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Chapter 103: The Final Stage

Finally, the plot line of the perfect ending was established. Chu Qiancheng felt that a big rock in his heart was finally removed, and the game design entered the final stage that gave him the most abundant experience of happiness.

During the creation of a game, 90% of the time is spent in pain and suffering. Only when the initial inspiration and creative impulse of the game come, and when the core part of the game is completed and enters the final stage, will you feel extremely happy and longing.

Now Chu Qiancheng has entered the happiest and most peak stage in his life. He also shared this happiness with all his colleagues around him, friends and Xiaoling, who is like his biological daughter.

Xiao Ling, who is also the creator of "Dry Bone Town", seems to have absorbed and learned this happiness from Chu Qiancheng, and he looks overwhelming every day.

"Dad, we should design the most detailed, comprehensive and exciting newbie tutorial in the world, so that the players of "Dry Bone Town" can pass the level by 100%. Why did you make the newbie tutorials I designed so short and so few? In this way, those newbie players will definitely let Ellie die, which is too cruel."

Although Chu Qiancheng was cruel, Xiaoling still had a smile on her face, as if a loving little girl saw her little pet growing up day by day.

"Xiao Ling, although we use the dream host, human nature will not change at all. The game tutorial is designed too cumbersome and lengthy, with too many words and too detailed steps, which will cause players to be irritated and have a dissuasion effect."

Chu Qiancheng debugged the novice tutorial compiled by Xiaoling and him, with a smile on his face and thoughtful in his eyes.

"But we need to take care of too many aspects. The identity of the Red Queen, the knot of Old John, the growth of Raymond and Meadda, the real ability of Ellie, the appearance of the flower fairy, the gun technique of IG, the cold weapon of the magnetic link weapon, the identity and background of the captain Yan Cheng, and the misunderstandings he will have with Old John, these little will cause Ellie's tragic death. This will be too great to play against the players, so don't you, it's better to be more detailed."

Chu Qiancheng smiled and shook his head: "Even if I really want to cover everything, players will not be able to accept all the information we instilled when they first started playing games. You should know that humans are indeed born to like learning new things, but we are born to not like education."

"Humans are really a contradictory existence."

Xiao Ling hugged her arms in her chest, sighed to the sky, and shook her head.

"Dad, just don't do novice tutorials. I've counted the data. In the data I recorded, players have never been concerned about the excellent novice tutorials for any game. Instead, they are not good at doing it well and are scolded at a very high rate of novice tutorials. If they do it well, they are not popular. If they don't do it well, they will complain. In order to maximize their profits, shouldn't they be done?"

"But the quality of a newbie tutorial is directly related to the life and death of a game, so you can't be careless."

"Dad, why not change the entire game to a krypton gold card draw game. My data shows that the novice tutorial for krypton gold card draw mobile games is a unified standard. No matter how complicated it is, players will not complain, because everyone is the same."

"This is not OK. We are a buyout game. Is it okay to draw cards from krypton gold?"

"This is almost impossible to complete." Xiaoling spread his hands.

"That's how I think." When Chu Qiancheng was chatting with Xiaoling, a solution had already emerged in his mind. His communication with Xiaoling was always like this. He asked and answered questions on a key question, and under the constant stimulation of each other, a high-quality inspiration would come into being.

"Bad endings are too cruel for players. Whether it is a long-standing old player or a new child who is new to the game, it is the same. However, the tutorials set up for novice to avoid bad endings are too cumbersome and lengthy. The so-called words are not as good as teaching by example, and it is better to set five brand new characters and the predecessors of five IGs." Chu Qiancheng's eyes showed a bright light.

"Ah, Dad, are you setting up five characters who failed to save Ellie before?" Xiao Ling knew the string song and knew the meaning of Yayi.

"Yes, that's what it means. These five IG predecessors each have unique experiences of failure. They will appear in front of players when they are new to the game, each pointing out the reasons for their failures, and providing players with an example of failure. However, players can choose whether to listen to their experiences."

"Why do you have to choose? Just force it directly!" Xiaoling penetrated her waist strongly.

"Before players established a relationship with Ellie, their hearts were not bound to the main line, and they did not have to meet the needs of a perfect ending. Before this, "Dry Bone Town" was still a completely open world. However, after they established a relationship with Ellie, they invisibly made the choice to go to the main line, so that they could listen to the words and deeds of the five ex-IGs at any time."

"That is, players don't need a newbie tutorial at the beginning, but when they need it, our tutorial will appear with them as five ex-IGs, each providing a piece of experience they failed?"

"That's right. Players can find inspiration for success from other people's failures, which not only satisfy their desire to seek a perfect ending, but also gives them the urge to learn and the pleasure of surpassing the predecessors. At the same time, the bad ending is presented through the memory of another person, which is better than direct contact on the player."

"Great, dad. This idea is so good. I now have a complete plan, so let's get it out." Xiaoling disappeared on the screen.

Chu Qiancheng wanted to say a few more words, but dozens of data frames had already flooded the entire screen.

After a moment, Xiaoling looked melancholy and said, "Dad, I don't know how to design characters. Humans are too complicated for me."

Chu Qiancheng subconsciously wanted to say that he would come to create. However, Xiaoling's sad look made him feel distressed. He could see that Xiaoling really wanted to try to create a realistic human image because she was extremely eager to understand everything about human beings.

"In this way, we have invited many game testers to test the game before, and they all encountered various bad endings. You look for five more typical characters from the data they give back, plus some of your own creations, and transform their bionic appearance according to their respective personalities and create five characters."

"Aha, Dad, I know what to do if you say that. It turns out that creating a human image can be done like this." Xiao Ling quickly turned his worries into joy and disappeared in front of the screen again.

After Chu Qiancheng and Ouyang Wei discussed the details of how to create the game CG animation, Xiaoling appeared again in the host screen of his office with great enthusiasm.

"Dad, the job is done!"

Chu Qiancheng felt a sense of sincerity and gratitude. Xiaoling was becoming more and more like a real human being.

Five bionic figures with different postures appeared on the screen. Some were corroded by acid, some were crippled with holes by Zergs, some were cut in half, some were dismembered with arms, and some were missing two legs and crawling on the ground.

Chu Qiancheng looked around and roughly had some guesses.

"Dad, how do you look at these five characters? Guess who they are?"

"Sister Yue, Lord Shan, General Hua, Black King, and Magician."

"I am worthy of being my father! These five humans represent the most typical player types and each made the most classic mistakes. Their experiences are combined together, and your experiences are corrected by Dad, I am confident that players will achieve a perfect ending!"

Xiao Ling's face was blushing, as cute as a red apple.

"Let's discuss how to insert my experience into the stories of five previous generations of IGs in a hint way, allowing players to receive information subtly, while leaving them room for reflection and free play."

When Chu Qiancheng mentioned free play, he remembered one more thing, that is, the problem of players making their own game mods. In addition to the excellent quality of the stand-alone game masterpieces, the mods are also indispensable for the enrichment and complementary effect of the game.

After Chu Qiancheng's previous work "The Otaku Breakthrough" and "The Soul Guardian" broke the circle, it was able to flourish and finally reached sales of tens of millions. The masters from all walks of life played a great role in promoting the creative mods he made.

Of course, mod also has a negative effect, that is, it raises the threshold for creating sequels, so that after Chu Qiancheng released several "Soul Guardian" DLCs, he resolutely decided to start a new job and create new works, because the DLC he made himself and the mods created by players have basically exhausted the gameplay of "Soul Guardian".

For Chu Qiancheng, who is always chasing inspiration, this "negative effect" is actually positive, because it helps him get rid of the confusion of sticking to the original work, not seeking progress, and bravely breaking the shackles to seek innovation and change.

So Chu Qiancheng always regards game mods as a crutch in his pursuit of creativity.

Although "Dry Bone Town" is a brand new carrier and a new epoch-making game, Chu Qiancheng still hopes to find a way to build a creative workshop-style platform to help players create their own "Dry Bone Town" mod.

That afternoon, he caught Guan Qing, who was still secretly replenishing the old thief's information. He was wandering around in the map of Hei Po 4 in despair, unable to find a way.

"Xiaoguan, is it possible for our dream machine platform to provide players with game templates similar to creative workshops so that they can make their own game mods?"

Chu Qiancheng sat down beside Guan Qing. Guan Qing was stiff and nervous. He was afraid that his poor game level would allow Chu Qiancheng to see through the truth about the Administration.

"Xiao Guan, do you still have time to play Black Soul 4?" Chu Qiancheng asked.

"Uh...well, I'm enjoying the game style and level design of the old thief." Guan Qing held on.

“The technology is good.”

"Um?"

"You're lost when you see it. Killing monsters too quickly. Otherwise, it's easy to find the way by identifying the monsters."

Guan Qing felt relieved and quickly saved the file and exited, looking calm: "The single hand speed is still there."

He quickly recalled Chu Qiancheng's question just now, trying to distract from the topic of Hei Po 4: "Use dream machine to make the "Dry Bone Town" mod?"

"Yes." Chu Qiancheng nodded enthusiastically, "Do you think it's feasible?"

"If the human brain becomes a game console, then homemade mods only require our main game to give permissions, allowing them to load freely, and they can design them by themselves at any time. This is just like everyone can daydream." Guan Qing quickly reviewed the mechanism of the dream machine and said keenly.

"Yes." Chu Qiancheng slapped his knees ecstatically, "I forgot the principle of dream machine again. Xiaoguan, is our game carrier a bit too outrageous?"

"Haha, it's normal." Guan Qing wiped his cold sweat.

"I just solved the problem of novice tutorials with Xiaoling. All that is left is the performance of game CG animation and the soundtrack of the game. By the way, should we discuss the promotion and promotion issues? This year's E3 may not work. Should we make a hit next year's E3?" Chu Qiancheng's eyes shining.
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