The strongest game production method

"What are you yelling about in the office!" Yu Hanguang pouted, signaling that there are colleagues around who are dedicated to work, "Are those little guys in the internal test group messing up again?"

A few days ago, Wei Bo mentioned to him about the transition probability of a certain [bereavement plot].Since the two options of this plot are connected to important story lines, the transition probability is unbalanced, which will prevent users from unlocking the characters and plots that appear in the next stage at the same time, and the game experience is extremely poor.

Therefore, some people in the closed beta group are unwilling.These users are all old fans of Aimeng, and they shout in the group all day long, "Plan and develop it and get beaten".

The project team only regarded it as having encountered a temper tantrum.Wei Bo has been busy leading the team to change the code these days, so he didn't have time to reply; Yu Hanguang, because he works at full capacity every day, and has other chores in the business group every now and then, is even more unbearable, so he simply blocked the group.

"Do you have some confidence in Mr. Wei? He will soon...can...repair it..." Yu Hanguang said while putting on the headset.

Before the words fell, others became numb.

The images in the headset are both familiar and unfamiliar.

The setting is exactly the same as "Your 99 Stories" - it is also from the player's perspective, starting from birth, using different optional level scenes to connect the main line of the game, so that players can traverse various life tasks.

Familiar with the painting style.After trying to play a few levels, Yu Hanguang felt that the design and copywriting were even better than his own game.

Although I didn't pay much attention to modeling, interaction, and rendering, it was clearly made in a hurry, and a few parts were still visible to the naked eye; but suddenly, the game style is more lively than "99".

Guessing with your toes, you can also guess that it is trying to please young players.

Yu Hanguang pressed the handle to jump to the opening screen, and the interface displayed that the game was developed by [Dianhuo Studio].

He had never heard of this studio, and guessed it might be a lesser-known independent production team, or a small workshop just started.

Just like the dream of love eight years ago.

However, when the title of the game finally popped up, he couldn't calm down at all, and subconsciously stroked his stomach with his palm, almost suspecting that the roundworm in his stomach had become a spirit, and turned into a product planner of a small workshop.

——This game is called "Start Over Simulator".

Exactly what they had conceived in the first place.If Yu Hanguang hadn't been teased by Meng Tanli at the beginning, "99 Stories of You" might have collided with it with such a rustic name.

After taking off the headset, Yu Hanguang felt that his sweat had already flowed down his forehead to his neck.He immediately took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Wei Bo who was buried in his earphones:

[Go to the small conference room. 】

[Something has happened. 】

……

"Don't talk about my brain hole," Yu Hanguang smiled, but no matter how you look at that smile, it looks like he just swallowed a whole bitter gourd. Come to kick the hall."

More offensive, more insulting.

I think they encountered the same game when they were working on "Cracking Ice", but those games only appeared a few months after "Cracking Ice" was launched.What happened to "99" caught them off guard.

Wei Bo stared at the headset thoughtfully: "Do you really think it's just a brainstorm?"

Yu Hanguang leaned forward: "You hit the point. What a coincidence, isn't it?"

Wei Bo nodded: "Even if it's not plagiarism, it's very similar to creative plagiarism."

Yu Hanguang said: "I seriously suspect that some players in the closed beta group may be leaking. I have asked Liu Yang to investigate..."

"Probably not." Wei Bo interrupted him.

"?" Yu Hanguang was puzzled, "It's normal for competitors to sneak into the beta group. In this game, a player actually posted the bag in the group. Liu Yang found it on the cloud platform after touching it."

"Name." Wei Bo's brows were determined.

"If I remember correctly, the name "Start Again Simulator" should only exist in the chat records at the initial stage of our project. Except for Lili and Xiaomeng, it has not been disclosed to anyone else from the beginning to the end."

Yu Hanguang asked Wei Li and Meng Tanli to conduct seed research, which he knew.

Wei Bo said: "It's unlikely that Lili leaked the secrets. At that time, she was busy with graduation and internship; more importantly, her own opportunities to get in touch with game developers were really limited."

When he said this, Wei Bo's calm expression was the same as when he was coding every day.

If it wasn't for sleeping in the same bed with him, Yu Hanguang felt that with his meditation skills, he could directly become a monk.

Yu Hanguang suddenly admired Wei Bo's calmness in the face of danger, and continued to analyze: "Tang Li probably won't either. Don't think she is always out of shape, in fact, she is as cautious as her brother, and she avoids even writing a paper." Look at us. Except for your Wei Li, I haven't seen her have a heart-to-heart relationship with anyone."

"Isn't it really a brain hole?" He doubted his judgment for a moment, and the smile on his face changed from bitter gourd to coptis.

"Sims games have not been explored before, and it may be a coincidence that they are made into VR." Wei Bo shook his head, "Similarly, when we were working on "Cracking Ice", the product group also participated in similar projects."

Yu Hanguang's eyeballs wandered around in his eye sockets, recalling the speed skating game that was temporarily suspended and may have been thrown into a certain computer folder to eat ashes.

"But it's absolutely impossible to think of the name verbatim." Wei Bo squeezed his fingers on his chin, "So, I judge that this game is plagiarism. Taking a step back, it can be regarded as a reference."

He said again: "It's abominable to even change the name."

Both of them were silent.Yu Hanguang's fingers rattled up and down on the table, knocking out a series of rapid triplets.

Transferring for reference, plagiarism and plagiarism; different sayings are equally despicable.

But the reason why they are not uncommon in the game circle is because of the support of humanity and technology behind them; and the essence of humanity and technology will never change.

——The pursuit of shortcuts and the desire for profit have long been engraved into human DNA; the rapidly evolving technology happens to be able to provide the best weapon for this greed.

The VR gaming business is a little trickier.

When Aimeng entered the game in the early years, the supply of games was in short supply. As long as it was online, people would play it. Therefore, most of the games were simple to plan and the project production cycle was short.The finished product is "lightweight product" in high EQ terms, or "rough" to put it bluntly.

There is an opportunity to make money without thinking too much. After the development of VR, many teams have picked up popular games in order to get a piece of the action.For a while, there was even a strange occasion where more than a dozen consecutive games had very similar gameplay mechanisms and item skins on the cloud platform list.

The operation of barbaric enclosure certainly propped up the current market.However, the increase in the number has not allowed the industry to present a rich and diverse scene.The circle is thriving on the surface, but in fact it has developed very abnormally, and has been stirred up into a mud-stained Shura field.

what is this?

Green is better than blue but better than blue?

A mediocre person succeeds by fishing in troubled waters, but a team that still earnestly insists on making original high-quality goods will be pushed to the bottom of the water.

"These are not the important points right now. The important point is that we can't hide such a big accident, let alone bear it; we have to tell Lao Meng first." Yu Hanguang looked at the ceiling, and after a long time, he said sadly, "How to change the next step?" ?”

Wei Bo's tone was even calmer than usual: "Give me a little time, there are always more ways than difficulties."

But any gamer with a bit of principle has a kind of stubbornness about his products that "the emperor guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the country".At the beginning, Yu Hanguang only changed a small piece of code, and he, who was always rational, fought with Yu Hanguang in anger.

Wei Bo quietly clenched his fists, this project is his whole effort, the territory should be guarded, and the size should not be compared with people.

In his life, he should still play many, many games.Even if "Your 99 Stories" might just be one of them, even if it might just be the most common one.

But he also didn't want his hard work to be ruined by such dirty means.

Wei Bo just noticed that Yu Hanguang said the last three words clearly - "how to change".

It's not just me who don't want to give up.

It was he who dragged Yu Hanguang into this fantasy dream woven by himself, and made Yu Hanguang bear some psychological pressure for no reason.

So at this moment, Wei Bo felt a lot of anxiety in his heart, but he also had to hide his emotions and anger.

Seeing Wei Bo staring at him steadily, Yu Hanguang said, "Then let's go and find Lao Meng. It just so happens that Lao Zou often comes here recently, Lao Qin is on vacation, and God Ye is on a business trip in Jingzhou. I don't know if he's back yet. In short, today we kneel down to the bosses together."

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The youth group is in a state of desperation

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Thank you for the lovely people who have been following the comments, and finally made me feel that I am not writing on a single machine (no, this must be an illusion