Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 131 Starfield Company
After a week, experience the store.

Liu Wei controlled the mouse and used an exploding pepper to eliminate the last bit of Dr. Zombie King's health.

Liu Wei nodded with satisfaction as he watched the robot created by Dr. Zhanwang continuously burst out sparks, and finally collapsed, bursting out with a silver sunflower trophy.

One week is enough to complete the adventure mode of "Plants vs. Zombies" with the technology of this world.

After the success of the adventure mode, other decryption modes, mini-games, jar smashing, and Zen gardens are also very simple.

You only need to copy the models in the adventure mode. There is no need to spend extra energy at all. It just requires more or less brain cells when designing mini-games.

In the previous life, this game was made by a designer, an artist, a music player, and a programmer who spent many years.

However, most of the time they spent was adjusting the data of various plants to prevent the game difficulty from being too high or too low.

It is said that the first version released was because the zombie data was too outrageous, and the difference from the subsequent public version was like "Dark Souls" and "Devil May Cry".

One is to be abused, and the other is to abuse others in light entertainment, which of course requires some techniques.

Liu Wei is equivalent to directly skipping the tedious process of polishing, and because of the existence of the compass platform, even the tragic character of the programmer who is prone to death from overwork has disappeared.

Instead, there is the more visible process of entering copy and converting results.

For Liu Wei, when a game reaches this level, it is almost finished, and the rest can be left to other employees.

What I need to think about is a relatively core issue - how to put this game on the shelves.

Different from the previous target group targeting domestic users, Liu Wei’s target this time is overseas groups.

As mentioned before, the central platforms used at home and abroad are two systems.

In China, the 'Compass Platform' is used, which focuses on mobile games and client games, and is region-locked.

Foreign countries use the 'Xinghai Platform', which pays more attention to AR and VR games, but is not region-locked.

What Liu Wei is now struggling with is whether he should build another 'Fumei Platform' overseas.

This is a very tangled issue, because landing on the platform is not something you can do if you want to.

Get rid of the local server network that can be solved with money.

The most difficult question before Liu Wei is why overseas players should use their own platform accounts.

Liu Wei knew that "Plants vs. Zombies" was very popular, but others didn't know that, and it was impossible for overseas players to specifically download and register an account because of an unknown game.

Liu Wei thought for a while and adopted a middle solution.

First of all, the ontology game is launched on three major platforms: Luopan, Fumei, and Xinghai.

Secondly, create a gaming community.

This game community can only be logged in through the Fumei platform, and if players make some constructive suggestions in the game community or publish popular strategies, they will receive official rewards from Fumei.

It may be an exclusive reward in the game, or it may be a refund of the money purchased for the game.

If the poster has a high level of attention and has posted a variety of posts over the past year, including but not limited to strategies, suggestions, jokes, bug feedback...

Fumei officials will also specially invite posters to participate in offline face-to-face activities.

The game community does not conflict with the built-in comment communities of Luopan and Xinghai. Liu Wei doesn't want to be suddenly called up to check the fire protection, tax, water meter, etc. while he is asleep.

The only difference is that you can only log in by registering a Fumei account, and the rewards are richer.

"Okay, now everything is settled." Liu Wei snapped his fingers.

"The next step is to finish the game, and then hire specialized translators to translate the game into multiple languages ​​before it can be directly launched on the Xinghai platform." Liu Wei speculated that this would take a longer time, and could be completed within a month.

It is mainly used for multi-lingual translation and proofreading to avoid prohibited words.

If the word 'Nigo' appears in the overseas version, maybe this game will be killed because of political correctness.

So be careful and be careful, and make sure you don't make mistakes.

……

This morning, Liu Wei was squatting in front of the experience store, eating and drinking durian-flavored fried chicken. He couldn't help but smile when he looked at the busy crowd in front of him.

This ordinary and natural atmosphere of the market fascinated Liu Wei the most.

A gentle middle-aged man wearing glasses came to Liu Wei and said with a smile:
"Hello, I am the director of Xingyu Company, Zhu Xiaoyu. I have made an appointment with the boss of your company to meet today."

Liu Wei wiped a hand, stretched out his hand and said, "I am."

Zhu Xiaoyu looked at the young man in front of him, obviously a little surprised, but his years of professionalism made him quickly return to normal, stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, Mr. Liu."

Liu Wei: "Let's go upstairs and talk. There's a bit of chaos here."

"Oh, by the way, do you want to eat?"

Zhu Xiaoyu looked at the fried chicken handed to him and was slightly startled. Then he took it very naturally, took a bite and replied with a smile: "Okay, I just got off the plane and I was a little hungry."

When they got to the second floor, the two did not communicate directly, but first settled for a box of crispy fried chicken.

After the problem was solved, Liu Wei took two cups of lightly iced milk tea from the refrigerator and started drinking it.

After drinking most of it, Liu Wei let out a very pleasant burp and said, "Then let's talk about cooperation."

Hearing this, Zhu Xiaoyu showed a harmless smile and said gently: "Okay."

Liu Wei snapped his fingers: "Needless to say, the strength of Fumei Technology. We plan to send our next game overseas and hope to find a strong partner."

Zhu Xiaoyu smiled and said: "Star Group focuses on developing overseas industries and has Ontology servers in many countries. We can be found even in Africa."

“And we provide free translation services and overseas approval services.”

Liu Wei asked in surprise, "Then what do you need?"

"Let me tell you first, it is absolutely impossible to give you the shares, and I also have complete independent judgment rights overseas. You cannot participate in the revision of the overseas version."

Zhu Xiaoyu showed a harmless smile again: "No, Mr. Liu, we don't want shares, and we don't want to intervene in the modification of the Gulf version."

"We just want a promise from you."

Liu Wei asked in surprise: "What promise?"

"All overseas games of Fumei Technology must be released through our company."

"Of course, like you said, we don't get involved in the decision-making."

"And the translation services and a series of after-sales services will be at the most affordable prices."

Zhu Xiaoyu paused and then said: "Mr. Liu, you know that overseas matters are very troublesome. Each state has its own laws. If you are alone, you will be busy to death."

Liu Wei was silent, thinking.

Zhu Xiaoyu didn't rush him, he just drank milk tea silently, with a determined smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)