Take "Big Dream of the Three Kingdoms" as an example, the core gameplay of the game is still the MOBA game, but the heroes are replaced by characters in the Three Kingdoms, wild monsters are replaced by some small forces, and turrets are replaced by arrow towers.

When the game was in the publicity stage and had not yet been officially launched, it gained a group of curious fans, and everyone felt that China had finally made a MOBA game of its own.

However, when everyone flocked to the game, they found that the graphics quality of the game was slightly rough, the modeling of the heroes was not detailed enough, and even the gameplay was no different from other MOBA games, and that freshness quickly decreased.

Although the background of the story is still the Three Kingdoms, everyone's understanding of the characters in the Three Kingdoms is not even as clear as the Prince of Demacia in "Battle in the Canyon".

This is also a game made by borrowing traditional famous novels in China, which is not detailed and profound.

Everyone knows what the four famous books are, and many people probably know what stories the four famous books tell.

But if you take out one of the characters and let everyone talk about his life, not many people may be able to understand it.

After Sun Wencheng investigated a circle, he found the shortcomings of these games at present, and he already had a plan in his heart: "If you continue to follow this path, you will only repeat the mistakes of the past, and you will not be able to impress everyone." Change at least one of them to make everyone impressed! ”

It's hard to completely change the core of the current game that borrows the skin of traditional cultural games, but it's relatively easy to make some noticeable changes where players can see and hear!

Sun Wencheng is keenly aware that if the style of the game is replaced by traditional painting techniques (such as ink painting style), and the music in the game is replaced by music played by traditional domestic instruments (such as pipa music, suona music, Xiao song, etc.), it is very likely that it will have an impact on the player's visual and auditory senses, so that players can remember the game in addition to the gameplay.

Of course, this is also very risky, and it requires a huge capital investment and a long development cycle, which is full of challenges for the game industry, which has to wait for the game distribution to slowly recoup its costs and make a profit.

In the unlikely event that the game encounters a broken capital chain during development, the game is likely to die directly, and all the funds invested in the early development will be lost.

Even if it is a game made with a huge amount of money, a long cycle, and a hard time, who dares to guarantee that this game will be recognized by the market?

Who can guarantee that the cost of the game will be successfully recovered?

No boss would take such a big risk.

Sun Wencheng also knows that the bosses of game companies all want to make money, and Xue Kui is no exception.

However, even if he knew this, the faint turmoil in his heart made it impossible for him to calm down.

"If you don't take advantage of this time to design a game when you become a planner, wouldn't it be the same as salted fish?" Sun Wencheng remembered what Xue Kui said, "Since Mr. Xue has delegated all the rights to the game to me and Brother Xiang, I guess he also wants us to let go of our hands and feet." ”

Especially thinking of Xue Kui's sentence of 'come up with a budget of 5 million first, and then increase the budget appropriately after they come up with a plan', Sun Wencheng retained a glimmer of hope in his heart.

"Anyway, discuss it with Brother Xiang first and settle the plan."

With an idea, Sun Wencheng began to write down his thoughts, waiting for the discussion with Li Xiang tomorrow to confirm the plan, and then quickly formed a formal plan and gave it to Xue Kui.

Early in the morning of the next day, Sun Wencheng found Li Xiang with the materials he had prepared for the day, and Li Xiang also took out the materials he printed out yesterday, and the two came to the conference room together.

"Let me tell you what I thought after checking the information yesterday." After a day of preparation, Li Xiang also had some ideas in his heart, anyway, he didn't need to get started with the specific process of making the game, he just needed to make some suggestions on the side.

Hey, who wouldn't.

"At present, there are many games in China that borrow traditional culture, but many of them have become a thing of the past, and there are few active users." Li Xiang also checked the related games after checking the domestic cultural classification yesterday.

As a player who has been dealing with games for many years, Li Xiang has the impression that there are very few games that contain national culture, and even fewer survive.

"If you follow Mr. Xue's requirements and consider the cultural connotation, it is not easy to design a MOBA game with a plot mode.

I thought about it carefully, if you want to make the cultural connotation into the game, the best thing is to base it on the theme of mythology.

There are three main reasons for this consideration:

First, there is more room for mythological themes to play, especially in the design of skills and equipment, we can completely refer to the abilities and magic weapons of those characters in mythological stories.

Second, the mythological theme is very broad, which is conducive to our free play, such as the theme of the gods, the world view is very grand, there are many forces in it, a wide range of people are involved, and the events are rich enough to support us in the creation of the plot.

Third, mythological themes can best reflect the profound cultural precipitation of our country, and they are also closely related to China's Taoist culture. ”

Sun Wencheng nodded again and again when he heard this, thinking that what Li Xiang said was very reasonable.

Developing games based on mythological themes is also a common routine of domestic game manufacturers, and the advantages are basically the same as Li Xiang's.

"Do you have any new ideas?" Li Xiang finished speaking, and motioned for Sun Wencheng to express his views.

"I also carefully checked the information yesterday and found the reason why most of these games in our country with the skin of traditional culture have failed." Sun Wencheng said.

"Elaborate?" Li Xiang showed a very interested look and said, Sun Wencheng's angle is fresh.

"These games on the market, which are adapted from traditional novels, are basically leather games, and they dare to play the banner of traditional culture with the names of the characters in the famous novels, but in fact, the internal core gameplay has very little relevance to the content of the novel, and some even have no relevance at all.

Therefore, I think that if we want to really take into account the cultural characteristics of our country, we should not only be close to the story line of traditional novels in terms of the background of the game's plot, but also add the characteristics of our country in terms of art and music, such as using ink painting style to do art, using musical instruments such as suona and pipa to make built-in music and sound effects, and in some scenes can even be matched with opera culture, which may be more in line with what Mr. Xue said, to make the game reflect the cultural characteristics of our country! ”

For the use of novels and stories in traditional culture as the background, this is similar to what Li thinks.

But the idea of painting in the style of ink painting, using musical instruments such as suona pipa to make built-in music and sound effects, and using opera as background music for special scenes, is really unique.

Li Xiang quickly recalled in his mind the information he had checked yesterday, traditional culture contains a wide range of aspects, whether it is art style, music sound effects or even folk opera, etc., it can be included in it.

If you really added all these traditional cultural elements to the game, what would the game look like?

Li Xiang unconsciously became excited, feeling that Sun Wencheng's idea was bold enough and fit Xue Kui's requirements.

Thinking of this, he suddenly realized: "Does Mr. Xue want to make a game that truly represents our national culture?" ”

"Mr. Xue's game of chess is big, and he wants to use games to promote our country's culture!" Li Xiang sighed.

"Yes, Xue always really wants to make a game that represents our national culture!" Sun Wencheng admired it in his heart, but also sighed: "When other game companies take making money as their first priority, Mr. Xue has already begun to think about how to make games that can represent the cultural characteristics of our country!" ”

"Mr. Xue is really a model for my generation!"