Reboot 2003

Chapter 270 049: Producer
For A Yue, this is the first 'methodology' she has summed up, that is, self-media is very useful for publicity. When Super Smash Bros. was first launched, she struggled for a long time and registered an official game studio by herself. Weibo, and asked the company's public relations to help get an official account.

So she took a photo on the spot and then sent a post on Weibo...

The brawl was carried out by a group of middle school students. She had not deliberately concealed the incident before, and even used this excuse to make news. Although she did not say where she was from, her last name, or what she looked like, netizens knew that it was done by minors. In the end, it didn't necessarily attract many people to play, but the connection was unstable when Super Smash Bros. changed servers before, and netizens finally restrained themselves a lot when criticizing the operation.

After that, Ayue chatted with interested netizens on Weibo for a long time, and it seemed that the response was pretty good. When she finally had lunch, she heard her grandma chatting with Xiao Gao, saying that she met your Principal Lu when she came here today. He was at the intersection. Talk to a foreigner there.

But several middle school students were busy playing games and didn't care about it.

GameJam only lasted for two days. After the rough design plan of the game was discussed, the next step was formal development.

Of course, for game development in the public sense, this is actually just the beginning; although the previous discussion is obviously beneficial, in reality, innovation generally comes at a cost——

That afternoon, four people were debating the basic design model of the game. Because it was the first time for everyone to develop a World of Warcraft map, how to call the underlying storage data and how to implement this resource system that is independent of the game itself became a very important issue. Guo Yang put forward several suggestions, but they were useless, and he was a little frustrated; the sample map Song Ziyun found was no longer useful, and his enthusiasm was not as high as it was at the beginning.

Chen Qin didn't have much idea, so he took the time to teach A Yue a lesson...

"Although agile development requires teamwork, for developers, completing creative work in a way that each performs his or her duties is the most enjoyable way of working." Chen Qin told her, "So in the future, if the project time is not so tight, it will be best to It’s better not to let everyone directly participate in the research and development of every link.”

A Yue nodded, indicating that she remembered it.

After that, the development work continued. Fortunately, the previous problems were solved; it took most of the afternoon for Chen Qin to finish the basic framework of the turn-based system and the internal storage functions.

It was already nine o'clock when everyone went home that night, and everyone felt a little more relaxed when they went back.

But early the next morning, development work resumed.

"Chen Qin, can you display the gold coins directly in the resource box in the upper right corner? This is too unintuitive..."

"It can't be done."

“Can’t we display the image of the building directly in the selection box?”

"There is no solution yet."

……

As development gets closer to design details, it does seem like the time has come for artists, designers, and programmers to have a live battle.

Of course, after all, the programs in this group have more weight to speak, and the complexity of the customized map is not too high. Others can basically just follow Chen Qin's pace; although it is still not pleasant, a few problems have been resolved smoothly. Compromised.When he was taking a break to do eye exercises, Chen Qin said to A Yue again——

"No matter what, game codes are written by people. If you want to be a good producer, you must have some basic programming thinking."

"It's not that you have to do something on your own, but you know what can be done and what can't be done... Otherwise, when you go outside in the future, you will probably be fooled by programmers."

"For example, although we programmers will not take the initiative to do bad things, we will not rush to do good things."

"Maybe you are in a hurry to get the finished product in two days, but we just want to get off work early. Even if you want to implement a brand-new function that no one has done in the past, we will most likely tell you that it cannot be done."

"So you copy the games on the market, and I copy you. Many of them are not because the producers don't want to innovate, but because they don't have management tools..." Chen Qin said casually, but A Yue then asked: "Then Chen Qin, what are you doing? What if you don’t say it can’t be done?”

Chen Qin said plausibly: "Isn't that what I said? But I really can't realize it here, and I haven't started lying to people yet."

Xiao Gao was watching the excitement and suddenly laughed: "Why do I feel like Yin Susu, 'the more powerful the programmer, the more likely he is to lie'..."

"Actually, that's the truth. Ah Yue, you are still young. When you grow up, you can't be fooled by the program."

Chen Qin lectured her seriously, and Xiao Gao laughed.A Yue felt that something was wrong, but the words did seem to make sense. Anyway, she wrote it down and continued to stitch together the game materials on the map.

When the gameplay was finished in the afternoon and debugging started, Ayue asked him: "Chen Qin, if I want to continue making games, what other skills do you think I need?"

"What does it mean to continue? The situation is different, and the needs are of course different. In fact, even if you don't understand anything, you can still be a producer."

Chen Qin looked at Guo Yang and Song Ziyun in the battle test and said to her——

"For example, if you want to make a new gameplay, you need to know the logic of realizing the program function, so you need to know the principles of the code."

"For example, if you want your game performance to be more impactful, you have to understand photography and directing."

"For example, if you want to understand the player experience, you need to be able to design the game UI. Speaking of which, you have done a good job and you cannot let it go to waste in the future..."

This was speaking from experience. After finishing speaking, Chen Qin seemed to have remembered something, and added in a subtle way: "Of course, these are all my own imagination, and may not be correct..."

"puff."

Ah Yue covered her mouth and laughed after hearing this. Chen Qin had no choice but to say: "If you have nothing to do, just go and pour water. If you want to be a producer, you must first learn to put on airs. If you ask questions all day long, you can only serve the water dispenser. Come on, hurry up." Go quickly."

Ayue is going to pour water, but after the game enters the debug phase, it is almost over. Before continuing to add content, a large number of bugs must be resolved first.

Song Ziyun and Guo Yang are busy testing. Now they will have a two-person battle. They plan to do a multiplayer test with netizens on Weibo later.

A Yue put away the paper cups for the three of them, went to the cabinet at the door and took out the tea can.

Before it was over, a group of Xiaogao's brothers came in at the door. The Blizzard has not blocked accounts these days, and the studio's business is relatively stable. The brothers had come to see the fun a few times before, and greeted Ah Yue at the door: "A Yue, you are not one of them. Boss, why are you pouring water here?"

Someone else asked: "Ah Yue, when will Super Smash Bros. be updated? We have finished brushing up our skills, and now we are waiting for the next version to update Baby Panda."

At this time A Yue asked: "Do you know how to play Dota and Chenghai 3C?"

"Why are you asking this?" The brothers felt insulted. "My brothers have unique skills like Divination and Carl. This is not a matter of knowing how to play!"

"That's good. In fact, we have taken the time to make a small map ourselves in the past two days." A Yue said, "It feels quite fun. It is being tested now. It is no worse than Dota. Do you want to come and try it out?"

(End of this chapter)