Game Development: I Built a Game Empire

Looking at the busy people who returned to their respective workstations after the meeting, Chen Xu also showed a smile, and then began to write a concept draft of "Minecraft".

"Minecraft" can be said to be a very iconic and phenomenal game in the previous life.

Especially since it's also an indie game.

In terms of commercial popularity, "Minecraft" has reached nearly 200 million global sales in ten years, second only to "Tetris" with 500 million sales.

And Tetris itself is a game from the eighties of the last century.

At the time, the competition was also different from Minecraft.

After all, when "Minecraft" was launched, there was no shortage of other triple-A masterpieces on the market.

So if you want to talk about games after the millennium, then "Minecraft" can be called the world's No. 1 sales.

This also has to do with the unique gameplay properties of Minecraft.

The first is that all platforms, whether it is mobile phones, PCs, or consoles, all have the shadow of "Minecraft".

The second is the unique content of Minecraft.

In Minecraft, the world presented is not flashy graphics and special effects, but focuses on gameplay.

For example, most people should have played with blocks, even if they have not played with blocks, they will have similar thoughts and ideas about wanting to create a world that belongs only to them.

Build with blocks, build with a paintbrush on paper, or build in your mind with your eyes closed.

This is the case with Minecraft, which provides players with such a channel in a very simple way.

Players can create and destroy in-game blocks in the game's three-dimensional space, creating intricate buildings, creations, and artworks.

Of course, if this is the only thing, then "Minecraft" cannot have such a height.

The virtually unlimited mode allows players to create on a variety of multiplayer servers or in their single-player mode, and even has a number of special features, such as redstone circuits for logic operations and telematics, minecarts, and tracks.

In addition to these, players can also go on adventures in the game, enter the dimensions of the Nether and the End, defeat terrifying bosses, and play as an RPG.

But no matter how it is played, Minecraft revolves around one point.

That's creation.

It's not just built like building blocks, but it's also scientifically created, with a redstone circuit gameplay that includes logical operations and remote actions.

It can be said that "Minecraft" is not just a game, and even if you don't have aesthetic design and spatial thinking, you can't even build a beautiful house.

For example, the base of someone else's house is always a luxurious villa.

And your house looks like a prison from the outside.

Then walk in and take a look, it's more like it!

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The development of Minecraft is progressing steadily.

Although it seems to be a small game, and Minecraft was a standalone game in its previous life, this does not mean that Minecraft has little content.

In fact, this game is quite complicated to make.

Especially in Chen Xu's plan.

It will also add some technical content to one of its own versions, which will be released in later versions.

This includes the redstone system, as well as some of the rest of the mod content.

It can be said that the success of "Minecraft" is inseparable from the game's mod in addition to the excellent content of the game itself.

Different materials, terrains, and a density of blocks in the game, as well as an actual art style, and some special terrain that is automatically randomly generated.

Including the generation of the whole world, the division of resources, and the formation of terrain, these are all a set of Luo Qia rules.

In addition, Chen Xu is also considering a part of the production system in the game.

The "Minecraft" of the previous life has been developed for several years, and there are corresponding mods, which are quite perfect.

Chen Xu is also considering adding some excellent MOD content to the game itself.

For example, in the game, players can make more things richer.

This allows players to use the materials in the game to create more things.

For example, the redstone technology in the game, can it be developed with sequence planning?

From the Stone Age to the Steam Age, to the Industrial Age, more things were produced depending on different materials.

Give players the ability to create these contents, so that the game has a complete technological route.

In fact, in the previous life of Minecraft, although an official content of the game itself was not added.

But in fact, there are many similar mods in the servers built by players.

In Minecraft, for example, players use a variety of different materials to build cars and guns.

In the game, these things are dead things, and they don't move at all.

The original vehicle mod was essentially just a skin change for the horse.

But there are many cattle people in the back, and corresponding mods have been developed.

For example, the built car can be moved, and the gun can be fired, which makes the whole game richer.

So it's not a dream to play racing and FPS in Minecraft.

Chen Xu's words are to consider adding these contents to the game itself.

Make it part of the game.

After all, the core point of "Minecraft" is creation.

If the player meets the requirements to build a car, why can't they make it move?

Even if the player meets the requirements for building airplanes and rockets, why can't they be allowed to take their own rockets and planes into the sky?

There have been many similar mods in previous lives.

And from a technical point of view, Chen Xu has carefully studied a functional content of the game editor.

He thinks that these can be added to Minecraft, and with the optimization function of the game editor, there will be no bugs.

As for a performance in the game, it's actually very easy to solve.

It is enough to set the judgment as the core, such as the wheel and the engine.

It looks like a car, but the player only needs to meet the two points of the core.

The engine and the wheels can make the car run.

In addition to this, there are other elements.

However, if you want to do this, you still have to wait for a basic game framework to be made for the time being.

Chen Xu improved the framework of "Minecraft" little by little.