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创造具有吸引力的足球游戏的5大建议

发布时间:2016-11-08 15:01:06 Tags:,,,,

作者:Dylan Moran

像《实况足球》,《足球经理》和《FIFA》等足球游戏都能提供给玩家基于合作和竞争性的功能。

Football Manager(from app111)

Football Manager(from app111)

因为市场上已经拥有这几款足球游戏巨头,所以开发一款全新足球游戏去吸引玩家便成为一个巨大的挑战。

以下便是其它受欢迎游戏用于吸引全新玩家并增强现有玩家游戏体验所遵循的5个建议。

使用现实世界中的数据

这并不是增强足球游戏体验的全新概念。但是在不同时期它所拥有的作用却是不同的。像《足球经理》,《FIFA Soccer》,《冠军足球经理》等游戏便一直都在使用现实世界数据并让这些游戏变得更加真实。它们通常都会将数据实时整合到游戏中。

开发者可以在各种不同资源中获得这样的数据,不过将其整合到游戏中便带有一定的挑战性。因为如果想让原始数据更好地和游戏融合在一起,开发者就必须投入更多精力。

如果你正使用一款游戏引擎在开发游戏,它或许能够带给你这方面的帮助。例如GameSparks便提供了一个SFTP界面能够将数据整合到它们的平台上,并且可以即刻扫描并上传文件。

确保你的游戏更具社交性—-添加社交排行榜

确保游戏具有社交性并不只是意味着使用一些粗略的社交机制并将其丢到游戏中。这样的方法缺少能够带给游戏病毒性的元素。开发者应该认真设计社交功能并将其真正整合到核心游戏玩法中。

社交排行榜便是这样的社交功能,即能够将玩家整合在一起,强化游戏的病毒传播功能,同时也能够留住玩家对游戏的兴趣。

排行榜能够直接吸引玩家在网上与朋友竞争。它们会呈现出复杂的性能挑战去激发玩家的胜负欲。同时你还需要确保你所创造的社交排行榜是基于不同属性进行分配,如此才能引出玩家的竞争意识。例如你可以添加基于地理位置,年龄,国籍,喜欢的足球队等分类。

添加像真正的足球比赛那样的投注选择

与现实世界一样,足球粉丝也会在电子游戏比赛中下注。有些人是以自己的游戏能力为基准,有些人在是热衷于观看朋友的足球比赛并在比赛中下注。

这一功能在一些受欢迎的足球游戏中很常见,所以你可以为玩家们创造这种有趣的体验。但鉴于这并不是电子游戏中真正普及的功能,你可以添加有关如何在游戏中下注的详细说明。

对足球游戏的结果下注可以和玩老虎机,电子扑克或桌面游戏一样刺激有趣。这种基于社交的电子游戏多人玩家元素并不是在鼓励玩家赌博,反而更多地是在发展他们在游戏中的技能并帮助他们去获胜。

活动

对于足球游戏来说,活动也会是很有趣的功能。像举办比赛或其它多人玩家游戏能让玩家更好地规划自己的社交活动。因为活动能将玩家聚集在一起并在特定日期完成某些目标,所以总是能够有效吸引玩家的注意。开发者同样可以整合提醒功能去告知玩家所有人一起游戏的固定时间。

活动的属性是依赖于核心游戏玩法。例如有些游戏会让玩家向特定朋友群组指派目标,所以玩家将作为一个完整的群组去执行任务。

礼物

礼物能让玩家与朋友交换虚拟道具,并进一步完善他们的社交互动与联系。对于特定玩家类型来说,像发送生命,游戏内部虚拟道具,奖励或积分给朋友都是很有效的。作为开发者,你的主要目标便是寻找更多能够让现有的朋友在玩游戏的同时更好地培养彼此关系的方法。这种社交能力是主机,PC或手机登平台上的任何电子游戏受欢迎的关键。

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Top 5 Features Your Next Football Game Must Have

by Dylan Moran

Football game giants like Pro Evolution Soccer, Football Manager and FIFA have been offering deeply collaborative and competitive features to its players that leave them no other option than sticking around every time they think of video games.

With these leaders in market, developing a new football game that captures even a small set of their audience can be a big challenge.

Here are the top 5 things you must consider that other popular games have been using to attract new players and enhance the gaming experience of existing players.

Use Real-world Data

It is not a new concept to enhance the Football Gaming Experience. But it had been in and out of fashion at different times. Football Manager, FIFA Soccer, Championship Manager for example, are some games that are using real-world data for many years and making the games feel more real. They generally push the data to the game via regular timely updates.

Such data is readily available at various sources for developers to pick, but the challenging part could be its integration into the game. This is because it requires a lot of processing in order to make the raw data consumable by the game.

If you are developing your game using a game engine, you might get some help with this. For example, GameSparks provides a SFTP interface for ingesting data into their platform, which then scans and uploads the files without any delay.

Make your game more social – Add Social Leaderboards

Making a game socially active does not mean simply picking couple of cursory social mechanics and dropping them into the game at the end. This approach often lacks the required k-factor that gives it the potential of going viral. The social features should rather be designed and integrated into the core game play.

Social leaderboard is one of such social features that bring players together to play and enhance the potential of game to go viral while retaining the interest of its players.

Leaderboards appeal directly to the players to compete with their friends online. They present a sophisticated performance challenge that provokes more interest and effort in scoring higher than other friend players. Just make sure the social leaderboards you create are sliced and diced by more dynamic set of attributes in order to derive the competitive reaction of the players. For example, adding Geo-location, age group, nationality, favorite football team etc.

Add a betting option like real football game

Just like in the real-world, football fans have been betting on video game matches as well. Some do it for their personal ability to win the game while others like to watch football games of their friends and place a bet on the outcome.

This feature is not very common even in the popular football games, so you can take the advantage and develop a fascinating experience for your players. But considering it is not very common, you may have to add a detailed guide about how to bet on sports video games in order to let your players enjoy the feature to the fullest.

Betting on the outcomes of football video games could be way more fun and exciting that playing slots, video poker, or table games. The multiplayer element of such a socially active video game, would be less encouragement for gamble but more for the players to develop their skills in the game and win more.

Events

Events can also be a very interesting feature for a football video game. It lets the players schedule their social activity like having tournaments or other multi-player game sessions. Events are also appealing because of getting players come together and complete something by a date in the future. A reminder feature can also be integrated to let players remember the set fixed time when everyone has to play.

The nature of events can however be very dependent on the core game play. For example, some games let players assign targets to groups of friends so that the complete group is encouraged as a group, to engage in the game.

Gifting

Last on the list of top 5 features for enhancing a football game experience is Gifting.

Gifting allows the players to exchange virtual items with their friends while also improving their social interaction and relations. Sending lives, in-game virtual items, rewards or credit to friends can be effective for certain player types. As a developer, it should be your main objective to try and find out more ways of getting these established networks of friends to engage with each other while playing the game. Such a social ability is the key to the popularity of any video game be it on console, PC or mobile.(source:gamasutra

 


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