MTL - Almighty Game Designer (Almighty Video Game Designer)-Chapter 46 A new game for the emperor

Chen Mo returned to his studio on the second floor, opened the app market, searched for recent new games, and went online to check out the projects that several big game companies are testing.

Most of the game companies' new games will be put into the experience store, so as long as the game is developed, even if there is no official online application market, there will be some winds.

Chen Mo finally found a short demo video of a new game of emperor entertainment on a video website. The name of the game is called "Shengquan Guardian".

"Well? Did the emperor and the emperor enter and come in, and sure enough."

"The game that the emperor has made for mutual entertainment has to pay a little attention."

Chen Mo opened the demo video and began to study the game "Shengquan Guardian".

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A new game of model innovation is on fire, and it will inevitably lead a wave of trends, and it will inevitably follow the trend.

"Plants vs. Zombies" has been on fire for two months. If other designers want to copy, they will be able to make the game for two months.

Chen Mo was psychologically prepared for this, but he did not expect it to be so fast.

"Plants vs. Zombies" can be seen as a variant of the tower defense game, but its popularity has far surpassed most of the tower defense games, because its strategic can be said to crush all the tower defense games.

For the designers of this world, it is not difficult to figure out the success of Plants vs. Zombies. Any c-class designer can make a "plant" as long as he is willing to plagiarize his face. A similar game of the vs. Zombies comes.

"Lunar Defence" is such a game, a notorious company, a little-known designer, who used a two-month time to flip a game.

The idea of ​​"Moon Defending War" is very clear. It is to use the advantage of free to incite some of the corners of "Plants vs. Zombies" as much as possible, and then use the advertisements to recover the cost.

They are targeting a lot of players who don't want to spend money on Plants vs. Zombies, and those who have been tired of Plants vs. Zombies.

However, Chen Mo knows that their ideas are bound to fail, so they don't need to be at all.

There are three reasons.

First, "Lunar Defence Warfare" is afraid of making too many changes to the rules of "Plants vs. Zombies." Because the designer is not enough to change the flash point of the original, he chose to take a full copy.

This has caused most of the players of Plants vs. Zombies to never play this highly repetitive game. If it is exactly the same as the original, why not play the original?

Moreover, the first few levels of "Moon Warfare" are repeatedly guided, which is already tired of the players of "Plants vs. Zombies", which greatly affects the game experience, most people do not have this patience.

Second, this game is not suitable for free mode.

Whether it is adding advertising space or selling value-added services, players will feel that this game is ugly, and then compared with "Plants vs. Zombies", leaving the "Lamp Defense" will only be overwhelming.

Thirdly, the gameplay, skill setting and level setting of "Plants vs. Zombies" are perfectly matched with the world view. Forcing the replacement of art resources will only create a sense of non-destructiveness.

The consequence of this is that many players find it not fun, but can't say why it's not fun. It is because the plants, zombies are replaced by machine forts, Zerg, so that the player's feelings have undergone subtle changes, which seriously affects the player's mentality when playing games.

Therefore, Chen Mo did not care about the "Moon Defense War". This game has been smashed from the beginning, and it will only be drowned in the snoring of the players, and even the cost recovery is difficult.

This is a typical example of the so-called "copying will not copy."

In addition to the production of "Moon Defence Warfare", there are several small companies in the production of "Plants vs. Zombies" imitations, but Chen Mo glanced to know that the quality of these games is not as good as the "moon protection" War, not to worry, they will only become a laughing stock.

The only thing that makes Chen Mo care is the "Guardian of the Holy Spring" that is being developed by the emperor.

Responsible for the design of "Shengquan Guardian" is the b-level designer Qiu Bin, the emperor's mutual entertainment, and there have been several successful games before.

From the video point of view, "Shengquan Guardian" is indeed similar to "Plants vs. Zombies" in many respects, but it must be said that plagiarism is somewhat far-fetched, because many similarities are plausible.

The game map of "Sacred Springs Guardian" is not a neat five roads like Plants vs. Zombies. There are hillsides on the map, valleys, and elements such as walls.

Players need to arrange various defensive facilities around the "Holy Spring", such as the magic enchantment, the crystal tower, the dragon's lair, the brave barracks, etc., to defend against the attack of the Mozu.

In terms of arms skills, level difficulty, extended play, and so on, "Shengquan Guardian" also deliberately made a difference with "Plants vs. Zombies", only a small number of units and plant characteristics in Plants vs. Zombies coincide.

If someone jumps out and says that "The Guardian of the Holy Spring" is copying "Zombies of Plants", I believe that a large number of players will spontaneously refute.

It is the highest state of copying.

Moreover, to achieve this level, it is difficult to say that this is in the "copy", the core content of the game has been changed, how can it be copied?

But it's clear that the game's creativity and inspiration comes from Plants vs. Zombies, and even the core fun is similar to Plants vs. Zombies.

Chen Mo feels that once the game is on the line, the results will never be bad. If you add God to the mutual entertainment behind the waves, it is not surprising that the sales completely suppress the Plants vs. Zombies.

This is the power of the channel.

However, the game is still in the test stage, according to the plan of the emperor's mutual entertainment, it is about three months away from its official launch.

The reason why I have been developing for so long is because "Siz Spring Guardian" needs to develop a lot of additional content, perhaps considering that the main gameplay will make players feel that it is copying "Plants vs. Zombies", so use a lot of additional The gameplay and content dilute the player's feelings.

Chen Mo knows that he wants to speed up.

This "plagiarism" incident, although not yet a threat to Chen Mo, but it proves one thing, that is, the game players in the parallel world are as keen and shameless as the previous life.

Even in some respects.

"Plants vs. Zombies" has only been on the line for just two months, and many game companies have already made the cottage products, which is much faster than the previous game companies.

Like "Flying Defence Warfare", which has been flying and entertainment, has already thought of using a free game to get out of another road, and the emperor and mutual entertainment also knows that with a huge user base, "factoring" is used to "plant" The game mode of Zombies is stolen.

Obviously, these game companies are not the fat sheep that are arbitrarily slaughtered. They are hungry wolves who eat people without bones, but they have not yet opened up.

Once these game companies are opened, Chen Mo’s advantage will disappear.

Chen Mo knows that it is time to develop the next game.