Video Game Designer

What can be done in three months?

　　 For example, the Jedi survival professional invitational match ended perfectly, and the domestic G team successfully won the championship title.

　　 For example, DNF's New Year event has ended, successfully cutting a wave of leeks.

　　 For example, the domestic sales of Gujianqixia successfully exceeded 500,000 copies.

　　 For example, Hideo Kojima tweeted a text message "I am thinking 24 hours a day".

　　 and the cake that has always been remembered by countless players as fragrant and crisp, the Wilderness Darts has new news.

　　In a villa in Shanghai, Jiang Cen, 200 pounds without head, had just finished eating two bowls of beef noodles and sat in front of a familiar computer to open the rotten orange platform. He wanted to enter the Jedi Island and fight.

　　 At this time, WeChat, which was placed on the side of the phone, issued a message prompt.

　　 "Fat head, fat head, rain without worry, is fat head present? Is fat head present?"

　　Looking at the smooth message from WeChat, Jiang Cen's eyes narrowed, he picked up his phone and started to reply.

　　 "Calf, can you swim?"

　　 "?????? Yeah, what's wrong."

　　 "The Huangpu River in winter is a bit cold, I don't know if you can't hold it." Jiang Cen tapped the phone to send a message.

　　 "..., don't talk about it, hurry up to the game starry sky, the wilderness has the latest news."

　　The wilderness has the latest news?

　　 Seeing the news on the phone, Jiang Cen couldn't help but get excited.

　　 quickly quit the rotten orange platform, open the ggle browser, and enter the game starry sky section in the favorites.

　　Looking at the news headline in bold on the front page, Jiang Cen’s boss stared at him just as he had seen the beef in the beef noodles.

"The trough, the wilderness dartsman who is the master of painting cakes, will surely announce the latest news at the E3 exhibition?" The content in the article has not been read by Jiang Cen, but the headlines of the news with the bold red mark have already let He was surprised enough.

　　 As a standard game house player, in addition to the two-dimensional paper-cut wife, the most exciting thing should be the game.

Especially the game of the wilderness darts, since I missed a face at last year’s E3 exhibition, and later the press conference, I basically want to know the news of this game, only through Chuhe’s Twitter Follow Weibo, but Chuhe Weibo has never revealed anything about the progress of the game.

　　 The whole article is done, you don’t believe you see how hard our staff work.

　　Although there are other masterpieces worth looking forward to, such as Sony's God of War, Hideo Kojima's death stranded, Microsoft's aura, Capcom's Devil May Cry and B's Elder Scrolls.

　　 But for Jiang Cen, or more broadly, for all Chinese gamers, the meaning of Wilderness Darts is different.

　　Because this is a game developed by Tianhe Network, this is the first 3A masterpiece in China's real sense.

As for you must say, most of the developers are foreigners, which cannot be regarded as domestic games. That includes familiar masterpieces such as Assassin's Creed, Battlefield, Call of Duty, and Elder Scrolls. What.

　　 A 3A game, a team of hundreds of people, across several countries and studios is also a common thing, especially in the game industry, outsourcing foundry is also a common thing.

　　 Even some top studios specializing in outsourcing OEM, their own technology is world-class level.

　　 "No, the title in red and bold, only this simple sentence with a screenshot of Weibo?" Clicked in and looked at the content of the article, Jiang Cen's mouth could not help but smoke.

　　 glanced at the comments below, there are already more than 10,000 comments.

　　 ‘Waking up in the morning and opening the app, I saw this news feed. Excited, I hurried to the toilet and sat on the toilet, and then looked at an article in the world of flowers. It took longer than the time I pinched. ’

　　 ‘Stone Hammer, is it true that Chu is always the owner of the game? You can usually post a tweet and Weibo as news, but now Weibo is directly promoted to the headline? ’

　　 ‘I’m just going to serve Tianhe. Okay, just listen to the thunder and don’t see the rain. Someone else will put some cake on. Anyway, Mr. Chu’s cakes are fooled by words. ’

　　 While domestic players were crusting against Chu River, the initiator was tested in the Black Light Studio in Los Angeles.

　　 is certainly not an EA stage game, if they can really do it so fast, then they are not human, but God.

　　 is just a simple test phase, in addition to the original staff, during this period Chuhe also found another game outsourcing company located in Sweden, hired to join the development of wilderness darts.

　　If you look at the statistics, there are currently more than 500 staff members in the wilderness. This still does not include such things as cleaning aunts, moving actors and voice actors.

　　At the same time, the personnel in the entire project are distributed in ten different countries and perform their duties. At this cost, the game development process is also very fast.

　　 "The numerical value and the AI ​​system are not correct. In addition, the test team will retest." In Heiguang Studio, Chu He visited the test work.

　　 Such a huge project, for example, in terms of testing, it is impossible to say that when the game is all last night, then the staff creates a new archive and slowly tests from scratch.

　　 In that case, the efficiency is too high, and the cost is far higher than ordinary people think.

　　 Most of the games are tested by instructing commands after the game has done a certain function, such as the AI ​​feedback of the NP in the game. When it is formulated, it will pass the instruction to conduct a special test.

　　Rather than wait until the whole game is completed, and then go to test slowly, using an inaccurate but more figurative analogy, the production of a large game.

　　 Just like the assembly of robots, studios in different departments of arts, programs, etc. have different tasks, some of them manufacture robotic hands and some feet.

　　When all the parts are assembled, they are assembled to be the finished robot.

　　This has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can save a lot of time and cost, and the disadvantage is that there is no problem in the original test place, but after combining, some unpredictable bugs may occur.

　　 For example, an NP action trajectory command, there is no problem when tested alone, but after adding scene collisions and trigger conditions, some strange bugs will appear.

　　 And usually the bigger the game, the harder these bugs are to detect.

　　 Even if the game is completed late, there is a dedicated test team to test the game bugs, it is difficult to find all the bugs, more is to detect whether the main line of the game itself can not be carried out, to ensure that the player has a most basic game experience.

As for why some games are released after ~www.NovelMTL.com~ even the main card missions and other situations will occur, or this has not happened in the test, but after patching in order to fix other bugs, no second test This has led to the creation of new bugs.

　　Or simply conducted a BUG test in the game production process, without inviting a dedicated test team, and thought that the game was released without problems.

　　 The cost of this, of course, Chuhe will not be stingy, but the most critical point is trouble, and inefficiency.

　　 So the test mode currently adopted by the wilderness darts is still a single command test like most game manufacturers.

　　 "The propaganda G of the game has been completed." Gabriel said towards Chuhe.

　　 A total of 4 minutes of E3 propaganda G and game propaganda G, it took two and a half months for the team to finally produce it.

　　Although there is still a short time before E3, the invitation has not started, but there is no doubt that the invitation is affirmative, unless Tianhe Network does not go by itself, otherwise there will be a figure of Tianhe Network on E3.

　　 This time it was a bit difficult to release a real machine to demonstrate this. Although it is said that it is possible to enter the mode of full-time overtime, Chu He does not want this.

Compared with manufacturers such as EA, DRP and Ubisoft, it can be said that the environment of Tianhe Network is very abundant, but it is only a direct line of Tianhe Network, including outsourcing and third-party contractors. Tianhe Network does not want to manage it. When the time comes, just complete the task on time and quality.

　　 leaned on the chair, looking at the big screen hanging in the studio hall, and Chu He looked at the propaganda G of the finished product.