Almighty Video Game Designer - Chapter 287

Chapter 287: The glory of the BGM Summoner

Zhou Hanyu was busy adding color to the hero design draft.

Before developing League of Legends, Zhou Hanyu had hired a few more people, including an experienced original artist, two UI artists, three 3d stylists, and two action artists. He had basically set up a small art team.

In fact, based on the situation with Warcraft and Diablo, the art could be outsourced, but it would be more expensive to communicate and slower to do.

However, Chen Mo considered the fact that he would have to produce a large number of character concept art and models in League of Legends, including new heroes and new skins. It wouldn’t be good to outsource too much, so he wanted to build a small art team first.

Moreover, Chen Mo now had a lot more money for research and development, so he didn’t feel any pressure supporting an art team.

At the moment, he had to do a small part of the art by himself and outsource most of it. When the team expanded further in the future, he would outsource a small part and do most of the art by himself.

“How is it? is there anything you don’t understand about these heroes?” Chen Zhao asked.

“No,” Zhou Hanyu replied,”the settings for these heroes are quite clear, and the progress is going smoothly. However, I have a question. Teemo, Annie, nuonuo, AMU, Lulu, all of these heroes have the word ‘cute’ in their special remarks? This …”

Chen Mo nodded,”yes, they are all very cute, especially Teemo.”

Zhou Hanyu said,”yeah, I know that. It’s already been drawn very clearly in the sketch.” There are only 25 Champions in the early game, and five of them are like mascots. Could it be that our game is … For children?”

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Chen Zhao couldn’t help but laugh, then said seriously,””Our game is all-age oriented, but primary school students will be an important group of players.

Zhou Hanyu scratched his head, a little confused.

Primary school students were an important group of players?

Currently, other than casual puzzle games, none of the games in the country really treated primary school students as an important group of players.

The reason was very simple. They were generally noobs, had no money, and had no time.

Most of the mainstream games in China had players who were between the ages of 15 and 45. These people liked cool and realistic paintings. They might not be extremely against cartoonish versions, but they were still a little incompatible.

In the first version of the heroes list, there were cute heroes (Teemo), handsome heroes (Ezreal), Ugly Heroes (stone golems), traditional heroes (garen), and special heroes (robots). These made Zhou Hanyu a little worried. Just what kind of hodgepodge was this game?

Although the bright style, cheeky heroes, and simple operations would expand the player base of League of Legends Q wasn’t it a little too much?

In a game like Warcraft, it was hard to imagine characters like Timo and Annie.

Moreover, take the hero a Mumu as an example. He was clearly a mummy. Wasn’t it better to be a normal-sized mummy wrapped in bandages and summoning scarabs?

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Why did he have to be a big-headed son?

Moreover, it was set to keep crying, and the way it attacked was very similar to kowtowing …

Zhou Hanyu still had a lot of questions, but they would only be answered after the game was released.

Chen Mo looked at the progress of the model.

Since the sketches had already been given, the hero models and the original arts were basically released at the same time. Two models had already been released, and they were garen and AI Xi. However, they were still adjusting the movements, so they had not been replaced in the game.

In Chen Mo’s previous life, garen’s model had been remade, and Chen Mo didn’t take the wrong path and directly remade the model.

The remade Galen’s graphics, movements, and details had all been greatly improved. However, overall, he still continued his previous style. He was heavy, steady, and gave people a very reliable feeling.

As for some players who thought that he was very wretched, squatting in the grass all day, waiting for people to pass by, shouting “Demacia”, and then rushing out to spin his big sword … That was because of the players ‘playing style.

Garen’s model was now standing upright like a stick, with his hands tilted 45 degrees down, and the big sword was on one side.

If one looked closely, they would find that the model was very different from the real person.

His shoulders were especially broad, his arms were thick, and his legs were thick. His entire person looked like a short tree stump, infinitely close to a square.

His legs were about the same length as his upper body, and he felt like he could walk on all fours effortlessly if he bent down.

Obviously, normal people rarely had such a body proportion, especially heroic figures.

In this day and age, if one didn’t have two long legs, it would be embarrassing to say that one was the male lead.

However, there was a reason for this model.

Because League of Legends was a God’s perspective, players didn’t actually look at the model from the front, but from the top.

From this point of view, Galen’s body proportion would appear just right. He was tall, mighty, and well-proportioned, and his huge shoulder armor and big sword could highlight the hero’s characteristics very well.

If it was strictly done according to a human’s body in real life, it would look ugly from this perspective, and the details would be difficult to distinguish.

Chen Mo had emphasized this point, and with their experience in Warcraft and Diablo, Chen Mo’s team was quite skilled at making models.

There were no problems with the art, and progress was smooth.

Chen Mo went to Fu Guangnan’s side and asked about the progress of the music and sound effects.

“Most of the requirements for the sound effects have been outsourced,” Fu Guangnan said.”They’re the most professional sound effects team in the country, so there shouldn’t be any problems.”

“The background music is going well too. Manager, your song is really great. I think we just need to add more elements to the song, and it will definitely become a classic BGM.”

“By the way, the first version of the background music is ready. Listen to it.”

Fu Guangnan handed the headphones to Chen Mo.

Chen Mo took it and a familiar melody started playing in his headphones,”sunny glory.”

This song was the BGM of the LPL’s victory and was known as the godly Warsong. Its English name should be “glory of the summoner”, but Chen Mo thought that it would be a bit too blunt, so he named it “glory of the summoner” in Chinese.

This song would be the background music for League of Legends’s login and appear in the first version.

Chen Mo listened to it. Even though the current version didn’t have many instruments and the details weren’t perfect, it was able to express the charm of the song.

Chen Mo nodded.”Yes, that’s good. Add more of this boiling feeling. It’ll make people want to shout Demacia when they hear it on the street.”

…”Okay.”