Chapter 162 A replica of "Shennong Continent"?
"Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm" is an online party game. Although the background of the game is not very grand, it also involves all aspects.
The game has multiple modes! There is a classic battle mode that everyone can play, and a special entertainment mode that combines multiple elements and can be called the ultimate stitching monster.
Overall, the entertainment mode is more fun than the classic mode...
The classic mode focuses on childhood nostalgia. You may be a little excited when you first start playing it, but after playing for a long time, you will feel that it is not as interesting as "Soul of Marble".
"Soul of Marbles" is the main gameplay mechanism of the game, and it is also the game mode that Chen Ba and Xiao Lu decided to focus on designing after discussing it.
In this mode, when players enter the game, they will trigger the awakening task of "Soul of Marble".
After awakening the soul of the marble, the marble will have growth and powerful attributes.
The battle between marbles will become more colorful and full of the second-year feeling after activating and awakening the souls of each marble!
30 players are randomly born in different corners of an island. They upgrade their marble souls by killing monsters or defeating other players.
As the game time goes on, the sea water will slowly submerge the entire island, and players will be forced to engage in a final confrontation to determine the final winner.
“Is 30 too few?”
"The map is quite large, with 30 people distributed on it. It feels like we will hardly meet anyone in the early stages." Xiao Lu said hesitantly.
“That’s enough!”
"30 players per game is a reasonable distribution. If there are too many or too few players, it will be difficult for the Marble Soul to reach the level it should be."
Chen Ba has his own considerations.
When there are too many players in a game, the competition will certainly become fierce, but it will also cause the growth rate of the Marble Soul to become very fast.
Other players are still trying to upgrade the Marble Soul, but someone has already upgraded the Marble Soul to a very high level by defeating other players. Who can punish him in the later stage? Too few is not good either.
If there are too few players in a game, the Marble Soul will not level up too quickly, but will simply not level up at all.
The Marble Soul is very powerful! This is also the main reason why Chen Ba strictly limits the number of people to prevent the Marble Soul from developing too fast or too slow.
Let me put it this way…
With the blessing of the Soul of Marbles, these ordinary marbles have all become terrifying and destructive weapons.
Especially, the higher the level of the Marble Soul, the more players it defeats, the more terrifying it becomes, because its growth is almost unlimited! The fifth level of Marble Soul, that is, after defeating four players, its power and expressiveness are already terrifying.
If it is a level 10 marble soul...
There is nothing to say. Once activated, this level of Marble Soul is basically equal to winning. It is similar to the three-star five-cost card in Teamfight Tactics. As long as it appears on the field, it will win, and the winning rate is infinitely close to 100%!
Higher level?
This has also been designed, but Chen Ba and Xiao Lu both feel that even if there is this hidden mechanism, it would be difficult for players to trigger it.
After all, there are a maximum of 30 players in a game. Excluding yourself, there are only 29 hostile players left.
That is to say!
In the best case scenario, the Soul of the Marble can be upgraded to level 30, which is also the maximum level expected by Chen Ba and Xiao Lu.
But this condition is too harsh.
The entertainment mode of "Marble Soul" is actually a bit like battle royale games such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and APEX.
When you play a battle royale game, can you kill all the players in a round?
Unrealistic!
This has nothing to do with how good your skills are or how strong your strength is. Even cheating is difficult, almost impossible to do.
Unless you blow up the plane while still on it and kill all your opponents directly, it will be difficult to defeat so many players.
But the key is...
In battle royale games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and APEX, players take a plane and then parachute in. But in the special mode of "Marble Soul", players appear randomly in various corners of the map.
Random appearance, no need to parachute! Based on this premise, it is theoretically possible for players to upgrade to the full level of Marble Soul, but it is almost impossible to do so in the actual game.
After all, theory is just theory. In actual game matches, the remaining players are not fools who will stay where they are and wait for you to defeat them one by one.
Level 10 basically means you’ll win!
If you are a master or a high-level player, you may be able to reach level 15 or even level 20 and witness the most terrifying marble soul.
"A level 20 marble soul is like a cheat. It kills everyone it sees in one second. It's unreasonable..."
Thinking of this, Chen Ba couldn't help but smile and said, "When the game is released, we can set up a bounty. Whoever can upgrade to level 30 of the Marble Soul will be given a mysterious grand prize."
Prize unknown!
The reason why it is unknown is mainly because Chen Ba also knows that this award is unlikely to be won by anyone. Since it is an award that no one can win, it is better to keep it mysterious.
"OK!"
After Xiao Lu took note of this instruction, he then asked, "By the way, Brother Ba, does "Don't Leave After School" need to be exhibited this year?"
"GameShow?"
"right!"
"No, it's too far..."
Although the Cologne Game Show is famous all over the world, even ordinary players have more or less heard of this exhibition.
But to be honest, participating in this kind of exhibition does not mean much to Tianba Studio.
The Neon Game Show is, after all, part of the Asian cultural circle. If you go there for a stroll, you might be able to attract a group of Japanese and Korean players to join in.
But at the Cologne Games Show, the exhibitors were all big names, and there were many high-quality games. Unless the players in Europe and America were bored, why would they pay attention to Tianba Studio? Chen Ba did not think that, except for "Need for Speed" and "Shennong Continent", other games under Tianba Studio could meet the tastes of European and American players.
And it’s really too far…
Even if he took a plane to attend the exhibition, it would take a lot of time to go back and forth, which was undoubtedly a thankless task for Chen Ba.
"If you don't want to go, then don't go!"
Yang Dong actually agreed with Brother Ba's idea. After all, Cologne was too far away and it was not worth going back and forth.
If you really want to join in the fun and learn about industry news and the latest developments, you can look forward to the "Domestic Game Summit" co-organized by Game Star and several major domestic game companies.
"What are you looking forward to?"
Chen Ba was very curious. While he was busy developing a new game, was there something strange going on in the domestic game industry? "It's not a strange thing..."
Yang Dong smiled and said, "I heard that this summit is mainly centered around our Tianba Studio. We are the center of the topic."
"us?"
"They held a meeting, and the topic of discussion was actually us? What are they going to do? The six major sects besiege Guangmingding?" Chen Ba asked puzzled.
It was quite surprising that the main topic of discussion at the industry summit was Tianba Studio.
What do they want to discuss? How to target Tianba Studio, how to learn from Tianba Studio, or how to cooperate and communicate?
“Neither!”
Yang Dong shook his head and denied it: "I also heard the rumor through the grapevine, I don't know if it is accurate or not."
"Anyway, from what I heard, probably because of the platform issue, everyone wants to connect to our Nobug platform."
Access to Nobug platform?
Chen Ba was a little surprised. He didn't seem to expect that these people were planning to use the Nobug gaming platform which had just been launched.
Why?
It would be fine if Nobug developed well and had a massive user base like Steam and Orange.
But the problem is that Nobug doesn’t have that many users! What’s the point of them joining this platform?
“It’s still quite meaningful.”
"Brother Ba, have you forgotten the difficulty and hardship of developing a stand-alone game?"
Yang Dong explained: "Once you are connected to the Nobug platform, it is equivalent to boarding our ship. By then, if you have a good relationship with us, it will be much easier to attract investment and sponsorship."
Chen Ba: “…”
What does this mean? Is everyone having a hard time, so they want to get some investment or sponsorship from Tianba? Is the Nobug platform just an excuse?
"No, if they have this need, wouldn't it be better to ask big companies like Pig and Goose for help?"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"We have money, and we only make stand-alone games. To them, we are all stand-alone players, so we should be able to appreciate heroes."
Yang Dong continued to explain: "And another point is that we have very good relationships with many graphics card manufacturers, as well as companies such as Microsoft and Huazi, so we have a wide range of channels."
Let’s not talk about anything else for now.
As long as you get in touch with Tianba Studio, the optimization and adaptation of N cards and A cards can basically be guaranteed.
Furthermore, by attracting sponsorship or investment from these large companies, it would be completely worthwhile even if the company was acquired.
This is an advantage that pigs and geese do not have.
Zhue is simply rich, but as for resources, relationships with console platforms and Steam platforms, and connections with console manufacturers and graphics card manufacturers, it is obviously not as good as Tianba Studio.
certainly!
The most important point should be a common saying: No matter how small a mosquito's legs are, they are still meat!
Although the Nobug platform has a small player base, who knows what the future will be like? What if in two years, this platform takes off?
Place your bets in advance! Anyway, domestic games, especially domestic stand-alone games, are basically not exclusive. You can make more money by listing on one more platform, so why not?
…
Brother Dong said that Tianba Studio is very popular now, but Chen Ba didn't quite believe it at first.
But when he arrived at the so-called industry summit and met these enthusiastic colleagues, he realized that this was true.
That's really passionate!
Everyone has something to ask of Tianba Studio, hoping to make friends with Brother Ba. Even if they can't learn any skills from him, it's worth making a friend.
But having said that.
Most of the companies that are willing to make friends with Tianba Studio, or even befriend Chen Ba, are small workshops and small teams.
People from big companies, on the contrary, are relatively calm. When they meet, they will just nod at most, and they won’t come over intentionally to show their presence.
"Brother Ba, there is something you need to pay attention to!"
Chen Bagang had just chatted with the person in charge of Tencent and returned to his seat when he was quickly reminded by the person next to him.
"I heard from a reliable friend that Tencent seems to have activated the Sharingan and is planning to cosplay your game..."
Is it fake?
Chen Ba blinked. He didn't expect that he would be able to hear such explosive news by attending the so-called industry summit.
Sharingan, Cosplay?
Are you kidding?
The underlying core of the games developed by Tianba Studio are all built with the Tiehanhan system. Even if the restrictions are lifted to allow others to copy, it would probably be difficult to replicate a finished product.
"Isn't it okay to just copy the gameplay?"
"You're stupid! They can't beat you in technology, but as long as they copy the core gameplay and add a little of their own stuff, isn't that a new game?"
"Which one did they copy?"
Chen Ba was very curious.
Since its debut, Tianba Studio has released so many games. Which game has the honor of becoming the target of Sharingan copies?
"The Land of Divine Grace!"
After saying this, the man seemed to be worried about attracting other people's attention, patted Chen Ba on the shoulder and said, "Just keep it to yourself, don't shout that I told you."
"Yes, I will."
The other person was kind enough to tell him this secret, and Chen Ba was not stupid, so how could he betray him? He just couldn't understand why it was "Shennong Continent"? "Speed Racer" was so popular, "Love Staff" had a high social influence, and "Star Emperor" had excellent event management...but none of these games had encountered the Sharingan, so why was it "Shennong Continent"?
Chen Ba took out his cell phone and told Yang Dong who stayed in the studio about this.
Soon, Brother Dong sent his opinion.
"It must be the huge profits generated by Shen'en Animation that attracted the attention of these big companies!"
Other games are just small-scale ones. Even if they make a lot of noise, they are just that for big companies and are not worth mentioning.
But "Shennong Continent" has created a new market worth tens of billions of dollars! It has opened up a brand new track for the animation industry!
This value is significantly greater...
Out of curiosity, Chen Ba asked someone to find out what this game or software that imitated "Divine Grace Continent" was like.
"Magic animation!"
"It is said to be called this name. It should be positioned as a professional-grade AI animation production software, comparable to the professional version of "Shennong Continent"."
Chen Ba's connections told him that this software, called "Magic Animation", basically copied the gameplay mechanism of "Divine Grace Continent".
It's just a different story background.
The core is still AI-driven NPC free action. The mechanism of "Divine Grace Continent" that was born by chance is regarded as the core selling point of this software.
"My own AI model?"
When Chen Ba heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
After a long time, he thought that "Shenneng Continent" had been cracked! It turned out that the underlying system used its own AI model...
That's okay.
The reason why "Divine Grace Continent" can create the new field of "Divine Grace Animation" and open up a new track for animation is that these NPCs are too intelligent.
Tencent plans to use its own trained AI model to replace the underlying layer of the Tiehanhan system and imitate a "Land of Divine Grace".
The idea is great, but the question is, is the AI model trained by Tencent really that smart? If it can restore half of the intelligence of the NPC in "Shennong Continent", then this software can barely be used.
But if it's not even half as smart, then forget it as soon as possible...
(End of this chapter)