I play games in Zongman World

The only difference from those veteran light novelists is that Shi Yu has never held a signing party.

The pseudonym Xia Shizi can be seen as a girl at a glance, and with the explanation given by the library, these readers can understand if there is no signing event, but the outside world is more and more concerned about the appearance of Teacher Xia Shizi I'm curious.

No way, people's curiosity about the unknown is always unstoppable.

Fortunately, regardless of Shi Yu himself or the library, the author's information is well protected.And Shi Yu didn't go to the library frequently, nor did it attract the attention of some media who often wandered around the library.

In Yi Chen's case, he continued to type codes in the bedroom.

He doesn't need to worry about the Battle Cube Theater and Titanfall, but he will be the main program to direct the Dark Soul program.

As for the art of Dark Souls, compared to the previous three games, there are also huge changes, with various dark and profound styles, and strange monsters. Can't get used to it in time.

However, Iijima Yuyin should be very good at this style. The monsters she designed in the past are mainly all kinds of disgusting and handsome.The player has a strong sense of presence, which is very weird, but combined with a series of actions designed by Shinoda, the feeling of fighting is really great.

Therefore, Yichen also appointed Iijima Yuyin as the team leader for the monster design of Dark Souls this time.As for other humanoid monsters, such as Lothric knights and black knights, it is okay to hand them over to Yagami Guang and the others.

...........

On Monday, Yi Chen and Shi Yu came to the company after class.

The development team of the Battle Cube Theater has moved to the new venue for intensive development.Because the art part is not difficult, Hazuki Shizuku did not bring Yagami Ko and the others this time as the main force, but brought a few art personnel who have not yet reached the front line, but it is enough.

After coming here, Yichen walked up to Ye Yueshizuku and whispered, "How's the progress?"

"not bad."

Ye Yueshizuku said with a smile, "Ning Ning has officially joined the job now, and the whole person is in good condition. He is adjusting the engine according to the style of the game. The design of the map by the art staff is also in progress steadily according to my requirements. .According to the current progress, some test demos can be made by the end of June. By the way, Mr. Yichen, is the game login platform the same as before?"

"more or less."

Yi Chen nodded, "But this time, let's add the ps platform as well. Although ps5's current installed capacity and platform-specific games are not many, many players have left messages under the accounts of our various platforms before, letting our games Also log in to PS, let’s satisfy their wishes this time.”

"Log in to ps4 and ps5, this is not too difficult for the battle cube theater, the applicability of the engine is very high, if it is put down on the ps platform, it can run well with a little adjustment."

"Okay, but don't worry, first develop according to the PC and NS platforms. Especially NS, the size and gameplay of this game are very suitable for NS to play, this part must be done well."

Saying that, Yi Chen glanced at Ying Ning Ning, "Ning Ning is indeed a genius, Sister Ye Yue, do you want to give her some more salary?"

"Salary increase, it is indeed possible."

Ye Yueshizuku narrowed her eyes with a smile, "Although Ningning's salary is not low now, but based on the value of the engine she developed, we can develop many sketch-level games suitable for single-player and multiplayer in the future. , and the development difficulty is not high. Will the salary increase be mentioned soon?"

After thinking about it for a while, Yi Chen shook his head: "Wait a minute, let Ning Ning's abilities show more after the game's test demo is done."

"Well, it's really better that way."

"Then Ningning, Sister Ye Yue, please take care of her. Sister Haizi is now in Shanghai, so she can't let Ningning be wronged."

"Don't worry, it won't."

While Ye Yueshizuku promised, she also had a gossip smile on her face, and she was in a happy mood.

Ying Ningning, who was busy, suddenly got a chill on her back, raised her head and looked around, and then saw Shizuku Hazuki looking at her with a smile on her face.

"...I always feel that Sister Ye Yue is plotting against me."

Chapter 371 I feel like I forgot something?

Back in his office, Yi Chen began to check everyone's work today.

After the inspection, Yi Chen was about to start his own business when he suddenly froze.

"Well~~~ I always feel like I forgot something?"

Hearing Yi Chen's words, Shi Yu looked over curiously: "Chen Jun, your memory should be pretty good, did you really forget something?"

Yi Chen clasped his hands together, nodded and said: "Although I can't remember what it is, I have a feeling that I really forgot something very important. Hiss~~ What the hell is it? I can't remember it. "

The more he couldn't remember, the more irritable Yi Chen felt, this feeling was really uncomfortable.

So he began to count little by little.

"For the study, all the homework has been completed, and the designated professional books that I need to read are also read. There is no problem in this regard. In terms of work, the recruitment in Tokyo has been completed, the two projects have started, and the planning has been done well. Yes. The recruitment of people in the magic city is also coming to an end. The new members are all good, and they can start working immediately. At home, the cats have been feeding well these two days, and there is a machine to feed them regularly, so we don’t have to worry about it. So After all, what’s wrong with it?”

Listening to Yi Chen's words, Shi Yu was also very strange.

Yi Chen usually does not make wrong judgments, since she really feels that she has forgotten something, then there must be, so she also thought together.

Just as the two of them kept thinking, Yi Chen's cell phone vibrated.

I picked it up and saw that it was an email from Steam.

"Huh? The game in the wish list... Fantasy Age? Ah, it's Akane Benizaka! I remembered!"

Shiyu finally remembered at this moment, it turned out to be Benizaka Zhuyin, this guy who regarded them as competitors and was also developing games.

Coming to Yi Chen's side, looking at the content of the email on his phone, Shi Yu said with a smile: "This game has been skipped, and it was only released today. It seems that it was the craze when our Goddess Wen was first released, which made people She sensed a crisis, so she skipped the ticket urgently?"

Yi Chen nodded, opened Steam, found the game in the wish list and opened it.

In the dynamic news of the game, I found a message about the postponement of the game.

Although the news said that the release was postponed for one month to optimize the game quality, but Yichen felt that this was Ben Benizaka Zhuyin deliberately avoiding the release of Persona.

While thinking, Yi Chen added the game Fantasy Age to the shopping cart, purchased and installed it directly.

This game is still a bit interesting. Although Hongsaka Zhuyin regards him as a competitor, Yi Chen still buys it and plays it.

The game is on sale today, and the number of reviews on steam is still much less than that of Persona, but the evaluation is not bad, with 85% positive reviews.

I just don't know if the game's rating can be maintained after the number of players increases.

During the downloading time of the game, Yi Chen picked up his mobile phone and took a picture of Hongsaka Zhuyin while the game was being downloaded.

Yi Chen: [Miss Hongsaka, Gong Xigui's game is on sale, I will try it out later. 】

Within a few minutes of sending the message, Benizaka Zhuyin replied with a message.

Hongsaka Zhuyin: [Thank you, Mr. Yichen, the game still has many deficiencies. I hope Mr. Yichen can give some suggestions after playing it, so that I can improve it. 】

The posture this time is unexpectedly low.

It seems that after playing Persona, I felt a gap?

Although Akane Benizaka's previous fan club "rouge en rouge" was a professional business club, it was still a little lacking in terms of game development.

It seems that after this time, the other party knew his own shortcomings and wanted to make up for it.

Yi Chen doesn't have any problem with this, if someone can develop a good game, it's something that makes him happy, and he won't get in the way.

Yi Chen: 【No problem, I will write a complete experience report for you. 】

Putting down the phone, seeing that the game was about to be finished, Yi Chen picked up his handle and connected it to the computer.

For the rest of the day, stop working and play games.

After the download is complete, Yi Chen opens the game.

Shiyu was also somewhat interested in the games made by Hongsaka Zhuyin, so she moved a chair and sat beside Yichen to watch him play.

In terms of comprehensive strength in game development, Hongsaka Zhuyin really cannot compare with Yichen, but Hongsaka Zhuyin is very clear about the principle of making use of strengths and avoiding weaknesses.

As an amalgamation of the former commercial doujin club and the copyright company established later, Benizaka Akane has her own advantages, that is, she has many excellent artists and screenwriters.

As soon as he entered the game, Yichen felt that the picture had improved significantly compared with the previous PV.

The 3D graphics and animation-style character design, this game has its own obvious audience, and it is not aimed at serving all players.

In terms of the plot of the game, after playing the beginning, Yi Chen also roughly understood that it is a traditional kingly adventure game. The protagonist takes over a main mission, and then fights monsters and upgrades along the way, meets partners and finally saves the world or something.

Although I can't see too many outstanding plots at present, the victory is stable and does not touch thunder.

As long as you don't play any weird values ​​in the follow-up, and things like Golf 2, there shouldn't be anyone who can find fault with the plot.

"Although there is no big problem with the picture, I like it quite a bit, but the production of this open world is still a little bit interesting."

After leaving the initial area, Yi Chen saw something that the game needed to improve, that is a common problem in open world games, the world is too big and empty.

I picked up two branch lines along the way, both of which were very common monster-fighting tasks, and there were no interesting dialogues in the plot of the branch lines.

In the production of side plots, Yi Chen personally still admires the Polish donkeys. Although they messed up in 2077, the side plots of The Witcher [-] have always been an excellent benchmark in Yi Chen’s heart. The development of the side plots and the portrayal of characters All doing well.

As for this game, after playing for more than an hour, Yi Chen still couldn't see any interesting side missions.

Seeing Yi Chen finish fighting an elite boss, Shi Yu commented: "I always feel that this battle is still a bit floating."

"That's right, the feel is really not that interesting, and the impact feedback is a little weaker, but I can still accept it."

The combat system, especially the combat system and combat sense of action games, is not an easy task for a newly established game research and development company.

Even if Yi Chen made Dark Soul here, the current combat system is still in the process of being polished, and it is still far from perfect.

Chapter 372 Number of Development Teams, Meetings

Before leaving get off work, Yi Chen saved the game and closed the game, and put down the controller.

Stretching his neck, Yi Chen commented: "It's not bad so far, and I should be able to give a 75-point evaluation."

"Is it only 75 points? Seeing how devoted you are to playing, Chen Jun, I thought you would give a higher score."

"After all, the advantages and disadvantages of the game are obvious, and the shortcomings of being an open world have not been made up for very well. This score is already very pertinent. Let's go, it's time to get off work and go back."

After turning off the computer, Yi Chen and Shi Yu walked out of the office together, and reminded other people in the company that they can get ready to leave work.

The company is still very humane about getting off work. It will not force employees to work overtime, as long as they complete their work.

As time passed, everyone got used to going off work normally, and only stayed in the company for a while, and went back when they were done, unless there was just a little work at hand that was unfinished.

After driving home and having dinner with Shi Yu's parents, Yi Chen and Shi Yu returned to their residence and started to do today's homework.

Although the time in college is much freer than in high school, the difficulty of coursework is indeed higher than in high school.Even Yi Chen and Shi Yu had to spend some time to finish it seriously.

I finished my homework, took a shower, and it was almost 11 o'clock.

After heating up two cups of milk, Yi Chen handed Shi Yu a cup and sat on the sofa in the living room: "Are you tired, why don't you go to bed early today?"

Shi Yu nodded: "Well, I feel like I can rest earlier. But, Mr. Chen, are you not going to continue playing games?"

"The game is right there, don't worry."

After taking a sip of milk, Yi Chen picked up his phone and boarded station B, and watched the live broadcast of the stand-alone game area. Some people were still broadcasting Persona.

It has been released for a month, and it is obvious that the popularity of the game has not gone down.

As an rpg game with a very long time to clear the level in a single week, the main plot of this game is quite suitable for the anchor to broadcast live.

The only downside to say is that it is likely to affect a certain amount of sales.

But Yi Chen is not worried about this, the sales of the game are already very good now, even if there is such an impact, compared to the spread of Persona in the player circle, this impact is nothing at all.

The fast-playing anchor door has been cleared in more than a week, and the anchor who wants to continue digging deeper is to switch to a new game after clearing the first episode, and then directly start the second week of Persona I plan to have a perfect customs clearance.

Yi Chen drank milk and watched the live broadcast for a while, then went to rest with Shi Yu.

Turning off the lights, lying on the bed, Shi Yu yawned silently and leaned against Yi Chen's side and said, "Mr. Chen, can the Soul of Darkness be developed in a year and a half?"

"it should be OK."

Yi Chen nodded, "The people who are currently developing the Battle Cube Theater will also be merged into the development team of Persona after half a year. I don't plan to increase the number of developers. The number of people is too large. If it is too complicated, the management of the project will become difficult, and now the number of these members is almost the same.”

In terms of personnel allocation for the development team, Yi Chen intends to limit the number of personnel in a large development team to less than 200.Of course, this number is already a lot for him, like when the Hollow Knight was developed, there were only ten of them.As for the current Battle Cube Theater, the development team only has 35 people.

This number of people is completely enough for the development of Battle Cube Theater. The art style of this game is very fixed. After getting used to it, it is not difficult to make it. The difficulty is mainly in the level design.

As for Dark Souls, the most difficult thing for Yi Chen was the map design, followed by the design of the battle system and large bosses.

"The number of development teams is not as large as possible. For example, Ubisoft, they develop a game with thousands of people, and so many people must be scattered in various studios around the world. In the case where the scheduling cannot be unified In this situation, it is easy to have inconsistent development rhythm and uneven levels of finished products. Although the games developed by Ubisoft can generally get above the passing line, but after playing it, you know that there are easy places in the game that are good, and one place is good. The situation is very poor. This is the result of the development team being scattered and not well managed.”

Therefore, in the development of Titanfall, Yi Chen does not intend to let the studios on both sides cooperate as in the previous development of Persona.

Even though the two sides can communicate and coordinate with almost zero errors, Yi Chen decided to let both sides be in charge of a game, and transferred Haizi to work as the main program.

Listening to Yi Chen's words, Shi Yu shook her head: "It feels so complicated, I don't think I'm suitable for a management position."

Yi Chen hugged Shi Yu with a smile: "You just need to do what you like. Well, it's getting late, go to sleep."

"Well, good night, Mr. Chen."

"Good night, Shiyu."

........

After Haizi arrived in Shanghai and settled down, he went directly to the studio after a two-day rest and began to participate in the development of the game.

In the first few planning meetings, Yi Chen, as the boss, also participated in the whole process through video conferencing.

Although it was said that he participated, but Yi Chen did not speak too much as long as he was an observer, mainly because he wanted to see how the team was working together in the initial planning of the game.