Chapter 179: The Feng Shui of the Studio Is Not Good?

All kinds of literary and entertainment works have always liked to label the protagonists as "beautiful, miserable and strong" to deepen the sympathy of readers and viewers.

Chen Ba had no prejudice against this.

Because this is an objective fact, the more unsatisfactory the lives of the protagonists in games, animations, and movies are, the more touching they are.

If you observe carefully, you will easily find a very strange point.

That is, in all kinds of movies and TV shows, the protagonists either have both parents orphaned or live in single-parent families. If they are lucky, both parents are still there, and there are also grandparents, but such families also quarrel and have conflicts every now and then, and are not happy and harmonious at all.

Isn't that strange?

It’s not that there are no such examples in reality. Of course there are. No matter how outrageous movies, TV shows, animations, and games are, they can never be more magical than reality.

But one thing is worth noting, that is, this kind of case is actually a "minority" exception in reality.

But in various TV shows and movies, this has become a standard. Every family that the protagonist is in must have problems and conflicts...

"Dramatic treatment!"

In order to make up for his shortcomings, Chen Ba read a lot of books on screenwriting and signed up for many professional courses.

Therefore, he also has certain experience in creating "beautiful, tragic and strong" protagonists.

First of all, the family is not happy.

This is a prerequisite. As the protagonist, it is impossible for you to have a happy family. Considering that this is a game, it is enough for both parents to die.

In addition to an unhappy family, he also has to bear a certain blood feud, which serves as the source of motivation for the protagonist's struggle in the early stage.

Here, Chen Ba set up a ferocious beast Boss at the level of a demon king.

"In the story, the protagonist Chen Yun's parents died at the hands of this ferocious beast, so Chen Yun worked hard to improve his strength just to avenge his parents."

This ferocious beast Boss is an important level Boss in the early stage of the game. Only by defeating it can the plot advance to the next chapter and start a new chapter.

"What about the next stage?"

Xiao Lu asked curiously.

The first stage is to avenge his parents. After the revenge is achieved, how will the second stage of the story of the protagonist Chen Yun unfold? "After defeating this ferocious beast boss, in the background of the game, Chen Yun is already one of the best martial arts masters in Jiangning Base City."

"It is unrealistic and illogical to assign an enemy to a strong man of this level for no apparent reason..."

When Chen Ba said this, he brought up a new plot line, which was to change the map.

Jiangning base city is still too small.

The male protagonist needs motivation, so he must go to a wider world, leave this base city and go to the capital base city.

"We need a reason to change the map, and the hero's sister who was set up before can be used."

"My sister Chen Jia suddenly fell ill, and no one in the entire Jiangning base city could save her. The hero heard that the medical conditions in the Jingcheng base city were better, and there were many powerful human beings stationed there, so he took his sister to the Jingcheng for medical treatment."

With just a few words, Chen Ba gave the male protagonist Chen Yun a reason to change the map.

This reason is sufficient and completely justifiable.

Against the backdrop of the evolution of all races and the revival of spiritual energy, it is not outrageous to set up a special disease that can only be cured by the "strongest person".

In short, this disease requires the help of a powerful person, but Jiangning Base City does not have such a powerful person...

"After arriving at the new map, it will definitely not be easy to meet the strongest and persuade him to save my sister."

Chen Ba continued, "This leads to a series of side quests. The main quest of the second phase can be summed up in five words: cure my sister's illness!"

Avenge your parents and cure your sister's illness! After completing the main and subsidiary tasks of these two stages, the hero Chen Yun's strength can be regarded as a pillar of the human race.

Then the main task of the third stage is obviously that the human race is facing a crisis of extinction. As a key figure, the male protagonist resolutely shoulders the heavy responsibility and promotes a series of major events to protect the precarious human race.

"After the disaster of genocide, the hero has almost become the leader of the human race and entered the fourth stage of the main storyline..."

Chen Ba wanted to create a heroic character.

Maybe he is not so perfect, nor so handsome, but he does have some personal charm.

If I were to use a line of poetry to describe Chen Yun, the protagonist of the game, it would probably be "The world kissed him with pain, but he responded with songs."

He has experienced many hardships since childhood and tasted all kinds of suffering. He is not a genius. He has been in danger all the way and has been on the verge of death many times. He can be said to be living on the tip of a knife.

But he loves life, loves everything and everyone around him, and is willing to sacrifice himself for the illusory "humanitarian cause".

This kind of person can be called a hero.

As a 3A role-playing game, according to the general standards in the industry, Chen Ba believes that the plot should be considered complete.

"Depending on the difficulty and the amount of collection, the time required to complete the game is guaranteed to be at least 20 hours..."

The 20 hours that Chen Ba mentioned refers to the simple difficulty, the time required to complete about 50% of the achievement collection progress and only advance the plot and do nothing else.

Moreover, this is based on the premise that there is a strategy.

Without looking at the guide, a normal player will need about 40-50 hours to play the game, even on easy difficulty, to collect 80% of the achievement albums and complete the game.

If the difficulty is increased, or if you pursue a complete encyclopedia and 100% completion, it may take more than 100 hours.

A 3A game, in addition to a long plot process, should also have rich game content. It is impossible that there is nothing else to play except the plot.

“Then the map needs to be made bigger!”

"Luckily we have the Tianba engine, otherwise this vast game map would be enough to make us suffer..."

Xiao Lu was very fortunate.

In the game "Global Evolution", the map template is no different from the real world map.

However, the map in the game certainly cannot be made as big as in reality, and the scale must be smaller.

But no matter how small it is, it is still a huge world map. If it weren't for the AI ​​assistance of Tianba Engine, it would probably take Tianba Studio a year and a half to draw the game map with only a limited number of people.

It’s an open world, so it’s normal for the map to be larger!

In addition to the slightly larger map, the game also contains a variety of ferocious beasts and even monsters.

Ferocious beasts refer to the animals originally on Earth, which have become special monsters due to mutations and are more hostile to humans.

Goblins are special species that were born from plants on Earth after they mutated and gained intelligence. They are divided into two factions, one of which hates humans, while the other is neutral and neither friendly nor disgusted with humans.

In addition to the fierce beasts and monsters on land, there are also various sea beasts in the ocean. This is the undisputed dominant race on Earth after the mutation, and is also the main opponent and source of experience for the male protagonist Chen Yun in the later period.

"The game has a buddy system!"

"Players can tame certain beasts or monsters and make them their partners..."

It is called a partner, but in fact it is an alternative "pet" system.

Pets have strong combat power, which is another interesting way to play the game. That is, like Pokémon, you can catch pets everywhere and train them.

"Cats, dogs, flowers, and plants are divided into different qualities according to the classification of plants and animals, and their respective growth talents."

"The higher the quality of the companion, the more difficult it is to tame, and the harder it is to obtain. For example, the golden companion giant panda is a relatively fierce beast, and players can only tame its cubs."

Chen Ba said this with a somewhat awkward expression, "But having said that, I still find it hard to imagine what a lazy creature like a giant panda would look like after it transformed into a ferocious beast."

He laid out the background framework of the game.

But how to fill this framework with content is up to others.

For animals like tigers, wolves, and brown bears, it’s not a big deal to make a “ferocious beast” version. But for huskies and giant pandas, which are obviously stupid, it always feels like it’s not that easy to deal with.

Especially the Huskies...

Chen Ba couldn't figure this out no matter how hard he tried. Even if his spiritual energy revived and he turned into a fierce beast, could Erha really sink an aircraft carrier? If he couldn't figure it out, he would forget about it.

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

Anyway, he is only responsible for the general direction. As for the detailed game content, he can just let Xiao Lu lead the team to handle it.

…

A total of about 400 people were involved in the development of "Global Evolution".

Among them, only 47 people are from Tianba Studio, and the rest are outsourcing teams that have been contacted in advance and are specifically responsible for assisting Tianba Studio and are responsible for various branch content.

For example, MarvelousDesigner, character clothing design and modeling requires the use of professional 3D clothing design software and a certain understanding of clothing fabric cutting.

This is also a very tedious task.

But don't underestimate the importance of this work. The sense of immersion in a game is deeply affected by the style of the character's clothing.

The characters in those two-dimensional mobile games have the largest investment in this regard. The character costumes are extremely gorgeous, and the main theme is the roast chicken culture, which captures the hearts of players from a visual level.

In addition, the development of a large-scale game usually requires the participation of a large number of people who are proficient in software such as Photoshop, Substance Designer, Zbrush, Houdini, etc.

This is a massive project.

The more you invest in it, the more you will understand that 3A is truly a manifestation of the industrialization of games and cluster industrialization.

To develop an independent game, the only requirement for game producers is to have ideas. Ideas and technical strength are more important than anything else.

But for a 3A game producer, personnel scheduling and team management are the most important abilities.

It's no exaggeration to say.

Even if Chen Ba knows nothing about game development, and doesn't even know where the power button on a computer is... he only needs to clarify the division of responsibilities of each team member, and make arrangements and management, and he can become an excellent 3A game producer.

This is not difficult to understand.

Independent games are a one-man show, so game producers need to master certain techniques and ideas, which is equivalent to a general leading the battle.

But the 3A game producer has too many elite soldiers and generals under his command, and the role he actually plays is that of the emperor.

As an emperor, it is naturally a good thing to be able to lead the army in person, but it is also okay if you don't have that ability. You just need to know how to use people and send out the most correct generals at the critical moment.

Chen Ba is now in the state of "giving orders". He does not need to take actual actions to realize his ideas.

Quite the opposite.

He only needs to come up with ideas and assign the right people, and the people under him will naturally help him realize his ideas and wait for the results to be accepted.

"You're still relaxed..."

Yang Dong was very envious of Brother Ba. He became the main producer of a 3A masterpiece at such a young age. It was really enviable.

In comparison, he was miserable.

Brother Ba's casual words made him run around to achieve them. Not only was he exhausted, but when the game was released in the future, people would only remember Brother Ba and not him behind the scenes.

"Everyone just does their job!"

Chen Ba knew what Dong Ge was thinking, so he comforted him: "It's okay, if there is a chance later, I will let you have a taste of it and be the main producer of the game for once!"

"Really?"

Yang Dong was overjoyed and asked excitedly, "Is he really the game's main producer?"

"Of course it's true."

Chen Ba had no need to lie. Brother Dong had followed him for so long, so what was wrong with giving him a chance? He also wanted to use this opportunity to verify a certain conjecture in his mind.

The games he made always had all kinds of weird bugs, causing the gameplay to deviate from the original design intention.

So here comes the question.

If he didn't interfere and let his employees play freely, would such strange bugs still appear in the game? Chen Ba was really curious.

After the development of "Global Evolution" is completed, he must find an opportunity to let Dong Ge or Xiao Lu take the lead and verify this hypothesis.

If the conjecture is confirmed, and even if he does not participate in the game development, the game still has various strange bugs and gameplay, then Chen Ba has to consider whether there is something wrong with the studio's feng shui? Is he affecting the overall environment?

This can't be possible?

Chen Ba vaguely felt that although this kind of thing sounded outrageous, given the nature of the Tiehanhan system, the result would most likely be like this.

After all, he did not participate in the game development, and the entire process was left to other people to take charge, but the game engine and some of the codes he used all came from the Tiehanhan system!

This is likely to cause problems...

But it's okay if there are problems! It's a good opportunity to whitewash myself and let the majority of players know that it's not just Brother Ba who is good at research and development, but other people in Tianba Studio are not clean either.

Look!

Even if Brother Ba didn't intervene, there would still be new defenses. Whose problem was this? I believe there is no need to say more, right? Thinking of this, Chen Ba said expectantly: "Brother Dong, then it's up to you to perform."

It doesn't matter how many copies the game sells, there must be bugs! If he makes a serious game, where will Chen Ba put his face? Doesn't Tianba Studio confirm the rumor that "Brother Ba = bug"?

If a person makes a fool of himself, that is his own problem.

When a group of people make a fool of themselves, it is not a problem of people, but a problem of Feng Shui. As it turns out, it is not Chen Ba's fault. It must be the bad Feng Shui of the studio that leads to various bugs in its games.

I have experienced the influenza A virus for everyone. It is really uncomfortable. I have a fever, dizziness and fatigue. I tried my best to maintain full attendance. This is the only update today. I plan to have a good rest and think about the plot of the new game. I hope you can understand.

(End of this chapter)