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Lin Yuan began to tell everyone present about the new game he wanted to make.

If Pokémon is made as an open world game, there will be too much content that can be done. For example, different regions have different Pokémon, and you must know that there are currently more than 300 Pokémon created by Nanxing. There are too many Pokémon.

Just stuffing these Pokémon into the game allows players to freely explore and capture, allowing trainers and Pokémon to interact. Oh, what the heck. Lin Yuan can already imagine players playing How beautiful it must be!

But at the same time, we must also pay attention to some issues.

The general direction of the game is an open world. In terms of plot, we aim to be the strongest trainer and set up some urban dojos to provide players with challenges.

The gameplay is naturally based on cultivation. Players can build their own gyms in the game, raise elves, collect materials, and develop their own gyms to obtain more powerful elves.

Li Lin couldn't help but said: Wait a minute, Lin Ce, are you going to add a construction system to Pokémon?

Yes, a construction system will be added. Lin Yuan continued: Players will build their own gymnasium in the game, and the cultivated elves can also be placed in the gymnasium to interact with players.

But Lin Ce, won't this be a conflict? Because challenging the gym to become the strongest trainer has always been the theme of our Pokémon game, right? Xu Xiao couldn't help but say.

After hearing Lin Yuan's words, Xu Xiao was a little frightened.

Although he was well prepared before coming, because this is a rare occasion for Lin Ce to call all the senior executives before making a game. In the past, when making games, Lin Ce would arrest him, Brother Li, and Luoyang to chat, chat. After finishing, start rushing directly.

This time it was different.

Therefore, Xu Xiao actually prepared himself mentally for the meeting in advance.

But even though he was prepared, Xu Xiao was still frightened by Lin Ce's idea after listening to it, because Lin Ce's change was too big!

Is this serious?

This, doesn't this directly subvert the way Pokémon has been played in the past?

You must know that Lin Ce's behavior will directly delete the proud turn-based battle system of Pokémon!

As the current person in charge of Pokémon, Xu Xiao would certainly be frightened!

After hearing this, Lin Yuan said seriously: The direction we took before was not wrong, but the new direction we are going to take in the future may not be incorrect. Everyone, when we play the Pokémon game ourselves, We have been collecting elves, fighting elves, challenging gyms, and playing along the way. Think about it carefully, have we really interacted with elves along the way?

“Since we are going to make an open world, interaction with Pokémon is of course a crucial part. If we still follow the previous direction, can it still be considered an open world for Pokémon?

In previous Pokémon games, it was said that there was interaction with elves, but it was better to say that it was a card game. The interaction between players and Pokémon was basically zero, and the story background and ecological settings of Pokémon were nothing. It is left to the text in the game to decide, and it is explained in a few short sentences in the dialogue.

If players want to know their favorite Pokémon, they can only go to the setting collection and watch anime. What I want to do now is to bring living, moving Pokémon with different emotions to Players.”

Xu Xiao started to think.

So what can be determined now is the open world, evolution system, construction system and other gameplay methods?

Construction suddenly feels a bit like a sandbox game. Li Lin touched his nose and said.

It’s strange to think about introducing a construction system in the world of Pokémon!

Because the background will obviously conflict with the construction. In the world of Pokémon, buildings and equipment are very complete. A series of professions and buildings have appeared around Pokémon elves. So in this case, there are Do you need to build it yourself?

Thinking about it, Li Lin also handed this question to Lin Yuan and asked curiously.

Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, then touched his head and realized that Li Lin had asked the right question.

In a Pokémon world with a complete worldview, advanced technology, and complete architecture, is it necessary for the gameplay of building to appear?

But Lin Yuan feels that this gameplay is an indispensable item in the new game because this gameplay can deepen the interaction between players and Pokémon, produce more interesting gameplay, and this gameplay can also reflect Pokémon with different attributes. The different functions of dreams in games.

It allows players to understand Pokémon better.

In fact, at this point, Lin Yuan is trying to imitate the gameplay of Ark.

However, Lin Yuan will not turn it into a hardcore game.

After all, if you imitate the hard-core gameplay like Ark in the cute world of Pokémon, then the sense of deviation would be too big.

Therefore, Lin Yuan will let Pokémon do the work, thereby helping players reduce the burden of resource collection.

In fact, in the world view of Pokémon, it is not impossible for Pokémon to work.

For example, the police girls are always matched with the katy dog, the strange power that can act as a bodyguard, the three-in-one small magnet that can generate electricity and act as a power station, and the nurse's lucky egg that appears in almost every few episodes of the animation.

These Pokémon all have jobs, and they contribute their abilities to the human world.

Therefore, it doesn’t seem strange that Pokémon’s abilities are used in work?

Li Lin's words also made Lin Yuan think, that is, if the background setting is not changed, then the setting of free construction and the gameplay of Pokémon helping to produce will indeed conflict, which will appear to be particularly useless.

Because in such a perfect world, what is the meaning of free construction?

so.

Then change the background to ancient times?

The player traveled to the ancient elf era, got along with the ancient Pokémon, and tamed the Pokémon settings. Lin Yuan thought for a while and said.

It doesn’t count as book-eating, after all, no one said you can’t wear clothes in ancient times, right?

And it just so happens to add some more mythical beasts to the mix. All the ancient Pokémon are all mythical beasts, right?

It also just satisfies the player’s threshold of being cool.

There is really a lot to sort out.

Throughout the afternoon, Lin Yuan was discussing the world view and gameplay of Pokémon with Li Lin and Xu Xiao senior executives.

During this period, there are several topics that must be discussed.

In ancient times, it was possible to build from scratch, and I think Lin Ce's idea is very good. If Pokémon is involved in the work, it can greatly reduce the burden on the player, and it will not It makes lone wolf players feel boring.”

But the question comes again, what is the food source for players and Pokémon? If you do this, you must add a hunger value setting, right? So what do Pokémon eat?

Eat fruit? In ancient times, there must have been a lot of fruit trees.

Hey, does a carnivorous Pokémon also need to eat fruit?

Actually, let's just talk about it directly. Everyone, you just don't want to admit that Pokémon eat Pokémon, right? A senior executive opened the topic directly.

Yes

Everyone present knew that the source of food was a very simple matter, but no one dared to say it directly because it went against the Pokémon's settings.

But this kind of violation of child supply settings and so on, ah, in fact, it is also shown in the Pokémon animation.

For example, the scallion duck was almost extinct due to its delicious taste, and the cantaloupe looks chewy.

In short, it is true that Pokémon is a sub-genre animation, but it seems that it is not a secret that the Pokémon in Pokémon are used as food?

And there are also cases where Pokémon eat Pokémon, natural enemies of the food chain, such as flying Pokémon eating green caterpillars and so on.

Pokémon and humans in ancient times did not live in harmony. How about setting it to a hostile system? In this way, the food dropped when defeated will not put such a big burden on the players.

But if you do this, there is another question, that is, where did the ancient Poke Ball come from? Who created the Poke Ball, and how did the players create the Poke Ball in such an environment?

In this case, you can change the background. For example, how about adjusting the background of the game to the future world? Because a certain powerful Pokémon appeared and human civilization was destroyed, how about the protagonist traveling to that time?

With your words to me, the game settings gradually began to be structured.

During this period, Feng Shuyun also expressed her opinions. Although she has the title of mascot, compared to playing games, Feng Shuyun has the most projects and the most time among this group of people.

As a senior game enthusiast, Feng Shuyun really has a say.

The initial background of the game has also been improved.

First of all, players have traveled to the future after human civilization has been destroyed. In that world full of towering trees, players will explore the modern civilization left behind by humans and use elf balls to tame cute or ferocious monsters in the future. An open survival game where Pokémon are used for your own use.

The settings for Pokémon are now set to help players battle, build, collect resources, etc. after the Pokémon is captured.

Pokémon can evolve, and players do not need to explore the evolution conditions. Instead, after the Pokémon reaches a certain level, the corresponding evolution conditions will be unlocked. After the conditions are met, the Pokémon can evolve.

Pokémon can be used as mounts, either land or flying, such as Charmander. After evolving into Charizard, it can carry players flying.

There are also underwater mounts, such as Pokémon like Rider and Gyarados.

There are also ice-type Pokémon that provide chilled food, which can delay food spoilage.

As more and more ideas appeared, the excitement on the faces of everyone in the conference room became more and more intense.

The same goes for Xu Xiao.

As the person in charge of the Pokémon game, Xu Xiao thought this change was too big at first, but as everyone commented and improved the game settings, Xu Xiao became excited.

Hey, don't worry about the size of the changes to this particular game.

Just tell me whether this setting is interesting or not!

You just say that after this game is actually made, players will really be able to interact with Pokémon so much, instead of just looking at the text describing interactions and so on. Isn't this interesting?

Just tell me, how fun is it to watch the Pokémon you managed to catch work for you, and build a kingdom with your beloved Pokémon?

But at the same time, another problem also emerged.

That's the working hours of Pokémon, and the fact that Pokémon are used as food. Isn't it too dark?

But then I thought about it, it can be metaphorized in anime, so there seems to be no problem in doing it in a game?

As for the setting of work, my suggestion is that work efficiency still needs to be created. There are three levels of easy work, efficient work, and burdensome work for players to choose. Should they care about their Pokémon or be cruel? It is up to the players to decide how to squeeze their own Pokémon. However, if we want to set negative emotions for Pokémon, for Pokémon that are in a bad mood or hungry, we will add a pitiful expression to make players feel pity. How about it?

There seems to be no problem with this. There are many plots in anime showing Pokémon being squeezed. Everyone, Mewtwo is still a product of human genetic science. It also has a desire for revenge against humans. If it weren't for Xiaozhi The rhetoric was successful, and Chaomeng took the lead in opposing human oppression.

It's true.

The people in the conference room got over the darkness in a few moments.

It’s true that anime needs metaphors, but games are not created by Junko.

In terms of weapon production, I deny firearms. Using a gun to shoot Pokémon or something like that is a bit too dramatic. How about setting it to a bow and arrow, a knife, a stick, something like that?

What about the technology tree? How to set up the technology tree built by players? Is it obtained by unlocking the map and exploring the ruins, or can it be obtained by upgrading?

You can get it by upgrading and adding points to unlock it, right? If you explore the ruins, it will still feel a little tiring to play.

Lin Yuan studied with everyone, and soon it was evening.

And Lin Yuan's notebook has already recorded a lot of things densely.

Lin Yuan is naturally the one who does the main output. Most of the settings in the notebook were made by Lin Yuan, while the others basically added some small details.

But these additions are just right.

For example, Xu Xiao believes that Pokémon should have emotional expressions, and different Pokémon should show different personalities.

Li Lin, on the other hand, believes that catching Pokémon requires sufficient positive feedback.

After dinner, everyone returned to the conference room and started a new round of setting additions.

It wasn't until eleven o'clock in the evening, when there was no one in the Nanxing Building, that the meeting ended.

Lin Yuan and Feng Shuyun also went back to wash up briefly. After washing up, Lin Yuan did some simple tidying up.

The next day, the meeting was held again, with a new round of supplementary settings and gameplay.

The topic discussed yesterday was - background story and gameplay.

The topic discussed in today’s meeting is——

Do you love Pokémon, or do you persecute Pokémon?

Whether to perfect the details of persecuting Pokémon.

In the game, there are issues such as whether the death of Pokémon should be shown.

In the end, the summary is -

Darkness is possible, but direct death of Pokémon must be avoided.

And players should be guided to pamper Pokémon instead of persecuting Pokémon.

As for players who want to persecute Pokémon after seeing their pitiful expressions?

Oh, then Nanxing has nothing to do with it.

That's the players' own bad taste.

So far——

The Pokémon World project has officially begun!