In the afternoon, in the conference room of Tianhuo Studio.
After Zhou Muyan struggled repeatedly, he decided to choose Sun Xi to serve as Min Jingchao's assistant.
Originally, I wanted to screen the candidates based on their understanding of Mr. Pei’s design intentions, but it turned out that everyone unanimously submitted a zero-point answer sheet.
In this case, you can only choose a chief designer who you trust the most and who has rich experience in FPS games.
After many choices, I am still most satisfied with Sun Xi.
At this time, the two people looked at Min Jingchao eagerly, wanting to speak but stopping, and stopping talking but wanting to.
President Pei has left, so the only hope is pinned on Min Jingchao...
Zhou Muyan and Sun Xi also know very well that Min Jingchao is the chief designer of GOG and should be very strong in business capabilities.
In other words, even if Mr. Pei is separated and the game he designed has some accidents, it should not be too ugly.
But this time the game requires more than just being passable.
If the three top companies in the industry cooperate and the resulting game has a mediocre response, it is basically equivalent to failure.
Given the broad scope of Mr. Pei's requirements, can Min Jingchao design a game that does not disgrace Tenda's signature? This is quite doubtful.
Zhou Muyan said very considerately: "Brother Min, it doesn't matter if you don't have any ideas for the design plan now. You can think about it for a few more days. Don't rush into things like design. It's easy to make mistakes while busy."
"Once the design goes astray, it will be difficult to make up for it later."
"Do you have any needs in life? If you are not used to the food here, I can ask the master chef in the company cafeteria to cook more dishes that you like."
Zhou Muyan had to take good care of Min Jingchao.
On the one hand, this is because the working environment at Tenda is top-notch, so he may not be able to adapt here; on the other hand, he is also afraid that he will be in a bad mood, which will affect the design of the plan.
Min Jingchao smiled and said: "Oh, it doesn't matter. Thank you, Mr. Zhou, for taking care of me. Don't worry about the design. The design here basically has a prototype. I just need to simply improve it."
Sun Xi was shocked: "Ah? So fast?!"
Although it is just a big stand, it is difficult to come up with a big stand quickly!
Because this big frame determines the basic fun and core concept of the game, just like the foundation of a building. Although this thing can be fooled, the consequences of fooling it will be very disastrous.
Did you figure it out so quickly?
Is there really no need to think about it any more?
Sun Xi and Zhou Muyan were both a little confused.
If I hadn't trusted Mr. Pei and Min Jingchao very much, I would have almost thought that they were here to form a group to defraud research funds.
Seeing the shocked expressions of the two people, Min Jingchao was a little surprised: "What? Is this very fast?"
"Oh, maybe each company's work process is different, and you don't know the situation at Tenda."
"I didn't design it from scratch, but I solved it based on the tips given by Mr. Pei."
"This is not a composition with independent propositions, but a cloze with certain rules."
"As long as you master the method, it will be completed very quickly."
"My speed is at the mid-to-lower level among Tenda's chief designers. After all, I work with GOG all year round and don't have many opportunities to participate in other types of games."
Zhou Muyan and Sun Xi were still confused.
Min Jingchao gave an explanation, but after the explanation, the two of them became more suspicious.
You call this cloze?
Cloze should give out most of the article and only need to fill in a few words, right?
Mr. Pei is completely contrary. He just gave a few words and asked you to write the entire article!
Moreover, the words given are all ambiguous and not critical. How can this be done?
Your ability is simply incredible, okay?
Moreover, you told us that such an incredible ability is standard among Tenda’s chief designers? Are you still ranked in the middle and lower reaches?
This is crazy...
The talent pool of Tengda designers can simply be described as terrifying...
Zhou Muyan coughed twice: "Well, brother Min, why don't you tell us the specific time and plan now? I'm so curious!"
Sun Xi also nodded: "Yes, how could you deduce a design plan from Mr. Pei's broad conditions? This is simply a miracle!"
Min Jingchao smiled slightly: "Well, it's not difficult for those who don't know how to do it, but it's not difficult for those who can master it. Mr. Pei has been training our abilities in this area. I have been working at Tengda for so long, even a piece of wood should be enlightened."
"Then let me briefly talk about how to design "Bullet Marks 2" in President Pei's mind."
"Do you still remember what Mr. Pei said at the meeting and the questions I asked later?"
Zhou Muyan and Sun Xi nodded simultaneously.
They are all very simple questions, not profound, and they have all been recorded.
Min Jingchao said: "These requirements are enough."
"Mr. Pei has already explained the game feel and the charging model himself."
"To put it simply, Mr. Pei will never repeat his own designs. The routines that have been used once in "Sea Fortress" will definitely not be used again."
"Moreover, the current market situation has changed compared with before."
""Sea Fortress" has cultivated and attracted a group of FPS game enthusiasts, and the entire player base has expanded compared to before. Moreover, "Sea Fortress" has been in operation for two or three years, and many players have become tired of playing it."
"If I were to copy "Sea Fortress" again at this time, I would definitely not go there. The gameplay is not attractive. Even if I change the skin, can the pirated copy beat the genuine one? That is impossible."
"So, there must be changes and breakthroughs."
"Everyone says that Tenda Games is a golden brand. Players will buy the games it releases, but this golden brand is also based on continuous innovation, constant change, and always bringing surprises to players."
"If Tenda releases a game one day, but it fails to bring freshness to people, then this golden brand will probably become rusty soon."
Zhou Muyan nodded, expressing his sincere admiration.
The reason is very simple and everyone understands it.
Not innovating and being complacent is equivalent to sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat.
But sometimes knowing this truth does not mean that you can practice it. If you know it and can do it, then most of the problems in the world will not be problems.
In actual situations, innovation often means risk, and risk means failure.
It is not difficult to advocate an innovative spirit. What is difficult is that a company always pursues innovation regardless of the cost, and that everyone from the boss to the employees is highly unified in their pursuit of innovation.
Min Jingchao continued: "Mr. Pei said that the skin of the game must be completely changed. He also said that being low-key and realistic does not conflict with uniqueness."
"In fact, combined with the previous requirements on feel, it can be said that this is a very clear hint, and it can even be said to be explicit!"
Zhou Muyan and Sun Xi were confused: "Huh?"
Where is it clearly stated?
Unique means that it has a cool feeling when it is made into a fire unicorn, but it is low-key and realistic, how can it be unique?
It is also a gun that exists in reality. Realism means that the more similar it is to the gun in reality, the better. How can it be unique?
Min Jingchao shook his head slightly, as if he couldn't understand their slowness: "It's very simple, change the packaging!"
"Who said we have to make FPS games with modern settings? Isn't the future setting good?"
"If you think about it carefully, this path of modern firearms is actually deadlocked. There is the Anti-Terrorism Plan, Bullet Scar and Sea Fortress ahead of it. No matter where you go, you can run into it."
“But if it’s made in a futuristic sci-fi style, wouldn’t it be possible to achieve both realism and coolness?”
"The realism Mr. Pei talks about does not necessarily mean the realism of modern firearms, it can also be the realism of future firearms."
"Make the high-tech firearms of the future simpler and more realistic, and don't add so many weird special effects. It will look more realistic."
"And in this way, the problem of hand feel is also solved."
"The reason why the feel of "Bullet Marks" is not popular is because the gun is the same as that of "Project Anti-Terrorism", but the feel is slightly different."
"This subtle difference makes players feel a little awkward, so they don't rely on either side."
"But what if we switch to future guns? As long as we change the packaging of these weapons, players will not have this awkward feeling. They will not feel that 'AK47 does not feel like this', they will only feel that 'this gun feels like this'."
'It looks more like the AK47', or 'This is the future version of the AK47'."
"Since technology has advanced, isn't it normal for the feel of firearms to change a little?"
Zhou Muyan and Sun Xi were both stunned by Min Jingchao's explanation, and they were confused and a little surprised.
Did Mr. Pei originally mean this?
They had not considered this direction at all before, mainly because of their limited thinking.
As soon as Mr. Pei mentioned making "Bullet Scars 2", they followed the same idea as "Bullet Scars".
Just like the previous game was based on the theme of the Three Kingdoms, the sequel must be considered in the context of the Three Kingdoms. If it suddenly became a high-tech Three Kingdoms, would that make sense?
But after hearing Min Jingchao's explanation, the two of them felt that it made sense.
Yes, a game with a science fiction background can indeed perfectly solve the above problems!
Sun Xi wondered: "But, wouldn't it be enough if Mr. Pei just said it should be a science fiction background? Why go around in circles?"
Min Jingchao shook his head slightly: "Speak directly? Then why not just tell you the entire design plan?"
"This is what Mr. Pei is taking the test to see if you can break out of the limited rules and come up with the most perfect solution."
"If you had said from the beginning that we were going to make a science fiction background, would you still have delved into why we wanted to make a science fiction background? Would you still have considered the interrelated issues of painting style and feel?"
Zhou Muyan quickly asked: "What about the plot and game mode? Could it be that Mr. Pei has already given the corresponding answer, but we didn't understand it?"
Min Jingchao nodded very firmly: "Of course!"
"However, the degrees of freedom given by President Pei are different for these two questions: the former is clear and the scope is relatively narrow; the latter is vague and the scope is relatively broad."
"Mr. Zhou, you can actually try to interpret it."
"Do you still remember what Mr. Pei said when I asked him if he wanted to do a plot?"
Sun Xi immediately replied: "I remember that Mr. Pei said that he would not do the plot and the funds could be used in other places, such as the map."
Min Jingchao nodded: "That's right."
"In Mr. Pei's discourse system, those who clearly point out the direction are basically more important."
"So what do you think is the specific way to do what Mr. Pei said about 'getting a map'?"
Sun Xi thought for a while: "Combined with the science fiction background summarized before...does it mean that we need to make more battle mode maps? The science fiction style is stronger and the structure is more complex?"
Min Jingchao asked: "No matter what the background is, this kind of battle map must be made. Can we spend more money to make a science fiction background? Is there any essential difference from making a modern war background?"
Sun Xi was speechless for a moment. He thought for a moment and then said: "...No."
For art, it’s all about painting. Although painting a science fiction background requires some original content, the workload is not much higher than that of a general modern warfare background, so it is impossible to spend a lot of budget just by doing this.
Min Jingchao continued to ask: "So how can I spend more money on the map?"
Zhou Muyan thought about it carefully and said with some uncertainty: "...make a big enough map?"
If you make a small map, change the style, or increase the number, it won't be enough to spend a lot of money.
The only way is to make one or several very large maps, so that you can spend more money.
But Zhou Muyan said this with hesitation, because he felt that this idea did not seem very reliable.
Why make a huge map?
There must be corresponding gameplay to support it?
Min Jingchao nodded: "Yes, that's it!"
"Of course I'm not sure, so I asked Mr. Pei about the gameplay. Mr. Pei said that all modes such as ghost mode, biochemical mode, and explosion mode should be cut off."
"Then I asked if I could create other models, and Mr. Pei said yes."
"After summarizing this, the answer is very clear: Mr. Pei hopes that "Bullet 2" is a shooting game with a futuristic science fiction background. It is different from the gameplay of current mainstream FPS games. It puts a large number of players on a large map.
Go up and engage in a new battle mode.”
Sun Xi's face was full of surprise.
He never expected that using only this information, he could really figure out the big framework of "Bullet Marks 2", and it also made people think it was quite reasonable...
"But, Mr. Pei didn't tell you what this new game mode is specifically? You can't deduce it, right?" Zhou Muyan said with a little hesitation.
Because Min Jingchao interpreted too much from Mr. Pei's words, he asked quite uncertainly.
Min Jingchao nodded: "Indeed not, because Mr. Pei's purpose is to let me design freely."
"If the first part is all about filling in the blanks, the last part is the proposition composition."
"Because filling in the blanks is no longer a big problem for Tengda's designers, Mr. Pei has already begun to consciously increase the difficulty and give full autonomy to designers to design their own patterns."
"I have a preliminary idea now, but I still need to focus on it and implement the idea as detailed as possible. It will take about three to five days."