Chapter 259 What is Super IP
"Come, take a look."
Liu Zhiyuan has no plan for the Zodiac Adventure at all. He has many good ideas, but this kind of creativity cannot be abused wantonly. The Han Dynasty has not yet reached the top of the industry. The large amount of these ideas flowing out will probably give others an advantage.
The most important thing is that some of these ideas are nuclear weapons, such as this Zodiac Adventure, which is no less than a nuclear bomb for Sega!
"Look here, we can design some traps, such as swamps."
Liu Zhiyuan drew a very simple horizontal map on the computer, in which the circles represent swamps.
"Tell me, what would your game character do if he encountered this swamp?"
"jump over?"
Chen Guoqiang thought for a while and spoke first.
Liu Zhiyuan nodded.
"It's one kind, is there another one?"
It took a long time before someone spoke timidly.
"Slide over?"
Liu Zhiyuan glanced at Guo Xingguo with admiration. It was indeed because of his ability that he was able to sit in the position of creative director of the Han Dynasty in his previous life. At least no one else had thought of this idea of slipping through the swamp.
"Yes, this is also a way of playing, continue."
He already has several methods in his mind, but he can't say that the Han Dynasty cannot rely on him alone. Several people here have potential. Once they have the idea of relying on him, they will be doomed.
"Swim over?"
"Can."
Regardless of whether what he said was right or not, Liu Zhiyuan was very encouraging. If what he said was wrong, he would tell them why. If what he said was right, he would also tell them why.
When everyone really ran out of ideas, Liu Zhiyuan continued to ask.
"Let's think about it again based on the method you designed. What will be the effect of sliding over? What about swimming over or jumping over? Isn't there any difference? Then this trap is meaningless."
Guiding and guiding the thinking ability of these seedlings is the most basic quality of a good teacher. It is much better to guide them to do something bit by bit than to tell them the answer directly.
"How about it slows down when you slide over it? Isn't this a running game? Speed must be very critical."
"Very good, any more?"
"Stuck? Stuck for how many seconds? Like a racing game that runs off the track and takes a few seconds to restart."
"..."
Liu Zhiyuan is very satisfied with the answers given by everyone present. Although most of these ideas are very common and even many are unrealistic, there are still many good ideas, right?
"Why don't we think about the game characters? This game is called Zodiac Adventures, which means that this game has at least 12 game characters. We also talked about the trap of the swamp. How will different characters get through here? For example
Sliding over, not all characters can slide over, right? Those 12 characters are too similar."
"Snakes can slide through."
"Can a dragon be used too?"
"A mouse should be fine too."
"..."
Liu Zhiyuan waited for them to finish talking before continuing to speak.
"Let's relax the conditions for crossing the swamp trap, such as jumping and running, and then you can talk about it."
"Rabbit, you can just jump over."
"Sheep will do, too."
"tiger."
"monkey."
"Is it okay for the horse to just run over?"
"That's no problem with the oxen. Don't the plowing oxen run in the mud every day?"
The atmosphere in the conference room is getting better and better.
"Let's relax the trap conditions a little more, such as large swamps and small swamps."
This is difficult. Except for animals like snakes and rabbits that are born with the ability to survive in this swamp, other animals seem to have problems no matter how they survive.
"If it's a large swamp, then it's unreasonable to run through it. The cows, horses, pigs and dogs may have to think of other ways."
"Can you add some other props to the swamp? For example, trees and vines, so the monkeys can pass through normally."
"Wouldn't that lose the meaning of the swamp trap? Isn't it just to distinguish the abilities of each character?"
"..."
Skills! In addition to the biggest selling point of this game, parkour, they have actually discovered how the 12 characters reflect their respective characteristics? Skills, is there a better way than skills?
"Skills! I understand, Mr. Liu, you want to tell us that these 12 characters have their own exclusive skills? And these skills are the key to passing these traps."
Guo Xingguo, this game creative director who is probably ranked among the best in China, is beginning to show his talents. If the Han Dynasty had not delayed him, his name would have been well known by now.
"Yes, skills! A major selling point of this game is the skills of each character. Each skill can deal with different traps. These skills should be close to the special effects of the characters, such as cows, cows are strong, some roadblocks and so on
Yes, the cow can rush directly after activating the skill. Another example..."
It's enough that they can discover the skills. Liu Zhiyuan is already very satisfied. The specific skills are not important. To put it bluntly, the depth of the production of this game is not deep. What is difficult is how to squeeze out the performance of Elf II, which is the most expensive.
When it comes to time, if there is one less point, the game will have shortcomings; if there is one more point, the elf will not be able to bear it, and the player's experience will inevitably be bad.
"Then let me ask you another question, what are the conditions for the skill to be activated?"
There were all kinds of answers now, but in the end, no one came back with an answer that Liu Zhiyuan was satisfied with.
"Let me give you a hint, what is the use of the gold coins collected by Super Mario?"
In one sentence, everyone suddenly understood.
"Do you understand? This is a game that you play while running. Only BOSS will appear when fighting, and it is not important at all. The process of running is the fun."
Liu Zhiyuan dares to say, what is the use of the gold coins collected in Super Mario? Many players in later generations do not know, and a major highlight was wasted like this. Why? It is not because the benefits of collecting gold coins do not affect the game at all, although later Super Mario
A lot of improvements have been made, but it's too late.
"Energy and gold coins can be in any form, but players must be made aware that these things are crucial, so important that they will completely affect their game."
"How can we make players realize that these common things on the road are very important, skills! If you save enough energy to use skills, how can you make them care more about using skills? In addition to being able to pass some traps that other characters cannot pass, you can also add
Some other things.”
"For example, animal transformation! The initial state of the game character is in human form. After enough energy is accumulated, transformation is another big selling point? Don't forget the status of the twelve zodiac animals in Pocket Elf."
How was a god-level IP born? That’s how it was born! Liu Zhiyuan never thought that one game, Pocket Elf, would support the Pocket Elf IP. Countless games related to it would be born. They are completely complementary to each other.
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New games can ride on the popularity of Pokemon and quickly let players know about it. And if new players are created because of the new game, it is entirely possible that the new game will feed Pokemon back. Why did he make Pokemon Balls in the first place? Why did he make Pet Lianliankan?
, these games where pets come to find trouble are not just to build momentum for Pokemon!
Chapter completed!