Reborn to create a virtual world

Game scripts are different from novels, and there are more things to consider.In the game, you can't just tell the whole story in a straightforward manner, but often need to dig out more unfinished words in the original work.

But now Xingze and Feixin are in such a position, so although Xingze tried it out, he still didn't invite the author of the original work to participate in the writing of the copywriting.The other party didn't sternly refuse, but just tactfully expressed that he was busy with work and had no time for him.

However, even if the original author has no intention of assisting in the completion of the writing of the copy, the work carried out by Xingze still needs to continue, and will not be changed due to the presence or absence of the original author.

Writing a copy for an open system is far more complicated and tedious work than writing a copy for a general stand-alone or online game, because an open system often requires a certain amount of blank space in the plot to facilitate the loading or unloading of new modules and new characters.This requires copywriters to leave more leeway when writing the plot, and not limit some conditions to death.

In this case, there are obviously more things to consider when writing copywriting.

However, most of the employees in the planning department have already practiced in the past half a year or nearly a year. Although the ARPG (action role-playing game) version engine has changed in many aspects compared with the previous SIM (simulation game) version engine, fortunately, there is no change in the rules of plot connection and data transmission.

They are all people who have written a lot of copywriting. In the past, the workload of each working day may not be much worse than that of some web writers, but the review process in the middle is far more complicated than that of web writers, and almost all of them are cross-reviewed. work process.

What is more complicated is the change and restoration of the original work.

As mentioned before, adapting game scripts is not just a job that can be done by simply deleting, deleting, modifying and modifying the original novel.Adapting a novel into a game, especially a game mod that can work with the future engine, requires at least several steps, and a few of them must be done: [-]. Establish character settings for all plot characters, including those in the original novel Possibly imperfect characters.Games are different from novels in that they don't need too much blank space, but they need more content for players to dig out.When writing a plot or a character, the author may only have a vague image and positioning in his heart, but the game copywriter must carefully fabricate him to fit this image positioning, and may even fabricate some that do not exist in the original work. dialogue or interactive events, otherwise that person is not a sentient being in the story, but just a plot with a locked beginning and end; [-]. The story is destined to have only one ending, but the person who makes the game cannot Let it have only one ending.Because for the players, what they did and didn't do, and the plots that have been well-crafted and those that haven't, should be different.The most important thing in the game is actually the sense of substitution, and only when players can control their own destiny, can they really enter the game, not just read a story or watch a plot.At the meeting, Bai Miao talked about classics. In fact, what she was talking about was not classic games, but classic "stories".In Lin Shu's view, such classics can actually be achieved in novels, movies and TV, and they don't necessarily need to be based on games, and stories and games should be different.Of course, how to open up a new route while conforming to the plot of the original work is actually a difficult problem.The best choice is of course to collaborate with the original author to discuss the design, just like in "Misty Rain and Darkness", unfortunately Xingzhe does not have this option at present, so everyone in the planning department has to worry more; ) games should actually be more flexible, so you should not copy cats and cats from any previous games, but should choose an expression method that can perfectly use or even highlight AI functions.At this point, although Tian Qingniang is composed of computer data, it still follows human logic and Chinese communication rules, so in the end the main thinking logic library still needs copywriting girls and a few copywriting guys to organize and summarize .

The original story of "Legend of Destiny" was originally a relatively traditional and not so logically broken upgraded and smooth text, but if Xingze just made it a story, it would not meet the original intention of the engine system.

Therefore, the planners not only need to separate and expand the plot, but also draw suitable characters from the whole story to become teammates of the protagonist, and even the target of the strategy.They need to restore a two-dimensional story into a three-dimensional world... so naturally they will be very busy.

Lin Shu has been paying attention to the script of "Legend of Destiny" for the rest of the time, and watched with his own eyes that the planners separated every force, every character, and every location in the story, and then slowly filled in the gaps in the original work. The details that have appeared, write the history for the forces, write the life experiences for the characters, and design the cultural style for the places...

These things are very simple to say, but to really do them meticulously and outstandingly, it takes not only time, but also effort.

There is a saying called "art comes from life, but is higher than life"... When most people say this sentence, they emphasize the second half of the sentence, but in fact, the first half of the sentence is also very important.

Because the art that comes from life is not rootless duckweed; the art based on life is the art that accommodates the heart and soul, and can move people's hearts.

Whether it is a story, a movie or a game, if it has three realms, then Lin Shu thinks that the first realm should be integrated into life, that is, although it is a fabricated story, you experience it as you experience a period of life, and There is no violation; the second realm should be encountering life, whether it is a reader or an audience or a player, although experiencing a story, it is always outside the story. The story itself is a mirror, a reflection of everyone's life, Through this mirror, you see your desires and your deficiencies.The ancients said that "a scholar can know the affairs of the world without going out", which actually means how people can increase their experience and learn principles from books and words; and the third realm is to feel life and feel beauty.The reason why art is higher than life is because art can sublimate people's feelings, process and sublimate air, sunlight, water, everything you see, hear, and taste into "beauty".

In fact, such beauty has always been there, but sometimes it just needs a little processing before you can really feel it.

For the current Xingzhe, working hard can achieve the first level, and working hard can achieve the second level... But to achieve the third level, talent, luck and inspiration are indispensable.

One day, when Lin Shu went to the planning department to monitor the progress, she seemed to notice that the various reference books in the planning department had already piled up on several tables, and it was almost impossible to put them down.He contemplated for a moment the group of young men and women at work, and then made a decision.

At present, the employees of the copywriting team of Xingze Planning Department are all young men and women in their twenties with excellent writing skills. The oldest is 27 years old, and the average age is no more than 25 years old.

The reason for this configuration is that it is difficult to have both talent and experience.Authors with talent and experience have long been famous. Now that the world is very open, there is really no such thing as being underappreciated.Those who are really capable can succeed as long as they are flexible, but those who have been working for more than ten or twenty years cannot succeed because of lack of ability or character.

On the contrary, young people are more malleable, and Xingzhe can afford the salary.

Most of this group of young people are graduates of the Chinese Department, but these days the Chinese Department is like Hogwarts' Hufflepuff College, and there are fewer people who really study "literature" instead of being passive or actively being transferred .

There is no shortage of young people who are impulsive for their ideals at any time, so the batch of copywriters recruited by Xingze are at least the kind of young men and women who have a solid foundation in writing and are full of enthusiasm for writing.It's hard to say whether this enthusiasm will fade in the future, but at least it's still burning right now.

However, young people also have the disadvantage of young people, that is, their experience is often limited.Although there may be many benefits in reading more books, there is still a gap compared to some mature writers.In this case, Lin Shu's approach is to collect a large amount of information, and then let the copywriters broaden their knowledge and deepen their experience as a reference.

Because the work "Legend of Destiny" to be adapted next is a comprehension novel built on the background of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, so the planning department recently spent money to buy a lot of reference materials, such as "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" and "Tang History" Such historical books are naturally indispensable, but textual research materials such as "Tang Dynasty Customs", "Tea Classics", "Da Tang Western Regions", "Mirror Flowers", "Journey to the East", "Three Words and Two Pai "There are many legends of ghosts and legends, but they are also indispensable.

In addition, Lin Shu also referred to the opinions of many people and collected a batch of more distinctive literary works of cultivation, especially some works with a style similar to "Legend of Destiny". Its advantages and disadvantages, and then learn its advantages, to avoid the mistakes made by others.

At this time, the number of Xingze's employees has broken through three digits, and Lin Shu thinks that he should also reorganize the functions of the company's various departments.

But before that, he first asked Zheng Fangcheng to set aside a sum of money, and then remodeled and renovated the floors that are still vacant. The office building has rented out some floors, but some spaces are temporarily vacant. It is for the convenience of future expansion-then separate the planning department, technology department, customer service department and other departments, each occupying a floor.

After that, the planning department will occupy a single floor, and at the same time separate the planning team and the copywriting team, but an area on the same floor will be isolated as a library. In addition, the decoration of the office will also change.

After hearing Lin Shu's thoughts, Zheng Fangcheng was stunned for a moment, and said, "Fantasy style?"

Lin Shu shook his head and said, "I don't want a complete fantasy style, but I want the decoration to have a more fantasy style. The most important thing is to have a humane and cultural atmosphere, and don't make it so simple and rigid as it is now."

Seeing that Zheng Fangcheng didn't understand, Lin Shu continued to explain: "I like the current company atmosphere, which is more energetic and everyone is self-motivated. But now that there are more and more people, I think it's about readjusting and sorting out departments. It’s time for the function. I want to take this opportunity to establish the corporate culture. After all, this is the core of a company.”

"So in terms of decoration, I also hope to integrate the cultural core. The decoration of the planning department, I hope to have a humanistic atmosphere, to provide a comfortable and inspirational environment for all planning and copywriting. And the decoration of the technical department, I hope to have a sci-fi Style, it is best to give people a sense of joy and joy while being clean and neat.”

"I don't want the company's decoration to be elegant, but I don't want it to look rigid and lifeless." Lin Shu said, "We may not be a big-name company, but we must not be a company that loses humanistic feelings."

Zheng Fangcheng was aroused by Lin Shu's words - the term "corporate culture" has always existed, but many medium-sized companies in China may not be able to do it. To put it bluntly, it just needs cost.

Building a corporate culture requires a lot of cost. Many small and medium-sized business owners may not know the benefits of building a corporate culture for themselves, but it stops at the cost.

In fact, there are two ways to form corporate culture. One is to form naturally - just like the current high-level state of Xingze, choose the right person, the right job, and then a group of people condense together with ideals or ambitions. A corporate culture will naturally be formed during this time, which is a corporate culture spread by the principals in a team with their own behaviors and concepts.

And when the scale of the enterprise reaches a certain level, this approach is often not easy to use.Because the scope of a person's natural influence purely by his own words and deeds is actually very limited, at this time it is necessary to spend manpower and material resources to establish and guide the development of corporate culture, so that such an atmosphere can be cohesive and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The means to promote the formation of corporate culture are also very simple, nothing more than spiritual guidance, material encouragement, activity organization and atmosphere shaping.

Ordinary companies will say what our corporate culture is, but when it is actually implemented in behavior, most of it is inevitably superficial and cannot really form a trend of thought in the entire company.The reason is also very simple, but it is just reluctant to pay the cost.

So Zheng Fangcheng is very curious about Lin Shu's words—it's not surprising that he has already made such a request to Lin Shuhui. After all, he has seen a lot about Lin Shu's uniqueness. At this point in business, Zheng Fangcheng still cannot convince him.

There are Liang Yuehua and the Liang family behind Lin Shu, and Cui Wenxin and Jujia behind Ju Mingfeng. No matter how much business these two children know, Zheng Fangcheng will not make a fuss now.

But Zheng Fangcheng is still very curious about Lin Shu's plan and wants to know how he plans to establish a corporate culture.

He asked: "Now that we are talking about corporate culture, what is our corporate culture going to look like?"

Lin Shu didn't hold back either, and said, "I've already thought about this. 'Creativity lights up life, technology leads the times'. What do you think?"

This is actually the cultural theme of Xingzhe in the past.Creativity and technology are the core that Lin Shu has always insisted on. Up to this week, Lin Shu has not changed the meaning of this core theme, so he said it smoothly at this time.

Zheng Fangcheng listened, thought for a while, thought it was not bad, and said: "The core is understood, creativity and technology, right, the points are quite clear."

Lin Shu replied: "In fact, life and the times are also the key points. I think the best cultural entertainment should actually be able to enjoy life and lead the times."

Zheng Fangcheng then asked: "So what are the specific requirements for the decoration? Are there other requirements?"

Lin Shu said: "I hope the decoration style is as casual as possible. In addition, the design of the entire office must be convenient for communication and discussion. At the same time, it must be equipped with some basic related facilities, such as a small blackboard, books and newspaper racks... Yes Don’t forget to equip a lot of potted plants in all offices. In addition, it’s best to choose streamlined furniture styles, so as not to give people a too square and rigorous feeling.”

"The technical department should also design this way?"

Lin Shu said: "The style of the technical department... I think about it. I have no idea how to design it, but I hope that the overall atmosphere will be a little more lively and not depressing. The programming work is already heavy, and the environment is the best. It’s still designed to be a little lighter and brighter.”

Then he put forward some other requirements, and Zheng Fangcheng wrote them down one by one, and then asked people to design and decorate the new office according to his requirements.

When moving to the new office, employees in several departments almost went crazy.After finalizing the decoration, the two offices of the planning department are large offices decorated with white walls, various beige art bookshelves, art desks and green potted plants.Everyone has an independent desk and computer, but it is not a cubicle-style desk, but a beautiful streamlined computer desk with a small bookshelf and a potted cactus.At the same time, on one side of the office, there is a circle of white sofas surrounding a large round coffee table, forming a half circle like a salon, which looks very beautiful.

The technical department is still in the usual cubicle shape, but the original plastic cubicle has now become a glass cubicle, and potted plants are also arranged. The difference is that a cork board is hung in front of each computer desk. It is used to hang various pictures or forms for the siege lions.What is even more exaggerated is the left and right walls that are not near the window—the left wall has now become a photo wall, with hundreds of neatly arranged photo frames hanging, but all of them are blank for the time being, only a few on the upper left. There are several photo frames with pictures inside.

But that picture is not a photo of anyone, but a publicity picture of the official large-scale game modules produced by the future platform so far, and the label under the picture indicates the person in charge and participating production staff of each module .

Next to the right wall is a row of shelves, which are currently empty, with only a few items placed on them.Someone went over to take a look, picked up a hardcover booklet and read it, only to find that this booklet turned out to be the chronicle of Xingzhe.

Xingze has only been established for a year so far, but this booklet has already filled many pages, recording many big and small things in the past year.The establishment and completion of both large and small projects, as well as key development nodes of some websites... were all recorded one by one.

On the other side of the chronicle is another booklet that is a company-wide employee directory.However, this thick employee directory does not record a person's birthday, age, address, phone number, or department position, but only arranges them one by one according to the employee number.

Then the introduction of the planning department and the technical department recorded the project modules that everyone participated in, the specific content of the modules, and the public comments after the modules were put on the shelves.

The customer service department is about how many calls it receives each month, how many module reviews it has participated in, and the favorable rate it has received, etc.

At a glance like this, what content each person has participated in in research and development in the past year, or what work results have been achieved, are clearly listed.

The discovery of the brochure aroused the curiosity of many people, and everyone began to scramble to see their work records, trying to find the past work achievements of themselves and their colleagues.People with superior grades are naturally quite proud and excited, while those with average grades are inevitably somewhat disappointed and vigilant.

After going on like this for a long time, all the talents were finally settled in the new office.

Then Lin Shu announced another news that made many people feel quite excited.Lin Shu said that starting from this day, the planning department and technical department will always have candies and sweets, and the customer service department will always have balloons, and employees can go to pick them up anytime they feel that they cannot continue working.

This move immediately ushered in the unanimous praise of all employees.

There is actually a reason for Lin Shu to do this.

Excessive mental work actually consumes a lot of sugar, and when the sugar content is low, it usually easily leads to fatigue and affects normal thinking.Therefore, most of the employees in the planning department and the technical department like to eat some snacks on weekdays. Firstly, sugar can supplement mental consumption, and secondly, sweets themselves can bring pleasure to people, making it easier for people to maintain good mood.

The balloon in the customer service department is better understood.Being a customer service is a job of being angry. Although most of the people who can stay in this position are people with good tempers, there are always times when they feel angry.

Lin Shu had to find a way for them to vent.

So simply provide balloons to let the customer service staff be discouraged and adjust their mood in this way.

In fact, these two measures do not consume a lot of daily expenses, but they can greatly reduce the stress loss of employees and make the whole work process smoother. Lin Shu has no reason not to do it.

But Zheng Fangcheng only felt that his little boss was simply terrifying.

Those two booklets and a photo wall aroused everyone's sense of competition almost quietly, and although the decoration of the new office and the supply of candy balloons increased some costs, everyone subconsciously felt against it. He has closeness and gratitude.

He didn't even give anyone a penny more or say a word of encouragement.

Afterwards, the overall work efficiency of Xingze improved slightly, and it was actually difficult for Zheng Fangcheng to figure out whether it was because of the sense of competition provoked by the photo wall and employee grade books, or because of the plate of candy and balloons that Lin Shu asked to provide every day role.As time goes by, the research and development of the new engine is getting better and better. The participants have new inspirations and design highlights every day.

The two groups of people in the planning department don't know whether it's because of the stimulation of the new office, or because the comfortable and bright environment really has the effect of stimulating inspiration. In short, new details or plot highlights appear in the recent game script every day.For example, for the latest character design in "Legend of Destiny", the copywriting department set up a past for him that is enough to make the little girl cry and love. Compared with the original plot, there is another Lin Shu was amazed by the touching part that touched the soul.

The original text of "Legend of Destiny" itself belongs to the kind of story with excellent structure and wonderful story, but the writing is not very deep, but a female copywriter makes up for this deficiency with her own strengths.

However, the progress and growth of everyone in Xingze at different speeds made Lin Shu clearly feel that he was approaching the future.