Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Ushering in the temporary calm of the LCD screen industry, Meng Qian's attention began to focus on another matter of the company this year, that is, a new game is about to be launched.

There are many factors for putting the game online in 2007. One is the excellence mentioned earlier, and the other is to build a better foundation for game promotion. The popularity of DOTA did not become popular overnight, it is a long-term precipitation. Things, the origin of DOTA can be traced back to a map called Aeon of Strife in the StarCraft era, which is the first 5V5 single-hero competitive map that can be found so far.

When the chaos of Warcraft 3 came, a player named Euls made the first ROC DotA map. After that, more and more people began to make similar maps. After several years of development, DOTA became everyone The familiar appearance is also loved by more and more players. The popularity of DOTA, more people think it started in 2006, until later it became the youth of a generation.

So this life is probably because Blizzard's overall performance is mediocre. It seems that there are not many people developing DOTA maps. Anyway, I haven't seen any waves caused by DOTA until now.

However, what even Meng Qian himself doesn't know is that the most important map designer of DOTA, Bingwa, is currently working at Dafeng Entertainment.

For this reason, Dafeng Entertainment has been trying to make built-in similar gameplay from "The Legend of God" to "Ancient Mythology", but it is still fundamentally different from a completely independent MOBA game.

Therefore, after the company's internal discussion for this online promotion, it is absolutely necessary to make good use of the live video broadcast and team effect that are slowly becoming popular recently.

In fact, there is another reason why Meng Qian wanted to put the game in 2007 that no one else knows about, and that is the lipstick effect. The so-called lipstick effect means that when the economic crisis comes, lipstick will sell well because everyone has nothing to do. Now, there will be more appointments, and the lipstick will sell better. From this extension, there are movie theater effects, coffee shop effects, condom effects and game effects. When the economy is not good, the unemployment rate increases, overtime decreases, and high consumption decreases. , while low-consumption entertainment and leisure lifestyles will become popular.

The new game has gone through 3 rounds of large-scale publicity since February, and is waiting for the development conference on May 20, and then it will be launched on May 21.

But as the game's launch day draws closer, Meng Qian heard the news that Kang Heng, who is currently the most popular in the company, seems to be a bit resistant to the new game recently.

On May 15, Meng Qian called Kang Heng into his office.

"I heard that you don't seem to be in the right state recently."

Kang Heng sat on the sofa and curled his lips, his face full of entanglements, "It's really boring. The games made by our company have always emphasized the friendliness to players. The brothers and sisters who are engaged in design are thinking about how to make the game simple every day. It’s easy to play, but making the game so simple makes it less and less fun to compete in.”

"What, you think the new game is too simple? So it's boring?"

"As long as there is one brain and hand that is not disabled, you can play with it, what do you think?"

Meng Qian seriously moved the laptop and put it in front of Kang Heng, "After this period of training, do you think you can still take the number one in the world in future competitions in the new game?"

Kang Heng said without hesitation, "Of course."

Meng Qian opened a video on his laptop, "I've seen your recent video recording. This is the internal test video of our game team in Korea, the United States and six European countries. You can see how they play the game."

Meng Qian watched with Kang Heng for about half an hour, and then asked, "How is it? Did you see anything coming?"

Kang Heng's eyes were still on the video, and he responded very seriously, "I really am number one in the world."

"Crack!" Meng Qian patted Kang Heng's head lightly, "I want to tell you that this is a team game, football knows it? Have you seen any team win the championship with only one superstar?

Team competition is completely different from individual competition. It pays more attention to team awareness and team strategy. Technology is very important, but technology alone is not enough in team competition.

In the past few years, my goal has been to develop you into a qualified professional player. You have proved your strength to me and to the world. Next, I want to train you into a leader. This will be your career. Even a particularly important change in life.

understand? "

Kang Heng blinked his big eyes, "I don't really understand."

"Let's put it this way, the operability of a game is not judged by the difficulty of operation, but by the infinite possibilities. I can tell you very clearly that the original intention of the new game design is not to let players It is easier to play, but it integrates puzzles, team awareness training, tactical strategy awareness training and other purposes. We have invited more than ten top psychological experts from all over the world to design this game.

This game requires professional players to have a more comprehensive comprehensive quality. It can be said that with the current balance system design, personal heroism is difficult to achieve great achievements in this game. If you really want to have a good performance, You need to understand this game first and understand the true meaning of this game. If you still don’t like it after understanding it, then let’s discuss your next career development path. "

"But our training during this period of time made me feel that it is really not good for teammates to be too good, but as long as the teammates are not very good, it is absolutely possible to take four."

Meng Qian sighed helplessly. Judging from his performance in the past few years, Kang Heng is indeed a treasure that Meng Qian has dug up. Although he is extremely talented in games, he also has obvious defects in character. Years of achievements made his character flaws begin to magnify.

"So you just can't cheer up now, right?"

"No, I'm really happy to be a professional player. I just want to play some more operable games. I don't know what the real meaning of the game you are talking about."

At this moment, someone knocked on the door of Meng Qian's office.

"sister in law."

"Why are you here?" It was Shen Jiawen who came.

"I have something to discuss with you." Seeing that Kang Heng was sitting inside, Shen Jiawen came in directly.

"What's wrong?"

"I took Sun Manyu to the studio just now, and suddenly found that she has a strong camera sense. Then we tried a few scenes, and it was amazing. Many people suggested cutting her into the promotional film." Sun Qicheng reported on his return to China in the past few days I put Sun Manyu on Meng Qian's side to visit relatives at work, and Shen Jiawen helped Meng Qian make a promotional film at the company. When Meng Qian was busy, Sun Manyu followed Shen Jiawen.

"Is it too late to cut it now?"

"In time."

Meng Qian thought for a while, "You are responsible for the promotional video. If you all think so, I'm sure I have no objection, but I have to ask Uncle Sun's opinion first. Her family may not like her being placed in front of the public."

"That's right, why don't you call Uncle Sun?"

"Okay, hey, where's Kang Heng?"

Meng Qian turned around only to find that Kang Heng had run to the door.

"May I have your name?"

Sun Manyu looked at Kang Heng cautiously, "My name is Sun Manyu."

"Hello, my name is Kang Heng."

Sun Manyu continued to be vigilant, "What do you do?"

"I'm a professional gamer."

"What is a professional player?"

"That's right, it's just for playing games."

I saw Sun Manyu blinking his big eyes, "Game? Is it that Empress Nuwa can fly that game?"

"You know? Do you like this game?"

Thinking of the game promotional video I watched just now, Sun Manyu smiled innocently, "Well, I like it, it looks good, and Empress Nuwa is very beautiful."

"Kang Heng, what are you doing?" Meng Qian stepped forward and put Kang Heng on the shoulder.

The latter turned his head to look at Meng Qian, his eyes were full of light, "Brother, I have found the true meaning of this game."

"Get out of here!"