owlsbooks Chapter 65: Our competitors seem to be looking down on us.
Chapter 65: Our competitors seem to be looking down on us.
Early in the morning, as soon as I got up, Su Jianxue dragged me into the conference room.
Although the next game has already been decided, the company's main target is the FPS genre.
However, Hu Chen was the only one in the entire company who was eliminated from Aurora Games.
I have some knowledge of this type of shooting game.
Insomnia Game Studio is a startup game company that previously did contract manufacturing.
At most, it's just that it has relatively abundant art resources.
Making an FPS game is not that simple.
Understanding firearms, ballistic trajectories, and various aspects like handling and recoil—these are not things that can be learned overnight.
Unless the boss has some kind of magic touch.
But this kind of thing only exists in novels. How could the boss possibly have a cheat code?
impossible.
"President Shen, President Su, President Chen."
"The operations department's data is here."
"With the release of the information we discussed a few days ago, many fans are looking forward to our shooting game."
"However, what's strange is that there haven't been any other games from other manufacturers trending on social media these past few days."
While Hu Nao Kitchen received unanimous praise at home and abroad, Insomnia Studio had already held a new product conference.
They never stick to just one game.
From the beginning of Digging for a Rise to the explosive popularity of Overcooked Kitchen, it's all the same.
"Looks like our competitors are looking down on us..."
Looking at the trending topics on Weibo, not a single one was related to our competitors.
Shen Huaizhou's lips twitched.
"Competitors?"
"Mr. Shen, you know perfectly well that shooting games have almost become a monopoly for our competitors."
"We have neither experience in making shooting games nor the resources to make firearms."
"What's the big deal if our competitors look down on our paltry sums?"
Regarding Chen Qingshan's question, Shen Huaizhou smiled and thought, "Perfect, no trouble from competitors."
"So, it's a small matter."
"We don't rely on our competitors for a living. By the way, today's meeting was to finalize the game we're going to design this time."
"Next, I'll show you a PowerPoint presentation."
FPS! Shooting! Gunfight!
The first thing that catches the eye on the PPT is these three bold, black characters!
Everyone in the conference room stared in disbelief at the large characters in front of them, completely unaware of what President Shen was planning to do.
But, the next second.
Two more Microsoft YaHei fonts appeared before everyone's eyes!
Survival!
That's right, it's all about survival!
The moment those two large "Yahei" characters appeared, the entire conference room erupted in noise.
"Survival? What does that mean?"
Su Jianxue looked at the two large characters and then turned her gaze to Shen Huaizhou with a puzzled expression.
Seemingly sensing Su Jianxue's gaze, Shen Huaizhou fixed his eyes on Su Jianxue's face.
This scene made Su Jianxue sit up straight.
"Huaizhou... what are you thinking about?"
"No, I just came up with some fun ways to play."
Shen Huaizhou shook his head slightly, then showed the third page.
"A horde of zombies!"
"What? A horde of zombies? What kind of shooting game experience is this?"
"Holy crap! A zombie shooter? How come I never thought of that?"
"A zombie game? That sounds kind of interesting?"
Inside the meeting room, the moment everyone saw the words "zombie horde," they immediately understood what kind of game Shen Huaizhou had proposed.
Zombies are a theme that has already appeared in this world.
It was even a movie from Western Europe, just like in my previous life.
The Day of the Living Dead.
With the rise of zombie culture, various film and television adaptations have sprung up everywhere.
However, according to Shen Huaizhou's knowledge, while zombie movies bring people the exhilarating feeling of blood and gore exploding,
However, no game company has been able to successfully replicate this model within the game industry.
Although there have been a few games that can be considered masterpieces.
However, those are almost all RPG action-adventure games, and have nothing to do with FPS shooting games.
Even the Resident Evil series, hailed as the pinnacle of zombie games, and The Walking Dead series, which has had a TV series, spin-off TV series, and movies for more than ten years.
Both belong to the horror adventure game genre.
These games do feature guns, but they don't really have much to do with shooting games.
Resident Evil, in particular, focuses on a story-driven narrative.
These two well-known games, however, brought the zombie movie genre to its climax.
Unfortunately, as the hype died down, zombie-themed games gradually faded into obscurity.
At this time, President Shen actually brought out this game that had long been dormant again.
It also combines with the FPS genre, which Insomnia Studio has never developed before.
Is this really going to work?
"Mr. Shen, it's not that I'm worried, but as far as I know, our company has no experience in developing FPS games."
Is combining shooting games with zombie games really feasible?
Hu Chen was puzzled.
Now, Hu Chen, who switched from Aurora Games, has become the head of the two games, Overcooked and Human: Fall Flat.
Although he is very interested in combining shooting and zombie genres.
But I'm still worried that the insomnia studio might be taking too big a step.
"Of course, no problem, Hu She, I've already prepared everything."
"Please read on."
Upon hearing Hu Chen's question, Shen Huaizhou's lips curled up slightly, and soon he had already presented the game design on the PPT.
The background and even the monster's design were revealed.
The content shown on the PPT is the culmination of "Left 4 Dead 2"!
The reason why Left 4 Dead 1 wasn't used is quite simple: the plot of Left 4 Dead 2 is more familiar, and the dark background setting is also more complete.
Later in the game, you'll encounter characters from Left 4 Dead 1.
That's not a problem at all.
You could make it into DLC and sell it!
Moreover, compared to the first generation, the second generation offers more gameplay and a wider variety of infected.
The first generation only had some ordinary infected: Boomer, Hunter, Smoker, Witch, and Tank.
However, in the second generation, even the designs for ordinary infected individuals were significantly more elaborate.
In addition to ordinary infected individuals of low rank, a special type of ordinary infected individual, known as a nuclear, biological, and chemical infected individual, has also emerged.
Among the special infected individuals, there have also been those who stormed, sprayed graffiti, and jockeys.
Of course, Shen Huaizhou preferred to call it Monkey.
In addition, AI teammates have been added to the game modes. When playing as a solo player, all three teammates are AI.
In the cooperative mode, four players can be matched together to face these infected.
Furthermore, in addition to the first generation's modes, a cleaner mode and a realistic mode were added.
To make the second-generation game even more playable.