Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 170 Liu Wei’s Q&A session

"woooo~"

Bulbasaur makes a cute sound after appearing.

He even made a very cute gesture.

"Hey, it's actually a turn-based game?"

At this time, Yin Jing discovered that "Pokemon" is a turn-based game.

"Let me see, there are many options."

"Fight, props, escape..."

"Why do you only have four skill columns and two skills in combat? This is too weak."

"This game is quite user-friendly. It gives you ten elf balls and ten bottles of recovery potion."

"This Rattata is only level [-], just capture it."

Yin Jing looked at the wild Rattata who was only level 3 on the opposite side, and decided to use a Poké Ball to resolve the battle.

"So I'll have two elves...what the hell?"

After choosing to use the elf ball to capture, Yin Jing looked at the two options in front of him and fell into confusion.

[Manual Capture] and [Auto Capture]

After struggling for a moment, Yin Jing decided to use manual capture to test the water first.

The moment he made his choice, the entire screen zoomed in instantly.

The scene turned into lush grass, and Rattata kept hiding in the grass.

The mouse that was originally responsible for selection also turned into a red and white elf ball with a parabola.

"How to catch this!"

The Rattata can dodge very quickly. Often when Yin Jing is about to throw the ball, the Rattata has already jumped into another bush.

But soon, Yin Jing discovered the trick.

When Rattata is about to hide in another bush, the grass where it is located will first make a rustling sound, accompanied by violent shaking.

In about three seconds, Rattata will leap out of thin air and jump into another bush.

"Isn't this simple?"

After figuring out the routine, Yin Jing immediately held his breath and concentrated, looking at the right moment, he threw an elf ball directly.

Then...he just happened to avoid Rattata.

"I'm sorry, can this be free?"

Yin Jing was very dissatisfied, but in the next second, Ratada, who had just escaped capture, pounced on him.

Even through the computer screen, Yin Jing was shocked.

At this critical moment, Bulbasaur suddenly jumped out from the side and took the attack for Yin Jing.

"Frog Seeds!"

Seeing this scene, Yin Jing couldn't help shouting.

But the next second, he shut his mouth tightly and looked around cautiously.

When it was confirmed that there was no one in the exclusive office, Yin Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

"What happened to me just now? Stay calm."

"But for those Bulbasaur who dare to bully me, give it to me, Bulbasaur Crash!"

Bulbasaur paused on the spot, and then his petite body rushed out at a fast speed.

He knocked Little Ratta to the ground hard.

Rattata screamed and his blood volume dropped by half.

"Yes!"

"Keep up the good work, Bulbasaur, keep hitting!"

With the final impact of Bulbasaur, Ratatata let out a painful cry and fell to the ground.

A light-hearted sound of victory sounded.

Yin Jing smiled proudly: "That's all."

After solving Rattata, Yin Jing embarked on an adventurous journey again.

On the way, he discovered many bright spots in this game.

The first is capture. Capture has nothing to do with the level of the wild elf, but is related to the percentage of the current blood volume.

The lower the health percentage, the higher the chance of capture.

If the enemy is affected by various abnormal conditions at this time, the success rate of capture will be higher.

However, manual capture is not affected by this effect.

Manual capture will only be affected by the accuracy and timing of the Poké Ball. If you can directly hit the head of a wild Pokémon when it first comes out, the chance of capturing it will be greatly increased.

However, as the number of rounds that wild Pokémon dodge increases, the capture rate will decrease over time.

At this time, even if you hit the head, the success rate may not be as high as hitting the body in the first round.

Yin Jing is heading towards the Rock Gym.

Suddenly, a trainer appeared on the roadside and stopped him.

The trainer looked nothing more than a child, holding a net in his hand as if he was catching an elf just now.

Just when he was confused, he saw the trainer holding up the elf ball in his hand and shouting: "Are you a trainer too? Please have a battle with me."

Then, regardless of whether Yin Jing agreed or not, he was forced to get closer to the battle.

But what makes Yin Jing dumbfounded is that.

The insect-catching boy has only one green caterpillar in his hand that can spin silk and cause some trouble for himself.

The rest turned out to be all armored pupae, which had no effect other than hardening.

After defeating the bug catcher, Yin Jing suddenly found another prompt popped up in front of him.

[Do you want to upload the archive? 】

Yin Jing: "???"

But immediately, Yin Jing figured it out.

During the adventure, the protagonist will meet many passerby trainers.

After players defeat the passerby trainer, they can upload their name and elf to act as a passerby NPC.

Of course, the level of the elf will be the same as the original level.

This prevents some old trainers from going to the main gym, but instead leveling up like crazy on the road, leaving Pokémon with dozens of levels for the players behind them.

Discouraged.

Moreover, Yin Jing also discovered that when uploading a save file, he could not only choose which Pokémon to upload, but also give the Pokémon additional props.

In this way, during battle, when the Pokémon's health drops below a certain level, props will be selected to restore health.

But when other players defeat your mirror.

Not only can it take your place, but it can also take away the items you left behind.

Of course, in order to avoid some players taking advantage of this mechanism to copy powerful props together.

Therefore, only props that can be purchased in the store can be uploaded. Mission props or dialogue props cannot be carried.

In this way, although "Pokemon" is a single-player game, it greatly increases the linkage between players in this way.

After reading it, Yin Jing immediately said: "Stay, you must stay."

"Not only do I want to stay, I also want to give a big gift to my descendants."

"Just keep one bottle of the healing potion and upload the rest."

"Hey hey hey..."

After a dark laugh, Yin Jing embarked on an adventurous journey again.

……

Fumei Technology Headquarters.

Chen Yaohui sat in front of the computer, constantly refreshing the screen.

Today is the first day the game is online.

Logically speaking, the first-day data cannot reflect the prospects of a game at all.But after all, this is the first time that Fumei Technology has gathered all its game IPs just to promote this one game.

Chen Yaohui still values ​​​​it very much.

He looked at the data in front of him and was amazed:

"Let me go, the data of "Pokemon" are too exaggerated."

"How exaggerated can it be?" Ling Jingwen dismissed it, "This style of painting is only liked by some children and girls."

"Who's a serious adult who likes Pokémon?"

At this time, Li Qishan, who was holding posters of Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and Charmander, stood at the door with an innocent look on his face.

"Who did I provoke whom?"

"Don't worry." Ling Jingwen stepped forward and patted Li Qishan on the shoulder, "You are not an adult."

"Oh no, you are not a serious adult."

Li Qishan: "..."

If you keep saying that, I'm going to beat you up!

After saying that, Ling Jingwen turned and looked at the screen.

He didn't look at it, but when he saw Ling Jingwen, he was immediately shocked: "No, it's only been a long time, and this is the first place!"

Everyone also came over.

In just three hours, "Pokemon" topped the new game list, the best-selling list, and the casual game list.

And every moment, countless players are posting, asking if this game is fun.

Faced with this kind of post, the following replies are all "Get started quickly." '

What's more, he even expressed his opinion that it would be best to buy both editions.

At this time, Liu Wei happened to come from outside the door.

The moment she saw Liu Wei, Ling Jingwen waved directly: "Junior, "Pokemon" won first place."

Liu Wei's face was dull and he said without raising his eyelids:
"Oh."

His tone was calm, as if he had anticipated this situation.

Then he went to do his own thing.

Seeing this situation, everyone could only look at each other helplessly:
"Junior is indeed the same as always, no matter what."

'The boss is the boss. Look, he always looks calm. This is worth learning for a lifetime. '

Seeing Liu Weiyuan's back, everyone felt emotional.

I still need to work harder to be as calm and composed as a boss.

……

Back in the office, Liu Wei turned on his computer and checked the background data.

"Pokemon" was online for three hours and sold [-] copies, of which Ruby accounted for [-] copies, while Emerald only accounted for [-] copies.

Of these [-] copies, as many as [-] were purchased again by people who bought rubies.

"It seems that Chinese people are really not interested in the word green."

“If this trend continues, the sales volume of “Pokemon” is very likely to exceed [-] million.”

The sales volume exceeding [-] million that Liu Wei mentioned refers to the total sales volume of his works.

But even so, now that PC games are lagging behind, it is still a legend that can be recorded in history.

Liu Wei browsed the comment area for a while and found that everyone in the comment area was very friendly and their words were very gentle.

It's completely different from any previous game where some people brag and others criticize it.

It's certainly not the case that "Pokemon" is good enough without a single black mark.

Instead, all the slanderous comments were voluntarily 'stepped down' by the players.

The entire comment section was surprisingly peaceful and unified.

It’s as if Pokemon is the last pure area in the gaming world that cannot be tainted by anyone.

But it's not like no one has questions.

Many newcomers have just entered the game and are not familiar with how to play it. They often post some questions asking:
"Screenshot, why was I beaten to death by the opponent? My level is much higher than him."

"Screenshot, me too. When I hit the opponent, I lost a trace of blood, but when the opponent hit me, I was immediately disabled."

"Is there a bug in the game? The same skill can hit most of the blood one second, but it can only hit a trace the next second."

"This has happened to me too. I don't know why. I hope the official can give me an explanation."

"Hey, I really like this game, but until now I can't get past the Rock Gym. I can't beat it every time. I don't know why."

Everyone in the comment area hopes that this game will get better, but they also hope that the official can give them a guide to help them get through the difficult early stage.

However, someone soon posted:

"Official outcome? Stop dreaming and see clearly who thinks this game is, Fumei Technology!

Who knows the boss of Fumei Technology?

Liu Wei, the well-known torture king in the gaming industry, once tortured all novice players to death with his game "Guigu Bahuang", and everyone collectively protested with refunds and did not let him release a guide."

"That's right, Liu Wei didn't release a strategy at all in the game. No, the time he released the strategy was disgusting. He only released a perfect strategy after most of the levels had been cleared, forcing us to play another round."

"Stop dreaming. After half a month or a month, the popularity of "Pokemon" begins to subside. Liu Wei will definitely take the initiative to provide us with strategies, laugh, jpg."

"Upstairs, you understand traffic, and you also understand Liu Wei."

Countless people on the Internet believe that it is impossible for Liu Wei to release a guide.

It is even more impossible to release a guide on the first day.

But something unexpected happened. Under the official post of "Pokemon", a brand new post was posted:

"At eight o'clock tonight, Liu Wei will be waiting for you in the live broadcast room to answer your questions in person, so look forward to it."

As soon as this post came out, countless people were shocked.

Especially the designers were confused.

Should not be ah.

Liu Wei doesn't seem like such a talkative person, and he answered it on the first day. Isn't this consuming the life of this game in advance?
But no matter what they think, Liu Wei can't come up with an answer.

We can only wait until eight o'clock in the evening to see the outcome.

By 55:[-]pm.

The live broadcast room was still dark, but countless players had already arrived at the live broadcast room in advance.

Open the door. I know you are in front of the camera. If you have the ability to post, just open the door. '

'Sad, lost, doubtful, sad...'

Amidst this overwhelming barrage, the live broadcast room finally opened.

When Liu Wei's face appeared in front of the screen for a moment, all the previous barrages disappeared.

Instead it was 'so handsome, so loving'

'Dad look at me'

'Liu Wei is a thief, take my sword. '

'If you don't update "Guigu Bahuang", I will drag you to the pigsty in the village, a hundred times, a hundred times. '

Seeing such a warm welcome to him, Liu Wei waved towards the camera and smiled slightly.

Then he skillfully banned several 'hundred times' and 'dog thief' accounts for 24 hours.

After solving the problem, Liu Wei adjusted the camera.

"If you have anything you want to ask, feel free to ask. I will definitely know everything and answer all your questions."

Because it is a new game, many players came up and asked the questions they were most concerned about:
"I just started using it, so I asked why the same skill is sometimes very effective, but sometimes has little effect. I have obviously upgraded it, so why does the power become weaker?"

Liu Wei smiled flatly and replied:

"Thank you for the invitation. I just passed the rock on the adventure. This game has attributes divided into races. There is a restraint relationship between different attributes. When you restrain the enemy, it will cause a lot of damage, and vice versa."

"Of course, the attributes in this game are very simple, that is, fire, water, grass, evil, ghost, ground, normal, super, dragon, flying, electricity... just dozens of them."

"These attributes are mutually restrained. In fact, everyone just needs to remember to memorize them."

(End of this chapter)