Game Development: I Built a Game Empire

With the advancement of time, the sales of "Warcraft" are also increasing day by day.

At the same time, Yilong's "Magic City" was also officially launched as a game.

Yilong's own publicity efforts are still okay, and there are all kinds of hot topics on the Internet on the day of its launch.

It's just that to everyone's surprise, "Magic City" hasn't even reached the top of the new game best-selling list that day.

The first place is still Chen Xu's "Warcraft".

Although they are not the same type of games, the two games have been compared by players.

After all, it's also a game with a Western fantasy theme.

From the point of view of CG cutscenes, this is completely incomparable.

Magic City uses a real-time calculation that is common to most games.

After all, the whole plot uses CG animation, and the cost is too great.

But the key is that "Magic City" is not a big production, it is a game with small and medium-sized costs, and it has spent a lot of money on IP purchases, and the quality can only be said to be decent.

So such a comparison, it was simply given seconds into the sewer by "Warcraft".

More importantly, as an IP game that changes novels, the plot of "Magic City" is one of its selling points.

But Warcraft is completely different from other RTS games.

The exquisite game plot is also one of the main features of "Warcraft".

A huge world view, as well as the stories of characters such as Arthas, Tyrande, and Illidan, have now surfaced with a clearance by players.

In addition, the cost of "Magic City" is limited, and the selection is basically an event of the original book for production, resulting in insufficient restoration.

"Speechless, this is too scummy, right?"

"The plot of the original book has not been restored at all!"

"Really, the gap with Warcraft is too big!"

"The original novel is very good for the character of the protagonist, but it is not shown in the game, you must know that in "Warcraft", Arthas went from the prince of Lordaeron to the fall, experienced the incomprehension of his lover, the distrust of his teacher, and the heavy responsibility of honor, and finally transferred to hatred, it can be said that Alsace's fall is both unexpected and reasonable. "

Even fans of the IP series are disappointed when faced with this game.

It's not enough to say that you died violently, but the heat of the game that turned straight down the next day clearly says it all.

Yi Long's words have already given up on rescuing "Magic City".

And at this time, Tenghua also announced a news.

That is, "Time and Space Wheel" had to skip tickets for some reasons.

After this news was sent, it also made players talk about it.

"Haha, Tenghua is scared here!"

"Can you not be afraid? The quality of "Warcraft" is simply explosive, Yi Long felt that there was a market for the original work, but he didn't expect the original players to buy it at all. "

"To be reasonable, I've also read the original novel.,I also bought the game.,Yi Long's game is really a bit unflattering.,If it's quality, you can't do "Warcraft", and there's not much restoration of the original work. "

Compared with the discussion of online players, Tao Fa, who made this decision within Tenghua, is also a little lucky.

Fortunately, they chose to launch it at the end of the month, otherwise it would not be "Magic City" that exploded on the spot now, but them.

In terms of game quality, Tao Fa also tried it, and in terms of hard quality, he felt that "Time and Space Wheel" would still surpass "Magic City".

But there is still a big gap with "Warcraft".

And the current momentum of "Warcraft" is simply too fierce, and he estimates that even by the end of the month, I am afraid that this popularity will not be able to drop.

In this case, it is better to avoid being busy for the time being.

Don't bounce tickets, don't be ashamed!

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Compared with these two games in the same period, one was crushed and the other chose to skip tickets, Chen Xu didn't pay too much attention.

Although Warcraft is online, there is actually a lot of work that needs to be done by him.

For example, now on the Internet, after most players have cleared a plot in the early stage, as an RTS game, its multiplayer battle has entered the field of vision of most players.

From the beginning, everyone was still like other RTS games, silently mining and quarrying wood to develop, and then upgrading to science and technology, and even just starting to build a hero, he put it at home and didn't move, and he didn't go to leveling.

At present, most players have a basic understanding of the game.

For example, in the early stage, while building a house at home to upgrade technology, control the hero and the minions to go out for leveling, treasure hunting, or mining points.

Compared with his previous life, Chen Xu has also made a lot of optimized experience for "Warcraft" in terms of player interaction.

The first is the ladder system for rank scores, which is divided into two types: casual matchmaking and ladder matching.

In the case of casual matching, it is a simple random match, and players can choose 1V1, 2V2, 3V3 or even up to 6V6.

As for the ladder ranking, you can only perform 1v1 heads-up.

At the same time, for the matching mechanism of the ladder, Chen Xu also asked Jincheng and Wang Yong to conduct many data tests in advance.

In addition, there is the video recording and viewing system.

After playing the game, players will be given a game code, which can be entered to download the game to watch, and there is also a special viewing area in the game.

The ladder score is high, and there are some well-known RTS players, who will appear on a homepage in the viewing area for ordinary players to watch and learn.

Some of these players with RTS talent have basically studied some simple routines.

For example, the Night Elves use the War Ancient Tree to speed up the leveling speed in the early stage, the Terrans use the characteristics of their peasants to start the archmage for rapid leveling, and then open the mine, and the Orcs start the Sword Master to learn the Wind Walk, go to the enemy's gold mine, and harass the farmers to slow down the development speed of the opposite side.

Or stealthily follow behind others, mend the knife to grab the last knife of the economy, experience and treasures.

These different little routines also made countless players realize that the game "Warcraft" is completely different from ordinary RTS games.

The different skills of heroes will make a battle have a completely different direction.

Including the combination of class characteristics and skills, there will be a variety of extended genres.

It can be said that in terms of content depth, "Warcraft" is much deeper than ordinary RTS.

It is precisely because of this that many players who still insist on playing the old RTS games have also begun to switch to Warcraft.