Rebirth of the Game Pioneer

Chapter 119 "Plants vs. Zombies"

On Monday, when Gu Feng and the other three arrived at the store, they saw Wang Chen carrying a black backpack again.

"You came so early, have you had breakfast?" Gu Feng asked with a smile.

"Yeah." Wang Chen responded softly.

"Haha, now that you have officially joined Chuxin, you will inevitably have to deal with them in the future. Let me introduce to you, the director of the music department, Gu Lan, and the chief designer of the music department, Clivia."

"Two... hello, two big guys." Wang Chen didn't know how to call them for a moment. He suddenly remembered a trick he heard from his friends in casual chat. Whenever he met someone with a high position in the workplace and didn't know how to call them, he would just call them. Just call the boss.

Gu Lan and Clivia were both amused and responded with a smile.

"Let's go up. First, go up and find Sister Li from HR to complete the on-boarding process. Then go to 210 to find the assistant to get your things. When you're done, come to me and I'll tell you about your next work tasks." Gu Feng said as he walked, Wang Chen At the end, he nodded repeatedly and responded from time to time to show that he understood everything.

Around 10:30, Wang Chen completed all the entry procedures.

After going upstairs, he deliberately paid attention to which office Gu Feng went to. Being a little afraid of society, he saved himself the trouble of asking for directions.

Boom boom boom!
He knocked three times in a row, but it was obviously not Wen Meng's habitual rhythm.

"Come in."

Wang Chen opened the door carefully and reported in a low voice: "Mr. Gu, I have completed the procedures."

"Okay." Gu Feng locked the screen and stood up, "Let's go and talk in the conference room."

Wang Chen pushed the door open further, turned sideways, and followed Gu Feng after he walked out.

Pushing open the conference room door, Gu Feng suddenly said: "You don't need to call me Mr. Gu from now on, it's not a pleasant title."

"Oh, okay." Wang Chen responded quickly. After thinking about it, he tentatively called out, "Brother Feng?"

In the workplace, whoever is awesome is the elder brother. It’s not shabby for me, a newbie in the workplace, to call the boss my elder brother.

Besides, he is only three years older, so there is no psychological burden at all when he screams.

"Yes." Gu Feng was not polite. Thinking about it from his perspective, it was not easy for the employees under his immediate boss to address him as such a young boss. Calling him "boss" when he has been here for a long time would seem cordial. Newcomers usually come from Brother Gu or Feng gradually got used to the change.

While it was time to project the screen, Gu Feng introduced him: "Through the game "Hidden Object Detective" and your interview performance last week, it can be seen that your level design ability is quite good, and you know the selling points of the game. It’s also relatively clear, but if you want to serve as the chief designer, this alone is definitely not enough.”

Wang Chen nodded obediently like a good student listening to the teacher.

"There are only three days left in this month including today. You can stop thinking about other things this week and concentrate on making your new gameplay of "Hidden Object Detective". No one else in the company has anything to do these two days. Scene drawing You can ask the art scene lady to help with this kind of thing. I will also assign someone to take charge of the bidding and advertising. Then you can communicate with the person in charge about your needs."

After all, he is someone who is going to be trained as the main designer. It is impossible to huddle in a corner and work on technology in the main design role. The final decision on the big and small matters of a game cannot be separated from repeated communication and discussion.

Starting now, Gu Feng plans to slowly improve his communication skills.

When Wang Chen heard that he was looking for help from a young lady to draw scenes and someone to discuss advertising bidding needs, he suddenly felt panicked.

"Brother Feng, I..."

Gu Feng interrupted him with a wave of his hand and encouraged: "You can do it. Don't think of the workplace as too scary. The company is full of peers about your age. Everyone is focused on making games. There is no such thing as what you are watching in TV series." Those sections of Gongdou Bridge that we arrived at.”

After all, this was not the first time he had encountered introverted employees in the company. Gu Feng had a general understanding of what these people were worried about and what they were afraid of.

Seeing that the computer screen has been projected on the big screen, Gu Feng started to operate and said: "You have to remember that you are no longer alone. Learn to schedule and allocate team members, and try to maximize everyone's strengths. Only in this way can you play games efficiently and effectively." quality."

Wang Chen nodded thoughtfully. His mood in the past two days was one of longing and anxiety, excitement and fear.Will the leader be difficult to serve?Are there secret intrigues among colleagues?Will he be ostracized?It can be said that before he joined the job, he had already finished thirty or forty episodes of the bloody workplace drama in his mind.

Now Gu Feng's words made him feel more at ease.

"Okay, let me tell you about the new game."

Gu Feng projected the document on the big screen, walked to the front of the big screen and picked up the projection pen.

Hearing this, Wang Chen quickly drove away the distracting thoughts in his mind and turned his gaze to the big screen.

"Plants vs. Zombies"?
He mentally recited the title of the document, The Name of the New Game.

ACT?Just hearing the name, Wang Chen made a guess in his mind.

"After finishing "Hidden Object Detective", this game will be your work assignment in December. Others have more important tasks in December. If there is no manpower available, you can go to Wu Ya if you need the original painting."

"Now let me tell you briefly about the general requirements of this game. First of all, this game is positioned as a puzzle strategy game..."

Gu Feng explained patiently, and Wang Chen listened very carefully. While listening, he was constantly thinking in his mind.

The core gameplay of the game is very simple, not much more difficult than the hidden object gameplay. To put it simply, the zombies want to break into the house and hammer out the player’s brains. Players don’t want their brains to be hammered out by zombies, so they have to Plant some magical plants with different functions in the yard to defend against the waves of zombie attacks.

Speaking of which, the gameplay of this game is actually a bit like a tower defense game, but there are some differences.

Overall, just listening to Gu Feng's description, Wang Chen felt that this game was indeed interesting. When he thought of the players hurriedly operating under the zombie offensive, the corners of his mouth involuntarily rose.

He is worthy of being called the Maple God!This game is so to his liking, it's almost like it was tailor-made for him.

As an excellent designer, controlling the level difficulty is a very difficult skill to master.

Especially strategy, puzzle solving, and action game types that require certain challenges.

If it’s difficult, players will curse and exit the one-stop service of deleting games and leaving bad reviews. If it’s easy, players will curse and exit the one-stop service of deleting games and leaving negative reviews.

What the designer has to do is to maximize the stimulation of the players' M-movement attributes, allowing them to enjoy the feeling of pain and happiness, making them cry for their fathers and mothers in one second and wishing to blow the designer's brains out, and then the next Within seconds, I was so excited that I couldn’t breathe and shouted “Designer Daddy Cow Cup”!
(End of this chapter)