I make games to scare players from crying

Considering that she is not an architect, her grasp of the area and structure of the house is not very precise.So this type of game is also a challenge and temper for her, and it is inevitable to make mistakes from time to time.

In contrast, modeler Qiu Yuan and animator Xu Hong are much better.

Basically, engineering documents are sent to him for confirmation every day.

In such a busy environment, the development of the game is proceeding steadily.

As a result, Boss Meng didn't have time to recruit people to do game transplantation, nor did he have time to buy a house for himself to find a new office space.

He's now diving headfirst into making the game, giving it his all.

Until another month passed, under his work, "Face" has achieved good results in all aspects of progress.

For example, under Meng Shu's guidance, the scene Xia Nianzhen was in charge of had been restored to at least nine floors, and he only needed to adjust the rest.

And Qiu Yuan, after approval, he went to recruit a modeler to share his huge workload, and the progress was stable.

The other is the animator Xu Hong, who occasionally participates in motion capture for Meng Shu to shoot in person, and works overtime afterwards to adjust the motion files, doing his best.

With the joint efforts of all members of the company, the first two chapters of "Face" have been developed in just two months.

Of course, among them, Meng Shu did the most things.

Fortunately, he has a development engine that monkeys can use to complete the first two chapters of the game in such a short period of time.

You must know that in the original world, this game has been developed for several years!

But fortunately, the focus of this game is on the rendering of the plot and atmosphere.So there wasn't any outstanding music, which also saved Meng Shu from making music.

But some basic music is still available. For this point, the score included in the concept design has been given to Infinity Online Entertainment, and they are asked to arrange a record company to produce the music. This is also the job of their publishers.

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With such efforts, another week has passed, and the progress of the game is progressing rapidly like a train on the track.

But at this moment, Meng Shu received an emergency call from Infinity Entertainment.

The person who came was the supervisor Lian who had been communicating with him for a long time.

"Plagiarism?"

In the office, Meng Shu crossed his legs and listened to the news from Supervisor Lian on the phone with a frown.

[Yes, Mr. Meng, haven’t you paid attention to the latest games released? One of them is very similar to "Dark Forest", and it is also a survival horror, called "Dense Forest Horror". 】

Meng Shu: ...

Can this name be lowered a bit?

"Well, so what's wrong?"

Supervisor Lian on the other end of the phone was stunned when he heard Meng Shu's unresponsive words, and made a sound with some doubts.

[Mr. Meng, this game has copied your gameplay, it seems to have settings, and stitched some other game elements into it, which is equivalent to changing your "Dark Forest" skin and adding something else Take it out and sell it. 】

"I know, what's wrong with that?"

Manager Lian: ...

[Mr. Meng, your game has been plagiarized, isn't that a problem? ? 】

The female voice on the other end of the phone seemed very surprised, as if she couldn't understand why Mr. Meng, a businessman, didn't pay much attention to such things.

In her opinion, that is selling his game with the popularity and traffic of your game!

Even if you, the developer, don't care, then we, as publishers, have to express our attitude!

How can this be regarded as making money by borrowing our games!

Meng Shu sat in front of the computer, shrugged, straightened his body, and touched the mouse.

"Which platform?"

【what? 】

Director Lian was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted.

[Cyber ​​platform and Xiyou platform, Xiyou is our domestic competition platform, and behind it is a listed company similar to ours, called Jiyou Network. 】

Is it a technical game network...

no impression

Meng Shu shook his head, directly clicked on the cyber platform, and searched for "Dense Forest".

When he saw the search results, he was taken aback for a moment, with some disbelief on his face.

Good guy!

This game actually...

Sell ​​168 yuan! ?

This is a masterpiece, right?

I only sell it for 69 yuan!

"Is this game so expensive?"

Meng Shu casually clicked in, ready to find out.

Upon hearing this, Supervisor Lian immediately explained.

[Technical games have always had the style, the prices of the games they develop are generally two to three times higher than the average, and the games they release are also twice as expensive as the ones on the market no matter how good or bad they are.There has even been a sudden price increase after seeing good sales within an hour of release. 】

Meng Shu frowned when he heard the news, why did he feel a strong sense of familiarity... But after thinking about it for a while, isn't this the parallel world version of color?

The high price in the country, the sudden price increase of "Neil Automata", and the famous pricing unit "Octopath Traveler" are all taking advantage of the players in the country.

As a result, after the high-investment "Marvel Avengers" and "Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy" failed in the market, players expressed their desire to open champagne.

Meng Shu didn't have much affection for such a manufacturer. After expressing that he understood, he watched all the videos and screenshots in the "Dense Forest" display column.

Finally came to a shoddy conclusion.

If "Dark Forest" is a purpose-made pixel-like style, then this "Jungle Forest" is a completely messy picture quality.

The angle of view also adopts a vertical downward angle, but the movement of the characters looks very floating, without the heavy feeling of "Dark Forest".

The picture of the whole game looks very clean, not as dark and weird as "Dark Forest".

This is obviously because the material has not been processed during modeling, so the game screen looks new and clean.

Others, I don't know much about it at the moment, after all, he hasn't played it yet.

And the manufacturer is not a fool, the pictures and videos naturally show the good side of the game.

It's bad, you can only know it when you play it yourself.

Meng Shu slid down the mouse and looked at the game introduction.

There are a lot of content, and the general meaning is: "You are an ordinary intelligence officer. During the mission, you obtained a piece of intelligence that could change the victory of the war. When you escaped with the information, you accidentally strayed into this dense forest.

Then you discovered that there is an unknown existence in this area... a witch!During the day, you have to explore the jungle, searching for useful items.

At night, you must use these items to fend off witch attacks in the jungle.Your purpose is to survive, travel through the dense forest, and deliver information! "

Well, just reading the introduction, it's quite interesting, but...

Meng Shu looked at the game review, it wasn't pretty there.

"The game was released the day before yesterday, with 96 reviewers, so it's mostly bad reviews."

Director Lian nodded in agreement, with a hint of a smile on his face.

[Yeah, the game is not copied well, the quality is not high, and the players just don't buy it. 】

Meng Shu looked at the reviews, and found that there were very few positive comments, and most of them were scolding.

Passers-by with a duration of 0.4 hours:

"I thought it was a spiritual sequel to "Dark Forest", but what the hell is this?"

Passers-by with a duration of 3 hours:

"Read the article for 2 minutes, there are air walls everywhere, the picture quality is rotten, the judgment of the shooting fan, the witch has no brains and heaps of blood, played out my cerebral hemorrhage, wow!"

Passers-by with a duration of 1 hours:

"You said that this game is for money laundering, I believe it. "Dark Forest" can't be copied right in front of you. Horror games are the scourge of garbage manufacturers like you! And you are not a horror game!"

Passers-by with a duration of 1.4 hours:

"It is not recommended to buy, the game is obviously not well polished. The naked eye is poor, and the optimization is not good, and the price is not close to the people. If you know everything, you really have a technical game. It is recommended to start after a discount. You can play "" Dark Forest, this is a horror game!"

Passers-by with a duration of 1.4 hours:

"You know how to make a horror game. If you don't know how to do it, don't pollute this category, Zhuo! Seeing that other people make money, immediately make a garbage ring, and sell it for 168. It's obviously a scam, get lost!"

Passers-by with a duration of 0.5 hours:

"I'm a fool."

After reading the comments, Meng Shu also had a general understanding of the game, and couldn't help but chuckle.

Director Rang Lian was a little uncertain about the young entrepreneur's mind.

[Mr. Meng, this game has already been suspected of plagiarism, and we are going to let the legal department sue them. 】

Hearing this, Meng Shu shook his head.

"I don't care. It's up to you what you want to do. After all, you are the publisher. But like I said before, I don't worry about other manufacturers making horror games to carve up the market, and I don't care if they copy my game. "

"In a sense, their plagiarism, regardless of the quality, will promote us sideways, which is a good thing. Moreover, they only copied the gameplay and some settings, and the plot is original. This point, They're pretty professional."

"However, if the plagiarism of the gameplay can be sued successfully, more than half of the shooting games on the market will suffer. Not to mention..."

Meng Shu smiled and lit a cigarette.

"...Without their disadvantages, how can we highlight our advantages?"

"So, copy it, I don't care. But it's released at the time when the "Face" trailer is announced, and I don't know if it's a good thing."

Manager Lian on the other end of the phone, Ming Rui, noticed the key words in this sentence.

["Face"... Trailer?Mr. Meng, has your game been developed enough to release the trailer? 】

Meng Shu took a breath of the cigarette and let it out slowly. Hearing this, he laughed.

"Not only can you announce the trailer, but you can also announce the release date. It just so happens that you are also helping me promote it on Vbo. After all..."

Meng Shu pressed the switch button, and soon, the computer screen jumped to the video upload page of Danmaku.com.

And the progress bar above has already shown 100% and approved the reminder!

"...After all, the trailer just happened to be uploaded successfully..."

Chapter 33 "Face" Trailer Announced

Since the release of the EA version, "Dark Forest" has had constant topics and a high degree of play.

And after the official version was launched, the shocking truth of the reverse ending brought the game to its climax, and it was known by the whole network at an extremely fast speed, and talked about with great interest.

Just when the majority of players thought that horror games were about to usher in a new life, the appearance of "Jungle Horror" disappointed them again.

The high price, the poor production, the tricky plot, and the bluntly copied gameplay all tell the players that this is Xiang!

Obviously, this is a piece of work that followed the trend after watching "Dark Forest" became popular.

Maybe the manufacturer thinks it can get a share of the action while it's hot, or maybe the manufacturer thinks that the players are fools and can pay for it.

Coupled with the stereotyped prejudice against the horror genre, it was not developed with care, and in the end it ended up with mostly bad reviews, dissuading a large number of players, which is embarrassing.

And the Xiyou platform has no comment and scoring functions, so I don’t know how many players who don’t use the cyber platform will be pitted.

But anyway...

This "Jungle Forest Cry" was a wrong idea.

There are a lot of condemnations like this on the Internet, but the game developers and publishers just pretended to be dead, as if nothing happened. Even if the V blog was washed out, it was only a 5-year speech restriction for die-hard fans.

As a result, the condemnation of netizens turned to the major game information websites. Some website editors gave it four different comments, and some website editors even released a classic sentence.

["Dark Forest" opened the door to the horror genre, and "Jungle Forest" closed it back. 】

Won the approval of netizens.