game development designer

Chapter 260 The more powerful the manufacturer, the better at drawing cakes

After leaving Xiaodao Studio, Chuhe still has a lot of feelings. Although I don’t know how much the development cost of Death Stranding is, but from the quality of the game itself and the character configuration in it, it can be seen that it will definitely not be better than Wilderness There are few big players.

In particular, the protagonists and important roles are played by some Hollywood movie stars. Although they are not the kind of top-tier superstars, and some of them are not too famous, they are there after all.

In comparison, among the self-developed Red Dead Redemption, the only protagonist who has hired a professional actor is a fourth-tier British actor who has lost all his fame.

"For all the NPC actors, the action materials are directly provided by the actors. At the same time, the modeling of the characters is simply to pay a fee for the right to use the portrait. Anyway, if they die, they will only have an extra budget of 200 million US dollars." Chu Chu He thought in his heart, based on what Gabriel had talked to him before, he estimated that it would probably be the cost.

how?

It looks like a lot, but Chuhe doesn't care at all. Originally, Chuhe thought that the project of "Red Dead Redemption" was very good, but after playing the trial of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding, Chuhe still felt that there were some gaps.

How to do?
Spend money on it.

Don't talk about surpassing, crushing this kind of thing, but at least it can't be much worse than the other party.

At this time, Chuhe didn't think about how much money he could make, so he didn't care at all, okay?
The Spring Festival is coming soon, and the new version of DNF will also start to be updated. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds anchor accessories have also begun to be produced, plus the secondary account purchases of cheating players who are still struggling to give players the best reporting service. Income, a Red Dead Redemption will give you back your investment in minutes.

Now Chuhe still has some headaches, that is, he doesn't know how to spend the money in the company's account.

"Save some working capital, then get a piece of land in Jinling, build a building, and move the company there?"

On the flight to Los Angeles, Chu He leaned on his seat and thought about it.

When Chuhe arrived at the black light studio, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. Although it was night, there were still some people working overtime in the studio.

Overtime work, in fact, many companies in the game industry have this problem. For example, the Polish donkey CDPR, which has been talked about by players, is actually a very common internal overtime in Poland. Things, and due to its own geographical environment and salary, CDPR, which can already be regarded as a major game company, is not as generous as expected in terms of employee treatment.

Game production sounds very cool, but in fact this is only true for game designers and corresponding planning teams such as plot and gameplay design.

More, such as the art team and the program team, are all repetitive and extremely repetitive tasks. Although it is not an assembly-line job, it is not interesting either.

The only thing that makes me happy is that I can see a great game being born from my own hands, and at the same time, the treatment in the company is also good, such as relaxing entertainment construction.

"E3? Well, according to the current progress, we will probably be able to come up with an almost kneaded dough at that time."

In the black light studio, Prott, Pig, and Gabriel had supper and chatted about the progress and difficulties of the development of Red Dead Redemption.

Hearing what Chuhe said, Gabre thought for a while and gave a rather vivid answer.

"Dough? Well, then we have to work hard and pack it well." Chu He thought for a while and said seriously.

Just like the common saying that people often say, for example, the more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to deceive.

Chuhe thinks that the more capable game manufacturers are, the more they will be able to draw big cakes.

Every day on Weibo and Twitter, he posted a video about the development of Red Dead Redemption. Although he didn't express it clearly, it gave all the players who followed the illusion that the game is estimated to be developed soon.

Even sometimes Chuhe himself has such an illusion.

This time Chuhe stayed in Los Angeles for a long time, and at the end of the month, the new version of DNF in China was updated. In addition to the second awakening task for some characters, it also increased the level cap of level 5, and the new New Year's activities.

Of course, the must-have limited Spring Festival gift bag is also indispensable, as well as the Spring Festival fashion set.

At the same time, on the official website, the latest data has also been released.

Monthly active users, that is to say, players who have logged in to the game at least once in a month, totaled 757 million, and the average daily active users also reached 340 million, a very scary statistic.

At least in the face of this data, domestic online games, except Wangyi and Penguin's housekeeper IP, basically none of them can compare.

As for counterfeit products such as Shengda, Jiucheng and Wangyi, basically they don't even reach a fraction of DNF.

At the same time, the momentum of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is also very good. On the one hand, because of the promotion of the host invitational tournament, coupled with the timely handling of cheating, the game environment has not completely deteriorated.

Basically, the number of online players is still growing. The peak number of online players has reached 400 million worldwide. At the same time, the global sales have already exceeded [-] million.

For this result, Chuhe is not too happy, but EA is very happy.

The income is second. The most important thing is a phenomenal game, which can have too much impact, especially EA.

In addition, the sales volume of Gu Jian Qi Xia developed by Longzu Studio has also successfully exceeded one million. It is not as successful as imagined, but at least it is profitable, and it also gives domestic stand-alone practitioners a clear answer. .

That is, the domestic market is not as pessimistic as everyone imagined. The digital version of 108 is priced, and it can still be sold for millions in China alone. Counting the development of surrounding interests, it is certain to make money in the end.

Chuhe is in Los Angeles, but the domestic game industry players are not in a calm mood at this moment, especially after the data released by Tianhe Network a few years ago.

Regarding the number of online players per capita, although the current DNF can definitely be regarded as the leader, it is even ranked among the top three in the history of Chinese online games.

But what people really care about is the profit behind it. Although Tianhe Network has not announced it, it is not a problem to collect and inquire from the side to get a rough data.

With the update of the new version and the income from the Spring Festival package, DNF's monthly turnover reached a terrifying 35 billion yuan.

There is no third-party platform commission, except for taxes, this is pure profit.

Pure traffic doesn’t explain anything. For example, Lianzhong, the biggest casual game in China, had 2 million users when the domestic game was still in its infancy, and its monthly active users once reached 1500 million, owning 85% of the entire market at that time. % of the share, but in the end, because there is no way to convert users into paying users, there is no profit point, so I tossed myself to death.

Of course, this kind of situation will not happen now. After all, there is already a mature system, but it is precisely because it has matured that it makes people feel scary. In this case, the DNF of Tianhe Network can cause such a miracle.

What kind of concept is this?

"Any game manufacturer with such a game can be regarded as a domestic predator."

Chen Jing, who originally thought he had overestimated enough, couldn't help sighing while looking at the latest data sheet in Wangyi's office.

　My friend’s daughter Piao Nvchang was arrested and detained for 5 days, and she still couldn’t pay the security deposit to be released~~I wrote the tragic words on my head, but fortunately I clean myself 0.0
　　
　
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