Since the last conversation with the old director, Zhang Zuohai's thinking suddenly became clear, and the paper on "Curse" was almost finished in no time.
[Narratological Interpretation of Yu Dong's "Curse"]
This is the title of his paper. It is not long and easy to understand.
Zhang Zuohai started from the perspective of classic narratology, drew on the theories of other experts and scholars, and focused on analyzing the narrative perspective, narrative space and narrative time in "The Curse".
Internal perspective, external perspective, all perspectives and multiple perspectives, box type, orange petal type and circle type narrative space types...
Zhang Zuohai has always felt that Yu Dong is the best writer who combines tradition and modernity.
The reason why the novel "Curse" can combine traditional representational expressions while still giving people a very fresh feeling is precisely because Yu Dong combined the visual transformation promoted by the development of film art.
Whether it's a box-set style, an orange-petal style or a circle style, Yu Dong can always play with these narrative devices that have been around for a long time.
Halfway through writing this paper, Zhang Zuohai firmly believed that the novel "Curse" could be put into the classroom and used as a teaching material to teach students about narrative perspective and narrative space. So when writing this paper,
He also has a mentality of writing lesson plans.
Putting down his pen, Zhang Zuohai turned on his computer and wandered around deep space for a while, wondering if he could draw some essence from netizens' ideas and add it to his paper.
In Zhang Zuohai's view, the Internet is undoubtedly a very good tool for learning and working.
Even a senior scholar like him cannot remember all the relevant theories and knowledge. In the past, when he encountered some knowledge points that he could not remember clearly, he had to struggle to find physical information or discuss with colleagues to solve them.
Now that we have the Internet, it is much more convenient. In most cases, netizens can give a result.
Even if netizens can't give an answer, they can usually provide a way, for example, a certain theory can be found in a certain book.
After walking around, he saw a lot of fantastic ideas, but they basically didn't involve the narrative perspective.
Moreover, the novel "Curse" has not been the most discussed by everyone in the past two days. Deep Space will hold another annual meeting at the end of this year, and this year's annual meeting seems to be more lively than in previous years.
Many people have already received invitations from deep space companies.
After walking around in deep space, Zhang Zuohai was about to get up and walk around the room. As soon as he got up, he heard the door open. It was his wife coming back from get off work.
His wife works in the city library, and her get off work time is fixed every day, which is basically the same time.
"Old Zhang, I have a special express for you, sent from Leshan Road in Jinling."
The wife put an email on the table, rolled up her sleeves and went to the kitchen, "It must be some important document. It costs twenty yuan to take the express so close."
Zhang Zuohai picked up the mail and looked at it. The shipping address was written simply, Leshan Road, Jinling.
He was not familiar with Jinling, and he had no idea about Leshan Road. He couldn't think of anyone he knew there.
Moreover, telephone calls, online mail, and email are now very convenient. Since the sender is willing to pay for express delivery, why wouldn't he want to make a phone call and let him know in advance?
The cost of express mail is indeed not cheap. It is so far from Jinling to Shanghai, and the post office charges 18 yuan, which is already worth a day's salary of many workers. No wonder my wife is complaining.
After confirming that the recipient was correct, Zhang Zuohai opened the document bag and saw a blue invitation with a large deep space logo on the cover.
【Invitation】
【Mr. Zhang Zuohai,】
[Since the establishment of the Deep Space Corporation, time has passed...]
This is an invitation letter from Deep Space Company, inviting him to attend their annual meeting on February 12th.
The invitation letter contained some specific details, including the reception time, reception hotel, etc., and told him that if he wanted to, he could go to Jinling in advance on February 7th to participate in the activities before the annual meeting, and all expenses would be borne by the Deep Space Company.
Zhang Zuohai read the invitation letter from front to back several times, making sure that nothing was missed before putting it down.
His wife was busy in the kitchen for a while, and when she didn't hear any movement from Zhang Zuohai, she asked, "Who sent you the express mail? Are there any urgent important documents?"
"It's an invitation from Deep Space Company."
"Invitation letter from Deep Space Company?"
"Well, they invited me to attend their company's annual meeting on October 12th."
"That's a good thing." The wife suddenly ran out of the kitchen, "Tell me, you have been studying Yu Dong's works for such a long time, and you haven't even seen Yu Dong himself."
Zhang Zuohai corrected him: "I am studying Yu Dong's works, not the person Yu Dong."
"What you are saying is sophistry. Works are inseparable from people. Wouldn't it be more conducive for you to study his works if you meet him in person? People call you Dongjie. Isn't it strange that Dongjie has never met Yu Dong in person?
Is that so?"
"This doesn't sound like what the deputy director of the library said. If the Dong scholar wants to see Yu Dong, then does the Red scholar have to meet Cao Xueqin?"
His wife rolled her eyes, "You don't sound like what you said from a university professor. Do you think those scholars who study red studies don't want to see Cao Xueqin? They meet each other but can't. If they could, they would have met long ago.
He ran to the front."
Zhang Zuohai was so refuted by his wife that he couldn't say anything else for a moment. He just lowered his head and looked at the invitation letter. After a long while, he grinned and said, "You can still bring your family members, as long as you inform them in advance."
The wife raised her eyebrows and asked, "What day?"
"February 12."
"February 12th, it should be Saturday. I don't know if I need to be on duty. I'll check the duty schedule later..."
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That night, Yu Dong received an email, and Zhang Zuohai "showed off" to him that he had received an invitation letter from the Deep Space Company.
It can be seen between the lines that Zhang Zuohai was very happy to receive the invitation letter and wanted to share this happiness with Yu Dong.
Yu Dong smiled and replied to the email, congratulated Zhang Zuohai, and then continued to read the report in his hand.
"Xiao Xiao Le" has been made, and the efficiency exceeded Yu Dong's expectations. In his opinion, even if the game is very simple, it will take a long time to make a complete game.
After reading the report, Yu Dong understood what was going on.
It turns out that Deep Space Games directly acquired a game company in Russia, and this company also has a match-3 game.
This game is called "Shariki". It has actually been ready for a long time. It was originally going to be released in 1994. However, due to the poor management of the company and the fact that the production of their game was really rough, the company had no intention of running it.
So it was delayed until the middle of this year before it was hastily released.
This year I released this game just to take a gamble on garbage collection.
However, because the game graphics were too ugly, it did not arouse much response after its release.
In the information in Yudong's hand, there are color pictures of this game. In fact, the gameplay is very similar to Xiaoxiaole, but the graphics are really ugly. They are just small balls with not very nice colors, and there is no game effect.
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After the last transoceanic meeting, Shinji Mikami held an internal discussion meeting at Deep Space Games the next day. At that time, an original animator mentioned the game, and Jimmy decided to buy the game, and then Deep Space Games
It only took the people of Kong Game three days to make another upgraded version based on this game. After that, they spent some time modifying it, and now they have the gem version of this game.
In this report, there are also follow-up development plans.
This game will be available for online play and download on the official website of Deep Space Games, and will also be distributed to the pogo website.
The pogo website originally wanted to buy the game for US$500,000, but Deep Space Games did not agree and only agreed to rent it to them for US$10,000 per month.
There is only a simple version to play online for free, and there are no subsequent levels. If you want to play the "advanced version", you need to download the game, and after downloading the game, you have to pay fifteen dollars to continue playing the subsequent levels.
Yu Dong didn't know much about the game's payment model. According to the information, this model is relatively new and Pogo should not be willing to accept it. However, their own website can use it. If not, they will consider other payment models.
For this game, Yu Dong didn't think about how much money he could make. What he wanted was to promote Chinese culture through the game, so he wasn't very concerned about the payment model.
And to be honest, this payment model can only be implemented in other places such as Europe and the United States, and it simply cannot work in China.
If in China, the first day this game is open to the public, all kinds of pirated discs will appear on the streets the next day, and even pirated discs, many people are not willing to buy more, but choose to share it with others.
Shinji Mikami naturally knows this clearly, but he still wants to promote the game at this Deep Space Annual Conference and launch the game in China after the annual conference.
Of course Yu Dong had no objection to this idea and quickly agreed.
After reading the report, Yu Dong called Yu Liang.
It was already past seven o'clock, but Yiliang hadn't gotten off work yet. When he received a call from Yu Dong, he was still in the office looking at the organizational plan for the annual meeting.
The big activities have been decided, but there are still some small activities that need to be decided.
"Boss, have you finished reading the information on "Xiaxiaole"?" Yuliang probably guessed that Yu Dong made this call about the game, and he sent someone to give the information to Yu Dong.
Yu Dong smiled and said: "After reading it, there is no problem overall, but I do have a suggestion."
"Well, boss, tell me."
"Communicate with Mikami and the others and ask them to hurry up and get the Chinese block version out. When the game is officially released, this version will be released as a free version."
Yuliang said doubtfully, "The Chinese block version is more suitable for Lianliankan, but for Xiaole, there are too many Chinese characters and it is difficult to eliminate, so the game experience will not be good."
"It doesn't matter. You can randomize a few Chinese characters in each game. This shouldn't be technically difficult."
"Well, that's fine." Yuliang pondered, "But will this affect the sales of the gem version?"
Hearing Margin's concerns, Yu Dong laughed and said, "Look at you, are you a little inconsistent? When the Chinese block version was proposed before, you said it wouldn't be as attractive as other graphic models. Since
So, why worry about it affecting sales?”
Yuliang also smiled and said: "It's really hard to say... and boss, releasing it for free like this is a bit cheap, and it seems that our Chinese language is not advanced enough."
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows. He only thought about promoting Chinese characters before, but he didn't pay much attention to this issue. There is nothing wrong with what Yu Li said. Free things will make people feel cheap.
"You mean, the Chinese block version also requires players to spend money to buy it?"
"That's not necessary. Boss, do you think this will work? Put the Chinese tile version and the gem version together. Make it a high-level special level. This special level can only be unlocked after the game reaches a fixed score."
Yu Dong's eyes lit up. The idea of ​​margin was very interesting. This would prevent the Chinese block version from giving people a cheap impression, and would not make players feel tied up. It would even become a symbol of high-end players. After all,
There is a certain threshold if you want to play with him.
"Also." Yuliang continued, "I suggest that the Chinese block version can be made into two difficulty levels. For the simpler version, just color these random Chinese characters, and for the advanced version, remove the colors."
Yu Dong nodded, this idea is not bad. After applying colors, players don't need to pay attention to the structure of Chinese characters, they only need to look at the colors, and the difficulty is reduced a lot.
This is not over yet, Yuliang continued, "We can make a more difficult version in the future. For example, if words appear connected together, they can also be eliminated..."
Listening to Yu Liang's talk, Yu Dong couldn't help but sigh, "It seems I made the right call. You have quite a lot of ideas about games now."
The last time they talked about games together, Yuliu didn't know much about games and couldn't get in the conversation. He didn't expect to have so many insights now. Although these ideas haven't touched the core of the game, they are better than before.
, he has improved a lot.
Yu Liang smiled and said, "Boss, I am no longer Wu Xia Amon. I couldn't get a word in during the last meeting, so during this period I learned from the experience and strengthened my research on the game. I will definitely be better than before. Of course, I also
You know, I still have a lot of room for improvement."
"You are quite modest." Yu Dong laughed, "Okay, it's good to maintain the passion for learning. As for what we just said, you can find time to communicate with Sanshang later and ask for his opinion."
"Okay, they should go to work later. I will call him then and I will definitely convey the boss's wishes to him."
"Not only convey it, but also ask for his opinion. After all, compared to the two of us, he is more professional."
Chapter completed!