Chapter 1166 "Safe and Civilized Driving" (1/2 for Xiao Yunduo)
Pei Qian nodded slightly.
After this brainstorming session, he was still very inspired.
In order to avoid making the mistakes of Sea Fortress again, the threshold for operation must not be lowered, but raised and raised again to ensure that the game is difficult and niche.
But there's another thing to keep in mind, try not to get involved with the high-level races in reality.
Like F1 and rally, it's best not to touch this kind of theme.
Because racing is a very expensive sport, but it is also very popular all over the world. Players don't have the money to run the track, so they naturally choose to experience it in the game.
It's best to choose content that ordinary people often experience.
What is the content?
Driving in the city, of course!
At present, there are two most popular racing games, one is rally, which is hardcore, but fully restores the experience of high-end events; The other is to lower the threshold of the game, turn off the car damage, and the player can freely drive to the city and go on a rampage.
After all, most people usually have to obey the traffic rules when they commute to and from work, and they have to worry about not speeding, not running red lights, not being sticked, and a little scratch may cost hundreds of dollars to repair the paint, trembling.
When you get home from work and drive in the game, of course, you have to fly and crash casually!
What retrograde, rear-end chasing, running a red light, that's all commonplace.
Pei Qian pondered, if he could combine these two game genres, learn from the weaknesses and complement the strengths, and combine the content that players least welcome, wouldn't this be?
Thinking of this, Pei Qian coughed lightly and said, "I have two directions, you can refer to it a little." ”
Everyone stopped brainstorming for a moment and looked over, and at the same time, a very admiring expression appeared on their faces.
Sure enough, the gap between us and Mr. Pei is still too big!
How long has this brainstorming been going on? Everyone is still just talking about it, and there are no ideas at all, but Mr. Pei has already chosen the direction for the new game?
Good ideas come at your fingertips, is this a genius game producer?
Everyone listened attentively.
Pei Qian coughed lightly, sorted out his thoughts a little, and then said: "First of all, we want to make a completely realistic racing game, or rather, a driving simulation game. ”
"We're going to invest heavily in building a very realistic physics engine for the game."
"Each car has to be modeled separately, and the chassis, AB pillar, and body materials of different vehicles will have different data according to the situation in reality, so as to ensure that the results of each car after the impact are different, and the impact results of the same car in reality are completely consistent."
"Other things such as the horsepower of the car, the driving feel, the grip of the tires, etc., must also be consistent with the real-world data."
"When players experience the game with a steering wheel, they have to be infinitely close to real-life driving."
On the one hand, this is to spend more research funds, and on the other hand, it is also to discourage players even more.
Splitting the car into many different parts, each with different data, is a huge amount of work and much more cumbersome than sharing a physical collision system for all cars.
However, the damage to the vehicle is different at different times of impact, which can increase the player's losses.
For example, in many games, the car hits at a speed of more than 100 per hour, and the front of the car is recessed, but it can still continue to drive.
But in this game that Pei Qian expected, if it hits at this speed, the car will be directly wasted.
"Secondly, the game has a car damage system and it can't be turned off. If the player crashes or has a small scratch in the game, it must be dealt with according to the real-life situation. ”
"If you hit a car, you have to repair it, if you scratch it, you have to repair it, and if you touch someone else's car, you have to be held accountable and compensated in full."
"And the driver in the car will also be injured after the crash, and he needs to be hospitalized and pay for medical expenses."
"Finally...... We can consider developing a steering wheel for this game and let Outu Technology do it. ”
After finishing speaking, Pei Qian himself felt that he was a little excessive.
What kind of racing game is this? It's a driving simulator completely!
And it's a driving simulator that simulates even those unpleasant contents.
There are a lot of inconveniences in the game, and it's exactly the same as in reality, and you have to drive it carefully and carefully.
But what about the coolness of the game? But there's no way to compare it to driving in reality.
After all, in reality, you can feel the vibration of the car body, you can feel the G-force, and the field of vision is particularly wide, and this experience is multi-dimensional.
But driving in this game, you can only stare at the screen, and most players can only use the keyboard and controller to control, and the sense of substitution is far behind.
It's as troublesome as driving in reality, and the experience is not as comprehensive as that, who would play this?
And in reality, driving is actually not a particularly high threshold thing, and most families with slightly better economic conditions have cars.
Many office workers are tired enough to drive to and from work, and continue to drive in the game after returning home, and still have to obey the traffic rules?
What kind of spirit is this? How addicted does it take to do such a thing?
To get a better gaming experience, you have to buy a steering wheel. But the steering wheel is not cheap, the entry-level steering wheel that can play a little bit also costs one or two thousand, the entry steering wheel is a little better and more than three thousand, and some of the more high-end direct-drive steering wheels are more expensive.
Add to that the pedals, handbrakes, H-gears, brackets and other accessories, and the overhead is even greater.
What's more, the steering wheel and bracket both occupy space and are easy to eat dust, the cost is not just a matter of money, most people have to weigh it before buying.
In short, Pei Qian thinks this idea is very good.
It dissuaded the vast majority of players with great precision!
For those ordinary players, this game has to spend money to repair the car after touching the car, and you have to abide by the traffic rules, which is not fun to play at all;
For most keyboard and controller players, it is quite difficult to control the vehicle finely to pass subject two, and it is not fun to talk about it;
For those who have high-end equipment such as steering wheels, the game content is very boring, no different from the real driving experience, and there are many professional racing games that are much more fun than this.
The only players who will be interested in this game should be those who don't like drag racing, but especially love normal driving, right?
If there are such players, then why don't they become ride-hailing drivers? Wouldn't it be beautiful to satisfy your hobbies while also earning money to support your family?
Pei Qian looked around at everyone: "What do you think?" ”
Everyone looked at each other.
Obviously, most people's first reaction is: not good!
It sounds like these are pretty counterintuitive designs.
But......
When it comes out of Mr. Pei's mouth, it will make people feel particularly convincing, as if behind this design that violates common sense, there is a wonderful idea that subverts the traditional game design concept.
Wang Xiaobin asked tentatively, "Then...... Mr. Pei, what should be the name of this game? ”
"What's your name?" Pei Qian thought for a while, "Let's call it "Safe and Civilized Driving"!" ”
Wang Xiaobin: "......"
God is driving safely and civilly!
Isn't this the name of subject 4 of the driver's license test, and is it really okay to use it as a name for a racing game?
Pei Qian was obviously very satisfied with the name.
It's very much in line with the content of the game!
This game is to encourage everyone to drive safely and civilly, it is best to abide by traffic rules, drive carefully, do not scratch, do not speed, and be a good law-abiding citizen in the game.
As for the gaming experience......
Hehe, how the player's game experience is, Pei Qian has always been the last to consider, and it is still considered in the direction of getting worse and worse.
Looking at everyone's expressions of concurrence on the surface, but in fact they were extremely confused and confused, Pei Qian knew that this brainstorming was a great success!
In fact, the so-called brainstorming is nothing more than getting everyone together to give themselves a little bit of inspiration to make a money-losing game.
Pei Qian looked at his watch, and then stood up: "Okay, then today's brainstorming will be here first." ”
"The results are quite remarkable."
"Let's digest the results of today's brainstorming a little, and you can look at the specific design."
Pei Qian felt that the ultimate form of this game had been given to death by himself, and there should be no deviation.
Although on the surface it gives everyone full design autonomy, Pei Qian is very sure that everyone will definitely do it seriously according to their own requirements.
Anyway, as long as the game is made smoothly according to your own requirements, the final result should be very different.
……
After Mr. Pei left, everyone in the conference room had not completely recovered from their confusion.
There is also a little admiration for Mr. Pei in the confusion.
Obviously, the brainstorming has been completed for Mr. Pei, because Mr. Pei has already figured out the final form of the game and given everyone plenty of hints.
But for others, brainstorming has just begun!
It can only be said that Mr. Pei is Mr. Pei, and the speed of designing the game is simply amazing.
A game from 0 to 100 only takes dozens of minutes to be fully designed, who else is this kind of genius game producer?
But for the rest of the game, they haven't figured out a few core issues of the game "Safe and Civilized Driving".
According to the conditions currently given by Mr. Pei, only a very incomplete game can be restored.
Obviously, there are still many details that Mr. Pei did not say clearly, which requires everyone to work together to complete these details.
However, for people who play games, this is not the first time to do this kind of thing, so everyone was just surprised for a short time and calmed down, ready to analyze what the whole picture of the game "Safe and Civilized Driving" is in Mr. Pei's heart.
Ye Zhizhou said very easily: "Let's follow the previous process, first find out the doubts in Mr. Pei's design, and then analyze them slowly." ”
"It's just a rare opportunity this time, so let's complete the link of finding doubts together."
"Xiao Yang, start with you."