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, when the words such as Orion, Aqueson galaxy, Merizer, Mecha, Command Ship, X Element, and Neurutors appear together, what do you think of? At least my first reaction is "Alien", "Star Trek", "Third Category of contact" and "Star Trek Crossing". But in a startup in Beijing, 25 people want to make these elements a "real science fiction mobile game". To be honest,
has never trusted domestic science fiction mobile games, just like the criticism of the domestic science fiction movie "Machine Man" that was criticized in 2009, it was not a strong cottage flavor, or that kind of I feel sad and weak, even if you look at it. However, some time ago, a friend recommended by a friend, "Core Element", gave me new ideas.
■ Core gameplay
game initially attracted me the CG animation that introduces the game background.
5 AD 3005, the moon was impacted by the asteroids from its original track. Under the influence of the earth's gravity, the moon sank into the Pacific Ocean. The earth has no longer adapting to human living, and a group of humans carrying excellent genes began to find new homeland. After tens of thousands of light years, they came to the Aqueson galaxy deep in the hunter constellation. The rulers of the Pabul Empire there accepted exiled humans and placed them on a planet similar to the earth and named Kitir. Life.
, as an exchange condition, human beings must act as a soldier of the Imperial Army unconditionally. This unequal treaty lasted for 200 years until humans discovered the mystery of giant mech -core elements (also known as X element), which allows organisms and machinery to resonate and control the mech through nerve connection. Soon, human beings had their own mech army, and they began to sit flat with the Pabul Empire. Next, the fate of human beings will be expanded in your hands ... Although
does not have a colorful 3D performance in CG, the delicate original painting settings, the mechas with strong contrast and a reasonable original original creation The background of the story made me feel the sincerity of this team.
has the mutual push of the tower defense element. You can also choose a certain orbit during the battle. The gameplay of the command ship
"Core Element" combines the characteristics of straight tower defense and action cards. The five mechs we played are tied side by side to 5 columns to protect the after -protection ship, unlike the single -row action card, due to the obvious meat shield, output and auxiliary relationships due to the natural front, middle and back positions, Essence If the mech is destroyed first, this road will generate defense emptiness. It can only rely on the firepower auxiliary attacks on the upper and lower rows. It is easy to be raid by enemies with fast mobility. At this time, the command ship is very crispy. In addition to automatic attacks in
mech, there are common clicks to release big moves. It is more special that there is also a manual release in the game. Players can choose a specific track and click to release the skills of the command ship. These skills will give priority to the orbit. To prevent continuous attacks of enemies with fast maneuverability, eliminate the set fire of key units of the enemy, and repair the treatment of our mechs, the skill cooling time of the command ship is short, and the impact of the battle situation is critical. The new operations will not affect the progress of the game, but also increase the strategy. When the enemy's firepower is relatively large, the pressure on judgment and operation is relatively high, and the accuracy is high, but it is not cumbersome. However, some global command ship skills will be unlocked later, so there is no need to choose the track.
game random meteorite rain
development group will have new battlefield factors such as weather and QTE in the later period of the game. For example, meteorites will suddenly appear during the war, and players should quickly click within 3 seconds to avoid large -scale damage. The weather is also an important factor. For example, some planets will have snowstorms, and the speed of the mech will slow down. Some planets come with poisonous gas, and they will bring Debuff as soon as they play.There are still many stand -alone games in
"Core Elements". For example, in order to strengthen the sense of substitution in the game world, many concepts have been produced in the game. The currency of the game is not called gold coins, but the Pabur currency used by the Pabur Empire. The human type, animal, and energy mech in the game all have their own corresponding upgrade ore.
will use the character's action to express their emotions. Former old -fashioned Japanese RPG The active animation uses more clever movements to express some emotions of the protagonist. Because it is the form of 2D, it looks a bit like a shadow play, and some plots even have the choice that allows players to decide the direction of the story, which is very rare in domestic mobile games.
is similar to the form of occupied pits in previous page games.
is not fully matched with PVP gameplay, but similar to the resource and ore form of domestic SLG page games. By searching, players can find an unprecedented galaxy in space, and the three ore capacity of different galaxies will be different. You can choose to occupy directly, or you can grab the nebula that others have occupied, plunder resources at the same time grab higher production galaxies. PVP is an asynchronous battle. You will usher in a wave of enemy forces, the front is a soldier, and the last wave is the enemy's mecha army. Players can also buy small soldiers for their own defense camp.
■ Strange Point
In a office building not far from Datun North Road Metro Station, I saw the two leaders of the "Core Element" project. One is the CEO Tang Zhengyi from the product manager of Tencent Mobile Games, and the other is the design of the Flash project for 10 years. During the period, Li Peng, a producer of three independent games, was launched. Before 2014, they were strangers who did not know each other. Now, in the same office, they want to polish a real science fiction mobile game together.
Tang Zhengyi is a girl. She has been affected by the growth environment. She has loved games since she was a child. At that time, her hometown opened the first Internet cafe in a small town of mountain town. She saw the DOS version of "The Legend of Xian Jian Qi Xia". The story can also participate. Xiao Zhengyi couldn't fully understand the story in the game, but she felt very fresh. Since then, she will go there every day, and she will go there to make fun.
Tang Zhengyi said, "When I was a kid, my mother asked me what I would do in the future. I said that I wanted to do game planning. I want to give the soul for the characters I want, and let the player experience my thoughts. My mother said that I was unreasonable. "The expedition mode in
game is the opportunity of
on the meteorite band through the opportunity of school recruitment, Tang Zhengyi entered Tencent. She started from the game evaluation, and then began to try the operation and product manager's work. She had done the operation of the page game "Seven Heroes". Later, she was also responsible for Tencent's first agent mobile game "Three Kingdoms Tower Defense: Wei Chuan". This job allows her to directly contact the player and know what the real market feedback will look like.
Tang Zhengyi likes science fiction is affected by science fiction games. For example, the most attractive attraction in "Quality Effect" is not fighting, not a picture, but the world view set by the game -why is there only a civilization in the universe at present, and where did the previous civilization go? There is a novel point of view in "Quality Effect": civilization is like crops, and it is harvested one by one. When a civilization is in a mature state, it will be harvested by the harvester to make a living space for the next civilization. However, where does the harvester come from? It was actually created by ancient civilization. They created an artificial intelligence to help the development of other civilizations. However, after repeated analysis of this artificial intelligence, a conclusion: For the sake of the universe, the civilization that develops to the peak must be eliminated.
"Quality Effect" series of original painting settings
2012 After leaving from Tencent in Tencent, she herself at home and played "Quality Effect 2", "Quality Effect 3" three times. There are three endings in "Quality Effect 3", but each ending needs to inherit the archives of different endings of "Quality Effect 2". To this end, she has played a total of 3 months. These three endings are humans rising to resist and eliminate the harvesters; humans have become harvesters themselves; humans make other civilizations become their own puppets. State. At that time, the three endings were greatly touched by Tang Zhengyi. She was also thinking about whether civilization should exist in a rational disorder, or in a perfect and orderly universe, and became an unreasonable existence. During the time of
, an investor who was also a science fiction enthusiast also actively found her and asked if she was willing to form a team to do a project, a science fiction -themed mobile game. Tang Zhengyi did not immediately agree, and she talked to a good friend at that time. This friend told her: "Since you have always wanted to make a game, you now have such a good opportunity. Why don't you come out? And now it is the best time to start a business, and there will be no burden from the family. I may never have such a chance in the future.
she found Li Peng, who was still promoting Flash technology at the time. Li Peng and FLASH have been dealing with Flash technology for 10 years. The first three years are mainly responsible for Flash design, and the procedure in the next 7 years. The things to be done at the time were very mixed, not only the game, but also some Flash design in education and website. Later, Li Peng joined Adobe China and was responsible for Flash's domestic technology promotion.
2005 Li Peng's independent game "Dr. Stanley's Home"
Li Peng was a independent game developer, who has made his own trilogy of the secret room, "The Home of Dr. Stanley". The first part was born in 2005. In 2011, Li Peng launched a sequel. The third part was launched at the end of 2014. The background of the story became space, and the iOS version was launched.
"Dr. Stanley's Home 3" Robbie
is not all Li Peng's all. In 2012, because of the astronomical photos taken by others, he fascinated astronomical photography. Every time he goes to Beijing, such as Huairou, Dam Shangcao, Pinggu and other places to shoot deep space, the galaxy in summer, and the nebula in autumn. Recently, he also successfully developed his colleagues to go to the suburbs of Beijing together, and they will stay in the house of the farmhouse. In the evening, the whole village was blind, and the neon lights were reflected from the city's neon lights, but it made the night view in the suburbs unique. Through Newton's reflective telescope, Li Peng can see Yuanyue, Fairy Lauret Star, Xingxing Group, Hunter Nebula and so on. He often shares the nebula he took on Weibo, and there is a moon model printed with real moon data 3D on his desk.
Li Peng's fairy galaxy
Li Peng shot by Li Peng
Li Peng, after seeing Tang Zhengyi, feels that the ideas of the two are very fit, and they want to make a science fiction game with original stories. Li Peng said: "At that time, I felt that this little girl was amazing, and also liked astronomical science fiction and game. She also recommended many works for me." So in March 2014, they formed Beijing Qixian Realm Technology Co., Ltd.
■ How to make a hardcore science fiction?
Tang Zhengyi and Li Peng did not want to make a very homogeneous domestic mobile game in the domestic market. At the beginning, they made a relatively partial choice. A science fiction mobile game for the European and American markets, and the game also the game also the game. There is an original worldview. Tang Zhengyi said: "We want to make a game with our own culture in it, and we don't plan to make fast food at the beginning. We want this game to have a long -term investment and long -term returns to allow players It can also help us to polish the work."
Company's" Star Trek "model
" Core Element "will be first launched in the overseas market, currently there are only English versions. Why not do Chinese games that are more familiar with? Many science fiction enthusiasts, but she has a more conservative attitude towards the domestic science fiction theme mobile game market. Not too mature, everyone prefers cartoons, relaxed and cheerful things. The audience of science fiction is still a niche. If you push it in China first, finding the target audience may be a problem. People, their company's main WiFi password is the pinyin of "tall". There were no professional planning. At that time, there was only one framework for the story. To control humans can humans voluntarily accept their slavery and control without being discovered? In the study, the bookshelves inside are full of various collections from employees, including the characters in the disaster -level battleship models in "EVE", the characters in Dragon Ball and other comics, the mecha model of Gundami, and the transformation of these models. The company's beloved collections, I also seem to be in a well -being of the world of sci -fi with a strong sense of sci -fi
, which will even have their own ideas, and sometimes there will be disputes on the details of the world view. For example, about the theory of time cycle. Can't go back to the past, but Li Peng feels that if one more dimension theory can return to the past. The feeling of "warships, starry sky, and background music in the game give people a kind of ethereal feeling. We feel that the universe is not a very lively and burning look. The real universe should be cold and quiet. "So that their first game interface was green, and some were too dark.
referred to the book NASA's" Space "
In order to enrich the worldview of the game, they will inquire about some special science fiction websites and purchase NASA" Space "Books such as the reference of game design. Foreign hardcore science fiction players are actually very picky. A small negligence of developers may make them feel disgusted and lose, which requires developers to do a lot of homework. In the Orion, the Kissen galaxy should be in a certain direction. When Li Peng saw it, he immediately pointed out: "This is impossible, because the butterfly star clouds are on the opposite direction of the spacecraft. "
is used to compress the hourglass
on the process of dealing with some process issues, they also have ideas. In order to solve the game company meeting, they often talk very much. Sometimes they will discuss a problem from a certain problem and then diverge into other fields. They specially bought an hourglass on Taobao, and each time they flipped, the white sand in the hourglass would take half an hour to leak light. My favorite CG animation mentioned at the beginning of the
article has been cut off in the latest version, and the player chooses to download. Part of them, this decision is made quickly and decisive.On the other hand, it feels that CG is too long for players for more than two minutes. When I saw the national emblem of the 3D modeling of CG, he didn't seem to know what CG was chopped. His first reaction at the time was "you can do it again." And Tang Zhengyi said with a smile: "Although we cut CG, our main beauty still expressed calmness, and did not want to find CEO to tear."
was unique, and the game was changed to the current operation method several times. The earliest game is still a round -made card game. The time will be very long. You must wait for the opponent to respond to react. Later, the team felt that the game was too slow, and it was changed to 5 mech pairs. You can choose mechs, move up and down, and there will be a pop -up box after choosing the mech. Select the release area of skills and skills. But because it is easy to choose the mech, the pop -up window affects the fluency, and finally it looks like today.
game Early battlefield background occupies a large area and has a strong sense of depth, but the battlefield area is too small.
The current battlefield
has changed the gameplay. From the earliest background depth of the background, it has been changed to now the screen area of the battlefield has become larger, which is convenient for more accurate operations.
Li Peng told Toule that at the time, a player watched the game and raised his own doubts about the design of the main interface. At that time, the image of the main interface was a holographic spacecraft. This spacecraft could also rotate manually. Which part of the choice and which part would be highlighted. At that time, the team was still proud. However, a player proposed that the subject of your game is obviously mech, which is easy to misunderstand that this is a game related to spacecraft. Li Peng had just started to conflict, because it denied the results of their work in the past few months, and the workload of changes would be great. Later, after he discussed with everyone, he felt that the player's opinion was more willing, and it took a few months to change the main interface. The player later became their employees.
The earliest main interface design. Although it is very modern, it will give people the core part of the game of the game. There are three types of mechs and energy mechs, and different mechs have different preferences for ore. They correspond to three types of ore respectively. The human -type mechas mainly consume the Rayman Steel and the animal -type mechs are mainly calcified collagen fibers. Quaine Source). In addition to the cultivation of
mech, in addition to upgrading, upgrading, and promoting stars, it can also achieve higher attributes by changing weapons and crew. It is very interesting here that the crew has become a mech equipment, but the crew is an organic body and is not perfect. They will also carry the profit and loss effect. In order to pursue stronger, players must abandon some attributes. The mech can accommodate multiple crew members. When the crew of the same team is in a mech, the efficiency will reach the maximum. As for the changes in weapons, the appearance and attack method of the mech will also be changed, so the mechas cultivated by different people in the end will also be very differentiated, rather than the development of "Dota Legend". Thousands of people.
■ Tail
Today, "Core Elements" is still made in the final debugging in New Zealand and Southeast Asian countries, and there is no internal purchase. It is expected that in November this year, the game will be officially launched in major countries in North America and Europe. If it is soon, it will start to prepare a version of the domestic version at the end of the year. In addition, the team is also preparing to use the previous materials left to make a more hard -core horizontal shooting game. The main line of
"Core Elements" is a conflict between humans and Pabul Empire, the Pabul Empire and other races. The dark line of the game is about a conspiracy. Tang Zhengyi did not want to disclose the ultimate secret of the game. The reason why she said was because of the influence of the movie "Cloud Map".
game has passed the game, as well as similar to the spacecraft transition
in the distant Utopia world. There is a restaurant waiter in Seoul called Xingmei-451. She is a mass-produced cloner. Both were arranged by human monitoring. With the help of Yona 939 and Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Haizhu, she awakened. She found that the cloned people have been persecuted and slavered by humans. Even her daily supplement of nutrients with nutrients is also made by the flesh and blood of the cloned people of the previous "retirement" ... Tang Zhengyi has deeply touched this clip. She Sometimes I am thinking about the conflict between scientific and technological progress and human civilization. When I was about to leave by
, I saw a row of philosophical books on the white leather cover on Tang Zhengyi's desk, including the works of ancient Xianzi Cai, Plato, Rousseau and others. Tang Zhengyi said that she likes to watch philosophy. She told Toule: "I don't think philosophy is boring. I think philosophy is some people's understanding of the world, people, and things. I have said what I am interested in science fiction, and because I think the development of human science is also an annotation of the philosophical point of view. Choose, these are actually an answer to the previous sages. "
