Mei Fang saw a girl with short black hair, white triangle skirt and pencil legs in Guo Yun’s portfolio. The color block design of this character is very simple.
The girl in the character looks up at the sky, leaving only a back, looking a little lonely.
“Guo Yun, where did you find this character inspiration?”
“This… is the inspiration I found in some picture books myself, that is, the kind of fairy tale picture books, not very children, just… Well, how do you say it – I don’t know if you have read Mei Fang.”
Xia Yuan reminded on the side, “I have read a picture book about “The Little Prince” before. Is it a very simple style of painting that paints a very healing story, that kind…”
“Yes… that kind of kind, girls love to read. This is just that the style is different. The picture book I read is all about this relatively distinct polygonal design…”
Mei Fang is now thinking about his next game work. Although there is no clear design theme, he has a firm design direction.
Make an independent game that can be called “The Ninth Art”.
He has countless design prototypes of popular works in his mind. Judging from his current running-in with the team, as long as the art resources are in place, the project will be quickly pulled out.
But it is enough to have done a few of those projects, and that is not Mei Fang’s real pursuit.
He has always hoped that the gaming career he loved deeply can get more positive recognition in China, rather than the mental tablets in the eyes of adults and elders.
The reason why the domestic gaming atmosphere is so bad is that traditional educational philosophy has an unshirkable responsibility. However, developers are keen on guiding players to recharge money and spend money, and all kinds of profit-oriented project benchmarks can only be said to be self-inflicted.
Games have always been called the Ninth Art because they have the possibility of interaction compared to works such as text, movies, and animation.
Players can play roles in the game world, complete the mission of the game character themselves or make choices, and gain a high sense of immersion and substitution.
This interactive nature should not only exist in the fight, killing and killing between players, and the virtual world of fame and fortune, but also in the real emotional communication and communication established between developers and players through the game.
The most important thing about an excellent independent game is interesting creative gameplay, but the independent game work that can be called the Ninth Art cannot be lacking in the artistic expression of music and art.
Of course, these two are not sufficient conditions. Although many famous independent game works that have been passed down from later generations are simple in painting, their music can hit the soul directly.
For example, the famous IGN full score masterpiece, under the legend of “Uale”,Its 8-bit dynamic music design adds a lot of points to it and ushers in many second-creation frenzys;
Even if you don’t talk about things that are so far away, the success of “Going to the Moon” will definitely not add points to the picture. The perfect plot and beautiful and touching piano music are its magic weapon to win.
Mei Fang now has a lot of resources for music, and it is not necessary to say that he and Yuanyuan are the producer of “Go to the Moon” he knows, Gao Gan, is a game music designer with extraordinary talent; now Guo Yun’s art has grown into a unique existence, and Mei Fang naturally has a higher pursuit of his first “Ninth Art” work.
“I plan to use the character designed by Guo Yun as the protagonist of the story. Her color scheme may need to be slightly adjusted. We will use her to make a platform jump puzzle game.”
“Platform Jump…” Xia Yuan scratched his head and said, “Afang, can you not let go of such professional terms? I don’t understand it very well.”
“Super Mary, we have played on Little Overlord before.”
“Ah! Do you use this girl to make a super Mary? Why does it feel a bit funny… weird…”
Lin Youxi added on the side, “Afang should mean that the operation method similar to “Super Mary”, buttons such as left and right and jump…the actual experience should be very different.”
“What kind of story do you want to write? How many words do you plan to write?”
“This story is more biased towards a story that pursues oneself. We don’t need too much text in the story…or basically no text.” Mei Fang explained, “This concept is called environmental narrative. We use scenes drawn by art and some in-game interactions and cutscenes to show the story’s style, so that players can complete the intention of our story by themselves.” “It sounds a bit like a silent film, but isn’t it interesting to write a dialogue… Why can’t you talk?”
“That is to say… like “The Maze of Mechanical City”, right?”
“It’s the robot that picks up rags, right! I remembered that we played together at Afang’s house in the second year of junior high school. That game is so difficult. I have to go through the strategies in the game every time I pass.”
“Machine Maze” is an indie-level work that is considered an independent game, released as early as 2009. Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan, who were still in the second year of junior high school, played it at Mei Fang’s house.
“To be precise, the game I plan to make is even more silent than “Mechanical Mystery”, because the protagonist often uses graphics to communicate in the story, and there are actually quite a lot of dialogue.”
Mei gestured to everyone:
“The heroine of the story is a princess from the black and white world. She embarked on an adventure in order to pursue the colors of her own world. Different colors represent different countries, one color and one chapter after another., Each chapter causes the heroine to face different sufferings, and these sufferings have their own mappings in the real world. “
“There are reflections in the real world…” Xia Yuan thought for a while, “Afang, what do you mean… on the surface is writing fairy tales, but in fact, writing about the inner world of an ordinary girl? “
“I am worthy of being our Chinese class representative. You can understand it at a glance if you are lucky. ”
Mei Fang rubbed Xia Yuan’s cheeks as encouragement, “I actually want to tell the story of an autistic girl opening her heart, striving to pursue herself, and finally reconciling with herself, and reaching the other side of her dream. This is the spiritual core of our work. “
The autistic girl opened her heart and tried hard to pursue herself and reconcile with herself…
As soon as Mei Fang finished speaking, the keen Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi immediately swept their eyes to Guo Yun. Guo Yun also realized Mei Fang’s intention and her face turned red.
“Afang… The story prototype of your game protagonist is not made by reference to Yunyun, right? “
“Well… to a certain extent, there must be a shadow of Guo Yun. ”