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"Fantasy Realm", under the diffusion of enthusiastic players, began to spread rapidly!

First, Tang Ying and other major anchors tried it out, and the effect of the program was very good, and then it began to spread rapidly among independent game players!

Moreover, what Wu Minghao didn't expect was that the plot design of "Fantasy Realm" was well received!

The quality of "Fantasy Realm" itself can be regarded as excellent, and at the same time, its features are also very prominent.

This kind of difficult game, the spread effect is very good!

Especially after a few big anchors were tortured to death, many fans jumped into the trap out of curiosity and competitiveness.

In the process of going deep into the game, in addition to the hardcore difficulty, unique art style, and perfect worldview planning, the way the plot is told has also become a very attractive highlight!

For many players who are exposed to this game for the first time, they can't feel the plot at first, or in other words, there is very little plot.

After entering the game, after a simple initial guidance, you can go wherever you like, basically without restrictions.

In the first chapter, there are more than a dozen different horizontal scenes, and these scenes are distributed at different entrances. The difficulty of monsters is also different, and the degree of freedom is very high.

Players feel that they are free and don't have to be bound by the plot at all. Those players who are dedicated to advancing the progress of the game don't have to be suffocated within the framework of the plot.

However, with the deepening of the game experience, these players will find that the plot is actually everywhere!

A pool of blood was found on the ground, there is a plot;

Pick up a book in the cellar, there is a plot;

Obtain a prop with a plot;

Talk to a certain villager repeatedly, there is also a plot!

These plots are very scattered, it may be a sentence, it may be twenty or thirty characters; half of it may be useless information, and the other half may be useful information; it may also be some kind of metaphor or hint.

However, these plots are basically useful, as long as you dig carefully, they all hint at a certain piece of content in the game.

As long as you explore according to the plot, you will definitely be able to find hidden elements in the game. It may be a hidden scene, or a hidden side mission, or just a dust-covered truth...

Take the cannibal couple in the first chapter as an example. Many players may find some clues, such as why the villagers disappeared mysteriously, why some children were kidnapped, and why there were mysterious bloodstains on the ground outside the village...

If the player turns a blind eye to these, then a very embarrassing situation may occur, that is, he obviously accepted the task from a certain villager, but when he came back after completing the task, the villager disappeared! Naturally, the task can no longer be handed in.

And if the battle in the cellar is triggered before then, those villagers will survive and get more quest rewards later.

This kind of fragmented plot design greatly stimulated the players' desire to explore, as if everyone turned into a great detective, searching for all kinds of clues in the game, never tired of it.

What's even more wicked is that some stories in the game are not fully told at all!

For example, there is a very powerful boss in Chapter 4, a strange man wearing a black cloak, who will attack all passers-by wearing heavy armor indiscriminately, no matter if they are players, monsters or NPCs, as long as they are wearing heavy armor in the scene If he appeared, he would be attacked indiscriminately.

Players can choose to avoid him, just change clothes; they can also choose to kill him in the early stage to get good rewards.

In combat, he'll let out a maniacal, piercing laugh and sometimes cry, with his attacks changing between crying and laughing.

After defeating him, you will get a token, and in Chapter 6, after defeating the ghost of a beautiful woman, you can get another token in the woman's tomb.

These two keepsakes seem to be of the same style, and each other's names are engraved on them. Could it be that this beautiful woman was killed by a gangster or monster in heavy armor, which caused the weirdo to go crazy and attack all passers-by in heavy armor indiscriminately?

What kind of story happened between them?

No conclusions, only hints. There are many props in the game, and each prop has a vague description, which reveals a little secret to the players. As for the hidden truth behind it... it is up to the players to make up their minds.

Many players were completely fascinated in the process of brain supplementation, and even a little dazed. Regarding the discussion of the plot of "Fantasy Realm", they were pushed hundreds of floors directly on the forum, and the most terrifying thing was that when the players were in When constantly exploring a certain puzzle, it leads to new puzzles, and even leads to new branch plots...

This kind of plot design makes many players work tirelessly to clear certain difficult chapters over and over again, explore clues in every corner of the map, and find the secrets hidden by the designer.

And this group of people is also nicknamed "Phantomists" to commemorate their research in the game "Fantasy Realm".

"Fantasy Realm", inexplicably, became popular!

...

A week later, Shimmer Studios.

Zhong Ming just finished touching a few new features of "Ink Painting Cloud Mist" with Brother Dahui.

A month has passed, although Zhong Ming is busy with the plot of "Fantasy Realm", but the development progress of "Ink and Cloud" is naturally not letting go at all.

After this period of development, the big framework of "Ink and Mist" has already been set up, and the progress is not bad.

Of course, in terms of unique combat system, art style, etc., it is definitely not enough to just make it, and it needs to be slowly adjusted to a sufficiently good and satisfying point.

Overall, the workload is not small.

While busy, Wu Minghao sent a message.

"Zhong Ming, we plan to hold a player meeting this weekend, do you have time to come over?"

Zhong Ming was taken aback, and replied: "Player meeting? I don't have anything to do on the weekend. Where is the meeting?"

Wu Minghao: "It's in a hotel near our company. I'll send you the address. It's nothing special. It's just to give back to the players, send some small gifts on the spot, and then tell the players the inside story of creation and share the next stage Planning and so on. I feel that the players must ask about the plot, and if you are not there, I may not be able to hold it."

Zhong Ming smiled: "Okay, then I'll go there."

Wu Minghao quickly sent the address of the hotel.

It seems that the sales and popularity of "Fantasy Realm" are really good, otherwise Wu Minghao would definitely not be in the mood to hold any player meeting.

The scale of this player meeting is not large, maybe one or two hundred people, all of them are die-hard fans of "Fantasy Realm", and most of the core players are from Ming'an City. came here.

Although eggs are delicious, there will always be people who want to see the hen laying eggs. These die-hard fans of "Fantasy Realm" naturally wanted to see Wu Minghao, as well as the entire "Fantasy Realm" design team.

The nature of the meet and greet is not too different from that of many novel authors and comic book authors signing books. Players come all the way to see the main creators on the one hand, and to pick up some souvenirs on the other hand.

For the studio, this also helps to unite the players, and it can also communicate with the players on the spot, listen to their opinions, and better improve the game.

...

Sunday.

The Shimmer studio is not working today, so Zhong Ming woke up after a late sleep and made some lunch by himself.

Now that there are more people in the studio, all kinds of ingredients are always stocked in the refrigerator at home. When Zhong Ming is in a good mood, he cooks a few dishes, which is healthier than ordering takeaway.

After eating and drinking enough, he took an air taxi to attend the player meeting in the afternoon.

Arrived at the hotel venue ahead of time and found Wu Minghao.

Wu Minghao was instructing the hotel staff to arrange the scene of the meeting. Including the placement of seats, some banners, posters, surrounding layout, and so on.

Zhong Ming took a look and found that it was quite similar.

Games with a unique art style like "Fantasy Realm" have the opportunity to sell game peripherals.

With the good initial sales, Wu Minghao also plans to sell the collector's edition of "Fantasy Realm".

The price of the digital version is 10 yuan, and the price of the collection version is 48 yuan. It contains a small figure, the model of the sword used by the protagonist, a small ornament, and an activation code. Enter the activation code in the game to get a set of random The Collector's Edition character appearance.

Of course, small figures of various characters in the game will also be sold separately at night, basically ranging from more than 20 to more than 30.

These figures can be customized by related companies, and the production is very fast, basically a batch can be made in a week. A batch will be sent out at the exchange meeting today, and some gift boxes of the collection version "Fantasy Realm" will also be sold on the spot.

As soon as Zhong Ming arrived, Tian Yuan ran over and gave him a collector's edition of "Fantasy Realm", which was a bonus for the team's creators.

Open the gift box of the collector's edition, take out the figurines inside to play with, it feels good, it can be placed on the desk as a decoration.

"The figurines are pretty good. In the future, Weiguang Studio can also customize some."

When it comes to playing around, Wu Minghao is ahead of Zhong Ming. In fact, Zhong Ming also had this idea long ago, but the games produced by Shimmer Studios, "Latent Red Path" and "Working Dog Survival Manual" are not suitable for shooting.

After "Ink and Mist" is finished, some figures can be released to give back to the players.

Soon, the player meeting of "Fantasy Realm" began.

As the producer, Wu Minghao was of course the keynote speaker. He talked about his journey of quitting his job and starting a business, and also talked about a series of setbacks encountered in starting a business and making games.

Including where did the idea for the game "Fantasy Realm" come from, how the prototype was produced, and how to perfect it.

The players in the audience listened carefully, and burst into laughter or applause from time to time.

Wu Minghao spoke lightly, and many difficulties were mentioned in a few words. He mainly shared some interesting stories in the process of starting a business, which made the players burst into laughter.

Of course, the main creators present all know that interesting things are only a very small part of entrepreneurship, most of which are difficult and not humane.

After that, there will be some links, such as on-site painting by the main artist of the game, draws from players, giving out some small gifts on the spot, preaching the follow-up development plan of "Fantasy Realm", and so on.

The last part is the free questioning part of the players.

Zhong Ming also took the stage with other main creative members, ready to answer various questions from the players.

"Okay, then the question-and-answer session will officially begin. Players who have questions can raise their hands to ask questions."

As soon as Wu Minghao finished speaking, a male player in the front row immediately raised his hand, and the staff handed over the microphone.

"Excuse me, what is the relationship between the crying and laughing monster in the game and the girl's soul? Who killed that girl?"

Wu Minghao didn't expect that the first player was actually asking about the plot, so he looked at Zhong Ming who was sitting next to him: "Let the designer of our plot answer this question. Oh, yes, many old players may know it, There was a little accident in our project..."

Wu Minghao briefly introduced the problems at the time, praised Zhong Ming a lot, and also posted an advertisement for Zhong Ming's game "Ink and Cloud".

The microphone was handed over to Zhong Ming.

Zhong Ming pondered for a moment: "Uh...you guess."

The player who asked the question was stunned.

Zhong Ming smiled and said: "I don't want to spoil the content of the game. You need to figure out and experience it yourself. If you explain it clearly, it will be boring."

Another player asked: "So far, "Fantasy Realm" seems to have more than three mainline endings. Which one is the official official ending?"

Zhong Ming said, "Well... the true ending is what you like best."

Wu Minghao wiped his sweat from the side, such a perfunctory conversation, there is no one else.

But looking at the appearance of the players, why don't they seem to be angry at all, but rather excited?

It feels like someone came up with a difficult riddle, and then the person who solved the riddle couldn't ask the answer, but became more excited...

Another player raised his hand: "Okay, I understand your good intentions! Then, is this plot design intentional? Is it to expand the freedom of the game, or to stimulate players to explore? want?"

Zhong Ming thought for a while: "Probably...all of them. But the most important thing is to meet the deadline, because if you don't write like this, you won't be able to catch up with the game's launch."

The player looked confused: "Huh?"

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes, mainly because of lack of time, I can only write like this. And I am not a professional plot designer, why do you think I am a game producer and write the plot? You still have to hire a special plot designer to do these jobs."

"puff!"

"What the hell, is it okay to be lazy just to meet the deadline?"

"If you don't believe me, you're running the train with your mouth full! You can't believe even a single punctuation mark!"

"Such a good plot is just in a hurry? Bragging!"

"It's boring to pretend too much! It's an understatement even if the plot is written with painstaking effort, ha ha ha ha!"

Zhong Ming and Wu Minghao looked at each other helplessly.

These days, no one believes the truth anymore? ?