With the start of the new game, a medieval-style picture scroll is revealed, with eight character flags on the large map corresponding to the orange color that can be selected as the main story.

casually selected a merchant's flag, entered the game, and looked at the picture that appeared on the screen, Lin Jiayi couldn't help but sit up straight.

He didn't watch the promotional video in advance, because he always believed that the promotional video of the game was deceptive, and whether it was fun or not could only be seen in the game.

Originally, he was still curious about the tens of millions of costs of this game, where did it go, the soundtrack, text performance or CV?

But now he understands that a lot of it is estimated that a lot of it is spent on art resources.

Zhuo Qing on the side heard Lin Jiayi's surprise and came over, and when he saw the picture of "Octopath Traveler", he also showed an expression of surprise and surprise.

"The fusion of 2D characters and 3D scenes, supplemented by modern photographic effects, filters and light and shadow, plus special fisheye lens and tilt-shift photography techniques."

As a veteran of the game industry for more than ten years, Zhuo Qing can see the characteristics of this picture almost at a glance.

It's not beautiful and rare, nor is it amazing and incredible, it can only be said that the pixel art style is very comfortable to watch.

But that's enough!

Lin Jiayi never thought that the pixel game could be made like this, with enough high-definition pixel lattice, with the real sea surface with texture fluctuations, and even accompanied by the breeze, Lin Jiayi also saw the texture fluctuations on the water surface, and deliberately made the retro pixel kind of frame-dropping grass and trees swing.

The combination of retro and modern performances made Lin Jiayi feel an incredible sense of visual impact.

A new door opened in Lin Jiayi's heart.

It turns out that pixel games can be made like this!

Of course, this is how Lin Jiayi felt when he saw this pixel style game, because he understood the deep meaning, for most ordinary players, the first impression of seeing this picture style is probably - oops, not bad!

Although it is in the style of pixel dot matrix, the dot map does not mean low resolution, and the whole game is still produced in HD format, where it is needed, such as menus, font grains, and ultra-high-quality vertical paintings, etc., it is modern HD;

In the dot plot part, a lot of details and different depths of field are added to the background, and the characters also make detailed changes such as expressions and movements that were difficult to deal with in old games.

The combination of the two is a retro but not archaic expressiveness, almost a revolutionary creation for the performance of pixel games.

"It's not just a game that limits itself to a group of players who love JRPGs." Taking a deep breath, Lin Jiayi said to Zhuo Qing next to him.

If it's a pixel art like "The Combination of Isaac", then this game can only become a niche even if the story is good.

But this retro but not ancient picture style has a much wider audience, and in a sense, this is a redefinition of a new generation of pixel style, although this definition is useless for most manufacturers.

"It's really willful." With a wry smile on his face, Lin Jiayi shook his head and sighed.

How did this retro but not archaic style of graphics come about?

Throwing money at it!

What is it that can be made into 3D but has to be made into a pixel that combines 2D and 3D?

Independent manufacturers who only make low-cost games with pixels can't afford to pay this money; There is no need to do this as a manufacturer who has the money to do this.

Compared with people in the industry who marvel at Yang Chen's innovation in pixel game graphics, ordinary players think much simpler.

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Just like Zhang He, just seeing the clever combination of the 3D scene and the 2D characters that combine retro pixels and modern painting style, has set off ripples of memory and can't help chopping hands, and now the 'old guys' who have been immersed in the game world Compared with the ordinary players who have not experienced the era of pixel JRPG, there are some players who have entered the pit "Octopath Traveler" because of the popularity and the excellent game of "The Combination of Isaac", and the players who have entered the "Octopath Traveler" can't help but marvel at the game at this moment.

Is the picture outstanding?

It's not stellar, but it's true that modern graphics techniques are added, such as real particle effects, water and even beautiful snow, or the sparkling sand of walking in the desert.

But after all, this is still a pixel of a dot matrix image, even if it is a high-definition resolution dot matrix, but it is still a pixel.

It's just that compared with the ordinary cheap pixel style, the pixels in "Octopath Traveler" give people a very comfortable feeling, and even many players who don't like pixel style, after seeing the pixel picture of "Octopath Traveler", although they won't like it immediately, but at least they can accept it and not hate it.

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At noon, Chen Shu, who had worked overtime until midnight the day before, got up from the bed, walked into the study and looked at his younger brother Chen Ran, who had just finished the college entrance examination this year, and indulged himself in playing games, and took the mouse from his hand mercilessly.

"What are you doing, old lady!" Watching Chen Shu snatch the mouse from his hand with a bewildered expression, Chen Ran wanted to resist, but judging his status at home, he confessed very decisively, showing an innocent look.

"Look at the latest reviews of the games I've developed, and don't you like to play games? Why don't you play the game that your sister I developed? Chen Shu said confidently.

"I don't like to play JRPGs, and there's nothing fun about pixel art games." is also aware of Chen Shu's work, and he has also heard of the game "Octopath Traveler".

At first, because of his sister's relationship, he was quite concerned, but then he said that it was pixel style, and he didn't bother to pay attention.

Even the teaser video and some of the demos were not paid attention to.

What age is this? Still doing pixel style? Isn't that a fuss?

Even if it's the company that his sister is in, the art that his sister is responsible for, I don't want him to play.

"Wow, don't you play games much, sir? Why do you have so many games in your gaming platform account? And it's a long time? When did you play? Seeing Chen Shu log in to the official game platform, there is a large amount of game inventory and the game market displayed in the upper right corner, Chen Ran was suddenly shocked.

"Work needs not to play, it is all issued by the company, some time ago I was not in the company every day overtime at 10 o'clock in the evening, 11 o'clock to go home? It's just playing games and watching movies in the company to find inspiration. Chen Shu said very sincerely.

"So good!? Playing games and watching movies at work? Isn't that overtime pay! Chen Ran's mouth opened wide.

"You think too much, although the company's benefits are very good, but how can you pay overtime pay, after all, this is spontaneous overtime, and it is not required by the company." Chen Shu rolled her eyes: "However, the company has subsidies and reimbursements for taxi fees and supper expenses." ”

When it comes to treatment, Chen Shu is quite satisfied, although the salary is only average, but the working environment and pressure are really much better than a game company he was in before.

At least I won't give myself a lot of tasks.,On the surface, it's OK to finish the tasks this week.,But in fact, you can't finish it without 996 every day.,As for overtime pay?

The company didn't ask you to work overtime, but you spontaneously worked overtime because you couldn't complete the workload.

And more importantly, Chen Shu feels that she can learn a lot of things, such as the creation of game concept paintings, which she has not had the opportunity to do before.

Although the working hours are the same as before, and sometimes even later, Chen Shu feels very motivated.

Because she understands very well that this is a kind of charging for herself.

"Okay, call me when you're done." Looking at the computer with a little regret, Chen Ran sighed in his heart.

"Alright, alright!"