Number One Game Designer

Chapter 500: Creation and prototype

Shuiran has a relatively complete lounge in the magazine of "GAME World". If it is busy during the busy season, he will live in the company directly, but he usually goes back after get off work.

Because of staying up late, Shuiran left work early in the afternoon and returned to the courtyard before the evening peak.

"Come back so early today?"

Shui Ran entered the door and saw his second uncle sitting in the yard. Although Wangjing City is no longer hot this season, Shuiyuan still moved a deck chair in the yard, lying on it comfortably, holding it in his hand. It seems to be a little book.

Shui Ran didn't answer, but instead asked, "Second Uncle, when have you come out to rest again?"

My second uncle changed his identity or interest after he failed to create games in the past. Although he was still a proletariat in Wangjing after the establishment of "GAME World", at least their Shui family had such a courtyard house. No worries about food and clothing, so Shuiyuan changed his interests at that time, found a wood factory in the suburbs and worshiped an old craftsman as a teacher, and developed a new interest.

When she was a child, Shuiran probably admired the second uncle who gave her the world of popular science games at that time. At that time, Shuiyuan was very energetic and contemptuous of the world. At that time, he believed that the domestic game market had great potential to be tapped, and if he did it well, he could definitely compare it Ren's company was already a giant at the time, and it now seems that Shuiyuan at the time said nothing wrong, but it was a pity that he was not the one who did this in the end.

Shuiyuan, who was still playing games at the time, liked working or taking a nap in this small yard. He said that the sky could inspire him. At that time, Shuiyuan, who was wearing a braided braid, stood ignorantly on the side. At that time, she was still not quite right. Understand a lot of things.

However, this scene was forced to transfer his interest from Shuiyuan to carpentry, and I couldn't see it much. Until today, Shui Ran saw that his second uncle moved out of the recliner again.

"Besides, I thought this recliner was broken and thrown away."

This recliner is an old-fashioned bamboo recliner, and it should be older than Shuran.

"It's broken." Shui Yuan sighed and touched the handrail. "After all, it is an old object. It has been kept in the utility room for several years. It took two days to fix it by myself, this kind of object still needs to be old-fashioned."

Looking at the abyss where he was touching and knocking on the recliner, Shui Ran was in a daze for a while, as if he had seen the second uncle with no mottled white hair yet.

But she is not the kind of sentimental person, she was in a daze and said: "I have finished the evaluation of "The Octopath Traveler". It will be published on all media tomorrow morning, including our paper media and Weibo, as well as my own. app or something."

After thinking about it, I still added: "I played it, and it feels... amazing. I didn't expect this game to be so beautiful."

Shui Yuan nodded and said triumphantly: "After all, it is the brainchild of a group of old guys. We may all remember that era while doing it. What does the one-sentence evaluation in your evaluation say?" A little curious.

"It doesn't belong to the romance of this generation." Shui Ran said.

"It doesn't belong to this era, what you said really turned us into a class of old antiques." Shui Yuan curled his lips a little disapprovingly.

"It's a generation, not an era." Shui Ran corrected.

Shui Yuan nodded, with a satisfied look, and then asked impatiently like an old craftsman who has made a good thing:

"Specifically, what do you think of this game?"

After considering it, Shui Ran said: "I like it very much, especially this kind of wild narration, but I also gave the game a try to someone in the same office. She said that she saw my shadow in the dancer."

Shui Yuan laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Hahaha, your colleague is quite accurate. Actually, when I created this character, I was a bit of reference to you."

"what?"

"Ah what, you don’t know that the current producers like to leave their own easter eggs in the game, that is, the producer’s signature for this game. Characters like Fang Xi and Fang Fang are also on the road to survival and In eternity, we have put down our own easter eggs, how can we old guys let it go?"

"So you put me in the game?" This kind of thing is not enough to be angry. Shui Ran thinks it is a bit weird. Generally speaking, shouldn't this kind of thing be for him? Shui Ran originally thought that his second uncle would put one. It’s similar to the great sage and the like, or put an NPC like an old beggar, who is actually a peerless swordsman, but I didn’t expect...

"It's not like putting it in." Shuiyuan waved his hand to deny: "It's just that I am responsible for the character shaping of two of the eight protagonists, and then let the second uncle me to shape a young girl. It's really hard for me, so I just Filling in this character while remembering you, it ended up like this."

"Seriously. This game should actually thank you." Shui Yuan brought it into the memory when he said it.

"There are a total of eight protagonists in this game that need to be shaped in depth, and if you want to have depth, you need to have a prototype that can be referenced, so in the end, the actual prototype of the reference of the eight characters is conservatively estimated to be close to 20, just like shaping that Priest, I also spent a month to go to church, and I became a happy friendship with a priest."

"The role of the dancer is a little more powerful. She is one of the most successful characters that I have created by just referring to you. She has all the advantages and disadvantages of you now, as well as the innocent personality of you when you were a child. , She is a combination of an adult you and a young you, she is the best character I think."

What her second uncle said is not complicated and easy to understand. As an editor, Shuiran naturally did part-time codewords in her free time. She also knows that in cultural creation, many creators often have a prototype of the image. , Because for most people, shaping the world view and shaping the story itself is already a huge amount of work. In this case, shaping the life of a character is to increase the workload for yourself, and in this case It is the easiest thing to select a prototype from reality to process.

Many people choose people around them, and some people look for inspiration in history. Some people even write prototypes from the newspapers they read during the morning meal. And the prototype of his second uncle was collected from himself, Shui Ran can only be said to be a little unexpected and reasonable.

"How do you feel after finishing this project?" Shui Ran was a little interested in his second uncle's comeback to play games like this, and suddenly wanted to interview.

"May I ask Mr. Suiyuan, one of the main creators of Octopath Traveler, you have finished this game now, and your dream has come true. What are your plans for the next life?"