Build a game empire from scratch

It has been exactly one week since the release of "A Quiet Place", with current sales of 86 million copies.

This number is a bit low for Yunmeng's average score.

This is not because Yunmeng’s appeal to players has diminished, but because the game’s themes are too scary and it has indeed dissuaded some players.

As proof, if you include players who purchased and refunded the game, the total number of copies sold by "A Quiet Place" has actually exceeded 100 million.

Moreover, the popularity of discussions and live broadcasts on the Internet has not dropped at all compared to when the game was released before - it is even higher, which shows that there are quite a few players who have "cloud clearance".

So the work of the development team was actually done very well.

It's just that the more core the game, the more selective players will be. There's nothing we can do about it. During the development process, Yu Gu and the development team were already mentally prepared for this.

But - there must be a but here.

If only a week after its release, the game produced for the first time by Ye Xiaohe, a new designer led by a team, was crushed in sales...

That's another story!

What's even more frightening is: "Homeward Bound" really has this potential, and it may even catch up to half of the sales of "A Quiet Place" before it is released!

For games like "Homeward Bound", the refund rate will be very low, and pre-sale sales can almost 100% be converted into sales figures after the game is released.

Coupled with the natural social communication effect of cooperative games and casual games...

It’s impossible not to pay attention to it!

The development team played the game live with players. Although Yu Gu thought it was Lin You's petty revenge at first, but after calming down after drawing lots, he felt that this was indeed a very good publicity plan and worth doing. !

So they quickly found the operations department to communicate, determined the activity process, communicated with relevant personnel, and officially announced the news at noon.

Ever since Lin You mentioned this idea during the live broadcast, netizens have been looking forward to it.

Now that I got the confirmation, I immediately burst into joy.

Especially those players who had been tortured enough in the game reacted extremely enthusiastically. They all cheered and said that they must tear the development team apart.

Not only that, a large number of overseas players also appeared in the comment area of ​​the announcement, hoping that they could also participate in this online event, or that the development team would also hold an overseas special event or something.

The development team quickly responded in the affirmative.

The overseas sales of "A Quiet Place" are surprisingly good! The highly bloody and heavy-tongued content of Chapters 6 and 7 caused a stronger response overseas than in Daxia, and was extremely well received!

They can't wait to meet the developers.

When netizens in Daxia shouted that they wanted to "rip the developers apart", the reaction of overseas players was -

"Goose girl!"

"Hurry up and release Chapter 8, Chapter 9, and Chapter 10!!"

"Not enough fun, not enough fun at all!!!"

With such enthusiastic support, of course some feedback must be given.

And the development team does have arrangements for follow-up updates. After all, with the current plot structure, it is not difficult at all to create more chapters - as long as you have a good idea and design a completed gameplay and story, it is easy to embed this "heaven" "After the Fall" world view.

Developers are constantly coming up with new ideas during the development process, and it's still too early for them to be hollowed out.

The development team spent the whole day on Thursday preparing for this live stream party.

The employees who were selected to live broadcast each chapter and compete with [Survival Mode] are also training intensively.

Yu Gu is considerate of his subordinates and has arranged in advance the content that everyone will play in the live broadcast, so that employees can have some mental preparation so that they will not be too embarrassed during the live broadcast.

*

That afternoon, the little princess also led Lin You to live broadcast again, completing the entire collection of Huangliang Town and making up for the regret of not completing it the previous day.

Then we took the elevator and ended the trial.

They could only regretfully refuse the barrages in the live broadcast room that asked them to continue playing.

Even if you want to play, you can't do it during a live broadcast.

Otherwise, Ye Xiaohe will bite Lin You to death...

Although Lin You had stopped playing the prank on her at noon, it was not difficult for Ye Xiaohe to turn into a dog.

Players have no fun to watch, and no new information. They can only have fun by themselves and collect everything.

——The "Homeward Bound" development team has announced that the player data generated during the trial can be inherited after the game is officially released.

As for the players who have completed all the collections, in addition to lamenting on the Internet, "I will die if I don't play "Homecoming"", more and more players are also beginning to move to that distant city.

To verify Shi Lei's guess that "this world is connected to the fragments of time and space".

And this phenomenon has affected another group of people——

The captains of [Space City].

After being stationed in [Space City] for so long, the diligent miners have upgraded their mining barges to armed cargo ships. The boss and the kryptonian have even upgraded two levels and become support ships.

No matter how high it is, the time is still too short, [Space City] resources are not enough, and the shipbuilding technology tree has not been unlocked yet.

Regarding Shi Lei's guess, they had two completely opposite opinions.

Some people think: There is no need to try it at all, it probably has nothing to do with it.

Even in one place, nothing that appeared in the time and space fragments can be found.

Their reasons are good: How long has everyone been mining on Mars? I haven’t seen anyone discover the Mars base that appeared in the space-time fragments!

But others think: This proves nothing at all.

Mars is so big, and everyone follows the spacecraft's prospecting radar when mining. The actual exploration area is quite small, and may not be as large as the metropolitan area.

It was normal not to find a small Mars base without signs and without actively looking for it.

But if you organize yourself and search carefully, you might be able to find it!

Although they had different opinions, the players on both sides did not quarrel, but some people joined the searching team.

Others thought of the space-time fragments that appeared in the "Predator". Although no one could survive after passing through the fragments, some people still saw the huge star ring outside the window through the portholes.

Some professional astrophotographers compared it and said it was probably the rings of Saturn.

Later, an aerospace professional came forward and roughly calculated the orbital height of the spacecraft. He believed that the spacecraft was probably not passing by, but was orbiting Saturn.

Therefore, many players have ventured beyond Mars and tried to sail to Saturn to find the spacecraft.

The most direct impact of their actions is——

Lin You is going to start working overtime.

We can't let the players spend more than half a month flying there and not even find a single hair, right?

Of course, Lin You would not work overtime alone.

All employees are talented people, so don’t worry about it?

"A Quiet Place" has been released for a week, and the people who have been on vacation are almost back. There are no longer need for so many people doing promotional activities, just enough to recruit a group of hard-working employees to create surprises for the players.

*

The next day, Lin You took Xiao Meng and the little princess, and worked hard all day with these hard-working employees. It was not until the live broadcast party of "A Quiet Place" was about to begin that he thoughtfully asked everyone to go back to eat melon and watch the fun. .

By the way, he can also go and watch the excitement himself.

Lin You took Xiaomeng with him and appeared at the live broadcast party.

——After all, the little princess has a special status and is still considered a foreign affairs official, so she is not suitable for appearing on such an occasion.

The live broadcasts of the past two days have always appeared in the image of Maine Coon cats, and they have never left the country in real life.

Yu Gu looked at the boss who suddenly appeared in surprise.

Lin You smiled slightly: "Since I broadcast "Homeward Bound" live, I will definitely come to your place to show my face. How about it? I don't favor one over the other, right?"

The influence and publicity effect of the live broadcast party with Lin You and the live broadcast party without Lin You are completely different.

Yu Gu knew this very well, so he was quite surprised.

But looking at Lin You's smiling expression and Xiao Meng's expression as he sat on the stool and looked around, he felt a little uneasy for no reason.

Ten minutes later, this ominous premonition came true——

When greeting the players and engaging in the first round of barrage interaction, Lin You acted as if he didn't know anything and read out a barrage seriously:

[How boring is the arranged process? It's better to be random and play whichever chapter you draw! ]

After reading, he looked at Yu Gu: "It seems to make sense?"

Yu Gu had a black line on his forehead.

He finally understood why Lin You appeared here.

——Why don't you want to favor one thing over another? You are obviously here to watch the excitement up close!

Yu Gu turned to look at his seven colleagues.

The seven people looked at each other with subtle expressions, and finally nodded in agreement.

For the sake of program effects and game sales, I will risk my life!

Xiaomeng quickly took out a cardboard box and handed it out.

It contains live content from different chapters - it is impossible to live broadcast a chapter in its entirety, it would be too long, so you can only select some content for live broadcast.

Next, Xiao Meng and Lin You stopped competing for the show and crowded together to eat melon at close range.

And netizens also saw the content they wanted to see——

Developer's throat slit by Silent Monster;

The developer accidentally saw an invisible monster and frantically banged his head against a concrete wall until he died;

The developer stared at the Weeping Angel until his eyes bulged. He couldn't help but blink, and the Weeping Angel instantly pounced on him and broke his neck;

The developer was thrown to the ground by a brown bear covered in poisonous alien flowers, gnawed at him, and died on the spot;

The developer was recognized by the players in the [Death Vote], and instantly became the target of everyone's teasing. Even though he said all kinds of humble words, he could not escape the fate of being voted to death;

The developer was jumped on by the bloody monster, scratched wildly, and finally bit off half of the head;

The developer was chased by lizardmen in the alien base, and was shot and turned into blood foam...

The worse the developers died, the more the audience laughed wildly, and the more popular the live broadcast room became.

Yu Gu had long since lost the psychological burden of cheating his subordinates. He watched with gusto and even made some sharp comments from time to time.

It wasn't until he entered the [Survival Mode] session and Yu Gu led all the developers to have a big brawl with the players that he calmed down his expression.

During the preparation time, Lin You appeared again——

"Although I've been very busy recently, I still found time to expand and strengthen the mental arm gameplay."

“It’s the first time for developers and players, so it’s fair to both parties. Let’s see who can adapt to this ability first!”

Players kept asking questions, wanting to know what new jobs Lin You did - every job Lin You did was always new and fun, so everyone was looking forward to it.

But Lin You did not answer, but returned the task of guiding the topic to the host.

Then he and the audience looked at the battlefield on the screen.

His new job this time is simple to say, it is to take apart the "mental arm".

In fact, from the beginning, the ability that the development team planned to create was not a "mental arm", but a more versatile and powerful "psychic power".

But all the skills Yunmeng had designed for players before were relatively "materialistic" and relatively simple - both in terms of skill effects and usage methods, they were all quite simple.

But the thing of "thought power" is too complicated.

It's not just about "let players have telekinesis" - the technical department will just blow their heads off when they see this request.

You must design all aspects of the effect in great detail before you can package it into a "skill". Finally, you must ensure that the "operation method" can be stably and easily integrated into the player's sensory system.

It's very complicated.

It is easy to use the body and equipment, but it is very troublesome to use the ethereal abilities of "mental power" and "thought".

The technical department worked hard for a long time, but they could only simplify it into an "invisible arm". They found Lin You and updated the supporting software of the neural modem to achieve the current effect.

But since then, Lin You has been thinking about this matter, and will do some optimization from time to time.

Until now, this optimization process has not ended, but now that the opportunity is rare, he thinks it is quite interesting to put it into practice.

*

15 developers and 35 random players appeared on the ruins battlefield at the same time.

Everyone quickly took cover, observing the surrounding environment while awakening their mental arms.

[Flesh and Blood Battlefield] is the most popular gameplay in [Survival Mode] now.

At the beginning of the game, everyone only has a small dagger. Under the search and encirclement of the lizard people, they must search for materials to strengthen themselves while killing their opponents as much as possible to survive to the end.

On the battlefield, as soon as Yu Gu summoned his spiritual arm, he immediately noticed the difference——

The arm seems to have become "fuzzy" a lot.

The invisible arms that used to be extremely clear and specific have now become loose, as if they will fall apart if the focus is not focused.

"Weaker?"

Yu Gu was stunned for a moment, then took out the dagger from his waist and threw it out for testing.

The mental arm went to pick it up immediately.

But before his arm touched the dagger, the dagger swayed slightly and floated in the air.

"???" Yu Gu was confused.

As his attention shifted, the dagger stopped shaking and became completely still in the air, while the vague spiritual arm dissipated in the air.

Yu Gu blinked, and a word came out of his mouth: "Psychic power?"

As soon as this word came out, the eyes of the audience in the live broadcast room widened instantly!

But before anyone could say anything, they saw in the live broadcast that a player suddenly took off from the spot and jumped into the sky in an instant!

"Holy shit!" The unprepared host subconsciously exclaimed.

But no one cared about his mistake, because the live broadcast room was flooded with "fuck" barrages!

But before everyone's exclamations could stop, in the first-person view shot that the director quickly cut to, the old man was covering his head, wailing loudly while falling freely——

"Ahhh! Help!!!!"

I almost missed it...

Thanks to [Mason 2nd] for the 500 point reward!