Game Development: I Built a Game Empire

The computer configurations in the experience store are first-class.

An intranet is also used at the same time.

Before Yang Xin could see the loaded hero's original painting clearly, he entered the game directly.

Born in the spring in the lower left corner.

Looking at the scenery of Summoner's Canyon, Yang Xin soon felt a sense of surprise.

Because this is completely different from what she imagined. In her imagination, the art style of the game"League of Legends" should be somewhat similar to the realistic and hard-core art style of"Warcraft".

But the result is completely different.

In the game, she is currently controlling a hero called Galen, the Power of Demacia.

Although he is wearing heavy armor and holding a giant sword, the overall art style is surreal.

At the same time,"League of Legends" itself uses cartoon rendering, which makes the art visual style of the entire game completely opposite to that of"Warcraft".

However, Yang Xin does not reject this style of painting.

Because it’s actually more comfortable to watch.

And if you look carefully, you can also feel that this picture style is quite good.

‘Welcome to League of Legends. As a summoner, you need to choose and link a hero to destroy the enemy's crystal nexus to achieve the final victory.’

‘Now please move the hero to the cursor position’

‘The game is divided into three roads. Each road has three defense towers with different strengths. At the same time, soldiers will be dispatched at regular intervals. Please choose a road now. '

Yang Xin taught novices step by step, from moving the character to killing minions, returning to purchase equipment, synthesizing equipment, and viewing the mini map, including using summoner skills, upgrading and adding points, destroying defense towers, and grass. Functions, jungle settings, etc.

All are described in detail.

Including during the novice guide, players can also switch heroes in the center of the map.

At the same time, it also allows players to understand the meaning of the five different positions.

The details made Yang Xin feel a little speechless.

Because she has a background in"Warcraft", for Yang Xin, many of the settings here are common sense to her.

"Mr. Chen, isn’t this novice tutorial too lengthy? It feels like there is a lot of content that can be omitted from the introduction!"

As Yang Xin used the hero who had switched to Ice Shooter Ashe in the game, he destroyed the enemy's crystal hub and ended the novice tutorial with an exciting 'VICTORY' cheer.

Yang Xin couldn't help but follow Chen Xu complained.

Hearing this, Chen Xu couldn't help but smile.

"You are looking at it from the perspective of a player, or a player like you. You may think that with 2000 points in"Warcraft", isn't it something you can play with your hands? But for some players, the level of 2000 points can be said to be their limit. After playing for hundreds or thousands of hours, they are still at this level."Chen Xu looked at Yang Xin and said.

Jiang Bin and Qin Yi behind him had dark faces.

They seemed to be offended and heartbroken!

After listening to Chen Xu's words, Yang Xin was also thoughtful, but still not too much. Understand, the only thing she knew was that Mr. Chen did this for a reason.

Then she looked at Zhao Shan, Chen Qingzhu, and Han Yue beside them.

At this time, the three girls were almost finished. A level for novice tutorials.

After all, before this, the three girls had also played the story campaign of"Warcraft" and some RPG maps.

Although they are not technically skilled, they at least understood one rule, so they started playing"Heroes"."League of Legends" can still quickly figure out the most basic game rules.

But there are more players who have only a little knowledge of the gameplay of"League of Legends".

There are even many players who have only been exposed to FPS, MMORPG, and maybe even computer games. I have never played it, I just watched it.

For players like Yang Xin, they may feel that the operation of this game does not require hands-on experience?

But for some players, it may be very difficult.

Including"League of Legends", After novice players enter the game, what is fixed is a tracking perspective lens.

It is equivalent to locking your main perspective forever and will not lose the position of the hero.

For skilled players, this is simply a disgusting experience because it is difficult to view information about other routes.

But for some players, this is a good experience, because he always knows where his hero is.

Any game that wants to be popular must have one feature.

That It means that it is easy to get started.

If you want to be popular and have long-term vitality, then you must have a standard.

The upper limit is high.

If the upper limit is high, it means that the advanced skills in the game will have a good growth.

Rather than It is said that players have no way to improve themselves.

The skills and overall view of heroes are linked to the game mechanism.

Another point is that it is easy to get started.

There is no doubt that"League of Legends" is a completely new type of game, but it serves as An important task is to attract more types of players.

For some players who have played"Warcraft" and the cumbersome novice tutorials in the eyes of experts, it is actually the best teaching tool for those novices.

For the former To put it bluntly, the novice tutorial only makes them feel cumbersome, but in fact they have figured out how the game operates and how it is played.

Therefore, more people will enter the game to experience it and see what it is like.

But for players who have just come into contact, novice teaching determines whether they can figure out how to play the game and stay. You must know that in a game, especially a game involving competition, the largest proportion is not the so-called middle level, but the bottom players.

In the previous life,"League of Legends" also announced a data, in which players with platinum and above levels only accounted for less than 13%.

However, the bronze and silver players, who have been ridiculed by players, accounted for The 55% ratio is equivalent to the fact that one of the two League of Legends players is at the Silver or Bronze level.

The remaining 30% are at the Gold level.

It can be said that it determines whether a game is a niche game, or In popular popular games, this so-called rookie is the most critical point.

Only when there are more novice players like this can the vitality of the bottom layer be kept active.

You must know that no player is born a master, and the so-called masters all advance from the bottom.

At the same time, high-segment and low-segment are actually two completely different game experiences.

There was no communication with each other.

And if all the bottom layers disappear, it will usher in a vicious cycle.

It is difficult for novice players to be matched with players of the same level, and then they are defeated by high-level players, or they play for half an hour and are matched for an hour.

This will have only one consequence: a large number of players will leave the game.

After the bottom layer collapses, the trend of collapse will slowly spread upward again.

In the end, the entire competitive environment of the game collapsed.

For any game that focuses on competition, it can be said that the bottom players are the most important core.

Only with the core players at the bottom will there be more and more high-end players.

This will allow the game to go further.

Detailed teaching, simplified operation threshold, and more diversified art stylesThen attract enough novice players in order to enrich the bottom layer of the game and form a virtuous cycle.

These are the core reasons for the success of"League of Legends".