NO.036 Glory of Kings Edition PUBG

If you want to say what industry has low cost, broad market, and the easiest to make money in these years, of course, it must be the development of smart phone APP software.

And what APP is the most profitable, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is probably mobile games.

When it comes to mobile games, we have to mention Tencent's phenomenal mobile game - Honor of Kings.

This phenomenal mobile game, which created tens of billions of profits in 2016, can be said to have created a mythical era of mobile games.

Even Zhang Yaoyang, who doesn't pay much attention to the e-sports circle, can still be like a treasure: an average of 80 million games per day, more than 200 million registered users, more than 50 million daily online users, and so on.

It can be said that on average, one out of every 7 people in the country is playing Glory of Kings.

Therefore, Zhang Yaoyang's first idea was to use the zero-cost labor of the Red Queen to make a mobile game that could make money.

Of course, Zhang Yaoyang doesn't want to make a phenomenal mobile game like Honor of Kings, he only needs to make a relatively good mobile game.

"Mobile games?"

At this time, after listening to Zhang Yaoyang's thoughts, the red queen immediately began to search for relevant information on the Internet.

Zhang Yaoyang only saw that his computer screen was constantly flickering and changing at a speed that humans could not react to, and soon, it was frozen on the main page of the official website of Honor of Kings.

"You want to make a game like this?"

"Yes and no." Zhang Yaoyang shook his head, although the Red Queen is the only intelligent life in the world, but unfortunately because of too little experience, there is no divergent thinking of human beings, in short, it is a little stunned.

Therefore, he had to explain, "It's not a good choice to follow the trend, and besides, the mass base of the glory of kings is there, and I can't compete with it at all." Not only was it not competitive, but we had to dodge it, so I was going to make a game that would take the best of the game but be completely different. ”

"It doesn't matter if the game makes money or not, after all, my company and this game are just a front for the purpose of allowing me to spend the money I earn in Bitcoin unnoticed." Zhang Yaoyang added, "Of course, it would be better to be able to make money. ”。

"Is that money laundering?" The Red Queen thought thoughtfully, "I see, but what kind of mobile game do you want to make?" ”

When Zhang Yaoyang heard this, he was silent for a while, and then asked for a long time, "You say, in addition to the glory of kings, what other online games are more popular?" ”

"I'll check." The computer screen flashed rapidly again, and after a while, a group of sassy men and women appeared in front of Zhang Yaoyang's eyes.

"PUBG?"

Seeing this cover, Zhang Yaoyang's eyes lit up, "I see, the occasion-based game is the king, and now the mobile game has entered the era of fragmentation, and the game mechanism of fighting monsters and upgrading has long been eliminated, and the limited fragmented time can be used for entertainment, which is the true essence of the mobile game." ”

"For example, these two games, although they seem to have nothing to do with each other: one is a competitive game, the other is a gunfight game, but in the final analysis, both of them adopt a PVP multiplayer battle mode, dividing the game into one game after another, even if the last game is not played well, but it will not dampen the player's enthusiasm, after all, you can play the next ......"

Zhang Yaoyang said in a low voice, "In other words, if I want to design a game, I must avoid the old-fashioned drama of fighting monsters and upgrading, and it is best to adopt the strategy of PVP, which is where the trend of mobile games is now!" ”

"That's right." Red nodded expressionlessly, "According to my investigation, after the popularity of PUBG, there have been a number of mobile game companies trying to preemptively develop a mobile version of PUBG to seize the market, if we can develop it before many companies, and the quality and gameplay are not lost to any game, it may be impossible to reach the height of Glory of Kings, but it should be no problem to reach half the height." ”

When Zhang Yaoyang heard this, he couldn't help but snap his fingers, "Okay, let's design a mobile version of PUBG, but my goal is different from PUBG, it is best to combine Glory of Kings and PUBG, for example, PUBG is a third-person gunfight, then we can try the third-person Glory of Kings, let players use skills instead of gunfights, after all, gunfights, which rely on accuracy, are too unfriendly to mobile phones." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Yaoyang stood up and paced back and forth in the room, thinking as he walked, "At the same time, the picture must be exquisite, one of the two games is cartoonish, and the other is realistic, so my idea is to take it neutral, for example, the painting style of "Sword and Soul", I think it is very amazing." ”

"As for the characters, you can learn from the Glory of Kings, design hundreds of heroes for players to choose from, these heroes can be designed as human shapes, can also be designed as monsters, each hero has its own unique skills, the number of skills is set to three, and the difficulty of operation is a bit high."

"But in the battle mode, I prefer the melee mode of PUBG, of course, there is also a multiplayer team mode, and as for the beginning, I tend to be the type of 'nothing, all the equipment is picked up'."

"In terms of equipment, it can be divided into long-range weapons and short-range weapons, as well as armor. The ranged damage is as low as possible, and the close-range damage is high, and players can match a variety of combat styles according to their weapons and skills, but be sure to pay attention to the balance of the game. ”

"Understood." With Zhang Yaoyang's various ideas, the red queen began to control the computer to open a software called DirectX, and the next second, lines of code flowed down like a waterfall.

"What are you doing here?" Zhang Yaoyang couldn't help asking.

"I'm working on a game engine, and it takes about half an hour, and with a game engine, it's very easy to make this game." The red queen replied lightly.

"In order to avoid copyright disputes, I also need to write our unique graphics engine, sound engine, physics engine and network engine that supports Internet battles, as well as character design and game music, do you want me to design them, or do you want to customize special game music online?"

Zhang Yaoyang suddenly sweated when he heard this, "It's so complicated? You try to design it first, and if it doesn't work, we'll figure it out. ”

Zhang Yaoyang shook his head helplessly, fortunately there is a red queen, otherwise he, a layman who doesn't even understand the C language, would be wishful thinking to design a game.

At this time, Zhang Yaoyang had passed about an hour since he got up, and after calculating the time, his parents should come back, so Zhang Yaoyang simply turned around and walked out of his room and began to make his own morning.

He first opened the refrigerator, took out a few eggs and a few bags of milk, then put the non-stick pot on the natural gas stove, poured oil, and when the oil was hot, he skillfully cracked the eggs and hit them directly.

Fried eggs, this can be said to be Zhang Yaoyang's best breakfast, long before he went to college, he learned to make breakfast for himself, at this time it is even more familiar, wait until the eggs are fried, and finally sprinkle the salt and cumin, the colorful and delicious fried eggs are completely out of the pot.

Then, Zhang Yaoyang changed the pot again, cut a few slices of brick tea, and threw them into the pot.

After the tea boils, Zhang Yaoyang mixes it with milk according to the ratio of 2:1, and finally sprinkles it with salt, and a pot of Jiangwei-style milk tea is completely out of the pot.

Zhang Yaoyang's father once served as a soldier in Jiangwei, and even Zhang Yaoyang grew up in Jiangwei for four or five years after he was born, so the whole family has a special nostalgia for Jiangwei's milk tea.

After a while, the parents returned home, and when they saw the breakfast prepared by Zhang Yaoyang, the two of them invariably showed a look of relief.

After the reunion dinner, Zhang Yaoyang returned to his room, and at this time, the red queen had completely completed the design of the game engine, and began to design animations and character textures.

I have to say that the Red Queen is really worthy of being the only artificial intelligence in the world, even if the design of this engine is placed in those large international companies, without the effort of one hundred and eighty people for a year or two, it can't be designed at all, which is probably why "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is so popular, but there are still no similar games on the market for the time being.

But for the Red Queen, designing a game is as simple as eating and drinking.

At his request, these characters are delicate and handsome, tall and long-legged and full of personality, as well as the exquisite game scenes around them, which have opened Zhang Yaoyang's eyes.

As for the question of creativity, it doesn't matter, although the red queen has no human inspiration and creativity, but she can imitate other anime and games to make, here and there, a little plagiarism, when a character image is designed, it really looks like it, and it is even more exquisite than the original version that was plagiarized.

After watching for a while, Zhang Yaoyang heard the sound of his parents knocking on his door, he asked the red queen to turn off the display, turned around and opened the door, but saw his mother standing in front of his door.

"Yangyang, get ready to go, I still have to attend the wedding at noon."

"Wedding?" Zhang Yaoyang was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that today is the day of his cousin's wedding.