Chapter 232 The core gameplay of our game is recharge
Zhang Wei thought about how his trip to the United States did not take much time. How could Yao Xiaoguang make the game so quickly? Bar!
Yao Xiaoguang seemed to see Zhang Wei's doubts and explained: "Making games is just writing a few lines of code. It's not troublesome. But I haven't done much art work yet. For the pictures of generals in it, I will use Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the time being. 9 pictures instead.”
“From what you say, making games is quite easy!” Zhang Wei said with a smile.
“Simple games are easy to make, and complex games are complicated to make.” Yao Xiaoguang went on to explain: “In 19798, our country’s game industry had just started. Many games are completed by one person.
You can create a game by programming a simple game engine yourself, or by borrowing a game engine from another game, and then writing some code yourself.
Do you know the glorious Three Kingdoms series? At that time, many domestic war and chess games were made using the game engine of Glorious Three Kingdoms. Some even change the picture, and some don't even change the picture. "
Zhang Wei nodded: "I have played The Legend of Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms. Are you talking about this game? "
"The earliest one was The Legend of the Three Kingdoms. Later, Honor launched several sequels based on the Legend of the Heroes. The Legend of Cao Cao should be the most famous and well-made one. "
Yao Xiaoguang paused for a moment, then continued: "I was particularly obsessed with Diablo when I was a child, so I taught myself programming. When I was 20 years old, I made a demo using the Diablo template. It was also because of this demo. , was chosen by Shanda.
Later, I started my first business and made a game called "Dark Online". I did most of the work at that time, and I even participated in the art. As you know, the business failed and I returned to before liberation overnight. "
"Failure is the mother of success, brother Xiaoyao, we will definitely succeed this time! "Zhang Wei comforted him.
"I also think that we will definitely succeed this time! "Yao Xiaoguang nodded firmly.
Zhang Wei sat in front of the computer and entered the game according to Yao Xiaoguang's instructions.
The game is still in the design stage and there is no server rented. Therefore, it is not possible to connect to the Internet. What Yao Xiaoguang showed to Zhang Wei was just a stand-alone game
The game mainly consists of two contents, one is internal affairs and the other is war. This is also the mainstream setting of Three Kingdoms games.
Internal affairs include farming, construction and recruiting talents. Farming can earn money, and money can be used for construction.
The construction in internal affairs increases the attributes of generals. For example, upgrading the martial arts field to the first level increases the general's force by increasing the general's force. Upgrading the academy to the first level increases the intelligence of the general. The higher the level, the more values are added.
Recruiting talents is what Zhang Wei calls drawing cards. If you don’t recharge, you only have three opportunities to recruit talents every day, and most of them are white generals. There is a certain chance of recruiting green generals. Probability to recruit blue generals.
Red generals and gold generals need to recharge. If you spend money to buy a recruitment list, you will definitely get a blue general, a certain probability of recruiting a red general, and a small probability of recruiting a gold general.
The content of war is to fight, either to attack others or to defend. What is being compared at this time is the attribute values of the generals.
The generals rely on physical attacks, while the civil servants rely on strategic attacks. The generals’ skills are also designed in the game, and different skills have different lethality.
Of course, highly lethal and awesome skills can only be obtained by awesome generals. As for how to determine whether a general is awesome or not, it depends on the color of the general card.
For example, Lu Bu has a red card and has mastered the most lethal general skills in the game, while Yan Liang has only a blue card and has mastered skills that are far less lethal than Lu Bu.
The same is true for Wen Chen. Zhuge Liang has the red card and his strategies are the best. Jian Yong has only the green card and his strategies are average.
But due to the bonus of construction, if the level of the building is high enough, Yan Liang can also defeat Lu Bu by relying on the attribute bonus.
Similar settings are already commonplace in Three Kingdoms games, and Zhang Wei didn’t feel it was inconsistent when he played them.
After playing for a while, Zhang Wei was basically familiar with how to play the game, so he said: "I will give you a few suggestions. Regarding internal affairs, farming and construction, what you set here is to complete tasks. I don't think it's necessary, it's too complicated.
I suggest canceling the task process and just click on it to complete the farming and construction. Anyway, we are a free game and we don't need those. Complicated links and lengthy operations earn points. "
"Isn't it too boring if you just click the mouse? You need to use your brain to clear mines, and if you don't do the task, that's it! Instead of increasing the number of internal affairs, wouldn't it be too fast if the building upgrade could be completed with just a click of the mouse?" Yao Xiaoguang asked.
"Of course you can't limit the number of times, but you can limit the time! For example, the time to complete the first level of farming is 30 seconds, the second level is two minutes, the third level is ten minutes, and so on. The higher the level, the more time it takes.
The same is true for the construction of buildings. When the level is low, it can be completed quickly. When the level is high, it takes more than ten or even dozens of hours to complete the construction of a building.
If you want to. If you want to speed up the construction process, you can recharge money. Get an acceleration card to increase the construction speed, and then get an overtime card, which can directly reduce a certain amount of construction time. Finally, you can get a fairy coming, which can directly complete the building. Construction.
In short, it is to reflect that as long as you charge money, you will enjoy more benefits than players who do not charge money. The stronger you are, and the more you charge, the greater the benefits. The more you get, the stronger you will be!”
“Okay, I’ll note it down.” Yao Xiaoguang nodded. ,
Zhang Wei continued: "The second suggestion is that I think we can create some combinations of generals. For example, when Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are in a team, a buff will be triggered.
Others such as the Five Tiger Generals, The five good generals, the four governors, the four pillars of Hebei, the Cao clan, Wolong and Phoenix, etc. can also have similar settings. Civil servants can also have the same setting, and several civil servants can get together to create one. Military-strategist alliance.
Even hostile generals can do this, such as the combination of Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, and the combination of Zhang Liao and Sun Quan, all of which will have additional bonuses. In short, we just need to find ways to add some general combinations. "< br>
“I understand, you are encouraging players to draw more cards!” Yao Xiaoguang understood immediately.
“Yes, the more actively players draw cards, the more we earn!” Zhang Wei nodded.
Many games have such a setting. Suits will have additional bonuses to character attributes or bring additional effects. There are even times when a player's complete set of equipment is more powerful than a few pieces of high-attribute equipment. For this reason, players are willing to pay high prices to collect all the sets.
Of course Zhang Wei must use this routine in drawing cards.
You have already drawn Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao. If you don't draw Huang Zhong, will you be worthy of the title of Five Tiger Generals?
Since you have gathered the Five Tiger Generals, I must not give you a benefit, otherwise who would bother to gather the Five Tiger Generals? When five people get together, their attack power increases by 100%. Isn't that too much?
In this way, five generals can exert the effect of ten generals. Why not quickly charge money and draw cards to get all five of them together?
The Five Tiger Generals and Five Sons of Good Generals may all be red card military generals, which are not easy to collect. Then you can get some blue card combinations, or a mixed combination of red cards, blue cards, and green cards.
For example, Ma Chao plus Ma Dai, Ma Tie, and Ma Xiu formed a Ma Jiajun combination; Li Jue, Guo Bang, Zhang Ji, and Niu Fuzu formed a Xiliang cavalry combination; Meng Huo, Meng You, and Mrs. Zhu Rong, It is possible to form a Southern Barbarian invasion group; to form a group of Dian Wei, Cao Ang, and Cao Anmin to kill the Three Sages with one shot.
In order to assemble these combinations, players have to draw cards. To get the character you want from hundreds of generals, even if it is just a green card or a blue card, you have to charge money like crazy.
As for the balance of the game, Zhang Wei doesn’t care. It’s a web game that makes quick money anyway, so what does the balance mean?
Let the boss recharge money and have fun. Recharging money can make you stronger, and recharging money can crush other players. That is the most real thing.
Looking at the game interface, Zhang Wei continued: "Our interface is still missing something, that is, the recharge area is not eye-catching enough!" "I plan to design the recharge option in the operation box below, and place it in the farming and construction areas. , Recruiting the last of these options," Yao Xiaoguang said.
"That won't work. It has to be placed in the most eye-catching position. I think it should be placed right above the interface to make it more eye-catching. And don't call it recharge. It would be too explicit to just call it recharge. Now, we have to change our name!"
Zhang Wei said, picked up the pen and paper on the table and started drawing on it: "Assuming this paper is our screen, then the one above Row, we need to design several icons like this.
The first position is called Login Gift Pack. For new users who log in for the first time, they will first receive some game gold coins, acceleration cards and other props, and then give Zhang Zhaoxian a few times. List, let players experience the fun of drawing cards
It is best to allow players to draw a red general 100%, so that players can experience the pleasure of RMB players first. This way they will be willing to spend money to draw cards in the future.
In normal times, as long as you log in to the game every day, you can also receive a small amount of props at the location where there is a gift pack. If you log in continuously every week, you will be given a larger gift pack on the weekends.
The second position is called limited time offer. Here is our recharge interface. First of all, you need to set up a big first-load gift package. For the first recharge, you will be given more props. The first recharge should be divided into levels. The higher the level, the better the gift package.
We also divide daily recharges into different levels and provide different discounts according to the levels. For example, if you recharge ten yuan, you will receive eleven yuan; if you recharge thirty yuan, you will receive thirty five yuan; if you recharge fifty yuan, you will receive sixty yuan, and so on.
In short, the more you charge, the greater the discount will be. However, this discount cannot be offered every day, only two weeks per month. In the other two weeks, we will provide gift packs for recharge, and props will be given directly according to the level of recharge.
In the third position, as an activity icon, we launch some activities and then present them to players through this activity icon. Players click this icon to participate in our activities. "
Yao Xiaoguang frowned slightly: "Is it a regular activity? Is that similar to "Fantasy Westward Journey"? Fantasy Westward Journey has activities for the Twelve Sects and imperial examinations on weekends, as well as a martial arts competition! "
"We don't engage in complicated activities. We only have one kind of activity, and that is recharging! "Zhang Wei replied,
"Recharging is also called an activity? "Yao Xiaoguang suddenly looked surprised.
Zhang Wei nodded: "Of course recharging is an activity! In this activity interface, we sell various game gift packages regularly or irregularly. The gift packages contain game props. This gift package must be more cost-effective than directly recharging to buy props.
For example, for something that costs 100 yuan to purchase directly in the game, we set a price of 30 yuan for it and snap it up in real time. With such a good deal, players will definitely be interested in buying it. ""
"If players are waiting for events to buy gift packs and don't top up, wouldn't we lose money?" Yao Xiaoguang asked.
“You can limit the purchase quantity of gift packs. A player can only buy one gift pack, and cannot buy more. And you can also use your brain in the matching of gift packs.
For example, some unusual gifts All the items that are easy to sell are included in the gift bag. On the surface, the price of the gift bag is increased, but the practicality is not that great.
Or you can sell gold card generals or special generals directly in the gift bag, such as. For Valentine's Day, we can launch a Diao Chan gift package. In addition to various game props, the gift package also includes a Diao Chan!
This Diao Chan cannot be drawn from the usual game cards and must be obtained through activities. Players will definitely buy gift packs in order to get Diao Chan. By the way, when the artist designed Diao Chan, he asked Diao Chan to wear less clothes. ”
Yao Xiaoguang grinned. He had known Zhang Wei for more than a year, and it was the first time he discovered that Zhang Wei was so dark-hearted and could think of such shameless money-making tricks. Come out.
However, Zhang Wei didn't finish speaking, he drew a fourth icon on the paper.
Just listen to Zhang Wei continue to say: "This fourth icon is. Ranking list, this ranking list needs to include several more items, such as general combat power ranking, building level ranking, money ranking, etc.
In addition to displaying the top dozens of rankings, the player's ranking on the rankings should also be displayed, followed by an icon to improve the ranking. As long as the player clicks on this icon, he will immediately jump to the recharge page. ! ”
Yao Xiaoguang nodded suddenly. He finally understood. The core gameplay of Zhang Wei's design is to recharge!
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In the next few days, Zhang Wei has been making various suggestions for modifications to "The Legend of the Generals of the Three Kingdoms".
All the suggestions revolve around one core, which is to let players top up money!
Even many modification suggestions are killing the goose that lays the eggs.
But Zhang Wei doesn't care about this. The lifespan of web games is not very long, and it is impossible for web games to operate for more than ten years like online games.
The purpose of web games is to extract as much money as possible from players' wallets in a short period of time. When players get tired of it, the web game has made money and can be shut down.
Yao Xiaoguang disagrees with Zhang Wei's attitude. Gamers of Yao Xiaoguang's generation all have ideals and want to make high-quality games like Blizzard, and they pursue excellence.
But even if he disagreed, Yao Xiaoguang still made modifications to the game in accordance with Zhang Wei's request. After all, Zhang Wei is the major shareholder, and there is a DOTA2 project in the future. That is what Yao Xiaoguang really cares about.
If Zhang Wei still has this attitude of making quick money when it comes to the DOTA2 project, Yao Xiaoguang will definitely quit.
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In the big office, Zhang Wei looked at the artist modifying Diao Chan's character image, always feeling a little dissatisfied.
"This leg skirt is not good. There is a slit in the skirt, exposing the thighs, preferably to the top of the thighs. And this upper body..."
The artist looked aggrieved. Interrupted: "Mr. Zhang, the upper body can no longer be exposed. There is really no way to lower the chest. At this level of painting, I have almost caught up with the scale of Weiden Shishu."
"You also know Weiden Shishu, veteran driver!" Zhang Wei said jokingly, and then continued to look at Diao Chan on the computer screen.
"This face is quite beautiful, but this figure is almost boring." Zhang Wei frowned and thought for a long time. It seems that this artist is at the highest level.
"The male characters are pretty good, but the female characters still need to be replaced by an artist!" Zhang Wei suddenly thought of a person.
He immediately walked to Yao Xiaoguang's office and asked: "Brother Xiaoyao, are you familiar with the game makers in Korea?"
"I know a few of them. I used to When we were in Shanda, we had some business dealings with South Korea," Yao Xiaoguang said.
Shanda's "Legend" was introduced from South Korea, and Shanda's eyes have been locked on South Korea since then, hoping to introduce games from South Korea again and replicate the success of "Legend". Later, Shanda wanted to develop its own games and hired many game designers from South Korea.
Zhang Wei then asked: "There is a person named Jin Hengtai, do you know?"
"Jin Hengtai? I have no impression. There are too many people named Jin in Korea, and there are too many people named Tai. Yao Xiaoguang replied.
"Then you can help me find out about this person. He should be a game artist." Zhang Wei paused and then said: "I plan to let him design the female characters in the game!"
(End of this chapter)