"Mr. Chen, I want to ask, what is the specific direction of our new game this time?"

Chen Lin's voice fell, and someone immediately asked.

"Direction."

Chen Lin touched his chin: "Because now the Dawn team has to make a big dart game with all their might, and only Dawn and the online game team have manpower, so it can't be a game with too long a production cycle." ”

Quality is the main thing, and it doesn't necessarily mean how high the picture quality is.

It's that the overall gameplay content should be good, not like those garbage games that come out to make money by changing their skins, and they don't want to make progress.

To put it mildly.

As long as you make the game fun.

Players are willing to pay for it.

"Recently, it seems that platform battle games such as battle flags have been very popular, and several manufacturers have relied on this kind of game, why don't we make one too?" Lao Li took the lead in opening the topic.

Although he has been busy with the follow-up operation of the game, he has also been paying attention to industry trends.

Especially in the last few months, many games with very good performances have emerged, which have led to the popularity of many game categories, and platform battles are one of them.

"Platform battles?"

Chen Lin fell into deep thought.

The first thing that came to his mind was a MOBA game.

When he seized the online game market before, he didn't think about making these games.

But after careful consideration, I gave up for the time being.

The reason is simple, plagiarism!

Once he really makes these games, Penguin and other big manufacturers that occupy the online game market are afraid that they will soon copy one.

Because this kind of game is too easy to copy.

With the current player base of Honghuang, although there is no need to be afraid of penguins anymore, it cannot ignore the huge users of penguins.

Once it is really copied, it is not certain who will win or lose.

If they enter a protracted tug-of-war, it will be even more disadvantageous to them with weak capital, and they will only make wedding dresses in vain at that time.

So it's not the best time yet.

"This kind of game has been really popular recently, but there are a lot of people who do it, so it's not a good choice."

As if seeing Chen Lin's hesitation, Lao Song on the other side spoke.

After the two bigwigs finished speaking, the others also opened the conversation one after another.

"Battle Banner is actually a derivative of cards, we already have Kill Spires, and we just released Yu-Gi-Oh, wouldn't it be nice to make this kind of game again?"

"I think it's good to be conservative, but what about doing it? At least have an audience, as long as the gameplay is different. ”

"Wouldn't making another game like this affect the sales of other games?"

"This kind of worry is completely unnecessary, the total number of players of the two games will be more than one by any way, and there will always be different audiences."

"We."

In the blink of an eye, the entire conference room was lively.

Employees have a variety of opinions.

Cards and the open world continue to gain popularity.

Role-playing, FPS mainstream route.

There are even unpopular love and criminal investigation games.

In short, there are all kinds of things, and Chen Lin couldn't help but laugh when he heard it.

He likes this kind of environment where everyone can talk about their opinions, which can not only liven up the atmosphere, but also brainstorm ideas.

"Xiaoli, why don't you also share your opinion?"

At this time, Lao Song suddenly noticed Xiao Li, who was writing on the side and was responsible for recording the content of the meeting.

"Huh? Can I also give my opinion? ”

Xiaoli was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Chen Lin.

"It's all about the meeting, what's not to say? If you have a good idea, you can mention it even if it's not from the production team. Chen Lin said with a smile.

"Uh, this. Actually, I don't have any ideas. ”

Xiaoli scratched her head with a pen in embarrassment: "That's it. I just heard someone say that I think it's a good criminal investigation game.,This kind of game is mainly brain-burning.,It shouldn't be too difficult to make, right? ”

Criminal investigation games?

Everyone was stunned when they heard this.

Especially the group leader who proposed this kind of game pulled up a face.

He just said it in a moment, no one really wants to do this kind of game, right?

You know, there's not even a game like this on the market.

Yes.

Not a single one!

Either it's dead, or there's just no one doing it.

No matter how well it is done, no matter how well the case is designed, it is useless.

Because the audience is so small!

On the contrary, it is a brother classification, puzzle exploration games have endured for a long time, and many games have become popular.

Purebred criminal investigation, a type that is cold to the Arctic Ocean, has no way to bring fire unless there is a huge innovation.

"Sister Li, aren't you hurting me? I was just kidding."

The group leader's face collapsed.

When the others saw this, they laughed aloud.

"Don't say it, although this category is a little cold, it really doesn't have any competitors."

"Just because others can't be popular doesn't mean we can't be popular."

"Just have faith in yourself!"

"Since you want to bring changes to the market, then be bold and do the most unpopular directly!"

"Hahaha, don't tease him."

The sound of laughter continued to echo in the conference room, full of strong ridicule.

But as they talked, they stopped laughing.

Recall the words I blurted out subconsciously.

Can do what ordinary people can't, do what ordinary people don't do, and open up new worlds.

Isn't that what they're all about?

And not so long ago.

They just said they wanted to make a difference in the market.

Those inspiring words, even now echoing in their minds, made them gradually give birth to a bold idea.

"Mr. Chen."

Suddenly, a group leader looked at Chen Lin: "Or. Let's try it? ”

As soon as these words came out, there was no longer a voice of objection.

As if there was some kind of tacit understanding, Qi Shushu looked at Chen Lin with expectation in his eyes.

Oh, yes.

What others can't do, if they do.

Doesn't that mean they are better than others?

That alone is enough to make their hearts flutter.

Anyway, it's just a transitional product, and the investment will not be too much, so it's the best place to do this kind of innovation.

Even the conservative Lao Song surprisingly did not refute this time, but analyzed: "Classifying the unpopular is indeed suitable for establishing our reputation, but the risk is a bit big." ”

"Hmm."

Chen Lin nodded: "This is a good idea, sometimes the unpopular is just a statement, and it may work in a different direction." ”

It's rare for the employees to have their own ideas, and he naturally doesn't want to refute their independent creativity.

Anyway, I don't plan to make too big a game, and even if I lose money, I won't lose much.

If they do, they will also become the first manufacturer to bring fire classification.

Earn without losing money.

After thinking about it, he made a decision directly: "Since this is the case, then it is decided, do criminal investigation games!" And if you want to innovate, you all talk about your ideas. ”

With that, he threw the question back again.

Once the theme is decided, the next step is much simpler, and the employees give their opinions while thinking about it:

"The reason why this classification is cold is mainly because the audience for gameplay is too small, and the threshold is too high, so I suggest using a knife in gameplay."

"It's true that there are those cases of failure, and the gameplay of running around to solve the case obviously won't work, because the various character controls will distract the player, and it will be tiring after a long time."

"Then why don't you cancel the outdoors and use brain analysis as the main gameplay?"

"In this case, won't it become a boring stand-alone computer sitting at the table to review documents and look for clues?"

"If you can't do it alone, then you can do multiple people, and it's always okay for multiple people to solve cases, right?"

"How many people solve the case? Good idea! Why don't you just blow it up a little bit more and let one or two of the players play the murderer, and the players pinch each other to increase interaction? ”

The more the employees talked, the more energetic they became, as if they had discovered a new continent, and their eyes lit up one by one.

Even Chen Lin was shocked by their thoughts.

Multiplayer, player murderers, and online pinching each other, aren't they exactly the werewolf killing gameplay he is very familiar with?

What the hell can you turn over there?

Sure enough, the decision to let them play freely was the right one.

"Very good!"

Chen Lin spoke directly and exclaimed.

When everyone heard this, they all stopped discussing and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"Mr. Chen, have you come up with a good idea?" Lao Li asked.

"It's not that I thought of it, but the gameplay you just mentioned, I think it's very good."

"You mean multiplayer online to solve crimes?" Lao Song followed and asked.

"That's right, this is it."

Chen Lin smiled on his face: "According to what you just said, I thought of a suitable way to play, multiplayer voice online game, at the beginning of each game, players get a random identity and corresponding skills, and only they know, and find out the murderer by taking turns to speak and vote, which is a kind of table game." ”

"Board games!?"

Everyone was shocked, but they didn't think about it.

After all, today's board games are basically mahjong, playing cards and chess.

After coming back to their senses, they were suddenly pleasantly surprised.

"yes, I didn't think of that!"

"Since you don't want to play outdoors, isn't it the best place to play board games?"

"The board game is matched with the case, this gameplay is amazing!"

"If you use online voice, you can also increase the interactive attributes!"

"Players directly become victims or even murderers, using language to deceive and hide their identities, isn't this sense of substitution and tension directly full?"

The more they talk, the more they discover the merits of this gameplay.

If it can really be made, it will definitely have a huge impact on the board game market, and even change the current board game landscape!

"Yes, yes, it's rare for you to give such a good opinion."

Thinking about the key, Lao Song couldn't help but admire.

Because this kind of gameplay has never appeared before, maybe it can really bring the theme of fire investigation.

"It's a good idea, indeed."

Although Chen Lin didn't know how compatible this world was with werewolf killing, he was able to put forward this opinion, which showed that these employees still had some ability.

After deciding on the gameplay, he didn't talk nonsense, and began to discuss more detailed settings and some production issues.

It wasn't until near noon that the meeting finally ended.

The team leaders rushed out of the conference room with the design plan and began to prepare under Lao Li's arrangement.

The making of a werewolf killing game is not difficult.

The only thing to do is to set up the voice platform and write the rules and character code.

So in order not to waste manpower, Chen Lin directly waved his hand and asked them to make a 3D version of the cartoon camp scene, with a bonfire in the middle, and also added scene switching and character appearance selection, as well as day and night special effects.

But even so.

It's been less than two weeks.

The news of the completion of the game reached Chen Lin's ears.

Then it didn't take long for a new announcement to appear below their official account.

[Honghuang Studio: We tried to make a new game, called "Werewolf Killing", a criminal investigation-themed board game, which has been launched on the Steam platform, if you are interested, you can check it out]

There were no signs and no publicity.

This announcement appeared very abruptly in the players' field of vision, which made them stunned when they were discussing "Red Dead Redemption".

WTF？

New game?

A new game is coming out of the wilderness?

It's only been half a month!

"No, the eldest cousin hasn't finished it yet, so he went to do other games?"

"Grass! I just went to check it out and there really is this game! ”

"Criminal investigation theme board game, what kind of outrageous match is this?"

"There are still people who make criminal investigation games?"

"I'm free to start maneuvering again, right?"

"Werewolf kills, I'm still Cinderella, I want to see what kind of game this is."

Now, in order to urge the update of Red Dead Redemption, the players' grievances are very big.

Seeing that Hong Huang was not good at making games, he actually ran to get some board games, and it was still a theme that was so cold that he didn't even know his mother.

Suddenly out of breath, they went to the steam platform to search for this game.

As a result, a search really found out.

[Game: Werewolf Kill]

[Synopsis: This is a game about survival and betrayal, eight players will play a variety of roles, through verbal description push, contest eloquence and analytical judgment to win the game, pay attention, werewolves are among you, please always be vigilant, please close your eyes when it is dark.] 】

Genre: Multiplayer, Online Co-op, Social Reasoning, Board Game]

[Price: 22]

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