In fact, before he actually started making games, Sun Peng didn't know how long it would take to make a game.
It wasn't until he started preparing for Laobai Studio and started asking about the development process of games like "Laobai Heroes 1" and the manpower and funds needed that he fully understood the difficulties of game production and the production cycle of a truly big game.
It's much longer than filming a super blockbuster.
"The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 3" is the most typical example.
"The Legend of Laobai Heroes 1" is just a linear story structure, which is actually relatively simple among RPG games. And because Laobai Studio was founded at that time, although many people who joined were elites in the industry, under Chen Maolin and Chen Fengzhi many times
After thinking about it, I still gave up many necessary settings.
For example, there are multiple choices for key plot points, different endings, etc.
To put it bluntly, players who play "The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 1" can only follow the route set by the producers, without any choice.
Obviously, this takes away a lot of fun for players.
But even so, Chen Maolin and the others spent nearly three years in order to complete "The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 1". More than a year was spent planning the plot of the game and creating various settings of the game.
When it came to "The Legend of Lao Bai Qun Xia 2", the difficulty began to increase significantly.
This is also an inevitable result, because Laobai Studio continues to increase investment, is still poaching people from all over the world, and its scale has nearly doubled! Moreover, they do not care about whether they are profitable, they just want to make something that makes them
Sun Peng, the owner of the martial arts game, is satisfied.
Therefore, an open game world, a real arena, requires more time.
Even though the main thing that determines the speed of game production is investment and how many people are involved, for a game as complex as "The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 2", time is still the biggest enemy.
Sun Peng's idea is that every corner of the map can be reached, every house in the game can be entered, and every character can even speak!
and……
The six-door system, the justice value system, the gang system, etc. will all take shape in "The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 2".
Of course, this is just the beginning.
After all, it is not easy to launch "Lao Bai Qun Xia Zhuan 2" in three to four years. Even if the game planning had started as early as the year before last, and now the number of artists, programmers and other personnel in Lao Bai Studio has exceeded
In addition, there are countless outsourcing companies working with them, but it is still very difficult to complete the production of the game before the end of next year.
But when it comes to "The Legend of Lao Bai Qun Xia 3", it is even more exaggerated.
In addition to a larger and more realistic open map, players will see a real six-door system and interact with the four famous arrests; they will also experience the true value of justice and become a generation of heroes or a generation of devils;
They can establish their own gang and develop it to dominate the martial arts world; they can become an escort or even set up their own escort agency...
Of course, more importantly, "The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 3" will become a real online game.
Players can form gangs in the game, join six gates, be bodyguards for thousands of miles, or dominate the mountain and become king!
If Sun Peng had to give a standard, "Lao Bai Qun Xia Zhuan 3" should be the Chinese martial arts version of "GTA5"!
One can imagine what a huge workload this will be.
Therefore, the early planning for "The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 3" actually started after Sun Peng wrote those novels, almost at the same time as "The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 2". But because at that time, he had already made up his mind to use a special
Game engine, so game planning has been ongoing and constantly improved, until today he saw the final version of the game engine!
"To be honest, I really don't understand this stuff!"
After watching the demonstration of the game engine, Sun Peng spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "But you are all professionals. If you think he has met the needs of "The Legend of Lao Bai Qun Xia 3", then start doing it! But if
If there are still flaws, continue to improve them, we have plenty of time!”
For "The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 3", Sun Peng is really patient.
In fact, if it were not for various reasons that he had to release the first and second parts, he would even prefer to start production of "The Legend of Lao Bai Qun Xia 3" directly. Even if it takes ten years, it is not unacceptable.
How long has he been waiting for "Cyberpunk 2077" on Earth? Anyway, he didn't wait until it came...
"Don't worry, boss!"
Seeing Sun Peng's solemn look, Chen Maolin smiled happily and said: "We value "The Legend of Laobai Qunxia 3" no less than you do, and we will not make fun of it. We have been testing the game engine for a long time, and we are sure
No problem...and the planning of the third part of the game has been started for two years, and many people have already lost their patience."
Two years have allowed Chen Maolin and the others to complete the complete structure of a huge world, and also allowed them to conduct countless refinements on the gameplay of the game.
In their eyes, the game planning is already perfect.
The rest is actually to find problems during the production process and then solve them. It is meaningless to just rely on planners to keep writing and drawing on paper.
So after understanding this, Sun Peng did not hesitate, nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, let's get started! Just give me a number of how much capital is needed, and I will get someone to come in as soon as possible!"
The cost of developing a "Lao Bai Qun Xia Zhuan 3" is really too high.
It is conceivable that when the production officially starts, even if the share of outsourcing will be large, the construction of those important scenes, as well as the accumulation of materials such as the protagonist and important supporting characters, still have to rely on Laobai Studio itself. Therefore, a large number of recruitment
Manpower is already imperative.
The main cost of game production is labor.
So Sun Peng subconsciously wanted to take out the money and supply it to Lao Bai Studio so that they could continue to move forward without any worries.
But as soon as he finished speaking, Chen Fengzhi and Chen Maolin looked at each other and laughed at the same time. Shaking his head, Chen Fengzhi said: "No, boss, you don't need to invest any more money this time."
"Well, the company doesn't have enough funds, right?"
After listening to Chen Fengzhi's words, Sun Peng frowned immediately.
Although he doesn't worry about the specific operations of Laobai Studio, he still receives a monthly financial statement, so Sun Peng is very aware of their situation. "The Legend of Laobai Heroes 1" has sold nearly nine million copies so far
, although the number of sales dropped sharply later, it has exceeded expectations and far exceeded the standard of the game itself.
After all, the number of fans of Lao Bai is indeed amazing.
But the expenses of Laobai Studio are even more staggering. It’s impossible that the billions earned from the game can support the production of the next two parts, right?
"It doesn't matter, we can get a loan if we don't have enough funds."
After smiling, Chen Fengzhi said seriously: "In the past, it didn't matter how much money you invested, but now that Mao Lin and I...including some of the company's senior executives have received rewarded shares, let me give you another one."
It’s not appropriate for people to spend money..."