"Brother Ya, can a small game of this size really explode and make money?"

Ishikawa Dong stared at the few requirements on the paper and asked worriedly.

According to Chen Ya, this game is not simple......

It's too simple.

It's easy to do.

Not to mention companies and studios, even if you recruit a few random students in school and put them together, you can get this "game" out.

Letting Ishikawa Dong do it, it's like killing chickens with a knife, and it will give him a kind of "Is it to use my GPA for this?" "Feelings.

Chen Ya put his hand on his shoulder, with a surging smile on his face:

"Don't worry, with my operation, you just need to go up, don't think about it."

Ishikawa sat down, hugged the keyboard and said, "Brother Naya, why don't you start today, I'll get it tonight." ”

He also wanted to show his true strength in front of Chen Ya.

"Aren't you resting? School doesn't check sleep? ”

"It's okay, I'm familiar with the student union, it's easy to talk about." Ishikawa East Road.

"Okay."

Chen Ya dragged a chair from the side, sat down next to him, and crossed his fingers with his hands: "Let's put up the frame today, I said the request, you can achieve it." ”

Ishikawa Dong held the keyboard, his eyes stared at the screen, and he was already in a working state.

This is the first time after the interview that he has done work in front of Chen Ya.

First impressions are important, and they must be well done.

"First of all, this game is a match-3 game, which is built on the Xunchat applet, and the ranking points are calculated by region, ranking nationwide, but only if you clear the customs, you will have points, and you will not have the customs clearance." Chen Ya said.

"Hmm." Ishikawa nodded, jotting it down on his notepad.

"The overall customs clearance rate is very, very low, and it should be controlled at 0.1%."

"Huh?"

Chen Ya's second sentence made Ishikawa Dong confused.

He couldn't help but ask, "With such a low clearance rate, isn't that a super difficult game?" Can the game's audience be guaranteed? ”

Ishikawa has been exposed to the basics of game design, and in game theory, the more difficult the game, the smaller the audience.

On the other hand, games that are simple and easy to play have a much larger audience.

Chen Ya said: "As I said just now, you only need to execute it, and I'll worry about the rest." ”

Ishikawa Dong typed out Chen Ya's needs word by word again just now, and after thinking for a while, he felt that he had a little understanding:

"The thrill of completing a difficult challenge is also what the game pursues, maybe Brother Ya, you are right."

Chen Ya continued: "There are two plates inside the game, one is a brick stacking plate, and the other is a brick slot.

"There are only 7 slots, once the slots are full, the game is over......"

Ishikawa Dong nodded his lips and thought about it, and said, "In that case, the more types of bricks, the more difficult the game will be, and the level design can increase the difficulty by increasing the types of bricks step by step......"

Chen Ya nodded with a smile: "The requirement of the first level is that no matter how the player clicks, even if there is no plan to mess around, he can clear the level." ”

Ishikawa Dong said: "That is to say, the first level can only have ...... at most 3 types of bricks? ”

"You're fast." Chen Ya was very satisfied.

7 slots, can be split into 2 * 3 + 1, if you want to win no matter how you swing, then you can only have 3 kinds of bricks.

It's a very simple math problem.

Ishikawa Dong understands this arrangement very well. It may seem unreasonable to ask for "you can win no matter how you play", but it is actually very clever.

When doing product design, one of the principles that should generally be adhered to is that "even if the user is mentally retarded, he can understand how to use it".

The same goes for games.

The first level of the game, which is equivalent to a novice tutorial, at this time users don't know how to play, and often play indiscriminately.

If they play dead for themselves, negativity will be generated. The first bite of the game must give the player a taste of sweetness and give them spiritual encouragement, so as to lure the player to continue playing.

Ishikawa Dong drew inferences: "Then, the second level is 4 kinds of bricks, and the third level is a jump in difficulty, 6 kinds of bricks, but the prop setting is introduced, and the fourth level is ......"

"That's wrong," Chen Ya shook his head, "These are very mature settings you said, and our games are not like this." ”

"Huh?" Ishikawa Dong was stunned, "But, Brother Ya, doesn't the very mature setting explain it...... Are these settings correct......"

Match-3 games are a very old and mature category, and almost all match-3 games have been done by predecessors, and you can find any mode of match-3 in the history of games.

Unlike what most people think, making this kind of game that already has a mature paradigm does not require you to make new ideas, because if you make new ideas, you often need to change the mature paradigm.

Well, it means hitting the streets.

This is very contrary to common sense, but it only takes one question to explain this truth -

If making a new match-3 can be successful, then after so many years, why can't we see a successful and innovative match-3 game?

This is a terrible question, and it can be called the "Fermi paradox" in the gaming world.

It's also terrifying – because the innovative match-3 games are hitting the streets.

They're hitting the streets, and they're so silent that you can't see them.

Some people eat crabs, others eat spiders. Why don't you see people eating spiders now?

Because spiders don't taste good.

As an excellent student, Ishikawa Dong heard the problems in Chen Ya's planning in an instant.

It's not that the mature game paradigm must not be moved, but those big bosses in game design, of course, they can move, and they can move in a big way.

The previous Kojima Xiuze, the whole takeaway simulator "Survival Stranding", subverted the number of conventional games, and it still sold crazy.

Because Xiao Dao is already a giant old, a character of his level has already cultivated to the realm of transformation, and flowers and leaves can hurt people, and the things he changed contain his own understanding, not random changes.

But even a giant old man like Kojima, his subversive work "Survival Stranding" is also mixed, and many people say that it is not fun.

It can be seen that without one or twenty brushes, the traditional number of roads is still difficult to subvert.

Giants are like this, let alone Chen Ya, who has no experience in game production?

Ishikawa Dong looked at Chen Ya's eyes and was very hesitant.

Chen Ya said: "Listen to me first, our game, the second level, design 15 kinds of bricks." ”

"15 kinds?!"

Ishikawa was shocked.

"This, this, this and this, so many bricks were added to the second level, didn't the difficulty gradient of the game explode all of a sudden?"

"It's normal," Chen Ya nodded, "I just said, our game is a super difficult game, and the second level is so difficult, it's normal." ”

Ishikawa Dong flickered for a moment, and then, he thought of a certain elder surnamed Miyazaki, and designed a series with the word "soul" in the name, and thought of a certain black knight and a certain Guda......

Put a gradient boss at the beginning of the game.,Like,It's not impossible.。

"Well, what about the third level?" Ishikawa asked.

He thought to himself, the third level should be adjusted back to the difficulty, right?

"Huh? There is no third level. Chen Ya said.

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Chen Ya looked at him: "What gave you the illusion that there is a third level?" ”

"Huh?"

"As Fang just said, our game is a super difficult game, with a pass rate of only 0.1%," Chen Ya said, "The second level clearance rate is only so high, almost everyone can't pass it, so there is no third level." ”

"Ah......h

Ishikawa Dong's mind was very confused, he didn't understand, but Chen Ya seemed to have some truth in what he said.

"That, that," he tried to sort out his thoughts, "then even if only 0.1% of the players have cleared the level, when the number of players has risen, there will still be many people who have cleared the level, so they ask where is the third level, what should I do?" ”

Chen Ya said: "It's very easy, we wrote 'one level a day' at the beginning of the game, we can only play one level a day, and when they wait for the next day, they have to start from scratch." ”

Chen Ya paused, and then said: "I just said that the pass rate of 0.1% is actually a relatively conservative statement, 0.01% clearance rate is too much, you have to try to make the second level like no one can pass." ”

Ishikawa Dong was a little suffocated: "That, that, then I have another question, even if there are 15 kinds of bricks, several layers, and there are many of them, the clearance rate will still be very high, and it is very difficult to maintain such a low clearance rate?" ”

Chen Ya said: "That's simpler, you set the number of bricks in this game to a random number." ”

"Random numbers?"

"That is, it doesn't have to be a multiple of 3." Chen Ya said, "In the end, some bricks only have 2, or only 1, and they will definitely be stuck in the slot, so they will definitely not be able to clear the customs." ”

Ishikawa's eyes were about to pop out.

"If you want to clear the level smoothly, you need at least more than ten kinds of 15 kinds of bricks, and the random numbers are exactly multiples of 3, right? Do the math, how low is this probability? I didn't count, but it's definitely below 0.01%. ”

Ishikawa wanted to pound the keyboard when he heard it.

What is this?

It's so casual, it's so casual that it's almost unbelievable!

If it weren't for Chen Ya, whom he respected, he would have thrown the keyboard in the other party's face.

A game, even if it's a very difficult one, needs a reward.

The more difficult the part, the richer the rewards should be presented, so as to attract players to keep trying.

In a match-3 game like this, for players, clearing the level is their reward!

However, what Chen Ya said almost took out the reward part from the game.

Well, this game is only difficult, not rewarded!

It's not too much to say it's a punishment game!

No...... Ishikawa thought that this could not be said to be a punishment game.

It's not even a game.

Chen Ya clapped his hands, brought him back to his senses, and said, "Did you understand what I just said?" ”

"Listen, I understand, but I don't fully understand," Ishikawa Dong swallowed, "Brother Ya, do you really think that this thing is valuable as a game?" ”

"There is no value." "It's not even a game. ”

“……”

It turned out that Chen Ya knew this, and he even thought the same as Ishikawa Dong.

"But ......"

Ishikawa Dong wanted to say something, but Chen Ya stopped him:

"I know what you're asking, and I know it's not a game, because, our purpose now is not to make a game."

Ishikawa Dong quieted down.

"What kind of game do you think is a real game?" Chen Ya asked, "Playing marbles, making pictures, playing chess, are these games?" ”

"It's a game." Ishikawa nodded firmly.

"So, that kind of legendary page game, recharge to buy combat power, explode equipment, climb rankings, are those games considered games?"

Ishikawa Dong hesitated: "This ...... Count, right? ”

"Well, they are also games," Chen Ya said, "These two games are played in the end, which game do you think is more fun?" ”

"......," Ishikawa thought for a moment and said, "Probably, it's the former." ”

"Legendary games, as long as you have money, you can buy everything, you can crush other people in the game, and enjoy the thrill of life and death," Chen Ya said, "but the pleasure it provides, in the end, is just nothing." ”

"You should know about the donut theory, right? As you go deeper into playing a game, you will inevitably end up with one foot in the air, because you will find that in any game, when you study to the end, all that remains is emptiness.

"The ultimate game is a game with friends, a bond with people, a search for each other's hearts and an exploration of the soul."

】

After speaking, Chen Ya stood up and patted Ishikawa Dong on the shoulder.

"Do it well, you can do as much as you can tonight, I'll rest here today, and I'll wait for you to finish."

Chen Ya left, and Ishikawa Dong stayed where he was.

What he said just now is still in my ears, and it is deafening.

"The real game is the ...... of friends"

As a candidate who was admitted to Beijing University in Yuzhou, playing games with friends has become his memory for a very, very long time.

Chen Ya mentioned it this time, and he suddenly realized one thing - he hadn't played with his friends for a long time.

And in the foreseeable future, he doesn't have many opportunities to play with his friends.

In the future, he needs to work hard and make money, and if the business he does in partnership with Brother Ya is not successful, he will have to work hard to get a GPA.

Only by living with such hard work can he stay in the capital, buy a house, buy a car, marry a daughter-in-law, and put his life on the right track.

In his life plan, he has never seriously pursued "playing games with friends" as one of his goals.

Thinking of this, why not make people sad?

When floating a big white.

Wait a minute.

Ishikawa Dong came back to his senses and turned his head to look at Chen Ya who was drinking water over there:

"Brother Ya, but what do you say have to do with this game?"

Chen Ya shook his hand and ignored him.

……

At night, the screen emits blue light, Ishikawa Dong fingers run on the keyboard, and the white edge of the dark sky outside the window smoked by the city light pollution gradually fades, revealing the starry sky, Ishikawa Dong pushes the keyboard forward and stretches his legs to the fullest.

"That's it, Brother Ya."

Chen Ya didn't respond, wearing headphones, shaking his legs, while operating something on the computer.

Ishikawa stood up and walked over, only to find that Chen Ya had flstodio open on his computer screen, which is an entry-level arranging software, and Chen Ya's interface has already placed a complete music project.

"Brother Ya......"

Chen Ya turned around and saw Ishikawa Dong: "Just right, you come and listen." ”

He handed him the headphones, and his ears fluttered.

Ishikawa couldn't help but start shaking his legs.

"This is the BGM of the game." Chen Yadao.

Ishikawa Dong's eyes widened: "Brother Ya, this song ...... Did you just write that? ”

"Hmm."

"You can also write songs?"

“…… Well. Chen Ya stood up and stretched, as if he had asked a question that was not worth mentioning.

"What time is it?" He asked abruptly looking back.

"Two o'clock." Ishikawa Dong glanced at his phone.

"It's bad," Chen Ya suddenly had a terrible thought, "I'll go back." ”

Ishikawa Dong looked at Chen Ya, and his eyes were a little resentful: "Didn't you say you slept here today?" ”

"I'm not sleeping here today, I suddenly remembered something." Chen Yadao.

"I've even figured out where to put my bed......"

Chen Ya walked away in Ishikawa Dong's resentful little eyes. In fact, in order to have a joint night talk with Chen Ya, Ishikawa Dong also prepared several topics.

Trotting all the way with heartbeat counting, that thought continued to expand in Chen Ya's mind, and even made him a little panicked.

But the idea was so absurd that he also had some self-doubt, wondering if it was a bit of a fuss to run back for the sake of such an extremely low possibility.

After about ten minutes' footsteps, he arrived home, Chen Ya stepped upstairs, stomped his feet to let the voice-activated lights ignite, and when he saw the empty door, he was a little relieved.

"I mean, I don't think it ......."

He shook his head self-deprecatingly, pulled the key from his arms, and suddenly, a voice that looked like a small animal came from behind.

"Goo......

Chen Ya turned his head stiffly, but he saw that at the staircase of the stairs behind him, a figure wrapped in a white coat with a head so that a chick pecked rice, looking crumbling, was squatting on the steps.

Lu Aiai sat there, not knowing how long she had been waiting.

Chen Ya touched his forehead.

What he wanted to touch was not his own head, he wanted to open Lu Aiai's head and ask inside, "Are you okay?" ”

If you have nothing to do, you can eat the boiled plums.

It's just afraid of something.

Just now in the company, he suddenly remembered that he was getting better with Lu Aiai and was going to borrow her tennis court to play tennis today, and Lu Aiai also said that he would take her to check for concussion at night.

But because he played tennis with Gu Yuqing today, and Lu Aiai didn't seem to have a concussion, he didn't take it seriously.

Or after writing the song, it suddenly occurred to me that Yilu Aiai's two-pole character would not run to his house to wait for him, right?

After all, she doesn't have her own contact details.

Unexpectedly, she really ran over.

"You ......"

Walking up to Lu Aiai, Chen Ya stopped talking, and finally squatted down on his knees, looked at Lu Aiai and said, "How long have you been waiting here?" ”

"I don't know, I opened more than 2,000 ......"

Lu Aiai's little face looked dark, and the circles under her eyes were also dark, and she looked like she was about to faint.

Although he didn't understand what it meant to open to more than two thousand, Chen Ya guessed that he should have been waiting for a long time.