Thursday, September 9, 2010

Game 6- Social networking for game = our furture?


Do you release that there are more and more online games around us? But not only online games, even the traditional computer game simple as poker and chess in Microsoft PC also have online communicate function with people around the world. Nowadays, PC game need to be online, PSP can online, GBA can online, NDS can online, WII is online, bower game of course is online, and mobile phone games is online too!!! Are there any video game haven't online yet???



Wiley Liu, who is a game production manager working in Tencent game department, used to supervise the games, solve problems and planning about game design on marketing area. He have nearly two year experience in this job. He was work in I.T company before, and already playing online game thirteen yrs ago also has more than twenty yrs game experience. At the same time, he also belongs to a group of game company officer and has a deep understanding on game and game company. As he said, the most important things for a game is the setting, background setting and also for the way playing the game. For example, player in traditional online game need to kill few thousand monsters for 1 level (when they are high level), it is not work anymore because nowadays students need to study really hard and have difficult on spending time on games, officer also cannot spend too much time on just "killing monster" on screen. Player also not satisfy for those boring activities in game and asking for more interesting, meaningful elements in a game.

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Base on this concept, I had interview Wiley Liu, who is a game production manager working in Tencent game department, used to supervise the games, solve problems and planning about game design on marketing area. He have nearly two year experience in this job. He was work in I.T company before, and already playing online game thirteen yrs ago also has more than twenty yrs game experience. At the same time, he also belongs to a group of game company officer and has a deep understanding on game and game company. As he said, the most important things for a game is the setting, background setting and also for the way playing the game. For example, player in traditional online game need to kill few thousand monsters for 1 level (when they are high level), it is not work anymore because nowadays students need to study really hard and have difficult on spending time on games, officer also cannot spend too much time on just "killing monster" on screen. Player also not satisfy for those boring activities in game and asking for more interesting, meaningful elements in a game.

When talk about Tencent company, it is famous for the social networking platform and chat software QQ. They have a lot of experience on doing online game and social net game system. After the interview, he told me that my question especially the one about SNS (what he means the social networking) is exactly the topic discussing in their company. Game designer believe that SNS can make playing stay in one game and create a memory or emotion with game and other players, that can have a long term developing such as WOW.


At the end on the interview, he had recommend some games for Gen Y, the first one is WOW, which I already mention before. The second game is Dungeon Fighter Online, an online game produce by Tencent with quite a sexy style.


The Third one is Final Fantasy, his most famous RPG game, which have a huge story setting and have many series.


Social networking system link the consumer and the game company together, also create a relationship between different culture such as Japan animation, Greek Mythology, movie, history etc, and also using and develop many technology such as 3D art, movie production, animation and so on.

However, it also lead many negative affect. Game/computer addiction has already become a social issue in recent years and still consider as a "disease" in many countries, that mislead public to have a negative misunderstand about computer and internet. It also have some moral issues such as cheat/ stole items in game and cheating still difficult to be serious treat by law, but now already have some case about punish game criminal act.

Enjoy but also careful for game! My best suggestion is: know what you are doing, control the gaming time, careful and don't be greedy!



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