Chapter 167 Let’s start a business together!
Learning that the friend Li Qing was going to see in the hospital turned out to be Yao Xiaoguang, Zhang Wei immediately expressed his intention to go with him.
When it comes to the name Yao Xiaoguang, not many people may know it. But if you mention the product he developed, "Honor of Kings", it is definitely a household name.
It is precisely because of this product that it has become a thorn in the side of many parents, and is the "culprit" that prevents their children from getting into their ideal schools.
Go online and search for articles introducing Mr. Yao. All of the high praise comments that follow are scoldings from parents.
Yao Xiaoguang's relationship with games originated from Blizzard's "Diablo". It is said that when he first played "Diablo" when he was seventeen years old, he was deeply touched and has had the ideal of making games ever since.
When he was in college, he wrote a demo imitating "Diablo", but it was better than "Diablo". It was also because of this demo that he got his first game development job.
A Shanghai entrepreneur commissioned him to develop a game, but because the other party was just a newly established small company and did not have enough financial support, the project was eventually abandoned.
Later, the entrepreneur went to South Korea, bought a game called "Legend", introduced it directly to the country, and then became the richest man in China.
Yao Xiaoguang joined Tianqing Digital after several twists and turns, and developed "Phantom Ranger".
"Phantom Ranger" was a great success, and Yao Xiaoguang also had the idea of starting a business. He used all his savings to only make a game that imitated "Diablo", but unfortunately it failed.
At this time, Shanda invited him to join in the development of new games.
At this time, Shanda had grown into a giant in the domestic game industry because of "Legend". However, due to disputes with South Korea, Shanda had already had the idea of developing its own games.
Yao Xiaoguang developed a 3D game called "Miracle" at Shanda. Unfortunately, the game failed to achieve the expected results.
But Yao Xiaoguang’s talent was still recognized by the industry. At that time, many game companies came to poach him, including Tencent, which had just started making games. The vice president of Tencent personally came to invite him, hoping that he would join.
Over the next more than a year, Yao Xiaoguang fell ill, went to the hospital for surgery, and has been recuperating since then. It wasn't until 2006, when I fully recovered, that I joined Tencent.
Tencent Games at that time was actually just getting started, and games were not Tencent’s main business yet.
Yao Xiaoguang's first work after joining Tencent was the famous "QQ Speed"!
The success of "QQ Speed" also gave Yao Xiaoguang more resources. Subsequently, Tencent's "Tiantian Series" games, "Reverse War", and the mobile version of "Cross Fire" were all led by Yao Xiaoguang work.
Of course, the one that really made Yao Xiaoguang become a god in one battle was "Glory of the King". This game is so famous that everyone knows it without any introduction.
As far as game development is concerned, Yao Xiaoguang's strength is definitely obvious to all. It's hard to say whether he is the number one in China, but there should be no objection to saying that he is the top three game developers in China.
Of course Zhang Wei wants to make friends with such a great god.
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When I arrived at the hospital, I happened to meet Yao Xiaoguang returning to the ward. He had just done rehabilitation training.
Yao Xiaoguang looked a little haggard, his face was unshaven, he looked a little depressed, and his mental state was not very good.
This is not surprising, after all, the project with high hopes has just failed, and he got sick and was admitted to the hospital. Under the double blow, no one will be happy.
"Xiaoguang, how are you recovering recently?" Li Qing walked to the bed and placed the gift beside the bed.
"Li Qing, you're here." Yao Xiaoguang glanced at Zhang Wei behind him and didn't pay much attention to him. He probably regarded Zhang Wei as Li Qing's follower.
Li Qing took the initiative to introduce: "Xiaoguang, let me introduce you to a person. His name is Zhang Wei, my junior fellow student at Qingdao University, a top scientist! And he is also the world champion of WCG!"
Yao Xiaoguang was not interested in the titles "Tsinghua University" and "Scientist", but when he heard about the WCG World Championship, Yao Xiaoguang's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Are you the ZW who won the championship in San Francisco?" Yao Xiaoguang asked.
"Mr. Yao, I never thought you'd heard of me!" Zhang Wei nodded.
"There is no need for Mr. Yao now." Yao Xiaoguang took a deep breath.
"Then let me call you Brother Yao!" Zhang Wei said.
“Brother Yao is just Brother Yao, how can we tell the difference between big and small?” Li Qing complained from the side.
"It's different. Big brother Yao has to be left to Yao Ming." Zhang Wei said with a smile, and then continued: "And little brother Yao sounds handsome too! Little brother Yao, brother Xiaoyao, are handsome enough!"
Zhang Wei's explanation made the two of them smile knowingly at the same time. We are all gamers. Naturally, we have all played "Legend of Sword and Fairy" and we also know who brother Xiaoyao is.
Yao Xiaoguang continued: "I was surprised when I heard that a Chinese player had won the WCG world championship. I also went to check who the champion was, but I didn't find you. Information."
"I'm still a newcomer, and I'm not a professional player. I have to go to school and just take time to play games, so there isn't much information online." Zhang Wei said.
"I also checked the text battle report of the game and found that you actually won Grubby with random! You beat Grubby without any temper. You are so awesome!" Yao Xiaoguang couldn't help but stretched out his hand. Thumbs up.
Zhang Wei asked: "Brother Xiaoyao, do you also play World of Warcraft?"
"Hahaha, Zhang Wei, you still don't understand us gamers!" This time it was Li Qing who spoke. , he continued: "How could we not play Blizzard's games!"
"Yes, Blizzard's products must be high-quality! Who can make games without playing Blizzard's games? Take a look at the games on the market Most of the games have a shadow of Blizzard. I entered this industry because I played "Diablo"."
Yao Xiaoguang paused and then said: "Zhang Wei, wait until I get better. Now, let’s play two games of World of Warcraft, and let me see how powerful the world champion is.”
After chatting for a while, Li Qing said: “I see that your recovery speed is quite fast, I guess you need to use it. Will you be able to get out of bed and move freely soon? Do you want to consider coming to our Zulong?”
"I know that if you show your courtesy for nothing, you must be either an adulterer or a thief." Yao Xiaoguang said, shaking his head: "I haven't decided yet whether to continue in this industry.
You also know, I put so much effort into the last project, but the result was terrible. Now I really doubt whether I am suitable for making games."
"Don't be discouraged, failure is the mother of success! If you don't make games, what else can you do as an ordinary programmer? That's a waste of your brain! Consider us Zulong! Although our scale is far less than Shanda, we really put our heart into making games." He spoke.
"I know that if you don't care about making games, there won't be anyone else in the country who cares about making games. I will consider it carefully." Yao Xiaoguang agreed.
After a few more pleasantries, Li Qing took Zhang Wei and said goodbye.
At this time, Zhang Wei had a bold idea in his mind. ......
The next day, Zhang Wei came to the hospital alone, this time he also brought a laptop.
Seeing Zhang Wei's arrival, Yao Xiaoguang was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the new friend he met yesterday would come to visit him again today.
"Zhang Wei, why are you here! Sit down quickly! Do you want some fruit? There are apples and oranges."
"Who gave you the oranges? Isn't this taking advantage of you?"
Zhang Wei took out his notebook with a smile and continued: "Brother Xiaoyao, I'm here to accompany you to fight World of Warcraft."< br>
"Fighting World of Warcraft? Here? Don't kid me, it's just a laptop, it's just a computer." Yao Xiaoguang said.
Although the laptops at that time also had wireless network cards, the network speed was too slow and was not enough to connect to the battle platform. Therefore, if you really wanted to access the Internet, you still had to connect a network cable.
At that time, it was good to have a TV in a hospital ward. Probably only expensive VIP wards were equipped with network cables.
Zhang Wei said: "Brother Xiaoyao, I'll show you a World of Warcraft map, please give me some pointers."
Clicking on the Warcraft game terminal, Zhang Wei found the DOTA map.
"DOTA official certified version? This is an RPG map, right? What is it for?" Yao Xiaoguang asked with interest.
“This is a 5V5 battle map, which is relatively popular internationally.” Zhang Wei replied.
"5V5? It takes ten people to play a game. Then it's not fun for me to play alone." Yao Xiaoguang said, the map has been read and he has entered the game.
"Okay, so many heroes!" Yao Xiaoguang was surprised when he saw there were many heroes to choose from.
“Each hero here has different types and skills. There are melee output, remote output, mage, control, auxiliary, and human shield. Each hero chooses different equipment according to his own situation. "Zhang Wei opened his mouth and introduced.
“The goal of the game is to kill the opponent’s hometown? There are defense towers on the road, so you have to demolish the towers first. Huh? Why are there still soldiers? Can’t I control these soldiers? Just Can you control the hero? This minion is a bit weak. He will die after a few shots from the defense tower. Oops, this hero is also very fragile and cannot beat the defense tower..."
If you want to just start to operate, start gradually. Be familiar with DOTA.
After Yao Xiaoguang understood the game mode of DOTA, Zhang Wei found a game video of players playing DOTA and played it to Yao Xiaoguang.
Watching a 5V5 game, the physical experience must be completely different from playing alone and just thinking about it. Yao Xiaoguang was quickly attracted by the video of the game.
After watching the game video, Zhang Wei asked: "Brother Xiaoyao, what do you think? Is this gameplay any good?"
Yao Xiaoguang frowned and nodded seriously after a moment. He nodded: "This is the first time I have seen this kind of gameplay. It feels a bit like a team battle PK in an online game. It focuses on equipment, coordination, operation and tactics.
But the difference from online games is that At the beginning, every player is on the same starting line, and subsequent growth depends entirely on their own operations and mutual games. Unlike online games, there will be an inherent gap in the equipment of two players
<. br>There is also the setting of this defensive tower. Even if one side loses a wave of team battles, at most one defensive tower will be pulled out. It will not lose immediately, and there will be a chance for a comeback in the overall situation.
I personally feel that this form of team PK is more fair than PK in online games, and is more friendly to players with good operating skills and exquisite coordination. ”
“What about playability? "Zhang Wei continued to ask.
Yao Xiaoguang thought for a while and replied: "This type of game is very novel and highly competitive. It is easy to get started and the operation is not difficult. It is playable. The sex was pretty good.
But the premise is that one thing must be done, and that is to maintain the balance of the game! In this type of game, once the balance of the game is destroyed, it will be a devastating blow to the game.
When designing heroes and props, you must pay attention to balance. There must be no very strong heroes that will destroy the balance of the game, and there must be no heroes who are so defiant that they can instantly kill you. Equipment in seconds.
In addition, there is a difficulty in the design of this kind of game, that is, the heroes are easily homogenized. When there were not many heroes in the early stage, each hero would have its own characteristics, but as there are more heroes later, the homogeneity of heroes is definitely inevitable.
Players are all fresh, and players do not play games to experience the content of the game repeatedly. Therefore, once there are too many homogeneous heroes, it will inevitably affect the players’ experience. "
"He is worthy of being the father of "Glory of Kings". In such a short time, he can accurately hit the core of MOBA games! It seems that my trip was not in vain! "Zhang Wei secretly thought.
So Zhang Wei asked: "Brother Xiaoyao, I heard from Senior Brother Li Qing that you have started a business before, but it failed. Are you interested in starting a second business now? ”
“Second entrepreneurship? Yao Xiaoguang was stunned and asked, "What are you doing?" ”
"Just do this! DTOA map!" Zhang Wei pointed to the laptop.
“You mean, let me make a similar map?” Yao Xiaoguang asked.
“We did it together!” Zhang Wei continued: “This DOTA map was made by me. I would like to invite Brother Xiaoyao to join us, and we will do the follow-up update of this map.”
A look of loneliness flashed across Yao Xiaoguang's face. He felt that he was engaged in large-scale client games, and now he was invited to make a map. This was somewhat insulting!
If it weren’t for the fact that Zhang Wei was introduced by an acquaintance, maybe Yao Xiaoguang would have kicked Zhang Wei out.
Zhang Wei continued: "Brother Xiaoyao, I know that updating such a map with your talents is definitely overkill. Don't be impatient and listen to me. Updating the map is just the first step.
This DOTA map has been officially authorized by Blizzard, so I plan to use Blizzard’s name to promote the DOTA map to the world. When the player base increases, we will develop a dedicated sequel. Making games. This is like using Blizzard’s chicken to lay our eggs!”
“Your idea is quite bold!” Yao Xiaoguang shook his head and continued: “Blizzard is very good. Those who value copyright, if the players on this map become technically advanced, Blizzard will definitely hold on to it and not let us go.”
“Don’t worry about the copyright, I not only have a letter of authorization from Blizzard, The DOTA trademark is also registered. Whoever registers the trademark owns it, so only we can use the name DOTA in the future." Zhang Wei said.
"Even if there is no problem with the copyright, what about the funds! Developing a game requires a lot of funds." Yao Xiaoguang continued.
"Funding is not a problem. Is one million enough?" Zhang Wei asked.
"One million? If it were three years ago, I would have said it was enough, but now, it is definitely not enough!" Yao Xiaoguang shook his head.
Zhang Wei smiled slightly: "I mean, one million per month, is it enough?"
(End of this chapter)