A turn-based online game that hadn’t been updated for half a year, had a development budget seven times that of its competitors, yet only made a tenth of their revenue—a total failure. A game t...
Chapter 163 Plan
Hearing the prompt sound.
The moment the translucent font appeared, Lin Yao subconsciously raised her arm under the water.
He still remembered that the reward was almost scrapped last time.
She was really a little scared.
But fortunately.
The reward did not appear instantly. The first thing that appeared was the prompt of task completion, and there were two!
[Use the new engine to create a game, and make the monthly sales revenue of the game reach more than 40 million-task completed! ]
[Let the monthly active users of the comprehensive instant messaging software reach 10 million-task completed! ]
As the task prompt came out, two dim stars were lit on the tree-shaped star map.
Then.
New lines of translucent fonts appeared in her sight.
[Congratulations! Obtained the software documentation of the game platform developed and designed by Bram Cohen, the father of BT]
[Congratulations! Obtained the 'opportunity', an opportunity that can take off if you can seize it. 】
【Congratulations on achieving two new "small goals"】
【Create a game platform with more than three million active users on the platform (not including players of "Breakout" and "Fantasy OL"); create a platform-exclusive game with millions of sales】
【Opening a black game officially goes beyond the scope of games, with 50 million monthly active users】
As the translucent font gradually appeared.
A USB flash drive appeared in Lin Yao's palm again.
This time the reward was not as exaggerated as the last time, but Lin Yao was still stunned.
You may not be familiar with the name of Bram Cohen, the father of BT.
But everyone is familiar with steam, the original version of steam was developed and designed by him personally.
Although the reward did not specify which game platform it was, the answer was already obvious.
But the problem is that it is really difficult to do this now.
Lin Yao is still struggling in the field of online games, and it is really troublesome to ask him to create a platform all of a sudden.
Because it is really difficult to do. Now Linmu Studio has two good games and has successfully held a competition, but these games are insignificant when placed on the game platform. The biggest possibility is to make the platform the launcher of these two games.
In this case, how can we make the number of active users on the platform exceed three million?
Another thing is to make a platform-exclusive game and create a million sales.
This clearly means that she is asked to do a buyout system.
But Linmu Studio is an online game. It feels difficult to suddenly transform into a buyout system and break through a million.
"..."
Lin Yao glanced at the USB flash drive in her hand, thinking about the current situation of Linmu Studio, and really wanted to throw the USB flash drive into the bathtub...
But she turned her head and thought, with the popularization of digital games, the digital distribution platform of games... is really promising, and money will come with the wind.
And as the number of games under Linmu Studio increases, it is not bad to have a platform.
Linmu Studio also has capital, because it has self-developed games, so it can build and promote its own platform. In Lin Yao's previous life, Origin and Uplay were so bad, but some people used them, because if you don't use them, you can't play Battlefield or Assassin's Creed.
"Forget it."
Lin Yao clenched the USB flash drive in her hand and tried it first. Anyway, she didn't plan to do it all at once.
As for the reward for the next task.
She didn't care.
Because it is too vague, opportunity, what opportunity? She doesn't know, she can only go with the flow.
The same goes for the black-and-white software.
In the current market, the position of Tianhu Chat in communication software is too stable. The reason why black-and-white can open up the situation is because of games. Transformation may not necessarily beat Tianhu Chat, and rash transformation may easily disgust the original game players, so let's see if there can be a breakthrough on the mobile side. If there is a breakthrough, changing the track can be considered.
If not, then put it aside for the time being.
In the final analysis.
Lin Yao is still very sober. Linmu Studio is first and foremost a game company, and everything in the early stage must revolve around games.
Whether it is competitions, game platforms, game voice, or graphics cards, these can be successful, and there must be credit for the game.
Without games, Linmu Studio rashly entered a field that has nothing to do with games, which is very risky.
She is not interested in being a goose factory in another world for the time being.
She just wants to take the field she likes as the starting point and move forward step by step.
"When the mission comes out, why do I feel like the vacation is over?"
Lin Yao carefully put the USB aside, then slowly moved down, rested her head on the edge of the bathtub, looked at the ceiling, raised her hands, and stretched her body a little.
She originally wanted to stay idle for a few more days.
But now that the mission has come out,
she inevitably started thinking about games and platforms.
So at this stage, what kind of game can sell a million copies, and how can the platform's active users exceed three million...
"Xiao Yao."
Suddenly.
There was a gentle knock on the door.
Lin Xi asked softly: "Are you okay? You've been in there for a long time, the water is getting cold, be careful of catching a cold."
"...I'm fine, I'm coming out."
Lin Yao came back to her senses, sat up from the bathtub, and then reached out and gently rubbed her slightly hot face.
Water droplets slid down her snow-white skin like the first snow.
She responded, then got up and left the bathtub.
Started to change clothes.
Forget it.
I'll think about it when I get to the studio.
...
The March breeze caresses my face, warm and refreshing.
Although I still feel a little chilly, spring has come without me noticing.
The New Year has passed.
Linmu Studio officially started work on March 12.
No leave was asked for.
All the staff in the studio were here.
Because Lin Yao had prepared well for the holiday after the New Year, it was already the 15th, and the staff in the studio had had enough rest.
The people who reappeared in the studio at this time were full of spring, and the fatigue before the New Year was swept away.
Lin Yao responded to everyone who wished her a happy new year one by one, and then she and Miss Mu distributed red envelopes to everyone for the start of work. After finishing the things that needed to be done for the start of work, she sat in her seat, plugged in the USB drive, and took a look at the software document that Bram Cohen, the father of BT, personally developed and designed the game platform.
It was indeed STEAM.
Although the project name of the development document did not have the word STEAM, whether it was functional requirements, technical analysis, interface documents, or product introductions and project summaries, they all pointed to the original version of STEAM.
Although this document is not as explosive as the one that was directly added to the engine, it is indeed of great help to the development of the game platform.
Of course.
Lin Yao carefully looked through the complicated software document and found that there are still many things that need to be considered by herself.
Because this is the initial version of STEAM, it does not have the functions that were highly praised in later generations, and the early steam is not easy to use.
There are many problems to be solved.
And just making a platform is not very useful.
The most urgent problem to be solved is the user problem and the exclusive platform game.
If you want to attract users, you must have a reason for users to use this platform, and to retain these users, you have to spend more time and effort.
(End of this chapter)