Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 2 Campus Game Contest
After making the decision, Liu Wei finished the green pepper and pork rice in two mouthfuls, quickly got out of bed and sat in front of the computer. He was going to make a game to test the waters first.

Turning on the computer and looking at the dazzling array of game icons on the screen, Liu Wei was obviously stunned.

"Tail x", "Sakura Hime", "Train x Wolf", "Pink Hospital"...

Is Sao Nian so energetic?

Liu Wei lowered his head and glanced at the toilet paper on the floor, feeling a dull pain in his heart.

If you overdraw your treasury balance in advance, you won't be able to pretend to be a good guy when you are old.

The most important thing is that my coffers are overdrawn now!

Liu Wei was very angry. Without hesitation, he dragged the mouse and put all the weird game icons on the screen into the recycle bin.

I, Liu Wei, hate this kind of game the most!

According to his memory, Liu Wei opened an icon that looked like a compass on his computer.

This is the domestic central platform - Luopan Platform.

Two different central platforms are used at home and abroad. The domestic game industry develops slowly, coupled with the region lock policy.

The Luopan platform is more suitable for PC and mobile game designers.

For more advanced games such as VR and AR, everyone unanimously uses overseas steam platforms by default.

"But it doesn't matter. What I want to do is a mobile game anyway, and the Compass platform is just right."

"But I have no money now, so I can only find some free materials to build the game."

"Let me look for it, there it is!"

Liu Wei snapped his fingers and immediately started searching in the material library.

Luopan platform is not only a game design center, but also a collection station of various material resources.

There are custom-made original paintings by painters that cost tens of thousands of dollars, and there are also cute original paintings that are free to use and just want to be famous.

There are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of game templates, as well as some extremely rough free content.

"Pond texture, no dynamic effects, no interaction, but free."

"Physical judgment engine, hiss, this is too old. The judgment range is so wide? Are you sure this is not an antique of the Famicom?"

"Free...that's good, just pretend I didn't say that."

"As for the original paintings, just find some practice works by interns. Whether they look good or not, it doesn't cost any money."

"I always feel like there's still something missing..."

Liu Wei slapped his thigh suddenly, he understood, he was missing an achievement illustration.

“After achieving it, a prompt will pop up, that’s it!”

After downloading all the resources, Liu Wei smiled knowingly and started to put them together.

What he wants to produce is "Summon the Dragon", which was popular in China for a while in his previous life.

This game can be called a mudslide in the gaming world. There is no plot, art, sound effects, or numerical values!
There is only one goal in this game, which is to summon the dragon.

But even this seemingly simple goal is extremely difficult due to the messy feel of this game.

Let countless players love and hate it, and the sky is angry.

Even Liu Wei, the operational planner, roared for half an hour before he could pass the level, and even came up with the idea of ​​communicating with the other party offline.

"Wait a minute, if the game is too difficult, players will probably uninstall it after playing for a while." Liu Wei suddenly stroked his chin and thought.

So, he decided to add some new mechanisms.

The whole game is divided into tadpoles, frogs, turtles, carps, goldfish, electric eels, great white sharks, whales, green dragons, and divine dragons.

The gameplay of the game is to control the character to eat the same or lower-level creatures and avoid higher-level creatures.

When there are three creatures of the same level, they will automatically evolve into creatures of a higher level.

Liu Wei plans that no high-level creatures will appear before players evolve into goldfish, allowing players to experience the fun of evolution.

When the player evolves into a goldfish, a large number of high-level creatures will immediately appear in the pond, and the player needs to control the character to avoid them.

If you're not careful, you'll have to do it all over again.

Not only that, usually for games like this that devour evolution, designers will add a zoom function.

When the controlled character evolves, it will expand to a larger map, allowing players to have sufficient vision, but this feature requires money.

Liu Wei gave up without hesitation.

If the player has no vision, he has no vision. Anyway, his purpose is to absorb the player's emotions. The smaller the vision, the easier it is to make the player angry.After finishing it, Liu Wei thought about it and sent the game to the 'Campus Outstanding Games' competition platform.

"Summon the Dragon" is not a qualified game. In its previous life, it became popular, and the crazy recommendations of short videos accounted for more than 90% of the credit.

Liu Wei didn't think that in this world, these short video platforms would recommend this game without hesitation.

But participating in the 'Campus Outstanding Game Competition' is different.

This is an internal competition on campus, and there are not many outstanding games. Because "Summon the Dragon" is too small, it is likely that some players will click on it.

Secondly, the gameplay of this game can easily make players collapse, and it quickly spreads among classmates.

Of course, the most important thing is that he will not reveal his identity.

In this 'Campus Outstanding Game Contest', only the winner's work will reveal the identity of the designer.

Liu Wei doesn't think that such a garbage game that requires gameplay but no gameplay, plot but no story, and core but no core will win the championship.

And the students will not vote for this game at all.

What's more, in this kind of event, the champion is basically determined by default, so there is no need to worry at all.

It doesn't have to reveal its identity, and it can absorb a lot of emotional value. It's a perfect plan.

Thinking of this, Liu Wei laughed with satisfaction.

Do you know what Wolong is alive?
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Three days later, multimedia classroom.

March in the Imperial Capital was extremely dry and cold, and several vertical air conditioners made a buzzing sound, continuously distributing heat.

The stagnant space and stuffy air are filled with all kinds of strange smells, making stomach juices churn.

"Weier, the school is really disrespectful. If you don't come to participate, you will be deducted credits."

After punching in, Liu and Wei casually found a seat in the back row and sat down, and Zhao Hao began to mutter.

"I really want to graduate early. When the time comes, the sky will be high for my brother to fly, and the sea will be wide for my brother to jump."

Looking at Zhao Hao, who dreamed of flying freely after graduation and realizing his ideals in life, Liu Wei curled his lips and said nothing.

Little Haozi, your luck is yet to come.

As time passed by, the multimedia classroom gradually filled up, and three teachers also entered the room.

These three people are the judges of this competition.

The first judge is a middle-aged woman with curly hair, short and fat, with a kind smile on her face.

An Qingfen, responsible for the game music courses for everyone, is a B-level designer.

Followed closely was Li Yangde, an old professor in his 60s, wearing a formal suit, with a serious and serious expression, and an unsmiling expression.

Responsible for everyone's numerical-related courses, he is also a B-level designer.

The last person to enter was a man in his 40s wearing a navy blue sweater, gold-rimmed glasses, and holding a transparent thermos cup filled with wolfberries.

Zeng Jianye, a B-level designer, is responsible for everyone’s plot-related courses.

Although they are all B-level designers, the status of the three of them is also different.

An Qingfen has the lowest status because domestic games do not pay much attention to music.

But she is a friendly person and does not strive for fame or fortune. Although she is a running companion in various professional title selections, she is also respected by everyone.

Zeng Jianye became a B-level designer in his 40s, and his status is self-evident.

As for Li Yangde, although he is the most sought-after numerical planner in the country, he got there entirely through his qualifications, and he always teaches others in school with the face of an experienced person.

"Shall we start?" After the three of them sat down, An Qingfen, who always acted as a good old man, was the first to ask.

Cao Jianye, who was sitting in the middle, nodded silently, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip.

"Ahem, let's start." Li Yangde coughed twice and raised his head towards the host, indicating that the activity could begin.

Wearing light makeup and standard host attire, the host exposed two snow-white legs and took a deep breath.

Walking up to the stage, he showed a sweet and helpless smile:

"Welcome everyone to participate in the No. 13 'Campus Outstanding Game Competition'. This competition is based on the principle of fairness, openness and justice..."

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Please collect it, recommend it, and read it! ! ! !

The cute new author is rolling on the spot, begging to read, don’t raise him, the cute new author will become a eunuch if you keep him!
(End of this chapter)