Chapter 4 A Horror Game Studio That Doesn't Make Horror Games
The heavy rain was still falling, and Gao Ming didn't feel too scared, but his inner emotions were a little complicated.
It was already dawn, but after searching on the Internet, Gao Ming found that the road was closed by heavy rain and flash floods, and now there are no vehicles at all to get close to the tunnel located at the junction of Hanjiang, Xinhu and Hanhai.
"I hope that tunnel is not blocked by flash floods."
Unable to figure out why the game became a reality for the time being, Gao Ming could only accept this absurd fact first: "I don't know if it's too late to delete those game designs, it looks like I'm going to go to the Nightlight Game Studio." ”
When he was working part-time as a game creator and designer, he had worked with Nightlight Game Studio many times, and provided them with a large number of game design solutions and suspenseful homicide ideas. He now wants to go over and delete all the game plans he designed to see if he can fix it.
After a simple breakfast, Gao Ming put the posthumous photo in his backpack, put on a raincoat and set off, he is a person with very strong execution.
The torrential rain washed over the city, and the clouds covered everything, and Gao Ming took a taxi to the northern city of Hanhai.
In fact, according to his original plan, after resigning from his job as a psychological counselor, he would come to Nightlight Game Studio for an interview and become a real game designer.
The reason why he is in this industry is also very simple, there are no horror games on the market that he likes to play, so he wants to design his own.
At nine o'clock in the morning, under the guidance of the cleaning aunt, Gao Ming found the office of the night light game.
Nightlight Game Studio belongs to Motu Technology, the largest game platform in China, and is one of the many game studios under Motu Technology, focusing on suspense and thriller games, but now they are in the stage of transformation, and their life is not easy.
"Is it sick?! Are you sick? ”
Through the glass door, Gao Ming heard the roar in the office, and he looked inside the door.
Several staff members sat at their workstations, and the big screen in front of them was playing a game screen - the male protagonist dressed as an ordinary man was playing a conjuring game with his deceased wife in the murder house, quietly peeking at his death video.
"The customer asked for a relatively new love interactive game! You're going to get me this in two weeks?! Manager Gou, the head of the Nightlight Game Studio, stood at the table with a black face, because he was so angry that his general's belly rose and fell, and the wig on the top of his head was about to slip off.
"Aren't you trying to differentiate yourself from the love games on the market?" The office is not big, Wei Dayou is sitting at the door, looking ready to run away at any time, he is a game planner and programmer of Night Light Studio, and a fitness maniac. A few years ago, he was forced by the leader to have no choice, so he went online to ask for a relatively novel game planning plan, and then he met Gao Ming.
Originally, he just finished the task, but who knew the game design scheme given to him by Gao Ming, and directly won the most creative game newcomer award of the year.
Wei Dayou is also very practical, and immediately explained the truth to the company, and the organizer of the contest changed the original author to Gao Ming, which also made Gao Ming officially enter the game industry.
"I'm here to set you apart from the other dating games on the market! It's not for you to go back to your old business and play horror games! Manager Gou grabbed his wig and threw it on the table, the few strands of hair left on his head were wet with sweat.
"Everyone has been working extra for two weeks, and they are all doing their best." Xia Yang pushed the plane mirror, squinted slightly, and kept a smile on his face, as if all the troubles in the world had nothing to do with him. may be because of his good mentality, he is Chinese New Year's Eve seven years old today, but he looks like he is in his early twenties. He is the main beauty of the studio, has won international art awards, and his painting style is crazy and weird, which is difficult for ordinary people to understand.
"Do your best!" Manager Gou slapped the table fiercely: "There are few customers, you still have to kill them all, right?" ”
"Innovation, strong interaction, gradually closer feelings, sweet love, unswerving, I completely designed according to your requirements." Wei Dayou turned out the message sent by Manager Gou at that time.
"I'm sweet, you're a hell horse!" Manager Gou glanced at several subordinates in the office and grabbed his residual hair with both hands: "There are a total of forty-one game studios in our company, and we are ranked forty-first, so there is no room for decline at all!" If we continue to mess up, we will disband in place and be kicked out of Motu Technology! ”
Unlike other studio members, Manager Gou was sent by the Motu Technology Corporation, and it is said that he offended people, so he was forced to start all over again.
Although he is greasy and pot-bellied, he is the most enthusiastic in the studio, and he is extremely unwilling in his heart, desperately trying to prove himself again.
"Three days! I'll give you three more days, and you're going to make me a normal love game anyway! Manager Gou picked up the wig, picked up his oversized thermos cup full of wolfberries in a huff, and walked out with his fat legs, but he happened to bump into Gao Ming at the door.
Seeing Gao Ming, Manager Gou's eyelids twitched slightly, he had cooperated with Gao Ming many times, and knew Gao Ming's design style and concept.
He still remembers that when he first read the high-life design plan, there were seventeen bloody horrors in the 3,000-word plan introduction, which also brought a deep shock to Mr. Gou.
"High life...... Morning, you didn't show up for the interview the day before yesterday, so we went to recruit a new person. Manager Gou's eyes dodged: "She will come to work in a while." ”
In the past, when the studio was making suspense games, Manager Gou and Gao Ming cooperated very happily, but now the studio has to give up horror games, and now the arrival of Gao Ming is a bit embarrassing.
"I'm not here for an interview." Gao Ming saw through Manager Gou's worries at a glance, others were very good and didn't like to cause trouble to others, so he took the initiative to speak: "I encountered something inexplicable, and I may have to take away all the game design solutions provided to you before and destroy them." ”
"Destruction? As long as those plans are made, they are all classics! Wei Dayou left the workstation directly and walked to Gao Ming's side: "What are you stimulated by?" ”
"I probably won't be doing horror games anymore." Gao Ming patted Wei Dayou on the shoulder: "Another piece of advice for you, try not to go out at night in the past few days." ”
After hearing Gao Ming say that he didn't do horror games, Manager Gou regained his enthusiasm: "Xiao Gao, I heard from Dayou that you resigned from prison, why don't you come to me first and find a job to do?" We recognize your abilities so much that you don't need an interview at all! ”
"Forget it."
Gao Ming communicated with everyone well, and finally persuaded Wei Dayou to open the cabinet where the studio stored the files, and rummaged through all the game design solutions he had provided over the years.
There is a long cycle of making games, and the upfront investment is huge, and many game design ideas cannot be invested, so they can only be sealed first.
Frankly speaking, if it weren't for Nightlight Studios preparing to transform and give up horror games, it would have been difficult for Gao Ming to get these game ideas back.
Patiently sorting out his hard work over the years, Gao Ming roughly divided the games he designed into five categories according to danger, criminals, rumors, bad omens, sophistry, and strange tales.
The criminal is a game adapted from a real case, the danger comes entirely from people, focusing on reasoning and evidence collection, which is in line with realistic logic.
The rumors are also based on murders, interspersed with some weird and terrifying stories, but most of those stories are false, and the real danger is people.
The game at this level is different, the horror is starting to show signs, the world view collapses, and the source of danger comes from all kinds of curses and weirdness.
The fourth level of danger level tricks, this kind of game tricks really appear.
The fifth level is weird talk, which means that everything is unsafe within a certain range, the rules are changed, anything can be weird, and weird talk will continue to expand and grow, affecting more people.
In fact, there is also a sixth danger level - out of control of the strange talk, such a completely desperate game has also been designed, and he came here this time mainly to destroy the most desperate games, hoping that they will not become true.
"36 criminals, 25 rumors, 5 bad omens, 25 gossip, 31 weird gossip, 4 weird gossip...... I've been really diligent over the years. ”