Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 53 The Plagiarist Appears

Experience the store.

Liu Wei is playing "Red Alert" without any worries.

But unlike before, no one in the experience store was willing to fight Liu Wei this time.

The main reason is that Liu Wei's style of play is too rogue and abnormal, and ordinary people can't stand this kind of torture.

So Liu Wei started an Internet battle.

I casually typed the name of the room, "The strongest invincible defense in history, just come here" and started hanging.

Once someone gets in and starts the game, Liu Wei starts to show off his real skills.

After a while, Chen Yaohui couldn't help but asked when he saw the laughter and laughter on the other side.
"Boss, I've been watching you play battles all day long, why don't you start a ladder mode qualifying match or something?"

Liu Wei said: "No need, "Red Alert" is a game mainly for leisure and entertainment, and qualifying will actually shorten the life of this game."

"Oh~" Chen Yaohui nodded as if he understood.

Liu Wei is very clear that "Red Alert" is an absolutely unbalanced rts game.

Other RTS games also need to update their versions from time to time to ensure that each race and unit is balanced with each other.

But "Red Alert" is different. This is a standard unbalanced game. Once the qualifying mode is turned on, the best lineup will easily appear.

At that point, the overall game experience will be very poor, so it is better to maintain this situation.

In this way, when players are tired from work during the day, they can open a game of "Red Alert" when they get home at night to relax.

Seeing that Chen Yaohui stopped asking, Liu Wei continued to lie comfortably on the chair, waiting for the next challenger to arrive.

But at this moment, a loud and noisy sound sounded.

Ling Jingwen rushed to Liu Wei angrily, with a hint of sullenness on her face, and slammed the table hard: "It's so irritating, it's so irritating."

Liu Wei glanced at Ling Jingwen.

Her hair was messy and she didn't put on any makeup. She just put on a coat and had a pair of bunny slippers on her feet.

Very wisely, he didn't say anything... Experience told him that if a woman is so angry that she doesn't even put on makeup, it means that the matter is really serious.

Chen Yaohui turned into a vanguard: "What happened?"

"Someone is plagiarizing, see for yourselves!" Ling Jingwen threw her phone in front of everyone.

"Plagiarism dog!" Chen Yaohui picked up his phone angrily.

As a student majoring in game design, everyone is more concerned about plagiarism than the entertainment industry.

Even the entertainment industry has enough means to resist plagiarism, but the gaming industry does not.

Song plagiarism, movie plagiarism, and literary plagiarism are all easy to determine, but plagiarism in the gaming industry is very troublesome.

Because plagiarizing gameplay is not plagiarism.

In other words, if your game is particularly popular, then others only need to copy your game from beginning to end.

If you write the source code yourself, find the artists yourself, and arrange the music yourself, then this does not constitute plagiarism at all.

Therefore, the game industry generally uses verbal abuse rather than actual actions against plagiarism targets.

Compared to Chen Yaohui and Ling Jingwen who were very angry, Liu Wei's expression was much calmer.

"Just copy it. Anyway, "Red Alert" cannot be surpassed."

As a game planner in his previous life, he had seen too many famous scenes like this and was already used to it.

Moreover, there is really nothing to copy from RTS games like "Red Alert".

The gameplay is simple, the plot is good, and the balance repeatedly jumps between fairness and unfairness.

What idiotic manufacturer would want to plagiarize such a game?

Even if you spend a lot of money, you might get a bad reputation.

The biggest possibility is that someone saw the popularity of "Red Alert" and randomly copied a gimmick name, but in fact it was just like a card drawing game. "Um, boss, in fact, the one they copied was not "Red Alert", but another game of yours." Chen Yaohui said with a strange look on his face.

"Another game?" Liu Wei was puzzled.

I have another game worth copying?

Didn’t I release all the developer rights to “Magic Tower”? What’s so good about copying it?

Chen Yaohui pushed the phone over: "Anyway, you will understand after you take a look."

Liu Wei picked up the phone and looked at it. His face suddenly became weird, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

[Fujii Technology's new masterpiece "Dungeon Adventure" will be officially developed and downloaded on October [-]st. It has a new oriental fantasy style, unique skills and four professional characteristics...]

"This... is copied from "Dungeon Rush"?"

Although it was unbelievable, the fact still gave Liu Wei a big mouth.

He never dreamed that someone would copy "Dungeon Rush" and it was produced by Fujii Technology.

The main reason is that a long time has passed since "Dungeon Rush" and no one has copied it during this time. Liu Wei almost forgot about this game.

Now Fujii has picked up this game.

Liu Wei checked it carefully and found that it was more of a reference than plagiarism.

The first is the game designer, a B-level designer named Qian Musi.

Liu Wei took another look at his professional experience.

I have been working in the game industry for more than 30 years, and the games I have designed... well, they are basically the "over-borrowed" games produced by Fujii Technology in the early years.

Good guy, and a repeat offender.

But in terms of game content, Fujii Technology has obviously made major changes.

The world background map has been expanded, with two game layouts, more than a dozen regions, hundreds of monsters, and dozens of NPCs.

Not to mention the four featured professions.

The 'Swordsman' who uses Eastern swordsmanship, the 'Magician' who masters the mysterious power of the West, the 'Knight of Faith' who uses the power of faith, and the 'Magic Gunner' who perfectly integrates technology and magic.

Each featured profession has three job-changing professions to choose from.

The "Demon Swordsman", "Mad Swordsman" and "Divine Swordsman" corresponding to the swordsman respectively correspond to Devil May Cry, Berserker, and Soul Sword in "Dungeon Rush".

Other professions are similar.

Basically, "Dungeon Rush" has it, and "Dungeon Adventure" has it, and it's obvious that the other side has made improvements.

Many new game skills and mechanics have been added.

For example, in the profession of 'Magician', Liu Wei does not show many skills in "Dungeon Rush".

That is, fireballs, ice shields, landslides, and hundreds of dragons and meteor strikes, but Qian Musi was able to design more than a dozen additional skills on his own.

On a certain level...this man can be considered a genius.

"Junior, what do you think?" Ling Jingwen's chest bulged with anger, changing from fried quail eggs to fried native eggs.

Great success!

Chen Yaohui looked embarrassed: "I think we should just bear it and let it go. The main reason is that there is no way to accuse others of plagiarism."

"Shut up, I didn't ask you!" Ling Jingwen shouted and looked at Liu Wei with questioning eyes.

Chen Yaohui ran to the side with a grimace and drew circles.

They are all juniors, so why should I be called 'that so and so' and 'Xiao Chen' and the boss is the 'junior'.

Is it just because he is the boss who pays you your salary?

(End of this chapter)