Chapter 270 War Theme Sandbox Game
"How is it? Did Honghuang accept it?"
Inside the office at Yiyou headquarters.
The senior executive in charge of this development festival asked.
"Accepted, but they have conditions." The assistant replied hesitantly.
"What conditions? If it's just a matter of profit sharing, I can make the decision and give them the same 80% as Steam!"
The ancient world today is no longer the same as it was in the past.
We can no longer look at small factories in the same way we did in the past.
Since they want to develop a PC platform, they naturally have to establish good relationships with every game manufacturer.
What's more, Honghuang has three games with sales of tens of millions. Even if they can negotiate the agency of those three games, it can attract a large wave of traffic for them.
Understand player traffic.
This is the horror of the prehistoric world today.
"Hong Huang did mention the commission, but they also put forward a condition. Due to the recent shortage of manpower, they are unable to produce medium or large-scale games."
“Can’t you make medium or large?”
The man frowned.
His original intention was to hope that Honghuang would support them in developing a blockbuster game, which would definitely attract many players.
But now, this plan has fallen through.
"It seems that the news on the Internet is true. Honghuang has indeed transferred all its staff to develop MMO games. Well, small games are small games. Let's ease the relationship first. Anyway, there are several other large stand-alone games that have just been negotiated."
"Okay, I'll reply to them right away."
The assistant also knew that the main purpose of inviting Honghuang this time was not the game, but to ease the previously strained relationship.
As a platform operator, it is a very stupid thing to make enemies with game companies.
What’s more, Honghuang is an existence that cannot be ignored.
Soon, he edited the message and replied to Honghuang, inviting them to come and sign the profit-sharing contract.
Get it all done.
The man next to him finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Okay, now that Honghuang's problems are solved, let's contact the other companies to see when their masterpieces can be completed. Our platform will be reset and launched during the winter vacation."
The Game Development Festival is just a cover .
Its real purpose is to promote Yiyou’s own platform and prepare to fully enter the PC field, so there must be sufficient game support.
to this end.
They have received strong support from the capital behind them.
It is used to expand your own game library.
Now everything is ready.
Just wait for the game to be launched during the winter vacation at the end of the year.
…
The other side.
Inside the Honghuang studio.
Chen Lin and others who received Yiyou’s reply also held a small meeting in the conference room.
"I called you all here today for Yiyou's game development festival. I have a small project for you to do."
Chen Lin went straight to the point and spoke directly.
"Small project?"
"I heard that Yiyou has been discussing several large-scale stand-alone games this time, and the momentum is strong. Would it be a bad idea for us to just make a small game?"
There was a commotion among the crowd, and it was obvious that they all knew about this matter.
Other manufacturers all came up with big productions, but they only came up with a small game, which always felt weird.
"Don't worry about whether it's good or not. We just accepted the invitation to participate in the event. We didn't say we have to come up with something big, and there's no need to compare it with those big productions."
Chen Lin spoke slowly, stating Honghuang's position this time.
Yiyou took the initiative to invite them, so it is up to them to decide what games to make, whether they want to or not.
Moreover, compared with other large companies, they were suppressed before and had to fight back, so they tried their best to exert all their strength.
Now it is not them who need help.
Of course, don't take it too seriously.
"Then... what game are we going to play this time? Dawn can only mobilize a dozen people at most." Lao Li at the side interrupted.
Then it was Old Song who spoke up: "As for Liming, we need to arrange people to do the online game maintenance. I estimate there are only seven or eight people."
There are two teams, with a total of about twenty people.
What kind of game to make is indeed a difficult problem.
After all, it’s autumn now and the winter vacation is not far away, so we also have to consider game testing and optimization.
"Since time is tight, why don't we just give up on image accuracy and rely on gameplay?" suggested one of the team leaders.
"That's a good idea." Old Song nodded. "The super rabbits and humans we made before were a complete failure, and we used this trick, and the response was pretty good."
"What about the gameplay? Both of these games are based on action and level-breaking. We have to come up with a new gameplay."
"If the picture accuracy is not enough, I suggest you just go with the strategy route and reduce the proportion of operation."
"Isn't this going back to the battle flag game we talked about before? Then let's just make a battle flag game."
"Battle flag? Good idea! The most difficult part of this game is calculating the various rules. Twenty people are more than enough."
The employees chattered and expressed their ideas and suggestions.
Chen Lin, who was sitting in the first position, listened silently, and a vague picture gradually formed in his mind.
"Battle flags are indeed the best choice right now." He said, "What do you think of combining it with sandbox gameplay?"
"Sand table?"
Everyone fell into deep thought after hearing this.
Then, my eyes lit up.
"Sand table war! Mr. Chen, shall we do a sand table war?"
One of the team , suddenly spoke out excitedly.
When the others heard this, a vague picture also appeared in their minds.
Or say.
It is the childhood memory of each of them.
once Upon a time.
They also bought various soldier dolls, then gathered together, circled an area, put the soldiers on the field to fight, and naively did the dubbing themselves.
Bang, bang, bang——
biubiubiu——
Very simple gameplay.
But it can keep them playing for a whole afternoon.
Combining this gameplay with the battle flag is not a bad idea.
But if it is coupled with the weird character modeling, it doesn’t seem to work.
"Em... isn't this a bit stupid?" Lao Li said what everyone wanted to say most.
"Haha, other people's battle banners are eager to make the chess pieces and map modeling to the extreme, and no one has ever done a ghost-like style."
"That can't be helped. This type of game doesn't require a lot of investment, so there's limited room for improvement."
"Then let's enrich the gameplay a little bit and make up for the shortcomings?"
Everyone looked at each other and fell into deep thought.
However, he did not notice that Chen Lin, who was sitting in the first seat, suddenly had a smile on his face.
Now.
He finally remembered what that blurry picture was.
It seems that there is indeed a game that fits this design.
Thinking of this, he spoke again: "Try to add a troop system. Each troop has different attributes and attack modes. Players can fight freely through matching, without being restricted to fixed grids."
"Mr. Chen means instant free combat?" The employees reacted with a gleam in their eyes.
"Yes, it is real-time free combat." Chen Lin nodded. "Previous battle flags also had different chess pieces , but they were all restricted to the grid. The pace was too slow, and the entry threshold was too high."
"really."
Everyone agreed with this statement: "The current gameplay of Zhanqi is becoming more and more complicated, which is a good thing for high-end players, but it abandons the largest number of ordinary players."
"So, why don't we just keep going down this evil path until the end? Let those evil pawns fight each other?"
"Okay, okay, this plan sounds good."
"I agree!"
As they spoke, everyone smiled knowingly.
As for ghost-animal games, they are the best.
After all, he became the team leader by doing ghost videos.
Seeing that they had no objections, Chen Lin made the decision directly: "Okay, the project is settled. I will make a detailed plan for you later. Old Song and Old Li go and gather the people first."
"OK."
"Leave it to me."
After assigning the tasks, everyone dispersed and went outside to make preparations, while Chen Lin returned to his office.
Because he didn't have time to prepare a plan in advance, he had to start all over again.
Until noon the next day.
Finally, a simple plan was drawn up, printed out and handed over to the temporary project team of 20 people.
"Total war simulator?"
Several employees gathered together with the plan in hand and looked through it curiously.
"How is it? Is it difficult?" Chen Lin asked.
This game was the same ghost-style sandbox real-time war game he had played before.
Mainly because he had been working on large-scale game plans recently, he had forgotten about it. He finally remembered it after the meeting.
"no problem!"
"Make sure to complete the mission!"
After just a quick look, the members of the temporary team answered one after another with surprise in their eyes.
Because the types of soldiers designed in this plan are so rich, even far exceeding any battle flag game they have ever seen!
For example, spearmen, shieldmen, musketeers, catapults, cannons, crossbows, and war elephants are just the most basic types of troops.
There are more than a dozen major categories behind it.
There are at least seven or eight types of troops in each major category.
It’s more complete than an encyclopedia!
"If you have any new soldier designs, you can add them in, as long as they don't seriously affect the balance."
After leaving a word, Chen Lin turned and left.
The members of the special team gathered together and began to assign work.
In this way, each person in charge of programming is assigned to program more than a dozen roles.
The difficulty seems great.
But they have Honghuang AI, and the basic code can be written quickly and then modified by them.
"It doesn't seem to take much time, so we can just optimize and improve other aspects. We want to beat those masterpieces with the worst graphics!"
"roar--"
Amidst the shouts, the twenty members sat back in their seats and began to work hard on the production.
The entire Honghuang studio was once again plunged into a state of busyness.
…
Time flies.
Winter is coming.
After two months of overwhelming publicity, the game development festival hosted by the Yiyou platform is finally officially launched.
In order to achieve this day, manufacturers of all sizes are working hard to advance their projects and upload their games to the Yiyou platform.
As long as players click on the homepage, they can see the special event page, where all items are 20% off. It can be said that the event is very powerful.
Because this discount is entirely given by Yiyou to game manufacturers.
The difference will be paid by the platform.
"It's awesome. Games that cost over 100 on Steam only cost 80 or 90 here."
“Many games on Steam are now available on the Yiyou platform!”
"I couldn't bear to buy it before, but now I can finally do it."
“These games all look good, let’s download them and try them out first.”
"You want to keep my heart with just 20% off? What the hell? This game is also available online?"
The player base of Yiyou platform in China is not low, but it is not as large as that of Steam.
Nowadays, with vigorous publicity and discount tactics, it naturally attracts more players to come.
in.
The most popular ones are naturally the big ones.
Although it has not yet reached the 3A level, it is still a rare high-quality product and its sales volume has soared at an impressive rate.
"Very good. If this trend continues, our market share in China should exceed 15%. It's worth the high price I paid to get these games."
The CEO of Yiyou looked at the ever-increasing data with a look of delight on his face.
This data is already terrifying for a gaming platform.
As long as they can gain a foothold in the domestic market, they can expand overseas and continue to expand their influence. It would not be a bad idea for them to compete with Steam at that time.
"By the way, what game did Honghuang release this time?"
Suddenly, the boss thought of something and asked.
"This... seems to be a war-type sandbox game, and it's very small in size." The project manager next to him answered hesitantly.
"Is that all?" The CEO sighed. "That's right. After all, we have such a short time. It's good enough to make a game."
"Forget it. Our focus this time is to promote those big games. Remember to keep an eye on their developments and report to me at any time."
"clear!"
The person in charge responded and left in a hurry.
