First, "The Origin of Everything" actually does not have as high requirements for the program as imagined, and is even lower than "Survival", and the slightly more difficult may be the terrain generation algorithm and map management mechanism.

However, for Shan Jie, it is not a difficult task, so it will not take many days to make a demo.

And Ye Shenxi has actually determined that the main gameplay of this game is actually on various mods and plug-ins, if this game can become popular, the biggest reason is definitely not because of how playable the gameplay is, but because it has a wellspring of talent behind it, and the free community with unlimited enthusiasm is supporting.

Because the game framework is built like this, after opening various API interfaces, the game in game created by players themselves will be the core content of "The Origin of Everything".

Even if players don't realize it at first, the official herring fish network will continue to make and release it by itself as a guide.

And this free community will be built on the FG platform, not that Ye Shenxi will hinder the player's own communication in other third-party forums, but all this needs to be led by the official.

Some games have been planned at the beginning of development to sell scalability, such as "The Origin of Everything", and some games are not, such as "Minecraft" in another world, although mods do play a very key role in its user stickiness, very exaggerated to improve the vitality and longevity of the game, but that is actually something that developer Notch did not expect.

So in Minecraft, the lifeblood of the game is maintained by some third-party black technology, such as Forge, bukkit, sponge, and other third-party APIs developed by decompiling the source code, as well as thousands of mods and plugins built on top of them, all of which are not under the control of Mojang and Giant Hard.

The official compromise was that they later supported the version with Forge installed.

But this can be problematic, and the most important part is that if the game itself has been updated to a new version, and Forge and other third-party APIs have not followed up with the development, then mods that rely on Forge will not be able to support the latest official release.

At this time, so many players who rely on these mods will also say to the latest version, we don't agree.

These classic and fun mods bring a huge stickiness to the game, but at the same time, they can also hinder the update of the version.

So when several famous mods in Minecraft are still stuck at 1.7.10, even if you officially release 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, players just don't upgrade.

Imagine that we worked hard to make new features and happily released them, free DLC, but no players played at all, because of the different MOD versions, they were also scattered in different old versions, which is not what Ye Shenxi wanted to see.

So he hopes that modders, at least most modders, will make mods based on the officially released APIs.

Just like "Survival", Shan Jie also needs to develop various mod production tools, and compete with folk gods for ease of use, service, and users......

It's to officially force the same people to death.。

At the meeting, Ye Shenxi directly removed the prop synthesis function in the original demand, leaving only map generation, character movement, and block destruction and placement.

"How many days does it take for such a demo?"

"Two weeks." Shan Jie thought about it and gave a relatively safe time.

This time was a little longer than Ye Shenxi expected.

"Is it because of C++?" Ye Shenxi asked.

In the past two days, Ye Shenxi and Shan Jie discussed which language to use, and hesitated for a moment between C++ and java. Of course, he only understands a little, and for planning, the biggest effect of knowing some common sense in the program is that you will not be so easily deceived by the program.

For example, when he tells you that a certain function can't be done, he actually wants to be lazy and troublesome.

"Yes." Shan Jie answered honestly.

"Yes."

The significant difference between C++ and Java is that C++ is indeed harder than Java. Relatively speaking, java is easier to get started, the development is agile, the version can be iterated quickly, it is more suitable for small teams to develop quickly, and java is open source, more square to develop mods, of course, this is also a double-edged sword, and portability is better, Ye Shenxi also put forward requirements for portability before.

Minecraft was originally developed in Java.

But the problem with Java is that the virtual machine takes up too much memory, especially for games that have a large number of blocks on the map that need to occupy memory, and its own code optimization is very poor.

Later, Ju Qiang also realized these problems, and launched a C++ version, from PC to mobile to PS4 and XBOX version, etc., all of which were rewritten in C++, but at this time, the mods existing in various communities were still based on java.

Game porting has a huge hard salary, but the mod maker doesn't have it, who will do it? So there is still a long way to go for C++ to replace Java.

So now "The Origin of Everything" is written directly in C++ from the beginning, there is no problem of mod porting, at most, the development cycle is longer, but the requirements for the player's equipment hardware will be much lower.

It's worth it.

As for the API, what the players want and what they give will of course be considered, but this attitude will be clearly communicated to the players.

……

"Yang Shu, you don't have a lot of work here, just the requirements document I sent you, in which I first listed 100 kinds of common resources in the game, mainly various basic stones, brick walls, wood, mines, food, furniture, etc., respectively, to make items and icons, I listed it, about a total of 342 drawings, but it is not complicated."

"What specs?" Yang Shu asked, a little unhappy, why is this job becoming less and less difficult......

"The block is 32*32, and the icon is 16*16, all written in the document, you can see for yourself later."

"A square is only 32*32?"

Ye Shenxi smiled: "What, it's too vague?" ”

This is all good, like "Minecraft" was originally 16*16, that is a full screen mosaic, especially the first-person perspective, closer to all kinds of stones, when the mouse shakes, it is called a dizziness.

The pixel art in 3D mode is not as nostalgic as 2D, so it's better to be moderate.

"Oh......"

"Oh yes, give me a moment."

"It's two weeks, too......"

Now there are three artists in this project team, and this kind of workload, Yang Shu can almost do it himself, and hand it over to the other two.

"I know you're free, if you're okay, I'll find something to do by myself, have you seen the Batman mod of "Survival"? You should do a better job than him, you can also make a few and put them on, or go to Cao Ruoruo to apply for some original paintings, and now they are doing the localization of the European and American versions of "Eternal War", and there are also some original paintings and model adjustments, mainly original paintings. ”

"Okay, I got it."

"Mr. Ye, can I ask, how much is a game of this magnitude going to sell?"

Shan Jie seems that this game is like a small game, and he himself does not understand how such a game can impact the international market.

"About $20, but I'll have to do some research."

He doesn't know what the price distribution of games of the same genre or magnitude in Europe and the United States is like, so he has to ask people to collect data.

"So expensive?" Shan Jie was surprised, such a game sells for more than 100 yuan, the boss is crazy, is the dollar so easy to earn!

"The national costume will be cheaper, about 59 yuan."

"Isn't that the same price as "Sword and Fairy 4"?" No matter how you look at these two games, it's not of the same magnitude.

"It's that "Sword and Fairy 4" is sold too cheaply, and it just surrenders to the national conditions. Besides, the value of the game is not determined by the size of the installation package, the fineness of the material, and the development cycle, so it's dangerous for you to think like this, and this kind of thing says, 'This book is so thick that it only costs ten yuan a copy, it's really cost-effective!'" What's the difference. ”

"......" Shan Jie was speechless.

"Still think it's expensive? Then reduce the price. ”

Yang Shu also said: "It's so casual......"

"You guys, if you can't get some things right, you might as well set them higher, of course, within a reasonable range, so that there is still room for adjustment in the future. Can we reduce the price, for fear of provoking the players who bought before the price reduction, the discount head office, that way is not much? Players will also feel that they have earned it. ”

Curated crooked intestines...... Shan Jie and Yang Shu thought at the same time.

In fact, there are similarities in the setting of some consumption values in the game, for example, it is better to fuse pets with 10 ingots at a time, and if the numerical planning is not accurate, it is usually set higher to 20 ingots, and then adjust and reduce after player feedback. If you set it low at the beginning to make it 5 ingots, and then want to raise it later, the player will have to make a fuss.

……

After the meeting, Ye Shenxi sent "Survival" or the stand-alone business department first, and encouraged them to work hard, you have to take good care of the project in my absence, and of course the promised bonus was also fulfilled, although this game didn't make a penny at all.

Everyone on the team, including the two who just joined, but unlike others, they are also distributed according to the degree of contribution to the project.

After sending a few people away, Ye Shenxi called Tan Xun over again and asked about the latest progress of the FG platform.

At present, they are in full swing in development is the 1.0 version of the community function, mainly Innovation Works, this function allows players to directly publish their own MODs on the platform for people to use, and the people who use it will be one-click foolish from download to installation, and then enter the game to achieve the effect.

Of course, it depends on whether the game itself has an open interface and provides mod creation and upload tools.

Then Ye Shenxi accompanied the dumplings for an afternoon, and also enjoyed a handful of family fun, for a short time.

……

The next day, Ye Shenxi went directly to South Korea.