jun, who has done strategic training at Longteng headquarters, served as the jishu director of the Japanese Fengyun Game Software Company, and led 200 people to perfectly complete the MD porting task of the three versions of Final Fantasy 123, and I appointed him as the head of the R&D center of Longteng France Branch."

"Pete, the founder of Bullfrog Inc., is a talented game designer who leads the Bullfrog team."

Tuzolev, the founder of 1C Games, is a senior game designer who leads the 1C team.

"Xiao Qing, the person in charge of the JCDecaux game project team, is a powerful cadre I transferred from Longteng headquarters, you can follow these seniors to learn from experience!"

Everyone greeted each other and gave a smile to their colleagues who are likely to have worked together for many years.

In addition to these people, each team has selected several people, and there are more than 20 people together, under the coordination of Hu Jun, to jointly produce this game that Yang Yun values very much.

Yang Yun spread out a jihua book and said: "In our Jihua list in 1992, there is an MD platform game called "Dune 2". It's almost June, almost halfway through the year, but we haven't started this mission for a number of reasons, and I won't go into it here. ”

Problems with the MD host caused the project to drag on and on. Let Yang Yun really be powerless, he is not an immortal. There are a lot of things that can't be done.

"We're now mainly switching to PC R&D, in this regard. You are all masters of PC game production, and I believe that with your cooperation, you will be able to make this real-time strategy game perfectly. ”

Yang Yun motioned for Xiao Qing to take a bag of drawings from the table, took out a rolled-up picture scroll from it, spread it out on the table, and beckoned them to come and watch.

"This is the map of the planet Patis, well, the story takes place in the shijie of our MD game "Salroman Snake". The specific resources of this planet, Da Liu has already set them up for us. If you are interested, you can check this part of the information, I will not explain it here. To put it simply, it is a local indigenous group with countless uncivilized resources, poor resources, harsh environment, and a certain resource that is quite useful to human beings. ”

"Our story is as clichéd as a lot of science fiction and science fiction movies. Hundreds of years later, humans exploring space stumbled upon this mysterious planet, after an initial survey. Explorers were pleasantly surprised to discover that the planet Patis contains an ore called Rhodium, which is bright and colorful. It's very beautiful, like a flower. ”

"This Rhodium ore has been refined by human pathfinders and found to be able to be purified into crystals with mysterious liliang. Because it was first discovered by researcher Kedarin, the purified substance was named Kedarin Crystal. ”

"In order to obtain this mineral in large quantities. That is, the Rhodium ore, and humanity sent several advance troops to land on the planet Patis. Prepare to build an excavation base, send troops and excavation teams to move in for a long time. ”

"But the advance force encountered resistance from the local natives, and you may have noticed when you played "Saloman" that many of the small monsters in the game are tentacle monsters, sandworms, eight-legged creepers, and even giant monsters that can easily devour human aircraft."

"So our mission is simple, the player takes control of a human army, looting resources on the planet Patis, and fighting against the local natives to eliminate these enemies and protect our vulnerable mining forces from being swallowed by the aliens."

After saying this, Yang Yun rested, ready to listen to the opinions of his subordinates.

Because it was the first time to work together, Pete, a new programmer, was a little disagreeable, and said suspiciously: "Yang, this is really a monotonous story." Hundreds of years later, interstellar travel, inadvertently exploring valuable resources, and then ...... Endless Killing...... Are you really sure that this game will be a hit? ”

Yang Yun laughed: "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have spent so much effort to gather all of you people, or even form a multinational force!" ”

Tuzorev frowned: "But it sounds very much like a standalone adventure story, and the adventure squad is a common element in RPG games. ”

Hu Jun also agreed: "Mr. Yang, for the RPG genre, is this kind of plot too monotonous? I really don't see where it's popular, its selling point is unknown! ”

Yang Yun asked rhetorically, "Then do you have any good ideas?" I'd like to hear your opinions, but the main theme can't be changed, the purpose is to grab the ore. ”

Everyone spoke one after another, suggesting leading multiple troops, suggesting that it is best to have futuristic weapons that are common in science fiction movies, suggesting adding a large number of side plots, and so on.

Xiao Qing, who has not spoken, said: "I think that since it is a real-time strategy game, the focus should be on the word 'real-time', and players need to constantly control this adventure team, adjust the way of fighting, change tactics, and fight with possible NPC enemies at any time." ”

Yang Yun was overjoyed in his heart, and asked quietly, "What else?" ”

Xiao Qing thought for a while and said: "Since there is a battle, then there must be casualties, and in order for the game to continue, the player must be given enough troops to replenish." The player controls an advance team, so there are only two ways to replenish his troops, one is the reinforcements sent by the humans later, the other is the local renegade, or the rescued captives. ”

Yang Yun approvingly: "Yes, our game "The Expendables" is such a way of thinking, after saving Sergeant Brown, our jeep can put eight-sided rockets, and after saving Lieutenant Jones, we can even use the radio to summon bomber reinforcements." What else? ”

Xiao Qing's brows tightened, and he was a little uncomfortable: "In fact, there is a third way to replenish the troops, if we have a human science and technology that can quickly convert and use ore energy, we can try to use local materials to nourish the war with war, this is Grandpa Mao's tactical thinking." ”

Yang Yun clasped his palms together and laughed: "What a battle!" Then tell me, how to raise this war? ”

Xiao Qing couldn't figure it out now, he had never been in contact with this kind of game, and he didn't know the possible patterns, so even with Yang Yun's step-by-step prompts, he still didn't have a complete impression.

On the contrary, Pete, who was also prompted, came to his senses: "Recruit troops, produce weapons, cultivate combat reserve liliang, as long as we have enough resources, we can continuously produce all kinds of support troops!" ”

Sure enough, after still having experience in the production of "God is Crazy", under Yang Yun's slight prompting, Pete quickly figured it out.

The core of this real-time strategy game is combat, endless battles, as long as there are enough resources, the player can recruit countless believers, give them weapons, go to fight the enemy, and let the whole shijie change to the faith player alone.

It's the same with Dune 1993, when the entire planet Patis is bulldozed, the ores are the player's.

Yang Yun nodded, praised Xiao Qing, and then said to Pete: "Pete, this game, I have to use the game engine of "God is Crazy", mainly the combat part and the recruitment part, the conversion of your original belief in divine power and military strength is a very haode example, and our "Dune 1993" can also use this way." ”

Pete shrugged: "The bullfrogs are all yours, boss ......"

Everyone hahadaxiao, Yang Yun didn't know what to say.

He wrote down the opinions of several people in a large blank piece of paper, and added them to the simple drawings one by one, so that everyone could see at a glance, even if they could not understand the Chinese annotations, they could easily understand what Yang Yun was thinking

"Our team of adventurers will need to go through multiple tests and levels before they can complete the mission of saving, destroying, or simply occupying the entire planet of Patis. Here, I call the gameplay of this mode a single-player RPG mode. Xiao Qing: Let me ask you, what is the biggest difference between RPGs and real-time strategy games? ”

Xiao Qing asked tentatively, "Timeline?" ”

Yang Yun nodded: "It can be said that RPG games are not operated, the game is static, real-time strategy games are different, players do not operate, NPCs will automatically operate, and will launch wave after wave of attacks on players, so in order to survive, we must have players to keep moving forward and constantly complete the levels we set for them." ”

Hu Jun said: "This is actually the same thing as arcade games and TV console games, but the difference in the difficulty of the players. ”

That's right, that's right, StarCraft, Warcraft, and even Half-Life, Delta Games will set up a single-player mode, allowing players to play alone, understand the game's backstory, feel the power of each class from easy to difficult, master the way to control them, and can arrange one or two simple matches, so that players can feel the atmosphere of real-time strategy games.

This is a supplement to networked battles, or human-machine battles, which is very important and effective.

After Yang Yun introduced the characteristics of this single-player mode, he continued: "This part, Hu Jun, you arrange some people to take over, Da Liu and his editorial department will provide you with a detailed story process, just follow the map." ”

Hu Jun smiled and nodded: "This kind of RPG part is the part I am best at!" ”

Then it's up to the man-machine battle and the network battle, which is the essence of real-time strategy games, against the competition! (To be continued......)