"plant?"
Shinji Mikami and Falfo asked questions at the same time on the other end of the phone.
The former added, "Is it like "Piranha"?"
"Piranha" as mentioned by Shinji Mikami is a popular grid game. Players need to control the character to eat a specific mushroom to pass the level. In the process of breaking through the level, they need to avoid the obstacles of the piranha.
Yu Dong said with a smile, "You can think in this direction. In this game, any plant can become a weapon. It depends on how you design it. In fact, plants are just an appearance that is more acceptable to players.
Let me give you an example. You try to imagine a pea plant turning into a cannon, which shoots out peas to kill the enemy. You can also imagine an explosive bag that looks like a pepper, and a cactus that spits out thorns... Of course, you can also
Put the piranha flowers in. What the player has to do is to put these plants in the right place and eliminate the zombies through reasonable combinations."
After listening to Yu Dong's words, Falfo made a gesture to Shinji Mikami and asked about Shinji Mikami's attitude.
After listening to Yu Dong's explanation, Falfo actually didn't think this game was very good. He thought that this game was essentially no different from those grid games.
However, based on past experience, the game plan provided by the boss will always be successful, so Falfo will seek Shinji Mikami's opinion immediately. After all, Shinji Mikami is a professional.
But at this time, Shinji Mikami had no time to respond to Falfo. He frowned, thinking about whether the gameplay mentioned by Yu Dong would work.
Even though Mikami Shinji is a professional, Yu Dong gave too little information and he could not construct a complete game picture in his mind.
After a while, Shinji Mikami asked, "How to obtain these weapons? Do they appear randomly, or do they need to be exchanged for gold coins?"
This is the second time Shinji Mikami has asked this question. It can be seen that he is very concerned about this point.
Yu Dong smiled and replied, "Of course we have to exchange it, but not with gold coins. Because our weapons are plants, so if we want to obtain weapons, we need sunlight to exchange them. There are two ways to obtain sunlight. The first is to play games.
When the background is daytime, a certain amount of sunlight will be automatically generated every once in a while. In addition, we can also get sunlight by planting sunflowers. When the game background is night, there will no longer be automatically generated sunlight.
Sunlight can only be obtained through sunflowers. In addition, if you want to obtain weapons, you don't need sunlight. We need to obtain the weapons' cards first. After passing the level, you can obtain the cards."
Shinji Mikami listened very carefully to Yu Dong's explanation of how to play this game. When he heard Yu Dong explain how to obtain sunlight and weapons, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He suddenly realized that this game actually has a set of
Tower defense, card collection, and even real-time strategy.
Because the weapons are different, different tactics need to be used when combining them. The complexity of this game may be much higher than they imagined. From a certain level, as long as the design is reasonable, the strategy of this game is complex
The degree is definitely not low.
As a professional, Shinji Mikami knows that most popular games have one characteristic, which is that they are easy to play and have diverse gameplay.
The simplicity of getting started can increase the number of new players as quickly as possible, and the diversity of gameplay can ensure that players do not lose interest in the game.
Obviously, the game Yu Dong mentioned has this potential.
"There are different types of weapons, so are there many types of zombies?" Shinji Mikami asked.
Yu Dong smiled and nodded. Mikami Shinji was indeed professional and the questions he asked were all on point.
"Yes, in order to increase the test for players, there are many kinds of zombies. We can imagine plants and zombies as two races that are constantly fighting. In the long struggle, each other will evolve different skills based on the characteristics of the other.
For example, there is a kind of nut that has no attack power but is relatively strong. It can block zombies for a long time and buy time for the remote attack plants in the back row. In order to deal with this kind of nut, a kind of nut that can jump over the zombies is born.
Zombies, they can jump over the nuts and directly attack the more vulnerable plants in the back row."
"In addition, although players have obtained a lot of cards, they can only bring a fixed number of cards to each level. In this way, players need to choose the cards to be used in the level based on tactics. The type of cards they carry will affect
At this level of the situation.”
Shinji Mikami laughed and said, "This adds to the strategic nature of the game. Of course, the most important thing is to adjust the character's durability and attack power to achieve a dynamic balance, so as to enhance the strategic nature of the game."
"This game is very interesting, but there are still some things I need to figure out, such as whether the player can redeem it infinitely after selecting a card in a certain level, or is there a limit to the number of redemptions?"
Yu Dong pondered, "Well... I think there is no point in limiting the number of redemptions. It would be better to set the cooling time for card redemption."
Shinji Mikami snapped his fingers, "Yes, it is obviously better to set the cooling time of redemption, so that the priority of redemption can also be adjusted. Oh, by the way, you just said that when the game background is at night, it cannot
Automatically generating sunlight, does this mean giving players some start-up capital? Otherwise, they will not be able to continue the game at the beginning."
"You can provide start-up funds, and you can also design a plant that does not require sunlight exchange, but has relatively weak attack power, allowing players to make an early transition."
"Well, this is a good method. Also, if the game map is a five-by-five grid, will zombies only come from one direction? Or will they come from all directions?"
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows. He had not thought about this problem before, because in the level he played, zombies appeared from the right and attacked from the left.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If zombies can come from other directions... then the game will suddenly become complicated.
"I think it's better to come from one direction. Of course, if you think it's better to add several directions, you can give it a try."
"Okay, let's put this question aside for now. Assuming that zombies appear in only one direction in this game, and they attack from the right to the left, can the zombies freely change lanes on these five roads?"
"Will changing lanes freely add too much randomness?" Yu Dong asked.
"Yes, if you can change lanes freely, it will increase the randomness and reduce the strategy. Well, then don't change lanes freely, then the basic map of the game will probably be out now. On a map, in the middle is
There are five by five grids in the combat area, and a plant weapon is placed on each grid... Of course, the specific number of grids can be determined later after testing. Players first select the cards in the level, get sunlight, and then plant them on the cards.
Plants to ward off zombies. Zombies can only appear from the right and cannot change lanes midway."
Yu Dong smiled and said, "Yes, that's probably what it means."
"Okay, I probably understand, but boss, can you tell me more about your thoughts? When you were designing this game, you must have thought about many plants as weapons and many types of zombies, right?
"
"Of course." Yu Dong looked at his watch, and it was almost ten o'clock before he knew it. "However, it's getting late now. It's quite late over there. Go back to bed early. I'll compile some information for you later.
If you have any questions, you can send me an email. These things cannot be explained in just a few words."
But Shinji Mikami said, "Boss, this communication efficiency is too low. I think it is better for me to go to Jinling in the next two days to talk to you about this game in person and try to make this game as soon as possible. Creativity is so important
Don’t delay planting things. Sometimes, even good things will become worthless if you delay them for too long.”
Yu Dong nodded. Mikami Shinji was right. Naturally, the sooner the better, lest anything go wrong due to long nights and many dreams.
"Okay, come over. After you come, we will have a good chat. Before you come, I will also do some preparation work. I will contact the visual design studio and ask them to draw some games based on my ideas.
Come out with the drawings, which will also save you time."
"Thank you very much, boss."
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After hanging up the phone, Shinji Mikami shook his fist. He felt that the company was going to release another popular game. After asking a few questions just now, he felt more and more that this was a very playable game.
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And this kind of game is not difficult to make. There are no requirements for the game's graphics and engine. The most difficult thing is the parameter design of props and characters.
Seeing Shinji Mikami so excited, Falfo asked, "Is this game really that good?"
Shinji Mikami glanced at Falfo and laughed, "Of course, you have to believe in the boss's creativity. Don't look down on this kind of seemingly simple game. Many times it is this kind of game that can bring you surprises."
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"Of course I won't look down on games with simple gameplay." Falfo smiled, "After all, "Lianliankan" and "Xiaxiaole" have already explained everything."
Falfo described the characteristics of Deep Space's games in one sentence. Except for "Resident Evil", Deep Space's other popular games are all very simple games.
But in fact, the gameplay of this zombie game is not simple at all, but the scenes may be simpler and cannot be compared with those big productions. And its strategic complexity can be higher than those of those exciting shooting games.
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"I'm going to have a good chat with my boss this time and try my best to pick out what's in his mind."
Falfo nodded and said, "Well, I will ask someone to arrange your schedule as soon as possible and make this game as soon as possible. The reason why the boss designed this game at this time is probably for space. He definitely hopes to make it as soon as possible."
Get this game online."
"For space?" Shinji Mikami asked doubtfully.
"Well, I heard that Space's performance after its launch was average. The boss may hope to attract more players with new games. If my prediction is correct, this new game should be exclusive to Space after it is developed."
Falfo said.
Shinji Mikami raised his eyebrows. He paid little attention to space matters, but he believed Falfo's analysis. Although Falfo didn't understand games, he was very good at analyzing such things.
"I originally thought that the bosses did not pay much attention to Space. After all, after the platform was launched, it did not receive marketing from the group."
Falfo shook his finger, "How is this possible? Space was designed by the boss himself."
"Is there such a thing?" Shinji Mikami said with a surprised look on his face.
"Well, I also heard from my colleagues at Deep Space Computer that the boss is relatively low-key on this matter and has not announced it to the public. Now the group has not promoted this platform. There may be two reasons. One is that the boss believes that Xuele Mountain can do without relying on the group.
Resources, the ability to do marketing on your own, and secondly, maybe the boss thinks the time has not come yet.”
"What kind of timing?" Shinji Mikami asked curiously.
"It's an opportunity for the platform to mature. I heard that 2015 Studio is developing a game, which will probably be exclusive to space in the future. In this case, when the new game designed by the boss is launched, the group can borrow
With this game, we will vigorously promote the space platform. Soon, other games will be released, which will allow space to continue to gain popularity. The publicity at that time was much more effective than the publicity now."
"Well, it does make sense to hear what you say. In that case, it is very likely that our company's games will be put on space in the future."
"Probably."
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Shinji Mikami was very efficient, and he showed up in Aurous Hill a few days after the conference call.
After meeting Yu Dong, Mikami Shinji transformed into a annoying "little goblin" and pestered Yu Dong to ask a lot of questions.
Yu Dong initially thought that Shinji Mikami would only ask some more important questions, but he never expected that his questions were very detailed.
"The barrel of the Iron Barrel Zombie will be knocked down first. The sound effect must be different when the barrel is still there and after it is knocked down, right?"
"Frost Peashooter, does it have a splash effect?"
"After the pepper bomb explodes, will there be any damage to the ground?"
"Some maps have swimming pools, so how to plant plants? Can fire-type plants still be activated? Will their power be weakened?"
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Yu Dong is not a game expert, and he can't remember many details, so he just let Shinji Mikami figure it out and do whatever is best for him.
As for the game props and characters, Yu Dong asked the visual design studio to produce dozens of original paintings.
Chapter completed!