Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

With the arrival of the New Year's Day holiday, many game manufacturers are also promoting their new games one after another.

If it was in the past, then many game makers must still take it easy.

After all, according to some information released by Nebula Games before, this game called "DOTA" is estimated to be launched during this period.

Although from the point of view of the Warcraft RPG map, it makes people feel that there is nothing special about this game.

But the production of Nebula Games, coupled with the popularity of Dragon Blood and various large-scale publicity, can make people feel that Nebula Games attaches great importance to the game "DOTA".

But after more of its information content is announced, this will be different.

That is, according to the news of Nebula Games, this game will be a free game and will only be launched on the PC platform.

The two keywords suddenly surprised many players and industry designers.

If it is only on the PC platform, this is nothing to say.

Because from the perspective of the operation of the game, it seems that this is still the kind of "Warcraft", but it has changed from manipulating troops to a pure hero unit.

This mode of operation and gameplay is indeed more suitable for the PC platform rather than the VR platform.

The key is to play for free.

Whether a game can survive or not depends on whether it can make money.

Although the game is called the ninth art, art also has to make money.

This includes film, painting, music, any traditional art.

So obviously "DOTA" is a project that relies on value-added props to charge.

As for the paid content, although Nebula Games has not said it at present, in fact, regardless of players or designers in the game industry, they know it in their hearts.

That is to say, there will be no numerical balance involved. It should be like games such as "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" and "Rainbow Six: Siege", adding skins and other similar value-added props systems.

But the key is, can such a profit model make money?

After all, the promotion of "DOTA" can be said to be absolutely heavyweight.

But no matter what, it is obviously not running, after all, it is the official news released by Nebula Games.

Some game makers who were prepared to avoid it before, such as Atari and FOW, didn't have much concerns.

Although I am not optimistic about the gameplay of "DOTA" from the bottom of my heart, due to the prestige of Nebula Games and Chen Xu, I will avoid the schedule.

But now it is a free game, and the online platform is different. Obviously, everyone can't achieve too much competition.

Of course there is no need to worry.

Therefore, FOW and Atari also carried out publicity one after another.

As for Nebula Games, it still follows its own promotion rhythm.

"DOTA" has released two new promotional CGs one after another, namely Monkey King and Bomberman.

In the past life, it can be said that DOTA can only be described as a father who does not love his mother and does not love it in terms of promotion.

Now, Chen Xu intends to make a simple background CG animation short film for each hero.

Just like every operator in Rainbow Six: Siege.

Of course, considering the large number of heroes in "DOTA", it is obviously impossible to launch all of them at once, but maintaining the rhythm of two a month, the current heroes can be done for at least a few years.

Unlike before, although the promotional CG production this time is also very well-made, many Nebula game players have not paid too much attention to this aspect.

For some excited new players, they just waved their hands silently and said: "It's not a good idea. Even if Nebula Games suddenly made a big CG animation movie one day, they would not be too surprised.

Compared with Monkey King and Bomberman, the animated short films of these two heroes CG make players more curious about the gameplay mode of "DOTA".

Because as more and more information is revealed, the gameplay of the game "DOTA" has gradually become clearer.

Players are also all talking about the video material that has been circulating online.

"Although the publicity is fierce, but it seems that the new game this time is to single out the heroes in "Warcraft"?"

"It looks like there are a lot of heroes, so the main one has changed from racial troops to heroes?"

"It's not obvious, but Nebula Games attaches great importance to this game, and even the investment is not smaller than "World of Warcraft". It feels like it should be a core game."

"This is not clear, but from the video and data, the game seems to be quite simple, right? Especially in terms of operation, you only need to control one hero unit, and it seems that the hero only has four skills and six item bars. "

"Doesn't that feel unskilled?"

Soon, players online were arguing.

After all, judging from the content in the promotional video, I really can't feel how good this game is from my brain, at least it's not the same as the huge publicity battle.

Of course, there are also quite a few players who expressed their expectations for "DOTA". After all, in the minds of these players for so many years, Nebula Games is the endorsement of high-quality games.

And this time a huge investment in publicity, many players also believe that this game will not be so simple

In the various discussions of players, "DOTA" also ushered in the day of open testing amid the expectations of countless players.

After a total of 10 days of us Handang test, the mall system is temporarily closed, mainly because Chen Xu wants to collect some more data and make corrections to the game.

After all, "DOTA" is not the same as a stand-alone game, and the main focus is multiplayer confrontation.

Basically, the multiplayer-based games in the industry are all like this.

Including a data collection on the novice habits of players, Chen Xu and his team have to modify the details little by little, but the current stage is definitely better than the previous life. I don't know where to go.

After all, you have to know that the teaching of "DOTA" in the previous life belongs to the purchased plus members. It is recommended to recommend the player to buy two supplementary axe when going out.

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In the specially decorated game room, Zhang Yi and Wang Han were sitting in a row on the sofa.

"I haven't played a game on the PC platform for a long time!" Zhang Yi said with a little emotion.

After all, the development of VR, coupled with the major game manufacturers in the past two years, are all VR games launched.

Therefore, in the PC part, although the latest graphics card will be updated when the configuration is released, there is very little time to actually play.

After all, when you have free time, you can go into the game compartment. It has better visual effects and is much more comfortable to play while lying down than sitting on a chair.

"But I feel this way, I just don't know if this game is fun or not." Wang Han nodded with a nostalgic nostalgia.

"I'm still very confident in the production of Nebula Games. Although President Chen likes to engage in some nonsense, whether it's a knife person or a cruel person, the quality is guaranteed." Zhang Yi said cheerfully.

"By the way, this game seems to be a 5V5 game, aren't Lao Song and the others coming?" Wang Han was a little curious.

"Lao Song and the others have something to do during the day. We made an appointment at 8 o'clock in the evening. Let's play first and then we will have an infinite lead. Looking at the information, it seems that there are different positions in the game. At that time, the two of us will be the main C and let Lao Song take the lead. They contribute resources." Zhang Yi thief said with a smile.

"Good idea!" Wang Han gave a thumbs up.

As for the so-called DOTA position, this Wang Han does not know.

But she has experience in contributing resources.

When "Warcraft" was booming, several people also teamed up to play "Warcraft".

At that time, they developed a tactical system.

That is to open a private room where resources can be given, and then the two most skilled people will give priority to the development of barracks and technology, and the other two people who compare vegetables will give priority to farmers to pick wood, and then give all the wood and money to the most skilled person. Two people.

In the early stage, explosive troops and technology quickly formed and began to attack.

Even if you don't eat it hard, you can get rich first and get rich later in a stalemate.

She guessed that the so-called position of this DOTA is probably the same.