Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 601

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  Module.

   Mods!

   Zhu Yuxing's eyes gradually lit up.

   He found a way to break through.

   That is to promote the production of modules.

   The modding of a game can be said to be a game production method with the lowest threshold.

  Because the basic logic of the game is already very complete, as long as there is enough open source and the game is open enough in terms of customization, players will give game developers countless surprises.

  MOBA games in the form of DOTA, Chenghai 3C, Counter-Strike, and Red Alert are among the most successful mods.

   This kind of open source game is really something that is born for game developers to get started.

   At this moment, the Battle.net platform actually just lacks an open platform for modding.

  With such a platform, everyone has the opportunity to show their own gameplay.

   "Bell."

   "What happened to the president?"

  Bell also noticed Zhu Yuxing's slightly excited expression, and he guessed that Zhu Yuxing might have thought of a way to increase the game quickly.

   He sighed in his heart that he is indeed the **** of games recognized by the industry, and now he has already thought of ways to expand the scale of game production in such a short period of time.

   "I'll tell you a feature, you guys will make it as soon as possible and launch it on the Battle.net platform."

  Bell started recording right away.

"First of all, you should write down all StarCraft, Counter-Strike and Stardew Valley. These games are all open-production games. We have opened a new function to allow people to change the data in the game at will, if they can. If so, we can also make it as convenient as possible for players to modify game values ​​and programs.”

Bell's pen paused for a while, and then looked at Zhu Yuxing in disbelief: "President, doesn't this mean handing over our source code to others? And listen to what you mean, if players modify our source code, they won't Any copyright lawsuits?"

   He couldn't believe what Zhu Yuxing said.

   There was a small-scale game imitation incident in the game industry before.

   However, this incident did not cause too much waves, and was directly shot to death by Zhu Yuxing when there were just signs.

   Later, Youxing Electronic Entertainment began to limit the reading and copying of game programs, and try to avoid players from touching these unnecessary things as much as possible.

At the same time, Youxing Electronic Entertainment also has the strongest legal team in the world. They sue everywhere like crazy every day, but if a guy dares to copy their game, he will send a lawyer's letter first, and then find a way to get the other party. Take the initiative to give up the lawsuit and stop the infringement.

   Up to now, this method has prevented many vicious plagiarism incidents, and has also been defined as some classic cases in the industry.

   But now Zhu Yuxing seems to suddenly plan to change all this, and completely hand over the production and modification rights of some games to outsiders.

   So after this game has undergone some magical changes, isn't it not their game anymore?

   Facing Bell's surprised appearance, Takeyusei just said calmly, "Is there anything wrong?"

   "This...we're afraid we're going to lose control of these games."

"I don't think this is a bad place. We can strictly limit some games, because that is the core of our technical strength, and it is easy not to show it to others, but games such as Half-Life, Stardew Valley, and StarCraft are originally The logic and gameplay of the game can be easily understood by professional game makers, it is not necessary for us to hide it, it is better to open it up and let players toss at will."

   "Let the players toss? How do the players toss?"

  Bell still doesn't quite understand.

   Take Yusei knows that this world has not yet understood the meaning of the so-called module.

The birth of the    module has also greatly lowered the threshold for game development, which will allow various models that are regarded as classics in later generations to be paid attention to by the world.

  Any gamer who is a little creative can easily make his own game with the basic logic in a game.

Then when his niche gameplay is popular, the producers will be more interested in the production of the game, and then they will find ways to study more complex game production methods to make their mods look more complete and complete. .

  Module, this is something unique to the PC platform, which is incomparable to the host platform. If you do not take advantage of this advantage, the PC platform market will always be only so small.

Zhu Youxing smiled and said: "There is a classic proverb, the difference between one stick and ten sticks, the power in the crowd is great, and something fantastic can always be born in the crowd, so I hope that these whimsical things can have the soil to bloom, instead of being stillborn because of the excessive difficulty of game development."

  Bell still doesn't quite understand.

   But he thought about it and felt that it was the president's idea after all, so there must be some deep meaning.

   It doesn't matter that he can't understand it now, he can wait and see.

   So he recorded it and said, "President, are you sure you let the source code of these games be released directly? Also allow players to change the values ​​in the game at will?"

   Zhu Youxing nodded: "Sure, of course, this is just my attempt, I want to see if this can really dig out some talented 'players'."

Then Zhuyouxing paused and continued: "In order to play an exemplary role, I just have time to do some modules as demonstrations, and these demonstrations can be directly taken out as tutorials for players to see, so that they can understand how this is made. How difficult the mod can be.”

   Take Yusei started to act while talking.

   He immediately started to operate on the computer in front of him.

   The first step is to modify the underlying code of Counter-Strike.

   The first is to allow some limited procedural and numerical modifications from the bottom up.

  These modifications can facilitate Zhu Yuxing to make the next module.

   "What kind of mod do you make..."

   Take Yuxing thought for a moment, and then immediately thought of a mod that he thought was quite a classic.

   Resident Evil zombie infection gameplay.

   In Counter-Strike, you only need to make some simple modifications to the gameplay mode in the game, then add a countdown function to the game, and finally design a logic program.

   This program is very simple, so simple that it can be copied after a simple familiarity.

   And the content of this logic is that when the countdown is over, a player in the room will become a zombie.

  This zombie can infect others for a limited time.

   (end of this chapter)