Chapter 152 What should I do if my uncle is a little excited?(1/3)
Based on Xu Yi's understanding of his nephew Xu Xing, since the studio has begun to expand its recruitment, it must have some ideas for new games.
Xu Yi thought of the game Fruit Assassin, which uses the characteristics of cutting fruits and combines it with the interaction method of touch-screen smartphones to harvest players with its novel core gameplay. Then he thought that such a game was created by Xu Xing.
This made it difficult for Xu Yi not to be curious and excited about the new game planning plan he came up with.
But in fact, he doesn't have high expectations for this new game.
Human inspiration has its limitations.
Most producers who have made a game with good quality often get stuck in a rut because the game is too good. When creating a new game, it is difficult to break away from the influence that the previous game had on them.
Limitations and frameworks.
For example, Xu Xing made Fruit Assassin in one summer vacation, and it was such a hit. Once Xu Xing's creativity is affected and restricted, the new games are likely to be similar to "cutting cakes" and "cutting vegetables".
chemical products.
Of course, the best way to get rid of this restriction is to enter a new game category and change your mind.
But most game producers are actually only good at producing games of one or two categories.
Once you enter a new game category, you may suddenly drop from a top producer to a level that is not even as good as an ordinary producer.
It’s not like Xu Yi has never made games before. After so many years of ups and downs, he once worked in a company of a game manufacturer, so he has some understanding of this aspect.
But when he held these thoughts and looked through the [Secret Realm Escape Plan] in his hand, he couldn't help but be stunned.
Because at the very beginning of this planning plan, Xu Xing did not explain what type of game it was, what the core gameplay was, and what type of target player group it was.
Instead, I first gave people some popular science about the functions and characteristics of the latest gyroscope installed on Pineapple Phone 5.
Gyroscope is a concept that most people may have heard of in previous lives, but few mobile phone users would study its specific functions.
Only some experienced mobile phone users may learn how to use the characteristics of gyroscopes to obtain a better user experience.
However, for most mobile phone users, even if they don’t know what this thing is used for, they will use gyroscopes more or less when using their mobile phones in daily life.
The simplest application is to change the horizontal screen to vertical screen.
Why do smartphones only need to be placed horizontally, and the screen will automatically recognize it and change it to landscape mode?
This is actually the effect of the gyroscope.
Another example is the camera function of mobile phones. In the early days of mobile phone photography, it was easy for the user's hand to shake violently due to unstable hands.
Once a gyroscope is added, the mobile phone can adjust the lens in a timely manner based on the parameters fed back by the gyroscope, so that the screen and the user's jitter remain in a relatively static state, thereby reducing the degree of jitter.
In addition, gyroscopes are also involved in map navigation and other functions on mobile phones.
A gyroscope is an angular velocity sensor. If it is understood simply and narrowly in terms that ordinary people can understand, it is a gravity sensing device.
This device can determine the posture of the mobile phone in the user's hand in real time.
Whether it is held vertically or horizontally, whether it is tilted back and forth or left and right, whether it is laid flat, or whether it is held in the hand by the user and rotated in circles, can all be sensed by the gyroscope.
When he first saw the introduction of the gyroscope, Xu Yi was surprised, thinking that Xu Xing had made a mistake in the planning plan and other information.
But as he watched, he suddenly fell into deep thought.
The core gameplay of Fruit Assassin is also an interaction that can only be completed on a smartphone.
What is used is the interaction mode of direct contact between fingers and the mobile phone screen.
If you move the Fruit Assassin to a computer and control the mouse to cut, the fun of the gameplay will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, when most other mobile games are modified versions of online and web games, Fruit Assassin, a mobile game specifically designed for smart touch-screen phones, is very valuable.
Even though its gameplay is so simple, it still attracts a huge number of players.
But now, after reading the full page of Xu Xing's basic introduction and functional outline of gyroscopes, Xu Yi had a vague feeling in his heart.
It seems that this guy is thinking about using the previous differences and characteristics between smartphones and computers to create a new game tailored for the gyroscope effect.
A mobile game that can only be played on a smartphone and is specially created for mobile phone users.
But if Xu Yi was left to think about it on his own, he suddenly couldn't think of any good way to use the characteristics of gyroscopes to develop a new game.
This feeling is like having something very important in your mind, but you just can't remember what it is exactly. It's like a place in your mind is suddenly clouded.
,feeling bad.
So Xu Yi stopped thinking about it and simply turned to the second page of the plan, wanting to see what tricks Xu Xing had planned for him.
Then, what caught his eyes was a line of large characters——
【3D parkour mobile game】
If we insist on tracing back the history of the sport of parkour, then stories such as flying over walls and climbing over cliffs in ancient times can also be regarded as a kind of parkour.
However, as a concept, it began to spread widely. It was probably from the beginning of this century that parkour gradually became popular from abroad.
Of course, a series of operations similar to those in Uncle Long's action movies, using various objects in daily environments such as supermarkets and factories as tools for running, jumping and leaping, can theoretically be considered parkour.
But after the concept of parkour was introduced into mobile games, the gameplay is actually not that complicated. The basic gameplay of most parkour games is that the player can only control the character's jumping and skill release, but does not need to control the character's forward speed.
Under the premise that the character's forward speed cannot be controlled, the player must maintain mental tension at all times and use the few jumps and skills to avoid or destroy the roadblocks in front, so as to ensure that the character can run smoothly to the end of the level.
In this era, horizontal screen 2D parkour games are actually quite common.
But when it comes to 3D parkour games, Xu Yi has only seen it in some stand-alone games, and this element is relatively rare even in PC games.
Not to mention putting this concept on mobile phones.
But when Xu Yi patiently continued to read, he was slowly attracted by Xu Xing's extremely detailed planning plan.
So when he finished reading it, it was already past five o'clock in the evening.
If his cell phone hadn't suddenly rang, interrupting his immersive train of thought, Xu Yi probably wouldn't have come to his senses so quickly.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Lao Xu, are you coming back for dinner? If you don't come back, I won't be too lazy to cook."
"Ah, ah... um..." Xu Yi looked at the time and looked at Xu Xing again.
Xu Xing immediately understood and shouted to Bi Wenli on the other end of the phone: "Aunt! We happened to meet uncle when he finished the interview. We were walking around Min University and I invited him to dinner in the evening!"
"Oh, that's fine." Bi Wenli suddenly understood, then she laughed and scolded, "What's your treat? Let your uncle treat you to a big dinner!"
"Okay! You're welcome then." Xu Xing immediately responded with a smile.
"Okay, that's it." Xu Yi replied, "I won't be back until very late tonight, so you can go to bed early tonight."
"Why should I sleep? Ah Fang and the others asked me to play mahjong in the afternoon. I was still at home preparing to cook for you. If I had known earlier, I would have gone directly in the afternoon." Bi Wenli complained, "If you don't come back, I will
I went to play mahjong and failed."
After hanging up the phone, Xu Yi put away his phone, put the planning plan on the table, looked at Xu Xing with a complicated expression, and took a deep breath.
"Did you write this planning plan alone?"
"Well... the core gameplay is what I thought of, but other people also participated in modifying and improving the specific plan." Xu Xing knew very well how outrageous this plan was. In order to prevent his uncle from feeling too inferior, he was still a little humble, "
We started preparing in July, and it took almost two months to get it almost ready."
In fact, he only spent a few days working on this thing.
Because the original version itself had many problems, Xu Xing made some modifications based on the Temple Escape, and came up with the current secret escape plan.
The specific modifications generally fall into two aspects.
First, the character model has been added, from the original only one male character to one male character and one female character. Players can choose freely before starting the game.
Among them, the male character has strong jumping ability, but is slightly sluggish when dodging left and right. The female character has weak jumping ability, but is more smooth and flexible when dodging left and right.
Hmm... As for why there is an extra female character, of course it is to sell skins. After all, everything ends with skins.
If you want to make money from free games without destroying the balance of the game, game character skins are indeed a must-go.
Moreover, operating a big man wearing a vest and shorts, and operating a beautiful woman wearing a vest and shorts, showing off her slim waist and long legs, are definitely completely different in terms of the level of enjoyment.
The skin will naturally sell better.
The second point of modification is the map.
Xu Xing expanded the resources of the map from the single temple in the original work to new locations such as snowy mountains, rainforest canyons, and also distinguished the roads and roadblocks in different maps.
For example, in a rainforest map, the elements on the road may be more tangled things like vines, while in snowy mountains and canyons, they will turn into snowdrifts and falling rocks.
However, what really shocked the opposite Xu Yi was not the gameplay nor the interesting game settings.
But this planning plan... is really perfect.
You know, when many game planners write plans, they mostly only have one framework. It’s great to have more content and details, but more of them still rely on programs and art to understand the ideas in the planner’s mind and then synchronize them.
But most of the time, the final effect of the game may not be what the game planner originally thought.
Not to mention people like Xu Xing, who had already written the entire game's specific framework and content before production even started, and even implemented all the details. At the same time, he also took over the concept of the game's profit model.
I boldly chose a buyout system that was different from Fruit Assassin, and switched directly to a free system.
Even the various character skin designs for in-app purchases have very clear ideas.
What kind of game planning is this?
To be continued...