Wednesday, April 6.
After two days of struggle, Pei Qian finally wrote the general plot of "Struggle".
The plot of the game can be roughly divided into several major stages: birth, school, examination, work, love, marriage, house purchase, childbirth, and mid-life crisis.
This is the whole big process, the poor and the rich are in the same stages, but experience completely different things.
For example, from birth to school, rich people's children are carefully looked after by nanny. When they grow up, they can play happily in the mansion. The toys they buy are very expensive. They can hire very high-end tutors to get a good preschool education.
Children from poor families do not have these facilities at all. They can only watch TV and picture books at home. After their parents go to work, they can only entertain themselves and play alone.
The other major stages are similar, in short, you can imagine what kind of plot it will be roughly if you think about it.
The poor do not go well, the rich go unimpeded.
In order to make players feel the gap between the two more clearly, Pei Qian also considered adding some quantifiable data to the game, such as the player's current knowledge (professional knowledge, financial awareness, etc.), emotional intelligence (receiving people, making friends, etc.) , mental health, specific material wealth and so on.
On the surface, these data will affect the player's game options. For example, the wealth management awareness of the rich can speed up the accumulation of material wealth, emotional intelligence can give him a better chance to make friends with noble people, and the level of mental health can make it easier for him to adjust his mood at work. There will be problems due to excessive stress...
But that's only on the surface.
In fact, they will only affect some insignificant sidelines, and will not affect the final outcome at all.
The reason why Pei Qian did this is very simple. If the gameplay can image the final outcome, how can it be disgusting for players
If the poor can counterattack and the rich can be spared the fate of being killed, wouldn't it be a cool tour
Absolutely not!
Moreover, the setting of "on the surface, you can choose, but in fact, you can't choose" can be regarded as a failed setting in the game industry. Most games will be scolded for doing so.
The progress in the game only reaches the prime of life, which is about 50 years old.
It is said in the Analects that at thirty you stand, at forty you are free from confusion, and at fifty you know the mandate of heaven.
For Pei Qian, if he chooses a time when rich players are killed, fifty years old is the most suitable.
Too early, the game content is not enough; too late, disgusting people.
Fifty-year-old wealthy people are in the period of their career taking off. They have already obtained a very favorable living environment. Most of them have good marriages and children with unlimited prospects. Death at this time should be the most unacceptable time for players.
And the poor... At the age of 50, life is basically finalized, and the characteristics of children similar to their parents have also emerged, and this cycle of poverty has also begun to emerge.
In short, ending the game at this age is just right.
Of course, in addition to these fixed life processes, some unexpected events will also be added during the game.
For example: car accident, sickness, school bullying of children, being scammed when buying a house, natural disasters, etc.
These emergencies will also slightly change the flow of the game, and at the same time will clearly show the gap between the poor and the rich in their ability to resist risks in the face of these emergencies.
Having learned the lessons of "Game Producer", Pei Qian does not plan to do any narration this time.
All the content in the game does not contain any emotional color, all dialogues and behaviors are as objective as possible, and never induce players to have a rebellious psychology.
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 who have no intersection at all.
In the end the rich man was killed by a tramp who had nothing to do with the poor.
Even this tramp himself is not the simple, kind and poor poor people imagined by most people. He has hands and feet, but he is idle, eats and eats lazy, and kills the rich when he sees money. It is not for some noble reason to resist oppression.
The rich people that the poor can reach, such as his bosses and bosses, are completely irrelevant to the protagonist in the rich version, and they never have any idea of resisting.
Try not to give people the easily misunderstood idea that "the rich oppress the poor" and "the poor oppose the rich".
In addition to this, there is also the most important issue, which is how to prevent Qiao Laoshi from over-interpreting the game.
For this, Pei Qian thought hard and finally came up with a solution.
Officials forced to kill colleagues!
I read it ahead of time. If you don't read it, no one will listen.
Why are you backstabbing me when no one listens
Pei Qian can roughly guess from which angle Qiao Laoshi might 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 a little more peculiar, maybe it can be analyzed. The poor have no financial awareness and are short-sighted.
In short, the topic of the gap between the rich and the poor has been discussed all over the world. If you think about it, there are still many topics that can be brought up.
Pei Qian decided to expose these problems in advance as soon as the game was released.
Take Qiao Laoshui's way, and let Qiao Laoshui have nowhere to go!
Of course, Pei Qian wasn't stupid enough to backstab himself. Although he wanted to officially expose these problems, he was definitely not as dry as Qiao Laoshi.
In the same way, the key is how to say it.
Like Qiao Laoshi, citing and citing scriptures, forcibly adding value and adding depth will definitely be particularly bluffing and easy to resonate.
And Pei Qian planned to say all these points in a simple and straightforward way, how to get dry.
It can even induce players to have some wrong views in the game, for example, using two fixed endings to induce them to have misunderstandings such as "the producer has a wrong idea of 'class can never be crossed' and 'fatalism'".
It's like telling a joke.
Qiao Laoshui told jokes, danced and vividly painted, first created enough suspense, and then after the burden was shaken, the audience exploded, producing excellent results.
Pei Qian, on the other hand, didn't make any preparations at all, and immediately came up and threw the burden on the ground.
In this way, the audience has long known what this burden is. No matter how you, Qiao Laoshi, create atmosphere, create suspense, or make hype, this burden will not be able to ring!
Pei Qian felt that his behavior was like marking "This person is the murderer" on the first page of the comic book, which would definitely make Qiao Laoshi's series of "Fengshen's Work" series videos unable to make a new issue. !
The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more satisfied he became. He felt that he was a genius!
After everything was completed, Pei Qian sent the game's plot synopsis to Hu Xianbin and asked him to expand.
At the same time, different characters in the game use different motion capture actors, all of whom must be foreigners and must be identified in advance.
Pei Qian was too lazy to take care of these things, and left them all to Hu Xianbin. Anyway, it would be better if things were messed up by then.
Do it beautifully... It doesn't matter, as long as you firmly grasp the game's plot and don't go astray!
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Thursday, April 7.
Pei Qian came to the office on time after eating at noon.
Yesterday afternoon, he had already sent the plot summary of "Struggle" to Hu Xianbin, and sent a message to Lin Wan about the ioi national service, and asked her to connect with He Desheng.
Pei Qian didn't have a good idea about what to do with the ioi national clothes.
The possibility of making changes to the game is almost non-existent, and it is difficult to lower the pricing of heroes and skins. After all, Dream Reality Ventures only holds 20% of the shares of Zhitou, and it does not have such a big say.
From the perspective of the game's charging model, ioi is really not very friendly compared to gog. After all, all heroes of gog are free, and the price of skins is several times lower than that of ioi.
However, Pei Qian felt that this should not be a big deal. Now there are many people playing ioi in China, and they already have a certain player base.
The biggest problem for them is not the price, but the network.
Using the accelerator to connect to the ioi's international server is too slow, and it is impossible to communicate with foreign teammates in the game.
As long as the national server comes out, these people will definitely switch to the national server for the first time, so there is no need to worry about the start of the ioi national server version. With the ability of this group of people, they can take off with a little operation.
After finishing the two game departments for the time being, Pei Qian felt that the pressure on him was greatly reduced.
However, even this cannot be taken lightly, because there are still many things waiting for him to deal with.
"Tuk Tuk Tuk."
There was a knock on the door from outside the office, it was Assistant Xin.
"Mr. Pei, this is the survey report on the fitness industry in Jingzhou City. If you don't want to read the data, you can turn to the last page and have a conclusion."
Pei Qian nodded and took the investigation report from Assistant Xin.
Just flipped through two pages, and there was a lot of data and technical terms in front of it, and I really couldn't understand it.
Pei Qian turned to the last page very calmly, and asked while looking at the conclusion of the investigation: "So, are the gyms in Jingzhou making money or not making money as a whole?"
Assistant Xin thought for a moment: "Also make money, but not make money. The key depends on how it works."
Pei Qian: "Huh? Tell me in detail."
Assistant Xin obviously has some understanding of the current situation of the fitness industry. He received the task of President Pei in the past few days and conducted an in-depth investigation of the fitness industry in Jingzhou. These contents are completely familiar.
"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 if they have the habit of fitness, they often cannot afford the expenses of those high-end gyms."
"There are more white-collar workers in the super-first-tier cities, and the situation will be better. As a second-tier city in Jingzhou, this problem is especially obvious."
"Considering the expenses of opening a gym, such as venue rent, equipment, labor, water and electricity, heating and cooling, fire protection, etc., many gyms adopt a low-cost membership strategy for Dora customers, it is difficult to support daily operations, let alone create enough. more profit."
"From this point of view, gyms do not make money, and many closed gyms are closed because they cannot 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-value clients to sell private lessons. The more you sell, the more you earn."
"The primary task of private teachers in most gyms is not to teach students well, but to sell more courses. The internal group of private teachers is similar to the marketing group. Whoever sells more courses will be sought after."
"In short, the current gym model to make money is to apply for more cards, especially to fool newcomers to apply for annual cards. Newcomers have no fitness habits at all, and it is difficult to persevere. If you can't get a card, the gym will only make money."
"At the same time, the low-priced fitness card can attract as many customers as possible, and then the personal trainers will start to show their magical powers, identify high-asset customers and trick them into running private teaching classes, and earn the bulk of the profits from here."
"There are some other tricks. For example, it is the first time to do a free test. Modern people have more or less health problems. Private churches deliberately exaggerate these health problems and take the opportunity to sell classes."
"In short, it is not denied that there are relatively conscientious gyms in this industry, but generally speaking, there are many chaos and it is not very standardized."
"Many consumers who go to the gym are also extremely disgusted by these chaos, but the reasons for this situation are more complicated and cannot be changed in a short time."
"Mr. Pei, if you want to enter this industry, it is of course a good thing for the industry itself, but these objective problems must be considered more."
"Even for you, it's not that easy to start a high-end and conscientious gym brand from scratch."
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