Game Designers: You Don’t Understand Charity

  Tomato University, game club.

  Little Fatty Luo Lei was lying on the sofa bored, holding the handheld with both hands, playing the game of two-dimensional beautiful girls.

   It’s dusk, which happens to be the peak time for student dating and sports after school.

   It's just that for Luo Lei, it is naturally not something worth participating in.

  At this time, with a creak, the door of the club was gently pushed open.

   Luo Lei glanced at it, saw that Su Chu was still wearing a jersey, and walked in carelessly.

  Luo Lei sat up and yelled a few words of dissatisfaction, "Why are you in such a hurry, you rushed here without even changing your clothes."

  Su Chu chuckled, "Isn't there a big event today, I can't wait for it."

   "I don't believe you can sit still, it's a new game released by Fengyun Studio."

   "What's the matter, isn't it just a card game? During this time, there are not hundreds, but dozens of them. I don't want to see what **** they are all."

   Luo Lei's face was tense, but the twinkling eyes had already betrayed him, and his mood was not as calm as it seemed.

   "It's not easy this time." Su Chu sat down and drew a little closer.

  Looking around at the empty club activity room, seeing no one, Su Chu whispered.

   "Let me tell you, as far as I know, Yun Feng, the leader of Fengyun Studio, has returned to China!"

   "Huh? Returning to China? When, why is there no news at all?!" Luo Lei widened his eyes and almost jumped up from his seat.

  Luo Lei wanted to be suspicious subconsciously, but thought that behind Su Chu was the legendary Su Group, although it was only a branch child, this kind of news should not be false.

   He couldn’t help but be surprised. He was a little disappointed when he heard that Yun Feng from Fengyun Studio was overseas, but now that the other party has returned to China, the meaning behind this...

   "There should be no fake news. It took me so long to get the news." Su Chu said excitedly with a wave of his hand.

   "From this point of view, there may be something in this card game." Luo Lei thoughtfully.

   "And what is it called... Meat pigeon card? Have you heard of this thing before?" Luo Lei asked suspiciously.

  Su Chu shook his head, "I don't know, it should be some new way of playing."

   "It's hard to say." Luo Lei shook his head. The gameplay of card games has always been difficult to innovate, so most of them are just changes in the game form and parameters.

  Even if Fengyun Studio is famous for making games, it is not a joke to design a card game with a new gameplay from scratch.

   "Don't worry about it so much." Su Chu patted Luo Lei's shoulder, "You'll know if you try it."

  He hurried over just after playing the game today, not because he wanted to play this new game as soon as possible.

   "Okay, okay, I know, don't worry." Luo Lei muttered dissatisfiedly, and walked slowly from the sofa to the computer desk.

   Click on the official website of Fengyun Studio, there are already dense game sections on it.

   Fortunately, the game of Slaying the Spire has appeared on the push section of the official website, so it is easy to find and download it.

   "The number of games on Fengyun Studio's official website is simply terrifying." Luo Lei couldn't help complaining.

   "Fortunately, the UI of the website is well guided, otherwise there are so many games that I can't find what I want."

  Besides, Su Chu was thoughtful.

   Over the years, the number of normal-scale games of Fengyun Studio has reached more than ten times that of all other game companies!

   Not to mention that many of them are free games launched by Fengyun Studio.

  This is probably the reason why so many companies in the game industry hate Fengyun Studio.

  Su Chu also doesn't understand why there is such an obvious disadvantageous choice to run games for free.

  The only thing Fengyun Studio can gain from it is a little fame and influence, which has always been the most unequal thing in the eyes of other game companies.

   "Forget it, maybe people like it like this?" Shaking his head, leaving all the miscellaneous thoughts behind, Su Chu laughed at himself.

   "Downloaded!" In front of the computer, Luo Lei clapped his hands, and the game interface of Slaying the Spire had already been loaded in front of him.

   "Let me try." Su Chu sat in front of the seat.

  Click the start button, and after going through a brief plot and a novice tutorial, an endless map of high towers appeared in front of Su Kuang.

   The basic version of Slaying the Spire only has two professions: Warrior and Ranger.

  Su Chu chose the fighters used in the novice tutorial.

   "Single-player card game, this is quite unusual." Luo Lei commented in surprise after reading the mechanism of the game.

  You must know that most of the card games on the market require a certain number of people to play.

   Like the killing of the Three Kingdoms, five to eight people are needed to be authentic.

  As for the game king that Sakura Country is famous for, it is also a battle between two players.

  In the final analysis, the biggest pain point of single-player card games is the need to maintain extremely high gameplay, which can only be compensated for by game mechanics.

  In China, for single-player card games, Luo Lei has never seen a few successful cases.

   "Why do you care so much? It's a mule or a horse. You can figure it out after playing." Su Chu didn't think so much, and rubbed her hands very excitedly.

   The content of the game of Killing the Spire is very simple. It is to kill the monsters in each level and node through the card group in hand, and finally reach the top of the tower to win the game.

  Su Chu clicked on the initial deck and took a look. There are ten cards in total, five damage cards and five defense cards, which is considered a very balanced option.

level one.

  On the map, a road line intersects with each other and eventually converges to the boss node on the first floor. Only after defeating it can you enter the second floor.

  There are various nodes on each route, and it is up to Su Chu to choose the most suitable route to pass the level.

  Su Chu didn't choose too much, just entered a route at random, and the first node was the monster pass.

  The scene changed, and Su Chu's warriors and monsters confronted each other.

  The deck was shuffled for a while, and five cards came to Su Chu's hands.

  [Strike], the initial attack card, causing 6 points of damage, energy consumption: 2.

  [Defense], initial skill card, gain 5 energy points, energy consumption: 1.

  Su Chu drew 3 [Strike] cards and 2 [Defense] cards at the beginning.

   After thinking about it carefully, Su Chu directly dragged two cards in a row and hit them, targeting the first of the two monsters, which was shaped like a caterpillar.

  Energy: 3/3 -> 1/3.

  Warrior only has three energy points in each round, which means that Su Chu can only play cards with three energy points in each round.

   However, according to Su Chu's calculations, the two strikes can cause 12 points of damage in total. It is undoubtedly extremely cost-effective to focus on killing a monster with less than 10 HP in seconds.

  deng, clang.

  The previous blow was still expected, and it caused 6 points of damage to the monster, and its blood bar dropped rapidly.

  But the next blow, under Su Chu's astonished eyes, the caterpillar suddenly curled up, and a carapace-like phantom appeared above the body.

  Before there were only 3 hp left, a block value of 6 points suddenly appeared.

  Su Chu realized belatedly that in Slaying the Spire, every monster has its own characteristics.

   And the block value in front of him is similar to the block value of his own skill card, which is undoubtedly triggered by the characteristics of the mobs in front of him.

  铛, the second blow was directly offset by the shield generated by the mobs, failing to kill it.

   "I'm careless." Su Chu said with sweat streaming down his cheeks.

   Right now, two red attack icons with damage points are still floating above the heads of the two mobs.

  Obviously, it is the opponent's next attack in his own turn.

   Hard resistance will also cause a lot of damage, obviously you can't just sit idly by.

   Sighing, Su Chu made up his mind.

  Dragging out another attack, Su Chu killed the first mob, and at the same time his energy completely returned to zero.

  In the next round, at least it only needs to take damage from one monster on the opposite side.

   "Tsk tsk, a strategic mistake." On the side, Luo Lei, who had figured out the characteristics of the mob, finally commented.

   "The optimal solution for the first round should be to use two defense cards to offset the opponent's damage in the next round, and at the same time play a strike to consume the block-generating characteristics of the mobs."

   "This way they can be killed in the next round without taking any damage."

   "After the fact, you don't need to talk nonsense." Su Chu muttered, and finally cleaned up another mob in the next round.

   "There are only 80 blood points in total, and you have deducted 6 points, not good, brother~" Luo Lei clicked his tongue again.

  6 points of damage, although it seems reasonable, but you must know that the whole process of climbing the tower is more than a little bit of fighting.

  If only the little monsters have to suffer such a large battle damage, then the next step will be troublesome.

   "Hmph, you can see clearly, I didn't make any mistakes." At this moment, the corner of Su Chu's mouth raised, moving away to let Luo Lei look at the screen.

  A burst of green light emerged from Su Chu's warrior, and the next moment, the blood bar jumped, and it was filled up again.

   "This is it?" Luo Lei stared.

   "Don't forget, I still have this." Su Chu moved the mouse to the list of relics.

  —Warrior's initial relic, Burning Blood.

  Effect, after each battle, restore 6 HP.

   "Exchanging blood for blood is the essence of a warrior."

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