The process of the documentary was accelerated, and Zhang Guoqiang finally made a plan for "Diablo 2" under the framework half a month later, and after Yang Yun's approval, "Diablo 2" was finally officially approved.

Longteng Company is running like a precision machine, a capable team was quickly formed, senior screenwriters entered, and the literary creation team had six Chinese and foreign employees working together to create.

Game planner Yang Yun and Marcos divided the whole story into five major sections, and the six senior screenwriters revised the 300,000-word draft, which was repeatedly revised by Yang Yun, so it took three months to finalize the writing of the backstory outline.

While the writers were busy, the programmers got to work, setting up the framework for the game in the planning plan, and the game based on Diablo 1 only needed a few changes.

Programmers and artists discuss interface beautification work every day, and in addition to cooperating with programmers to create an interface, the artists also have to match the images of hundreds of items in Diablo 2.

In addition, there is also a special position, they are pure literary editors, who are responsible for the naming of NPC characters in the game and backstory, the name of equipment, and the writer of small side stories that do not affect the main plot, and sometimes he has to pretend to be a ghost to write some spells and other copywriting on the walls of the maze, and some CG cutscenes are also completed by him.

There are also technical aspects, such as librarians, network architects, 3D modelers, and multi-Chinese translators. Voice actor, game sound engineer, game music producer. CG animation producers, program testers, marketing personnel and other related positions appear in the documentary.

Time flies, and three years later, "Diablo 2" is finally ready and enters the final testing stage, at which time the publicity department takes action, the official website forum management. The copyright lawyer is busy, and the marketing department takes over the promotion of the entire game, and the professional game exhibition. Large-scale and small-scale cosplay performances, design and production of various game figures, professional game magazine inspection, senior industry authoritative experts and player evaluations, etc.

This is the most tedious stage. There are too many things to do. In order to achieve the best promotion effect, almost every detail is not let go, as long as there is an opportunity, the game promotion will keep up, even if the game has been released and started to sell, players have begun to give feedback, and the precision operation of the dragon machine qì still has not stopped.

Diablo 2 testing and bug modifications, patch system. Expansion films, these are still to come. Zhang Guoqiang's dark team still can't relax.

But as the commander of the first army, Yang Yun, his command knife has been pointed in other directions, one day, he called Zhang Guoqiang and threw a thick notepad in front of him, on which were written "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3".

Although Chief Engineer Zhang has not only focused on the game "Diablo 2" in the past three years, he has also directed the development of many other online games and stand-alone games, but he has never really put down this game in his heart, and he has always been trembling. "Diablo 2", which has been sharpened for three years, has reacted quite well after its release, which makes his biggest worry put down, and he can finally relax for a few days. But just after resting for two days, he received an order from Mr. Yang that Longteng's new game "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3" will soon be established, and Chief Engineer Zhang is going to start this new round of cycle. ”

This is the end of the documentary, and the one-hour explanation is just a detailed explanation of the game system, and the details of the game after the game are released are not too much.

But that's enough, and it manages to tell people that there are more than 20 different positions required for a game, and that games are not just a matter of programmers, it also has a large number of artistic creators who have invested their hearts and minds in it, text, images, music, there are so many professions that are in the service of games.

Nearly 1,000 teachers, students and parents in the audience were shocked and inexplicable, and many of them were reflecting on themselves, whether they had been opposing the game, whether they were too narrow-minded, whether they were too paranoid.

The senior high school students were even more excited, they realized that if they wanted to enter the game industry, they did not have to apply for the computer department, in fact, there were Chinese departments, history departments, minor languages, law, marketing and other majors to choose from.

In fact, they also know that in the second half of the documentary, after the game was launched, animation film and television companies, comic publishing houses and magazines, game peripheral processing industries, toy factories, and too many physical industries related to games, such a scale is so large that people can't look at it directly, which is a huge interest group involving millions of practitioners.

It's no wonder that game companies can drive a huge industrial chain, and software alone can drive dozens of small industries around it. That's the computer hardware industry with CPUs, GPUs, memory modules, hard disks, etc., how much weight should this have?

The 6% GPD is definitely not a lie, a small disc weighing no more than 15 grams and an area of no more than 110 square centimeters involves the interests of so many industries, which shocked every viewer who has watched this documentary.

"Gain knowledge! I realized that it took so many people and so long to complete a game! ”

"So you see, there are dozens of foreigners invited to do developers, programmers, artists, screenwriters and testers, and the salary may be tens of millions every year, right? It took three years to make a "Diablo 2", and the cost of tens of millions turned out to be this way, no wonder it was so expensive! But let's be honest, the game is really well done, and the expensive ones are worth it. ”

"It seems that the child should have a definite direction for the college entrance examination next year, not necessarily to study computer science, in fact, according to his preferences and advantages, my daughter likes to draw, just let her learn computer graphics and the like."

"Yes, my son is a liberal arts student, and he also has the opportunity to enter a game company by studying screenwriting. Now the treatment of game companies is quite good, and they are all calculated according to annual salaries. ”

"Sister Yang, have you finally figured it out? I said earlier that your Xiaojun article is well written, the story is well written, and he will definitely be a literary scholar's material in the future, you still don't believe it! I've heard that Liu Cixing, a writer who writes science fiction, has written several game novels in Longteng, and the annual royalties are millions! Even if it is other game companies, many screenwriters have an annual salary of more than 40,000 yuan! ”

"Hey, it's all my fault, my fault, I shouldn't have stopped you! Xiaojun, you have to come on, don't embarrass your mother......"

"I got it, Mom......"

"Hahahaha!"

After the documentary was played, everyone began to talk enthusiastically, the whole auditorium was very lively, and the students gathered together in twos and threes, happily discussing, you go to learn screenwriting, I will learn computer, he will study marketing, and when he graduates, he will create his own game production company to break the world.

Yang Jinhai, the head of the grade, walked up to the stage, held the microphone and said, "Next, the students will leave the stage in turn and return to the classrooms of each class to continue their self-study. Parents will stay for now, we still have specific things to discuss. ”

After the students left the venue one by one, leaving only their parents, Yang Jinhai continued: "Parents, in fact, the school invited everyone to watch this documentary, not to persuade everyone to choose the game industry. We are all adults, thinking more deeply than children, life is not composed of ideals and fantasies, more or all kinds of pressure, so we need to be more rational when considering the future path of children.

It is true that the gaming industry is a very promising industry, but not every child is suitable for this path. We chose everyone to enjoy this documentary together today, just to tell you that children's interests and hobbies are diverse, a writer can always take the road of literary creation, or choose to be a screenwriter for games, a musician can always publish records, or choose to make soundtracks for games, in fact, there are multiple ways out for each profession to choose.

Only when we truly understand the subdivisions of the computer industry, we will make the most correct choice for the children's college entrance examination more scientifically and more appropriately! This is also the main purpose of gathering everyone today! ”

"Well said!"

"We understand the good intentions of the school!"

"Thank you for watching this documentary organized by the school, we will definitely have an in-depth discussion with the children when we go back, so that they can establish a correct outlook on life and values!"

The applause was thunderous, the parents thanked the school for their advice, and also thanked the excellent documentary producer zuò Fang Jingcheng TV, the short one-hour explanation they still felt that it was not enjoyable enough, and in the trailer they saw that the next issue had more content related to the surrounding industries outside of the game system, and they were more interested, because as the school said, not all children are suitable for entering the game programming industry.

Quancheng No. 2 Middle School is not the only school that organizes parents to watch together, the Lu Provincial Department of Education has issued an administrative order to every campus, and almost the entire Lu Province has seen the content of the documentary.

However, there are not many promotions in the province like Lu Province, and some provincial and national key points such as foreign Chinese language schools and university attached middle schools are disdainful of holding such activities.

In any case, the documentary was broadcast at 7:30 p.m. on December 1, and it still aroused high positive reviews in China. (To be continued......)