'Zhonghua Zhibang Online'
[BROWSER] [TAIWAN] [MAGAZINE, SPREAD] [2004]
"Professional baseball has been developing in Taiwan for 15 years, accompanying many fans through their passionate youth. Now, the first online game officially licensed by the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), Zhonghua Zhibang Online, has finally been launched! Developed by Dōngfāng Yǎnsuàn and published by Yóuxì Xīngànxiàn, this game breaks away from the traditional action-packed RPG genre, allowing CPBL fans to participate in a massive online baseball extravaganza, fulfilling their childhood baseball dreams. The development process of Zhonghua Zhibang Online was extremely rigorous. Senior professional baseball commentator Tseng Wen-cheng was specially invited as a consultant to assist in gathering baseball knowledge and provide guidance to the artists on scene drawing and model creation, as well as the planners on numerical settings and game content writing. Regarding player movements, "motion capture" was used. Base sliding, swinging, pitching, umpire's call and strike judgments, and body movements were filmed by professional players performing the actions. The captured motion files were then overlaid into the game, allowing the players in the game to exhibit almost identical, detailed movements to real players in the 3D In the world of Zhonghua Zhibang Online, players take on the role of team manager, handling everything from finding and creating players to training, scheduling batting, and even tactical arrangements. Players can realize their dream of leading a team and competing against other baseball stars from their computers. Notably, once the league season begins, all schedules are uploaded in real-time, allowing players to choose a team and simulate their own performance online using actual batting and skill levels." ~Bahamut Gamer's Community, based on machine translation (Source) =====
Source: Soft World Magazine, June 2004 (#182) || Internet Archive; NashG
