Number One Game Designer

For Fang Xi, the next experience at the film and television base was quite unforgettable and unique.

At present, there is no such thing as a very formal game director in the game industry, because not all, or even most games, do not use action collection and facial expression collection, and the game industry can use it, not so much The director is more like a scene-recording job. You only need to monitor and collect the expressions and movements in place. In addition to the costumes, dialogues, light, etc. in regular movies, you don’t have to pay attention to it, so the shooting The progress is quite fast.

The single-player plot of a game is often limited in length. Generally speaking, the single-player experience plot usually lasts for more than 20 hours. Most of the time on the market stays in the range of 20 hours to 30 hours. This is very subtle. The interval is less than this time unless your plot is particularly good, otherwise the player will feel that it is not worth it, and the plot is not as long as possible, unless you have extraordinary confidence in your plot, and can also attract players to play Going down, the representatives of this kind of super-long plot are Red Dead 2 and The Witcher Three, presumably the little friends are not unfamiliar.

For Fang Xi, "Left to Survive" is not intended to be a game with a plot to win, because if a game only has a plot, then players will only continue to praise you after clearing the level, and then add this The game... shelved it, there may occasionally be some plot-loving parties who will come out after a while and re-play the daring, but how many players are there in the plot?

So Fang Xi, the single-player plot of Road to Survival, only plans to end in 22 hours, and needs to be filmed—or there are not many samples.

It only took about three weeks to complete the shooting. Fang Xi came over with his hands empty, and then transferred the sampled data to the Reaper U disk, and returned to Beiyang with Xiaolan and Lu Wanqi, who had retired.

While Fang Xi was doing his first experience as a director in Haifang City, Lu Tao was also intensively working on recording.

The audio work in the game is generally divided into two parts, that is, recording and dubbing. They seem to be the same, but there are still differences. Take Fang Xi's ongoing road to survival as an example.

What Lu Tao is doing now is recording. These audios are mainly the environmental sounds in the game, including vehicle brakes, firearms firing and reloading, even door opening and closing, knife and fork collisions and other noises, and the most important and frequent noise in the game The roar of unreasonable zombies heard.

And Lu Tao looked at Fang Xi’s manuscript with a bit of confusion. Zombie roaring sounds are classified: meaningless, prey found, companion communication, threats, offenses, etc., and each type of zombie’s voice should be shot at least five or more. version of. Lu Tao was also shocked: Only now do I know that zombies can communicate with companions?

However, the task assigned by the boss is to do it well, but Lu Tao had a difficult time communicating with the other party's tuner. How would he describe the sound of a zombie?

"We want to record the roar of human beings."

Then Lu Tao got an audio simulating the voice of a tiger.

"Roar! Roar! Not imitating animals."

Then Lu Tao got a piece of audio recordings of men and women arguing.

"No... Forget it, this other place is useful, just screaming, just imagine a person who has not drunk water and has dry vocal cords, but is more bloodthirsty, and sees the kind of voice that is particularly excited by flesh and blood. ."

After difficult communication, Lu Tao finally got the first audio of the zombie.

"Okay, then the second part we need is to add threatening sounds in the situation just now."

other side:? ? ?

After a difficult period of negotiation, Lu Tao returned to Beiyang at the same time as Fang Xi with the finished audio.

As if fighting a difficult struggle, Lu Tao slumped in his chair and asked:

"It's almost time for us to have our own recording studio, or buy a company directly?"

Fang Xi nodded: "I have thoughts about these, and I have entrusted Xiaolan to find them after I came back."

"How to say?" Lu Tao was curious: "Should we buy the equipment ourselves or?"

Speaking of Fang Xi’s face, a smile appeared: “Xiaolan is still pretty reliable. She said that they considered these issues when they were in Haifang City, and guessed that the company might also have its own shooting base and recording studio in the future. She has contacted some companies to understand these related issues."

"After I came back, Xiaolan studied with me. She will contact two medium-sized audio companies to see if they can acquire them and become a subsidiary of Hongyi."

Lu Tao nodded. Buying equipment is not a problem for Hongyi now, but the relevant personnel is a problem. Therefore, acquiring a company is a good option, and it is best not to acquire a company that is too small.

In this way, Hongyi's needs can be fulfilled in normal times, and in leisure time, it can continue to outsource other companies to make money in the name of a separate company. Why not?

"And it's more than that." Fang Xi continued, "Do you remember our young crop plan?"

Of course Lu Tao remembers this. As the most experienced game producer in the company, Fang Xi sometimes discusses certain decisions he makes and asks him to help him find out and fill up vacancies. Young Miao Project is one of them.

At that time, Fang Xi told Lu Tao about his plans for a game distribution platform. Generally speaking, it was to be a domestic steam platform. Lu Tao appreciated this very much. For the single problem of supplementing platform games, Lu Tao at that time proposed to independent The game's support plan has multiple benefits in one fell swoop: Depressed independent game producers can see that their games are completed, and Hongyi can expand games on its own platform, with the best of both worlds.

Fang Xi was also quite surprised that Lu Tao's thoughts coincided with the "light of favor" on the steam platform in the previous life.

"I think about the Young Miao Project, but I still feel that it is not very safe to directly give the sponsorship funds, because it is difficult for us to monitor every whereabouts of the funds, so the best thing is to award the work for work, that is to say, we give the first place The 500,000 support is to add 200,000 financial support and 300,000 technical support, which can be much better."

Lu Tao nodded in agreement. Later, he also thought of this, and was considering talking to Fang Xi, but he didn't expect that Fang Xi had realized it by himself.

"So in this case, we'd better have a complete set of game industry facilities. It's the best. Otherwise, our contract provides technical support. As a result, please outsource it. It will be very troublesome if a moth appears at that time."

"And these," Fang Xi smiled mysteriously: "Ihaveaplan"