Almighty Game Designer Chapter 807: “Elf World”

After the Spring Festival holiday, daily work has returned to normal.

Many young people who returned to the imperial capital from their hometown brought back the matrix glasses that arrived during the Spring Festival. Not only did they bring them to the party, some even brought them to their own companies.

During the Spring Festival, only relatives and friends in the same hometown can share matrix glasses, but now, this range is extended to colleagues and friends at work.

The popularity of matrix glasses is still increasing. With relatives, friends, colleagues, classmates and other people taking turns, more and more people can’t resist the temptation and want to buy them for fun. Click it.

This brand-new smart device is changing people’s lives step by step and subtly, and is expanding at an extremely fast rate.

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Chen Mo has also prepared a new year's research and development plan. The first game is an exclusive mr game for matrix glasses.

This is a mr game based on the classic game of Chen Mo's previous life and added a lot of magical content: "Pokemon World", the English name is "pokemonworld".

As for why you choose this game?

Because the essence of ar and mr games lies in: going out, which is the "go" emphasized in "pokemongo".

Different from vr, mr games pay more attention to the "combination of virtual and real", which connects a whole area through the game, so that players also have an intersection in reality.

Although Chen Mo has launched games like "Three Kingdoms" and "Jump" for Matrix Glasses, their main purpose is to show players the characteristics of the combination of reality and MR, which is more of a dazzling technique.

For example, "Three Kingdoms", the mr version of "Three Kingdoms" compared to card and PC games, the cool picture is its biggest highlight. But what if compared with vr games?

Assuming that there is now a VR version of "Three Kingdoms", it can be ten times cooler than the mr version of "Three Kingdoms", after all, the performance of the game cabin is there.

The mr version of "Three Kingdoms" focuses on "face-to-face killing". If it is a "net-kill", then there is really no advantage to being a mr.

So, Chen Mo chose to do "Three Kingdoms" because he hoped that the players would go face-to-face and don't match up with people online. "Three Kingdoms" supports free combination of 2 to 8 people, and the rules are relatively simple and easy to use. It can be said that it is very suitable for mr games.

But like chess, go and other chess types, although you can also play mr games, the effect is not as good as "Three Kingdoms".

Because most of these chess games are one-on-one battles, and the competitive and professional nature is much stronger than that of "Three Kingdoms". If four or five friends are playing together, there is no way to enter the same game, and only two battles can be split. If the total number of players is odd, the extra classmate will be very embarrassed; moreover, between players If the level difference is too large, the game may lose fun.

At this time, on the contrary, the online version can match opponents based on points, which can better ensure the players' gaming experience.

So, although similar chess and card games are also good, it is difficult to achieve a "combination of virtual and real". At most, a table in reality is used. Most chess and card games in one-on-one battles are difficult to quickly achieve the effect of viral spread.

That’s why Chen Mo finally finalized "Elves World".

From the subject matter, "Pokemon World" will not fully copy "pokemongo", but will add more genie/pet types.

In Chen Mo's previous life, the success of "pokemongo" benefited from many years of ip accumulation. From anime to generations of console games, it has accumulated a large number of players for this series. So when "pokemongo" was launched, many fans were moved to tears.

But in the parallel world, players don't have this kind of feelings, and seeing a Pikachu or Super Dream will not understand how precious this thing is.

It's not impossible to make anime to get hot IP. The problem is that it took too long, and Chen Mo couldn't wait. The competition between smart glasses is so fierce, can a set of animations immediately spread all over the world? Not particularly realistic.

What's more, Chen Mo now has a lot of IPs in his hands, so he doesn't need to be obsessed with the content in "pokemongo".

At least now, there are several popular or once popular ips that can be used in "Elf World":

"Plants vs. Zombies", "Onmyoji", "Diablo", "League of Legends", "Overwatch", "Super Mario", "Dark Souls", these games all have a large number of available "Elf" materials for use, such as Pea Shooter Baby, Big Pineapple Baby, Temo Baby, Mini Fortress, Kuba Baby, Sewer Salary King Baby, etc.

What's more, Chen Mo and the entire world of Azeroth, you know, "World of Warcraft" also has a small pet battle game, and all the strange things can be moved over.

Even games like "ppybird", "minecraft", and "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" can also produce linked elves, such as pixel bird, cube man baby Steve, pan baby and so on.

A voice follower baby in "The Last of Us"? The painting is beautiful without looking at it.

Of course, if these contents are all added up~IndoMTL.com~, the number of the entire wizard library is estimated to explode, but again, there is material...

Except for the wizards in "pokemongo" that need to be completely redone, the other materials are all ready-made, and you can use them after you change them. Moreover, there is no need to expand the inventory of the entire "Elf World" to a large extent without the first version, and new elves will be released in batches later.

If the ip is not enough, then use more ip to make a link with all the games on the Thunder game platform, so you don’t have to worry about losing popularity.

In terms of gameplay, "pokemongo" is still the main gameplay method, but some other ar games such as "ingress" will also be added.

In other words, the core gameplay of "Elf World" is: Elf/Pet Collection, Elf/Pet Development, Elf/Pet Battle, Gymnasium Competition, etc.

This is also the core competitiveness of "Elf World" as a super-explosive mr game: a large number of top-level IPs are stacked, full interaction with the real world, and maximum coverage of all people who use smart glasses.

It is difficult even for other game companies to copy "Elf World" because there are not so many IPs. Moreover, in the absence of major innovations in the gameplay, later games cannot surpass the first-mover advantage of "Elves World".

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After the idea is roughly finalized, there are some specific details.

The design concept draft is not difficult to write, because the gameplay of "Elf World" has been very mature, and the problems that need to be tangled are mainly in two aspects.

The first is to unify the style of painting, consider the performance of combat special effects, and provide players with the best mr visual effects as much as possible.

The second is to do a good job in the numerical balance between so many elves, and the entire combat system.