game development designer

Chapter 109 Ancient Sword
Chuhe looked at Zhang Ke in front of him and asked.

Regarding the production of games similar to the Swordsman series, I just heard Zhang Ke’s words, but Chuhe actually hesitated a little. After all, with the emergence of more and more games in China, especially Beisoft’s Swordsman, such games It's just a shitty street.

Fortunately, in the past few years, basically all the martial arts turn-based games in China, whether it is stand-alone or online games.

Recently, the mainstream of the game industry tends to be the big world, free sandbox, so whether it is mobile games or online games, stand-alone games are all called free sandbox games.

After this wind was accompanied by the explosion of the rivers and lakes, it burned even more vigorously.

It can almost be said to be a phenomenon-level game, and millions of copies have been sold in the entire country.

Of course, this does not mean that there are really millions of players. Many players bought many copies, and some players even bought dozens or hundreds of copies at one time.

There are also some players who simply buy it for the sake of buying it. After buying it back, they can watch the game for a dozen or 10 minutes at most, and then the game will be left there forever to eat ashes.

In the same way, claiming to have sold tens of millions of copies of the game does not mean that there are really tens of millions of gamers.

Most of them are repeated purchases, or many copies at one time.

And every time the game is discounted, sales will skyrocket further.

It's not just the players who wait and see who choose to buy games, but a large part of the bosses are those digital game dealers who buy and sell.

When the game is discounted, buy a large number of CD-KEYs, wait until the game discount is cancelled, and then sell this part of the game, the price is slightly higher than the discount, and earn the difference.

Manufacturers actually turn a blind eye to this kind of behavior, and games that generally enjoy discounts are basically games that are almost unpopular. There are very few fresh blood pouring in, and most people who buy games repeatedly , are generally players who have been banned in online mode.

"The new game has a prototype, but the project name hasn't been decided yet, why don't Mr. Chu come up with a name?" Zhang Ke, who had already got the answer he wanted, was relieved now, and smiled at Chu He who was asking the question. Hehe said.

"Forget it, you Longzu's own project, you decide for yourself." Chuhe also smiled and waved his hand.

Although it has already been fully acquired by himself, Chuhe has not interfered with the production of "Meteor Butterfly Sword" and its later operations.

But although he doesn't care about anything, Chuhe still needs to know that the new project involves such a large amount of investment.

Regarding the project of Longzu's new game, it is enough to use Longzu's account for funds. A "Meteor Butterfly Sword" can be said to have brought a lot of liquidity to Longzu.

Even if the new project requires an investment of hundreds of millions, Longzu can still spend it.

Of course, after taking it out, the capital chain of the entire company will also be tightened. Once the project fails, the entire company will almost be over.

As for the investment of 4000 million yuan, although it is a large sum for the current Longzu, even if it fails, it will almost only hurt the muscles and bones, and it will not reach the point of being finished.

Different from Long Zu, TINGK's life was not so happy.

With the popularity of Love and Producer, Two-dimensional posters and hand-made peripherals have all begun to be promoted on a large scale, as well as official novels, biographies, animations, and comics.

Although the investment is not small, the enthusiasm for love and producers is still there, and the flow of traffic is realized to make a lot of money.

As for the employees who participated in the project, each of them received a generous bonus, but although Love and the producer are like a cornucopia, the monthly profit can reach hundreds of millions, but it is very large A part of the ratio was all taken away by Chuhe.

All this money is of great use.

But even so, the funds left for TINGK are amazing, at least not less than the income brought by Longzu's meteor butterfly sword, and judging from the popularity, Lianhe and the producer may still be popular Half a year, or even longer.

"Mr. Chu, I feel that as long as the game is made by Tianhe, it will basically become a trend." Zhang Ke thought of something and said with a smile.

"Is there?" Hearing this, Chuhe himself was taken aback for a moment.

"Of course, from Legend of the Red Moon at the very beginning, to Tantantang, Famine, and Jianghu. Love and the producer, after each game comes out, there will always be a large number of follow-up games in the domestic market." Zhang Kexiao He said to Chuhe.

After listening to Zhang Ke's words, Chuhe himself laughed.

"It's just determined by the market. If other companies can make breakthrough games, it will be the same." Chuhe takes these things lightly.

It is very difficult for game companies to survive, and it is very difficult to grow bigger.

But if the game company has its own sales channel, it is not very difficult to drink soup. Chuhe himself has a deep understanding of this.

You can't make a lot of money, but you can't be famous.

But it's still possible to follow someone's ass and drink soup.

If you drink soup, you can grow meat and live, but if you don’t drink soup and make soup, you may die. Over time, more and more people drink soup, but fewer and fewer people make soup.

At present, the domestic game industry is almost like this. After a game becomes popular, countless people start to imitate it, except for the name, model, texture, music and copywriting, game mechanism, etc., and even the values ​​​​are all copied.

Those who are smarter will copy and modify, adding a little innovation to the copied things, and changing them into their own things.

Then, in the entire market, this kind of game is rotten, too much garbage appears and even this type of game feels a bit stinky.

Wuxia, Xianxia, ​​turn-based, RPG.

If they were separated, it wouldn't be so glaring, but when they merged together, many players probably wouldn't even think about it, and just said: Another money-making game?
"Actually, when I was making Swordsman 8, I always wanted to make a Xianxia game in my mind." Looking at Chuhe, Zhang Ke who was sitting next to him said.

"For RPG, the most important thing is the story, but the gameplay is also very important. After all, the game is always for people to play. Simply telling a story is better than making it into a novel or a TV series." Zhang Ke looked at Chuhe Said.

"That's true. Everyone who makes games knows it, but not everyone has the ability to do it according to the environment." Chuhe nodded.

"At the beginning, I thought that after finishing Swordsman 8, I would start my own business, whether it was raising investment or crowdfunding project funds. Anyway, I would set up my own business and prevent others from interfering with my game." Zhang Ke smiled. Said.

"Now you have enough autonomy." Chuhe said with a smile.

Zhang Ke smiled and didn't reply, but the topic turned to the game.

"This game, in fact, still has the shadow of Swordsman Legend in some places, but it is different from Swordsman Legend, but it is still a story involving the element of sword, so it should be called Ancient Sword."

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