After Hucheng and Li Haoming talked about some development plans for the Oasis community and platform, Su Li did not immediately return to Xinhai City, but took a detour to Sioux City, where he made an appointment with someone.

The new project of Future Oasis has now entered the stage of official development, and although there are not many people in the studio right now, the progress is still okay.

The initial work of development was mainly to design a combat system. The combat system is now in charge of Summit, and the design of the combat system is a very critical task for an ARPG.

It can be said that for an ARPG, the combat system determines half of the success or failure of the game.

For the combat system, Summit is slightly stronger than Su Li in terms of experience and understanding, as the second person in the development team. Su Li naturally handed over this crucial task to him.

The new intern had gained experience with Summit and was familiar with the Oasis development environment.

The current development pressure is not great, and the studio maintains a relatively relaxed development atmosphere. Unlike those online projects with a lot of time pressure, working overtime to catch up with schedules is basically meaningless for a single-player project with a long development cycle, and Oasis now has much less work time than it did when Lost Wonderland was developed.

After all, at that time, the project of "The Lost Secret Land" was about the life and death of the future oasis, and now there is no such urgent pressure.

Su Li came to Suzhou City this time to meet a potential partner, who was introduced by Xu Chuan and a well-known person in their circle. Xu Chuan is a mixed board game circle, and has met a lot of running group enthusiasts, although he prefers traditional DND, but he is not exclusive to some other styles of TPRG.

This person named "Shanhe" is a more famous KP in their circle, mainly the KP who does the COC (Cthulhu) regiment.

KP is the abbreviation of Key person or Keeper, which is TRPG, that is, the game controller and host in desktop role-playing.

The word KP is often used in Cthulhu Mythos-based party games, where the character has other names, such as DM (Dungeon Master), ST (Story Teller), and GM (Game Master).

The Cthulhu Mythos is a very popular thing in recent years, and many games can see some settings with the shadow of the Cthulhu Mythos, and now more and more people are familiar with it.

Now in the future, Oasis needs to supplement the game background and the designer of the game mission, and Su Li and Xu Chuan are also working on this now, but there is really a lot to do in this regard, so they want to add a collaborator who is good at this.

When Su Li put forward this demand, Xu Chuan recommended the person "Shanhe" to him, in fact, the relationship between Xu Chuan and "Shanhe" is just a general, just to do a matchmaking thing, and Su Li needs to talk about it himself.

The reason why Xu Chuan recommends Sunward is because compared to other KPs, Sunward is not only an excellent game host, but also an excellent script writer and modder designer. The COC team of the mountains and rivers never uses other people's scripts and mods, everything is written by himself, and it is well received.

A good mod script is not so easy to write, and the core of a TRPG is role-playing, allowing players to play their own characters as if they were there, enjoy the plot that they can't experience in life, and be able to change the ending of the game according to their actions.

The game progression of TRPG is open-ended, KP needs to give different feedback on the different actions of the players, and a good running group journey requires the full cooperation between the host and the players.

Before coming to Sioux City, Su Li had already watched a few mountain and river running group records on the Internet, and had some understanding of this person's style.

Shanhe is a middle-aged man in his thirties, dressed in an artist's style, with a beard and a braid.

This image is not much different from what Su Li began to make up in his mind, and the voice of the mountains and rivers in the video belongs to the kind of mature and magnetic, able to read various narration backgrounds with arias, and is good at creating a game atmosphere.

"You're much younger than I thought."

When Shanhe saw Su Li, he naturally sighed: "To be honest, I envy you, you can do what you want to do, and you can do it so successfully." ”

Shanhe's main business is in a local design company, doing interior design work, and he is half an art person.

Running groups and writing are his hobbies. But having said that, Sunward's reputation in the field of TRPG is much greater than his reputation in the field of interior design. In the company, he is just a very ordinary designer, and no one knows his second identity.

"I've seen the mods you wrote, and I've watched a lot of videos of the running groups you hosted. Your level in this area is worthy of your reputation. ”

Su Li has also been in contact with TRPG, and when he was abroad, he also participated in the running group activities organized by his classmates, so he still has a certain understanding of this aspect.

In Shanhe's script, what surprised Su Li the most was the unexpected, but reasonable ending.

Even if it is the same module, under the design and hosting of Shanhe, each running group trip will have a completely different experience and a completely different ending.

Open-ended progression and endings are a major feature of TRPGs, because in TRPGs, it is not pre-set programs that manipulate the plot, but living people, and a good KP can give a suitable feedback when the player makes an unexpected decision, leading the plot to a completely different route.

Similarly, these mods designed by Sunward are very immersive in the plot and make people very eager to explore.

His style is to try to make the player fully reflect the plot of the mod, conduct in-depth exploration, and not make things difficult for the player, which is completely different from those bad fun KPs who take pleasure in destroying players.

"Thanks for the compliment." Shanhe showed a smile, he was still quite happy with Su Li's affirmation, Su Li was able to rush to Su City to meet him, which also reflected Su Li's attention to himself.

Su Li naturally asked, "Haven't you thought about changing careers?" ”

Shanhe shook his head and said with a smile: "Life still has to go on, I like to write stories and design plots, but this thing is actually not popular in China." Domestic game companies almost do not recruit specialized plot designers, and most of them are replaced by copywriting planning, and some even save copywriting, just recruit an intern to write a little. ”

"You should also know this kind of treatment, to be honest, it is not comparable to my current income at all."

Shanhe said it very calmly, and it is also a fact.

Only a few large domestic game companies will set up a special plot designer, and for ordinary companies, there is no need to set up such a position. The core of a mobile game is social, gameplay, and numerics, not story.

As for the plot, the common routine of game companies now is to directly buy ready-made IP, and adapt it slightly according to the gameplay, and there is already a mature routine in this regard.

Ready-made IPs come with a group of players, with low risk and good returns.

As for tasks, these companies naturally have a mature task system, all kinds of tasks are one-stop, and the set of payment points is closely linked, which is a time-tested system.

"In the future, Oasis needs a plot designer and mission designer to work on our new project."

Su Li went straight to the point and said, "If you are interested, we can discuss it further." ”

Shanhe nodded, indicating that he was listening.