How CP will migrate its own hand to host side

Xboxone last year, the National Bank of China, PS4 release soon, the Dragon version PS4 has begun to roam the internet, coupled with smart television and Android set-top box of the itch, so that 2015 years of TV game calls a wave higher than a wave, Some hand-tour developers have already turned their sights on a video game that could become the next pop point in the gaming industry.

How CP will migrate its own hand to host side

Earlier, "My name is MT2" The development of Excellence has announced, "My name is MT2" In addition to landing iOS, Android mobile end, will also be landing Xboxone host platform, the news, inevitably let the people surprised, some industry insiders said that the master's pattern is also a bit bigger. In fact, earlier this year, a "decisive battle Meow" hand tour, actually already landed Xboxone version platform, mobile game landing host game is not new.

On the mobile game how to landing the host platform, the reporter after the users know that the black tea June agreed, citing his knowledge of the answer.

If you want to let your home game landing Xboxone platform, through Microsoft specifically for independent developers of the ID@Xbox project to apply for a developer, the application will be able to get the development machine. The Web site is as follows: Http://xidbox.azurewebsites.net/en-US/apply/games

However, as the number of developers is limited, the probability that the applicant will pass may be judged by the team's past achievements. For example: the entry to IGF or on other platforms to obtain some results of the work through the probability will be greater.

If it is the upcoming play redevelop in China, the current domestic developers are temporarily unable to use a public website to submit application development machine.

So to be a developer of play redevelop, developers need to be able to communicate with Sony through their own channels, such as contacting the head of business at SCE Shanghai. Sony and Microsoft do not regularly organize developer activities, and it is easy to find the relevant person in charge of such activities.

Finally, black tea June added, this is only his understanding of the transplant method, some subjective, do not rule out other ways to log on to the two mainframe platform.

What should you pay attention to after successful application?

For some developers, when you get a test machine, it's just a start, and later, there's a lot of detail to deal with. For example, the signing of NDA, external confidentiality agreement, game audit, developer background applications and so on, in order to avoid developers to apply to the developer, and will not be used in the production of games, so PS4 's development machine can not play the retail version of the game.

In this regard, the black tea June also added some details to be noted:

1. Corresponding development environment. If your game is unity, unreal support Xboxone and PS4 engines do, you need to Microsoft or Sony to apply for a specific version of the corresponding host, with this special version of the compilation of the game can be completed in the corresponding host running; If your game was developed with a homemade engine, Then you need to solve the problem manually.

2. Adjust and optimize accordingly. For example, to make a more suitable for the host game interface, the corresponding button or important elements are adjusted to safearea within, to ensure that the UI does not box;

3. Look at the document. Both Microsoft and Sony have prepared a whole bunch of documents for developers, covering a variety of standards and regulations on development and submission, how to handle the player's plug handle when the game is in place, and the standard Chinese name for each device in the instructions. You need to study these things carefully and adjust the things involved. Note that there are no Chinese versions of these documents, so it is important to learn English well ...

4. Test. Two vendors have a professional QA team to test the game, in the test process can not pass, the game is not available for sale. So developers before submitting the game, you need to confirm the document, this document Microsoft's name TCR (Technical certification Requirements, now renamed XR), Sony's name TRC (technical Requirements checklist), their abbreviations are very similar to everyone do not care, in fact, you can understand them as a pile of checklist, there is still no Chinese version, it takes time to correspond, to see the game in the appropriate place to meet the standards. So, the game corresponding function more, test the more trouble: networking, body sense, camera, and PSVTV linkage ... If you support these, you need to test each. So a game flow of dozens of hours of 3A masterpiece to be measured is very troublesome, and we such a stand-alone game is relatively simple.

5. Submit. In short, there are a bunch of forms to fill out, and then there will be some documents to look at, the corresponding material to be prepared as required.

On or off?

After learning the details of how to migrate your hands to the host platform, the next question developers need to consider is, log on or not?

Host platform is a developer of the globalization stage, the existing user's maturity far more than the Chinese hand in the market channel users, based on the current Chinese mobile phone game production and development level and host game still have a certain gap, blindly porting the game to the host side is actually not optimistic for developers, At present in the domestic channel can still be a duck in the hand swim, once put to the player group more mature host market. It's still an unknown whether you can get a player's endorsement, or maybe an android set-top box or smart TV will fit them better.

Zen game designer Chen once said: "As a gamer, I hope to be respected by society." You are a film director, you are a singer, you are a painter, you will be respected by society. But you say you're a game developer, and most people think you're making money, not that your stuff can purify our souls and make our lives a better place to be. Chen's "Brigade" is also in the host platform has been recognized by the world, host is a platform for the world.

The opening of Xbox one and play redevelop to Chinese developers is a good thing for independent games and thoughtful developers. Globalization, as well as the user's more mature host platform, so that they can avoid the current domestic noisy market, make some more interesting games.