Chapter 1302 The Story Behind Tenda Games

Li Yada's words made Yan Qi feel a bit ashamed.

Although it was a bucket of cold water poured over his head, which was very discouraging, it also objectively helped clear his mind.

Indeed, that was the case.

He himself didn't have a strong urge to create this game, only thinking that passing was enough. How could he conquer players and make them addicted?

But then again, Yan Qi felt that Li Yada was talking without knowing the situation.

Innovation on demand?

If innovation were as common as cabbages sold on the street, would there be so many garbage games released every year?

Did she really think that the producers of those garbage games were all bad-intentioned?

Of course, some producers or investors might indeed be ignorant, or just focused on making money, but many others simply lacked the ability. What could they do if they couldn't make good games?

If I had President Pei's brain, I would make different types of games every time, and players would be clamoring to buy them, how great would that be?

Who doesn't want to make their own unique game? Who doesn't want to start a new school of thought? Who wants to copy others?

The key is that they don't have the ability.

After all, he was responsible for the livelihood of dozens of people in the entire studio. The cost of failure was too high, and he really couldn't afford it.

Yan Qi felt that although Li Yada was also in the game industry, she was, after all, in distribution.

Distribution and development were two completely different worlds.

According to the current relationship, distribution was like Party A, picking and choosing from a pile of games, selecting the ones they were satisfied with. If they encountered something unsatisfactory, they could also ask the game developer to change it.

Development was like Party B, which was more miserable. Except for a few companies with particularly strong R&D capabilities and the right to speak, most other small companies were not allowed to have their own opinions. After all, they could only get recommendation and promotion resources if they made changes according to the distributor's requirements.

Chaolu Games Platform was indeed a platform that earned money standing up, and had the right to be tough. Li Yada, as an employee of the game platform, her personality was understandable.

But the key was to consider Yan Qi's objective situation.

Otherwise, wouldn't that be making the mistake of "why not eat meat porridge"?

Yan Qi cleared his throat twice, "Sister Li, I also want to make groundbreaking innovations, but I have to consider objective conditions, right?"

"《Empire Blade》is just an ordinary mobile game. I plan to transition to an action single-player game, which is already taking a big risk. If I'm not stable enough and blindly pursue innovation and novelty, I'm afraid I'll take too big of a step and end up hurting myself."

"How can you do action games without any accumulation? There has to be a transition."

Li Yada pushed up her glasses, "Before 《Repent and be Saved》was made, the team had no experience in making action games at all."

"The previous game was 《Game Producer》, which wasn't related at all."

Yan Qi was speechless for a moment, "This..."

"Sister Li, are you looking too highly on me by comparing me with President Pei?"

"If I had President Pei's brain, then I would dare to take risks, but I don't."

Li Yada was silent for a moment and then said, "Have you ever considered that you might have misunderstood the cause and effect?"

"The President Pei you think of has ideas first, and then the courage to change."

"But maybe President Pei had the courage first, and then the idea to change?"

"Does ability determine mindset, or does mindset determine ability? Do you think a person has the right mindset first, or mature ability?"

Li Yada's words were obviously heartfelt words she had summarized after working at Tenda for so long and learning game design from President Pei.

Was President Pei a genius in game design?

Of course, he was.

But to say that President Pei's success was entirely due to his ability was obviously not objective.

In fact, what was most amazing about President Pei was not his game design ability, but his determination and courage.

Take 《Repent and be Saved》as an example. President Pei didn't interfere too much with the design details of the game. The only thing he repeatedly emphasized was to increase the game difficulty, and then increase it again.

The reason was simple: improving the design details of the game was something that every main designer, even ordinary functional designers in the development team, could do; but increasing the difficulty of the game and insisting on this design concept at the risk of a large number of players being dissuaded was something only President Pei could do.

Only President Pei had this determination and overall view, and only President Pei could bear such responsibility.

Not only 《Repent and be Saved》, but in fact most of Tenda's games were playing with fire, repeatedly jumping back and forth at the risk of failing.

But without this determination, these games would not have been born at all, and there wouldn't even be design drafts.

Moreover, in daily work, President Pei's cultivation of his subordinates was more encouraging than instructive.

President Pei rarely taught his subordinates how to do things, how to design, or how to think about problems, but encouraged his subordinates to think independently and solve the problem in their own way.

At most, he would give some hints and let his subordinates understand it themselves.

For those subordinates who lacked confidence, President Pei would keep telling them repeatedly, don't worry, you're completely fine.

And the previous main designers of Tenda Games had all grown up under this encouragement.

So, this was actually Li Yada's heartfelt words. She felt that she was able to achieve such growth mainly because she had gained the courage to change under the leadership of President Pei.

First, she was not bound by those rules and regulations that sought stability, and then she was qualified to talk about design and innovation.

Li Yada's words really stunned Yan Qi.

After thinking about it carefully, he felt that it seemed to make some sense!

On the surface, ability and mindset were equally important, and neither could be missing.

But a person without a good mindset cannot have ability, because ability is cultivated and trained, not created out of thin air.

If a person has a bad mindset, they can't even do the most basic ability cultivation, so how can they talk about success?

Making up your mind to change doesn't necessarily lead to success, but if you hesitate, the result will inevitably be failure.

Yan Qi was silent for a long time, and suddenly realized a problem: "Hey, Sister Li, listening to you, how do you seem to know the situation of Tenda particularly well?"

Although she didn't reveal the specific situation inside Tenda, this confident tone was like she knew the inside story very well.

Li Yada was stunned for a moment, "...I also have friends working at Tenda, and I heard him talk about some internal things, especially the story of when 《Repent and be Saved》was developed."

"Oh! Really! Can you tell me about it? I also want to hear!" Yan Qi instantly became energetic.

He used to work in Modu, and then he resigned and started a studio, and came to Jingzhou.

And as far as he knew, Li Yada had been working in Jingzhou all the time, and the game circle in Jingzhou was not very big. It was not surprising that she knew friends who worked at Tenda.

The story of when 《Repent and be Saved》was developed was too attractive.

Li Yada started this topic herself, so she couldn't refuse, so she had to nod, "Okay, then I'll just tell you a simple one."

"It is said that when 《Repent and be Saved》was being developed, a demo was made, and the designer at the time took it to President Pei to see."

"President Pei hadn't even started playing yet, so he directly asked her to increase the attack power of the monsters to three times."

"Then President Pei started."

"The game was originally positioned as high difficulty. The initial blood volume for a small monster in the village to hit the player was about 20%, and everyone thought this was already very high, but they didn't expect President Pei to directly change it to 60%."

Yan Qi instantly became interested, "So that's how the high difficulty of 《Repent and be Saved》came about? Was it a temporary change made by President Pei after seeing the demo?"

"That's right, I remember that the initial small monsters chopped the player with 80% blood, right?"

"What happened after that? Did President Pei control the monsters in circles after a series of operations, and then felt that the difficulty was still too low, so he increased the damage again?"

Yan Qi had already watched a lot of videos of bosses clearing 《Repent and be Saved》without injury. As an old player, although it was difficult for him to clear it without injury, it was still easy to abuse the small monsters in the novice village.

After all, the small monsters in the novice village moved slowly, their moves were stiff, and their damage was high, but slightly more skilled players would not be touched.

President Pei, as a designer, should at least have the level of a veteran, even if it was not easy to play?

Li Yada shook her head, "Well... the result is similar to what you think, but the process is a little different."

"As soon as President Pei started, he was killed by the small monsters twice at the speed of light, and then he multiplied the damage of the small monsters by a factor of 1.3."

Yan Qi was stunned for a moment, "Ah?"

President Pei was abused by the small monsters?

President Pei still insisted on adding difficulty to the small monsters?

If that's the case, then indeed, President Pei's determination and courage were admirable.

Yan Qi asked himself, if he made a game and was killed twice by the small monsters in the novice village as soon as he went out, then he would definitely lower the difficulty.

Not only did he not lower the difficulty, but he also increased the damage to the small monsters. Most people really couldn't do this kind of thing.

President Pei was indeed a genius.

The story told by Li Yada did indeed corroborate her previous statement from the side.

Although it sounded a bit bizarre, Yan Qi felt that Li Yada was very reliable and shouldn't be lying to him.

"Okay, I agree with your statement. Courage is indeed more important than ability. Courage is the first step to making a change."

"But the problem is that courage alone is not enough. Even if I want to innovate, I don't have a suitable direction."

Li Yada was silent for a moment and then said, "Well..."

"In fact, there are certain rules and tricks."

The rules and tricks she said were actually some game design concepts she had learned from President Pei.

Following a game master like President Pei, and doing a lot of successful projects, she would naturally have insights and gains.

At first, Li Yada was still hesitant about whether it would be bad to reveal this concept to Yan Qi.

But on second thought, President Pei had never been a closed-off person.

In the old society, there was a saying that "teaching apprentices starves the master." Many craftsmen kept secrets, and some martial arts families only passed on their family's skills and never passed them on to outsiders, but that was after all the old calendar of the past.

In the game field, President Pei had always had an attitude of "achieving oneself and benefiting the world."

For example, the Downtrodden Project, the Chaolu Games Platform, and sending Min Jingchao to jointly develop games with Tianhuo Studio...

President Pei had been working hard to influence the domestic game industry and change the entire environment with his own efforts.

A reliable producer like Yan Qi should get some help.

If it was President Pei, he would definitely not hesitate to give guidance.

Now that she was teaching on behalf of President Pei, it was nothing more than being a second-generation disciple. It was all in order to practice the Tenda spirit and make the game environment better.

Besides, President Pei's design concept was relatively profound, like an internal skill.

Whether Yan Qi could understand it and how much he could understand it depended on himself.