I play games in Zongman World

Five days after the release, in the discussion areas of several game forums, no one has unlocked all the elements of the game today. At most, they have unlocked all the characters, but there are still many props that are question marks.

There are too many playable elements. When there are many props with different effects, each restarted game will have a different combination of props on the character, and they can play different effects.

And after the discovery of the fun of The Binding of Isaac, many game anchors also started live broadcasting the game immediately, which made the game's popularity go up all of a sudden.

The price of two cups of milk tea in the Steam country is only 35 yuan, and players are still willing to try it.

In the company, Hazuki Shizuku looked at the steam store page and Isaac combined with the 93% favorable rate, and said with emotion: "As expected of you, Yichen, the games developed during the summer vacation can reach this level."

Yi Chen took a sip of coffee with a cup of coffee in his hand, and said with a smile: "It's this kind of small game. If it's bigger, I can't develop it by myself. Sister Ye Yue, your development has reached a certain stage. right?"

After closing steam, Hazuki Shizuku nodded: "That's right, the action system and framework of the game are all set up, and a lot of levels have been designed."

"OK, let's launch the trial version of the game on Steam first."

Chapter 391 Isaac's Combination Heat Increases, New Game Trial Version

In September, Yi Chen started school.

It didn't make Yi Chen unaccustomed to return to the state of learning just after school started. After all, even during the holidays, he would read a couple of books from time to time.

Although the sales volume of The Binding of Isaac is not as good as that of Persona due to the size of the game, but because of its rouge-like game characteristics, the effect of the live broadcast can be said to be better than that of Persona, which does not have much effect after broadcasting once. Recorded much better.

If you don't brush the opening, each game will start randomly, and it is likely to become more and more difficult to play and die suddenly. This kind of live broadcast effect is very good.

Even some high-ranking game anchors can live broadcast until two or three o'clock in the night, and the number of viewers is still quite large, and the number of interactive bullet screens is also large.

The popularity of The Binding of Isaac has made many independent game developers clearly discover the potential points of rouge-like games.

In addition to the top-down pixel design like this kind of dungeon exploration, there are many types that can be developed.

Action, war chess, and rpg types are all available, and even card types like Slaying the Spire can also have a lot of room for expansion.

Thinking of this, many independent game developers started brainstorming with their teams, thinking about how to make a rouge like game of their own.

Yi Chen doesn't know much about these, but if there are really many interesting meat pigeon games in the future, he will definitely be very happy.

As long as its characteristics can be made, every meat pigeon game can make players indulge in it, and this type of game is also the easiest game for players to spontaneously form tap water.

The result of the low development cost is that the price of the game is not very high, so it is easier for some players to accept and want to try it.

Those small independent game developers may not be able to achieve million-level sales of each game like YC Productions, but as long as they refer to popular game types, make their own style, and be able to attract attention in player forums and groups. With a certain degree of discussion, the sales of the game can be reduced to tens of thousands, and it can be profitable.

Under the virtuous circle, not only can independent game developers accumulate funds, but also accumulate player groups and their own development capabilities.

After dinner, Yi Chen came to the bedroom to study the follow-up update of the Binding of Isaac, when he saw someone in a qq group send a message.

This is a group of game up hosts that Yi Chen joined. There are both big and small streamers, and they are all experienced players who like games.Through this group, Yi Chen can sometimes learn some industry news that he doesn't know.

After reading more and more discussions in the lower group, Yi Chen was very surprised. Some independent game developers are considering developing meat pigeon games?

"This is a good thing. There is really no need to be too high-minded. It is big from the beginning, and neither the cost nor the technology support it."

Rubbing his chin and watching for a while, Yi Chen also replied a few words in the group, and then began to fiddle with the combination of Isaac.

Although there are quite a lot of game content now, Yi Chen does not intend to stop. He wants to continue to increase the content of The Binding of Isaac so that the game can continue to gain popularity.

The creative workshop of the game, Yichen, is also open, but the original content of Isaac is much, and the content of the main body has not been finished yet, and few people will think about making mods by themselves.

Shi Yu returned to the room after taking a shower, and saw Yi Chen busy in front of the computer.

Glancing at the computer screen, Shi Yu found that the other party was playing with Isaac's item, which was an icon of a prop.

"Chen Jun, is this a follow-up update?"

"Yes, follow-up update."

Yi Chen nodded and said, "But don't worry, I won't release it until October at least. According to the steam data, no one has obtained all the achievements of Isaac yet. There are more people waiting for it to be completed. , I will slowly release the follow-up content.”

Yi Chen's words made Shi Yu give him a straight look.

The number of achievements of The Binding of Isaac in steam is really [-], and there are some achievements that can not be obtained by doing it exclusively.

Although it is not as exaggerated as the achievements of Monster Hunter's big and small gold body, it is still considered difficult.

"There are only ninety achievements. Don't think that there are too many. Although some of them are quite difficult to obtain, a large part of the achievements can be obtained in one game. It is not as difficult as you think. For many players Said, after playing for a long time, it will be unlocked naturally. The current combination of Isaac is not perfect in my mind, and I need to continue to add content. I expect to update two versions for free, and now I will make one , and then after the development and release of the Battle Cube Theater, I will hand over the last updated content to Sister Ye Yue and the others, and the two games will alternate with each other to solve the gap between our two masterpieces before they are released."

Although there are only two small games, Yi Chen is not worried about the quality at all.

Moreover, these two games may be cheap and the sales volume will not be too high, but they will definitely not lose money.Coupled with the huge benefits brought by Persona, there is no need to worry about the company's operating costs within one to two years.

After watching Yichen's production for a while, Shiyu returned to the bed and sat down with his NS, and started playing the Combine Isaac of NS.

Although Shi Yu didn't particularly like the painting style of this game, but since it was made by her boyfriend, she definitely wanted to support it.

And let's not say, it's really good to play.

After playing for an hour, dying once, getting through once, and unlocking a new character, Shiyu put down the NS somewhat tiredly, picked up the tablet on the side and opened station B, found a live broadcast of Isaac and watched it.

On September 9, the trial version of Battle Cube Theater was launched on Steam and NS at the same time.

In addition to single-player play, this game also supports local and online two-player cooperative play.Although it is a trial version, it also provides ten levels to play.

If you don't just play it once but pursue a perfect pass, you can play it for more than an hour as a trial version.

After the announcement of the new game was released, the number of downloads of the trial version began to increase rapidly on the same day, and soon exceeded 3 downloads, and the background showed that the highest number of online players was over [-].

As a trial version, this is already very good.

The painting style of the game is more cartoonish, and the expressions of the characters are also more funny. Coupled with the design of various levels, it is quite interesting to play but also has a certain degree of difficulty.

It may not be a problem to play alone, but if you cooperate with two people, you can immediately feel that the playability of this game has soared.

Two-person cooperation can perfectly pass the level with the cooperation of both parties, and at the same time, you can cheat your teammates when you break through the level, so as to achieve the effect of exhausting friendship.

[Although it is only a trial version, the level design of the game is very good! 】

[The painting style is also good! 】

[Until now, there is finally a multiplayer cooperative game, but unfortunately there is no official version yet. 】

[Wait for the sale! 】

The praise of the trial version made the members of the development team led by Shizuku Hazuki more confident about the final development stage.

Chapter 392 Benizaka Zhuyin's sigh, the gap

On Friday, Yi Chen and Yu Yu, who had finished class in the afternoon, came to the company.

Because it was Friday, high school ended early in the afternoon, and Ying Lili had already arrived at the company at this moment, holding her mobile phone, showing off to her friends that the little orange cat had arrived at her home.

"Hey hey, isn't it cute? I even bought several clothes for it."

In the phone, there is a photo of the orange cat brought home by Yinglili. It has grown up a little in the past few days, and it is taken care of by Yinglili. It is said that the second half of the orange cat's life was directly fulfilled.

Yi Chen came over, looked at the orange cat playing with the cat teaser in the photo, and said with a smile: "It looks like this little guy is very happy."

"Isn't that of course?"

Ying Lili raised her head proudly and said, "I took out a lot of my savings to give this little guy the best care, I bought a lot of toys alone, enough for him to play in different ways in the next few months Already!"

Listening to Ying Lili's words, Shi Yu poured cold water on her.

"It's a good idea, but don't forget that this is an orange cat. You need to control your diet a little bit, and don't let it eat too much, otherwise you won't be able to hug it if you want to in the future."

"You don't need to tell me, I know it very well!"

Glancing at Shi Yu, Ying Lili said, "I have consulted Xue Nai about diet, and it won't make him fat!"

"Really? That's fine."

Shi Yu nodded. Even though they controlled their diet, their own Peggy is still gaining weight steadily, and is growing towards the big orange little by little.

As Paige's child, Shiyu doesn't think that this little guy can grow into a slender cat.

After talking about cats, Yi Chen went to the Battle Cube Theater.

The production of the controllable characters has been completed, but in terms of levels, there are still nearly half of them that have not been produced.The further you go to the back, the more you will test the ability of the level designer, and you can't make the player feel boring and repetitive after playing the game in the late stage.

"Sister Ye Yue, how is the checkpoint going?"

Holding a cup of coffee in his hand, Ye Yueshizuku tapped Erlang's leg and said, "Although the difficulty has gradually become more difficult, it is still within the tolerable range. Yichen, don't help them, let them think for themselves. This time It’s just a small-scale development, but if you switch to a large-scale project development, you will encounter more difficulties, and you must learn to find solutions by yourself.”

"I know that."

Yi Chen nodded, and then went to Ying Ningning's side.

In terms of programming, Ying Ningning's work has been reduced a lot now, so she is tinkering with the engine developed by herself at the moment.

After standing behind and watching for a while, Yi Chen said, "Are you making adjustments again? What are you going to do?"

"what!"

Startled by Yi Chen who suddenly made a sound, Ying Ningning shuddered, turned around to look at Yi Chen and said, "Can't you stop being scary?"

"Okay, okay, I apologize."

Pulling over the chair and sitting next to Ying Ningning, Yi Chen looked at the computer screen and said, "Is this to upgrade your engine?"

Ying Ningning shook her head: "It can't be said to be an upgrade, but in the process of making the battle cube theater, I found that this engine does not support the action system very well, so I want to modify it again, and strive to develop this system. More fun action games."

Yi Chen rubbed his chin, looked at what Ying Ningning was writing and said: "A horizontal version of action? If you want to change it like this, you can, but I think you can be a little bolder, such as changing it like this."

Then, Yi Chen suggested amendments to Ying Ningning.

Ying Ningning is a real genius. She studied law in university, but now she is developing games.

After being instructed by Yi Chen, she immediately understood what she should modify next, and immediately started to work hard.

Yi Chen looked at it for a while, and after confirming that Ying Ningning's train of thought was okay, he stopped disturbing her, got up and went back to his office, continuing the development of Dark Soul.

Meanwhile, inside another office building in Tokyo.

Benizaka Akane stayed in her office, watching the game running on the computer screen, holding the controller and lost in thought.

What she is experiencing now is the trial version of the Battle Cube Theater launched by YC Productions.

Although it is only a trial version, the game is very complete, with excellent action system, collection system, and level design.The cartoon 2D painting style of the game also has its own characteristics, making it very relaxing to play.

"It's the same as the previously launched The Binding of Isaac. Although it is a small-scale game, it has achieved excellent or even higher levels in its own field in all aspects, and there is no fault."

For small-scale games, the most important thing is not the image quality of 3A games. The first thing to focus on is the gameplay. As long as the gameplay is done well, it will naturally attract players.

"Slaying the Spire, Hollow Knight, The Binding of Isaac, Battle Cube Theater, and Persona, which is expected to sell tens of millions, is indeed a game producer that some senior people in the industry are optimistic about, Mr. Yichen."

Putting down the handle, Benizaka Zhuyin's expression gradually became serious, and she began to think about how to catch up with Yi Chen's level.

In terms of the number of people in the company, except for the members of Yi Chen's Modu Studio, the development team owned by the two in Tokyo is about the same size.

But in terms of strength, my side is indeed a lot worse, especially the top developers.

According to Hongsaka Zhuyin's understanding, the core members of the development team headed by Hazuki Shizuku who came out of Flying Eagle before all joined Yichen's company, and each of these people is a rare talent.

Although there are talents on my side, a large part of them are just talented and lack of training.

"After the experiment of the first game, now we must slow down the pace and accumulate all kinds of technology, otherwise the gap will definitely be dragged down by the opponent."

While thinking, there was a knock on the office door.

"Come in."

The door of the office opened, and the person in charge of the program team walked in.

"President, just now you asked me to study the development engine of YC Productions' Battle Cube Theater. After our research, it is not any development engine that is currently transplanted on the market. I also asked some of my friends in the industry to confirm. Passed. Therefore, we agreed that this is an engine developed by the other party in-house, which is very suitable for the development of some horizontal and small-scale games, and The Binding of Isaac is also developed with this engine.”

Self-developed engine?

Benizaka Zhuyin waved her hand, let the other party go out, and leaned on the back of the boss chair.

"Sure enough, there are surprises everywhere, and it's really incomparable now."

After speaking, she took out her mobile phone.

Chapter 393

Yichen was very surprised by Hongsaka Zhuyin's call and intention.

"You mean, Hongsaka Zhuyin wants to rent the engine that Ning Ning developed himself?"

In the office, Shizuku Hazuki, who was called by Yi Chen, looked at Yi Chen in surprise, never expecting that Zhuyin Benizaka would like this engine.

Ying Ningning on the side was also in a daze, and hadn't recovered yet.

Yi Chen nodded and said: "That's right, that's what it means. I think she should have seen the applicability of this engine. Although it can't be used by developers of large-scale games, it can be used in small and medium-scale games, especially horizontal versions. In terms of game development, there are a lot of games. Hongsaka Zhuyin is a person who knows how to learn. After encountering problems in her own development of open world games, she didn't think about it. Obviously she wanted to learn our method, not just To make large-scale games, small but unique games also want to get involved. Ningning, what do you think? After all, you developed this engine.”

"Huh? Me?"

Pointing at herself, Ying Ningning said somewhat cautiously, "Well, I don't have any problems. Anyway, this engine is made for the purpose of developing games, and it can be used by anyone. But if it is rented out, how should it be charged? ?”