Chapter 25: New Game Initiation
Less than ten minutes.
More than a dozen people from the Honghuang studio gathered in the conference room.
Everyone's faces, with a strong sense of anticipation and excitement, gathered around the conference table and talked about it.
"All the people have arrived, is this something big to announce?"
"I heard Boss Song say that he wants to discuss the direction of the next game."
"New games are finally coming? Isn't it going to be another rabbit man? ”
"Why do you look down on bunny people? Looking down on the gold content of the first exhibition? ”
Hearing this, Lao Li, who was sitting on the side, did not agree.
Super Bunny Man is the game he is responsible for, and he got such good results, which makes him have a lot of confidence to speak.
I can't see it at all.
When I first started making it, I had a disgusted look on my face.
"Come on, I don't want to think about how ugly you looked when you took over this project."
"The popularity of this game is entirely because of Mr. Chen's design and publicity CG, and you just follow it."
"That's it, it's cheap and good."
Everyone ridiculed him one after another, revealing his old bottom mercilessly.
"I... Even if I don't have merit, then there is hard work, right? Staring at those weird things all day, do you know how I survived for most of the month? ”
Lao Li blushed and argued.
Everyone laughed when they heard this, and the whole conference room was full of jubilation.
When Chen Lin and Lao Song walked in from outside, their faces turned solemn, and they quickly reined in and sat up straight.
"Bringing you all together to discuss plans for the next game."
As soon as he sat down, Chen Lin said straight to the point.
Lao Song was holding a design plan, sitting on the side with a shocked face, and the whole person seemed to have lost his soul.
The employees didn't notice this anomaly, but asked, "Mr. Chen, do we still continue to make platform games?" ”
Whether it's "Braveheart", "Killing the Spire", or "Super Bunny Man", its essential core is to break through the level, and it is also the area that their studio is currently best at, so it is not wrong to seize this direction and continue to develop.
Players know they're good at it, and they're basically going to pay for it.
This is the most common method used by most manufacturers to stabilize the player market.
However.
In response to them, Chen Lin gave them a repudiation.
"No, we're not going to do the same game again this time."
Don't make similar games?
Wouldn't that be a waste of the advantages they had accumulated during this time?
The employees were very puzzled and did not understand why Chen Lin would choose to give up the great prospects that he had created with great difficulty.
"Mr. Chen, are you planning to develop survival adventure games like those manufacturers?"
Duchenne on the side guessed something and suddenly spoke up.
As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces changed.
Before the meeting, they also received some rumors, and they knew a lot about this matter, so they immediately spoke out to dissuade them:
"Survival and adventure games, now many big manufacturers are staring at this cake."
"I heard that even Huanhai and Xingyou are also preparing for this kind of project, and they have already begun to mobilize funds and manpower."
"With the current strength of our studio, I'm afraid that we will be swept up to the point that there is no scum left, Mr. Chen, don't be impulsive!"
"Yes, the competition is so big, it's too difficult to stand out from it!"
As people in the game industry, how could they not know what an attractive piece of the pie it is.
But at the same time, it is understood.
If you want to get a piece of the pie in this kind of market, it is impossible to do without a little strength.
Not to mention Huanhai, even if the domestic manufacturers are larger than Huanhai, they may not be able to guarantee to eat this market.
Such a situation where there are more wolves and less meat.
Rushing in is a dead end!
"Of course I know what you're saying."
Seeing that everyone was dissuading, Chen Lin spoke, turned his head and gestured to Lao Song next to him.
Lao Song took a deep breath, tightened his arm holding the game plan, and finally stood up slowly.
The picture of his laptop is also projected onto the screen in the center.
"Here's our next design plan, you can read it first."
The words fell, and a huge cover appeared.
The employees who originally wanted to say something were instantly rounded when they saw this cover.
"It's... This is the next game we're going to do!? ”
"Boss Song, are you sure you didn't put the wrong picture?"
"Gollum ......"
The sound of swallowing saliva came and went, and everyone stared intently at the curtain.
I saw that in that picture, a fierce beast surrounded by thunder and lightning stood proudly, perpendicular to the dark and turbulent heaven and earth.
The terrifying scales of gold and blue were covered with a thick layer of hair, extending from the dragon's horns on the top of the head to the back.
The hideous and domineering claws stood on the top of the mountain, looking up to the sky and roaring, as if controlling the thousands of thunders above the head!
And in front of the beast.
A figure wielded a great sword, as small as an ant.
The three domineering characters of "Thunder Wolf Dragon" seem to be declaring the prestige of this ancient beast.
Just one eye.
The employees were stunned by the exaggerated expressiveness of the picture, as if the beast would run out of the picture, and they felt a strong sense of oppression.
They have no doubts.
If you encounter such a monster in reality.
Your head will definitely be screwed off at once, and you can't escape!
"Chen... Mr. Chen, what is this? Didn't you say you wanted to make a survival adventure game? ”
Lao Li couldn't help but turn his head and asked.
In the news he learned, the games made by those big manufacturers are basically based on shooting gunfights, and the hottest FPS is integrated into it as the main gameplay.
For example, battlefield survival, interstellar adventure, and desert island exploration basically use firearms as weapons to carry out long-range strikes against the enemy, highlighting adventure elements by the way.
Players are also basically familiar with this type of gameplay.
But what this picture shows is not like this kind of game, but more like a cold weapon-based?
"You read that right, it's an adventure game, but I'm not going to squeeze into FPS like those manufacturers."
"What about the main gameplay? What is it? ”
"Hunting!"
Chen Lin spat out two words, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Hunting?"
"Yes, it's hunting, and it's all kinds of ancient species with huge sizes!" Chen Lin said in a deep voice.
Next to him, Lao Song cooperated with his words to slide the interface, and the conceptual designs of monsters were presented in front of everyone.
There are birds and beasts, dragons and beasts, and ancient dragons.
And they all have their own habits and habitats.
Every time they saw it, the employees gasped, deeply shocked by the bold and exaggerated design, and gradually immersed themselves in this bizarre monster world.
By the time they finished watching, several programmers were in high spirits.
"Awesome design! Let the players become hunters to hunt these giant monsters and even ancient species, and the battle scenes are exciting just thinking about it! ”
"And the characteristics of each monster are different, and you can also specially design a variety of targeted weapons and traps to fill the gameplay!"
"The materials obtained from hunting can also be used to craft equipment and restore the hunting scene of ancient times!"
"I can guarantee that this game will definitely explode when it is made!"
Inside the conference room.
The employees discussed the content of the game fiercely, completely forgetting the anxious look they had just dissuaded Chen.
And on the screen, the name of the game is gradually revealed.
Monster Hunter