i really just want to play games

Chapter 23 Producer's Insights
"Humans are animals that love to listen to stories. This can be learned from the book "A Brief History of Mankind". Even the evolution of human society to the present level is due to this characteristic."

"The earliest stories were myths, and these myths would create some common beliefs, which made it possible for large-scale human gatherings. Humans have acquired the same values ​​through stories passed down by word of mouth, which is also an important condition for human evolution."

Chen Tiancai swallowed, and continued: "Because people who don't like listening to stories don't gather together, they all die in the wild. Maybe liking listening to stories has become a natural selection of genes."

"After understanding the above principles, then what I'm going to say next will be easy to understand."

"Novels, comics, TV series, movies, etc., all tell stories, and their industry scale is getting bigger and bigger. It can even be said that most of the entertainment methods of modern humans are these projects."

"Of course, in the past few decades, our game industry has become more and more developed. Games are a new form of entertainment, and other features of games are familiar to the seniors here. I only talk about the connection between stories and games."

Chen Tiancai's explanation went from simple to deep, so more and more people in the conference room began to listen carefully.He even caught sight of Liu Cheng putting his hand on his back and giving him a thumbs up.

"So a good story can bring players a great sense of immersion, and let players express their sincere love for the game."

"Here are some examples:
Naughty Dog's "Uncharted" series and "The Last of Us" are the pinnacle of stand-alone games in recent years, but aside from the story, these two games are not too big in terms of gameplay or system. The innovation is the orthodox shooting game framework. "

"A rebellious, funny and humorous treasure hunter, plus his confidante and friends, and a mysterious treasure. This is the orthodox western adventure story template. Thanks to the good script of the "Uncharted" series, The main story of this series has no score lower than [-] points on IGN, and even has a perfect score of [-] points."

"A middle-aged and elderly man who lost his daughter, and a girl with problems with mysteries. They struggled to survive in the last days, and finally gave birth to a father-daughter relationship, which, driven by the plot of the game, is enough to move anyone. This game A game called The Last of Us also got a perfect score from IGN and is one of my personal favorites."

The more Chen Tiancai spoke, the more excited he became, and the smoother he spoke, even his face turned red.

The people in the conference room had long been stunned. Some people had already started searching for the games mentioned by Chen Tiancai on their mobile phones. Obviously, they did not have as rich gaming experience as Chen Tiancai.

"A good story coupled with a qualified game framework equals a classic masterpiece with explosive sales and good reputation." Chen Tiancai said the secret recipe he summarized, something he has thought about for many years, and is also the reason why "Hymn" can the secret of success.

"The game industry has to develop. When technology cannot be improved, this combination is the combination with the lowest risk and the easiest success. The foreign game industry has discovered this point, and has even begun to gradually strip the game features of their works."

"Here I will talk about the last three games. They are considered new types of games. "Heavy Rain", "Extraordinary Two Souls" and "Detroit - Become Human". If you are interested, you can learn more about them."

After Chen Tiancai spat out the last word, he felt extremely thirsty. At the same time, he saw that everyone in the conference room was looking at him like a monster.

"Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack..." Zhang Yang took the lead in applauding, looking at Chen Tiancai with more and more appreciative eyes.

As a result, the meeting room applauded like thunder.

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In the blink of an eye, it's mid-April, and Chen Tiancai has gradually handed over all the work to the newcomers in the past month, and now he can leave the job at any time.

In the past month, Chen Tiancai has finished the game engine on the world editor, and the rest is the debugging stage after transferring the data to the computer.

After being in the limelight that time in the meeting room, Chen Tiancai didn't have any troubles as he imagined. The biggest change was that other colleagues would smile and nod when they met him.

What is the relationship between the story and the game? Chen Tiancai knew it was not as simple as he said.Even the examples he cited are actually because they have a complete game industry system and advanced technology to achieve this kind of combined processing.

Today is Chen Tiancai's last day at Chaoyang Network. Since it is still a working day, there is no time for parties after work.So the people in the same group as Chen Tiancai also bought some takeaways and some beer, which was practiced for Chen Tiancai.

After drinking and eating, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and the colleagues in the same group as Chen Tiancai packed up their things to catch the last public transportation operation time.

"Before you leave, go to Zhang Yang!" Liu Cheng burped from wine, smiled and patted Chen Tiancai's shoulder and said.

"Okay, boss, are you okay? How about I call a driver for you?" Chen Tiancai asked with concern.

As for what Zhang Yang would ask him for, it was just a matter of adapting to the situation. Chen Tiancai guessed that Zhang Yang would at most verbally persuade him to keep him.

Liu Cheng waved his hand, walked up to the stairs with his bag in his hand, and said, "Your boss, I'm not old yet! This drink is just for appetizer. Lao Fang has found me the replacement driver, so you don't have to worry about it."

"Be careful on the road!" Chen Tiancai picked up his things, chased him to the elevator, and helped Liu Cheng get off the elevator.

Liu Cheng walked into the elevator, stuck the elevator door, pointed at Chen Tiancai with a slanted body, and said, "Your talent is good, and you have a good time. There are such conditions at home, remember to work hard!"

He finally patted Chen Tiancai on the shoulder, retracted his body into the elevator, and said with a smile:

"come on!"

The elevator door closed, and Chen Tiancai stood for a while, watching the elevator carrying Liu Cheng slowly go down.

Then he clicked on the elevator next to him, walked in, and went up to Zhang Yang's office.

Chaoyang Games rented a three-story office building. Zhang Yang's office was at the top. After Chen Tiancai walked in, he saw Zhang Yang sitting on the sofa in the office, drinking alone with a bottle of old wine from the Northwest region in his hand.

After seeing Chen Tiancai coming, Zhang Yang patted the place beside him, and said, "The people in your group didn't drink you, did they? Have a drink with me?"

"Okay!" Chen Tiancai picked up the poured wine on the table, touched it with Zhang Yang, and drank it down in one gulp.

"Cough! Cough!" The old Northwest wine was very spicy, and Chen Tiancai coughed.

"Haha!" Zhang Yang slowly drank the wine in his glass, looked at Chen Tiancai's embarrassing look, and said, "How is it? The wine in my hometown is not bad!"

Chen Tiancai patted his chest, tasted it carefully after passing through the strength of the wine, and found that the old wine was indeed sweet, with a lingering fragrance, and said, "It's good wine. It seems that Mr. Zhang's hometown is also a place of outstanding people."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yang smiled mysteriously, and said: "That's not as good as Shangjing, you see you are so young, you made such a good game as "Hymn"!"

(End of this chapter)