Text | Yu Shenglin
TCG is the abbreviation of the trading card game, and has a history of nearly 30 years since its earliest board game development.
The first TCG was launched in 1993, which is the well-known board game “Magic Movie”. The Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw became popular as soon as it was released, and it also made the company behind it Wizards step by step to the top in the industry.
Then in 1996, the popular Japanese Pokémon also launched its own TCG in 1990. In 1999, the card game “Yu-Gi-Gi” that is most familiar to domestic players was officially released.
Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw Then these cards quickly occupied the convenience store of major and middle schools in China, becoming the absolute master of everyone’s spare time. Game Daily Yu Yu’s family still has hundreds of cards that he won when he was a child. Of course, most students did not know the specific gameplay of TCG, but at that time there were already many full card stores in first-tier cities in China for everyone to play these board games.
Brand stores in Beijing in 2005/Photo source: Wuxia Amon
Although offline board games are very popular, there are few TCG online games at home and abroad.
In 2001, “Legend of Hot Blood” was just introduced to China, and online games ushered in a blowout development in 2Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw002. In that wilderness of domestic online games, Wu Xia Amon designed the first TCG online game “Interactive Martial Arts”, which opened his own fate with TCG.
“Interactive Martial Arts” press conference
Shortly after Wu Xia Amon’s first game was launched, he had the idea of resigning and starting a business. Although he had no money or qualifications, he relied on his love and motivation for such games to plunge into the “no return” of game entrepreneurship. Then Cinema 1950 witch clothes DrawHe was 26 years old one year.
After more than a year, after dozens of failed investments, Wu Xia Amon, who was heavily in debt, finally couldn’t stand it and found a class and went to Suzhou Game Snail to serve as the main planner of “Mecha Century”.
More than two months later, Wu Xia Amon finally found an opportunity Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, got a million investment, and began to develop his second TCG “Xiaoyaoyou”. At that time, Wu Xia Amon never expected that the carefully designed game he had never seen even the first side.
“Xiaoyaoyou”
On the eve of the game’s launch, investors felt that the game had been completed and no longer needed Wu Xia Amon, so they set up a new company, and all the employees and computers were pulled away, leaving only the poor Wu Xia Amon and his friends with his main program. However, “Xiaoyaoyou” which lost the producer and main program, it was down for a long time on the day of its public beta, and all kinds of evil href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw frequently appeared sexual bugs and disappeared soon after.
After that unwilling Wu Xia Amon and his friends in the main process, the two of them made a brand new TCG “Eight Immortals Online”, which was officially launched in 2008. As a result, the new game Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw was cheated by the distribution company as soon as it was launched. Not only did the distribution company not share the money, but also copied a web game “Ten Thousand Demon King” himself. “Ten Thousand Demon King” made micro-innovations based on “Eight Immortals”, and the result was that the new game “Ten Thousand Demon King” was cheated on the basis of “Eight Immortals”.Because I couldn’t copy it carefully, the numerical system was not stuck and it soon became cold.
After that, “Eight Immortals Online” experienced several twists and turns, and finally operated it in Wuxia Amen to 201Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw for 2 years until it was bought out by a Shenzhen company.
“Eight Immortals Online”
This game is Wu Xia Amon’s favorite game. The planning, art, and website are all made by Wu Xia Amon himself. There are no restrictions on the content, so he can do whatever he wants.
In 2013, the popular Blizzard Hearthstone began testing.
Furthermore, among the games in this category, “The Five Elements Master” launched in 2017 is considered a representative work.
Yuyu: Why is it named Wuxia Amon?
Wu Xia Amon: In 2002, I took it when I was doing “Interactive Martial Arts”. I like martial arts very much. I have read a lot of martial arts novels. I once wanted to change the online name to “Martial Arts Dream”, but I felt a little stingy, so I used the homonym of “Martial Arts Dream” by “Martial Arts Dream” with self-deprecating words “Wu Xia Amon”.
Yuyu: How was “The Five Elements Master” born?
Wu Xia Amon: After selling “Eight Immortals Online”, I started my business again in 2012. I was lucky enough to make millions with other games Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, and I was facing the problem of project establishment at this time. Based on my interest in CCG and my feelings for “Eight Immortals onliBabaylan 1990 cloth drawne”, we finally used all the money to make a CCG “Five Elements Master”, whose combat rules are inherited from “Eight Immortals Online”.
The FiveKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw新联利” can be said to be the life of “Eight Immortals Online”Continuation. In “The Five Elements Master”, I designed a 1960 witch cloth draw card called “Tumbler”, which commemorates the years of the years that were pushed around but didn’t want to fall down. Haha, it’s pretentious, manual dog head~
Yuyu: After “The Five Elements Master” is launched, will any player compare it with “Heartstone”?
Wu Xia Amon: After the game was launched, it was recommended by TapTap for the first time and had a high score of 9.4. However, many players saw that it was a card game, and they scolded us for not playing it for a while, and they gave us a bad review, which led to a continuous decline in the score… Later, due to the recognition of quality, the scores have been rising all the way. Now there are more than one million downloads on TapTap, and they still retain a high score of 9.0.
In fact, the rules of “The Five Elements Master” are inherited from “Eight Immortals Online” launched in 2008. How could it copy “Heartstone” launched in 2013? When Hearthstone first came out, many old “Eight Immortals” players came to me and joked that Hearthstone was plagiarizing us.
Yu Yu: How is “The Five Elements Master” doing in terms of balance?
Wu Xia Amon: The balance of “The Five Elements Master” can be listed in some data to illustrate the Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw:
In the duel between experts, there are nearly 20 sets of playing methods with a winning rate of more than 50% and a usage rate of more than 1% each month (the sect and the five elements combination are different, and the playing methods with a playing Babaylan 1990 cloth draw are different). This number is much higher than other CCGs.
In addition, the winning rate of routines with the highest winning rate is lower than 54%, which is also far lower than other CCGs.
Yuyu: I have been persisting for 20 years, why are I so obsessed with card games?
Wu Xia Amon: I like to play games with high strategic nature, and card battle games are very strategic and never tired of playing them.
Yuyu: Which game do you think you have made the best? Why?
Wu Xia Amon: The best one is the latest “Devil’s Secret Realm”. “The Five Elements Master” is also a real son, but its artistic performance has always been our pain and has been discounted…
“Five Elements Master”
Yu Yu: Are there any interesting news during the game development process?
Wu Xia AmonKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw: There are quite a lot of interesting things, let’s talk about the early years:
In 2005, in order to write a good financing business plan, I went to the card store to inspect. There are dozens of card stores that mainly sell Magic Cards in Beijing, and there are also board game venues. draw. When I took the second photo, it attracted the attention of the store owner and asked me about my purpose. I honestly told me. He knew that I was not a customer, so he limited me to leave within 30 seconds, and stayed wherever I was cool… Years have passed, and occasionally I remembered the embarrassing look.
Yu Yu: What are the major problems encountered during the game development process?
Wu Xia Amon: The biggest problem is the choice of art style. It must not only meet the characteristics of the subject matter, but also cater to the preferences of the majority of players, but also take into account the development cost, development cycle, and subsequent maintenance difficulties… There are too many restrictions.
Yu Yu: How many people are there in the team at present? What new game are you doing? Draw?
Wuxia Amon: There are more than 20 R&D personnel, and they are still working on an independent game “The Silent Cricket”.
Yuyu: What do you think is the good and bad aspects of “The Five Elements Master”? What about “The Demon Secret Realm”?
Wuxia Amon: The advantage of “The Five Elements Master” is that its game is high enough, and its disadvantage lies in its visual performance. In other words, the advantage lies in its play Babaylan 1990 clothes The disadvantage of drawing method and numerical design lies in art design (art performance is not only a design issue, but also has a lot to do with the investment. A company made a CCG two years ago, and the cost of the opening title Babaylan 1990 cloth draw animation exceeds the entire R&D cost of “Five Elements Master”). The advantages of “Devil’s Secret Realm” are the same as “Five Elements Master”, which is still planning the design of gameplay and numerical, while the disadvantage is that it is difficult to add PVP.
“Devil’s Secret Realm”
Yuyu: Summarize your years of entrepreneurial career. Do you feel it is hard?
Wu Xia Amon: I don’t feel the pain. Although I have experienced a lot of frustration, I may be optimistic by nature and have never felt any frustration, or I may be used to it.
Yuyu: Will you want to make some more novel card strategy games in the future?
Wu Xia Amon: If you have a strong IP, you will make another TCG or CCG.
Yuyu: Do you have any suggestions for newcomers who have just entered the industry?
Wu Xia Amon: If you want to do programs and art, it will be easy to change careers in the future.
If you want to plan, you need to first ask whether you love game design very much and whether you have the talent in this area.
Yuyu: During the interview with the Game Daily, we often met some producers who started playing games on their own in colleges and even high schools. As the college entrance examination is approaching, what majors do you think if you want to enter the industry and make games in the future, what majors do you think are better to learn?
Wu Xia Amon: First of all, it depends on which job you want to do. If you are doing programs or art, you will naturally choose a related major; if you are trying to do planning, then the major is not that important. What is important is that you must play more games in college Babaylan 1990 clothes draw. If you must choose a professional direction for game planning, you can give priority to majors related to programming. Game planning does not require programming, but if you know how to program, some sub-jobs can do more things.