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 93 DEAS
Lin Yao spent a long time drawing the storyboard for the promotional video.
Although the duration of the promotional video is very short.
But it is precisely because of the short duration.
She spent so much time thinking, because she had to cram as much information as possible into a very short duration.
The process was quite torturous.
But at least it was completed in the end.
Lin Yao was also very satisfied with the storyboard she drew.
On the other hand.
After Zhong Xiu got Lin Yao's plan and original painting, he immediately called the engine group - or more accurately, the production group. At present, the engine group does not have relevant technical personnel. They are also familiar with the engine. Although it is called the engine group, it is actually a production group in essence.
In short.
Zhong Xiu called a meeting with his subordinates, and then told them about the plan to make an FPS, and then gave them the plan and original painting.
After getting familiar with the engine, the members of the engine group who were already eager to try immediately boiled when they saw the plan and original painting.
Look at the gameplay in this plan.
Look at this zombie.
Look at this mother body.
Look at this mercenary.
Why not make it right away to open the eyes of the players? And also to make yourself happy?
The enthusiasm of the engine group members is unprecedentedly high!
These are professionals who are familiar with other engines on the market and have been in the game production industry for a long time.
They all have ideals.
Now they have a clear direction, an excellent engine, and excellent original paintings.
They have everything.
They are just waiting for them to make the game.
Now the domestic 3D game market is very sluggish, and foreign 3D stand-alone games are booming. They have also had the idea of proving themselves.
Of course, the enthusiasm is high
. This is also something that Zhong Xiu did not expect.
He had to calm down and began to suppress his people, so that they would not be too excited...
The picture suddenly became weird...
After the meeting,
the people in the engine group were full of enthusiasm and devoted themselves to the work.
The efficiency was so high
that Zhong Xiu was a little surprised.
But he was surprised for a short time, and he also plunged into the game production...
This kind of enthusiasm from bottom to top finally led to extremely high work efficiency.
One week.
They touched the map of Desert 1 and gave it to him. Then Zhong Xiu called Lin Yao and went through it from a first-person perspective to see where there were problems and where they needed to be modified or added elements.
Lin Yao went over to look at it several times and then mentioned a few problems. Zhong Xiu and his team then began to modify it enthusiastically.
However, making maps is fast, but character modeling is relatively slow. This is not like map stacking, which does take a little longer.
But overall, the speed is still very fast.
Lin Yao was actually very surprised by this.
After all, the studio used to make turn-based games. It is really rare to suddenly switch to 3D games and have such a speed.
But she figured it out quickly.
In the previous life, some people could use professional engines to make a decent FSP game by themselves.
What's more, this is a team, and it is still in the embryonic stage of online games, full of ideals.
It would be strange if it wasn't fast.
After figuring this out.
Lin Yao didn't continue to struggle, and directly gave the storyboard she drew to Zhong Xiu, asking him to see if he could assign someone to try to make a promotional video while making the game.
Zhong Xiu got the storyboard from Lin Yao, and after reading it, he immediately pushed out the people who had been prepared for a long time, muttering something like "Why don't you make it quickly?"
Then Lin Yao also got busy.
Because she was the one who drew the storyboard for the promotional video, she knew best what effect to achieve, and only she knew it.
In the high enthusiasm of Linmu Studio.
Time passed quickly.
Soon, it would be the Cold Dew.
Autumn has reached the fifth solar term, and the climate began to change.
"Fantasy OL" is also in the third month after the service war version.
Monthly revenue officially exceeded 100 million! Without the bonus of service war and the Three Realms Competition, it exceeded 100 million!
This number once again caused a gasp in the conference room.
That is, Linmu Studio has not been listed. If it had been listed and disclosed these data to the public, it is estimated that more people would have gasped.
At the meeting.
After two months of training, Chen Qiuwen, the current chief planner of "Fantasy OL", has thoroughly understood the situation of "Fantasy OL". He took the initiative to propose to start the service war and the Three Realms Competition again, and then normalize these two activities and hold them once a month.
Lin Yao had no objection to this and agreed.
That was what she had been thinking.
It was a good opportunity to test the new planning team's ability to withstand pressure.
After the discussion of "Fantasy OL" came to an end, the next thing to discuss was how to spend the money.
Lin Yao paid back the last sum of money she got from Linmu Financial Holdings. She didn't plan to keep the remaining money in the bank to earn interest. Linmu Studio was very small now, and "Fantasy OL" was still making money. There was no need to keep too much cash, which was not good for the development of the studio.
She planned to use the money to expand the business, in simple terms, to recruit multiple project teams.
No one objected to this.
In fact, no one could object...
At the end of the meeting,
Mu Wanqing stood up and said,
"Lin Yao, I found a publicity channel that you asked me to pay attention to."
Mu Wanqing pushed the glasses on her small nose and picked up the information.
Some time ago, Lin Yao specifically asked her to pay attention to the awards and competitions with high exposure in the market.
She paid special attention to it.
"What?" Lin Yao looked at her expectantly.
"DEAS, the annual digital entertainment industry summit, is a summit supported by the General Administration of Press and Publication. Initially, it was just a conference dedicated to discussing the direction and technology of games, but later the organizers saw that it was popular, so they added awards for the game field, including the best online game of the year, the best 3D game, the best stand-alone game, etc. One of the awards is very special. It's called the Most Anticipated Game. You can actively sign up for this. The process is simply to introduce the upcoming games at the venue, and let the jury composed of game companies and professionals and the audience select the most anticipated games together.
Because there are many people paying attention to it, DEAS has a good influence and is market-oriented, so the publicity effect should be good."
"DEAS?"
After listening to Mu Wanqing's description, Lin Yao suddenly remembered the Golden Plume Award that she didn't know how to complain about in her previous life...
Could it really be the Golden Plume Award?
If it's that thing, why would I participate...
"Well, but..."
Mu Wanqing hesitated for a moment and continued, "Although the award for the most anticipated game is not explicitly stated, it has always been independent games or stand-alone games that participate, and online games do not participate, because most of the game companies on the jury are online game companies. It can be said to be for fairness or that they look down on it. It is a kind of unspoken rule. Players have always felt that it is a display award specially set up for the sluggish stand-alone market in China."
"Is that so."
Lin Yao nodded. It seems that it is not the Golden Plume Award. She thought about it and asked, "Are the professionals on the jury good?"
"Very good, otherwise they can't be judges. If you need it, I can find a list for you."
"Then let's send our promotional video to participate. We can actually be a stand-alone game, a stand-alone game without a single-player mode..."
Lin Yao thought for a while and decided to participate.
The biochemical mode is very different from the online games on the market in terms of texture and gameplay.
And it just happens to show the direction and technical strength to the domestic single-player mechanism authors.
Lin Yao wants a platform to showcase the game.
There is an element of showing off, but the most important reason is... to recruit more talented people.
And this DEAS seems to be very suitable, with players paying attention and many professional talents.
"...I understand."
Mu Wanqing thought about it, nodded, and agreed.
(End of this chapter)