Mod production of a game can be said to be the lowest threshold method of game production.
Because the basic logic of the game is already very complete, as long as there is enough open source and the game is open enough in terms of customization, players will give game developers countless surprises.
MOBA games in the form of Dota, Chenghai 3C, Counter-Strike, and Red Alert are among the most successful modules.
This kind of open source game is really designed to prepare game developers for entry.
At this moment, the Battle.net platform actually lacks a public platform for module production.
With such a platform, everyone will have the opportunity to display their own gameplay.
"Bell."
"What's wrong with the president?"
Bell also noticed Zhu Youxing's slightly excited expression. He guessed that Zhu Youxing might have thought of a way to quickly increase the number of games.
He sighed in his heart that he was indeed the recognized god of games in the industry. Now in such a short period of time, he had already figured out how to expand the scale of game production.
"I'm going to tell you a function. You can make it as soon as possible and launch it on the Battle.net platform."
Bell immediately started recording.
"First of all, please write down all StarCraft, Counter-Strike and Stardew Valley. These games are all open-production games. We have opened a new function so that people can change the data in the game at will. If you can
If so, we can also make it as convenient as possible for players to modify game values and programs."
Bell's writing paused slightly, and then he looked at Zhu Yuxing in disbelief: "President, isn't this equivalent to handing over our source code to others? And from what you're saying, players won't be able to modify our source code if they modify it.
Any copyright lawsuits?”
He couldn't believe that this was what Zhu Youxing said.
There has been a small-scale game copying incident in the gaming industry before.
However, this incident did not create much of a stir, as it was immediately shot to death by Zhu Youxing as soon as it started to show signs of happening.
Later, Youxing Electronic Entertainment began to restrict the reading and copying of game programs to avoid players being exposed to these unnecessary things as much as possible.
At the same time, Youxing Electronic Entertainment has the strongest legal team in the world. They sue like crazy every day. Whenever a guy dares to plagiarize their games, they will send a lawyer's letter first, and then find a way to get the other party to do it.
Take the initiative to give up the lawsuit and stop infringement.
So far, this method has prevented many vicious plagiarism incidents, and has also been defined as some classic cases in the industry.
But now Zhuyusing seems to be suddenly planning to change all this, completely handing over the production and modification rights of some games to outsiders.
So after some magical changes, wouldn’t this game no longer be their game?
Facing Bell's surprised look, Zhu Youxing just said calmly: "Is there anything wrong?"
"This... we may lose control of these games."
"I don't think there is anything wrong with this. We can impose strict restrictions on some games because they are the core of our technical capabilities and cannot be easily exposed to others. But games such as Half-Life, Stardew Valley, and StarCraft are originally
The logic and gameplay can be easily understood by professional game makers. There is no need for us to hide it, so it is better to disclose it openly and let players play with it as they please."
"Let the players struggle? How will the players struggle?"
Bell still didn't quite understand.
Zhu Youxing knows that this is because the world has not yet understood the meaning of so-called modules.
The birth of modules also greatly lowered the threshold for game development, which allowed various models that will be regarded as classics in later generations to attract the attention of the world.
Any player with a little creativity can easily use the basic logic of a game to make his or her own game.
Then when his niche gameplay becomes popular, the producer will become more interested in game production, and then they will find ways to research more complex game production methods to make their modules look more complete and complete.
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Modules are unique to the PC platform and are incomparable to console platforms. If we don’t take advantage of this advantage, the market for the PC platform will always only be small.
Zhu Youxing smiled and said: "There is a classic proverb, the difference between one wooden stick and ten wooden sticks, the power of the crowd is great, some wonderful things can always be born in the crowd, so
I hope that these fantastic ideas can have the soil to bloom, instead of being stillborn due to the excessive difficulty of game development."
Bell still didn't quite understand.
But after thinking about it, he felt that this was the president's idea after all, so it must have some deep meaning.
It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand it now, he can wait and see.
So he recorded it and said: "President, are you sure you want the source code of these games to be directly open to the public? Also allow players to change the values in the game at will?"
Zhu Youxing nodded: "Sure, of course this is just an attempt on my part to see if this can really unearth some talented 'players'."
Then Zhu Youxing paused and then continued: "In order to set an example, I just have time to make some modules as demonstrations. These demonstrations can be directly used as tutorials for players to see, so that they can understand how to make them.
How low the difficulty of the module can be.”
Zhu Yuxing started to take action as he spoke.
He immediately started working on the computer in front of him.
First, the underlying code of Counter-Strike was modified.
The first is to allow some limited program and numerical modifications from the bottom layer.
These modifications can facilitate Zhuyouxing’s subsequent module production.
"What kind of module should I make..."
Zhu Youxing thought for a moment, and then immediately thought of a module that he thought was quite classic.
How to play Resident Evil Zombie Infection.
In Counter-Strike, you only need to make some simple modifications to the gameplay mode, then add a countdown function to the game, and finally design a logic program.
This program is very simple, so simple that it can be copied with simple familiarity.
The content of this logic is that when the countdown ends, a player in the room will become a zombie.