Game Design: Is it possible? CaiGou

Chapter 2 Hardcore Entry: Is it OK? Vegetable dog!

[Emotional value x10000]

[S-level entry hard core x1]

"Oh? S-level entry?"

Cai Gou smiled and said: "The novice protection period, right? It's interesting!"

[entry: hardcore]

[Level: S level]

[Note: Is this okay? Vegetable dog! 】

After obtaining the hard-core entries, Cai Gou learned that the entry levels were divided into five levels: S, A, B, C, and D.

The higher the entry level, the higher the number and quality of games covered.

Cai Gou received a top-level S-level entry in the novice gift package, which was obviously the European Emperor's start.

In addition, Cai Gou, who was a senior game designer in his previous life, is naturally no stranger to hardcore games.

Hardcore games usually refer to games that have a certain difficulty threshold in their gameplay and require players to have a certain level of operation.

Because it is difficult to get started or the style setting is too unique, the audience for this type of game is often relatively small.

However, there is a threshold. Just because games are niche does not mean that there is no market for hard-core games.

On the contrary, the player stickiness of this type of game is much stronger than that of other games.

Cai Gou entered the hardcore entry game store.

[Hypoxia] [Famine] [Cuphead] [Civilization VI] [Monster Hunter] [EVE Online] [Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice]...

Looking at the dazzling array of games, Cai Gou trembled with excitement.

He knew that as long as he had enough emotional value, he could make these games comparable to the ninth art have a second life in this parallel world.

Unfortunately……

The cash-strapped Cai Gou couldn't afford the price, which easily cost hundreds of thousands or millions of sentimental values, so he could only choose to view the prices from low to high.

"Um!"

After a while, Cai Gou's eyes lit up.

[Game name: i wanna be the guy (I want to be a man)]

[Price: Emotional value x10000]

I Want to Be a Man is a relatively difficult stand-alone game.

This game makes most beginner players feel numb when playing it. Generally speaking, it is impossible to pass the level without dying thousands of times.

In the game, players will experience the process that a young, ignorant child goes through in pursuit of his ideal role.

The unpredictable and perfect plot is just part of this infinite creativity, and the frustrating jumping and shooting challenges will make players respect the protagonist child.

The game I Want to Be a Man can be summed up in one word - hard!

It is known as the keyboard terminator, hypotension savior, and good news for those with handicapped hands!

During the period when gaming was popular, many anchors were able to successfully break through their defenses!

Cai Gou spent all his emotional points to buy the game, leaving nothing behind.

[Name: Cai Gou]

[Personal level: Level 1 (1/2)]

[Level 2 Unlocked: Universal Engine]

[Emotion value: 0]

[Entry: Hardcore (S)]

Thanks to the booming development of the game industry in this world and the influence of supply and demand, many game production websites have emerged.

The most famous of these is an official website called Game Paradise.

The Game Paradise website provides countless free and paid game production materials, and many game practitioners are active on it.

From creative planning, art design, UI production, to modeling and rendering, and engine provision, it can be said that there is nothing this website can't do except what you can't think of!

Cai Gou sat in front of the computer, with the source code structure of "I Want to Be a Man" in his mind, and started making character models and maps with the help of free materials from Game Paradise.

The character model and map design of I Want to Be a Man are not complicated. What is complicated is the trap design of the levels.

Counter common sense!

Abnormal!

Unconventional!

During the game, there are unexpected and reasonable traps that make players get involved and unable to stop.

But I want to be the original version for men. The first level is too easy.

In order to highlight the hard-core quality!

Cai Gou chose the first level of the spin-off work "i wanna be a man" [i wanna Diverse Traps (I want all kinds of traps)] to replace the original version.

Increase the difficulty of the game I want to be a man!

The size of the game is not large.

In less than three days, Cai Gou completed the game.

Just before the registration deadline for the College Student Game Festival.

Cai Gou directly opened the College Student Game Festival activity area on the Steam platform and chose to re-register as an individual.

In the developer name column, Cai Gou chose [General Tiangong] as his name almost without thinking.

After all, Cai Gou, who holds the game entry system, just wants to say one thing to all the players in this world——

"The sky is dead, Huang Tian must stand!"

After registration is completed.

Cai Gou uploaded the game to the platform client.

Facing the developer message interface that popped up later, Cai Gou thought for a moment and then typed——

【Okay ah? Vegetable dog? ! 】

…

Nine p.m.

Douyu live broadcast platform, Da Sima live broadcast room.

"Thank you to Lao Ma for the flight of Cumin and Wuxiangpi Swallows, thank you to Cumin and Wuxiangpi Swallows!"

“Thanks for the flight that made me malnourished due to constipation!”

"Thank you, Lao Ma, for coming and eating on the plane. Thank you for coming and eating..."

Da Sima thanked a wave of water friends for their gifts as usual, but the name was so outrageous that the water friends still laughed.

The barrage was also scrolling crazily all the time.

"Hanting, I'll put the black cutter in the usual place. My ex-girlfriend will patrol the square. I'll leave it to her to be the police dog!"

"Hanting, what I sent is a wall calendar!"

"Teacher Ma, look at my position as assistant animal?"

"Upstairs, how many times have I told you to weigh plants while working!"

As a veteran top streamer in the game area, Da Sima has officially entered the system recently, and the popularity of the live broadcast room has remained high.

"Young men, what game do you want to watch me play live next?"

Da Sima picked up the porcelain vat and suddenly thought of something and asked:

"Hey, today is the College Student Game Festival, the first day of the official competition, right?"

"How about we play games made by these new college students?"

Friends in the live broadcast room posted barrages one after another——

"Two years ago, he was Little Sima, and he called me Big Boss. A year ago, he was Big Sima, and he called me Little Boss. Now, he is Han Hall, and he calls me Little Young Man..."

"As we all know, if college life is good, the games produced will definitely have live broadcast effects. I am the first to agree!"

"Although the games at the College Student Game Festival are very effective as live broadcasts, where is Xin Zhao on the opposite side?"

"Da Sima, the most romantic thing I can think of is to slowly change with you!"

""Korean Hall recently issued important instructions on the activities of the College Student Game Festival"

Although the barrage still doesn't hit 46.

However, facing the annual College Student Game Festival, water friends still wanted to see what kind of abstract gaming experience this group of newcomers would bring to Da Sima, and they all agreed.

Seeing this, Da Sima put down the porcelain vat and entered the College Student Game Festival activity area on the steam platform. He checked the games according to their release time. The first one was -

"I want to be a man"

Da Sima smiled and said: "I want to be a man?"

"This name is kind of interesting!"

Da Sima clicks to enter the game details page.

[Game name: i wanna be the guy (I want to be a man)]

[Developer: General Tiangong]

[Type: Standalone·Hardcore·Breakthrough]

[Price: 3 yuan (uniform pricing for entries in the College Student Game Festival)]

[Message from the developer: Is that okay, bastard? ! 】

Seeing this, Da Sima smiled and said:

"Hey! Little brother! You are so arrogant!"

"That's right!"