Reborn to create a virtual world

Lin Shu nodded and said: "That's it. Teacher Du, our game is not famous, and I don't have any budget for publicity. At the beginning, no one is willing to spend money to play, so we have to get the 'free' game first." Take the lead. When the popularity accumulates, we will collect transaction tax... This is the long-term benefit. Unless someone makes a better similar system, we can keep collecting money. Even if someone makes A better system of its kind ... we'll have the capital then."

Du Sitong has never seen this form of charging method for stand-alone games.She is not Lin Shu, and she can predict the future development, so she is a little uneasy about such a novel plan.As a result, Lin Shu thought about it, and then said: "Do you know the general original website?"

Du Sitong must know this.

Lin Shu said: "In fact, what we do is no different from that original website. It's just like online novels. Anyone who can read and write articles can write, and creating games requires some basic programming. We are just Using the engine as a medium lowers the threshold of game production, making it from a threshold to a threshold, and everyone can do it. Of course, there will definitely be some restrictions on using existing engines, but compared to most of the current open engines, Ours is already one world apart. It will definitely be popular...and what we have to do is to build the world's first independent game original distribution platform when there is no similar product."

Du Sitong blinked his eyes when he heard him say this, and felt that what Lin Shu said seemed to be quite the same thing.

She said: "You made me a little excited. But is it really possible? The world's first independent game original publishing platform or something, sounds like a great thing, can the two of us do it? "

"Well..." Lin Shu pondered for a while, and said, "Let's take it step by step. We can't become fat in one sitting. Let's find a way to save money from the server first."

Du Sitong asked, "How much does the server cost?"

Lin Shu said: "If it's just a platform...we don't need to be too good at the beginning when there are few people, tens of thousands of yuan is enough. If we can't afford it, we can rent it." Then he put his fingers on his face and thought for a while, then said, "In fact, it might be better to rent it practically, so that when the traffic increases, the loss of our replacement server will be smaller. The rental and maintenance costs of such a connected venue can be reduced to less than 3000 yuan."

Du Sitong was quiet for a while, then suddenly said: "If it's less than 3 yuan...I have it."

Lin Shu looked up at her in surprise.

Du Sitong doesn't look like the kind of girl from a good family.Lin Shu was a little surprised that she, a college student who was about to graduate, had a deposit of tens of thousands of yuan with an internship salary of 3000 to [-] yuan in elementary school.

Du Sitong said embarrassingly: "I saved a little money when I was in college, mainly for part-time jobs and living expenses. I rarely go out with people, so I spend less than everyone else, and I have saved some."

Lin Shu glanced at her before saying, "No need."

Du Sitong said: "It can be counted as my investment."

Lin Shu smiled and said, "The 3 yuan is your entire net worth, teacher? Teacher, you are not afraid of losing everything."

Du Sitong said: "I believe in you, Lin Shu. Your game engine is really good. Even if I don't know programming, at least I have basic judgment ability-I am optimistic about you."

But Lin Shu said: "Thank you, teacher. But no need, there is capital and there is capital, and there is no capital and there is no capital. Although I am confident, I also need reality to verify. If our game is really valuable, Don't worry about not paying back."

He thought for a while, and said: "When I make money, the teacher will also be a rich and beautiful woman, so that your boyfriend will regret it!"

After hearing this, Du Sitong was stunned for a moment, and his smile faded a bit. It took a while to reply, but he said with a smile: "I accept your good words."

So by May, the game was finally complete.Before this, Lin Shu has been doing follow-up promotion for several months. He has opened posts on many large websites, and released many screenshots and special systems of the game in the middle, which successfully attracted the attention of many people.

Of course, because the game settings released by Lin Shu are too elaborate and complicated, and the ID used by Lin Shu himself is brand new and the level is very low, a part of it expresses whether his "future game group" can really make and introduce it. Describing the same game, or just Photoshopping a few pictures to tease everyone's suspicions.

Fortunately, most people still have expectations.

And Lin Shu's game may be the game with the shortest time interval from the release of the project to the release of the trial.Less than three months after the May Day holiday, Lin Shu released the first version of the demo program.

Different from the rush of the game release process and the petiteness of ordinary original games, the game compression package uploaded by Lin Shu is a size of one and a half gigabytes, and this is just a trial package - obviously the game is not even a 3D picture.

The larger trial package than expected did not hinder most people's interest in downloading and trying.Lin Shu's publicity time is not very long, so he didn't get enough popularity, but this is also good, that is, the interest of the onlookers has not been consumed by the long waiting time, so once the demo is released, the number of downloads continues Sexually began to grow.

In fact, this trial package basically includes a complete game process, but there are only a few elements of horizontal expansion-such as a wider game map, more diverse occupations and occupation-related mini-games, and Others, such as more complex management, more plot characters and strategy targets-in Lin Shu's plan, these can be loaded as modules later.

In fact, all functional modules in the engine run independently and can be installed and uninstalled freely, although Lin Shu will not reveal this in the short term.It can be loaded freely, which means that if you like a character's personality and plot very much, after completing a round of the game, you can also transfer his/her personality and continue to load it into another game module.During this process, the originally set plot can be restarted, a new plot can be loaded, and a new plot can be loaded on the basis of retaining the original plot records.

Other than that, maps, events, professional skill trees...all of them.

Lin Shu paid great attention to the independence and detachability of these factors when designing modules, because this factor is also a major feature of the open engine.But although such functions are reserved in the design, he does not want to expose them immediately, but plans to develop them step by step.

At the beginning of the game, there are only basic game functions and plot stories.

Even so, it was enough to exceed most people's expectations.

During the May Day holiday, both Lin Shu and Du Sitong were on vacation, but Lin Shu sneaked out of them early in the morning and went to Du Sitong's dormitory.During the time when Lin Shu was uploading the game, Du Sitong took a deep breath and was extremely nervous.

She was first worried about what to do if no one downloaded the game, and then worried about what to do if the game was badly rated after someone downloaded it... which made Lin Shu tense up.

At the end, Lin Shu said, "Haven't we tried it before? I think it's pretty good. Why are you nervous?"

Du Sitong said: "But we made the game ourselves, and we wrote the plot together. Can our feelings really be counted? Maybe we didn't do well, but we just feel too good about ourselves."

Lin Shu stared at her helplessly: "Mr. Du, we are now at the time when the two armies are fighting. You don't want to hurt our morale by yourself."

Du Sitong immediately said: "Ah, I'm sorry." Then she stood up and said, "Let me go buy some drinks and prepare lunch by the way... What do you want for lunch?"

Lin Shu didn't expect to be able to order food, but he didn't show politeness to her. He immediately told her two simple dishes that he liked, and Du Sitong left Lin Shu in his bedroom and went out.

By the time she's ready for lunch, the game has triple-digit downloads on several sites.A female-oriented game website should be quite niche, but the traffic is not low. It is estimated that there are not many games originally posted on this website, so there have been hundreds of downloads in less than two hours up.

On the contrary, there are a few more formal large-scale game websites. Because they are divided by various sections, the download volume seems to be relatively mediocre, not very outstanding.

Du Sitong also saw the current data, but was very confused, and asked Lin Shu, "Is this situation...is it good or not?"

Lin Shu replied: "It's neither good nor bad. The time to decide the outcome is not here."

The main thing is to wait for the subsequent evaluation and response.

Du Sitong didn't know the situation, so he said, "Forget it, let's eat. By the way, have you told your parents that you won't go home for lunch?"

Lin Shu said: "I said that I might eat outside at noon, don't worry."

Du Sitong immediately felt relieved.

Then Lin Shu was surprised to find that the young female teacher could cook well.Although the dishes on the table are all home-cooked dishes, they are well balanced and delicious. Although the flavor is different from Liang Yuehua's, they are just as delicious.

Lin Shu originally thought that Du Sitong was so young that it was impossible for him to cook well.After all, at this age, most of them still eat the dishes cooked by their mothers.

He couldn't help asking: "Is it true that girls are naturally better at cooking than boys?"

Du Sitong was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said: "You are so beautiful! My little friend, let me tell you, when you grow up, you will find that it is difficult for a boy nowadays to find a girlfriend if he can't cook. .”

Lin Shu blinked.Actually he didn't mean that.

He just remembered that Ju Mingfeng had been tossing in the kitchen for ten years, but the dishes he cooked were still not satisfactory.He doesn't worry about finding a girlfriend - no matter whether he can cook or not, he will definitely find a girlfriend.

But... the other person is hard to say.

Lin Shu said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to cook. There will always be someone who is willing to cook for me, and then... I will hire a chef for him. The current effort is to be able to do this one day, isn't it? "

Du Sitong: "..."

This kid will definitely be a lover when he grows up!It's too monstrous.