Reboot the age of gaming

Chapter 400 Difficult to come up with new games? (plus more)

After Zhong Ming's Weibo was posted, the art team and design team became busy.

The art team needs to immediately make the Feiyan Tower model that was cut off earlier, while the design team needs to re-plan the entire map. The key is that a lot of changes need to be made in the trial play and the initial novice guide.

Although these changes are mainly about the modification table and the initial boot process, there is still a certain amount of work.

It can only be said that if the boss moves his mouth, the employee will lose his leg!

However, Zhong Ming is well aware of these workloads, and can completely complete them within the originally planned time.In the development plan, a Feiyan Tower was forcibly inserted, and one or two buildings that were not so important in the original plan would be cut off.

Anyway, there are so many ancient buildings to be built, and the follow-up expansion packs and updated content will also be added slowly. It doesn’t make much difference which one to do first.

At the same time, the promotional CG of "Xtreme Speed" is also being produced.

The promotional CG of this kind of game is relatively easy to do. All the high-definition materials in the game can be used for real-time calculations. Anyway, racing games don’t need to show too much plot content. Cut out various scenes and show them well. The landscape picture, coupled with some dynamic music, can bring out the atmosphere of the game well.

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Zhong Ming's Weibo post has attracted a lot of attention from the player community.

On the one hand, Weiguang Huyu expressed that it would donate 500 million yuan to repair the Feiyan Tower, which greatly increased its favorability; on the other hand, Zhong Ming also revealed that the new game will be related to the Feiyan Tower, and this ancient building will be used as a One of the materials, which also makes many people speculate on what kind of game it will be.

After thinking about it for a long time, there are actually two most likely types of games, one is an RPG game with ancient themes, and the other is a racing game that looks at the scenery.

The possibility of an ancient-themed RPG stand-alone game is actually not very high, because although the Feiyan Pagoda is one of the top ten famous pagodas in China, there are actually not many background stories about it. It has been rebuilt, and there is also a modern calligrapher who wrote "Flying Swallow Inscriptions", which can be used as the content of the background story in the game, basically nothing.

What's more, there are so many ancient buildings that can be used as materials, how could Zhong Ming know that the Feiyan Pagoda was going to catch fire, and did it in the game in advance?
Therefore, most people are guessing that Zhong Ming has built many ancient buildings in the new game, including the Feiyan Pagoda.And this time the fire in Feiyan Tower and the release of Zhong Ming's new game just happened to coincide.

Then Zhong Ming's new game is about to come out. To be able to make so many ancient buildings in the game is mostly a game of watching scenery, and it is very likely to be a racing game.

After all, the main advantages of most racing games are all kinds of beautiful scenery, and ancient buildings are also an important part of the scenery.

A week later, on the Weiguang game platform, the special area for the new game of Weiguang Studio was officially opened, and the promotional video of the new game was also updated on it.

The name of the game is Forza!
The updated promotional video on the special area is not too long, only more than three minutes, and there is no plot content, all are real scenes in the game, and the whole process of racing.

At the beginning of the promotional film, there is a lush green field, with the breeze blowing, the green grass and wild flowers swaying gently, a luxurious speeding car flies past, the strong wind pressure makes the green grass on the ground fall down, and then Stand up quickly.

The camera cuts, and a variety of luxury speeding cars pass through the air, and they are chasing each other, not giving way to each other.

These speeding cars have different shapes and colors, but without exception, they all look expensive.

The speeding car passed by various scenic spots, including fields full of spring, lush jungles, barren deserts, rolling snow-capped mountains, and rushing waterfalls... All kinds of beautiful natural scenery, Be seen.

Then, these speeding cars flew towards distant cities.

The camera zooms up quickly, and it can be seen from a height that the place where these speeding cars are located is a huge island, and there are several different urban areas distributed on the island.These speeding cars first came to the urban area in the east of the island. The tallest skyscraper had a Chinese classical garden building on the top, and on the side of the building were written several large characters: "Welcome to the Lijiang River!"

The speeding car travels through the city. This is a magical Chinese city. There are many Chinese classical elements such as gardens and dragon-shaped airships, as well as a large number of skyscrapers and modern buildings. The two styles are well combined. Together.

The speeding car continued to fly forward and left the Lijiang City to the north. After losing the cover of the skyscrapers, a tall tower suddenly appeared in front of it.The nine-story pagoda has a square pavilion structure, and there are many sculptures of flying swallows on the pagoda.

Although Feiyan Tower is far from being comparable to modern skyscrapers in terms of height, it is still very eye-catching because it is in the outskirts of Lijiang City and there are no tall buildings around. A close-up close-up of the tower is very eye-catching.

Soon, the flying car came to a western city again.This is also a modern city like the Lijiang River, but there are a lot of western classical architectural elements in the architectural style.There is a large amusement park in the center of the city, complete with buildings such as Castle of Terror, roller coasters and Ferris wheels.The speeding car passed through the route of the roller coaster, and the screams of tourists on the roller coaster could be heard.

Just after passing the amusement park, sirens sounded behind several flying cars, and police cars were dispatched from the city to arrest these flying cars.

The background melody suddenly became tense. Amidst the sound of sirens, several flying cars activated their weapon systems one after another. Their sides, roofs, and trunks were opened one after another, revealing various weapons, including automatic machine guns, magnetic cannons, and smoke guns. Wait, wait, the two sides start a melee!

Some police cars were hit by weapons, staggered to the ground, and quit the chase; while some speeding cars were also stopped and were stopped by police cars and could not move.

In the end, several leading flying cars quickly crossed the key line, the camera turned, and the title and logo of the game appeared on the screen.

"Xtreme Speed", Shimmer Studios!
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The promotional video this time has thoroughly hammered the new game of Shimmer Studios: a racing game called "Xtreme Speed"!

It's just that for many players who have been looking forward to the new game of Shimmer Studios, this new game makes them a little dissatisfied.

It's not that they think the quality of this game is bad, it's just that they don't like this type of game.

"...After waiting for a long time, it turned out to be a racing game?"

"Hasn't someone guessed it before? If Feiyan Tower is implemented in the game, apart from the RPG with ancient themes, it can only be used as a racing game, right?"

"When the Feiyan Pagoda came out in the video, I was really shocked. The degree of restoration is so high! However, why does it feel a little different from the Feiyan Pagoda in reality?"

"It seems that it really didn't do a good job, but... After all, it's just a game company. It can't be as thorough as many architects and archaeologists. It's understandable."

"It's boring, there are so many racing games, there's no need for Shimmer Studios to make another one."

"I think so too. With such good material, I thought it would be an open world game like "Ink and Cloud 2"!"

"I'm not particularly interested in racing games, and besides, this kind of game is more suitable for playing in simulators, right? I don't know which driving simulator Weiguang Studio will cooperate with?"

"Simulator? Excuse me, I can't afford it."

"I heard it was a driving simulator, so I didn't ask the price. It must be very disturbing. I can only play it on the computer."

"But playing on the computer and playing on the emulator are completely different experiences!"

"I feel that this kind of game is difficult to make new ideas. How could Weiguang Studio make such a game with no new ideas!"

"It's a new idea... It seems that there are still some. I remember that all flying cars can shoot?"

"What kind of innovative idea? Shooting a gun while driving is called innovation? Just don't do something nondescript!"

Many players still have a certain prejudice against racing games. It's not that there is any problem with this game type itself, the key is that it is a bit rotten!
There are many driving simulators in the parallel world, and there are also many supporting racing games.

As for the racing game itself, it is actually difficult to make any new ideas. An excellent racing game actually only needs two things: beautiful scenery and a good driving experience.As long as these two points are done well, this racing game can be called excellent.

Conversely, on the basis of doing these two points well, there is actually not much room for improvement.

plot?All kinds of special derivative gameplay?Different racing modes?Of course, it can be done, but the effect is often not too obvious.

Many racing games have tried to add some more complicated plots, but the final results are very poor, which is a thankless situation.

For many players, Zhong Ming and Shimmer Studios chose to make this kind of game, isn't it a little lack of room for development?
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Guanghua City, the airport.

"Mr. Zhong, Mr. Lin, this way please." The reception staff took the suitcase from Zhong Ming and Lin Xiaoguang and put it in the speeding car.

Today is a rather special day. The Yunuo Technology Experience Store in Guanghua City officially opened.

This is already the fourth offline experience store of Yunuo Technology. It has been opened all the way from the experience store in Ming'an City, and the experience store is also getting bigger and bigger.

The experience store in Guanghua City is located in a large shopping mall in a popular business district in the city center. Everything is available.

And this time the newly opened experience store has newly added a UV1 simulator for players to experience.

All of these experience stores are limited-time free experience, each player has 30 minutes of free experience time, if overtime, they will be charged.

A total of 1 UV50 simulators were shipped to this experience store, and the trial version of "Xtreme Speed" was installed in them.Although "Xtreme Speed" has not been fully developed so far, the general game content is almost the same, and the rest are some details, which only need to be updated online.

All UV1 simulators come with "Xtreme Speed" by default, and it is the ultimate deluxe version, which is permanently updated for free.

"Forza Speed", like other speed games, will also sell expansion packs, including vehicle expansion packs, additional content, and so on.The main body of the game is only sold for 98. If you are Gandi, or if you want to play for a long time, you can only buy the main body.However, there are also a lot of vehicle expansion packs in the game. Some luxury cars can either be unlocked through the liver, or you can buy the luxury version directly.

"Xtreme Speed" has three price levels, namely 98 for the game body, 298 for the deluxe version, and 498 for the ultimate version.The Ultimate Edition includes all the vehicle expansion packs and extra content. Of course, most of the so-called extra content is in terms of appearance, including vehicle paint, accessories and so on.

The UV1 simulator will come with the ultimate version of "Fortune Speed", and any future updates of this game can be obtained for free, including some paid DLC.

After all, the price of the UV1 emulator itself is tens of thousands, so it is unreasonable not to give away a game.

This will be the first appearance of the UV1 simulator. Players who try it today will become a group of lucky ones who will be able to experience the perfect experience of combining the new simulator with "Xtreme Speed".

(End of this chapter)