Black Goku is high-end?

Ordinary people, in fact, can also make 3A masterpieces

The outbreak of "Black Myth: Wukong" has made the Chinese people see the possibility of more domestic 3A masterpieces.

It's just that, as ordinary people, you and I, don't know programming or art, can you make your own 3A masterpieces?

Can the Unreal Engine used to create Black Myth: Wukong be mastered by ordinary people?

The popularity of sandbox games has opened people's eyes to the possibility of making their own games.

The general pixelation of the open world has made people lose that the games that ordinary players can build are all Lego bricks.

Whether it is the current popular "Egg Boy Party" and "Roblox", or the popular "Minecraft" for many years, players have unlocked game creativity at the same time, but also have been lowered by the strong low and young style of self-made game content.

It is true that the characteristics of the current sandbox game and the carrying capacity of the server also determine that it is impossible to open up the possibility of building a more realistic life for players at present:

Grainy enough to function properly will remain the rule of the game for many years to come.

Is it possible for ordinary players who don't know how to code and don't like to build blocks to get closer to making their dream game?

After 2020, this dream is far from being realized and there has been a major breakthrough.

UGC games also have their own eras, such as the game self-creation 1.0 era.

For example, a game editor called "Awakening", that is, a 2D gadget, pixel art is the keynote.

The 2.0 era is the IP era, such as NetEase's "Y3 Editor", TapTap's "Spark Editor", and "Roblox".

These are similar to Blizzard's War3Editor to provide its own various IPs, so that players can not only have their own ideas for their own games, but also call various IPs owned by the platform, making the whole game seem more like a gaiden of the official game.

The editor "Egg Boy Workshop" provided by the popular "Egg Boy Party" has gone one step further and released the visual programming "Egg Code", which can not only allow NetEase and its cooperative IP to be called, but also make the entire game setting more one-click fool-proof.

But all of the above still makes content creators a little constrained, and the overall presentation effect is still building blocks, even if the blocks are no longer so pixels.

The emergence of artificial intelligence has promoted the "automation" of the entire game.

In 2023, the Roblox Developer Conference released a new tool that creators can use to input text prompts to generate game scenes, 3D models and other operations, further lowering the threshold for code creation itself.

But if you just change the threshold of programming from visualization to text input assistance, it can only be called game 2.5.

It wasn't until the advent of Crayta in 2020 that the game entered the 3.0 era.

The core of the game editor is built on the game development engine "Unreal Engine 4", which is not only an open game development tool, but also a user-made game sharing platform.

In fact, long before Crayta, the Unreal Engine 4 added a visual scripting system called Blueprints, which allowed designers to create complex game stories by connecting nodes, events, functions, and variables together using wires.

This user-friendly design carries over to Crayta, which allows users to have neither programming nor art skills, but also by providing a variety of preset combinations (such as character appearance and motion settings).

Coupled with a large number of supporting visual art resources, it realizes the production of games without thresholds:

Players simply need to control the position of different objects and set trigger events for them as they would in a construction simulator, and they can simply create a masterpiece with no less visual effects than mainstream single-player games.

Unlike sandbox games, the various map building is often just a background board or at most simple gameplay.

Crayta, which can make excellent visual effects, provides design capabilities for various types of games such as shooting games, action games, and racing sports games, further unlocking the imagination of players.

As a result, Crayta has also become another metaverse game platform that has attracted global attention after Roblox, and it is no longer a poker face.

It's just a pity that in February 2023, Meta, which acquired Unit 2 Games, the developer behind Crayta, and has ambitious steps into the metaverse, announced the closure of Crayta.

The rationale is: "If there are 50 developers working on this game, the maintenance cost will be higher than many other games." ”

Perhaps, it is too advanced and inevitably.

Just like IBM, which was born in 1994 with touchscreen smartphones, it wasn't until 2007 that Apple's iPhone became mainstream.

The dream of making your own game can only be said: it is enough to come true.

At least, Tencent refers to the successful model of NetEase Egg Boy and launches "Yuan Dream Star" at the end of 2023, perhaps because it can't realize its dream, so it has changed its meta word.

This time, "Black Myth: Wukong" fulfilled the dream of the Chinese people's 3A masterpiece.

Next, there may be more people who will develop their own 3A masterpieces and use "simple tools".

Moreover, the provider of this tool may be a major domestic game manufacturer.

After all, they understand the dreams of the Chinese better.

This is not a dream, it is an ideal that shines into reality.

Published in the People's Post and Telegraph on April 26, 2024, Issue 399 of the column of "Le Youji".

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