Chapter 373 Lin Mo vs Naughty Cat

Then, Lin Mo set the production requirements.

Including professions, skills, equipment, difficulty, size of dungeons, etc.

It is the degree that a single person can complete with the material library of Magic Engine.

Everyone in the conference room was also rubbing their hands.

In addition to the production of the demo, there is another requirement.

That is, everyone present must keep the two demos confidential from the company. If many people know that Lin Mo is involved.

Many people will not even play them, but will directly vote for Lin Mo's work and give it high scores.

There are some design flaws in it, which will be over-interpreted as deliberate design.

Soon, the meeting was adjourned.

Lin Mo returned to his office and prepared to start production.

There are not many things to talk about in the game Diablo, but too many.

All details.

And they are the kind of details that will be ignored if you don't experience it yourself and don't have a certain foresight.

Instead of talking so much, it is better to make a real demo. Some traps will be remembered after stepping on them.

Before starting production, Lin Mo also searched the Internet for the latest developments of the Century Acquisition.

"North Star Studio complained to CMA that the acquisition of Juying Company involves monopoly, which will cause a devastating blow to the local game ecology. Oh, such a fast action, it was really delayed by the game."

"Storm Entertainment Moreno accepted CMA's antitrust investigation on "Road to Heaven 4."

"Road to Heaven 4 announced a one-month delay in release?"

Lin Mo nodded.

It seems that it worked.

If this game can be postponed indefinitely, it would be the best, and the purpose has been achieved.

However, Lin Mo's own estimate is that it will be delayed until the end of July or the beginning of August at most.

That's enough.

The acquisition came too suddenly, and Lin Mo didn't want to continue to target Baofeng Entertainment.

But now that the news came out, Baofeng Entertainment has to die.

It's not so easy to pass the CMA review.

As long as it takes enough time to delay until the new work is developed.

When the review is passed, "Road to Heaven 4" will be released, and there will be a way to deal with it.

But

What if Baofeng Entertainment sells this IP?

What Baofeng Entertainment is interested in is the war zone and the cosmic rift, and the road to heaven is dispensable.

If it is sold, it can not only pass the review smoothly, but also make up for some revenue gaps.

There is still a possibility.

If it really wants to sell, how about Naughty Cat buying it?

From the perspective of players, Baofeng Entertainment's behavior is a betrayal.

The most valuable thing about Baofeng Entertainment is the player community second only to Naughty Cat, which is accumulated over many years of high-quality games.

Even if various operations in recent years have almost ruined its popularity, the previous accumulation is still terrifying.

These players are all older office workers with terrifying spending power in their thirties.

It can be seen from the fact that "War Zone" can still sell tens of millions of copies.

Even if Baofeng Entertainment refuses to sell it, Naughty Cat just needs to express its sincerity, and then "Diablo" will pay a small tribute, or release an expansion pack called Road to Heaven.

It can use this as an opportunity to pry open the seemingly indestructible moat of Baofeng Entertainment.

Those angry old IP fans can be successfully converted into their own fans.

Thinking of this, Lin Mo directly sent a long email to Philford, explaining the matter.

By the way, he pointed out to Philford that the hearing should not enter the normal process of objective evidence.

Let the other party fall into the trap of self-proof.

After doing these things.

"Okay, start working!"

Since I was the only one making the demo this time, I had no time and energy for a too complicated system.

Therefore, Lin Mo temporarily used the game skill talent system of Diablo 3 in his previous life.

As for equipment, this is an extremely large part of the project, and it is impossible for an individual to do it perfectly.

On one side is Lin Mo himself

During this period, many employees of Naughty Cat were a little puzzled.

What are these company leaders doing?

It seems that they are busy with something. From the looks of it, they seem to be making games?

New project?

The meeting for project establishment was held some time ago.

But the new project cannot be done by less than 30 people who held the meeting, right?

And from the looks of it, it doesn't seem to be a big project.

Until the third day, the deadline.

On the internal network, a task that is not considered a task appeared.

In the official forum, download two demos to try them out and give your own suggestions by scoring them.

It is not a mandatory requirement, but completing the task will give you some points in the official forum.

Many people downloaded the demo out of curiosity.

There are two in total, and the space they take up is not large. The largest one is only 7.8G, and the smaller one is only 2.4G.

The naming is even more perfunctory, the large one is called A, and the small one is called B.

Both demos also have a built-in scoring system, which can be scored at any time, and each person has three opportunities to modify.

Du Rui rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Okay, let's try Mr. Lin's demo and see what the difference is with ours."

He was the main surgeon, and the rest of the people were watching around him.

"First of all, the UI. Needless to say, it is very simple. Mr. Lin definitely doesn't have time to make a good-looking UI. We win this round."

"Then choose the profession. Let's see. Barbarian and mystic. There are two professions, one close and one far. They have the same idea as us. Which one should we choose first?"

Wang Yi: "Let's try the melee barbarian first."

enter the game.

At first glance, it is a small outdoor space. You cannot retreat, you can move forward, but there are only two dungeon entrances in front.

As for the screen

"Well, this seems to be put together from a lot of materials in the material library, right? Ignore the professional design, we also win in the graphics aspect."

Gu Ranmin, the lead artist, complained: "Hey, hey, what do you mean? Mr. Lin is only one person. Facing our team, you are using strong words to make excuses."

"Okay, okay, let's play games first."

With that said, he controlled the barbarian to walk deeper into the dungeon.

The characters are all level one and have only one normal attack at the beginning.

Fortunately, the initial monsters are also extremely weak.

Under normal attacks, there are also two knives.

Just a mob, directly upgraded.

At the moment of upgrading, a ball of particle effects surrounds the character, with a golden light surrounding it, accompanied by a short and grand sound effect.

level 2

A huge font appeared on the screen.

Du Rui said with some surprise: "This should not be an applied material, it was made by Mr. Lin himself. However, it is understandable that level improvement is an important part of the positive feedback loop."

Not only did he level up, he also gained his first skill - Hammer of the Ancestors.

The gameplay of the barbarian is very simple. Some skills accumulate anger, and other skills consume anger to release more powerful skills.

Hammer of the Ancestors is the latter.

By chance, there were three skeleton soldiers standing together in front of them.

Go up and fire the Hammer of the Ancestors.

boom!

There was a brief and percussive sound effect from the computer speakers, and there were brief cracks and dust-raising special effects on the ground.

Although it is simple, it also highlights the power of this move.

The three skeleton soldiers were instantly smashed to pieces.

"These aspects are consistent with our thinking."

Wang Yi pointed to the cracked place on the ground and said: "But the details are pretty good. It should be that the critical hit of the Hammer of the Ancestors has a chance to produce this special effect. It won't block the line of sight, won't take up too much video memory, and won't block the line of sight." It shows great power.”

The game continues.

The level is relatively easy to improve in the early stages.

At almost every level, there's something new to unlock.

For example, new talents, new skills, new mechanisms, etc.

The only drawback is that many skills don't even have icons, only simple text descriptions.

But when you think about a one-man production, it only lasts three days, so it’s understandable.

Although the map is not big, it has all kinds of randomly refreshed mini-BOSSs, elite monsters, groups of monsters, random events, etc.

It's just a pity that many times, due to limited personal production capacity, many places still lack a bit of flavor.

The more Du Rui played, the weirder he became. He hesitated before the final BOSS of the dungeon and asked, "Although there are indeed some eye-catching designs, I don't feel there is any essential difference from our designs?"

Everyone nodded when they heard this.

Indeed, nothing has been seen so far.

The final BOSS is still a bit difficult and requires some maneuvers to defeat.

Then go to another copy.

The second copy is still the same.

Even the design of many monsters is obviously a bit difficult, and the design of some equipment is also a bit unreasonable.

The more I look at it, the weirder it gets.

No one spoke anymore.

But many people have a feeling.

Did Mr. Lin make a mistake?

It feels like it’s not as good as the demo made by my own team.

And it's far worse.

Both dungeons were refreshed, and the barbarian level reached level 30.

Then he followed the system prompts, raised the torture level, and continued for another round.

Reach level 40 and continue to increase the level of torture.

Du Rui finally couldn't help it anymore and clicked on the official forum to check the ratings.

"this"

Everyone was speechless.

Since I don’t know who made the other version of the demo, it was made by several people.

Many people rate based on first impressions.

Version A made by a small team, 7.5 points.

Version B made by Lin Mo, 5.1 points.

The average game time for both raters is within two hours.

A big difference.

"We won? Is it true?"

Wang Yi pondered for a while and said: "Since Mr. Lin has mentioned the details, it must be that there are some important things in this type of game that cannot be noticed by practitioners at a glance. Well, let's divide into two groups and play them repeatedly. , until it is discovered.”

The suggestion was embraced.

So, Zuo Xuming and Du Rui were in a group, and Wang Zichen, Wang Yi, and Gu Ramin were in a group.

The former continues to play version B designed by Lin Mo, and the latter plays version A designed by a small team.

After watching version B and then going back to play version A, in Wang Yi's own senses, many of the ideas are consistent, and he even feels that version A is better designed.

Don’t think too much, just think of yourself as a player and just play.

So, this afternoon, several backbones of the company, like Internet-addicted teenagers, occupied the entertainment room and played games crazily.

Two hours later.

"The barbarian is at full level, what about you?"

"The warrior I played is also at full level."

"Okay, let's continue the experience."

Three hours later.

"I've reached the highest level of difficulty here, what about you?"

"Same. The rhythm and the curve that controls player growth are similar, right?"

"Does this prove that we are almost as good as Mr. Lin?"

"Don't be poor, keep going."

Four hours later.

Wang Yi said a little irritably: "I didn't feel that the road was so long when I came here."

Du Rui turned around and asked, "What way?"

"nothing."

Five hours later.

Du Rui blasted the final BOSS with the hammer of his ancestors. He let out a sigh of relief and put a smile on his face. He turned around and asked, "How are you doing? What are you doing? Isn't this cheating?"

He was so frightened that he quickly came over.

Wang Yi is currently driving the Magic Engine and modifying the map.

After seeing Du Rui finish defeating the BOSS, he said calmly: "Let me tell you, how did you design this road? Isn't it too long?"

"long?"

Du Rui's brain was a little down, and he said helplessly: "It only takes less than seven seconds to run it once. Isn't this long? Didn't you all say it was fine when you tried it once?"

Du Rui and Wang Yi looked up almost at the same time.

As a professional sensitivity, some clues were detected.

It takes seven seconds to run once. Is it long?

In a game that can take dozens of hours to complete, it's very short.

But why didn’t I feel it at first, but now I feel it’s getting longer?

"Is it because you have refreshed the map too many times and know what is at the end of the road? There is no freshness anymore, so it feels very long when you return?"

Wang Yi nodded and thought carefully about the hard-to-capture emotion that flashed through his heart when he was seriously playing the game.

"It seems like this. What about Mr. Lin's place? Take a look."

By chance, Zuo Xuming, who was still painting pictures on the side, waved.

"Come and see."

Here, there is also a long road, and the end is also blocked.

After brushing from beginning to end, after killing all the monsters.

There is a shrine there. After picking it up, there is an effect of increasing attack speed and movement speed for 30 seconds. You can complete this long passage almost instantly.

"Is this intentional?"

Reload the file again.

The map is random to a certain extent, but no matter how random it is, it cannot be 100% random.

This time, there is another long passage.

There was no altar at the end, but when we returned, countless skeleton monsters fell from the sky again.

Du Rui nodded and said: "This is indeed an overlooked detail. In the brush game, when you repeatedly brush for equipment, the shortcomings in the map design will be infinitely magnified."

This discovery made several people a little excited.

It seems that he somewhat understands the so-called details.

Several people continued to swipe and swipe in a hurry.

Du Rui took the time to take a look at the scores.

Within two hours of game play, the scores did not change much.

But when the game length reaches five hours, the change is huge.

Version A's score has dropped to 6.9 points, while Lin Mo's score for Version B has risen to 5.8 points.

Six hours later.

Both the warrior and the barbarian have reached full level, and their equipment has taken shape. Both sides have changed their professions.

Version A of the archer, and version B of the mystic.

However, not long after this round started, Wang Yi, who was testing version A, couldn't help but complain: "Should we design a modification period for testing? It's only been level 21 after so long."

Du Rui turned around suddenly and asked in surprise: "How much?"

"21, aren't you?"

When Du Rui saw the level of the character on the screen, he was stunned.

Because the level of the mystic has reached level 42.

Twice as fast!

After thinking for a few seconds, Du Rui let out a long breath and said with a wry smile: "It's over, ignore this matter. The max level is the beginning of the game, and the upgrade process is like repeated brushes. It's really new and interesting to take the path of upgrading for the first time. , it becomes boring after the second and third time. When players play the second account, they don’t care at all about how to advance the plot. They just want to reach the full level quickly and earn equipment and skill points.”

As he spoke, he wrote this down again on the paper.

On the other side, Gu Ramin, who had been playing games in obscurity, weakly raised his hand: "Can I make a small suggestion?"

"you say."

"This system of grinding skill points is really annoying. If I want to change the gameplay, I have to refresh the points again."

"But, this is the tradition of the "Road to Heaven" series, okay, I'll write it down."

Seven hours later.

"Can we increase the density of monsters? My equipment is so good, but there are only a few numbers that pop up on the screen. It's not fun to kill at all, and it's too scattered."

Eight hours later.

"Du Rui, remember again, the mobs should try not to drop good equipment, or I have to go back and pick up the mobs' equipment every time. In Mr. Lin's version, only elites and bosses drop a lot of good equipment, so I won't miss it. ”

Nine hours later.

"Mr. Lin's pet system can be added. It is a skin payment point and can help pick up equipment. It is very useful."

Ten hours later.

Du Rui and Zuo Xuming are still discussing the skill and equipment matching of barbarians and mystics.

However, several people in Wang Yi's group didn't want to continue playing.

I always feel like it's not silky enough.

I always feel awkward while playing, but it’s really hard to say where the awkwardness lies.

If you want to describe it in general.

That is.

Not cool enough.

Look at the other side.

Zuo Xuming is addicted to playing.

While brushing, he was still shouting.

"Out, out, out! Beautiful, if I calculated correctly, the attack speed is enough now, infinite ice is done! I told you, the passive of critical mass is amazing!"

Take another look at the ratings.

The longer the game time, the higher the rating for Lin Mo's B version.

One is rising and the other is falling, both reached 6.5 points.

But looking at this trend, Lin Mo's B version will officially surpass tomorrow, although it may not exceed by too much in the end.

The small team that produced version A looked at each other for a few times, and they couldn't help feeling a little frustrated.

Lost. (End of this chapter)