The homework assigned by Professor He Cheng can be said to be quite tight.
The first screening will be conducted in two weeks, and this screening will directly eliminate two-thirds of the students.
Although after being eliminated, you can still form a team with the classmates who have not been eliminated, but after all, it is someone else's design, which is equivalent to undermining, and you have no say in it.
When school first started, students basically stayed in dormitories and had few opportunities to interact with other students. If the entire dormitory was eliminated, the situation would be more difficult.
Lu Zhixing must try his best to ensure that his design concept draft is in the first third.
It takes just two weeks to complete the design concept draft, which is also quite urgent for some senior game planners.
And Professor He Cheng later added: This Friday, several students will be randomly checked to see how they have completed their homework.
This is even more stressful for students.
The reason why Professor He Cheng set such a tight timetable should also be a kind of stress test to see the students' ability to quickly write design drafts. After all, everyone's time is very tight, and the competition is fair.
Lu Zhixing has been busy dealing with Internet cafes and renting a house, and now there are only three days left before Professor He's spot inspection.
However, for a skilled planner like him, two or three days is enough time to produce a design concept draft.
"So, what kind of game should I design using these materials that will be available in the future?"
Lu Zhixing fell into deep thought.
After completing the role-playing task, he will definitely use all the materials he got to make a game.
Professor He Cheng's homework must be completed on time.
Writing two different design drafts was too tiring for Lu Zhixing, and there was not enough time. Even if he wrote it, the subsequent production would definitely be very busy.
Therefore, it is best to design a game that accomplishes two goals at the same time.
"If I can get that special reward and be able to draw unlimited materials within one hour, I can have all the resources in Keihai University and the surrounding one or two streets.
"Combining the two roles of 'worker' and 'campus superstar' may give me material...
"Well, I have it!"
After Lu Zhixing thought about it for a while, he wrote the name of the game on the document.
"Ordinary Life".
This can be seen as a simulation game. The game is set in Keihai University and the surrounding areas.
Both Jinghai University itself and the surrounding vendors, shops, etc. will be fully restored.
In the game, players can experience rich content:
You can work in various places to make money, such as moving bricks, sorting express delivery, working as a security guard, setting up stalls, etc.;
You can eat, drink, and play various mini-games, such as circling, playing balloons, playing chess on the street, going to an Internet cafe, etc.;
You can participate in some training activities to improve your professional skills and unlock more jobs.
Some elements of simulated survival will be added to the game, including concepts such as hunger, health, cleanliness, etc. These will affect the status of the character, which requires regular meals, baths, laundry, and rest to recover.
There are several different ways to play through the game:
The first is wealth clearance: if you earn a certain amount of money through your own abilities, you will pass the level.
The second type is cultural clearance: if you upgrade various professional skills to a certain level, or if college students advance their studies to a certain level, you will be considered a pass.
The third type is status clearance: owning your own industry and becoming a boss through your own efforts, or students becoming outstanding cadres by organizing activities can also be considered as clearance.
At the same time, the game will also plan different difficulties, namely "game difficulty", "simulation difficulty" and "real difficulty".
The higher the difficulty, the faster the players' hunger, health, cleanliness and other attributes will be consumed, the harder it will be to make money, and various risks will also increase.
Players can play three different identities: workers, college students, and rich second generation who hide their identities.
The initial optional identities are workers and college students, each of which has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Migrant workers have more energy, are more tolerant of all kinds of physical work, and have a very strong psychological quality. Even if they are less clean, eat noodles every day, and work hard for a long time, they will not accumulate too much psychological pressure.
At the same time, part-time workers can completely control all their time and have no academic pressure.
On the contrary, college students' physical fitness is poor and their psychological quality is relatively fragile, and they need to allocate some time to deal with their studies.
But the advantage of college students is that they can live in school dormitories, eat in school cafeterias, and can also engage in some exclusive activities in the university, such as hosting parties, participating in debate competitions, etc.
These are not only bonus points for identity clearance, but also allow you to improve your skills without joining a training class.
In addition, there is a hidden identity, which is the rich second generation identity. Its activation condition is that the player needs to use the identity of a worker and a college student respectively to achieve any of the "real difficulty" clearance methods.
The rich second generation has a very exaggerated initial amount of money, and the only goal is to spend all the money before the game time ends.
The reason why this game is called "Ordinary Life" is because it focuses on migrant workers and college students. What the game content shows is not about luxury and luxury, but the various situations of human beings in real society.
Its inspiration comes from a similar domestic game that Lu Zhixing played in his previous life. However, this game was removed from the shelves due to various problems. Moreover, the game production team did not have enough funds, capabilities, and attitude. The game itself
There are huge flaws in every gameplay and content.
In Lu Zhixing's view, this is a pity: players have given enough enthusiasm and support, but the game developers failed to respond to this support, and instead made this good idea blind.
Therefore, Lu Zhixing combined his acting goals this time and the available acting materials, and decided to give a more perfect answer based on the idea of "showing ordinary life".
Of course, since Lu Zhixing cannot predict the future and cannot determine what kind of materials he will give after completing his role, this is tantamount to a kind of prediction.
I guess there shouldn't be much of a deviation.
As for what kind of materials will be used for the role of a paralyzed patient, Lu Zhixing can't guess at all, so it has not been included in the planning of this game for the time being. When I get the materials later, I will put them in if I can, and if I can't, I will just put them in.
I can make another game.
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After having a general direction, Lu Zhixing immediately started writing a game design concept draft.
I have been doing functional planning for several years in my previous life, so writing design drafts is something I can easily do.
Lu Zhixing quickly tapped the keyboard with both hands, and the clear ideas in his mind quickly turned into the content of the design draft. It only took four or five hours to build a rough framework.
But at this moment, Lu Zhixing suddenly thought of a question.
"Speaking of which, when Professor He Cheng grades assignments, will he also take the production cost into consideration?"
Although Professor He Cheng said that the games he designs can be of any type, with any theme, and there are no restrictions, but for a game designer, cost control is the first lesson in making games.
Those truly great game designs are the result of a compromise between design and objective conditions.
Just like the very old pixel style games, designers need to use a few simple pixels to depict different game characters, and they need to use cartridges with very limited capacity to carry as much and as rich game content as possible.
It can be said that game design has been an art form of dancing with shackles since its inception, and game content has always been limited by the level of hardware.
Although hardware conditions have gradually improved since then, and many game masterpieces often cost more than 100 million yuan in investment, the game industry has always been less interested in this kind of "stacking of materials".
When it comes to annual game awards, the jury often doesn't like such large-scale productions that are purely based on sheer volume, but tends to favor games that are smaller in size but have huge gameplay innovations.
For designers, how to use fewer resources to better achieve design goals and bring greater fun to players is what really highlights the level.
Thinking about it this way, the production cost of the game itself must also be an important part of Professor He Cheng's evaluation of the game.
So for a big production like "Ordinary Life", which almost includes the entire Keihai University and surrounding streets, points will definitely be deducted in this aspect.
After all, this amount of resources is simply overwhelming for an ordinary game production team. Only someone like Lu Zhixing, who has cheats, can be so unscrupulous.
What to do?
Salad!
Although Lu Zhixing knew that there might be problems, he did not intend to modify it. Because this design plan was finalized in conjunction with the "Life Playing Game", as long as he could successfully complete the play, all these materials would be available, and there was no need to look like
Everyone else considers the production cost of the game as well.
If other design plans were used, although Professor He could get a higher evaluation, a lot of materials would be backlogged and would not be used.
That is a serious waste, and Lu Zhixing will never allow it.
Moreover, Lu Zhixing is confident that even if this design plan has to deduct some points in terms of cost control, it is still good enough and is still very hopeful to stand out among all the design drafts.
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The next morning.
Lu Zhixing made the final revisions to the design draft of "Ordinary Life", pressed ctrl+S several times, then picked up the Feizhai Happy Water on the table and took a few sips.
Live together!
Just as I was about to take a break, the doorbell rang.
"Hello, is there anyone at home? The express delivery has arrived!"
"Huh? Delivered so quickly?"
Lu Zhixing was a little surprised. He opened the door of the rental house and moved the huge cardboard box in with the courier.
"Young man, you just moved in recently? I've never seen you before."
This courier guy is quite talkative.
Nowadays, there are not many express delivery companies that are willing to deliver goods to your door, and Jingxi Express is one of them. This express delivery company is a local industry in Jinghai, so it is named because its headquarters and largest warehouse are located in the west of Jinghai.
Of course, the homophone of Jingxi is "surprise", and the couriers are all dressed in red, which is quite festive, so the express delivery business in Jinghai is getting more and more prosperous.
The couriers of Jingxi Express are well paid. Basically, the couriers deliver to a fixed area all year round. This courier is obviously responsible for this community and comes to deliver express every day. I have never seen Lu Zhixing before, so I guessed that this is a
New residents.
Lu Zhixing nodded: "Yes, I just moved in, what do you call me master? Come on, have a drink of water."
As he spoke, he took an unopened bottle of mineral water and handed it over.
"Thank you, I don't have to. My name is Qian Ziqiang. If you have any problems with express delivery in the future, just contact me." The courier boy pushed the mineral water back.
"Master Qian, please add your contact information. Maybe I will have to hang out with you in the future and deliver express delivery together."
Lu Zhixing took out his mobile phone and scanned the code to add friends.
Then he took a paper knife and prepared to open the box.
Although Qian Ziqiang added his contact information, he waved his hands when he heard Lu Zhixing's statement: "Hey, don't be kidding me. You look like a well-mannered person, he must be a college student, right? College students should study hard, and don't think about making money so early.
, you see, we all earn hard-earned money, and we are exposed to the wind and sun every day, but we regret not studying hard at the beginning.
"Hey, by the way, what is in this box? It's so heavy. Let me help you unpack it."
Lu Zhixing was startled and said quickly: "Hey, no need, no need..."
However, before he finished speaking, the courier boy was already very enthusiastic about helping him take out the items in the box.
Looking at the wheelchair in front of him, Qian Ziqiang was stunned for a moment.
The room that was bustling just now suddenly became quiet.
The two looked at each other, speechless for a moment.
Lu Zhixing was a little embarrassed: "If I said this wheelchair was for a friend of mine, you would definitely believe it, right? After all, my legs and feet are so good, it doesn't look like I need a wheelchair."