319. Don't Starve and Origin
So, to explain, the conversation between the two people before seemed to be playing riddles, which was actually another game that Jiang Yu gave to Ryunosuke Akasaka to make.
When it comes to video games, if you go back to the source, aside from the grandeur games like Tetris and Space Invaders, people will definitely mention those behemoths: Mario, Zelda, GTA, FF, Pokemon......
Yes, most of them are Japanese games. No matter what kind of feelings you have for this country, it is undeniable that in the era of the red and white machine, it was indeed Japan, and it was the world of Nintendo.
In this paradoxical world, not much has changed at this point. At most, the technology is a little fast, which leads to the upgrading of home game consoles is also a bit fast, and the general development still follows the development history of the game in Jiang Yu's memory.
After the turn of the millennium, Nintendo has shown a decline in console games (yes, Sony Dafa is good .jpg), and the main lightweight handheld has also appeared in the mobile phone market and competed with each other for resources, but it still has a firm foothold with its few world-famous games.
Take the recent one, you don't see how many people buy an NS in order to play a Zelda, and once you buy NS, Mario Kart, you buy it, right? Then I found that there are many other interesting games...... Eventually, you'll find that your wallet is getting more and more deflated.
That's right, it's all a Nintendo conspiracy!
Ahem, then the topic comes back. As a series, Mario is truly unbeatable; But if it comes to the sales of a single work, there is such a rising star, who rose at an astonishing speed, blew up all the predecessors in front of him in one go, and ascended to the first throne.
Of course, we're going to have to get rid of the games that rely on console bundles.
"minecraft", a maker simply "snapped" the words "dig" and "build" and kneaded them together to form a combination of words, and the domestic translation of the last world was - "minecraft".
This is a sandbox game, and it really does the limit of what a sandbox game can do - large maps, strong interactivity, high degrees of freedom, and strong creativity. Compared to the big games that are sandboxed but still have certain restrictions, this game is truly "free".
The game screen is a pixel style, which has scared off many picture parties, but it is precisely because of such a simple painting style that the importance of the core of the game is even more apparent.
After all, it's the equivalent of just revealing the product and telling you that I'm going to use the game mode to attract you players and make you willing to pay for us.
The basic material of the game is a cubic meter of blocks, and everything in it is made of such blocks - rocks, sand, wood, water, metal, and even lava, which are distinguished by their colors and textures. Traditionally, creatures, whether they're animals, plants, underground monsters, or even your character, are made up of basic pixel blocks.
Players collect footage and then reassemble it.
This is the most basic rules and gameplay of this block world.
Naturally, there is an enduring synthesis system.
For example, you can collect a cubic meter of water from a lake – provided you make a bucket out of the collected wood; You can make a stick out of wood as a basic weapon; Or you can combine the sticks with the line again to become a fishing rod, and then you can catch fish from the rivers, lakes and seas made up of pixel blocks......
There are many ways to play here.
Players who prefer to be more casual can transplant plants, introduce water sources, and drive some friendly and docile animals from other places to be a farmer in the game world.
Or maybe you'll grab a hoe and go deep into the site to find all kinds of precious mineral deposits and decorate your own home. But be careful to dive headlong into underground rivers or lava, or encounter powerful underground creatures and die with a whimper.
Of course, you can also choose to grab weapons and armor and explore the world, encountering zombies, bats, and other powerful creatures, fighting each other, and finally winning a glorious victory or dying a miserable death.
If you're tired of playing single-player, you might choose to go on an adventure with your companions and divide your work to create your own happy home - just like in Don't Starve. The difference is that as long as you don't die yourself, you can survive until you ...... Your save is corrupted, or the world has forgotten about the game.
Of course, there will also be an endless mode as opposed to the adventure mode. In this mode, you can call on all the game's resources and use your imagination to create all kinds of things.
Genting Heavenly Palace, the Statue of Liberty, the Tomb (Pyramid) of Raer, amusement parks, sky gardens, and even a bustling city with people coming and going, a well-organized, thriving country......
In addition, it is possible to use the digital, electro-model, and electrical functions provided by the game itself to create picture tubes, timers, and ...... Or even create another game.
This is a free world in the true sense of the word, where there are no restrictions on you.
In the same way, the product of this "freedom" is also the greatest source of achievement for players. Upload the world you have worked so hard to build on the Internet, and even share it with others, enjoying other people's sightseeing pilgrimages and worship.
Jiang Yu: "What do you think of adding a feature like 'Access'?"
Thousands of thoughts turned through his mind, and finally Jiang Yu asked.
Ryunosuke Akasaka: "What do you mean by 'visit'?"
Jiang Yu: "Describe it roughly...... It is when one player builds a city or country that is rich enough and excellent, and the rest of the players can access it through an online platform, where they can communicate with the rest of the world, or trade with them. People come and go, traffic is busy, everyone performs their duties, as if ...... It's like living in it."
He was humbly asking for advice.
He's never been a game producer, and he's never tried to be at the head of a game production team that has to make trade-offs between all the elements of the game.
To put it simply, he wasn't sure if his ideas could help take this angry game to the next level. If he was denied a burden, he thought, he would probably be disappointed.
So, while waiting for Ryunosuke Akasaka to respond, Jiang Yu didn't realize that his palms were wet, and his whole body was extremely hot, as if he was exposed to the sun on dog days.
Ryu Akasaka: "That's it...... I think it's good, and even though the era of MMORPGs has passed, I have a feeling that if this is the game, it might be successful. However, if you want to do that, you need to have a server that is strong enough...... Speaking of which, how are you going to play these two games?"
Jiang Yu exhaled lightly, his chest fell to the ground like a hanging stone, and then his mind began to liven.
Server issues are also a major concern for him. If he were to add this feature as he had in mind, it would be tantamount to allowing players to build an infinite number of game worlds on his server that could be joined. To put it simply, it's like a large-scale online game, with countless regional servers opened.
Although the resources used in a world are not very large, if the number of players is increased, everyone builds such an open world, and the amount of computation required is quite staggering.
Of course, it is also possible to just save the player's save on the server, and put all the resource generation steps on the player's computer. However, in this case, there are only a few people who can use this function.
Jiang Yu: "The preliminary estimate is that it may be the first to be released on Steam, according to the launch of an indie game, with a slightly lower price or free, and it will win enough attention and player traffic first. As for the issue of renting servers...... Let me think about it again."
Now this world is still king after all, data is king, and software like Line, if the main company is ambitious enough, can be made like the last world TX in the Celestial Empire.
And once the number of your own users is enough, no matter what you do next, at least in the promotion of this part, it is much more convenient.
After all, spending money on advertising is overwhelming, and sometimes the effect may not be as good as someone else's pop-up window for each user, so it's inevitable that there will be some residual thoughts when you think about it.
If Jiang Yu holds such a huge communication software, even if it is a bad hand, it can give you the pleasure of playing spring.
Ryunosuke Akasaka: "If you have the money, I can rent a server that is computationally large enough."
Jiang Yu pursed his lips slightly, and secretly said that if I really need it, I might be able to ask for one directly from my father...... Although there is definitely a pay.
This is one of the Jiang family's family rules, prohibiting getting something for nothing. Therefore, when you officially work, your family will basically cut off your source of livelihood, and his father Jiang He also came over like this. But perhaps because of this, Jiang He can understand what kind of state it is to live at the bottom of the game world. Later, after he officially took over the family company, he didn't act like the boss of those big companies in some decisions, and he was a lot more humane.
Jiang Yu: "I thought about it, maybe I can solve the resource usage problem of the game server by restricting the permissions of players. If they lease their own servers and then accept players, of course we can't control it, but if we want to occupy our server resources, the world built by that player must be good enough to apply for a certain share."
Ryunosuke Akasaka: "How do you solve the online mode?" Limit the number of logins?"
Jiang Yu: "That's pretty much what it means. Preliminary ...... Limiting the number of people to 5~6 people should be about the same, but it is better to make a decision based on the careful resource allocation calculation after renting the server. Both games can adopt such a crowd limiting approach."
Ryunosuke Akasaka: "Understood. Speaking of which, the project you sent me for these two games seems to be named "Project A" and "Project B", but the specific names haven't been considered yet, okay?"
Seeing this, Jiang Yu pondered for a moment before giving his answer.
Jiang Yu: "The former name is tentatively 'Famine', and the latter is ......'Origin'."
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On the other side, in the room with all the lights turned off and the curtains closed, only the light of the computer screen could be seen in the dim light, and the sound of the server placed next to the bed could be heard.
This big thing is also the reason why Ryunosuke Akasaka lives here. In addition to feeling that roommates are completely useless, it is also because the general dormitory can't install a server in it, so he asked the school to move to Sakuraso.
The young man, whose long purple hair was pouring down his back, was sitting on a chair barefoot, munching on tomatoes and chatting with his temporary partner.
Yes, for the time being.
In Ryunosuke Akasaka's heart, the one on the other side is at most half a partner, and if something doesn't go his way in the future, it's entirely possible for him to just pick on it...... That's what he thought.
However, after a conversation with them about the two games, the genius programmer gradually agreed with each other. It's not just the novelty ideas that the other party will come up with from time to time, but also because of the other party's seemingly ordinary words, the irrepressible deep love for game production.
In this era when large companies are beginning to gradually make 3A adult goods, there are really such people who only make games for their own pure game concept?
He couldn't help but scoff twice.
Is it stupid? Stupidity.
However, it is not annoying. It's better to say that it made him feel a little hot blood surging in his heart for the first time in a long time.
Subsequently, seeing the two game names sent by Jiang Yu, Ryunosuke Akasaka smiled again. The former one is fine, it is decent, and I can't find any major faults. And this latter one......
Not to mention the fact that he collided with the name of a game platform of a major game company, just under that simple word, the arrogance or confidence contained in it made him, who had always been calm, almost jump up from his chair all at once.
Origin, which translates to mean – origin.
It can be said that the tone is quite large.
……
Looking at Ryunosuke Akasaka, who had not responded for a long time in the chat box, Jiang Yu showed an expression of surprise. He chose such a name, on the one hand, because he felt that although the name of the original work was vivid, it was not lofty enough; On the other hand, it is also because this game has such a high status in his heart.
Jiang Yu: "Scared? Hehe...... In short, please trouble Akasaka to hurry up and rewrite the code of "Don't Starve" in the next few days, and I will find the person in charge of art as soon as possible; In addition, if you still have the energy to spare, you can also make a demo of 'Origin', of course, without including the circuit function."
The so-called demo is a sample of the work, or a demonstration product.
Ryunosuke Akasaka: "...... ok。 But do you have any requirements for the origins? If you say something as soon as possible, I won't be bother to rewrite it again later." Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Programmer in the Two-Dimensional Claw Book House" for free for the first time.