In the office, Yang Chen talked with Hu Jun and initially determined the follow-up parts of "The Binding of Isaac", the optimization of the source code and the outsourcing of subsequent art modeling. At the same time, Yang Chen also revealed what might happen next.

Will let them be responsible for the outsourcing news of his new game.

At present, the studio only has three programs and one art. Many places are not outsourced and rely on three people. Not to mention the time-consuming process, the most important thing is that the things produced may not meet the quality requirements.

The simplest thing to say is that in terms of game character and object modeling, unless you choose to directly purchase modules from the official game engine store, Chen Shu alone will have to do it all by himself.

As for programming, with Wang Ye and three people, plus the convenience of official game engine work, this is not too difficult. Basically, there is no need to find outsourcing for programming. All that is needed is art and music.

Outsourcing.

But Dream Chasing’s strength can still meet the requirements.

After giving the contact information of Wang Ye and Chen Shu to Chai Meng, it is their business to hand over the subsequent work content. What Yang Chen needs is for them to give what they want.

After solving this matter, Yang Chen returned home. As soon as he got home, Yang Chen smelled the smell of instant noodles.

Yang Chen looked at Wang Yaliang, who was sitting in the living room with his legs crossed on a chair, holding chopsticks in one hand and his mobile phone in the other, eating instant noodles and laughing silly, and couldn't help feeling speechless.

I want to complain but don't know how to say it.

"Isn't there a canteen in the software park? Why don't you eat in the canteen?" Yang Chen asked Wang Yaliang helplessly.

"It's too late to get off work! There was nothing delicious in the canteen of the software park at that time." Wang Yaliang pouted and took a mouthful of noodles, and then said with a little grievance.

"Does getting off work at 5:15 count as eating? I even deliberately arrived 15 minutes early just so I could go to the cafeteria to eat earlier than other companies." Yang Chen said helplessly.

"They are all working very seriously. I am too embarrassed to get off work alone, so I can only wait for them to come together." Listening to Yang Chen's words, Wang Yaliang felt even more aggrieved.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell them tomorrow that they don't need to work overtime. After all, we don't give them overtime wages." Yang Chen shook his head helplessly, walked to the refrigerator next to him and opened the door to take a look.

Take a look at the ingredients inside.

"Don't eat the instant noodles. Eating too much is bad for your health. I'll make you two egg pancakes and make do with it." Yang Chen stretched out his hand to take away the instant noodles and threw them into the trash can next to him, and then took them out.

I took out a small bag of starch and four eggs from the refrigerator.

ten minutes later

"A little salty." Wang Yaliang commented while eating the egg pancake.

"It would be nice to have something to eat. Okay, I'll go to the room first. I already have an idea for the design of the new game." Yang Chen curled his lips, stood up and walked quickly towards the room.

"Why are you running so fast?" Wang Yaliang muttered as he ate the egg pancake in his hand.

But then she suddenly realized something and looked at the pot on the stove and the bowl in front of her and was stunned.

"By the way, when you finish eating, remember to wash the bowls and pots!" At this time, Yang Chen's voice came from inside the room.

"Ah! Why do you want me to wash it?" Wang Yaliang was suddenly shocked.

"We will not cook, but only wash the dishes and wash pots while we eat. We have already agreed!" A voice with a smile continued to come from inside the house.

There seems to be nothing wrong with it, but... I obviously didn't have to wash the dishes when I started eating instant noodles!

Ignoring Wang Yaliang's very 'grieved' voice outside the living room, Yang Chen chuckled twice inside the room. After hearing the sound of running water from the kitchen outside, he carefully opened the screen window of the bedroom little by little, then squatted down and stretched his hand to the bed.

Explore underneath.

Ten seconds later, after touching for a long time and not finding what he wanted, Yang Chen was stunned.

Hey, no, where are the cigarettes I hid here?

I quickly lay down and took a look inside. The box of cigarettes that was originally placed here turned into a sticky note.

'Dear Comrade Yang, when you read this letter, your cigarettes have been confiscated by me. In addition, I think you need to explain to me that you agreed not to smoke? Where did this cigarette come from?

#^.^#'

Yang Chen:ヽ(*.>Д<)o゜

Half an hour later...

Yang Chen sat in front of the computer and glanced resentfully at Wang Yaliang, who had two bare feet on the bed behind him and was patting the bed rhythmically while watching a drama, with a biscuit stick in his mouth.

"What are you looking at? Smoking is not good for your health, and you must not be willing to let me smoke second-hand smoke!" Wang Yaliang said seriously: "Besides, smoking can easily lead to kidney deficiency. If you want to smoke, eat snacks. Use snacks instead of cigarettes to smoke early.

Quit."

It sounds reasonable, but are you sure it's not you who wants to eat snacks?

Yang Chen looked speechlessly at the three snacks in front of him and a large pile of snacks placed next to Wang Yaliang on the bed.

If you can quit cigarettes, just quit. After all, it is really bad for your health. But then again, when did you get addicted to smoking?

Shaking his head helplessly, Yang Chen no longer thought about these things. Yang Chen focused again on a document called "Octopath Traveler" that had just been opened on the computer in front of him, and continued to design the plot of the game.

‘Monster: weak system settings, armor value, weakness attributes, break status’

‘Player: BP action points (upper limit), additional basic attack opportunities, skill level increased by lv1’

Just as Yang Chen announced before, this will be a retro JRPG, a pixel style JRPG.

But Yang Chen also does not intend to make a pixel game. This is not like "The Binding of Isaac". He chose to use a pixel style game due to lack of funds. This is a deliberately retro style.

Rather than compromising because of cost, copying the past pixel style in order to experience pixel games is ultimately just following the footsteps of old technology and using modern technology to iterate on the pixel style. This is what Yang Chen and their team need to do.

'3D modeling, plus pixel mapping...'

Some game screen performance requirements were continuously added to the design document by Yang Chen.

If it is just like "The Binding of Isaac", it is not actually a pure pixel style. It is just to maximize the canvas and then directly draw the pixel painting.

This method is more trouble-free.

But in "Octopath Traveler", Yang Chen wanted a more refined painting style, which required the artist to first make a clear and colored version as a draft, and then embed it into a dedicated pixel painting template, and add the pixels one by one.

Which color to click on and which color to use need to be carefully considered.

This will definitely explode in terms of cost. The real pixel style is actually a very laborious and expensive style.

(The best way to save costs for independent games is to make them in a vector style like Flash, similar to Hollow Knight and the early Isaac. If Hollow Knight were to be made into pixels, the cost would have to increase by at least three times and probably more.

, and Isaac was the first one to make money, and then the Rebirth series began to adopt a pixel style)

Even pixel art is a separate art style, and the pixel styles of most independent games are not actually pure pixels.
Chapter completed!