Almighty Game Designer Chapter 43: Version update


  Chen Mo explained: "I mean, your thinking is too limited. These two design schemes basically don't have any innovation, just a little expansion of the outline I wrote."

   "Uh..." Su Jinyu was a little dazed.

   When Chen Mo gave her the outline of the document before, he did mention "do more of your own design", but Su Jinyu didn't take it too seriously.

  The assistants of game designers, in most cases, do some more repetitive work, and many designers are just talking, don't like assistants to make changes to their designs, even if they are not willing to make fine adjustments.

   So, Su Jinyu just extended Chen Mo's design document honestly according to the outline, without adding any ideas of his own.

   It turned out to be the opposite. Chen Mo hoped that she would design according to her own ideas.

   Chen Mo said: "It's okay, I'll give you three more days. Remember, I want to see your own thoughts."

  Su Jinyu nodded fiercely: "Um, good!"

   Back to the first floor, Su Jinyu continued to think hard.

   After Su Jinyu left, Chen Mo read her design documents twice.

   It is true that the basic skills are very solid and logical thinking is good, but the biggest problem is lack of spirituality. Now Su Jinyu is only capable of performing the role of an executor, but wants to become a qualified designer? It's not even close.

   is very persistent, willing to endure hardships, and has comprehensive abilities, but lacks inspiration. This is Chen Mo's current evaluation of Su Jinyu.

   may be due to her long-term thinking inertia, or it may be due to her personality.

  Chen Mo can of course only use Su Jinyu as an assistant and let her fully assume the job of an executor, but in that case, the growth that Su Jinyu can achieve is minimal.

  A personality like Su Jinyu is more rigorous but lacks brains, so Chen Mo still has to call her appropriately, and at least develop her into a more comprehensive designer within a few months, so that Chen Mo himself Can save more energy.

  ……

  Su Jinyu is racking his brains to revise the design every day.

   The second draft, which has been improved, but it is still unqualified.

The third draft of    has one or two highlights.

   Fourth draft, Chen Mo finally nodded.

   "Well, although there is still a gap from what I expected, but it is qualified." A smile appeared on Chen Mo's face.

  Su Jinyu beamed her eyebrows: "Really? Great!"

  Chen Mo nodded: "Well, I have worked hard, take a break. I will revise it tonight, and I will finalize it and send it to you tomorrow."

   "Okay, hard work manager!" Su Jinyu went back to get off work with joy.

   These four draft design documents, Su Jinyu wrote for nearly two weeks, and finally Chen Mo was generally satisfied.

   Actually, what Chen Mo cares about is mainly some highlights in the design plan. If it is a design without bright spots, even if Chen Mo passes it, the players will not pass it.

  Chen Mo could see that Su Jinyu had racked his brains to come up with a few ideas in the fourth draft, and she didn’t think there would be a better plan.

   and the time has been delayed for a long time. Chen Mo originally planned to complete the development in two weeks, but now it has timed out. Any further delay will affect the progress of the next game, and Chen Mo doesn't have much time to wait.

  Chen Mo turned on the computer and found the design document he had written.

   Actually, while Su Jinyu changed the design document over and over again, Chen Mo had already written a copy of it himself. However, Chen Mo didn't want her thoughts to influence Su Jinyu, so she didn't tell her.

   A comparison between the two design documents, Su Jinyu’s revised design documents for several drafts immediately looked horrible. From the interface UI to the specific functions, they were completely crushed.

   Chen Mo compared Su Jinyu's document and added part of the better design plan in his document, and made comments to explain his design intent.

   For some things that can be changed or not, Chen Mo completely followed Su Jinyu's design plan.

   changed to midnight and finally finished. Chen Mo checked the compiled version update document again, and there was no major problem.

   Because this update is still based on the game framework of "Plants vs. Zombies", there is no need to generate new projects, just make changes to the original projects.

  ……

   Early the next morning, the experience store opened on time.

  Chen Mo yawned and said to Su Jinyu: "I have sent you the modified design document. You can update the content to "Plants vs. Zombies" in the editor according to the relevant rules." /

   "Well, good." Su Jinyu nodded.

   Chen Mo was still a little sleepy, so he went back to sleep on the second floor.

  Su Jinyu turned on the computer and checked the design document that Chen Mo had modified.

  "...I have changed so much!"

  Su Jinyu was shocked. The design document sent by Chen Mo was more than twice as large as her previous design document. Carefully check the details in the design document, and almost 70% of the content has been changed.

   However, Chen Mo did not delete Su Jinyu's previous plan, but directly inserted the revised plan in the middle, and noted the amendments.

   "Great, great..."

   Su Jinyu was a little shocked to look through the changes one by one. Basically all the interface was reviewed, and many functions were changed.

   Su Jinyu watched it and made it in the editor. I felt that what I wrote before was a fake design document~ IndoMTL.com~ The store manager is really amazing. I changed so many things in one night? This kind of work efficiency is really terrible! "

   Su Jinyu's admiration for Chen Mo is a little bit more.

   Actually, these were written by Chen Mo in advance...

  ……

   One week later, the new version of "Plants vs. Zombies" is officially updated!

After making the new version of   , Chen Mo first updated it to the computer in the experience store, played with Wen Lingwei and Jia Peng for a few days, and corrected a few small errors.

   waited until Chen Mo felt that there was basically no problem before submitting it to the app market.

   Soon, "Plants vs. Zombies" players found that the game had an update package of more than 40M, and they downloaded it.

  "Huh? "Plants vs. Zombies" has been updated with a new version?!"

  "The stand-alone game is still updated, my conscience!"

  "It’s awesome, I don’t know what’s new this time? Are there new plants or zombies?"

   "Look at the update instructions, there are developer tools, and a multiplayer battle mode!"

   "I'm going, is this going against the sky? I'll go and see!"

   Players download it in the first time, and the major player communities of "Plants vs. Zombies" have also been fried, and they are all discussing this completely unexpected version update.

   Generally speaking, this kind of stand-alone game is rarely updated, because the updated version cannot be charged twice, so most designers are unwilling to do this kind of unrequited thing.

   Moreover, "Plants vs. Zombies" has been online less than two months ago, and it is quite popular now. Although the first batch of players are a bit tired of playing, there are still new players coming in.

   Now the updated version, a bit too positive!


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