The Creator of the Second Dimension

"Open world?"

Li Zhen asked back.

He certainly knows open world games, which are currently the most popular among game development companies.

This type of game usually has a foreign world view. By designing a continent to allow players to explore in it, designers use rich details and game interaction to make players feel as if they experience a real world.

Of course, this is just a game idea.

In the previous era of SN2 and SN3, due to the limitation of host skills, it was difficult to achieve an open world. The more famous ones, such as Suo Ren Huyu’s own "Warrior Code" series, designed the open world from the third generation, but only achieved one. The city has exhausted all its functions, and there are a lot of tasks and interactions that are actually copied and pasted and completely templated.

For example, the most common task in the game is to tell the player that there is a gangster in a certain place, and the player needs to clear it. When the player arrives, there will be a battle. The battle is over and the task is completed. This thing, to put it simply, plays like a stand-alone MMORPG.

Of course, each game of "Warrior Code" will choose a brand new area, which perfectly replicates the local landscape. The scenery is very good, so it is also called a travel simulator by players.

In addition, the several open world games of the Cup Noodle Game also have their own characteristics, but these works are not satisfactory due to the design scale and function, and the open world content is mostly repetitive and monotonous.

Li Zhen is a game developer, of course, is also a player. He dreams of an open world game that can truly immerse people in the experience and "live" in it. This is not something that mechanically repeated open world content can satisfy of.

Of course, as a developer, Li Zhen also knows how difficult it is to truly open the world.

When making "The Last Survivor", the entire city designed by Xu Rui actually had some elements of an open world, which made Li Zhen refreshing. Players can explore freely in a certain area. Some game interactions also make Li Zhen feel very novel.

But after all, this game is an online game, with limited freedom, and more importantly, the performance and immersion. Li Zhen knows that this is far from the true open world.

Now, Xu Rui's question to Li Zhen is obvious. Of course, he does not think that Li Zhen does not understand what an open world game is, but tells Li Zhen that Hatsune Games is going to develop an open world game.

"Open world games are not something that can be made casually, they need a certain amount of accumulation."

Li Zhen said, looking at the computer screen of the employee in front of him.

"To be honest, the team I brought has also participated in the development of "Warrior Code", but the problems encountered in the actual development process are much bigger than expected. A standard open world game requires too many resources. And the final result is not satisfactory. After all, you will never think of what means players will use to play the game."

He then gave a simple interactive example. In the latest work of "Warrior Code", the production team added the option of stealing, so that you can steal things from NPCs. In the past, completing a task usually kills the enemy. Picking up corpses now has an additional option to steal quest items. If the stealing is successful, the fight can be avoided.

This is a gameplay inherited from the tabletop adventure game. After the game was launched, it was well received. Some people were addicted to stealing and couldn't extricate themselves. They even asked Suo Ren Huyu to post on Weibo. I hope that the game belongs to the game, not in life. imitate.

But after a while, some people came up with ideas, since they can steal, why can’t they rob, or use words to persuade them, or even devise an accident that caused the owner to die and then get them again. Someone suggested that if it’s the opposite sex, can it be used? Obtained in some indescribable way.

The player’s brain is very good, but this will lead to excessive complexity of the game, especially in large open world games, if one NPC designs such a complicated mechanism, then hundreds of thousands of NPCs will cause the game capacity to be too large and easy BUG, the development time is extremely long.

After listening to Li Zhen's words, Xu Rui nodded thoughtfully, and then said.

"In that case, why do we design this NPC?"

"what?"

Li Zhen was stunned, did not understand Xu Rui's meaning.

"I think we are stuck in a mindset, that is why the open world must be completed by the interaction between people."

Xu Rui didn't care, and continued to explain.

"Most of the past open world games were disputes with people and monsters. Players explored the world to better kill monsters. They were driven by battle, or they just wanted to advance the plot and understand the ending of the story. This was driven by the plot. , This kind of gameplay has caused our designers to pay too much attention to the existence in the world."

His words made Li Zhen fall into thinking. On the one hand, the current open world games do have such problems. On the other hand, Li Zhen is also thinking that if there is no such thing as an upgrade, there is no exciting plot, then the open world should be How to do it.

"Mr. Xu, I don't understand what you mean."

Li Zhen thought for a long time, and finally raised the white flag. He really couldn't think of Xu Rui's rejection of the battle and plot promotion. What effective method could be used to keep the player's desire to explore the game world.

"Curiosity, Lao Li, one of the most primitive human emotions is curiosity. I want to use curiosity to guide players to explore the entire open world."

"curiosity?"

Li Zhen tastes the word. Years of game development experience seems to have given him a little bit of Xu Rui's ideas, but he is not so sure.

"For example, well, a strangely shaped stone appeared in front of you, what would you do?"

Xu Rui pointed to the desktop, which was actually a staff phone, but Li Zhen understood what Xu Rui meant.

"Well, I should pick it up and take a look."

He replied.

"At this time, you find that this stone is particularly light, it seems to be hollow."

Xu Rui led again.

"Then I might try to toss it, or toss it on the ground, to see if it bounces."

"You throw a rock~www.NovelMTL.com~ and find that it can be thrown very high. After throwing it on the ground, it will bounce up suddenly, like a ping-pong ball. At this time, two organs appeared in front of you, respectively. Control the two doors. You can move on only by opening the two doors. They are located in different positions and seem to be triggered by throwing a stone, but one stone obviously cannot trigger two organs at the same time. What would you do?"

"Of course this is using the elastic force of the stone just now to trigger two organs at the same time."

Li Zhen replied, suddenly, he felt something.

If it is exactly what Xu Rui said, then he can actually stand in front of an organ and use an ordinary stone to trigger another organ, but because he has picked up a strange stone, he has a different decryption method.

"Of course this is just an immature idea, but in the process just now, you have obviously begun to think and have concluded at least two ways to solve the puzzle."

Xu Rui said, looking at the mobile phone in front.

"It's all because of your curiosity. You picked up a stone and discovered its special feature."