Reboot 2003

Chapter 239 018: Agile Development (Three-in-One)

Early the next morning, Chen Qin saw A Yue's plan. After reading it, he regretted agreeing so easily yesterday...

Of course, it’s not that the writing is bad, in a sense it’s actually quite good.

After all, it seems that this was what Gu Wenjie taught his daughter to write specifically to coax her. At that time, Gu Wenjie himself was thinking about playing games every day and taught A Yue to write this plan... At least it looked professional.

However, the professionalism of the plan itself is not important. For game development, the plan is often the development blueprint closest to the user end. Many times, it is actually like a request from Party A. Professionalism or not is not important. What is important is It depicts how much useful and achievable information is.

A Yue's plan seemed a bit funny - during early self-study, she handed Chen Qin a black plastic notebook; on the title page was the handwriting wishing A Yue a happy tenth birthday. There was no signature, but the handwriting looked beautiful. Powerful, vaguely familiar.

Then there is the content of the plan - the words on it look childish, probably written by A Yue when she was in elementary school.

The plan states that this is a casual game, the platform is PC, the distribution method is to be determined, and the name is 'Friends Fun'.

The overall content description is a 'friend making game'.

The description says that when players enter the game, they will choose an avatar.

After entering, stand on both sides of the screen with another virtual character. You can send flowers to each other, greet each other, and dance together...

Gone.

Compared with future colleagues who will write plans as resumes, this simple and easy-to-understand plan can be said to be a breath of fresh air.Considering that it was written by an elementary school girl, there is probably nothing to criticize.

But it is indeed a bit naive, even for independent games, it is a bit too simple.

"you……"

Chen Qin looked at the above content and seemed to have a troubled expression on his face. Ah Yue felt guilty: "I know it's not good, why don't I just write another one! In fact, I thought of a few other ideas last night, but I'm not sure I can It can’t be done…”

"No way." Chen Qin said, "That's it."

A Yue hesitated: "You want to do this? In fact, I wrote it casually at the beginning. I know it is very childish..."

"Of course we can't follow this completely," Chen Qin said, "but game development is a profession that emphasizes creativity. Yesterday I said I would teach you 'agile development', which is just right for this time."

A Yue was curious: "What is agile development?"

Chen Qin started the class: "Agile development is a development method that is opposed to the traditional waterfall development solution. Specifically, it is based on highly modular programs and promotes game versions through a large number of small version iterations. Although On the one hand, this will cause some waste of construction time, but on the other hand, it can also reduce a lot of planning and management costs, and also help to flatten project management.”

A Yue didn't understand: "What should we do specifically?"

Chen Qin replied: "That is to say, we can move towards a small goal first, wait until we reach that goal, and then consider the details of the next step."

A Yue nodded: "In other words, we can first make a demo according to the plan, and then make changes?"

"Yes, that's it. It seems that you are quite savvy. Agile development is about thinking while doing it, focusing on flexibility. It is actually not suitable for traditional service software projects, but it is just right for developing games. Chen Qin praised her, and then said, "Anyway, now that you have learned it, you can make a DEMO of that game according to the plan. Try to complete it this morning, and then we will start iterating immediately."

A Yue was dumbfounded: "But..."

"But what?"

A Yue replied awkwardly: "Although these functions are simple, I don't know how to program, and it was just this morning..."

Chen Qin said, "How do you develop it? What you are asked to build now is just a demo for development. You just need to find a way to express the things in the planning book. It's pretty simple anyway." of."

A Yue was confused: "Is it okay to just draw it?"

"As long as others can understand it and you are sure that what you envision can be realized," Chen Qin said.

A Yue understood and began to immerse herself in painting.

She just drew a class in one breath, and she didn't even go to morning exercises.

Chen Qin came back from morning exercises, and she was already waiting with her notebook.

"Chen Qin, look, I've finished the painting!"

Chen Qin sat down and Ah Yue opened her notebook: "This is the UI to enter the game, this is to start the game, this is to load files, this is the settings, this is to exit..."

Chen Qin nodded and said to the notebook: "In that case, let's click to enter the game."

A Yue turned over a page, and after 'Enter Game' was the interface to enter the game: "Here we can customize our virtual characters."

"Skip it, we'll do it later." Chen Qin said, "You don't need to draw this kind of thing too carefully, just have a design concept."

A Yue nodded, then turned to the next page, which was the game interface.

"There are two little people here. These are my virtual characters, and these are my friends in the game." A Yue said seriously, "There are three buttons here. I can click here to send him flowers. This button is for dancing. This button is for hello.”

Chen Qin saw two little people, the one representing the 'player' was a girl with short hair, a bit like A Yue herself, quite cute.

The person opposite is a cool junior high school boy who looks vaguely familiar. Who is he?

Chen Qin asked: "How will the interaction occur after pressing the button? For example, if the player clicks to send flowers, will an animation of you and him sending flowers be played?"

A Yue nodded: "Yes, this way I can complete the flower delivery."

Chen Qin asked: "Then what? How will the other party respond?"

Ah Yue said: "He accepted the flowers."

Chen Qin asked again: "So the other side is an NPC with fixed interaction logic?"

"No," A Yue thought for a moment, "He can choose to refuse."

Chen Qin asked: "So is it a random event?"

A Yue hesitated: "I think maybe, it will be more real."

Chen Qin reminded her: "To be real, why can't the other person be a person? Now that technology has improved, maybe we can let the other person provide a real reaction."

A Yue nodded: "In this case, it will be the same as that kind of online dating software, so let's change it like this first."

As she spoke, she added an ID box above the head of the 'opponent player'.

Chen Qin concluded with her: "So now this is a game like this. After logging in, it will put you in a virtual scene with other people. You can send flowers to each other, say hello, and dance."

A Yue continued to nod, and Chen Qin said: "Okay, now we have entered the second version. Assume that you are the player and I am the other player opposite you. Now we have entered the same virtual scene."

After speaking, he asked: "So in this situation, what would you choose? Say hello to me, send me roses, or dance with me?"

Ah Yue said: "I want to say hello to you."

Chen Qin said: "Then I'll say hello to you too."

Then it was quiet.Chen Qin asked: "What's next?"

A Yue had a straight face and clenched her fists: "I'm going to punch you."

As he spoke, he lightly touched Chen Qin's shoulder with his small fist, but Chen Qin praised: "Yes, the charm of the game lies in the choice. If you can punch the opponent, the roses given to you in such an environment are meaningful."

A Yue nodded and added a fist-shaped button under the three interaction options.

Chen Qin concluded: "Okay, now our game outline is ready. What we are making is an online game. After entering, there are these buttons. You can choose to start the game, load files and exit. After choosing to enter, you can watch Create the virtual image of yourself and another player. This is done through networking technology. It is now your 'Friend Music v0.03'..."

Ah Yue laughed, but then she reacted, turned the page back, and crossed out the 'Read' button on the first page.

Chen Qin continued: "Then as players, we can choose to punch the opponent, or we can send roses, say hello and dance to the opponent."

Ah Yue nodded and seemed to be a little bit interested. Although it was still a bit childish, the game seemed to be uninteresting in the first place.

"I still don't feel like it's working, why don't I forget it and I'll think of another one." A Yue suggested.

"It's already 0.03, how can there be any reason to cancel the project now?" Chen Qin suggested, "Let's find testers to try again. Guo Yang! Song Ziyun!"

Chen Qin shouted, and the two testers came.

Explain the rules of the game, and then let the two people start the 'game'.

Guo Yang was honest and said as soon as he entered, "Then when I come in, I will first punch Song Ziyun."

Song Ziyun followed suit: "Then I want to give Guo Yang a jio."

Guo Yang was not to be outdone: "I want to give Song Ziyun a turtle style qigong."

Song Ziyun made a tentative suggestion: "I'm going to give Guo Yang a move that will kill him for a thousand years!"

Suddenly the school bell rang, and the two of them hurried back.

A Yue turned to look at Chen Qin, who said: "It seems that they don't like the existing structure of the game, but they seem to have thought of something more fun..."

A Yue suggested uncertainly: "Should we change it to this?"

Chen Qindao: "I think this is a tendency that needs to be treated with caution. After all, when two avatars are put together like this, many players seem to be more inclined to be hostile to each other than to send flowers or dance to each other. This conflicts with your original design route. . Now you need to judge for yourself, what is the positioning of this game? Do you want the two avatars to express goodwill to each other, or to fight against each other?"

"Because it is not very interesting in the first place, then I think we can change to confrontation, but keep some elements of goodwill. After all, Guo Yang and Song Ziyun are also friends. According to your theory just now, in an environment where they can send flowers to each other and dance together Next, only when they fight will it be interesting, right?"

Chen Qin nodded: "Well, now that you've decided, how will you iterate next?"

A Yue suggested: "Incorporate Turtle Style Qigong, kicking, Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, etc. By the way, wouldn't it be bad to kill for a thousand years?"

"Put this aside for now." Chen Qin said, "Now you have decided to add some mutually hostile options, right?"

A Yue said seriously: "Well, players like Guo Yang and Song Ziyun should like it. And you also said just now that the essence of the game is choice. I think it makes sense..."

"First of all, I want to correct you. The more options in the game, the better." Chen Qin reminded her, "For example, I am a player who has just entered the game. I see so many options. For me, the choice is What’s the difference between giving you a punch and giving you a blast of Turtle Style Qigong?”

"Perhaps the Turtle School Qigong is more powerful?" A Yue thought for a while, then corrected, "Maybe it's a little weirder. Maybe we can do some special effects to make the characters look different."

"No, first of all, what do you think Song Ziyun and Guo Yang were talking about when they said those moves? Why did they do so many strange moves instead of one punch and one punch?" Ah Yue thought seriously. He got excited: "Because they want to be funny? And they are simulating battle moves."

"Well, if we add these moves now, how close are we to simulating their gameplay just now?"

"You can add a health bar, or add some blue bars or something." A Yue said and laughed, "It feels like it's completely different from the beginning, but it seems to have become much more normal again."

"Yes." Chen Qin nodded, "Now we have to add a health bar to simulate two good friends fighting. This is already a playable game."

A Yue breathed a sigh of relief: "Then what happens next..."

Chen Qin said: "After we have the outline, we will stop discussing the game design for now."

A Yue nodded: "Well..."

"Now that the gameplay has been initially determined, we must first make a plan. After all, whether a game is successful and whether the content is rich is an important factor, but it must also take into account the needs of the game audience and the basic environment of the platform."

A Yue continued to nod, and Chen Qin asked: "First of all, what is the audience of our game? Is it a social game?"

A Yue said seriously: "Well, although something doesn't seem right, it's probably quite fun to make fun of each other like this. The audience is probably young people like us. We like to joke with each other and so on."

"That's social games." Chen Qin said, "Social games are a newly emerging category. You mentioned Flash Empire before. You should know that this is the most popular game type on social networks now. If you can enter this field , the competition we face may be smaller than other games, and the possibility of success in the future will be higher. From this point of view, your plan is actually quite good."

A Yue clenched her fists happily, but Chen Qin said to her: "But social games have their own logic. First of all, it will appear on the web platform, which means that its advantage is that it can be played by clicking on the Internet. , its fundamental is not to be too complicated, so it will not become a deep RPG battle game, nor will it encourage players to manage resources and develop characters. It will also not encourage players to pursue victory in confrontation, but will be like the one just now Guo Yang and Song Ziyun are friends who joke with each other, do you understand?"

A Yue pondered: "I understand, that is to say, I have to fulfill these requirements on the basis of the current situation. Is that okay?"

"Yes, but if you want to make a lot of money, this alone is not enough." Chen Qin reminded her, "Since you are not pursuing RPG gameplay, you must free up resources and pursue more social gameplay. About social games on the web platform , probably not many people know how to do it now, but I just summarized some methodologies for your reference.”

"What is it?"

Chen Qin took the notebook and wrote in a somewhat sloppy handwriting:
1: It is usually not mandatory for both parties to be online at the same time.

2: Asking for help is an important medium to activate interaction.

3: Provide feedback for every operation.

4: Try to let the player decide how to allocate his game time.

After finishing writing, he handed the notebook to A Yue. A Yue was stumped.

I had been looking sad all morning, and also in the afternoon.During extracurricular activities, people from the student union came to ask her why she didn't come to the meeting.

After school in the afternoon, Chen Qin and two friends went out of school together.

When he went out, Guo Yang asked him: "A Yue is really playing games by herself?"

Chen Qin nodded, and Song Ziyun was really curious. He didn't even have time to talk about Taiqing Divine Seal: "But her game, doesn't it feel a bit crude? If you can only do that with money, then it's really not as good as Chen Qin's. As you said, stop wasting money..."

Chen Qin said: "Actually, the game is not bad. I thought about it before. If she can get through it, it should be really good, and it may even be quite promising."

Guo Yang hesitated and said: "Then Chen Qin, please help her. I think Ayue people are quite good..."

"That's not possible." Chen Qin said, "It's not that I don't want to help her. After all, if Ah Yue came earlier, or if her requirements were not so high, or if she had more resources, then I would teach her how to make the game step by step. It’s okay to come out.”

"Then what's going on now?"

"Now……"

Chen Qin pondered and did not answer.

Now... the Flash Empire is doing Happy Farm, competing for parking spaces, and doing business with friends.

Dantantang and Three Kingdoms are also on the way.

So although social games are an excellent field that is just ahead of the mainstream, historically the opportunities in this field have been taken away by Zynga and Kaixin.com, but now it has been booked in advance by Chen Qin.

Of course, in emerging industries, there will be opportunities for grassroots or second-tier companies to rise. This is an objective law of industry development.

If A Yue wants to seize this opportunity, she still has to work harder. Now Chen Qin has shown her the way. If she still can't handle it, then she'd better not ask for trouble.

That night, Chen Qin was fighting hard on the third floor of the New Era as usual.

Due to physical limitations, it is difficult for large-scale online games to fill up the time after using up physical strength.Generally speaking, the most commonly used arrangement is PK. Especially in the early stages of the game, players are often very enthusiastic about this classic game mode.

There have been many PK modes in "Three Kingdoms Online" before, such as the regular battlefield mode. Some PK activities will be organized at a fixed time every day. If the camp wins, there will be tokens to encourage players to actively participate in PK. However, this is different from Wu Guo. It doesn't matter to the players, after all, there are too few people, so they can only rely on camp compensation to live on minimum living standards.

There is also a free arena, with team battles and individual battles, and these modes have two forms: standard mode and unlimited mode, but the player level varies, and the unlimited mode depends on the equipment, which is really embarrassing.

There are also some other entertainment modes. Of course, these small modes are not yet popular at the moment, but recently Three Kingdoms Online has released a 'war zone'. The war zone is a large map of three-party melee, but in fact the entire new level 60 map is a war zone. In the plot This was also emphasized.

However, the rear map is much safer than the front battle zone. There are no enemies on weekdays, and a large number of professional players gather here.

But today is different——

After a player named 'Zhang Babai' from the Wei War Zone met a certain number of enemy kills, he took on an assassination mission. He penetrated the first few floors and actually reached the Wu State's safe zone.

At this time, a reminder appeared on the World Channel, saying that the Wei assassins had reached the last layer of defense, and the governor's life was hanging by a thread. Wu players on the map were asked to go to support as soon as possible. If they could resist the enemy assassins, they would be rewarded with x100 honor points, x1000 gold coins, and Luan Feng. Treasure chest x1!

Most of the players in the Wu Kingdom are salty fish who are not very enthusiastic about PK. There are quite a few who are digging grass on this map to practice life and career. When they heard the news, they rushed over. A group of people chased a player whose defense and speed were greatly enhanced, but because of' At the end of the battle, horseback players with their attack power halved ran all over the map, and players from the main city teleported over to hunt the assassins. The entire map was in a state of uproar.

As Chen Qin was chasing after him, someone came up from behind, smelling of vanilla.

"Wow, this is the War Zone Assassin..."

Chen Qin didn't look back: "You don't play, but you are quite well informed."

A Yue became interested: "By the way, Chen Qin, is this 'asymmetrical competition'?"

"Yes." Chen Qin said, "Set different game goals for both sides of the game, and then let them participate in the competition. In this case, even if the physical performance of the two sides and even the number of participants are completely different, both sides can enjoy the game."

"Hehe." Ah Yue laughed for some reason. She sat on the chair next to her, "Actually, the reason why this function appears..."

Chen Qin turned to look at her: "What's wrong?"

A Yue rolled her eyes, but after hesitating for a while, she said: "Nothing!"

She abruptly changed the subject: "You didn't eat in the afternoon, did you? How about I treat you to a big meal? I was thinking about the game just now, and I forgot to bring you food."

"No, I have something to eat."

Chen Qin opened the drawer and took out a bag of sealed bread he bought before.He was busy and had no time to accompany her to eat out.

Then he asked her: "How are you doing with your game? It's been a day."

"I don't know..." A-Yue pouted, "I feel like this plan has nothing to do with the precautions you mentioned. Since it requires a variety of skills, how easy is it to operate? Of course it will exist. Since there are two virtual villains and they have to play against each other, how can we prevent the two players from being online at the same time?"

Chen Qin opened the bag and broke half of the bread to her.

And reminded her: "You can refer to other people's plans. The progress of the industry requires not only seeking innovation and breakthroughs, but also actively absorbing the wisdom of predecessors. Social games are now a new category, but you can learn from traditional games and online games. Find some inspiration.”

A Yue was a little embarrassed, but she still took the bread that Chen Qin broke for her: "Well..."

"If you want to develop games in the future, you can work on this computer." Chen Qin pointed to the computer she was sitting on. "It happens to have the development toolkit I installed before. AS and Foss are both ready-made, as are Flash and PS. It’s genuine, if you need anything else, you can ask Brother Gao.”

"Oh well."

A Yue pressed the power button, then quietly bit the bread, but her curious and lively big eyes began to glance at Chen Qin's screen: "Speaking of which, Chen Qin..."

She asked: "How do you know so much? I feel like my dad doesn't know as much about games as you do, but I haven't seen you learn anything."

"There is nothing to learn." Chen Qin looked at his game screen and told her, "A lot of it is learned through mutual exchanges and explorations in practice, but this is limited to me."

"Are you saying that it's not okay for others to be like you?" A Yue pondered, "But there are many other people who like to play games, but they don't know as much as you..."

"Well, I'm quite special." As he said that, Chen Qin looked at her again, "As for you to learn game development, you don't necessarily need to know so many things, but you also have areas that you need to improve on."

"I know, I will work hard to finish this plan..."

"That's not what I'm talking about."

Chen Qin said, put down the bread, and suddenly grabbed her shoulders: "Remember what I told you last night?"

Ah Yue nervously licked the crumbs at the corner of her mouth: "What?"

Chen Qin grabbed her soft little shoulders: "You want to take revenge now, want to revive your family's company, and want to protect your father's industry. You have to cheer up! The stock you are looking at today has fallen below 2.5 US dollars. You If you want to do something, time is running out!”

His hands were as strong as iron hoops. Ah Yue was a little nervous, twisted her body slightly uneasily, and whispered: "I know, I will work hard..."

"Hard work alone won't do it," Chen Qin stared at her with dark eyes. "You are a middle school student. If you just rely on hard work, you can't beat anyone."

"Will the competition in the future be fierce... No." A Yue was a little confused at first, but she gradually came back to her senses, her eyes began to focus, and the youthful and lively highlight disappeared.

"I know, I have to be greedy enough. I want to make a game that can make a lot of money. Time waits for no one." She said as if talking to herself.

"Then let's start today. Finish this plan first, and then I will tell you what to do next. You are not hopeless, but in order to make money, you have to make your brain more active."

Chen Qin let go of his hand, but Ah Yue couldn't relax anymore. She looked at the screen in front of her with a stern face, not even in the mood to eat bread.

Chen Qin clapped his hands and took out his keyboard again.

After settling down the talkative little niece, I happened to see the Wei player on the screen being caught in a trap and drowned by countless skills in the blink of an eye.

Chen Qin was a step slower, but when he saw on the world channel, it seemed that a wet nurse player from this area had grabbed the last kill, but it was actually the captain of his team.

He didn't care about Ah Yue next to him, and quickly started typing and chatting with people in the guild. Next to him, Ah Yue was silent for a while, but downloaded a Star Core installation package from the mailbox.

After successful installation, I logged in to my account, looked at the list for a while, clicked on a contact whose last call was half a year ago, and opened the chat window...

(End of this chapter)