Wednesday, April 6th.

After two days of struggle, Pei Qian finally wrote out the general plot outline of "Struggle".

The plot of the game can be roughly divided into: birth, school, exams, work, love, marriage, house purchase, childbirth, mid-life crisis and other major stages.

It's the whole process, and the poor and the rich have the same stage, but they go through completely different things.

For example, from birth to school, the children of the rich are taken care of by nannies, and when they grow up, they can play happily in the mansion, and the toys they buy are very expensive, and they can invite very high-end tutors to come to their homes and get good preschool education;

Children from poor families do not have these conveniences at all, so they can only watch TV and picture books at home, and their parents can only play alone after work.

The other major stages are similar.,In short, you can imagine what kind of plot it will be if you make up for it.。

The poor are not in trouble, but the rich are unimpeded.

In order to make players feel the gap between the two more clearly, Pei Qian also considered adding some quantifiable data to the game, such as the player's current knowledge (professional knowledge, financial awareness, etc.), emotional intelligence (dealing with others, making friends, etc.), mental health, specific material wealth, etc.

These data will ostensibly affect the player's game options, such as the rich person's financial awareness can speed up his accumulation of material wealth, emotional intelligence can give him a better chance of making friends with noble people, and mental health can make it easier for him to adjust his mood at work and not have problems due to excessive stress......

But that's just on the surface.

In fact, they only affect some insignificant side lines, and do not affect the final outcome at all.

Pei Qian's reason for doing this is very simple, if the gameplay can visualize the final ending, then how can it disgust the player?

If the poor can counterattack and the rich can avoid the fate of being killed, wouldn't that be a cool trip?

Absolutely not!

Moreover, the setting of "you can choose on the surface, but you can't choose in reality" is a failure in the game industry, and most games will be scolded if they do so.

The process in the game is only in the prime of life, that is, about 50 years old.

In the Analects, it is said that thirty is standing, forty is not confused, and fifty is knowing the destiny of heaven.

For Pei Qian, if you choose a time point for rich players to be killed, fifty years old is the most appropriate.

It's too early, and the game doesn't have enough content; It's too late, it's disgusting.

Fifty-year-old rich people are in the prime of their careers, have obtained a very favorable living environment, most of them have good marriages and promising children, and dying at this time should be the most unacceptable time for players.

And the poor ...... By the age of 50, life is basically fixed, and the child's parent-like traits have already appeared, and this cycle of poverty has begun to appear.

In short, end the game at this age, just right.

Of course, in addition to these fixed life processes, there will also be some unexpected events added to the progress of the game.

For example: car accidents, illness, school bullying of children, buying a house and getting caught, natural disasters, etc.

These unexpected events will also slightly change the flow of the game, and at the same time, it will clearly show the gap between the poor and the rich in the ability to resist risks in the face of these unexpected events.

Having learned the lessons of "Game Producer", Pei Qian does not plan to do any narration this time.

All the content in the game does not contain any emotional color, and all dialogues and behaviors are as objective as possible, and will never induce players to rebel.

In addition, in order to prevent people with "ulterior motives" from forcibly deepening the depth of thought, Pei Qian set up the rich and the poor as two individuals who have nothing to do with each other at all.

In the end, the rich man was killed by a homeless man who had nothing to do with the poor.

Even this homeless man himself is not the simple and kind poor man that most people imagine, he has hands and feet, but he is idle, lazy, and lazy, and kills the rich only when he wants to get rich, not for some noble reason to resist oppression.

The rich people that the poor can reach, such as his boss and boss, are completely unrelated to the protagonist in the rich man's version, and have never had any idea of rebelling.

As much as possible, we should not let people have the easily misunderstood idea that "the rich oppress the poor" and "the poor rebel against the rich".

In addition, there is one of the most important problems, that is, how to prevent the henchman Qiao Laoshi from over-interpreting this game.

For this point, Pei Qian pondered and finally came up with a solution.

The official forced the same people to death!

I read it in advance, won't no one listen to your interpretation?

Why are you backstabbing me when no one listens?

Pei Qian can roughly guess from which angles Qiao Laoshi may interpret it, it is nothing more than the gap between the rich and the poor, the Matthew effect, the unreasonable distribution of social wealth, and the solidification of classes......

In short, the topic of wealth disparity has been discussed all over the world, and if you diverge your thinking, there are still many topics that can be brought up.

Pei Qian decided to expose these problems in advance as soon as the game was released.

Take the road of Qiao Laoshi, so that Qiao Laoshi has no way out!

Of course, Pei Qian was not stupid enough to backstab himself, although he wanted to officially expose these problems, he was definitely not as dry as Qiao Laoshi.

In the same way, the key depends on how to say it.

Like Qiao Laoshi, he cites and quotes scriptures, forcibly increases value and depth, which will definitely seem particularly bluffing and easy to resonate.

And Pei Qian plans to use the vernacular and a simple way to tell all these points, how to dry and how to come.

It is even possible to induce players to have some wrong opinions in the game, for example, using two fixed endings to induce them to misconceptions such as "the maker has a false idea that 'classes can never be crossed' and 'fatalism'".

It's like a joke.

Qiao Laoshi told jokes, danced with his hands, painted his voice, first created enough suspense, and then after the burden was shaken out, the audience exploded, producing an excellent effect.

And Pei Qian didn't pave the way at all, and just came up and threw the burden to the ground.

In this way, the audience already knows what this burden is, no matter how much you Qiao Laoshi creates an atmosphere, creates suspense, and no matter how much you talk about it, this burden will not be able to ring!

Pei Qian felt that his behavior was like directly marking "This person is the murderer" on the first page of a comic book, which definitely made Qiao Laoshi's "The Work of the Gods" series of videos unable to make a new issue!

The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more satisfied he became, and he felt that he was really a genius!

After everything was completed, Pei Qian sent the synopsis of the game to Hu Xianbin and asked him to expand it.

At the same time, different characters in the game need to use different motion capture actors, all of whom have to be foreigners, so they have to be found in advance.

Pei Qian didn't bother to care about this, and handed it all over to Hu Xianbin, anyway, it would be better if things were messed up at that time.

It's beautiful...... That's okay, as long as you grasp the plot of the game and don't deviate!

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Thursday, April 7.

Pei Qian came to the office on time after eating at noon.

Yesterday afternoon, he had already sent the synopsis of "Struggle" to Hu Xianbin, and sent a message to explain the matter of the IOI national service to Lin Wan, and asked her to go to connect with He Desheng.

As for how to do the IOI national uniform, Pei Qian doesn't have any good ideas.

The possibility of making changes to the game is almost non-existent, and it is difficult to keep the pricing of heroes and skins down, after all, Dream Ventures only accounts for 20% of the shares of the finger company, and does not have that much say.

Purely from the point of view of the game's charging model, ioi is really not very friendly compared to GOG, after all, GOG all heroes are free, and the price of skins is several times lower than ioi.

However, Pei Qian thinks that this should not be a big deal, and now there are many people playing IOI in China, and there is already a certain player base.

The biggest problem for them is not the selling price, but the network.

It's too stuck to connect IOI's international server with an accelerator, and you can't communicate with foreign teammates in the game.

As long as the national server comes out, these people will definitely switch to the national server as soon as possible, so there is no need to worry about the start of the IOI national server version, with the ability of this group of people in the game, they can take off with a little operation.

After temporarily taking care of the two game departments, Pei Qian felt that the pressure on his body was greatly reduced.

However, even this should not be taken lightly, because there are still many things waiting for him to deal with.

"Tuk-tuk."

There was a knock on the door outside the office, it was Assistant Xin.

"Mr. Pei, this is the survey report you want about the fitness industry in Jingzhou City, if you don't want to see these data, you can go directly to the last page and have a conclusion."

Pei Qian nodded and took the investigation report from Assistant Xin's hand.

I casually flipped through two pages, and there was a lot of data and technical terms in front of me, which I really couldn't understand.

Pei Qian turned to the last page very calmly, and asked while looking at the conclusion of the investigation: "So, the current gym in Jingzhou, on the whole, is it making money or not making money?" ”

Assistant Xin thought for a moment: "It also makes money, and it doesn't make money." The key is how it works. ”

Pei Qian: "Huh? Tell me more about it. ”

Assistant Xin obviously had an understanding of the current situation of the fitness industry, and in the past few days, he received the task of Mr. Pei and conducted an in-depth investigation of the fitness industry in Jingzhou, which is completely familiar with these contents.

"To put it simply, limited by the current level of economic development in our country, most people do not have a fixed habit of going to the gym, and even if they have fitness habits, they often can't afford the cost of those high-end gyms."

"There are many white-collar workers in super first-tier cities, and the situation will be better, and Jingzhou, as a second-tier city, this problem is especially obvious."

"Considering the expenses of opening a gym in various aspects such as rent, equipment, labor, water and electricity, air conditioning and heating, fire protection, etc., it is difficult for many gyms to support daily operations with the low-cost membership strategy adopted by many gyms for Dora customers, let alone create enough profits."

"From this point of view, gyms don't make money, and many gyms that have closed down have closed down because they can't make ends meet. The greater the investment, the greater the marketing pressure. ”

"However, gyms that really make money also make a lot of money, and the main way is to find those high-net-worth customers to sell private training classes, and the more they sell, the more they earn."

"The primary task of personal trainers in most gyms is not to teach students well, but to sell more classes, and the internal group of personal trainers is similar to the marketing group, and whoever sells more classes will be sought after."

"In short, the gym model that makes money now is to get more cards, especially to fool newcomers to get annual cards. Newcomers don't have fitness habits at all, and it's difficult to stick to it. ”

"At the same time, low-cost fitness cards attract as many customers as possible, and then the personal trainers begin to show their talents, find high-net-worth customers to fool them into private training classes, and make a lot of profits from here."

"There are also some other cats, such as taking a free test for the first time, modern people have more or less health problems, and private churches deliberately exaggerate these health problems and take the opportunity to sell classes."

"In short, it is not denied that there are more conscientious gyms in this industry, but generally speaking, there is chaos and it is not very standardized."

"Many consumers who go to the gym are also extremely disgusted by these chaos, but the reasons for this situation are complex and cannot be changed in a short period of time."

"Mr. Pei, if you want to enter this industry, of course it is a good thing for the industry itself, but these objective problems must be considered more."

"Even for you, it's not so easy to create a high-end and conscientious gym brand from scratch."

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