A real cheat was blocked, and the game industry was rectified with a backhand

Then, Lin Mo set the production requirements.

Including profession, skills, equipment, difficulty, size of copy and so on.

It is something that can be accomplished by a single person relying on the material library of Magic Engine.

Everyone in the conference room was also rubbing their hands in anticipation.

In addition to the production of the demo, there is another requirement.

That is, everyone present kept the two demos secret from the company. If many people knew that Lin Mo was involved.

Many people don't even play the game, they will just vote for Lin Mo's work and give it high scores.

There are some design flaws in it, which will be over-interpreted as deliberate design.

Soon, the meeting will be adjourned.

Lin Mo returned to his office and prepared to start production.

There are not a few things to say about the game Diablo, but a lot.

It's all about the details.

And these are the kinds of details that will be overlooked if you don’t experience them personally and don’t have a certain level of foresight.

Instead of talking so much, it is better to do a real demo. You will learn your lesson after falling into some traps.

Before starting production, Lin Mo searched the Internet for the latest developments on the Century Acquisition case.

"Northern Star Studio complained to the CMA that the acquisition by Giant Hard Company involved monopoly and would have a devastating impact on the local gaming ecosystem. Oh, what a quick move, really delayed by the game."

"Storm Entertainment Moreno accepts CMA's antitrust investigation on "Road to Heaven 4"."

"Road to Heaven 4 announced to be released one month later?"

Lin Mo nodded.

Apparently, it worked.

It would be best if this game could be postponed indefinitely, and its purpose would be achieved.

However, Lin Mo himself estimated that it would be delayed until the end of July or early August at the latest.

This is enough.

The acquisition came too suddenly, and Lin Mo had no intention of continuing to target Baofeng Entertainment.

But now that the news has come out, Baofeng Entertainment has no choice but to die.

It is not easy to pass the CMA review.

Just delay it long enough until the new work is completed.

By the time Road to Heaven 4 passes the review and is released, there will be a way to deal with it.

but

What if Baofeng Entertainment sells this IP?

What Baofeng Entertainment is interested in is the war zone and the cosmic rift, and the road to heaven is dispensable.

If it is sold, not only can it pass the review smoothly, but it can also make up for some revenue gaps.

There is still a possibility.

If you really want to sell it, how about Naughty Cat buying it?

From the players' perspective, Storm Entertainment's behavior is betrayal.

The most valuable thing about Baofeng Entertainment is its player community, which is second only to Naughty Cat, and is accumulated over many years of high-quality games.

Even though his popularity has almost been ruined due to various outrageous actions in recent years, the accumulation before is still terrifying.

These players are all older office workers in their thirties with terrifying spending power.

This can be seen from the fact that Warzone can still sell tens of millions of copies.

Even if Baofeng Entertainment refuses to sell it, Naughty Cat can just show its sincerity, and then "Diablo" can pay a small tribute to it, or release an expansion pack called Road to Heaven.

This can be used as an opportunity to pry open the seemingly indestructible moat of Baofeng Entertainment.

Successfully convert those angry old IP fans into your own fans.

Thinking of this, Lin Mo sent a long email directly to Philfor, explaining the matter.

By the way, I would like to point out to Philfor that the hearing should not enter the normal process of presenting evidence and objective proof.

Make the other party fall into the trap of self-proof.

Finish these things.

"Okay, let's get to work!"

Since I was the only one making the demo this time, I didn't have the time or energy to create an overly complicated system.

Therefore, Lin Mo temporarily used the game skill talent system of Diablo 3 from his previous life.

As for equipment, this is a part that requires a huge amount of work and cannot be done perfectly by one person alone.

On one side is Lin Mo himself

During this period, many Naughty Cat employees were puzzled.

What are these company leaders doing?

It seems like he is busy with something. From the looks of it, it seems like he is playing games?

New project?

The meeting to launch the project was held some time ago.

But a new project can’t be done by less than 30 people in a meeting, right?

And from the looks of it, it doesn't seem to be a big project.

Until the third day, the deadline.

On the internal network, a task that was not considered a task even appeared.

In the official forum, download the two demos to try them out, rate them and give your own suggestions.

It is not a mandatory requirement, but completing the task will give you some official forum points.

Many people downloaded the demo out of curiosity.

There are two in total, and they don’t take up much space. The largest one is only 7.8G, and the smaller one is only 2.4G.

The naming is even more perfunctory, the big one is called A and the small one is called B.

Both demos also have a built-in scoring system, which allows scoring at any time, and each person has three opportunities to make revisions.

Du Rui rubbed his hands together and said with a smile, "Okay, let's try Mr. Lin's demo and see what the difference is with ours."

He was the lead surgeon and the others were watching.

"First of all, the UI. Needless to say, it's very simple. Mr. Lin definitely doesn't have the time to make a good-looking UI. We win this round."

"Then choose a profession. Let me see. Barbarian and Mystic, two professions, one for close range and one for long range. They are the same as our ideas. Which one should we choose first?"

Wang Yi: "Let's try the melee barbarian first."

enter the game.

At first glance, it is a very small wild space. You cannot retreat, but you can move forward, but there are only two copy entrances in front.

As for the screen

"Well, this seems to be a patchwork of many materials in the material library, right? Let's put aside the class design, we also win in terms of graphics."

Chief Artist Gu Ranmin complained, "Hey, hey, hey, what do you mean? Mr. Lin is only one person, facing a team like us, you are just making up excuses."

"Okay, let's play a game first."

As he said this, he controlled the barbarian to walk deeper into the dungeon.

All characters are level one and have only one normal attack at the beginning.

Fortunately, the initial monsters were also extremely weak.

Under normal attack, it takes two hits to kill one.

Just a small monster, upgrade directly.

At the moment of upgrading, a group of particle effects surrounds the character, and a golden light surrounds it, accompanied by a short and grand sound effect.

2 level

A huge font appeared on the screen.

Du Rui said in surprise: "This should not be a copy of the original material. It was made by Mr. Lin himself. But I can understand that level improvement is a very important part of the positive feedback loop."

Not only did his level increase, but he also gained his first skill - Hammer of the Ancestors.

The gameplay of the Barbarian is very simple. Some skills accumulate rage, and other skills consume rage to release more powerful skills.

Hammer of the Ancients is the latter.

Coincidentally, there were three skeleton soldiers standing together in front of him.

Go up and use the Hammer of the Ancestors.

boom!

A short, percussive sound came from the computer speakers, and brief cracks and dust-raising effects appeared on the ground.

Although it is simple, it also highlights the power of this move.

The three skeleton soldiers were smashed into pieces in an instant.

“These aspects are consistent with our thinking.”

Wang Yi pointed to the cracked spot on the ground and said, "But the details are well done. It should be that the critical hit of the Hammer of the Ancestors has a chance to produce this special effect. It won't block the line of sight, won't take up too much video memory, and can also show its powerful power."

The game continues.

It is relatively easy to improve the level in the early stage.

In almost every level, there is something new to unlock.

For example, new talents, new skills, new mechanisms and so on.

The only drawback is that many skills don’t even have icons, only simple text descriptions.

But if you think about it being a one-person production with only three days, it’s understandable.

Although the map is not large, it has everything you need, including randomly refreshed small bosses, elite monsters, monster groups, random events, etc.

It’s just a pity that most of the time, due to limited personal production capacity, many places still lack some flavor.

The more Du Rui played, the more puzzled he felt. He hesitated in front of the final BOSS of the dungeon and asked, "Although there are indeed some eye-catching designs, I don't feel that there is any essential difference between them and our designs?"

Everyone nodded when they heard this.

Indeed, nothing can be seen at the moment.

The final BOSS is still quite difficult and requires some operations to kill it.

Then go to another copy.

The second copy is the same.

Even the designs of many monsters are obviously a bit difficult, and the designs of some equipment are somewhat unreasonable.

The more I look at it, the weirder it seems.

No one is talking now.

But many people have a feeling.

Did Mr. Lin mess up?

I feel like it’s not as good as the demo made by my own team.

And it is far inferior.

After clearing both dungeons, the barbarian's level reached 30.

Then, following the system prompts, I increased the torture level and continued to play another round.

Reach level 40 and continue to increase the torture level.

Du Rui finally couldn't help it and clicked on the official forum to check the ratings.

"This"

Everyone was speechless.

I don’t know who made the other version of the demo, it was made by several people.

Many people rate based on first impressions.

Version A made by a small team, 7.5 points.

Version B made by Lin Mo, 5.1 points.

The average gaming time for both reviewers was under two hours.

A big difference.

"We won? Is that true?"

Wang Yi pondered for a while and said, "Since Mr. Lin mentioned the details, it must be that there are some important things in this type of game that cannot be noticed by practitioners at a glance. How about this, let's split into two groups and play repeatedly until we find the answer."

This suggestion was supported.

So, Zuo Xuming and Du Rui were in one group, and Wang Zichen, Wang Yi and Gu Ranmin were in another group.

The former continued to play version B designed by Lin Mo, while the latter played version A designed by a small team.

After watching version B and then going back to play version A, Wang Yi felt that many of the ideas were consistent, and even felt that version A was better designed.

Don’t think too much, just think of yourself as a player and play.

So, that afternoon, several key members of the company, like internet-addicted teenagers, occupied the entertainment room and played games crazily.

Two hours later.

"The Barbarian has reached the maximum level, what about you?"

"The warrior I play has also reached the maximum level."

"Okay, let's continue the experience."

Three hours later.

"I've reached the highest difficulty level here, how about you guys?"