Chapter 792: Ready Player One

In fact, Charlotte has been working on strengthening the game produced by Ghost Party Studios with the help of future gameplay and creativity.

And he has not stopped mixing smuggled goods into it.

In this regard, the most obvious is the game of the same name with "Sherlock Holmes" as the IP.

That game has developed to the present, and it has become a wonder in the console game industry-

First of all, as a console game, it emphasizes networking and socialization, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a miniaturized online game;

Secondly, although there are a lot of action elements, the multiplayer dungeon is unfolded in a mode similar to a killing game.

- Players play different roles and fight against each other according to the random characters they found when they first entered the dungeon.

Unlike mainstream games where fair duels are due, this confrontation is completely asymmetrical.

You can choose to use your skills to damage each other, or you can use some special tricks to trap your opponents.

- In a way, this can also be seen as a small-scale game of chicken.

- It's just a team version.

In particular, after Charlotte intervened in the later stage and emphasized some sandbox elements with a high degree of freedom, the designers led by Shi Deen, the boss of the game department, opened up infinite brains.

This makes the game version of "Sherlock Holmes" have a lot of rather bizarre ways to eliminate opponents. Many players are tired of this "a thousand ways to die" gameplay.

Of course, this also means that the programmers responsible for making the game are under a lot of pressure -

After all, sandbox games are never easy to make.

Anyway, when making this game, the confrontation between brainstorming and filling in the pit was very hot, and there was even a situation of "going to the rooftop......

However, after the game was launched, the good feedback and better sales data given by players made everyone in the production team feel that the hardships they endured at the beginning were meaningful.

So much so that every year since 2000, the game department of the Ghost Party studio has released an upgraded version of Sherlock Holmes.

This year, it's already "Sherlock Holmes 3".

- Naturally, the eternal confrontation between the brain hole and the pit filling has not stopped, and from time to time there will be another "rooftop"......

Now, it's even a style of work for the Ghost Party Studios game department.

In the face of the strange brain hole that is actually directly from the boss Charlotte in many cases, everyone is "painful and happy......

Nowadays, when making games in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, it is no exception -

Although according to Charlotte's plan, the final version of the online game will be based on "Age of Exploration Online", it does not mean that he intends to let his subordinates copy it completely.

On the one hand, since the story is set in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, it means that pirates and fantasy elements should occupy a larger proportion.

- There are a lot of details in this that make this game a distance from the Age of Exploration series.

On the other hand, Charlotte always felt that the one-person-one-boat model of "Age of Discovery" OL was less confrontational.

Socialization between players is also more based on its economic system.

- For Charlotte, who is actually very aggressive at heart, this is not very enjoyable.

- especially in terms of naval warfare.

Therefore, he instructed Shi Deen, the boss of the game department, to strengthen the element of naval warfare, and it is best to introduce the element of teamwork.

It would be great if you could achieve the effect of gang jumping like in the movie.

- This request almost made Shi Deen, a middle-aged man who had some hair loss, lose his hair directly.

After all, in this era, online games have only just emerged for a few years.

Not to mention the basic hardware conditions and technical methods of implementation, even in terms of gameplay creativity, many things are still in the exploration stage.

- Even though Stern has worked at EA for many years and has a lot of experience in the console game field, he is not the kind of person who can easily create a system.

- That kind of person is Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, Hideo Kojima, John Carmack, ......

"Moreover, even those perverts are not just going to be able to get a new way to play!!"

In short, some time ago, Shi Deen, who was tossed and emaciated by Charlotte's "vexatious" boss, almost took the initiative to submit his resignation.

Fortunately, Charlotte is not the kind of boss who doesn't care about it after making requests.

Coming from the future, although he is not a professional game-maker, he has played a lot of games, which can be called well-informed.

This allows him to open a golden finger from time to time, and use some things that have been proven in the future to guide his subordinates-

"We can use the dungeon mode to achieve gang jumping!"

After pondering for a moment, Charlotte said to her men,

"In multiplayer, you can have five players per boat. Once the two sides meet in a naval battle, they will enter the dedicated dungeon mode of the gang jump battle - the scene of this dungeon is spliced together according to the ship type of both sides. ”

"Splicing combinations!?"

Stenn's eyes lit up.

Charlotte's words seemed to open a new door for him.

And yet—

"In order to make this kind of battle dungeon more interesting, we can even let players design some of the arrangements on their own ships, put some of their own special weapons and even traps......"

Charlotte's next words made Stenn realize that he was still too young.

Indeed, Charlotte opened a door for him.

"But it's the gates of hell!"

Shi Deen silently cursed his perverted boss in his heart.

However, he also understands that the creativity given by Charlotte, if done well, can indeed make a very good way to play.

He didn't know that Charlotte's later words were actually borrowed from the gameplay of "Clash of Clans" produced by Supercell Studios in the future......

In short, because Charlotte opened Goldfinger in time, a dilemma in the Ghost Party studio was solved.

Of course, in order to completely solve it, it is still necessary to solve a lot of detailed problems and overcome many technical problems.

That's not Charlotte's job, though.

- In this world, creativity is both valuable and worthless.

But for a boss like Charlotte who has enough strength and subordinates, creativity is very valuable.

In particular, because "Pirates of the Caribbean", the online game reference to "Age of Discovery", was not particularly successful in Charlotte's original time and space, Charlotte was even more unscrupulous when she mixed private goods into it.

In contrast, he doesn't talk much about Lord of the Rings games that are a direct reference to World of Warcraft.

After all, World of Warcraft is known to be amazing when it first appeared.

Charlotte only needs to borrow the golden finger of her traveler and point out the direction for her subordinates......