I! NS game designer

Chapter 115 Would you like some rabbit today?
But then again, on the other hand, Wang Hao’s project team is about to complete the project, which is Animal Crossing. Since it is an old team, there is basically no big problem.

As for Bai Weiran and the others, most of the team is new, and the game requires online battles and server maintenance at the end of the game.

So he was basically far behind. Bai Weiran was busy working almost all the time, and he didn't have much time to rest.

However, I heard from Ms. Xingtong that regarding the Internet, she spent money to hire an outsourcing company to build a server.

Overall, the project is quite optimistic.

As for the DLC of Picnic, the development time is later than that of the other two games, but after all, it is DLC and not a new game, so the overall speed is still good, and it is estimated that it will be released next year.

Let’s talk about Bai Weiran.

Are you familiar with the term "conceptual design"?
In other words, do you know the terms character design, scene design, and prop design?It must be familiar to many viewers who are familiar with animation/game production.

“Conceptual design” sounds like something like an artist’s self-pursuit, but it’s not.

Concept design is to understand the needs of the project party. The design content carried out in the early stage of project production can not be realized originally, so that the production team can clearly understand the visual style of the project in the early stage.

So it can actually be said that functions that many people are familiar with, such as character design, scene design, and prop design, are actually branches of concept design.

When Bai Weiran was designing the game, everyone encountered game problems because everyone was new.

A few people spent almost a few months discussing more than 70 plans. Finally, Bai Weiran and others made a trial version. The gameplay is very simple. Black and white squares (that is, two pieces of tofu) spray ink on each other. Who can Whoever paints more area wins.

As for how to spray water on tofu?It's very simple, just draw a nose! (So, this is a fight?)
In the earliest game prototype, the characters and world view had not yet been determined, and the production team used cubic "tofu" to move and shoot.

This prototype is the "tofu prototype".

Although the graphics are terrible, the gameplay of "Splatoon" has become more mature at this time.

But the problem came again. In order to increase the playability, the production team decided to make the terrain three-dimensional.

Since the floor can be painted, can the walls be painted?
To be fair, the game determines the winner based on the floor area painted by both sides. What's the point of painting the walls?

To say that it can't be done, it doesn't make sense that the floors can be painted but the walls can't.

Regarding the question of "should the walls be painted?", the production team had a lot of discussions and even considered how to guide players in the game not to paint the walls.

But then the development team found that there was a problem standing in front of us.

The finished game cannot use "tofu", so what kind of world view setting and character setting should be used to make the "human form" and "flat form integrated with ink" look natural?

At that time, everyone racked their brains about this.

After adding the element of stealth, Tofu is no longer suitable to continue to be the protagonist:
Since you want to have the action of "getting down", the character needs to have hands and feet, and Tofu is really not suitable for anthropomorphism.

Also, how many games can be sold with Tofu as the protagonist?
Because during the first meeting, a rabbit ran into the conference room. Because rabbits are cunning, Bai Weiran planned to use the rabbit as a prototype to create the character of Splatoon.

After some discussion, they decided to try it with rabbits.The reason why I chose the rabbit is mainly because the rabbit itself is white, which will be obvious after spray paint.

As for why the definition is paint, it’s not because some boss went to Konami’s door to break the paint and was caught.

In addition, Xingtong is now in Lapston's studio, so it is logical to be set as a rabbit.

But Miss Xingtong suddenly said: "The setting is very interesting, but why is it a rabbit?"

Rabbits are highly alert, so using rabbits as a character image is not completely unreasonable.

Moreover, the initial setting is a battle between a black rabbit and a white rabbit, and the color distinction is very obvious.Therefore, the production team wanted to show the characteristics of real rabbits in the game.But it’s obvious that the colleagues who tried it didn’t like it.

However, this problem has stumped the production team for some time.

Until one day, the team members suddenly discovered that "diving into ink and moving at high speed" can be seen as "swimming in ink."This idea instantly opened up our design ideas.

A few days later, Ren Xiaotang officially released the trailer for the new game. There was such a sentence in it, which completely raised players' expectations for the new game.

"The world is so big, I want to see it!"

Some people ask, why do we need to travel?
While you were writing your PPT, Alaskan cod were jumping out of the water.

When you read the report, the golden monkey in Meili Snow Mountain just climbed to the top of the tree.

When you squeezed into the subway, XZ's mountain eagle kept circling in the clouds.

While you were having an argument in the meeting, the Nepalese backpacker sat by the fire with a glass of wine.

This side of the world and that side will always have different life trajectories

The time difference is different, the races are different, and the languages ​​are different.

But the path taken on the journey can be the same.

There are always paths that cannot be reached in high heels.

There is always some air that cannot be smelled with perfume.

There are always people in the office building that you will never meet.

So?

Do you want to go to this colorful world?

Did you meet them differently?
And it was this passage that directly touched the most fragile heart of the player.

Yes!

How many people have imagined that they are a tourist, swimming in the vast nature, and experiencing the unrestrained and free feeling.

However, real life makes us breathless. The pressure of work, the aging of parents, and the needs of children are all pressing for our growth.

It was a rare long vacation, but I only saw three times the salary for overtime work during the holiday. I thought that if I worked more overtime, I could enroll my child in a better cram school and buy a better can of milk powder for my child.

tourism?

I don’t know when and where it has become an unattainable dream for everyone.

After starting work after the holiday, you returned to the unfamiliar yet familiar office, facing the cold computer, picking up a pen and paper:
Can hold back the inner dream of traveling around the world,
I can tolerate delicacies that are beyond my reach as a senior foodie.

But the only thing you can't stand is that this picture of you arouses the passion, ups and downs in your heart, and the impatient anticipation of new travel destinations.

If you love freedom, love to experience folk customs, love beautiful scenery, and love beautiful passers-by, isn’t your little heart filled with excitement?

"Tell the boss that I want to resign!"

(End of this chapter)