Chapter 122 Pseudo Open World

After New Year's Eve, Tianba Studio returned to its former hustle and bustle, and the progress of game development was greatly accelerated.

As the old saying goes, there is strength in numbers! When the number of people is not that different, there may not be much difference in work efficiency. For example, if 10 people work and 11 people work, maybe the 10-person team is more efficient? But when the number of people reaches a new level, such as 5 people and 15 people, it goes without saying that the 15-person team will be more efficient.

certainly!

This is just an idealized scenario.

In actual work, due to various reasons and special circumstances, the saying "there is strength in numbers" may not be so accurate. Instead, a strange situation may occur where the more people there are, the lower the efficiency.

However, under normal circumstances, the efficiency of more people is far greater than that of fewer people.

As time came to the new year, the focus of Tianba Studio's work shifted from updating and maintaining old games to the development of a new game "Love Staff".

This is a love-building game.

Players who have played this type of game know that dating is the core gameplay of the game, but in addition to dating, you can actually do other things...

“Open world is not bragging.”

"Although our game can only be considered a pseudo-open world, the degree of freedom is not something that ordinary love-building games can match," Chen Ba explained.

Open World, also known as roaming game, is a type of game level design.

The core point of this design lies in the freedom of exploration, the freedom of players, the freedom of tasks, the freedom of gameplay and the freedom of maps.

Tianba Studio cannot produce large-scale open world games, such as the Morality and Law series and Girls Scroll.

Mainly because I don’t have the time.

You only know that these games are very free, the maps are large, and there is plenty of space to explore, but do you know how much time the developers spent to fill the game content? Little-known fact! The map area of ​​Los Santos is 252 square kilometers, and Red Dead Redemption 2 is 72 square kilometers...

Many people may have no idea about this unit of area. They just know that it is big, but they have no idea how big it is.

Then convert it.

As one of the top first-tier cities in China, Pengcheng has an area of ​​1,997.47 square kilometers, while the several core urban areas under Pengcheng, such as Longhua District and Futian District, barely cover 252 square kilometers in total.

With this conversion, you can understand how staggering the size of such a huge open world game is.

Tianba Studio has only a dozen people. If they really want to make an open world game with a huge map, it will probably take at least ten or twenty years to complete.

Therefore, the map of "Love Staff" is smaller.

The so-called small here means that compared with 3A masterpieces, compared with ordinary games, the map is already very large.

“Highly explorable!”

“We will provide hundreds of jobs and thousands of interactive scenes for this game.”

When Chen Ba said this, he saw that everyone's expressions were a little serious, so he couldn't help but say, "Okay, don't be so serious! Although the numbers sound scary, the repetition rate is very high."

For example, interactive scenes such as cinemas, shopping malls, parks, amusement parks, and zoos actually all use the same set of templates, but the art resources are different.

It's not that exaggerated.

Many map designs, including career routes, are nothing more than copying and pasting, and can be done by changing a set of art resources.

And now there is AI drawing. It may have some problems in drawing characters, but it is definitely enough for drawing scenes.

“As soon as you enter the game, you will start the classic graduation process of renting an apartment and looking for a job.”

Chen Ba explained: "Once players find a job and have a stable income and a place to live, they can meet all kinds of handsome men and beautiful women and unlock the core gameplay of the game."

In the game, there are many specific prerequisites for characters to fall in love with each other.

For example, if you want to pursue a shy and insecure girl, you must have a very strong physique. Going to the gym regularly will have a good effect.

If he is physically weak and cannot bring her a sense of security, then it will be harder to pursue him...

"I understand."

Xiao Lu bit the tip of his pen and thought, "Brother Ba, what you mean is that if you meet certain conditions, pursuing this character will be easy or normal difficulty, and if you don't meet the specific conditions, it will be difficult or hell difficulty."

"right!"

“When entering the game of Love Staff, you cannot actively select the game difficulty.”

Chen Ba explained: "All game difficulties are achieved through this prerequisite."

To put it bluntly, love requires a two-way effort.

Men choose women, and women choose men.

Only when both parties feel that the person is suitable for them, will sparks be more likely to fly when they get to know each other. Otherwise, if you are ugly and have no advantages, would the girl be blind to fall for you?

"Is the face-pinching part important?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Dong lost his composure and asked, "If it's ugly or ordinary, you can't get girls?"

“No, no, no!”

Chen Ba quickly denied that this was not his original design intention and he had never thought about it this way.

The game has a face-pinching section.

Depending on how you pinch your face, the system will give ratings like "handsome guy", "just an ordinary person" and "unbearable to look at".

This kind of evaluation does affect the difficulty of conquering a character. For example, if a member of the Appearance Association wants to find a handsome boyfriend, it will definitely not be easy for you to conquer her with your "ancient god face".

But appearance is only part of the prerequisite, and each character has different criteria for judging appearance.

Some characters don't like handsome guys but prefer ancient god faces. What can you do? And...

Appearance can only determine the first impression. It does not mean that if you are handsome, you will be 100% successful in pursuing female characters who are obsessed with appearance.

It doesn’t mean that if you are ugly, you will fail 100% if you try to capture a female character who likes handsome guys! If it is designed like this, then this game will become a game where everyone has a Yanzu! If everyone’s face is pinched to look like a handsome guy, is it still necessary to pinch their face?

"In a word, difficulty selection."

"Given the appearance that is rated as "unbearable to look at", it is a bit difficult to conquer regular characters, but this is also more challenging, isn't it?" Chen Ba said with a smile.

Some players, such as Wang Laoju, like to pinch the face of the ancient god, so just do it for him!

Anyway, it's your own creation. If you find that the difficulty of the game is too high and it is rejected, you can't blame the game developers.

Moreover, clearing the game at this difficulty level is indeed very valuable, and it also makes the player look even more amazing. After all, how amazing must he be to be able to marry a beautiful woman with such a good look? ...

While filling in the game content, Chen Ba did not forget to test the game's online mode through the local area network.

You know what, it's quite weird.

In the online mode of Love Staff, there are only two options: asking for help and helping others! Players who apply for help can open up permissions and pull players who apply to help others into the team and their own game world.

Players who apply to help others can see the dialogue options and task list faced by that player after entering the game world of that player.

Then there is a squad voice and text communication channel.

【GameBugs: ? 】

【Dong: Everything is normal! 】

Chen Ba asked for help, and Yang Dong, Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei clicked in.

Then he initiated the sharing, and a voting selection bar appeared on several people's screens.

Chen Ba started a conversation with a female character named Lulu, whose computer was damaged and needed to be replaced. She heard that the male protagonist was very knowledgeable in this area and wanted him to give her some purchasing advice.

A. Of course!

B. No suggestions! C. Do I know you well? Xiao Lu spoke first: "Is there any need to think about this? It must be option A!"

Yang Dong thought about it, and then said, "Option C is too aggressive and a bit offensive. I think there is a problem with option A. I will vote for option B."

Zhong Shengwei also voted for A.

2:1:0, the voting result of the Love Staff came out. Chen Ba could choose to adopt it, or use his "veto power" to choose the answer he thought was correct.

Then he chose C.

"Do I know you well? If you ask me for help, aren't you afraid that I will deliberately cheat you?"

I thought this answer was wrong, but by accident, I got the replies "You are a really interesting person" and "I didn't know you before, it's not too late to know you now."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

The favorability curve displayed in the background actually showed an upward trend!

"As expected of a dog-headed military advisor..."

Chen Ba was very disappointed with everyone. He thought everyone had a girlfriend. Let alone choosing the correct answer, it should not be difficult to eliminate a wrong answer, right?

As a result, these people eliminated the correct answer as soon as they arrived. Facts have proved that the Dog-Headed Military Advisor is indeed not very reliable.

“It’s not our fault.”

"Indeed, this question is too confusing. And the information provided is incomplete. Who knew she would say that?"

Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei complained repeatedly, saying that it was an accident. They were only analyzing the question and forgot to check the information of the character Lulu.

Do it again!

A few people were not convinced and insisted that Brother Ba test them again, saying that after they understood the routines and character personalities, they would definitely not fail this time.

"Okay! Let's try again."

Anyway, it was just a test of the online function, so it would be a good thing to test it one more time. Chen Ba did not make things difficult for them and continued to focus on the strategy for the character "Lulu".

This is not a conversation.

The prerequisite is that when I get off work, I see Lulu looking depressed after receiving a phone call.

The player can act freely, can go up to ask about the situation, can ignore it, or tell another female colleague about it and ask her to help comfort him...

There is a lot of room for choice.

At this time, the Love Staff also started the free discussion mode. Xiao Lu and others brainstormed and put forward various suggestions.

After discussion, they finally decided on a plan, which was to tell another female colleague about the matter and ask her to find out about the situation and comfort the lost Lulu.

Active contact and ignoring the issue have been given up by Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei.

They both agreed that based on Lulu's personality traits, neither of these two methods was reliable and might even backfire.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

It was a rare occasion that Chen Ba believed the analysis of the Dog-Headed Military Advisor, so he did as they said.

As a result, Lulu had an argument with the female colleague and seemed unwilling to tell other people about the incident. The female colleague was also very angry. The protagonist's good intentions turned out to be a bad thing.

“Is there such an expansion?”

Because apart from the general personality setting, the other personalities and identities of the NPC are randomly generated, no one really expected it to turn out like this.

Especially Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei, their faces turned green.

How could this be wrong? Oh no, I really became a dog-headed military strategist!

They both have girlfriends, and I thought they must have more experience and theories than the two single guys Dong and Ba.

Unexpectedly, I was wrong both times.

"That's all for the test."

Seeing that Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei were somewhat frustrated, Chen Ba shook his head and said, "Don't be so discouraged. In fact, these approaches are all correct."

There is no such thing as a pitfall.

It is a wrong answer, but it is also a correct answer. There is no exact favorability value, and there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong option.

Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei still have traditional thinking.

Even Brother Dong discovered that because of the high degree of randomness, the game "Love Staff" actually has quite a lot of branch choices and routes.

The real role of the Dog-Headed Military Advisor is not to help players choose the correct answer, nor to eliminate wrong answers, but to find the route branch that best suits the player.

To put it bluntly, there are thousands of paths.

Why do we have to find a shortcut among these thousands of roads? Is it impossible to reach the destination by taking other roads? "Unless you are an absolute genius and have incredible luck, you will have to take some detours."

To be honest, among so many random route branches, if there is really someone who seems to have a cheat code and has a smooth journey, that would be harder than winning the lottery.

Mainly pigeon games.

As long as "Love Advisers" does not have pigeon elements and has fixed character strategy templates, the so-called choice difficulty syndrome will not occur.

"The significance of the dog-headed military advisor is that the rich experience you think you have is only useful to you. It may be useless to other players..."

Yang Dong saw through the mechanism and said, "Just because you successfully cleared a level doesn't mean that your experience will be useful when you go to help other players."

“That’s right!”

Chen Ba affirmed: "This is the deceptive nature of the online mode. You think that a great god has come and that with his guidance, everything will be safe..."

But is there a possibility that the experience of this great god is useless to you? Or even has the opposite effect? ​​The purpose of the General Staff is to provide you with ideas for solving problems, not to let you copy the answers and become a formula person! Formula people have no future.

Applying other people's successful experiences and copying other people's homework will probably not work in the rogue game "Love Advisers".

There is too much randomness.

Prerequisites, character personalities, backgrounds, and career paths are all different, and each player faces different difficulties...

For example.

Player A is taking the route of a delivery boy, and Player B is taking the route of a civil servant. Even if they are targeting the same character, can the difficulty and process be the same?

"Then I understand."

Xiao Lu said thoughtfully: "Develop different strategies according to different situations and find the most suitable branch routes. This is the meaning of online connection."

Don't copy other people's answers.

There is no point in copying answers. The main thing is to listen to other people's suggestions. The final decision is still made by the players themselves.

(End of this chapter)