Number One Game Designer

Chapter 287: The hustle and bustle of the game world

The applause at the scene was about to cease, Fang Xi took the stage, and then a greater wave of applause and whistles were triggered.

The applause, cheers and whistles, on the one hand, is because Fang Xi, the boss of Hongyi, is now one of the most famous game producers in the world.

On the other hand, Fang Xi wore an assassin costume.

Hood, tights, chain straps, as well as various small tool bags and Hidden Blades, this is a complete assassin outfit armed to the teeth. Fortunately, Fang Xi usually does fitness. Although he does not have abdominal muscles, at least he has no fat on his lower abdomen, so he is unexpectedly handsome in this very physique COS outfit.

Fang Xi’s operation is not the original creator. When the first time-space veteran "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" was released, the producer Shigeru Miyamoto also played with a shield in one hand and a sword in one hand. The cos protagonist Lin Gram's dress. However, Zelda had already achieved success at the time, so in order to avoid being called grandstanding by the players, Fang Xi took the microphone preemptively.

"Thank you, thank you." Fang Xi beckoned and responded: "Thank you for coming, so I specially invited the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra to perform, I hope you like it."

The cheers are up again, and Fang Xi's behavior doesn't say how the game is, at least the fans on the scene are well taken care of and comfortable!

"First of all, I don't want to make you feel sensational because of the existence of the Philharmonic Orchestra and my dress, and create illusions such as: the quality of the game is not good."

"I just like you, I love the game "Assassin" from the bottom of my heart. This game is currently the best game that Hongyi has made, and it is also the best artwork we have presented to you. So, this orchestra includes I am not trying to make this game grandstanding."

"It's because it is destined to be a great game, and it deserves such treatment."

Fang Xi clarified the causal relationship in a few words, and then turned around:

"So, today I am not only happy for your arrival, but you should also be happy for seeing this game."

There was a good-hearted laughter from the audience, with laughter in Chinese cheering and cheering "Lao Fang, I will beat you!"

Fang Xi smiled. It was only after he came to Los Angeles that he knew that the University of California near Los Angeles even had its own support club. According to them, it was because of Fang Xi’s games that the Americas gradually began to have a little interest in Eastern culture. , The number of applicants for elective courses of Huaxia Language has increased by 20% compared with last year.

Far away, let's talk about the game first.

The basic opening session is over and the next is naturally the highlight of the show, the actual demonstration screen and the player trial session.

The actual demonstration session is essentially a trial video, similar to the anchor’s first perspective. This can more intuitively let players recognize the novice guidance of the game, the configuration requirements, and whether there are bugs, optimization, etc. Small problems and so on.

In the last time and space, game makers also used this link to cheat money. A typical example is "No Man's Sky", which is almost likely to be named in history. Fang Xi remembers that the most recent example is probably EA's "Anthem", the Chinese translation of the name chant.

This is a typical game that relies on demonstrating video fraud and then succeeds.

It may not be right to say success, but only partial success. In this game company, EA only showed what they did, and used a four-channel Titan graphics card with 4K resolution video. Then the demo video recorded is extremely exquisite, and every frame can be said to be a wallpaper level.

Therefore, this game has always been among the best in IGN surveys at the time, and it is the most anticipated game of the year in North America.

After the results came out, an avalanche.

In the actual game, in addition to the previous demo part, the content of the other parts can be summarized in two words: Nothing.

As for more content, the official only promised that it will be added soon, but it is impossible to believe it when it is finished, until two chapters are added later to ignite the hope of players, but bugs are frequent, and the degree of completion is extremely low. It is online for a time. There was a lot of scolding, and some players even expressed that they would go to court to sue EA for fraud.

And the final conclusion is that the player spent a first-line 3A masterpiece before buying a game that may be less than 14 completed. Basically, they can complete the mission in less than 20 hours after getting it. They are in a state of nothing to do, and promise beforehand. The wonderful online experience has also become a joke: a player on the main line can be invincible in about ten hours, so why call another player over? Grab equipment to grab heads?

Although "No Man's Sky" and "Song" are two negative examples, they also gave Fang Xi a hint:

It's right to hide the real machine and watch it! To be honest, the shortcoming of the hymn and No Man's Sky is that they did not provide the corresponding content, so as long as Fang Xi insists on not playing the comparison, won't it be fine?

And if Fang Xi is asked to say which point of his game is the best, Fang Xi thinks it is the character's calculation system.

This is also what Fang Xi said last year. Specifically, he used his own golden finger’s invincible calculation system. By referring to some data in reality, the Death Server calculated a world of data during the Warring States period, and these data are usually The cloud is stored in the Reaper server, and the player will perform real-time calculations during the game. The player will read the pre-calculated data from Hongyi’s Reaper server, and then construct it on the computer in real time.

Said high-end atmosphere, but it is actually a bit similar to "cloud games", because this kind of calculation and simulation of the computer of an ordinary player in the world can not do it. If you want to calculate, the CPU will probably blow up, so there is no need to think about it. of.

So this game needs to be online all the way, because it needs to access and use the data that has been calculated in the cloud. The advantage is that the performance optimization brought by it is great. In other words, the configuration requirements of this game are not high. Then the requirements for the graphics card will be higher.

Fang Xi’s strategy for propagating this opportunity is called "The Twelve Hours of the Warring States Period."

Regarding the formulation of this strategy, we must return to the characteristics of the sandbox. Which aspect of the sandbox is most fun? Of course the greatest freedom.

Sandbox means unlimited. You don’t have to do tasks. You can choose the place you like and choose the way you like to entertain. For example, you can be a person who executes justice, or you can be an evil thief. , You can also choose to be an ordinary taxi driver, or just find a hill to watch the sunset quietly.

Under this premise, Fang Xi set up this real machine propaganda strategy, and we won't show players what battles we can do, what kinds of dazzling systems.

Let us simply observe this world, this noisy world.