Text | Yu Shenglin
TCG is the abbreviation of the exchange card game, and it 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 Card”. It became popular as soon as it was released, and it also made the company behind it Weissan step by step to take the top spot in the industry.
Later, in 1996, Pokémon, which was popular in Japan, also launched its own TCG. In 1999, the card game “Yu-Gi-Gi” that domestic players are most familiar with was officially released.
Then these cards quickly occupied the convenience stores of major, middle and primary schools in China and became the absolute dominant of everyone’s spare time. There are hundreds of kid-win cards in the game daily Hayashi Home Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw. 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 sourceKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw: Wuxia Amon
Although offline board games are very popular, there are few TCG online games at home and abroad.
2Babaylan 1990 cloth drawIn 001, “Legend of Blood” was just introduced to China, and online games ushered in a blowout development in 2002. In that wild era of domestic online games, Wu Xia Amon, who had just graduated from university, designed the first TCG online game in China, “Interactive Martial Arts”, which opened up 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 dived into game creation with his love and enthusiasm for this type of game.The industry’s “no return” was when he was 26 years old that year.
For more than a year, after dozens of failed investment investment, Wu Xia Amon, who was heavily in debt, finally couldn’t stand it and found a class to go 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 and obtained a investment of 1 million yuan, and began to develop his second TCG “Xiaoyaoyou”. At that time, Wu Xia Amon never expected that he would not even see the first one of the carefully designed games.
“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 main program friends. However, “Xiaoyaoyou”, which lost the producer and main program, was down for a long time on the public beta day, and various vicious bugs frequently appeared and disappeared soon.
Later, Wu Xia Amon, who was unwilling to give up, worked with his friends in the main process and made a brand new TCG “Eight Immortals Online”, which was officially launched in 2008. As a result, the new game was cheated by the distribution company as soon as it was launched. Not only did the distribution company not give it a share, but also copied a web game “Ten Thousand Demons” by Babaylan 1990 cloth draw. “The Ten Thousand Demons” carried out micro-innovations based on “The Eight Immortals”. As a result, because they were not copying 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’s hands like a private server until 2012, 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 Babaylan 1990 clothes drawWu Xia Amon is doing it himself, and there are no restrictions on the content, so he can do whatever he wants.
In 2013, the popular Blizzard Hearthstone began testing.
FurthermoreCinema 1950 witch cloth draw, 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” to “Wu Xia Ameng”.
Yuyu: How was “The Five Elements Master” born?
Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawWu Xia Amon: After selling “Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawEight Immortals Online”, I started my business again in 2012 and was lucky enough to make millions from other games. At this time, I was facing the problem of project establishment. Based on Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawMy interest in CCG and my feelings for “Eight Immortals Online”, we finally used all the money to make a CCG “Five Elements Master”, whose combat rules are inherited from “Eight Immortals Online”.
The Five Elements Master can be said to be the continuation of life in “Eight Immortals Online”. In “The Five Elements Master”, I designed an achievement commemorative card called “Tumbler” to commemorate the years when I was pushed around but didn’t want to fall down. Haha, it’s pretentious, manual dog head~
Babaylan 1990 cloth drawYuyu: After “The Five Elements Master” was launched, will any player compare it with “Heartstone”?
WuCinema 1950 witch cloth drawAmong: After the game was launched, it was recommended by TapTap for the first time.High rating of 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 the “Heartstone” launched in 2013? When Hearthstone first came out, many old “Eight Immortals” players came to me and joked that Hearthstone was plagiarizing us.
Yuyu: How is “The Five Elements Master” doing in terms of balanceCinema 1950 witch cloth draw? Wu Xia Amon: The balance of “The Five Elements Master” can be listed in some Babaylan 1990 cloth draw data to illustrate:
In the duel between experts, there are nearly 20 sets of winning rate each month Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw exceeds Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw 50% and uses more than 1% (the different sects and five elements combinations, the playing method is 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 thing is the latest Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw “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”
Yuyu: Babaylan 1990 clothes drawAre there any interesting news during the game development process?
Wu Xia Amon: There are quite a lot of interesting things, let’s talk about the early years: In 2005, in order to write a business plan for financing, I went to the card store to inspect. There are dozens of card stores that mainly sell Magic cards, and there are board game venues in it. 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. He could just leave wherever he was cool. Stay there… After many years, I occasionally remember 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? Are you working on a new game?
Wu Xia AKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawMeng: There are currently more than 20 R&D personnel, and they are still working on an independent game “Silent Cricket”.
Yu Yu: What do you think is the good and bad aspects of “The Five Elements Master”? What about “The Demon Secret Realm”?
Wu Xia Amon: The advantage of “The Five Elements Master” is that its gameplay is high enough, and its disadvantage lies in its visual performance. In other words, the advantage lies in its gameplay and numerical design, and the disadvantage lies in its 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 its opening credits are Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawThe cost of animation exceeds the full R&D cost of “Five Elements Master”.
The advantages of “Devil’s Secret Realm” are the same as those of “Five Elements Master”, and are still planning the design of gameplay and numerical values, while the disadvantage is that it is difficult to add pvp.
《Demon Secret Realm》
Yu Yu: Summarize your years of entrepreneurial career. Do you feel it is hard?
Wu Xia Amon: I don’t feel it. Although I have experienced many setbacks, I may be optimistic by nature. I have never felt any frustrations, and I may have been used to it.
Yu Yu: Will I want to make some more novel card strategy games in the future?
Wu Xia Amon: If you have a strong IP, I will make another TCG or CCG.
Yu Yu: 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.
Wu Xia Amon: If you want to do planning, you need to ask first whether you love game settings very muchKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw plan, and whether they have talent in this area.
Yuyu: In the interview process of our Game Daily, we often met some producers who started playing games by colleges and even high schools. As the college entrance examination is approaching, do you think if you want to enter the industry and make games after Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, which majors are better to learn?
Wu Xia Amon: First of all, you will see which job you want to do. If you are doing programming or art, you will naturally choose a related major; if you want to do planning, then the major is not that important. What is important is that you must play more games in college. Be sure to use Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawIf you 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 Babaylan 1990 cloth draw, some sub-jobs can do more things.