game development designer

Chapter 201 The Position
As a project with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, it is of course impossible that there is no news at all. After Chuhe contacted three outsourcing production companies including Black Light Studio, EA, which has always maintained a good cooperative relationship with Chuhe, has already approached Chuhe to try it out. Sexually inquired about the plans of the Chuhe Wilderness Daredevil.

The investment of hundreds of millions is already a very large amount, even in today's era when the cost of games is moving more and more towards large productions.

There are definitely not many manufacturers who have the courage to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is still an initial stage of capital, especially when the object of investment is not a famous thing, but a pure new IP, and the subject matter still does not seem to have a wide audience western theme.

"Do you need to invest? It's not that easy to make a big production with hundreds of millions of dollars. For a company that is on the rise, um, I mean, if, if it fails, you may not recover from it." Jinling's second In the software park, in the office of the Tianhe Network PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds project team, Charles, who was sitting on the sofa, said to Chuhe.

Hearing what Charles said, Chuhe smiled and shook his head: "Actually, we are not short of funds, well, we launched an online game just before, and its per capita online reached 120 million, and the turnover in the first month has already It hit $1 million."

It is not a secret about the flow of DNF. After a little investigation, this is an easy-to-get data.

Is money an issue?

of course not.

Such as Wangyi, Shengda and Jiucheng's copycat works, the original intention is to take advantage of the popularity of DNF to come in and get a share.

As a result, his own quality was not strong enough, and he was eager to cut leeks. Not only did he not pose any threat to DNF, but he also set off DNF in the opposite direction.

What's more, this is only the sales of the National Day month. There will be Christmas, Spring Festival, including the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other major domestic festivals. Not to mention the launch of a theme suit for each festival, but at least it can be higher than the limited sales activities of the mall.

Moreover, the time period of these festivals is also very well grasped. They are all separated by a few months, which is just enough to make the leeks fatter.

"Millions of players online? $1 million turnover?" Charles exclaimed with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

Could it be that I heard wrong?Is China's market already so big?

After being surprised, Charles shook his head, and knew in his heart that there was no need for Chuhe to talk nonsense, after all, one would know this kind of thing after a little understanding.

"Okay, it seems that you don't lack funds, but why did you choose the American West as your background? Well, cowboy culture, I think you prefer your own cultural history." Charles said curiously.

Basically, for Huaxia games, game manufacturers around the world have always believed that Huaxia's self-produced games are basically mobile games or client-side online games.

And stand-alone games, even stand-alone games with multiplayer mode, basically belong to the kind of self-produced and self-sold existence, as for international games?

It's not that there are none, but more of them are small productions.

And in comparison, Chinese gamers are more inclined to make games of their own culture, such as Xianxia and Wuxia.

"Of course there will be. It's just that this theme was chosen to fit the market. Just like in Hollywood movies, especially war movies, there will generally be a heroic black soldier." Chu He said.

Of course Chuhe wants to do the unique Chinese culture, but there are too many things to consider.

The theme of Xianxia and martial arts has already existed before. Although Jianghu can't be called a 3A-level masterpiece, it is already the only one of the first-class level.

In fact, compared with the themes of martial arts and fairy tales, what Chuhe wants to do is the theme of war in his own country, such as the theme of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the Republic of China.

But these subjects are too sensitive. If many places are not handled well, it is basically impossible to go public in China normally, and it may even affect Tianhe Network itself.

Then there is the market, regardless of domestic players, all kinds of comments on the Internet, if there is a domestic 3A must be bought, regardless of the popularity of Assassin's Creed, Battlefield and COD series in China.

But the vast majority of them are pirated prostitutes, and the players who actually spend money to buy 3A genuine players are only a very small proportion compared to the number of players in China.

Of course, it may be related to the fact that some games have locked the IP, or that they have not been purchased through normal channels, and the payment method is inconvenient, etc., but before then and now, it can be said that it is very convenient to buy genuine games. It's just a matter of reluctance.

However, the domestic 3A genuine players basically only occupy a very small part, and the main sales areas are North America and Europe.

"Political correctness, this is something that is common in any country." Charles nodded with a smile.

This is something that EA cannot avoid. For example, the recent feminist movement has intensified, and EA is also discussing internally whether to add female characters to the next generation of Battlefield series.

"Do you have any ideas about the release of Red Dead Redemption?" Knowing that there was no way to get involved in the project of Red Dead Redemption, Charles changed the subject.

If you can't directly participate in the investment, it's not bad to publish games as a publisher.

For the games developed by Tianhe Network, Charles is actually very confident, from the amazing boarding of Famine, to the potential shown by Jianghu, and the global popularity of Road to Survival, and just sent back a few days ago about the Jedi Survival Escape The killing of DEMO made Charles see the potential of this company.

"Of course EA will definitely be our first choice, but it's too early to talk about it now. The development cycle of the Red Dead Redemption project will not be that short." Chu He nodded and said.

The cooperation between myself and EA is very pleasant, at least for now, and the two parties also have a close cooperative relationship in terms of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

If there are no special circumstances, the release of Red Dead Redemption will also be handed over to EA.

In terms of distribution channels, Chuhe has no plan to set up its own channels.

Because there is no need for this, if you want to release the game, there are too many choices.

"Next, would you like to experience our game? If there are no accidents, we will release the EA version soon." Chu He looked at Charles and said.

The current PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds game is actually almost a complete version, but it is a fresh mode after all, and it involves randomness in the gameplay, so there may still be some unexpected bugs, which were not found in some tests. BUG found.

Before the official release, it is more appropriate to launch the EA Early Access version.

"Of course, this is also one of the purposes of my coming." Charles said with great interest.

(End of this chapter)