Wednesday, April 6th.
After two days of struggle, Pei Qian finally wrote the general plot outline of "Struggle".
The plot of the game can be roughly divided into several major stages: birth, schooling, exams, work, love, marriage, house purchase, childbirth, mid-life crisis, etc.
This is the overall process. Although the poor and the rich are at the same stage, they experience completely different things.
For example, from birth to school, the children of the rich have nannies to take good care of them. When they grow up, they can play happily in mansions. The toys they buy are very expensive. They can have very high-end tutors come to their homes and get good benefits. Preschool education;
Children from poor families do not have these conveniences at all. They can only watch TV and picture books at home, and can only entertain themselves and play alone after their parents go to work.
The other major stages are similar. In short, you can roughly imagine what the plot will be like.
Everything goes wrong for the poor, but everything goes smoothly for the rich.
In order to let players feel the gap between the two more clearly, Pei Qian also considered adding some quantifiable data to the game, such as the players’ current knowledge (professional knowledge, financial awareness, etc.), Emotional intelligence (regarding people, making friends, etc.), mental health, specific material wealth, etc.
On the surface, these data will affect the player's game options. For example, a rich man's financial awareness can speed up his accumulation of material wealth, his emotional intelligence can give him a better chance of making friends with noble people, and his mental health can make him better in the game. It is easier to regulate your mood at work and there will be no problems due to excessive pressure...
But this is only superficial.
In fact, they will only affect some trivial branches and will not affect the final ending at all.
The reason why Pei Qian did this is very simple. If the gameplay can reflect the final outcome, how can it disgust players?
If the poor can counterattack and the rich can avoid the fate of being killed, wouldn’t it be a great game?
Absolutely not!
Furthermore, the setting of “seemingly optional, but actually not available” can be considered a failure in the gaming industry, and most games will be scolded for doing this.
The progress in the game only reaches the prime of life, which is about 50 years old.
The Analects of Confucius says that at thirty you stand tall, at forty you are not confused, at fifty you know your destiny.
For Pei Qian, if he chooses a time when rich players are killed, fifty is the most suitable time.
Too early, the game content is not enough; too late, it is disgusting.
A fifty-year-old rich man is in the prime of his life when his career is taking off. He has already obtained a very favorable living environment. Most of them have a good marriage and children with unlimited future. Death at this time should be the most embarrassing thing. A point in time that players cannot accept.
As for the poor... their lives are basically finalized by the age of fifty, and their children will resemble their parents.Characteristics have also emerged, and this cycle of poverty has begun to take shape.
In short, it is just right to end the game at this age.
Of course, in addition to these fixed life processes, some emergencies will also be added during the game.
For example: car accidents, illness, children’s school bullying, being cheated when buying a house, natural disasters, etc.
These emergencies will also slightly change the flow of the game. At the same time, they will also clearly show the gap in the ability of the poor and the rich to resist risks when facing these emergencies.
Having learned the lessons of "Game Producer", Pei Qian does not plan to do any narration this time.
No content in the game contains any emotion. All dialogues and behaviors are as objective as possible, and will never induce players to have a rebellious mentality.
In addition, in order to prevent people with "ulterior motives" from forcibly deepening their thoughts, Pei Qian set the rich and the poor as two individuals with no intersection at all.
The last person who killed the rich man was a homeless man who had nothing to do with the poor man.
Even the tramp himself is not the simple, kind-hearted poor man that most people imagine. He has hands and feet but is idle and lazy. He only kills rich people when he sees wealth, not out of any resistance. Noble reasons for oppression.
The rich people that the poor can come into contact with, such as his superiors and bosses, have nothing to do with the protagonist in the rich version, and they have never had any thoughts of resistance.
Try to avoid the easily misunderstood ideas of "the rich oppress the poor" and "the poor rebel against the rich".
In addition, there is another most important issue, which is how to prevent the confidant Qiao Laoshi from over-interpreting this game.
Pei Qian thought hard about this and finally came up with a solution.
Officially forcing the fan to death!
I interpreted it in advance, won’t no one listen to your interpretation?
How can you backstab me when no one listens?
Pei Qian can roughly guess the angles from which Qiao Laoshi may interpret it. It is nothing more than the gap between the rich and the poor, the Matthew effect, the unreasonable distribution of social wealth, and the solidification of classes. If the brain circuit is more peculiar, , maybe we can also analyze why the poor have no sense of financial management and are short-sighted, why the rich do not eat minced meat and cannot understand the vicious cycle of life after falling to the bottom...
In short, the gap between rich and poor is a topic that is very popular in the world. Everything within the scope has been discussed badly. If we spread our thoughts, there are still many topics that can be discussed.
Pei Qian decided to expose these problems in advance as soon as the game is released.
Take Qiao Laoshi’s path and leave Qiao Laoshi with no way to go!
Of course, Pei Qian is not stupid enough to stab himself in the back. Although he wants the government to expose these problems, he is definitely not like Qiao Laoshi.
For the same reason, the key depends on how you say it.
Like Qiao LaoshiQuoting from other sources, quoting classics, and forcibly adding value and depth will definitely appear particularly bluffing and easily arouse resonance.
Pei Qian plans to use plain language and a simple way to explain all these points, and do whatever he wants.
You can even induce players to have some wrong views in the game. For example, using two fixed endings to induce them to have the wrong ideas of "classes can never be crossed" and "fatalism" ” and other misunderstandings.
This principle is like telling a joke.
Qiao Laoshi tells jokes, dances and is lively, creating enough suspense first, and then when the baggage is shaken out, the whole audience explodes, producing an excellent effect.
Pei Qian, on the other hand, did not give any clues at all and just walked up and threw the baggage on the ground.
In this way, the audience already knows what this baggage is. No matter how much Qiao Laoshi creates atmosphere and suspense, no matter how extravagantly he talks about it, this baggage will never go away!
Pei Qian feels that his behavior is like directly marking "This person is the murderer" on the first page of a comic book. It will definitely make Qiao Laoshi's "The Work of the Gods" series of videos more popular. I can’t make a new issue either!
The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more satisfied he became, feeling that he was really a genius!
After everything was completed, Pei Qian sent the plot summary of the game to Hu Xianbin and asked him to expand it.
At the same time, different motion capture actors are required for different characters in the game, and all of them must be foreigners, who must be identified in advance.
Pei Qian was too lazy to take care of this and left it all to Hu Xianbin. Anyway, it would be better if things went wrong by then.
It's done beautifully... That doesn't matter, as long as you firmly grasp the plot of the game and don't go astray!
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Thursday, April 7.
Pei Qian came to the office on time after lunch.
Yesterday afternoon, he had already sent the plot synopsis of "Struggle" to Hu Xianbin, and also sent a message to Lin Wan to explain the matter of ioi national server, and asked her to contact He Desheng.
Pei Qian doesn’t have any good ideas about how to implement the ioi national server.
The possibility of making changes to the game is almost non-existent, and it is difficult to lower the prices of heroes and skins. After all, Yuanmeng Venture Capital only holds 20% of the shares of Zhidou Company and does not have such a big say.
From a pure point of view of the game's charging model, ioi is indeed less friendly than GOG. After all, all GOG heroes are free, and the price of skins is several times lower than ioi.
However, Pei Qian feels that this should not be a big deal. There are many people playing ioi in China now, and they already have a certain player base.
The biggest problem for them is not the price, but the network problem.
Using the accelerator to connect to ioi's international server is too laggy, and I can't communicate with foreign teammates in the game.
As long asAs soon as the national server comes out, these people will definitely switch to the national server as soon as possible, so there is no need to worry about the start of the ioi national server version. With the ability of this group of people in Yangyang Games, it can take off with a little operation.
Having temporarily solved the two game departments, Pei Qian felt that the pressure on himself was greatly reduced.
However, even so, he cannot take it lightly, because there are still many things waiting for him to deal with.
"Tuk tuk tuk."
There was a knock on the door outside the office, it was Assistant Xin.
"Mr. Pei, this is the survey report you want on the fitness industry in Jingzhou. If you don't want to see these data, you can just turn to the last page and get the conclusion."
< p>Pei Qian nodded and took the investigation report from Assistant Xin.I flipped through two pages, and there was indeed a lot of data and professional terms in front of it, which I really couldn’t understand.
Pei Qian turned to the last page very calmly and asked while reading the survey results: "So, are the gyms in Jingzhou currently making money as a whole, or are they not making money?"
p>Assistant Xin thought for a moment: "It makes money, but it doesn't make money either. The key depends on how it works."
Pei Qian: "Huh? Tell me in detail."
Xin The assistant obviously had some understanding of the current situation of the fitness industry. In the past few days, he had received tasks from Mr. Pei and conducted an in-depth investigation of the fitness industry in Jingzhou. These contents were completely familiar to him.
“To put it simply, due to the current level of economic development in our country, most people do not have the habit of going to the gym regularly. Even those who have fitness habits often cannot afford the expenses of high-end gyms. "
"Super first-tier cities have a lot of white-collar workers, so the situation will be better. As a second-tier city in Jingzhou, this problem is especially obvious."
"Considering the space rent for opening a gym. , equipment, labor, water and electricity, heating and cooling, fire protection and other aspects of expenditure, the low-price membership strategy adopted by many gyms to attract more customers can hardly support daily operations, let alone create enough profits. ”
"From this point of view, gyms do not make money. Many closed gyms closed down because they could not make ends meet. The greater the investment, the greater the marketing pressure."
"However, Gyms that really make money also make a lot of money. The main way is to find those high-net-worth customers to sell personal training classes. The more they sell, the more they make."
"The number one priority in most gyms is personal training. The task is not to teach students well, but to sell more classes. The internal group of personal trainers is similar to the marketing group. Whoever sells more classes will be sought after."
"In short, the current profitable gym model. Just apply for more cards, especially to trick new people into applying for annual memberships. New people have no fitness habits at all, and it is difficult to stick to it. If they don’t get the card, the gym will just make money.”
“At the same time, the price is low. Get as many clients as possible with fitness cards, and then the personal trainers start to show off their magic skills, find high-net-worth clients and trick them into giving personal training classes, and make profits from this.The big head. ”
“There are also some other tricks, such as getting a free test for the first time. Modern people have some health problems, and private teachers deliberately exaggerate these health problems and take the opportunity to sell classes. ”
“In short, there is no denying that there are relatively conscientious gyms in this industry, but generally speaking, they are full of chaos and are not very standardized. ”
“Many consumers who go to gyms are also extremely disgusted with these chaos, but the reasons for this situation are complicated and cannot be changed in a short time. ”
“Mr. Pei, if you want to enter this industry, it is certainly a good thing for the industry itself, but these objective problems must be considered more. ”
“Even for you, it is not that easy to create a high-end and conscientious gym brand from scratch. ”