Wen 丨 春辞 Typesetting 丨 Arc Wing Executive
If you often pay attention to your private messages, B station users should know that B station often has a variety of small-scale incentive activities, such as creative incentives, such as live broadcast incentives, etc., but in fact, this is not all.
Recently, they have launched a campaign called "Solo Star", which is used to motivate those independent game creators, so that they can post their works on the B station, push them in a special section, obtain certain publicity resources, and give a part of the cash rewards to those works with the highest praise rate and playback.
It was also because of this activity that I met a very interesting game person.
Why is it funny to say that after talking to so many game makers, my cognitive and first impression is telling me that this person is a bit less like the person who can make that game.
What game? How interesting is that?
Show you a screenshot of his circle of friends, and then show you a screenshot of the game, compare it, and you will understand.
A commercial connection of WeChat, the circle of friends background is a muppet cat cat picture, the avatar is a two-dimensional cute woman, personality signature is a riot, sent in November the circle of friends is to play tickets to lose money.
And the gamer with such a wild and uninhibited component, the game made by his team is this style.
The game is called Doroco Town, and the gameplay elements include pixel-style two-dimensional, apocalyptic, wild exploration +pve battles, and farming.
And if you want to add another definite sentence to these contents, it should be...
Cute blood pixel style two-dimensional apocalyptic exploration farming game.
When I saw this content demo, I was very excited.
This person must be very understanding, the two-dimensional game figure is something, just the smell of the picture, the protagonist of these two heads of white coats, the top of the head of a shield walking like a small cat swinging like a feeling, is too cute.
He was the main beauty in "Doroco Town".
But after a deep chat with this old brother, I found that this person had another game called "Tail" under his hands, and participated in the heartwarming 30-day challenge to make a game activity.
The name of the project team of the game "Tail" is very simple and straightforward, the money project team, and this old brother who has both the identity of art and game producer is called Old Cat.
But his identity is more than that.
The old cat has two other identities in the game circle, a member of the Valletta Society of the Ark of Tomorrow and the head of game technology of the Arcasi Chain Game Guild.
The Valletta Society was involved in the production of the Ark of Tomorrow anniversary, and the official support was also provided for this, relatively for the love of power generation, and the Akasi Chain Tour Union is much more commercial.
Chain game refers to games that have added blockchain content and have digital currency prospects, such as famers WORLD and Metamon island on the extranet.
What The old cat does in the chain game union is to find and evaluate whether the blockchain content and game financial system in the chain game have room for operability, and summarize and sort out these contents to the marketing and investment departments of the union.
So I asked the old cat at the time: "You are a chain game, why did you think of making your own game?" ”
"Do what you really want to do and generate electricity with love." The old cat said.
Maybe I wasn't asking directly enough, so I asked him again, "This... Your project team over there is called making money, you also play chain games and stock speculation, you do games to generate electricity for love? ”
The old cat said very seriously: "There is no conflict between generating electricity for love and making money." You have to do other things to earn money before you can support your ideals, and the team is not me, everyone has to eat. And playing the chain game union is not my first project, at the beginning I was still in the "My Brave" project team, and then I quit before I began to contact the chain game. ”
In the current four project groups, the identity and energy invested by the old cat are different.
He is an ordinary member of the Valletta Society, and will help when he has the technical needs;
On the side of the Akasi union is the core shareholder;
Before the production of "Tails", the old cat would take over the outsourcing with the members of the project team, and now he is perfecting the decryption novel game "Tails" and putting steam on the shelves next spring;
In the Rainbow Studio, which is responsible for the development of "Doroco Town", the old cat is the main beauty, and he is also responsible for external business.
I asked the old cat why he was involved in the development of "Doroco Town", and he only used very simple words: "I think that few people can do a good job in pixel style, this is my feeling, and it is also the dream of a group of people." 」 ”
I told the old cat that I felt that the distant and close scenes were completely different, the background and some of the descriptions of some buildings were very apocalyptic atmosphere, and the close-ups and characters could show that two-dimensional style, and things that were obviously incompatible were well integrated.
"Pixels are such a fascinating thing." The old cat said, "Pixels can show what you have in mind very quickly." Instead of curating to fine art and then rendering in 3D. Something so complicated. ”
In my understanding, pixels are a style, a kind of contour beauty, like the pixels in Cyberpunk Bartender Action, which uses pixels to outline characters and scenes, allowing players to be in the world of the game and think about the relationship between people and the world from the story of the characters.
But the old cat talked about pixels and said: "Pixel wind is a technology, but also a vision and cognition." What kind of vision people have, what kind of things they will do, what kind of works they will do. ”
For example, such as pixel rendering technology, the current rendering technology can directly render an image into a pixel style, but this is not exactly the same as the content of a work that uses pixel stacking as a starting point.
"I'm afraid there's only one in 10,000 pixel-specific painters." The old cat said, "And out of a thousand painters who specialize in pixels, only one person may be able to do pixels well." The Rainbow Team is the ones who like pixels the most come together to generate electricity for love. ”
I like the light and shadow here and the text information, pixels make the expression of the picture clear but harmonious and unified
Regarding the discussion of pixel technology, the old cat and I talked about some that I didn't fully understand. But I know that rendering pixels with images and building images from pixels will take more labor than the former, but the final effect may not be proportional to the extra effort.
Simply put, it's good, but it's not amazing, and the pixel artists at Rainbow Studios pursue pixel painting by hand, including animation.
He said: "Every pixel painter is a treasure. ”
As long as it can get a little better, it's worth it, and he probably wants to convey this to me.
The game also has a pve battle system
I also asked the old cat about the gameplay of a game.
Like the element of farming, I was curious about how to farm the vertical version of the game, he told me that there is an area where players can play freely, build the desired farmland, vertical space can also make the content elements of farming and building, and will not buy in-app, it is a single-player game.
Looking back at my first impression of an old cat, it was a man who wanted to make money.
And think carefully about the relationship between making money and making games and making games well, in the final analysis, it should not be conflicting.
There is a heart to make money, but this does not prevent the old cat from doing a good job in the work of the pixel art at hand, but it is better to say that it is precisely the desire to make money, and the pursuit of making money, it is more important to want to do a good job in the game.
He wanted it all.
This is the diversity of independent game creation, as the old cat said, the gamer's knowledge, vision and cognition will affect the final presentation of the game, and as a whole team needs to fight for it, constantly coordinate and listen to the outside world, and make adjustments and modifications to the game.
And the voices of the outside world, from other people in the game industry, the media, the publicity and all the players facing the game industry, will eventually shape "Doroco Town".
With the good quality now, "Doroco Town" got a good number of plays, and there were more than 2w fans in the B station, which is a good start, which is also a small help for these gamers who use love to generate electricity.
At present, the Solo Star campaign has entered the final selection stage, and the development progress of "Doroko Town" has not reached 50%.
But fortunately, many solo stars have dug out a number of games with very good quality and worth developing, and "Doroco Town" has also set up a big framework, just need to do every step steadily.