The Trickster's Ninth Episode

In the video, William and Ali spoke to each other in a very natural way, and they cooperated very well.

"It's been about four months since Hollow Knight was released, and it's still beyond our belief that the game has been such an unexpected success."

"We seem to have said this many times."

"Ha! That's right. Anyway, "Hollow Knight" is a game that relied on crowdfunding support from fans and delayed tickets for nearly two years. I still feel uneasy about getting such a response."

"Me too. Then until the middle of last month, the world's first VR game console came out. As game producers and enthusiasts, of course we also experienced the game world of the VR platform."

"At that time, many, many fans sent us private messages asking if it was possible to port Hollow Knight to the VR platform."

"Unfortunately, we are temporarily unable to conduct research and development of VR games. It is a brand new field and we lack sufficient experience."

"And according to the previously disclosed news, we are currently developing new content for "Hollow Knight", which is the content of Wasp that may be updated as a DLC." (Note ①)

"But at the end of last month, something that surprised all of our team happened."

"Perhaps you all already know that there is a "Hollow Knight" fan game on the VR platform. This game is made by a single person, and its name is "Hollow Knight: Traveler's Trial".

"At the beginning we thought it was a prank, the release time of "Traveler" was at the end of May, and the release time of "Hollow Knight" was at the end of February; at the same time, the opening time of the VR platform was in the middle of May, that is to say In just half a month, a fan of "Hollow Knight" produced a VR game with refined and complete content."

"It's unbelievable, especially since we're denying Hollow Knight a VR port anytime soon, but if we could, we'd really like Hollow Knight to do that. I mean , We have made some preliminary attempts on this, but the difficulty of this matter is beyond our imagination, and William should be deeply impressed by this."

"That's right, in fact, I still can't understand until now, how did the producer of "Trial of the Traveler" manage to complete this game in half a month, and still make it bug-free? .”

"After knowing this game, everyone in our team couldn't hold back their curiosity and played it one after another."

"It turned out to be pretty amazing, a game that recreates the three bonus fights in the Fool's Arena from Hollow Knight in incredible detail, and adds a lore-like battle of the kings, which is really cool .Especially the combat system that was perfectly copied to the VR platform. I never thought that these systems that bothered us so much would be completed in the hands of a fan. I also never thought that there would be such a powerful person for " Hollow Knight has such a level of love, and I want to express my honor and gratitude."

"On the other hand, we also have a dilemma about this game-that is, it is too difficult."

"Oh no, that's not quite right Ali."

"Sorry, in fact, "Trial of the Traveler" has spent a considerable amount of effort in adjusting the difficulty, which should be felt by players who have played the game. But the reason why we feel that it is too difficult is because the producer Added two additional levels to the top two difficulties."

"It was very surprising because one of the two levels pitted the player against the protagonist of Hollow Knight, our little knight."

"Unfortunately, we have not been able to unlock these two extra levels so far. It is said that there is a brand new combat system in the extra levels. The producer made the little knight battle into a PVP duel between players and players; in the highest difficulty , and also made the [talisman switching] system that we couldn't implement in Hollow Knight."

"I hope you can understand friends, such a level is too attractive for our team."

"So everyone in our team is now trying to overcome the [normal] difficulty of "Trial of the Traveler". We are very much looking forward to seeing the little knight in the game."

“To be honest, we very much hope that the producer of "Trial of the Traveler" can come to assist us in the follow-up development of "Hollow Knight", but in the process of getting to know the producer, we were surprised to find that the producer of this game The person whose ID is [Lai Qixiao] is actually a very well-known player in the world. This makes me very shocked, because the probability that this fan who loves "Hollow Knight" is willing to join our team may not be high .”

"But no matter what, we sincerely hope to get the help of [Lai Qixiao]. And we are actively trying to get in touch with him, hoping to reach a real cooperation with this producer."

"Maybe "Hollow Knight" can really be on the VR platform, please forgive me for overturning my previous conclusions and saying that this may not be possible, but I am really excited now."

"What we want to tell you today is that Trials of the Traveler is so cool! It's the world's first free VR indie game, and I can't believe it's going to Hollow Knight . We are honored and grateful for that love and the great games that come out of it."

"If the audience here has experienced "Trial of the Traveler" before, then you must know what I am talking about; if you have not experienced it, then we are very happy to tell you that this is a cool game."

"Next, we plan to continue to try to unlock and conquer the little knight battle, and at the same time apply this rare experience to the subsequent development of the Wasp."

"Uh...yes, that's right. In fact, we have a lot of inspiration and more perfect ideas in our minds, and the next thing is...we finish it... It's very simple...hehehe—”

"Hey hey hey-"

William and Ali couldn't help but tacitly laughed when they mentioned this topic, but they quickly restrained their smiles and tried to put on a serious look.

"Well... the follow-up production status will be released on the official Twitter from time to time."

"great."

"Finally..." The two looked at each other. "Have a nice game everyone."

"Yes!"

"thank you all."

"Goodbye."

☆Appendix☆

Note ①——The story of Wasp was originally developed as a DLC of "Hollow Knight", but it may be that as the content became more and more perfect, Cherry Studio decided to simply use "Silk Song" as a separate The game is released.

Chapter 87 So Hi!

After watching the video, Ren Amamiya took off the earphones and put them back in the bag.

Morgana was standing on the table. He was lying on Ren Amamiya's forearm to watch this video together. The Manyan Club and the Drama Club were the few places where he could appear in front of people in the open and aboveboard of Mitsusaka School.

"Well... Although I don't quite understand it, it should be a good thing to see you, right? Why do they look like they are very grateful to you?"

"The reason is a bit complicated." Yu Gonglian said with a chuckle. "The most fundamental reason should be that Cherry Studio is a small workshop after all. The work "Hollow Knight" was made after two years of crowdfunding delays. They had relatively low expectations for their work from the beginning, so now After the results are so good that they exceed their expectations, every little bit more results in the future will be a pleasant surprise.”

"To be realistic, my behavior is essentially a win-win for them, and they win more. After all, I don't want anything in return!"

"Actually, you can stop making fan games and make an independent game, right?" Morgana said after understanding. "Even if you want to play a game for Tetu, you can only make a small game if the time is tight and there is less content, and you are not afraid that no one will come to play."

"That's boring!" Yu Gonglian said with a smile. "Although the bet between me and Tetu only requires [more than [-] people to witness], but he directly came to my live broadcast room to play SC bullying, so I will definitely not be satisfied with a counterattack that can make him embarrassed. I need more than [-] people to witness. "Hollow Knight" is still on the rise."

"And I really like this game, so I just want to help it promote it. As far as the result is concerned, it is indeed WINWIN. I feel that after the video of Cherry Studio comes out, although I can't get financial returns at all, the popularity should rise again. A wave, alas..."

"Why are you frowning? Isn't rising popularity a good thing?" Morgana looked at Ren Amemiya in confusion.

"It's not a good thing if the distribution of fans' hobbies is too heterogeneous." Amamiya Ren explained casually. "Besides, the original intention of my debut was just to investigate the employment environment. Now Blank is still unwilling to debut, but my popularity is getting higher and higher. What is this called?"

No matter how omnipotent Ren Yugong is, it is impossible to satisfy everyone's expectations at the same time. Some of his current fans are greedy for the games he made, some are interested in his social circle, some are voice-activated and face-controlled, and some like to watch He played game show operations, and even the fans of the game can be subdivided, not to mention the music fans who even Amamiya Ren thinks are amazing.

If you think about it for a while, you can understand that many of the programs that these people like to watch are in conflict with each other. If you do this kind of planning, viewers who like other content will not watch it.In this way, you need to find time to do this and that from time to time, and you need to carefully plan the content of the program, but even so, if the audience's hobbies are too diverse, it is impossible to plan.

Viewers will lose their fans if they don't see the content they want to watch for too long. This part can basically be classified as false popularity, just looking good.

It's okay if it's just off fans, but the most troublesome ones are [fans] who obviously don't watch any of Xi Xiao's shows, but because of Lai Qi Xiao's high popularity, they like to be megaphones and brats.

If a public figure can become disgusted by gods and ghosts, then he and his operation team can only account for half of the disgust at most, and the other half must come from his fan base.

So sometimes public figures need to guide their fans. This is not self-righteousness to be a teacher, but some things that seem insignificant to you, but qualitative changes caused by quantitative changes will have very bad effects.

Ren Amamiya has always paid attention to this aspect of work, but it is helpless that his popularity is still out of control as he goes out of the circle again and again. Of course, this is necessarily related to his rapid increase in followers. If his popularity rises in a cycle If the sum and range can be eased, there will be no such problem.

Having said that, it is impossible for Amamiya Ren to stop because of concerns about this, so both sides can only work together.

"By the way, they said in this video that they want to work with you, what do you think?" Morgana continued to ask.

"It's impossible for me to cooperate with them." Yu Gonglian said without thinking.

This is the same as those members of Lai Qixiao's non-official Sinicization team. They are willing to produce second works for Lai Qixiao without any rewards, many of which are excellent, but if you want them to be responsible for Lai Qixiao himself, then this Boren turned his head and left without saying a word.

Sometimes it is not a big deal to have no economic return. People are qualified to pursue spiritual satisfaction when their material conditions are relatively good. Using love to generate electricity can reap happiness; but it is very important to have no responsibility, because responsibility brings Ninety-five percent are burdens.

"However, I am very happy to facilitate the birth of the VR version of "Hollow Knight". I can directly send them the art materials and game engines needed for VR porting. Anyway, this is just a piece of cake for me." Ren Amamiya said with a smile.

The world of "Hollow Knight" has already had a concrete impression in Ren Amamiya's [theater], so in fact, as long as Ren Amamiya wants to, he can make the VR version of "Hollow Knight" by himself-most of them Everything can be directly scanned and transformed, only the character AI and game system need his attention.

Although it has been so trouble-free, it is still very troublesome to convert a 2D horizontal scroll into a holographic VR game. In VR, those simplified action designs are doomed to be useless.

Intuitively speaking, it is those movements that are very anti-physical, such as the downward slash of the little knight. You swing the sword with one hand and slash downward.This kind of visual expression will not be a problem in a 2D simplified painting, but if you put it in VR, it will have an extremely serious sense of violation.

It doesn’t even need to be turned into VR. In the 2D screen, if the little knight looks a little like a human, this action will be very inconsistent.

Therefore, if the VR version of "Hollow Knight" wants to retain the exquisite platform jumping gameplay of the original version, it must pay more attention to the action.At least the down-cut float made by Amamiya Ren in "Trial of the Traveler" is quite troublesome-he sacrificed the convenience of operation to restore the down-cut, in other words, the down-cut in "Trial of the Traveler" The chopping follows the physics engine in "Digigo Gods". The force and movement of the hacking need to be adjusted consciously by the player. With the setting of the mothwing cloak, the cloak will give the player a force sufficient to stay in the air when hacking. Force, and then rely on the player's own technology to control the direction and body movements after floating.

In short, it is very troublesome. A normal person without a foundation in skills should not want to learn it without being stabbed to death several times.

The difficulty of holographic games is destined to skyrocket, because today's VR has not yet developed to be able to guide players with a particularly high intensity, and most of the player's operations are completed by autonomous control.

But then again, if the VR device can guide players with high intensity, it basically means that you can start playing The Matrix, creating an imperceptible false world for people.

This is the so-called problem that needs to be paid attention to when starting the technology tree. After any one-way excessive development of technology starts to go to the extreme, the future created will be deformed.The reality is not like the game, the technology tree on your side is not clicked, you can click it later when you are in the mood.The reality is that if you do not correct the crooked point in time, it will grow longer and more crooked, and gradually you will not be able to turn back.

Going back to the topic just now, you only need to press a button to release skills in computer games, and you can release them in an extremely precise and standardized manner. If there is no guidance in VR, you can only do it manually from beginning to end-this is like drawing with an electronic drawing tool. The general difference between a circle and a freehand circle.

This is the most difficult part. For VR games, how to guide players and reduce the amount of player operations is probably a headache for all game manufacturers in the world who want to enter the VR platform.

Lai Qixiao is just a player. Although he has done a lot of things that are not what a player should do, he is still just a player. Let the game producer worry about the things that the game producer is worried about. Players only want to play fun finished products game.He can help game producers, but if you want to pull him into that industry and become a practitioner, then [Ni Ge Lu Da yo].

Ren Amamiya will participate in the production of the VR version of FF14. In the final analysis, he just wants to play the VR version of FF14. Learning how to make VR games is just incidental.

As long as it is not inconvenient to learn new skills, Amamiya Ren is still very happy. After all, he also wants to become a man with 2000 skills—and if possible, try not to use these 2000 skills after washing your face, brushing your teeth, and eating with chopsticks. Things like that count too.

Creatures like boys can burst into action when they learn that [the wish that I thought was unrealistic in the second grade] can actually be realized.

"Anyway, when I get back, I'll take the time to pack the map of [Hallownest] and the NPC model, and see if I can send it to Cherry Studio." Ren Amamiya said while putting away the computer.

"Do you think I can take this opportunity to really get myself into the game of "Hollow Knight"?" Ren Amamiya said to Morgana suddenly on a whim.

As I said before, the game "Hollow Knight" was successfully released through crowdfunding, and because of the crowdfunding process, Cherry Studios made an easter egg in the game to express gratitude to these crowdfunders— —In a place called Resting Place in the game, in one of the cemetery maps of Jumping and Leaping, a monument was erected for each of these crowdfunders.

It is not uncommon for Ren Amamiya to receive monetary rewards, but Ren Amamiya is very interested in such symbolic thanks.

If you want to be a Boss, it’s fine if you’ve been addicted to fan games. If you want to add a Boss in this article, you need to make a lot of changes in the plot. Even if it’s an EX level, you need to create a new set of self-justifying things. Come.Although Hollow Knight's world view leaves a lot of blank space, propositional composition has always been very embarrassing, and Ren Amamiya would not make such a willful request.

So restrain yourself a bit, just be an NPC, similar to Mr. Mushroom's kind of NPC that has a sense of presence but has nothing to do with the main line. If you can further deepen your presence, design a branch line, or exist as a businessman. It's good. choose.

When thinking about this kind of mind-boggling thing, Amamiya Ren's inspiration is the same as not wanting money, and she quickly came up with a rough outline.

The first is to add a new character with the profession of [Phantom Thief]. If the prototype is tentative, it can be a moth from the outside world, or a crow—bats are fine, so birds are fine, right?In terms of name, it can be called [Dawn (Dawn)], which means [dawn].

A monster thief in name, but since Hallownest has long been in decline and has nothing to steal, he behaves more like a treasure hunter.

Since 2D to VR will inevitably have many new systems, this character can take on the task of unlocking a certain system, and sell new amulets, amulet slots, or functional props in the name of a store.If you want to design a branch line, the early branch line plot is simply to see Dunn in different maps to have a conversation and unlock new store content.At the end, you can also link this strange thief character with the Green Theater.

Don't many players think that Nightmare Green is too difficult?Then it is better to let the branch line of [Dune] reach the last link. If the player happens to start the plot of the Nightmare Troupe, when the player returns from collecting flames for the third time, he finds that another performance unexpectedly starts in the theater. The reason is When the Nightmare Troupe appeared in Hallownest, Doon, who had nothing to steal, finally found a worthy target—the Heart of Nightmare.

Then there was a fight with Green to steal the Nightmare Heart. This fight was interrupted by the arrival of the little knight, and the subsequent performances continued normally.But when the little knight chooses the ending of the ceremony to fight with Nightmare Green, Dunn will appear in the dream ( ) to assist the little knight in fighting.However, even with Dunn's interference, the little knight cannot become the new host of the Nightmare God, and the Nightmare Heart will be taken away by Dunn, achieving the third ending.

If you want to do this, then Dunn's race is better than crows or moths. After all, the dream race of the moth clan is more in line with the plot of the Nightmare Theater.

But if the race is set as an alien moth race, then it feels impossible not to have a connection with the radiation.

Ren Amameiya's thoughts diverged wildly, and she had a lot of fun with the brain storm, but it's hard to say whether this kind of thing can be done, it's better not to get too excited for the time being.

Thinking of this, Ren Amamiya restrained her desire to continue to conceive. It's too early to think about it now, so I'd better go home and chat with Cherry Studio first.

Chapter 88 Morgana Debut Confirmed

"What are you thinking?"

After returning to LeBron, Ren Amamiya went directly to the second floor, and Morgana came up by himself after eating the cat food made by Boss Sojiro, and then saw Ren Amamiya staring at the virtual helmet in front of her in a daze.

"I'm wondering if it's time to prepare another show for you." Ren Amamiya said, looking back at Morgana.