This is the ninth art

Chapter 92 Disney's invitation?Customize a themed haunted house for a horror game!

Sitting on the boss chair, Chu Jun stared at the relevant information searched on the computer screen, and frowned slightly.

The time has come to mid-September.

Half a month has passed since the last group building was organized.

Company revenue.

Hearthstone took the lead, stabilizing at 50 DAU.

Except that during the public beta period, the server was blown up every day, creating the highest peak revenue of 500w/day.

The current revenue has stabilized, with an average daily turnover of nearly 200 million.

The income will be higher during the activity.

Netizens have been included in the billion game club, and it has become one of the classic game recommendation lists in recent years.

As long as one's own operating department does not do anything to death, it will be relatively easy to reach the [-] million threshold in revenue in the first quarter.

The second revenue ranking is Rhythm Master.

Relying on Hearthstone's outing of the circle before, the rhythm master was also taken away for a while.

After the popularity has subsided recently, it can still maintain a daily revenue close to 50.

The income of the three small puzzle games is negligible, mainly due to the fact that there are too many pirated copies and magic changes on the market.

Even if Mr. Chu downloaded Tetris from the Internet, 100 times out of 101 downloads may not be genuine.

The extra time was that some pirated versions thoughtfully gave you two different versions in one installation package.

The frame of reference belongs to yes.

However, the company already has two top-tier games, and they are still online games that can last a long time.

Relying on these two games every month, the revenue can easily reach 8000-[-] million, which is the envy of countless peers.

For any company that has been established for less than half a year, with such a remarkable record, as the boss, I am afraid that I can laugh every day in my dreams.

But Mr. Chu was not satisfied with this.

At present, his total progress of the main line has only been pushed by 1%
It's true that online games make a lot of money, but it doesn't have a significant effect on the progress of the main line.

Because of its own expression, it tends to be commercialized.

I will split a complete plot into N multiple versions and do it slowly.

The players have all abandoned the pit, and it is normal that the plot on its side may only be halfway through.

Or some games have no plot at all, and rely on a strong operating system to allow players to compare with each other, who has a higher level and who has better equipment, so as to achieve revenue goals.

Such a game has an impact on the industry.

A successful business model will attract the attention and imitation of many people.

But in terms of depth, it's hard to say with the cheek that this is a work of art.

Chu Jun's strategy is also very simple.

Use online games to support stand-alone machines.

Making money and fame from online games, earning money by single player is the depth of game culture.

Only by combining with each other can the game industry be brought to the height of mainstream culture step by step.

Right now, the horizontal version of the 2D horror game in my hand is obviously more suitable for the stand-alone category.

But unlike the previous horror games, which had a considerable audience, the horror-element games in this world hardly have any audience.

No matter in the early and chaotic period, all kinds of turn-based games were produced with horror elements as the background.

Still in this half a year, some horror morphological games came from behind.

Most of them exist in the form of generalized RPG (role-playing), allowing players to have a thrilling gaming experience.

What is certain is that many horror game designers in this world have good ideas.

But Mr. Chu found that the content they produced seemed to be off topic.

Because there are no lessons learned from the past, the effects of these horror games are often made to scare people.

At present, the most well-known horror game in China is called "Late Night Jungle", which was released three months ago.

The buyout price was 18 yuan a copy, and the sales volume reached about [-] copies.

In the stand-alone market, the sales volume of 10 copies can only be regarded as a medium half.

But considering that it is one of the new types of innovative works, it is not bad to have this sales volume.

Players bought one after another, looking for a novel experience.

But the word-of-mouth of this game is not as good as expected.

The score reached 6.1, which is just below the pass line.

Players have mixed reviews for the game.

"As a horror game, I experienced the same horror feeling as watching a movie. I was so scared that I almost peed out in the middle of the night. This game is really great."

"The type of game with a very novel idea, let me see that the type of our game industry is also blooming! I give it eight points!"

"The type of game is very fresh, but I always feel that something is missing. It belongs to the kind that after playing it once, I will not experience it for the second time. Unless I want to seek excitement someday."

"It's too scary... Don't make this kind of game in the future, I feel that the game market doesn't really need this type of game..."

"Yes, I probably won't buy similar games in my life."

"I want to live a few more years, really."

Players' comments can only represent reference opinions, especially since players in this life have not experienced so many games, the evaluation may be biased.

In order to draw more accurate conclusions, let's take a look at what level of horror games are currently on the market.

Chu Jun also deliberately spent money on the Ggame platform, bought a copy of "Late Night Jungle", and downloaded it to experience it.

After playing for half an hour, there was the opening scene.

He sat on the boss chair, frowning slightly.

This game... it's really scary to be scary, even his own scalp is numb from being scared sometimes.

But the whole plot has almost no gameplay.

At the beginning, a middle-aged man played by a player begins to wander aimlessly in the dense forest. The main task of the game is simple and intuitive.

Escape from the jungle.

Then in the next half an hour, Chu Jun encountered all kinds of ghosts killing around corners, turning around, and other tricks that would only be used in a series of ghost movies.

However, players have aesthetic fatigue.

The same grimace is scary once, but scary twice.

If there are too many times, people will become numb.

In the end, staring at the bloody mouth that suddenly popped up on the screen, Mr. Chu could even observe carefully, and then came to the slightly rough conclusion of this vertical drawing.

If Tang Wangyue were to draw it, it would definitely be more vivid than this one.

"The horror game designers in this world seem to regard horror and excitement as a main selling point, or the core, and make horror games." After playing for a while, Chu Jun couldn't help sighing.

The significance of the existence of horror games is by no means as simple as scaring players.

The reason why it was able to become a unique special type in the previous life is precisely because it can use the absurdity of horror elements, fantasy and other exaggerated expressions that other games do not have, so as to extend something.

Or the tragedy of war, or the complexity of politics, or the torture of human nature.

Let the player temporarily throw away all the complicated thoughts in his mind while being extremely frightened.

Let the brain be in a completely empty state, and be able to think more seriously about what story this game tells, what kind of inspiration it brings, how the fate of some tragic characters in it is caused, and whether they can have a better life. choose.

Many excellent horror game masterpieces in previous lives, such as the "Resident Evil" series, present the confrontation between politics and humanity.

"Escape" reflects the tragic impact of war.

"Silent Hill" is religious horror that penetrates into the bone marrow.

There are too many excellent horror works, and fear is always accompanied by the whole process when playing.

But when the ending is presented, it makes players have endless aftertaste, tears, emotions, or unfinished thoughts. They can't help but start the experience of the second and third weeks.

To find out if there are any details that I have missed, to restore the truth of the entire game.

These are the experiences that an orthodox horror game should bring to players, which is far more than just frightening.

Although Mr. Chu understands these truths deeply, in this life, the path of horror games seems to have deviated.

There is no kernel, only terror.

Just like those grotesque horror movies at the end of the last century, it was also because of this that they gradually disappeared from the public eye.

In just a few months, horror games have gone from being a novel type of game that players were expecting from the beginning.

Now it is cast aside by all players, and only a small number of players who are only looking for excitement will experience it.

The best-selling "Late Night Jungle" has a score of only 6.1
Not to mention other poorly made games, if you open one at random, the comment area will be full of curses.

"This situation is not easy to open..." Chu Jun frowned and sighed softly.

Players now have a layer of resistance to horror games.

As long as you talk about it, you will think 'what kind of rubbish game type is this, it is nothing but scary, I don't play this type of game in Match [-]! ', 'I might as well look for some early ghost movies to play this kind of game, it's a waste of time. '

This idea has almost become the consensus among players.

This has a lot of obstacles to the type of horror game that Chu Jun will make next.

"Under such circumstances, even if the game is made, spending a lot of money to publicize it will have little effect." Chu Jun felt a little headache.

Obviously holding a very good game idea in his hand, but the pig teammate has walked the road to the cliff...

Just when Chu Jun put on the mask of pain.

Xu Nianqing suddenly knocked on the door and entered.

His face was filled with joy.

"President Chu, there is good news!"

"You said."

"Disney's Huaxia branch called just now and asked if our company has time to customize a horror game themed haunted house for them, saying that it is to prepare for Halloween in two months. He also said that as long as the quality of the game is guaranteed, The price can be negotiated." Xu Nianqing was almost extremely restrained, so that he didn't look too excited.

As a large company with global influence, Disney is famous all over the world for its vivid and original cartoon series.

In the entire circle of entertainment culture, Disney is one of the leading representatives.

The Disneyland under its umbrella is a global chain of T0 super-large amusement parks.

Such a big company, even though it is only a branch in China, is the object that countless companies want to curry favor with.

Once the "Disney joint name" can be attached to its own products, it will be a gold-lettered signboard of sales guarantee.

Among the many large game companies, Junyue Company was the only one that offered an olive branch. This made Xu Nianqing almost jiojio happy when he heard the news.

"Disney? Want us to customize a horror game?" Chu Jun looked strange.

Isn't that a coincidence.

I was still worried just now, whether to make the horror genre in my hand, and how to publicize it.

Disney came directly to escort?
This is no longer sleepy and sending pillows.

This is simply - because there are too many mosquitoes to sleep, the opposite party directly sent the manufacturing diagram of the mosquito-killing nuclear bomb!
"How about Mr. Chu? Take it?" After roughly conveying the other party's original words, Xu Nianqing waited for Chu Jun to make a decision.

"Yes, I will call back later, and I will discuss it with their person in charge." Chu Jun nodded.

It's a cooperation order, and it's the other party giving me money, so there's no reason not to accept it.

It is about the copyright, which needs to be handled properly, so as not to make it later, if they say that the copyright of the game belongs to them, then it will be a lie.

The only way of cooperation that Chu Jun can accept is "Disney collaborates with Junyue horror game to launch a haunted house with the same name theme"!
After a pause, Mr. Chu said again.

"Has Chen Pingjie's situation in Jiangzhong stabilized?"

Now that Chen Pingjie was recruited, he had to make the best use of it.

Because the site of Junyue Headquarters is already saturated, 200 people can be accommodated to the limit.

But now the size of the company, there is no need to directly contract a building as an office space.

Chu Jun decisively threw Chen Pingjie to Jiangzhong City and asked him to open up a new branch of the company.

As the capital of entertainment and culture, Jiangzhong has greater potential for development than Jianghua City.

It can be regarded as asking him to explore the way first. If the development is good, it is also possible to move the main force towards the middle of the river.

"Well, he called in the morning, the Junyue branch has almost been renovated and is recruiting people." Xu Nianqing responded with a chuckle.

"Disney's Huaxia branch is also in Jiangzhong, for the convenience of docking. This time, the new game will be developed by the Jiangzhong branch. I will go there when Chen Pingjie settles the company more or less."

"Okay, Mr. Chu."

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Ten Tour Interactive Entertainment Company.

The headquarter is located in Jiangzhong City.

As the general manager of Shiyou Huyu, Gong Bin was in a good mood during this time.

Shiyou Huyu completed the first round of financing and went public in Maru Port.

The game industry has also recently experienced explosive growth. Last year, there were only more than 600 million players in the whole country.At the end of this summer, it has faintly touched the threshold of tens of millions.

The entire game industry is thriving and has a bright future.

No matter how you think about it, it is inseparable from the efforts of your own ten games as the leading brother in the domestic game industry.

Although recently, a dark horse has sprung up in my line of work.

Junyue Company.

In less than half a year, various popular game types and classic games have been developed.

But Gong Bin didn't panic at all.

Who are your subordinates now?
Yan Songguo!
According to the industry's scoring standards for game designers.

Yan Songguo is a real S-level designer!

Looking at the whole country, there are so many designers of this level, it is hard to pick a few!

You Junyue can develop fighting games and tower defense games.

Our ten games can also develop sports and horror!

"Extreme Tennis" developed by Yan Songguo has been gaining popularity all the way, causing many sports games in the same industry to follow suit.

And "Late Night Jungle" is the pinnacle of horror games developed by another team under its own.

Sales of [-] copies are not top-notch compared to other games.

But horror games.

It was originally just a niche in the game, and few people played it.

Haven't you seen other horror games that followed our "Deep Night Jungle" and all of them were condemned?

It's not bad to be able to sell 10 copies.

Even if Junyue Company, which has been in the limelight recently, came over, I am afraid that [-] copies would not be sold.

Do you understand the gold content of the leading brother!

Of course, bragging in your heart is bragging.

Gong Bin had actually investigated the background of Junyue's company.

It is said that the main creative output of this company's games comes entirely from Chu Jun, the boss of their company...

To be honest, when Gong Bin learned about this, he almost laughed out loud.

One person's creativity supports a company?
What a mess!

No matter how strong this person is, his inspiration will run out sooner or later.

Not at all to be afraid of.

Just then, Gong Bin received a call.

It's a call from the Disney Huaxia branch.

We sincerely invite Shiyou Company to customize a horror game for Disneyland to prepare for the upcoming Halloween-themed haunted house.

Gong Bin fell into deep thought immediately.

Although the Disney company has a great background.

But it's also notoriously difficult to deal with.

The companies that have worked with them all know how difficult this patron's father is.

The attention to detail and creativity is simply outrageous.

The Penguin Company once took over a business order from Disney.

It dragged on for half a year, and nearly a hundred versions were made, but Disney shook his head and asked for a redo.

In the end, Penguin quit in a rage. I don't want the money, can't I?

In addition to penguins, there are more big companies that have suffered from it.

After going through difficult cooperation, they all said: "My little brother is not talented, and I will never accept any business orders from Disney bosses in the future!" '

I didn't expect Disney to go around and go around, and finally took the olive branch... oh no, it aimed at Shiyou himself.

"What is our company's virtue and ability..." Gong Bin couldn't help crying, thinking that he would drag his family and take his daughter to Disneyland to contribute tickets when he thought that he had nothing to do.

You are repaying kindness with revenge!
I wanted to euphemistically decline by saying 'our company is not capable enough'.

But the representative on the other end expressed his attitude clearly.

The game "Late Night Jungle" belongs to your family, right?

Oh, stop pretending!
I've done all the research, and this game is the best-selling one in the domestic horror game market!
You Shiyou clearly have very high attainments in the field of 'horror games'!

We at Disney are very optimistic about your company!

Even want to start a long-term cooperation with your company!
Gong Bin almost cried 'Wow'.

This is really a duck with eyes open - duck does not close

There's really no need to think highly of our ten tours...

However, for the sake of such a warm invitation from Disney.

Gong Bin was too embarrassed to speak too harshly, so as not to turn around and offend this behemoth, if there was any chance of linkage in the future, he could only hand it over with tears in his eyes.

Just when he was at a loss.

Suddenly heard a gratifying news.

Junyue Company has come to Jiangzhong to open a branch!

In the past, Gong Bin must have been unhappy.

Good guy, who are these people!
The robbery actually came to the door of our headquarters, right?Can't you stay in your one-acre three-point field in Jianghua City?
Who doesn't know that the game industry in Jiangzhong City is divided up by our three big brothers, Penguin, Wangnan, and Shiyou?

You Junyue opened the company under our feet?

You're just farting through your belly button - how do you sound that?

But now what.

Gong Bin suddenly thought of a good idea.

He immediately said to the other end of the phone.

Boss Disney, it’s not that we, Shiyou, don’t want to design games for your company.

The main reason is that our ability is really insufficient.

Our horror games are all learned from Junyue Company, yes, yes, he is the light of our industry, the guide in the fog!
If you want to find them, you can talk to them about cooperation, I believe they will give you a perfect solution!

The person in charge of Disney's branch was stunned on the other end of the phone.

There should be something for a company that even the general manager of Shiyou admires so much?
So I checked it out and found that the company's recent record is indeed very eye-catching.

In just half a year, the game market has been detonated many times.

Immediately, the person in charge of the Disney branch expressed his gratitude to Gong Bin, hung up the phone in satisfaction and walked away.

Gong Bin took a long breath of relief while holding the phone, and a sneer appeared on his face in an instant.

"Heh, came to grab my territory?"

Let you Junyue know what social beatings are!

Just wait to feel the pain and you're done!

(End of this chapter)