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 288 Early access It was
the eleventh day of the first lunar month.
Linmu Studio started work much later than other peers.
It was not until this day that they officially started work.
After more than half a month of rest, most of the staff of Linmu Studio returned to Linmu Studio on this day.
Although the New Year atmosphere is almost gone after the seventh day of the first lunar month
, the proper attitude should still be maintained.
Mu Wanqing distributed red envelopes to all staff members as required by Lin Yao, and then went to do her own thing.
After wishing each other a happy new year, the staff members immediately plunged into their slightly heavy work.
There was no way.
A long holiday means a lot of accumulated work.
This must be paid back.
Lin Yao was no exception.
She came to the studio and immediately plunged into her work without chatting with Miss Mu for long.
At the beginning of the new year.
Linmu Studio has three main tasks.
The first thing is the third-party game review of the Vaporwave game platform. The
second thing is the launch of the MOBA game.
The third thing is the preliminary preparations for the work "Witch".
Except for the first thing, the other two things need Lin Yao's attention.
Besides these things,
Lin Yao also had to formally reply to Reflecta and worry about the game console of Linmu Studio...
She was really busy.
The most important thing was that others had red envelopes when they started work... Lin Yao herself hadn't received a red envelope yet!
In the afternoon,
the accumulated work was finally almost done.
Mu Wanqing finally had some time, so she ran to find Lin Yao.
The two hadn't seen each other for more than half a month.
"Ms. Mu, you really don't give me a red envelope when I start work. After all, I am an employee."
Lin Yao complained about Mu Wanqing while helping to draw the relevant setting pictures for "Witch".
"How can you be an employee?"
Mu Wanqing was holding a stack of information in her arms, and she didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"It's a good idea." Lin Yao joked.
In fact, she didn't value the red envelope when she started work, but it was her first day at work, and her holiday syndrome was really serious.
She had stayed in her hometown for so long.
Now she suddenly had to return to the steel jungle, and she had to go from a salted fish state to a struggling force all of a sudden.
It was a bit painful.
But she could only adapt to this situation, and she couldn't let go of her work...
So Mu Wanqing came to her door.
She was not polite.
I started chatting with her from time to time to get through the painful holiday syndrome at the beginning of the year.
"Okay, then I'll give you a red envelope."
Mu Wanqing had no choice but to think about it and smiled gently, "How about ten yuan?"
Lin Yao curled her lips and said, "Stingy."
"..."
Mu Wanqing was helpless: "Then how much do you say? You decide the number, I'll report it directly to the finance department, and the reason is that I'm giving the boss a red envelope..."
"One million!"
Lin Yao turned her head and reported a large number.
"Ah? You really want to report it." Mu Wanqing was a little surprised, "That's all your money..."
Lin Yao smiled brightly at her and half-jokingly said, "How about giving it to you? It seems that you didn't give yourself a red envelope for the beginning of the year, right?"
"..."
Mu Wanqing was stunned for a moment, then shook her head gently: "I got so much in the year-end bonus last year, and I don't care about these, no."
"Then what do you want? Give yourself a red envelope too, it's good to symbolize a good start."
Lin Yao's mood of going to the grave at the beginning of work was relieved. After all, from the beginning, there was a black silk and glasses girl by her side who kept talking to her.
"One sentence... Happy New Year?"
Mu Wanqing hesitated for a moment, and did not mention the red envelope, but said it a little embarrassedly.
Arriving at Lin Mu's studio.
The two had not yet said Happy New Year to each other.
"Are you so easy to fool?"
Lin Yao was confused, then laughed and joked: "Happy New Year... Is it okay, Miss Mu? But your request is too simple, or I will give you another kiss, otherwise I will feel bad."
"..."
Mu Wanqing blinked and looked at Lin Yao's delicate and round oval face.
"... What? Why are you staring at me? Where are you looking? You don't really want to kiss me?"
Lin Yao felt a little guilty for some reason.
...
After talking with Mu Wanqing.
Lin Yao's holiday syndrome was mostly cured.
But on the first day of the new year, she certainly couldn't just chat.
Soon.
Lin Yao took Mu Wanqing into the conference room and discussed the first major event after the new year with the core staff of the studio.
The launch of the MOBA game.
“Does MOBA game promotion need to mention Warcraft? Although the concept of heroes in MOBA games is similar to that of heroes in Warcraft, the gameplay is indeed very different.”
Guangzheng, the person in charge of the MOBA game project, asked the first question.
Lin Yao pondered for a moment and shook her head: "No, it's not necessary. Although this will bring good traffic to the game, it is also easy to have a preconceived notion, and many players who are not interested in RTS will think that this is a game similar to Warcraft... Just promote it as a normal new game, highlighting the new type. As for what the players think, whether they think this game is derived from "Warcraft" or not, it's still our own game, so there is no need to worry so much."
"Yes, we now have the Vaporwave game platform, and the popularity of the game we launched is not low. There is no need to piggyback on the successful game "Warcraft."
Zhong Xiu also responded and agreed with Lin Yao's words.
Guangzheng nodded slowly.
"Are you ready for the internal test?"
Seeing that others had no objection to this matter, Lin Yao turned to ask about the game test.
Guangzheng immediately replied: "The preparations are almost done. In fact, they were ready last year, otherwise the test of the ten players would not have been so smooth."
"Then how do you plan to determine the number of places for the internal test? If you let the players sign up directly, the number of people will be too large. If you limit it to a certain game, it may cause some problems..."
Mu Wanqing said, asking about the details of the test.
She still remembered the situation of the last "Battle Royale" test.
There were many players who signed up.
In the end, because all the players of "Breakout" were resistant to the same type of game, the game could not be sold for a while.
"Uh..."
This question.
Asked Guangzheng and Zhong Xiu.
They really didn't have a good idea about testing.
Because now the game testing in the industry is the same old way.
Lin Yao was sitting aside. When she heard Mu Wanqing's words, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of an idea.
But the idea she thought of.
It was really good at the beginning.
But there are also many hidden dangers...
Well... Ask other people's opinions first.
"How about this, didn't the platform department give feedback before? Some producers who were not selected to participate in Greenlight cannot complete the game due to limited funds. They only want to put semi-finished products on the shelves. It's difficult for us to deal with this situation..."
Lin Yao raised her head and spoke to attract the attention of everyone in the meeting room: "Then can we launch a new function? Solve this problem, and use this function to test MOBA games?"
"..."
The others looked at each other.
They understood it.
But they didn't know what the new function Lin Yao was talking about.
Lin Yao saw their expressions and understood. She stood up, picked up the marker, hesitated for a moment, and wrote two letters on the whiteboard - EA.
"Let's call this function EA, Early access, which means... early experience."
(End of this chapter)