Game development giant

The most important thing in the production of "Monument Valley" is undoubtedly the screen and level design.

In the area of ​​art, after repeated communication between Li Yuanhang and Wang Xiuqin and other artists, after confirming that they fully understand and understand the style of the painting, they let them do it.

After the original painting was made, Li Yuanhang decided to use the application of "Game Development Giant" to complete the modeling and texture. On the one hand, only he himself can restore the picture of the previous "Monument Valley" to the greatest extent, and on the other hand, he can do his best. Possible savings in research and development costs.

Of course, Li Yuanhang was just an excuse that a friend opened a new art outsourcing studio, so he took over the outsourcing of art. Except for Wang Xiuqin's doubts, everyone else thought it was normal.

After the art was handed over to Wang Xiuqin and the others, Li Yuanhang put all his thoughts into level design.

The level design really hurt Li Yuanhang and several planners. After all, Li Yuanhang is not an unforgettable god. How could the game of a few years ago remember all the levels?

After Li Yuanhang seriously recalled, he could still remember some interesting scenes of the levels. For example, Ada discovered a new way of walking, and the level where Ada encountered a totem for the first time. The level of totem restoration.

There are also some levels. Li Yuanhang is not sure whether it is a level in "Monument Valley" 1 or 2. Anyway, if it is appropriate, I will use it first.

In order to design the levels, Li Yuanhang and several planners read Escher's paintings and studied many world-renowned buildings. After many disputes, they finally managed to design the first three levels.

Immediately after designing the third level, Wang Xiuqin came to Li Yuanhang’s office with a pile of original drawings, put the design draft on the table and said: "Yuanhang, all the original paintings of the first level have come out. What needs to be modified? If not, let your friend start modeling."

Li Yuanhang said in surprise: "Has it been drawn? Let me see..."

He picked up the first original drawing and began to look at it seriously.

These original drawings are all the original scenes required for the first level. As for the protagonist Ida, Li Yuanhang has already finalized the plan in the planning.

After all, Ida's image is a little girl wearing a conical hat and a white dress. She has no facial features on her face and can be drawn with a few simple strokes.

The image of Ada was unanimously opposed by the art team and even everyone. In the end, Li Yuanhang insisted on going his own way, using the authority of the producer and BOSS to temporarily let them accept that Ada was like this.

After reading the original paintings of the scene, Li Yuanhang was very satisfied. He closed the original paintings and said: "Sister Qin, the original paintings of the first level are like this. I will send these original paintings to my friend immediately, and let him start to complete the modeling and Stickers."

Wang Xiuqin hesitated for a while and said, "Yuanhang, can you give me your friend's contact information? It is convenient for me to communicate and deal with any problems in time."

Li Yuanhang smiled bitterly in his heart. This friend of his is totally fictitious, so how can he contact him? He thought for a while and said: "Sister Qin, my friend is abroad recently, and it is not convenient to contact the country. I will contact you if you have any questions. You handled it. Similarly, my friend’s modeling and textures, if you think there is any need to be modified, you can contact him through me."

"That's it..."

Wang Xiuqin looked at Li Yuanhang suspiciously. Unlike the others, she knew him far better than others.This friend who appeared out of nowhere to do art outsourcing made her a little curious, and she was even more puzzled by not allowing her to contact directly.

Although puzzled, Wang Xiuqin saw that Li Yuanhang was reluctant to say so and did not continue to ask. He changed the subject and said: "Yuanhang, I sent some Shanzhen from my hometown yesterday. Remember to come to my home to try it after get off work today."

Li Yuanhang smiled and said: "Then trouble Sister Qin for you, I don't feel very embarrassed to keep eating at your house."

Wang Xiuqin said, "If you are really embarrassed, then you can go to school to pick up Xiao Qian today."

"Okay, as long as there is nothing wrong in the future, I will pick up Xiao Qian every day." Li Yuanhang agreed readily.

...

After Wang Xiuqin left, Li Yuanhang said silently in his heart: "Xiao Ai, open my properties interface."

Xiao Ai's cheerful voice sounded in her mind: "Opening the properties interface."

As soon as the voice fell, a light curtain that had not been seen for many days appeared in front of Li Yuanhang's eyes. What appeared in the light curtain was Li Yuanhang's current real-time pornographic player: Li Yuanhang.

Sex: Male.

Age: 24 years old.

Level: Game apprentice (80100 experience points required to upgrade).

Reputation: An unknown person (50100 reputation required to upgrade).

Achievement: Monthly turnover of one million (reward points 2 points).

The game has been developed: "The Plague Company".

Game under development: "Monument Valley".

Game points: 28.

Application permission times: 3.

There are only three application permissions. At the beginning, the system gave a free trial opportunity. Later, the two main tasks were given once for each task.

There were only three chances, so Li Yuanhang chose to exchange 20 points for a super model master.

Li Yuanhang looked at the icon of an architectural symbol, the light curtain sensed his gaze, and the icon of the symbol began to enlarge, and its detailed introduction appeared below.

Super modeling master: You need to provide the original paintings of the corresponding characters and scenes. The model can be built in 15 minutes with a modeling accuracy of less than 5,000 faces. It takes half an hour for 10,000 faces and two hours for 50,000 faces.It takes five hours for 100,000 faces... The higher the modeling accuracy, the more time it takes. It costs 20 points for each use, and it can be used for twenty-four hours, or it can be spent 10,000 points to purchase lifetime usage rights for the app.

Li Yuanhang tried out the applications in "Game Development Giant" for the first time. After reading the instructions carefully, he started to officially use Super Modeler.

After the Super Modeling Master was enabled, the application store interface on the light curtain disappeared, and the light curtain instantly switched to an interface similar to modeling software, except that there were no cumbersome toolbars and editing mode bars, only a simple Simple single view window.

After opening the application, Li Yuanhang immediately took out the original drawing that Wang Xiuqin had taken out, and picked the first page and read it.

Within a few seconds, on the view window on the light curtain, an original painting that was exactly the same as the original painting in Li Yuanhang's hand appeared. At this time, a pop-up window appeared: "Please select the number of modeling faces" .

There are 5000, 10000 and other options under the pop-up window. Li Yuanhang chose 5000 faces and below, and then clicked Confirm to start modeling for the first original drawing.

The previous "Monument Valley" was a typical low-profile modeling, and the modeling accuracy was not high, but through exquisite rendering with soft light effects, it can give people a bright feeling.

Almost everything in the game is represented by squares or polygons with sharp edges and corners. With a few small petals or fluffy flakes composed of circular patterns, it gives people a unique visual sense.The colorful kaleidoscope seems to make people feel in a dream, but it looks delicate and in place.

This kind of artistic beauty is difficult to express in one or two sentences, and Li Yuanhang can only try his best to reproduce the beauty of the previous life as much as possible.