game development designer

Chapter 27 Platforms Issued

"Tianhe Network, many people will be very unfamiliar with this company, but if you mention the Legend of the Red Moon, I believe everyone is familiar with it. Yes, Famine was developed by this company. But if you don't know Legend of the Red Moon, you just Playing Famine, you may think that Tianhe Network is a small workshop company with a genius idea and put it into action. Interesting game content, cartoon but not offensive absurd picture style."

"From the perspective of the plot and the picture, I will not give him a high score, but if it is about the gameplay, if it is me, maybe I will give him an evaluation of 8 points, even if it is only a semi-finished game at present. A At the beginning, when I heard that Tianhe Network was going to make a stand-alone game, I actually thought it was ridiculous. Well, I can’t say more bad things, because they are our current sponsors, but put everything aside and change the topic to Come back to the famine."

"They did it, yes, as they announced to the outside world, they want to make a free sandbox game. As a player, I always think that the sandbox represents the big world, close to the real picture, and you can do whatever you want Just do what you want, and I always thought that this kind of sandbox game would only appear in 3A works. But Famine taught me a lesson, the huge map, the opening of each game is different, and the death of each game is different. Here you can be an adventurer to explore the unknown on the map, you can be a farmer, raise rabbits, pigs, and cattle. Of course, the premise of all this is that you can survive.”

Regarding the style of game evaluation, under Chuhe's instruction, the article only revealed a small part of the gameplay, and the praise of the game's quality Starry Sky also surprised readers.

You must know that as the largest news media website in China, even if someone gives money, soft articles will not appear in the position of the news headlines, so this should be an objective game evaluation.

But what surprised Zhang Qian even more was the personal interview about Chuhe.

"Under 30? Sold property and created Tianhe Network!? There are such awesome people!?"

Compared with the game evaluation of Famine, there is not much information revealed about Chuhe's personal interview, but it is enough to surprise Zhang Qian.

Take a look at the comments below the article.

"The game starry sky has fallen? If you make a game like Legend of the Red Moon, can you make a fun stand-alone game?"

"MD, the upstairs is mentally retarded, even if Gaming Xingkong collects money to write soft articles, it won't be put on the headlines. It seems that this famine is really interesting!"

"Tch, who knows if it's a big cake. When the fantasy world first came out, it was blown to the sky!"

"But I'm really looking forward to it. The computer at home is not good, and I can't play 3A masterpieces. I can only play small games to satisfy my hunger."

"You game nerds, the focus of attention is obviously wrong! The boss of Tianhe Network is just a young man in his 20s. Don't you think it's incredible?"

"According to the interview, the other party is not a rich second generation. He founded Tianhe Network with his own efforts. Is it so inspirational to start from scratch?"

"It was too much to say inspirational, you guys ignored a piece of information! Pay attention to the sentence 'At that time, I sold all of Shanghai's two houses to get enough funds to start a company and do projects'. That's the point, okay? Shanghai's two suites!"

"This is probably the difference between people. One is a real version of a billionaire young president, and I'm just a fat nerd in college waiting to die."

The comment floor below the article quickly turned crooked, although there are still many who are questioning whether Don't Starve is as awesome as the game Starry Sky.

But there are still some people who are interested in Famine, and for the game of Famine, some rational gamers also made it clear that they would choose to buy a genuine version to participate in the trial for reasons of supporting domestic production, which is really not fun. Anyway, you can get a refund within two hours.

However, compared to the expectations of the outside world for the famine, Chu He from the Tianhe Network Office is having a meeting with the project team.

They ran into a problem that required selection, and that was the selection of more content.

There are still some content that have not been filled in Don't Starve, such as the change of seasons, new boss monsters, ocean maps and related props.

According to Xu Chang, they need to complete the production of all these contents and release the official version to players.

Piguet, on the other hand, suggested launching an early access version of the game first, and then accepting player feedback to slowly modify the shortcomings of the game.

"There is no need to launch an early access version, optimize the game, and check and fix bugs. Generally, most early access games are launched by small workshops or independent games to withdraw funds, but are we short of funds? As for the content If so, why do you want to add it all at once? New maps, ocean gameplay, changing seasons, brand new boss characters, we can release these as follow-up DLC." Chu He smiled.

Xu Chang was speechless for a while, secretly thinking in his heart that he deserved to make a fortune in web games. This game has not been released yet, and he has already thought of DLC.

"According to our previous meeting, the price of Famine is 55 yuan for the national area. Although we think its content is worth the price, for domestic players, this price is not an advantage. The same small production is 55 yuan. , maybe they can choose some well-known independent games instead of our famine, so they split some of the unfinished content and sell them as follow-up DLC, while the currently completed content is the main body, and the price is directly Cut in half, 25 RMB, I believe this will be a reasonable price." Chu He looked at Xu Chang and explained.

In fact, to put it bluntly, domestic players still don’t believe in domestic games. At the same price, they may prefer to choose games made by foreign manufacturers, even if the other party is also a little-known independent game studio.

But players will have an inexplicable sense of trust, that is, foreign game producers must be more responsible than domestic conscience.

It is a very frustrating kind of psychology, which is the psychology after countless times of being hurt by unscrupulous domestic stand-alone machines.

"Mr. Chu, is famine going to the steam platform?" Tao Fa, who had been listening all the time, asked.

As far as Tianhe Network is concerned, there is currently no distribution channel for games. If they release games by themselves, they not only need to build a platform, but also have a distribution channel. Although it is not very difficult, it is very troublesome.

As for the platform, foreign platforms are nothing more than the steam platform and GOG two open platforms.

Domestically, there are even fewer choices of platforms. One is the WEGAME platform backed by Penguin, and the other is the up-and-coming Cube platform. There are not many choices.

The largest platform in China at present is undoubtedly the steam platform, and then Penguin's WEGAME.

　--Is there anyone alive, come here with two referral tickets and let me see if they are still in stand-alone
　　


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