I Am the Mastermind Behind the Scenes
Chapter 11

NPC Character Design

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With the aid of numerous NPC background materials, Lu Wu and Bei Li finally finalized the background of the first NPC and named him Lu Mo.

In the game, his background is that of an adopted son of the King of Beiqi.

For players, Lu Mo's role is similar to that of the village chief in other novice villages. He can answer questions about daily knowledge of the land of Beiqi. Another function is that after players reach level 20, they can pay 50 Soul Coins to Lu Wu to establish a guild.

Of course, since Lu Mo is a true NPC with a soul, he has complete autonomy. In addition to the mandatory NPC settings, he also has his own hobbies and ideas.

This will fill the game with many uncertainties and increase its playability.

After Lu Wu placed Lu Mo in the Underworld, Lu Mo began to wander around the Netherworld on his own, often turning his head to look at the ruined Netherworld, a trace of sadness on his face.

After settling these matters, Lu Wu once again opened the notebook filled with various settings.

At this stage, the game experience is fine, but there are still many areas to enrich the game content.

For example, job skills, subsequent NPC settings, and even Lu Wu has thought about adding several expansion packs after the number of players reaches a certain scale, including a Duel Arena to increase the competitive fun.

Of course, at this stage, the conception of these contents is still in Lu Wu's mind, without specific designs.

At the same time, Wu Guoyi, who was in a meeting with the 173 game company, received a game CG video sent by Lu Wu.

Originally, Wu Guoyi planned to watch the content after the meeting, but when he saw that the signature was Lu Wu, he paused the meeting for a while and couldn't wait to open the game CG video.

When he saw hundreds of thousands of Yin Soldiers and alien beasts descending from the sky fighting bloody battles, the Beiqi King Flag standing tall in the whistling Yin wind, and the King of Beiqi's heroic blow of sacrificing himself for righteousness, he couldn't help but slam the table with excitement:

"Good!"

Seeing his subordinates cast puzzled glances, Wu Guoyi immediately transferred the CG to the computer dedicated to the meeting:

"Put on your virtual helmets and take a look at this game CG."

Although everyone was puzzled, they still obediently picked up the virtual helmets placed next to each seat.

These virtual helmets are often used in meetings. After all, every time they meet, they discuss the development of the game platform and the content of game testing, and they often need to wear helmets to experience it, but it is the first time to use it to watch game CG.

Seeing everyone put on their helmets, Wu Guoyi also put on his virtual helmet, and then asked the assistant to play the CG video.

At the beginning of the video, the four dark gold characters of

Battle Online

slowly emerged from the darkness.

Then the darkness collapsed, and the picture of the Underworld appeared. A black giant dragon was leading countless monsters descending from the sky, roaring and declaring its ownership of this land to the man in armor.

When hundreds of thousands of Yin Soldiers stepped out of the black mist with Lu Wu's shouts, the blood of many people present was ignited, expecting Lu Wu to lead the Yin Soldiers to defeat the giant dragon.

The battle in the next scene was more of an epic war movie than a CG, and the atmosphere was rendered extremely well.

When the King of Beiqi turned into flames and pounced on the giant dragon at the end, everyone present felt a sense of tension in their hearts and had completely entered the battle, as if they were one of the hundreds of thousands of Yin Soldiers.

In the end, the world turned into a sea of ​​fire, and the burning sparks ignited the Netherworld, ignited the earth, and all the warriors lowered their heads and knelt on one knee to remember the deceased King of Beiqi, and then the picture slowly darkened, and the four characters of

Battle Online

reappeared.

At the same time, there was a paragraph of text at the end of the video: Game real scene shooting.

After taking off their helmets, the conference room became noisy, and everyone was asking what kind of game this Battle Online was, and how could it make such a great game CG.

However, many people questioned the point of real-scene shooting of the game, because the picture of this CG is too real, and there is no such realistic game on the market now.

Optimizing game graphics on CG is also a consistent practice of many game companies.

But it has to be admitted that the CG of this game did conquer them.

Wu Guoyi smiled inscrutablely: "You will know soon, this game will be logged on our homepage in the next few days, and you can experience it then, I guarantee it will not disappoint you!"

Then the meeting continued, but the shocking CG picture of

Battle Online

would still appear in everyone's minds from time to time.

After the meeting, Wu Guo took out a cigarette case, lit a cigarette, and frowned as he smoked.

In the email, Lu Wu wrote that he wanted him to give some pointers on how the CG still needs to be improved.

But to be honest, he had experienced this game and knew that this CG was definitely a real scene shot in the game, so after watching it several times again, he still couldn't find a place to give pointers, which made him very helpless.

But he still took out his mobile phone and dialed Lu Wu's number.

After Lu Wu answered the phone, Wu Guoyi said with a smile: "Brother Lu, I have watched your CG. To be honest, I can't believe that you made the CG so quickly. Did you prepare it long ago?"

Hearing this, Lu Wu still followed Wu Guoyi's words and admitted that the CG had been produced long ago. After all, it was only mentioned yesterday, and the CG came out today, which is really too fast to be doubted.

"To be honest, I really can't believe that your team is a newcomer with no reputation in the gaming world. Your technical level has completely reached the world's peak. Do you have time to introduce me to your team?"

Hearing this, Lu Wu was very embarrassed. He couldn't possibly say that you had already met our team that day, it's just the two of us.

He had to perfunctorily brush it off.

After chatting for a while, Wu Guoyi suddenly said, "Brother Lu, to be honest, there's nothing wrong with your game CG, but it's missing something besides the CG itself."

Lu Wu was stunned and quickly asked, "What's missing?"

"The music rendering. The scene's visuals and the sounds of the fight are all flawless, but it's just lacking the most atmosphere-enhancing music. Moreover, if the game wants to become big, the BGM itself is a very important aspect. That's what you're missing."

Wu Guoyi's words hit the nail on the head, making Lu Wu realize the problem. How could there be a CG without BGM rendering? This is indeed a big problem.

Moreover, extending from this problem, Lu Wu thought that the game's theme song had not yet been finalized.

However, Lu Wu had no research in this area and could only ask Wu Guoyi for advice.

"Hehe, what's so difficult about this? For the theme song, it's simple. You spend money to hire someone to compose the music and write the lyrics, and then find a popular celebrity to sing it!"

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