Xiao Lu's meaning, Chen Ba understood.

The Ancestral Tree, which was originally set as a light meat pigeon, has been turned into a complete roguelike game, and every level is a new beginning.

Merely......

Compared to other non-linear traditional roguelike games, Ancestral Tree will add a non-random element that is stably triggered on top of randomness - the Ancestral Tree!

What does that mean?

This means that in the meat pigeon game "Ancestral Tree", every death of a character will leave a permanent mark on the current map or level events, a tree that grows on the grave!

Therefore, the next time the player randomly goes to this map, or randomly goes to this event or level, they will see the traces left by themselves before, and obtain the treasures left by the protagonist's ancestors before they die.

"This is really good......

Chen Ba closed his eyes and thought about it, and felt that Xiao Lu's proposal was very reasonable. For the sake of gameplay, the heavy meat pigeon will indeed be a little more fun than he thought of before.

If he is a player, he should also like this revised version of Xiao Lu.

And one more point!

That's how the game has changed, and although the roguelike elements have been strengthened, the way this game is cleared, or the correct way to play, has not changed.

It is still generation after generation of "protagonists" who have explored the way one after another, sacrificing themselves to leave hope for future generations to clear the customs, and the game still needs "countless lives" to smash the customs clearance.

"Seriously......"

After bringing the remaining half bucket of water to everyone to wash their hands, Yang Dong couldn't help but ask: "I'm actually more curious about one point, that is, what does your ancestral tree look like?" ”

Ancestral Tree?

It's such a powerful name, it can't look exactly like an ordinary tree, right? Isn't it a little recognizable?

"The tree doesn't bear fruit, this is not recognizable, is it?"

Chen Ba rolled his eyes and said: "Besides, the ancestral tree is a general term, all the trees that grow in the corpse after the death of the protagonist are called ancestral trees, and the varieties of trees are different......

This scores people.

Every time the protagonist goes on an adventure, he will make different choices, reap different results, encounter different dangers, and see different landscapes.

Naturally, the ancestral trees that grow after their deaths will not be the same.

Some may be apple trees, which do not bear apples and are full of various game items and recovery medicines!

Some may be a tea plant......

There are even those who may even incarnate as poison arrows, focusing on a "grandson, do you dare to come over and touch your grandfather".

"Is this player-controlled?"

"It's not!"

Chen Ba shook his head: "The formation of the Ancestral Tree is automatically generated after the player's death, and the process is not controlled by the player. ”

"But the choices players make during their lifetime, including the various experiences and routes along the way, will determine what the ancestral tree will grow into, whether it will blossom and bear fruit, and so on."

"Oh yes!"

"Ancestral trees may not all have harvest, some ancestors are too miserable, and there is nothing to leave for future generations when they die, the trunks and branches are bare, and there may not even be a few leaves ......"

This is stated by the context of the game.

In the actual process of playing, this situation is that the previous life died too hastily, and it was forgotten if it didn't go any further, and even a useful prop was not obtained, so the ancestral tree that grew into it was so stumbling.

The game requires items and skills.

Powerful game items and skills can help players defeat many monsters, pass many levels, avoid a series of traps, and reach the end successfully.

However, most of these powerful props are one-time products and can only be used three times at most.

Skills are slightly better, and they can be used permanently once learned, but there are also a few outstanding problems with skills.

One is the cooldown!

The more powerful the skill, the longer the cooldown, and you may not be able to use it a few times in a game.

The second is that death must be forgotten!

The existence of this mechanism gives the ancestral tree its meaning of existence. After all, if the ancestral tree gives something good, then you don't have to start from scratch.

As for the third point, it is also the key reason why skills are not as good as props, that is, the adaptability!

Props can be used however you want, but skills can't be learned randomly, and the truth that more skills don't weigh you down doesn't exist in "Ancestral Tree".

Chen Ba plans to design a number of skill development directions for the game "Ancestral Tree". Between different directions, skills can be learned, but they can have a strong negative effect.

For example, the Juli Ostrich!

With this skill, the player moves at a reduced speed, but can use weapons to break traps along the way. And this side effect of "reducing movement speed", if you change to the genre of "the higher the movement speed, the higher the evasion", it will become the root of all evil.

So, skills can't be learned randomly.

Before you learn a skill, you have to think about how you will learn the new skill in the future. Otherwise, it will happen, a funny incident where I learned a lot of skills and my strength was greatly reduced.

"This shouldn't be a big game, right?"

"Not a big ......"

Chen Ba really wanted to say, just this kind of game that you know the approximate size as soon as you hear the description, as for asking this?

Could it be that "Ancestral Tree" can be expanded into a triple-A game?

It's a little game for sure!

Of course, this little game is small, and that's compared to triple-A games. For those butter dollars of a few dollars, "Ancestral Tree" must also be a big game.

……

After planting the trees, it was just time to eat.

Chen Ba bought two sheep at the farmer's house and made a roast whole sheep for everyone. So dozens of people rushed to the farmhouse, washing vegetables, stir-frying, and they were very busy.

The two sheep that Chen Ba bought are not small, and they are completely enough for everyone to eat.

But he was still worried that it was not enough, so he asked someone to buy four chickens and two geese nearby.

As the first team building since the establishment of the studio, the enthusiasm of the big guys to participate is quite high.

Dozens of people work, as well as two chefs who specialize in cooking, are sure to have enough manpower.

Even if the pig is killed on the spot, these dozens of people can hold down an old sow of four or five hundred catties.

So Chen Ba was lazy and at ease, in his words, he was not responsible for making trouble and was only responsible for money and food, which was already the greatest mercy to everyone.

Why don't you let him cook?

Don't!

Xiao Lu was fortunate to eat "Brother Ba Brand Egg Fried Rice" once, and he still never forgets the taste of eating a bowl of rice and drinking five liters of water to suppress it.

Brother Ba's craftsmanship is not to be said, it is the weight of his taste that causes ordinary people to dare not eat the food he cooks.

"Actually, it's not that exaggerated."

Yang Dong commented pertinently: "The taste of Brother Ba is like this, heavy oil, heavy salt, heavy spicy and sour, and the taste is relatively heavy. ”

"He stir-fried vegetables and fried rice according to his favorite taste, and Xiao Lu, a local in Jiangning, must eat it like food poisoning."

"That's right!"

Chen Ba nodded and said, "I've been in Jiangning for some years, but I'm still not used to eating the salty and sweet here." ”

One side of the water and soil raises one side of the people!

Thanks to Lao Chen, he gets him some chili sauce every year, and it is convenient to order takeout now, otherwise Chen Ba would have run away from Jiangning a long time ago.

While a few people were chatting, the topic came back to the game "Time and Space Scouting".

There is a good sign.

Thanks to the "Bullet Turn" and "Bullet Time" game videos that went viral on the Internet, countless netizens have become interested in "Time and Space Reconnaissance", an FPS game with Q cute painting style.

As a result, the number of registered players has skyrocketed.

As of Arbor Day, the game has been downloaded more than 10 million times across all platforms!

It's a pity that it's a free game, if it's a paid game, even if one copy is only sold for one dollar, it's a full 10 million.

"Downloads only......

After opening a bottle of Coke, Chen Ba said while drinking: "The number of downloads of free games, to be honest, just watch it, mainly depends on the average number of online users and the total number of active players." ”

The number of downloads of the king pesticide is billions, or even tens of billions of times, is there so many players?

No, no, no!

The number of downloads can be recycled, and a player can contribute several downloads, or even dozens of downloads, so this data is useless.

The core data, that is, the number of people online, "Time and Space Investigation" is still relatively average, after all, the online time is relatively short.

"About 400,000 to 600,000 people."

Yang Dong estimated a number, and then said: "It's definitely not as good as those popular FPS online games, but it's not very unpopular, and there are still quite a lot of people who play it." ”

"However, many of the online numbers are coming for bullet turning and bullet time, as for how much time can be retained for a long time, it's hard to say......"

FPS games, with the exception of a few evergreens, are mostly short-lived.

No kidding!

Just looking at the fact that after so many years, FPS players are still playing CF and CS, and you can find that it is really difficult for other FPS games to break out of the encirclement.

The last FPS online game to get out of the encirclement is still Riot's Valorant! As for the previous paragraph, it has to be traced back to PUBG......

"Time and Space Reconnaissance" can hardly become another FPS online game after PUBG and Valorant.

It's not realistic!

Chen Ba didn't think about it that way, as long as the status quo was maintained and the game was not cool. As for whether the fire is hot or not, it all depends on fate.

"It's definitely not going to be cold."

"Anyway, our game also has two unique selling points, which will definitely attract a group of players."

Lao Luo frowned and said: "No plug-in is one thing, you can experience bullet turning and bullet time in the game!" ”

"As long as these two points are there, I don't think "Time and Space Reconnaissance" will be cold anymore, after all, there is no better alternative."

"That's right."

Chen Ba nodded.

The games under Tianba Studio may not be so top-notch, not so good and eye-catching, and even a little bad.

But there is one thing that players really can't give up, and that is that it is difficult to find a replacement for Tianba games!

For example, "The Emperor of the Starry Sky"......

For so many years, it's not that there have been games with better picture quality than "Star Emperor", but the optimization of those games is either based on defense or conservative to death.

Which is like "Star Emperor" to create a precedent in the industry, directly from a game to a graphics card evaluation software?

Where can I find a substitute for this kind of game?

"That's right!"

Speaking of alternatives, Chen Ba seemed to have thought of something, and asked curiously, "How is that magic animation made by Penguin?" ”

I haven't been following it in a long time.

The last time I heard the news about "Magic Animation", it was a self-media editor who collected black money, put aside this crazy magic animation, and said that "Divine Grace Continent" didn't deserve to lift its shoes.

Then, this editor was scolded by netizens.

There has been no movement for so long, and the publicity and distribution resources seem to have stopped, Chen Ba is very curious, what is the current situation of this project? Is it stopped?

"Probably abandoned."

Huang Qing has a good understanding of the goose factory, so he said: "The internal competition of the goose factory is very fierce, and if you give resource support, you have to make achievements." "Magic Animation" has failed to live up to this trust, and it will naturally be put into the cold by the management. ”

"It's a pity."

Chen Ba shook his head and said, "I'm not having fun watching it now!" Originally, I was thinking, when will this broken software be updated, I will go to the whole job! ”

It's really disappointing that I don't give the opportunity to work the whole thing.

Seriously......

Chen Ba is actually quite worried, a giant like Penguin really wants to do a good job in "Magic Animation" at all costs, and is determined to overcome all difficulties, then it is really possible to catch up.

But the penguins themselves have chosen to give up, so don't worry.

It seems that the other party is just testing the water when he makes a "magic animation", and he thinks that AI animation has a trick and wants to get a piece of the pie.

As a result, the cake was not shared, but it caused a lot of commotion, so I simply stopped doing it.

Goose manufacturers have a big business, but they don't have to mind too much about the gains and losses in this field, after all, their core business is actually social. As long as this area is stable, then even if all other fields are lost, they can make a comeback.

It's like they're making a game.

No matter what kind of game, as long as it can be accessed to the two major traffic entrances of QQ and WeChat, there will never be a shortage of players, which is too enviable.

Chen Ba is also envious!

But when Penguin asked him to use it, he really didn't dare to use this traffic interface......

After all, he spent so many years and reluctantly created a set of "Tianba account + community + Nobug" system, which completely trapped the players.

If in order to save trouble and convenience, you access the traffic entrance provided by Penguin, which player will use your Tianba account to log in to the game in the future?

It's nothing in the short term, but in the long run, this is undoubtedly a huge loss for Tianba Studio, after all, the users who have been cultivated for so long are all gone.

So Chen Ba's attitude is very firm.

No matter what game, always use the Tianba account to log in, in the login option, only provide email, phone two ways, do not open any third-party one-click login.

As a player, one-click login is indeed convenient and trouble-free, so as not to have one game and one account, and you can't remember more than that.

But as an aspiring, idealistic and aspiring game producer, Chen Ba can only accept the Tianba account to log in to his own game, and don't think about anything else.

There was a one-click login to the steam platform before, but it was later canceled by him, and the main focus was to cross the river and demolish the bridge......

(End of chapter)