Tang Feng: "Do you have time?"

Lu Shuang: "Let's have dinner together tomorrow?"

Gao Yuanling: "What are you busy with recently?"

Li Peifeng had a wide network of contacts at Beihua Normal University, and many people knew that he graduated early. Therefore, not only his classmates but also many old friends wanted to have a break-up meal with him. However, their invitations were all rejected by Mr. Li because he was busy with work.

Reason for rejection.

On the one hand, he is unintentionally flirting with women, but on the other hand, he is indeed very busy.

Leaving aside my love life, I still have to write books, manage copyrights, shoot admissions promotional videos, and do chores related to graduation... I have no worries about anything else.

Even Wu Ankang and Gao Xiuhua, the couple who came to the capital for tourism, only saw Li Peifeng and his daughter a few times when they came and left. How could Li Peifeng care about these old friends?

Besides, graduation is approaching and it’s time for everyone to return to the sea of ​​​​people!

"The sky can be mended, the sea can be filled, and the southern mountains can be moved. The sun and the moon have passed and cannot be traced back."

This is Li Peifeng’s latest post on WeChat Moments. The picture is a photo of the sunset on campus that day. It is intended to tell those old friends to look to the future and live a good life. I won’t go into details, but I hope they can understand it.

And he himself is also working harder towards the future.

…

Xizhou Technology Co., Ltd., the predecessor of Menglong, changed its name to Xizhou after it was acquired by Li Peifeng.

Even though He Yi Meng did not say anything, Li Peifeng guessed that the origin of the name was taken from the poem "The south wind knows my will and blows my dreams to Xizhou".

Needless to say the deeper meaning, he knew exactly what she meant.

The two of them don't communicate by phone or WeChat now when something happens, so why would they dream of looking for him? Just take a picture of his face, and Li Peifeng will understand and communicate with each other through heart-to-heart communication.

[The company has expanded its recruitment to 130 people, including a screenwriter, an art director, a chief programmer, and a producer who was hired with a high salary... Now that the team is strong, I think the project of "Sword and Law" can be established. Come and start it.

I will talk about my ideas.]

【Arrived soon.】

After a brief exchange of ideas and quantum entanglement, Li Peifeng drove to Xizhou Technology.

After the company changed its name, although the office address remained unchanged, it rented an additional 200 square meters for expansion, increased workstations, and employees were busy shuttling back and forth. It looked like a new and prosperous atmosphere, and the old appearance of Menglong was no longer visible.

"Wow, is Yiliangfeng so handsome?"

"I told you before, he is the kind of handsome who shocks you at first glance."

"By the way, our boss lady is also pretty."

"Haha, don't say the word boss lady randomly."

"Why, aren't they two lovers?"

"It's not a simple couple, it may be a darker relationship, do you understand?"

"Ah...shh~ people are coming."

Li Peifeng walked past the work station with a normal expression, saying that there are many smart people nowadays, but they will not pretend to be confused, and they will make nonsense in private. The emotional relationship between the two bosses is very difficult...

He kept walking and walked into He Yimeng's office. He was sitting in the boss' chair working. When the door suddenly opened, Fang raised his eyelids.

"It came pretty quickly."

Li Peifeng hummed and said casually: "I just heard employees gossiping during working hours. It seems that the atmosphere in our company is very relaxed."

High emotional intelligence: The atmosphere in our company is very relaxed.

Low emotional intelligence: Are employees too damn idle?

He Yimeng has been in the company longer than Li Peifeng and has spent more time with these employees. Naturally, he understands the gossips of the people below him better than him. But at this time, he just smiled indifferently: "They will definitely be busy when the project starts after today.

No time for gossip."

After saying that, He Yimeng picked up the landline phone on the table and called the newly hired game producer to the office.

Li Peifeng and He Yimeng, two good students, let alone making games, don't have much time to play games, and there is no use in making up lessons later. The two of them can only be bosses, and they have to find someone knowledgeable to actually make games.

Do. Check the planning, research and development, marketing and other aspects of the game, and coordinate and manage the following teams.

This kind of talent is hard to find. Fortunately, the IP of "Sword and Law" is large enough and has unlimited potential. With generous remuneration, it is sufficiently attractive to senior talents in the game industry. Even if it cannot attract those from major game companies

Senior executives, but enough to yearn for talents in small factories.

After He Yimeng released the news, some game producers with very good resumes approached her. She selected the best among them and selected the most suitable one to be the producer of "Sword and Law";

Wang Lianzong, 37 years old, has worked as a game designer in many large game companies such as Konami and Giant Network. The peak of his career was when he left with his colleague and friend Yang Le and joined the TipsWorks studio founded by the latter.

The year before last, a buyout mobile game called "Pascal's Contract" was produced.

This is an extremely hardcore soul-based action-adventure game, known as the Dark Souls on mobile.

Once launched, it became the focus of the industry due to its soul tag and buyout charging standards. The quality of the game was also well received by the industry and welcomed by the market. One year after its launch, "Pascal's Contract" reached 150

One hundred thousand copies sold.

What does it mean for a game to sell a million copies?

"Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice" produced by "Father of Dark Souls" Hidetaka Miyazaki initially sold about 2 million units, and the well-known Souls Like game "Nioh 2" produced by the famous Ninja Dragon Group only sold 2 million units after two months of release.

Reached one million sets.

Although Soul-based games are good enough to break out of the industry and become popular every minute, from a market perspective, this is not a category that is strong enough to attract money. After all, there are only a few players who dare to spend money to challenge, not to mention the buyout system for mobile games.

This is an even rarer species.

Under such a market background, without the protection of a major company or the blessing of IP, a mobile game with a soul-like theme produced by a domestic team has actually achieved million-level sales.

Two words, awesome.

But this honor is bestowed upon Yang Le, the game producer and studio owner. Naturally, the benefits brought by the success of "Pascal's Contract" have little to do with Wang Lianzong, his deputy.

The increased salary and dividends could not satisfy Wang Lianzong's appetite. He also wanted to develop a game by himself. He wanted more.

He happened to hear that "Sword and Law" was being adapted into a mobile game and was in urgent need of a chief producer. Wang Lianzong felt that this was a rare opportunity. He chatted with He Yimeng several times to confirm the salary and decisively changed his job.

"Teacher Li, nice to meet you."

"Teacher Wang, please sit down. Please sit down."

Li Peifeng attaches great importance to the development of the mobile game "Sword and Law" because it does have the potential to make a lot of money.

As the saying goes, a mirror and a wallet can answer the why and the why in life.

Li Peifeng believes that if he can earn tens of billions of dollars, even if one day the parents of the four girls know about his crime, it will not be completely irreversible...

In order to gain more profits from the "Sword and Law" mobile game in the long term and not make it a one-time deal, he also paid great attention to the production of the game and reduced the coding time in the next two weeks.

Check in at the company every day.

Either discuss the core gameplay and operating concepts of "Sword and Law" with Wang Lianzong, or brainstorm with the people in charge of programming, art, levels, etc. to determine the narrative angle and presentation style.

It is very difficult to make a role-playing open world adventure game. Fortunately, the structure of the alien world in the book is rigorous and clear, and the author himself is adding details, down to the economic system of each camp and the characters of each important role.

images, even flowers and plants from other worlds and different scenery.

This is the advantage of adapting a game from a mature novel. Thinking of a story from scratch requires a lot of time and energy, ranging from months to years.

The existing stories avoid this trouble. "Sword and Law" has also passed the test of the market, greatly improving the success rate of the project, saving costs, and allowing the development team to reduce the difficulty, so they think more about just

How to authentically restore the world of "Sword and Law" and at the same time create extremely high playability.

What is playability? Beautiful graphics?

Of course, it must not only be beautiful, but also fit the temperament of "Sword and Law".

The character's figure is too slender and cute, and his face is too feminine. The fresh and fresh two-dimensional style is obviously not suitable. The game graphics should be more realistic in order to attract more audiences.

Elegant, ethereal, some maps can be a bit mysterious and weird, integrating the aesthetics of the East and the West, emphasizing the use of color, using large color blocks and splashing ink style, just like impressionist oil paintings...

"Or like my watercolors."

Li Peifeng narcissistically believes that if the final picture of the mobile game matches the watercolor painting he made, it will be more popular.

Regarding this point, everyone in the team quite agrees, so the art direction of "Sword and Law" was decided without any controversy.

But the playability is not only about the graphics, but also includes all aspects.

For example, levels, puzzles, tasks, social interaction, growth, and combat systems. Wang Lianzong is strong in combat design. He is accompanied by a group of programmers who will give a perfect answer when applying for votes.

In addition to these, the most important point in playability is - the sense of immersion, or in other words, the plot.

According to the gamification approach of domestic novels, the original work basically exists as a background setting. At most, a few task chains are designed that are related to the novel's big world view and main plot, but the main gameplay is no different from other online games.

This is called selling dog meat by selling sheep's head, and Li Peifeng is not willing to do it. He really wants to copy the entire story line in "Sword and Law" into the game, and add Wang Chi, Qiu Qing, Lin Shang Huayue, and Ji Tuo

·If Ivy and other protagonists in the book are made into NPCs, let them interact with the players, and let the characters in the book take adventures with the players, it seems that it will ruin the readers' expectations for the characters in the book...

If you get too close, it won’t be fun!

This is actually a shortcoming of the mobile version of novels, because there are natural barriers between the narrative methods of novels and games, and these barriers can sometimes cause opposition between content and gameplay.

Therefore, if you want to convert an established novel into a game expression, you must make more efforts in plot reconstruction and gameplay design, or make a two-way compromise.

To put it simply, if the plot is not changed, people who have read the novel will feel nothing new when playing the game, which is equivalent to reading the novel again.
To be continued...