At first, I heard that Mr. Ke said that it would take two months to complete.

The number one player, including all of Oasis' executives, agreed that this might indeed be a small game.

Supporting death may also come to the sake of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds".

Maybe it's a little less difficult to make than BioShock.

This idea continued until they got the proposal for a copy of the carving.

A book with a thick hand, a design concept draft of nearly 1,000 pages.

Everyone is stupid!

What a deal!

You told me this is a mini-game???

No, the moment is always ......

Is it something you misunderstand about the Mini Game, or what is a misconception about the Instant Game......

Among them, the art department is the most exaggerated, with three stacks of concept design sketches piled on the table, almost taller than Ke Yu himself.

"What about the pit girl, this is ......" Ke Yu opened his mouth in amazement.

He reached out and flipped through the most detailed large concept draft in the first draft of the design.

Spread out on the table, almost filling the entire small conference room in the art department.

The concept includes a sketch of an open-world map called the Borderlands.

But more than that, it's like an outline-like illustration, with magnified bubbles of design at various important locations on the map.

It is located in various castle-based buildings, supplemented by some scattered villages, dungeons and other architectural structures.

The style is a mixed style of medieval European Roman style to Gothic style, and about the architectural characteristics of this style, Ke Jin had previously told Ke Yu to let her take time to study in her junior year.

"In other words, my brother has already started laying out these things a year ago......"

"Did he gradually refine these first drafts of the design with the help of a computer a year ago?"

Thinking of this, even if he gets along with his brother day and night, Keyu, who is no longer familiar, still can't help but show a little stunned.

Although these first drafts are still far from the actual finished product, they have depicted the core of every building, every NPC, and every boss as much as possible.

At least it saves about eighty percent of the time for my department.

After all, the biggest difficulty in the art design department of a game company is not the process of drawing and modeling, but the difficulty of the beginning of the inspiration.

Anyone can draw a scoop with a gourd, so that Keyu can now copy a Mona Lisa's smile, and she can even complete it in a few hours.

If she could use a computer to assist in the processing, she would be able to make one in half an hour.

But if you want to say that the original Mona Lisa was created from scratch, let alone posterity.

Even if Da Vinci was to come by himself, it would take ten years.

"Mr. Ke means that the progress of "Extinction" will follow the construction progress of Dongzhi's offline panoramic park slowly, and first mobilize the strength of the department to start the development of "Elden Ring", but ...... "Some artists looked at Keyu uncertainly: "Mr. Xiao Ke, two months, will it still be a little too rushed." ”

Keyu, who has entered the working state, has a small face, is conscientious and responsible, and is very reliable.

After thinking about it, she immediately said.

"There are still 100 people in the Oasis Art Department, I remember, transfer them over and cooperate online."

"Then part of the drawing of the big map was handed over to the senior artists who had worked with him before."

"We're mainly responsible for these scenes." His eyes swept over the sketch of the junction on the tiled tabletop, and his fingers slid over a few key points of information.

"Stonewell City, Rhea Lucaria Academy of Magic, Intramural Rodel, Michaela Sacred Tree, and Volcano Mansion."

"These five castles with a box garden structure are also the core content of the whole game, and they are ...... It is always highlighted and must be the best it can be. ”

"Yes!" The art designers in the department replied in unison.

……

With the official establishment of "Elden Ring", the entire number one player has also entered an unprecedented hard battle.

Even though this team has gone all the way, they already have quite mature game design experience and work well with the team.

There's also the God's plan that other game manufacturers can't even dream of.

But in the face of the difficult bone of "Elden", each employee still used 120,000 points of energy to start unlimited game design.

Many employees simply bring sleeping bags and start laying floors directly in the company.

I didn't sleep until the early hours of the morning, and I got up at six or seven o'clock the next day, washed up and started directly.

This practice is also quite common in the gaming industry.

It's just that compared to the employees of other game companies who are semi-forced to complete tasks, the employees of the number one gamer are all full of motivation and volunteering.

Joke.

The CEO of his own company is willing to give tens of millions of dollars as bonuses, even if it is even, everyone can get tens of thousands of bonuses.

And that's not even counting performance commissions.

There is also a generous year-end bonus, which is based on the sales of new games throughout the year.

It can be said that even the most basic practitioner in the number one player, as long as the work is not cleaning and chores, the annual income of 300,000 is basically in hand.

A little more fierce will go towards an annual salary of 500,000 or even a million.

The boss is willing to pay money, and the benefits are far beyond those of his peers.

Needless to say, the motivation of the employees is self-explanatory.

A week flies.

During this week, the employees were busy flying, and Kejin was not idle.

He made several trips to the Jianglin government, including on-site surveys of the development site.

Finally, at a very favorable price, I talked about a wasteland outside the northern city of Jianglin.

This couldn't help but make Ke Jin sigh.

This is also Jianglin City's policy to promote the city of e-sports games, especially to give the green light to outstanding contributors such as the number one player, in order to win this kind of favorable cooperation conditions.

After the ground is negotiated, it will be directly connected to Dongzhi.

Although I have been talking in detail with the chief engineer sent by Dongzhi for a long time, about the layout and structure of the offline panorama of "Extinction".

But Ke Jin felt that he still had to keep an eye on the development progress every once in a while.

After all, the operation of 'offline panoramic demo', let alone in Blue Star.

Even the earth, where hundreds of schools of thought competed in the game industry in the previous life, has never appeared.

But in the same way, the progress of the development of "Elden Ring" also makes Kejin always concerned.

In this game, Kejin intends to kick the monopoly door of Omi Capital with one kick, and there is no room for error.

Among them, the most reassuring thing for Ke Jin is the art department.

For the previous games of the number one player, the proportion of the art department is about 30%.

Then the old man's ring of this game, the proportion of art even reaches 70%

A variety of large, interactive buildings and towering golden trees that can be directly observed from anywhere.

Or Stonewell perched on a cliff.

The beautiful Rodell is like an eternal city built under the stars.

These magnificent and epic buildings play an indispensable role in attracting players to explore, like a beacon in the night.

Let the player just look at the past, and it will be amazed from the heart.

But speaking of which, there is a difference of 108,000 miles from the actual production.

Players think it's good, and they think it's awesome.

So what is good and why is it good, this is the core key.

Therefore, after finishing the offline matters related to "Extinction", Ke Jin went to the art department as soon as he returned to the number one player.

It just so happened that Ke Yu was summarizing the results of the art department in a week.

Ke Jin also listened for a while.

In the first week, the Fine Arts Department conducted an in-depth production of Stonewell City.

In the PPT pictures that are constantly displayed, as well as the all-round rehearsal of unrendered modeling.

Kejin's expectations have been initially met.

Stonewell City is built on a cliff face, which already gives people a sense of oppression above the high mountains.

The towering walls of large squares of rough stone stand almost perfectly against the top of the mountain.

The stone itself takes on an off-white appearance, and the use of cool tones further implants the suggestion of 'inaccessibility' into the viewer's heart.

But the whole castle building does not emphasize the coldness in a single way.

On the contrary, the angular edges of the castle are outlined by soft gold edges, and various reliefs and hollows adorn the octagonal towers, and flags flutter in the wind.

It adds a bit of authenticity to the whole castle.

The view of the castle is always from the bottom up, slowly ascending the wide steps like a pilgrim.

Let the outsiders to Stonewell always keep looking up and climb up.

'The castle that needs to be looked up to' is also a strong psychological suggestion, which will invisibly raise the pattern of Stonewell City.

Look inside again.

The Player One Art Department, according to the first draft of the proposal, has added a lot of details to the interior of the entire castle.

For example, a large canteen that can accommodate many soldiers at the same time, wooden tables, chairs and benches are neatly arranged, and candlesticks with faint light are scattered around.

The fireplace also emits a faint glow.

Directly in front of the cafeteria hangs a huge oil painting of armored cavalry.

Obviously, the Player One Art Department is following the 'beauty of intuition' that Kejin mentioned earlier

Although this scene is part of the building, why is it a cafeteria? And not any other room where anything goes?

After all, even if you don't have to deliberately design the interior of the building, just design a room with some patterns, put some decorations, and then put some monsters here, players can still play.

Why do you have to set up a canteen?

Because a castle as large as Stonevale, and as an important passage connecting the two areas of "Nimgerfo" and "Lienia of the Lake", it is destined to be a military location.

A military location means that there will be a very large number of soldiers here.

Well, according to the logic of reality.

These soldiers also need food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

As players pass by the cafeteria, they realize that this may be where the soldiers eat.

This kind of intuition, which is very close to reality, will not only bring more immersion to the player.

Similarly, a large dining room = a large number of soldiers at the restaurant, which is also an intuitive application, will give players who come here an invisible psychological hint, warning them that there are probably not a few soldiers in this castle, and they should be careful next.

It is also these subtle and silent architectural details that accumulate and skillfully blend.

will slowly make players feel a sense of awe of the various huge buildings in "Elden".

"Not bad." After previewing the preliminary modeling of Stonewell City, Ke Jin nodded with satisfaction, which can be regarded as relieved.

According to the current understanding ability of the art department of the number one player, the main cities of "Elden" are entrusted to them, and there is no problem at all.

But before leaving, Ke Jin still suggested a small detail that the staff in the art department had overlooked.

"The carved carved stone bricks of the towers are the ornamental patterns that are attached to the perimeter of the city walls, and it would be better to replace them from metal to wood."

"Carved generally, the metal texture looks more distant, and when describing metal, it is 'glowing with cold light', which further highlights the design concept of the castle "magnificent and solemn, no one should enter". Ke Yu seriously put forward his own ideas.

Don't look at Keyu's usual lively and playful, a bite of a carved master, a stinky guy, brother.

But when it comes to formal work, she can still distinguish the occasion and priorities.

The other employees of the art department also nodded in agreement when they heard their owner's good words.

In fact, the decorations of the major towers on the periphery of the building are rendered with metal textures, and the entire art department has held a discussion meeting before.

At that time, it was unanimously passed, but Mr. Ke said that he would replace it......

And it's a wooden rendering that doesn't refract light at all......

Didn't that force fall down in an instant?

No matter how you look at this, Xiao Ke always said it, right......

However, Ke Jin's subsequent words.

Completely conquered everyone in the art department, including Keyu.

And make everyone deeply aware.

It's always you.

The soul of the number one player, no one can change it, only the moment can always be competent!

"In the entire junction, the core of the soul that runs through everything is the golden tree, and the laws that the vast majority of forces obey are also golden laws, under such a premise, from a logical point of view, if you and I are substituted into the worldview, if we live here, then we will have a congenital strong worship complex for the golden tree. Therefore, the castle is decorated with golden-colored wood carvings. ”

The words seemed to wake up everyone in the art department directly, and the eyes of some employees couldn't help but widen, and the exclamations were instantaneous.

"I'll go! I really didn't expect this detail! ”

Indeed, if you think about it according to the setting of the Elden text, the Golden Tree is almost above everything in the Junction, as a sacred object that directly intervenes in the local culture, even more so than the reality of the sun to us. So as thousands of ordinary people and even heroes in the borderlands, it is logical to have the complex of 'Golden Tree Worship'. ”

"That's what you really think about integrating into the worldview...... What we've seen before is still too superficial. ”

"Mr. Ke is too ruthless! It's just a word to wake up the dreamer! ”

"If you want players to play without drama, you should try to think of yourself as the real residents who live here when you design it, and simulate what the residents will feel like when they live here."

"But I've never lived in this kind of place, what if I can't make up my brain......"

"Next, intuitive thinking is important!"

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Viwangdi Headquarters.

The monthly summary meeting of the company's top management.

After a summary report on the relevant data of the DFgame platform.

The secretary gave up his position, and Alex Connor, the head of DFgame, walked forward slowly and stood in the center of the roundtable.

Holding the table with both hands, he looked around the high-rise people before he spoke.

"The 3D masterpiece "Shadow Realm", led by George, the director of our company's Design Department 1, is now in the final stages of production and is expected to be released in early February of next year."

"As an ARPG masterpiece that has been polished for three years, we have invested nearly 200 million in Shadow Magic, in order to compete for the Hugo Award at the beginning of the year, and it is best to win the E3 Best Game Award awarded in the middle of the year." (E3 was discontinued in reality, but because it was relatively well-known and timely, it continued to be used in the book.) ）

In the past year, the major awards in the gaming industry have been divided between Arts and Blizzard, and Wei Wangdi has continued to accompany him, and can only get a series of nominations.

Although all three companies are affiliated with Blue Ocean Paradise, the competition between them is fierce.

In the past, the focus of development was not on game development, and Wei Wangdi had no desire to win awards.

However, in recent years, under the increasingly high sharing requirements of art and blizzard, otherwise they will build their own platforms.

And the microsoft next door is also starting to move, you must know that this is a force that is almost not inferior to the blue ocean paradise.

After many considerations, Connor decided to spend a few years building a design team that belonged to Vivendi.

After all, no matter how loud the channel is, if the game resources do not have the right to speak, sooner or later they will be squeezed dry and swallowed up by the two big brothers of Art and Blizzard.

So, Connor was aiming for the beginning of the new year.

During this time, Electronic Arts and Blizzard have just released their annual works on Christmas Eve, winning a series of awards such as Golden Joystick, TGA, GDC, BAF and so on.

Therefore, during the period of Hugo at the beginning of the year and E3 in the middle of the year, there will be a vacuum.

Even if they win again, the quality of the winning entries is weaker than that of the wave of awards at the end of the year.

This is also the perfect time for Connor to take advantage of the situation.

And, if I can win the prize this time.

It can also smooth out some of the unpleasant negative little rhythms that made a fuss last month.

"I think Shadowlands deserves to win the Hugo Award and E3."

"Whether it's the picture quality, the modeling, the action effects, the sense of percussion, we did the best, and in terms of the story, we got the linear design balance very well, and I can't think of any reason why 'Shadowland' shouldn't win the award."

"After winning this award, not only can we be ashamed, but we can also use it as an exclusive work of DFgame, show our strength to Yidian and Blizzard, and completely dispel their careful thinking of wanting to build their own platform."

Seeing that everyone was talking about what would happen after "Shadow Realm" won the award, Kate, who designed the game for Part 3, frowned.

"No, isn't anyone paying attention to the number one player? What if they also release games during this time? ”

"If you want to enter our market, winning an award is the fastest way to increase awareness, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that all the higher-ups in the room looked at Kate with a frivolous and sympathetic gaze.

"Bro, are you being fooled by Player One?"

"Come, Kate, don't do that. Could it be that one day we were bitten by a kitten when we went out, so we had to carry a shotgun on the street for the rest of our lives? ”

When everyone was laughing, George, who designed one, also sneered in a weird way.

"The sissy who can only make toy car games is of course afraid of the number one player, and I think the 'ke yi er' that is spreading everywhere on the Internet now is not about Wei Wangdi, but about you, a sissy."

"To stigmatize Weiwangdi by himself is really worthy of being the 'best outstanding employee' last year."

Obviously, George, who has long dominated the best staff award, is extremely dissatisfied with Kate, who gave this award to 3 last year.

And Kate happened to have another big rhythm recently, so she took the opportunity to fall into the well and ridicule her life.

“Fuck you！” Kate suddenly turned red and stood up and scolded angrily.

“You little son of a bitch！” Not to be outdone, George raised a middle finger.

The atmosphere in the conference room instantly froze.

"Enough!" Connor slapped the table hard to force everyone to be quiet, and then said, "Your personal grievances and other work will be settled after the work is over, and the news I heard here is that Player One has indeed been designing a new game recently." ”

"And, I heard it's a brand new 'open world' game. Roughly speaking, within a huge map, players can freely explore the world at will. What do you guys think about the concept of this new genre? ”

The words had just fallen.

The designers in the entire round table room glanced at each other.

Then there was a burst of laughter.

“hahahahaha！ I'm dying! What kind of setting can a genius come up with? Isn't Ready Player One's idea to just make up a whole new genre and make it into a game? ”

"No guides, leaving the player free to explore? I bet that in such a game, the player's patience will not even exceed half an hour. ”

"Oh my god, Kate, how did you lose to such a game company?" George even burst into tears: "Listen, open world game!" Players are free to explore! What a funny gimmick! I was really attracted to it. ”

After the words fell, George turned his head to look at Connor again, and said lightly in disbelief: "Sir, don't worry, leave it to me, if the number one player dares to bring this kind of infeasible game work to the competition, our "Shadow Demon Realm" will definitely kill him and run back to find his mother crying." ”

"This is not a joke, I can say very responsibly and seriously, the masterpiece of 200 million US dollars is really not something they can touch with a gimmick casually."

(End of chapter)