As soon as Chinese New Year's Eve passed, Tianba Studio resumed its former hustle and bustle, and the game development progress was greatly accelerated.

Again, there is power in numbers!

When the difference in the number of people is not so large, there may not be much difference in work efficiency, for example, 10 people working and 11 people working, maybe a team of 10 people is more efficient?

But the headcount gap has reached a new level, such as 5 people and 15 people, then you don't have to think about it, a team of 15 people will be more productive.

Of course!

It's just an idealized scenario.

In actual work, due to various reasons and special circumstances, the phrase "more people are stronger" may not be so accurate, but there will be a strange scene of the more people the lower the efficiency.

However, under normal circumstances, the efficiency of more people is much greater than that of fewer people.

As the time comes to the new year, the focus of Tianba Studio's work has shifted from the update and maintenance of old games to the development of the new game "Love Staff".

It's a love development game.

Players who have played this type of game know that falling in love is the core gameplay of the game, but there is something else to do besides falling in love......

"The open world is not bragging."

"Although our game is a pseudo-open world at best, the degree of freedom is not something that ordinary love development games can touch." Chen Ba explained.

Open World, also known as roaming games, is a type of game level design.

The core point of this design is the freedom to explore, the freedom of the player, the freedom of the mission, the freedom of the gameplay and the map.

Large-scale open-world games, such as the Ethics and Rule of Law series and the Girl Scroll, Tianba Studio can't make it.

The main thing is that I don't have that time.

All you know is that these games are free, the maps are large, and there is plenty of room to explore, but do you know how much time the developers spent filling the game content?

Trivia!

The map area of Los Santos is 252 square kilometers, and the big cousin 2 is 72 square kilometers......

This area unit, many people may have no idea, only know that it is very large, but how big it is, there are still no points in their hearts.

Let's do the math.

Pengcheng, the top first-tier city in China, has an area of 1997.47 square kilometers, while several core urban areas under the jurisdiction of Pengcheng, such as Longhua District and Futian District, add up to 252 square kilometers.

In this way, you can know how amazing the volume of such a huge open-world game is.

Tianba Studio is just a dozen people, and if it really wants to make an open-world game with a huge map, it is estimated that it will not be possible to do it in ten or twenty years.

So the map of "Love Staff" is smaller.

This so-called small,It refers to the comparison with the 3A masterpiece.,Compared to ordinary games,The map is already very large.。

"It's explorable!"

"We're going to provide hundreds of jobs and thousands of interactive scenarios for this game."

When Chen Ba said this, he couldn't help but say when he saw that everyone's expressions were a little solemn: "Okay, don't be so serious!" While the numbers sound intimidating, the repetition rate is high. ”

For example, cinemas, shopping malls, parks, amusement parks, zoos, and other interactive scenes are actually the same set of templates, but the art resources are different.

It's not that exaggerated.

A lot of map design, including career paths, is nothing more than copying and pasting and changing a set of art resources.

And now there is AI drawing, and it may be a little difficult to draw characters, but it is definitely enough to draw scenes.

"As soon as you enter the game, it's a classic graduation rental job search link."

Chen Ba explained: "When players find a job and have a fixed income and a place to live, they can meet all kinds of handsome guys and beauties and unlock the core gameplay of the game. ”

In the game, there are a number of specific prerequisites for characters to look at each other.

For example, if you want to chase a shy and insecure girl, you must have a strong physique, and regular gym workouts will have a good effect.

If you are in poor physical condition and can't give her a sense of security, it's more difficult to chase......

"I see."

Xiao Lu bit his pen and thought: "Brother Ba, what you mean is that if you meet certain conditions, it will be easy difficulty or average difficulty to pursue the role, and if you don't meet certain conditions, it will be difficult or hellish difficulty." ”

"Yes!"

"When "Love Staff" enters the game, you can't actively choose the difficulty of the game."

Chen Ba explained: "All the difficulty of the game is achieved through this precondition. ”

To put it mildly, love needs to go both ways.

Men pick women, and women pick men.

Only when both parties feel that it is in line with their own hearts, it is easier to produce sparks when they come into contact, otherwise you are ugly and have no advantages, and the girl is blind to see you?

"Face pinching is important?"

As soon as he heard this, Yang Dong was not calm, and hurriedly asked: "It's ugly or ordinary, can't you catch up with girls?" ”

"No, no, no!"

Chen Ba hurriedly denied that this was not his original design, he had never thought of it that way.

The game has a face-pinching session.

According to different face pinching, the system will give the evaluation of "handsome guy", "pure passerby" and "not to look directly".

This kind of evaluation will indeed affect the difficulty of the strategy character. For example, if you are a member of an appearance association and want to find a handsome boyfriend, it will definitely not be so easy for you to attack her with the "ancient god face".

But appearance is only part of the preconditions, and each character has different criteria for judging appearance.

Some characters, she likes the face of the ancient god without feeling for handsome guys, so what can you do?

And......

Appearance can only determine the first impression, not to say that if you are handsome, you can be 100% successful if you go to the female character of the Appearance Association.

It's not that you're ugly, and if you go to a female character who likes handsome guys, you'll be a 100% failure!

If you really want to design it like this, then won't this game become "per capita Yanzu"! Everyone pinched their faces in the direction of handsome guys, is it still necessary to pinch their faces?

"In a word, the choice of difficulty."

"The difficulty of attacking regular characters is a bit high, but it's more challenging, isn't it?" Chen Ba said with a smile.

Some players, such as Wang Laoju, like to pinch the face of the ancient god, then pinch him!

Anyway, it's your own pinched face, and it's too difficult to turn back and be disliked, so it's not to blame the game developer.

And to clear the customs with this difficulty, it is indeed very golden, and it also makes this player even more powerful, after all, this appearance can hold a beauty, how powerful is he?

……

When filling in the content of the game, Chen Ba did not forget to test the online mode of the game through the local area network.

Not to mention, it's weird.

In the final analysis, there are only two options for the online mode of "Love Staff": ask for help and help others!

Players who apply for help can open up permissions to pull players who apply to help others into the team and their own game world.

A player who has applied to help someone will be able to see the dialogue options that the player is facing, as well as a list of tasks, after entering someone else's game world.

Then there is a squad voice and text communication channel.

【GameBugs：？ 】

[Don: Everything is normal! 】

Chen Ba launched a request for help, and Yang Dong, Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei clicked in.

He then initiates a share, and a poll selection bar appears on the screens of several people.

Chen Ba started a conversation.,A female character named Lulu.,Because the computer is damaged and needs to be replaced.,I heard that the male owner understands this aspect very well.,I want the male owner to give her a purchase suggestion.。

A. Absolutely!

B. Don't give advice!

C. Do I know you well?

Xiao Lu was the first to speak: "Do you still need to think about this? It must be A! ”

Yang Dong thought for a while, and then said: "Option C is too impulsive, a little offensive, option A I think there is a problem, I vote for B." ”

Zhong Shengwei also voted A.

At 2:1:0, the results of the vote of the Love Staff are out. Chen Ba can choose to adopt it, or he can use the "one-vote veto" to choose the answer he thinks is correct.

Then, he chose C.

"Do I know you well? Ask me for help, aren't you afraid that I will deliberately trick you? ”

I thought this answer was wrong, but I stumbled into it by mistake and got the reply "You are really interesting" and "I didn't know you before, and it's not too late to know now".

The favorability curve displayed in the background has actually risen!

"Worthy of a dog-headed military advisor......"

Chen Ba was very disappointed with everyone, I thought that everyone had a girlfriend, not to mention choosing the correct answer, it shouldn't be difficult to eliminate a wrong answer, right?

The result was good, these people ruled out the correct answer as soon as they came, and it turned out that the kobold military division was indeed not very reliable.

"We can't be blamed for that."

Indeed, this question is too confusing. And the information is incomplete, who knows what she will say? ”

Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei shouted again and again, saying that it was an accident, and they only analyzed the question and forgot to check the information of Lulu's character.

Do it all over again!

Several people were not convinced, so they had to let Brother Ba retest, and said that after figuring out the routines and character of the characters, it would be impossible to miss this time.

"Good! Then try again. ”

Anyway, it is a good thing to test the online function, and it is a good thing to test it more, Chen Ba did not embarrass them, and continued to attack the role of "Lulu".

It's not a conversation this time.

The precondition is that when I get off work, I see Lulu looking depressed when she receives a call.

Players are free to move around, they can go up and ask about the situation, they can ignore it, and they can also tell another female colleague about it and ask her to help comfort her......

Lots of room to choose.

At this time, the Love Staff Department also opened the free discussion mode, and Xiao Lu and others brainstormed and put forward various suggestions.

After discussion, a plan was finally decided, which was to tell another female colleague about the matter, and ask her to inquire about the situation and comfort the lost Lulu.

Taking the initiative to contact and ignore it has been given up by Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei.

They agreed that according to Lulu's personality characteristics, both methods are unreliable and may even backfire.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Chen Ba rarely believed the analysis of the kobold military advisor, so he did as they said.

As a result, Lulu had an argument with the female colleague and seemed reluctant to tell anyone else about it, and the female colleague was also angry, and the protagonist did something bad instead.

"And this kind of expansion?"

Because in addition to the general character design, the other character identities of NPCs are randomly generated, and everyone really didn't expect it to become like this.

Especially Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei, their faces are green.

Can this be wrong?

It's broken, it's really a kobold military advisor!

They both have girlfriends, and I thought that compared with the two single dogs, Brother Dong and Brother Ba, they must have more empirical theories.

Unexpectedly, it was wrong both times.

"That's it for the test."

Seeing that Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei were a little hit, Chen Ba shook his head and said, "Don't be so discouraged, in fact, these methods are correct." ”

There is no such thing as stepping on a pit.

It's the wrong answer, but it's the right answer. There is no exact opinion value, and there is no absolute right or absolute wrong option.

Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei are still traditional thinking.

Even Brother Dong found out that because of the randomness, there are actually a lot of branch choices and routes in the game "Love Staff".

The real role of the Kobold is not to help the player choose the correct answer, nor to eliminate the wrong answers, but to find the most suitable branch of the route for that player.

To put it bluntly, there are thousands of roads.

Why do you have to find a shortcut from these thousands of roads? Can't you reach the end by taking any other path?

"Unless it's an absolute genius and a dog luck at the level of the sky, you have to take some detours."

To be honest, among so many random route branches, there are really people who are like hanging and all the way unimpeded, which is estimated to be more difficult than winning the lottery.

Mainly meat pigeon games.

As long as "Love Staff" does not have meat pigeon elements and has a fixed character strategy template, it will not produce the so-called difficulty in choosing.

"The meaning of the kobold military master is that the rich experience you think is only useful to you, and it may not be useful if you change players......"

Yang Dong saw through the mechanism and said: "If you successfully clear the customs, it doesn't mean that when you go to help other players, the customs clearance experience can come in handy." ”

"That's right!"

Chen Ba affirmed: "This is the confusion of the online mode, you think that there is a great god, and it must be foolproof with his guidance......"

But is there a possibility that the experience of this great god will not be useful to you? Or even the opposite?

The meaning of the staff is to provide you with ideas for solving problems, not to let you copy the answers and be a formula person!

There is no way out for formula people.

Applying other people's successful experience and copying other people's homework will most likely not work in the meat pigeon game "Love Staff".

It's too random.

The prerequisites, character personalities and identity backgrounds, and career paths are different, and the difficulties encountered by each player are different......

Here's an example.

Player A takes the takeaway brother route, and Player B takes the civil servant route, even if they play the same role, can the difficulty and process be the same?

"Then I see."

Xiao Lu said thoughtfully: "According to different situations, formulate different strategy plans and find the most suitable branch routes, which is the meaning of online." ”

It's not about copying someone else's answer.

There's no point in copying the answers, the main thing is to listen to other people's suggestions, and in the end it's the players themselves who make the decision.

(End of chapter)