"Hey, old Lu, why are you calling me?"

Tang Yunpeng picked up a mouthful of rice and put it in his mouth, and called Lu Maru back vaguely.

He didn't answer a single phone call this morning, coordinating the drastic reform of "Disgaea 2" in the project team.

It wasn't until noon that I had time to call Lu Maru back.

Recently, the entire Demon Legend project team has been running at a high capacity, and many employees have set up bunks in the office, with the idea of co-living with the project.

However, this is all voluntary.

The Ori game has such a mysterious magic, and it is only a few minutes of demo video, which not only makes the design team burst out with great creative enthusiasm.

It also made the young game producers in the development team feel a long-lost vitality.

And all of this is because, with the rich experience of these veterans of these design groups, the wonderful design of the whole Ori has been systematically deconstructed and pasted on the wall of the office:

1. Semi-open (non-linear) map: Players can continue to explore hidden rooms and hidden props during the game, and some hidden rooms also contain Easter eggs from the producer and side plots of the game.

2. Rich puzzle-solving elements: The puzzles of many levels in the game are interesting, different old and new mechanisms can be combined into new puzzles, there are no meaningless items in each scene, and the main line puzzles must be carefully combined with plot clues to discover the mystery, so as to deduce the correct solution.

3. Real-time combat: In addition to the safe house, there are a large number of mobs in each area, for the characteristic terrain and characteristic mobs, players must be familiar with the basic operation, but also use the corresponding skills and equipment to deal with it, but if the skill is high enough, the recklessness is over, which is also the essence of the action game.

4. Excellent novice guidance: Invisible guidance induces players to explore the map spontaneously, explicitly guides the most basic operations/rules, arranges training levels to strengthen players' memory and understanding after acquiring new abilities, and concise UI information is intuitive and easy to identify.

In addition to the above four points, there are many, many more wonderful designs that Ori contains.

It's like a treasure that every time it is excavated, it can bring a new gaming experience to these game makers.

It's no wonder that Ruan Nan, the leader of the design team, commented on the game as a "big mountain".

If Luo Bai is present, I am afraid I would like to express my sincere admiration to these producers who are at the forefront of the game production industry.

It is really rare to be able to analyze the game genre of "Metroidvania Castlevania" so thoroughly in such a short period of time.

Not to mention, Ori is just a demo.

Of course, they should be impressed, after all, this is a game genre that has never appeared on Blue Star, and it is the pioneer who enjoys a high status in the entire history of Earth games.

Under the classification of this game genre, there are countless masterpieces.

"Hollow Knight", "Ori Series", "Cave Story", "Dead Cell" ......

Although many games only have elements of Metroidvania and are not pure, it is undeniable that the genre has a huge influence and replayability.

A brand new game that is enough to create a category, and the blue star that is about to usher in a blowout in this game industry will appear, how can we not let these game creators who love this industry deeply dedicate their youth?

"What? You bounced the ticket without making a sound, can't I just make a phone call and ask? ”

Lu Maru asked rhetorically, just listening to the chewing sound on the other side, and said suspiciously,

"So busy? Call me back while eating? ”

"It's very busy, "Demon Legend 2" has a new direction, it is definitely a subversive change, and I promise that you will not be disappointed this time.

The project team was also very short of time, and I had to rush back to work as soon as possible after eating. ”

Tang Yunpeng lowered his head and ate in a muffled voice.

"Promise won't let me down? Ho~ quite confident. What direction, can you tell me in advance? ”

"You'll know when the time comes."

"You're still selling it to me."

Lu Maru said angrily, just listening to the laughter on the other side, and didn't have the idea of asking.

He hadn't forgotten the purpose of his call:

"By the way, Old Don, let me ask you something, do you know 'oh ruai'?"

Tang Yunpeng, who was still taking a big bite of dry rice, was immediately stunned, Ori, this word he has dreamed of in the past two days.

"......"

Just now, he said confidentially with a relaxed face, but now with such a big reaction, Lu Maru naturally understands something.

He raised his eyebrows and asked rather strangely:

"Your so-called new ideas can't be brought by Ori, right?"

But the time doesn't seem right, the time for "Legend of the Demon World 2" to jump the ticket was before the video was released.

"I had a friend who happened to be at the Indie Games Festival and took a video to show me, and I ...... Breathtaking, I never thought I could play like this. ”

Tang Yunpeng's tone was a little melancholy.

No matter how good Ori is, it's someone else's work.

When will you be able to make a game like this, even if it's just a demo, but you can realize at the first glance that this will lead the development of the entire gaming industry?

"In a little over a month, do you think you can make the game like Ori?"

Lu Maru furrowed his brows and asked rhetorically.

He didn't care about Tang Yunpeng anymore, Lu Maru was tempting.

For more than a month, it is impossible to copy Ori, let alone show a demo, Lu Maru is worried that Tang Yunpeng will copy it.

This is serious business.

In normal times, Lu Maru would not doubt Tang Yunpeng's character, but now that Tianxing is like a bird after all, it is difficult to say such a thing as human nature.

Tang Yunpeng shook his head and said in a deep voice:

"More than a month? You think too highly of me, just Ori's art, you let me do it for a year I can't get it, it's so beautiful......

I'm just disassembling Ori's design concept and trying to combine it with the original Demon Legend style as much as possible.

I, Tang Yunpeng, still want to have a face, I can't do this kind of thing for plagiarism.

Do your best, let it be the fate of heaven.

However, I was also a trick. ”

After speaking, Tang Yunpeng laughed at himself:

"I'm just taking advantage of the fact that Ori hasn't come out yet, and I'm shamelessly making some money in the country."

Hearing Tang Yunpeng's words, Lu Maru only sighed.

Game makers like Lao Tang are bound to be coerced by capital.

If he's just an indie game developer, maybe he'll wait until Ori comes out and release the game as a student.

"You're busy."

"See you later."