October 12th, Friday …
Early this morning, Little Sun had already sent Eric to the high-speed rail station according to Pei Qian's arrangements.
Pei Qian was not sure if he could really poach Eric. This matter might go smoothly, but there might also be some variables.
The atmosphere during their meal might be good but Eric might just be being polite.
After all, he had been working in Dayak Corporation for so long. All kinds of interpersonal relationships, business accumulation, and so on were very precious. Jumping to Tengda meant that there was an unstable future. Everyone would be cautious.
However, no matter what, Pei Qian had already conveyed his attitude. As for whether Eric would return or not, it would depend on fate.
Pei Qian had long wanted to reorganize GOG's staff and arrange for Min Jingchao to be removed but there was no need to rush this matter. It would not be a problem to wait for a month or half a year.
Therefore, he had to wait patiently.
After breakfast, Pei Qian decided to make a trip to Tengda Games.
He was worried about Yu Fei's situation.
He was worried that he would suddenly come up with some strange ideas that would make the game popular. He was also worried that his progress would be too slow, causing the game to be unable to be completed.
Pei Qian might not be able to help much but he had to take a look to be at ease.
When he arrived at Tengda Games, he could see everyone's state from afar.
Min Jingchao was still the same as before, doing her work step by step.
Bao Xu, on the other hand, was playing games happily. Obviously, he remembered Pei Qian's instructions. He did not take charge of everything. Instead, he was only in charge of the gatekeeping process and left most of the design work to Yu Fei.
He looked at Yu Fei again. He stared at the computer screen seriously. His hands were quickly typing on the keyboard, and he was writing a design concept draft.
Sometimes, he would stop and frown as he thought hard for a while. Then, he would delete large chunks of content and rewrite it.
"Eh? It looks good. It's developing according to my expected script. "
Pei Qian was quite satisfied.
Indeed, Bao Xu did not interfere too much. Yu Fei was the one who took the initiative to design. What's more, he seemed to have made some bad designs during the design process and deleted them himself.
At that moment, an employee saw Pei Qian and quickly greeted him. "Boss Pei!"
Yu Fei, who had been unaware, heard it as well. He turned around and quickly stood up when he saw Boss Pei.
"Sit, continue with your work. I'm just here to take a look at the progress." Pei Qian sat beside him with a smile.
Yu Fei felt warm.
Obviously, Boss Pei was worried that he would not be able to understand the design intention well, so he came to check on the progress and ensure that the project could be completed without any mistakes.
"How's the new game coming along? Tell me briefly, "Pei Qian said with a smile.
Yu Fei hurriedly pulled the design proposal document to the front and explained, "Brother Bao briefly explained some professional knowledge of fighting games to me. It made me deeply realize my previous mistake."
"Fighting games must retain their essence in order to satisfy your needs, Boss Pei. Therefore, some of the red lines that can't be touched have already been decided. "
"As for the other parts, I currently have some fragmented and incomplete ideas, and I'm currently trying to string them together."
"However, the overall progress is still quite optimistic. I think we should be able to come up with a large framework by tomorrow at the latest. Then, we can hand it over to the other designers to write the specific design drafts of each module under this large framework. After another week of perfecting the design plan, we can start to develop it."
"There shouldn't be a big problem in terms of the construction period."
Pei Qian nodded in satisfaction again.
Alright, it was still completely in line with his expectations!
Pei Qian was most worried about two things. First, Yu Fei would let himself go and accidentally cause the game to succeed. Second, the progress was too slow. If the game could not be completed, it would affect the settlement.
Yu Fei's progress was relatively fast now. There should be no need to worry about the development cycle.
On the other hand, Yu Fei strictly retained the essence of the fighting game. More than half of the first requirement had been completed.
After that, Yu Fei began to talk about the "red line content" that could not be touched. It was mainly to retain the basic gameplay of the fighting game.
To put it bluntly, it was the set of moves in traditional fighting games. The upper and lower stages of attack, defense, killing moves, and so on were basically retained. What's more, they tried their best to make it original.
Pei Qian nodded repeatedly.
Yes, yes, yes, that's what I want!
He was still worried that Yu Fei would really make "Ghost General 2" into a third-person action game. Wouldn't that make him earn money like "Eternal Reincarnation"?
Now, it seemed like he had been overthinking. As long as Yu Fei honestly made this game based on the foundation of a fighting game, it would definitely be a niche game and would not sell much.
After all, the threshold and fun of fighting games naturally dissuaded many ordinary players.
"Very good. What about the other parts?" Pei Qian felt that there was no problem with the content in this part. He could pass.
Yu Fei's confidence increased after hearing Boss Pei's approval.
Indeed, Brother Bao's analysis was right!
Since Boss Pei has nodded, it means that I'm on the right path.
Yu Fei continued, "The rest of the content is mainly designed to meet your previous requirements, Boss Pei."
"First of all, the perspective. Boss Pei, you said before that the soldiers had to come from all directions. That's why I took Brother Bao's suggestion and used some fighting game processing methods. I turned double-clicking the up key and down key into flashing in the direction of the screen and out of the screen. That would give players an additional dimension."
"After adjusting the perspective, you would naturally be able to hit other soldiers."
"In addition, I also considered changing all the characters' attacks into fan-shaped AOE attacks, adding an attack range to the skills that were originally on the plane."
"At the moment of dodging and sprinting, the hero would release a fan-shaped attack skill while moving inside and outside the screen. That way, it could hit the soldiers on the side."
Pei Qian was confused by Yu Fei's description.
He seemed to have heard of such a dodging setting in some fighting games.
The meaning of dodging was actually to move quickly to the left or right. It could dodge the opponent's attack and deflect the connection between the two characters at the same time.
In traditional fighting games, the connection between the two characters was cut vertically. The cut section was the scene that players saw in the fighting game.
The character on the left moved towards the screen, causing the section to rotate clockwise. Although players saw that the relative position of the two characters on the screen did not change, the position in the scene changed.
In other words, the characters were actually moving according to a fan-shaped trajectory.
This way, the problem of 3D movement would be solved. He would be able to hit the soldiers in all directions.
Then, would there be any harm in this modification? Would it cause him to make money?
Pei Qian thought about it. It should not be harmful.
That was because other games had indeed done so. There was a sideways dodging setting, but it had not become the mainstream setting of fighting games. That was enough to show that it was not that important.
Yu Fei continued, "Then, there are the two ideas that I proposed at the meeting previously. One is to increase the PVE gameplay and consider adding a large number of soldiers in the battle to expand the battle scene and strengthen the boss' attributes. The other is to introduce a simplified operation mechanism."
"This is actually very easy to understand. It is to arrange a large number of levels and let players control the generals to clear them. During the process of clearing the levels, they would encounter various enemy generals with enhanced attributes. They would continuously increase the difficulty of the levels by adding attributes."
"It's similar to the design of the levels of ordinary action games."
Pei Qian nodded. These two ideas were indeed proposed by Yu Fei.
Pei Qian agreed with these two points very much because such a design was incompatible with fighting games in the first place.
Many fighting games had PVE gameplay but it was often used as a guiding content of the plot. It did not account for much of the fun of fighting games.
What's more, the PVE gameplay of these fighting games was nothing more than computer AI controlling characters to fight with players. There were no soldiers, and the boss' attributes and size would not change. There were also no checkpoints.
At the end of the day, it was because players of fighting games did not care about this.
That was why Pei Qian requested that Ghost General 2 had to do this content. He wanted to spend more effort and money on these unimportant areas so that the truly important areas would not be perfect.
Pei Qian nodded, gesturing for Yu Fei to continue.
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