How long does it take to make a card game with magic?

In ancient times, it took at least several years or even decades to build a bridge across the river, from the excavation of raw materials to processing, and the cost of transportation and labor after processing was also considered, so the Great Wall and pyramids, which were almost impossible to build in ancient times, have become famous.

In modern times, it is much more convenient to build a pyramid, with mechanical processing in factories, transportation by train and ship, and a large number of machinery working non-stop.

The same is true for using magic to create a game, magic is synonymous with impossibility, and the difference between ancient and modern game making techniques on Earth is like that of ancient and modern times. In the eyes of high-level spellcasters, creating a game is no more complicated than completing a magical project, and a magical project that is almost impossible to complete in the eyes of a human spellcaster is almost as difficult as beating Dark Tales in the eyes of the White Dragon Simpson.

The White Dragon Simpson is a realm-level spellcaster, and when it's genuinely interested in something and can't wait to get involved, it drives the White Dragon Workshop at high speeds like an engine.

Although Harvey is not a loyal player of Hearthstone, he has also been obsessed with this game for a while, and he has not logged in for a long time after getting out of the pit for work reasons and encountering card retreat from the environment, and then Harvey often watches some streamers play Hearthstone, and some excerpts of wonderful Hearthstone clips are compulsory every week, so he is still impressed by the effect of Hearthstone cards.

There are thousands of cards in the information crystal recorded in nine professions, these cards are the mainstream card sets in "Hearthstone", different combinations can play different roles, after all, "Hearthstone" has been in operation for many years, and historical problems have led to a lot of waste cards, and there is no need to add this part of the waste cards for the time being.

"Dark Legends" is based on "Hearthstone" to create, not only to change the skin, the overall environment of the game and the effect of the cards are optimized, Harvey does not intend to pursue absolute balance, because this is very boring in the card game, this is also the place where Harvey most does not understand Blizzard game production company, blindly pursuing the so-called competitive and reducing the gameplay, but I don't know that a game where luck accounts for most of the winning reasons to toss fairness itself is a very stupid thing.

Harvey's balance of the game is more inclined to the mutual restraint between decks, with nine different classes restraining each other and a butterfly effect due to different deck effects.

The most classic restraint in "Hearthstone" is the triangle relationship, the fast attack deck restrains the late card deck, the medium speed card deck restrains the fast card deck, and the late card deck restrains the medium card deck, the three form a stable triangle restraint relationship, in addition to some unstable card deck series, such as the very luck test [Astral De], once you are lucky, you can directly hang all the deck systems, and if you are unlucky, you will be hung up by all the decks.

Each class can form a plural and completely different card deck system to ensure the appearance rate of each class, Harvey also added hundreds of self-created cards according to his own unique ideas, and I don't know what effect it will cause for the time being, which requires players to test feedback.

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In the White Dragon Workshop, Harvey stared wide-eyed at the process of the White Dragon Simpson casting spells to "create" the game, and could only see the blue light passing by, and countless overlapping magic arrays formed a complex magic array system, Harvey was a little suspicious of whether he was a fake spellcaster, otherwise he couldn't understand the White Dragon Simpson's spell casting process at all.

The White Dragon Simpson completed most of the work of "Dark Legends" in less than a day, and yes, it only took less than a day to "extract" the game that Blizzard Games on Earth spent years and an entire game project team carefully polished.

The first is the calculation system of the game, "Dark Legend" is based on a rigorous mathematical calculation system, and the effects of the cards are the result of mathematical calculations.

The second is the framework of the game, the White Dragon Simpson has long studied the Little Overlord series and the game crystal thoroughly, and the creativity may not be as good as Harvey, but Harvey has already written out the framework structure of the game, and the caster in the field of hands-on ability can be thousands of times stronger than Harvey.

The two major projects that make up the three elements of Dark Legends were easily completed, but the last one, which might have been the easiest in the eyes of Blizzard's game project team, stumped the White Dragon Simpson.

That's the art setting, Harvey used text to describe the scene and character effects of each card in detail, but without the art painting Harvey brought with him as a reference, it took more than half a day for the experienced Dreiser's to design the card face of a card.

You can't just write your name on the card and fool around it, so you don't have a sense of substitution and refreshment.

Harvey took the game crystal handed by the white dragon Simpson, and the spirit sank into the interior to accept a large amount of content from the game crystal, and the content in the game crystal was overhauled based on the PVE mode.

【Adventure Mode】

【Confrontation Mode】

If you choose Adventure Mode, you will enter PVE mode, and if you choose Confrontation mode, you will experience new content.

Harvey's mind moved, and the confrontation mode option displayed inside the game crystal moved slightly, signaling that Harvey had chosen this option. The scene changes abruptly, the picture shows a very simple game interface, a wooden box is presented with battle mode, entertainment mode, practice mode, competitive mode four options, Harvey continues to choose the practice mode, the picture does not have any special effects, in the practice mode all the cards are described in text, very weird.

Because the data such as attacks and effects in PVE mode and PVP mode are not universal, it is not appropriate to apply PVE cards to PVP mode.

Just like Harvey's envisioned one, the PVP mode of "Dark Legends" is not even a half-finished product, but it has already shocked Harvey, and he originally estimated that it would take at least a month for the White Dragon Workshop to reach this level.

Harvey could only be infected with the magic of magic in his heart.

"As you can see, Lord Simpson, there are no major problems overall, and the first priority is to make illusion models and fill card images. There is no need to rush the illusion model for the time being, after all, the illusion model is only used on the [Gold Card] and does not affect the game performance. Harvey handed the game crystal to the members of the White Dragon Workshop, who looked like curious babies who didn't know the true face of the game until the White Dragon Simpson had made the game.

White Dragon Simpson slammed his mouth, and his tone revealed unwillingness: "Although I have lived for many years and seen a lot of things, let alone illusions, it is not easy to produce more than two thousand cards similar to "Dark Legends" in a short period of time. ”

Dreiser nodded and said solemnly, "More than two thousand cards... It's a big project, so how about entrusting this part of the work to the Illusion Workshop? ”

"Illusion Workshop?"

"Yes, it is also a kind of magic workshop, usually responsible for making illusion models used by professors to teach, and in some holidays, it is also responsible for making some illusion models, such as the Fire Dragon Festival of Clark Academy a month ago, the fire dragon illusion model with a body length of more than ten meters was made by an illusion workshop of Clark Academy, but the Magic Association has little demand for illusion workshops, the nature of this type of workshop is similar to our White Dragon Workshop, and it is difficult to find a workshop that can complete our commission."

Harvey looked at Dinah, who was carefully preparing to touch the game crystal, and remembered that she had said that she had studied illusion when she introduced herself, and asked politely, "Dinah, I remember that you were one of the students in the illusion department." ”

Dinah hurriedly withdrew her little hand, blushed like a frightened fawn, lowered her little head and stammered, "Yes..." Yes, Mr. Adrian, I... I'm mainly responsible for assisting Dreiser with the illusion model. ”

"Don't be nervous, answer slowly." Harvey smiled generously: "So there are many people in Clark Academy who are interested in illusions?" ”

Dinah grabbed the corner of the magic robe with her little hand and rubbed it, shaking her head: "There are very few magic apprentices in the illusion department, and I know no more than fifty. ”

"You don't have to reach the level of mastery, it's enough to be able to cast some ordinary illusions, are there many students like that?"

Dreiser's eyes lit up when he thought of something, and he nodded vigorously and interjected: "There are many magic apprentices in this way, although the illusion subject is not a major subject, many students will choose to study relatively simple illusion subjects in order to obtain credits. ”

Harvey finally turned his gaze to the White Dragon Simpson, who understood what Harvey meant, and replied with squinted eyes: "The credits that professors have are not unlimited, there is a fixed amount of points per semester, and if professors want to grant students more credits, they need to use contribution points to redeem them." ”

"Madeleine." Everyone's eyes turned to Madeleine again, because she was the one in charge of counting the revenue of the White Dragon Workshop.

"This month, our net profit income is 55,324 contribution points."

50,000 contribution points! That's almost the same as the total salary of the White Dragon Simpson for ten years as a professor at the Academy!

"So many!? Isn't our workshop in crisis? O'Neon's eyes widened in disbelief, and his breath became heavy when he heard the specific numbers, he owns the shares of the White Dragon Workshop, and he can also get thousands of contribution points when he appoints it, which is more profitable than his magic family in a month, it is simply a profiteering industry, and I don't know how much higher than writing a spell paper!

Madeleine raised her blonde hair in her right hand and snorted: "Because this month is the release month of "Dark Legends", most of it is the previous profit, and the next month may not be so much." ”

Harvey nodded: "Then everyone will divide a part of their contribution according to the proportion to hire students, no problem, right?" ”

"Yes!"

"Of course."

The white dragon Simpson was still a little reluctant, glanced at the game crystal on the side, and the sharp claws swiped the dragon scales on his chin, and considered: "Although it is very troublesome, it seems that there is no better choice, and it is necessary to ask a giant dragon to hand over his property, this is to kill the dragon." ”

Delegating the card design for Dark Tales to the Clark Academy's Apprentices of Magic and the Illusion Workshop can vary in style and quality, but it's also better than the visuals described in the text.

Otherwise, what's the difference between playing a card game without a screen and doing a math problem?