Chapter 104 Mobile Game

The launch of the Banquet DLC is not only an explanation to the players of "Living with Others Simulator", but also a necessary measure to enrich the game content.

Because along with this DLC comes the Tianba Hotel!

Tianba Real Estate is responsible for building and selling houses, Tianba Decoration is responsible for decorating houses, and Tianba Hotel provides the venue and dishes for the "housewarming" banquet...

"I understand!"

After listening to Brother Ba's explanation, Xiao Lu drew inferences from it and said, "Then the next DLC of "Living with Others Simulator" should also have a Tianba company to provide players with a variety of services."

For example, Tianba Hospital, Tianba 4S Store, Tianba Crematorium, Tianba Funeral Home...

“That’s right!”

Chen Ba nodded.

The game "Living under Someone Else's Roof Simulator" actually has great potential because of its size and underlying code logic.

This is different from "Study Hard Simulator".

Although both are games of the same type, the foundation of "Study Simulator" is too poor. After all, it is a game completed independently by Chen Ba, and many basics are not laid.

The Simulator of Living Under Someone Else's Roof has learned from the lessons of its predecessor, and has done a better job based on the underlying logic and framework, with more room for expansion.

If it continues to be updated, new game modes and gameplay are continuously introduced, and the game size is continuously increased, this game has the potential to become a game like "The Sims".

certainly!

This is just a possibility...

If we really want to achieve the level of "The Sims", we may need hundreds of DLC contents to fill in, which is really a huge task.

"It's okay, take your time!"

Xiao Lu thinks that although the workload is huge, if we work hard in this direction, there will definitely be such a day in the future.

Many games are not complete when they are first released! If "Homebound Simulator" really has this hope, it should just release a few DLCs every year and keep going.

If two years is not enough, then three, five, or even ten years! With the continuous enrichment of DLC content and the continuous expansion of the game size, one day in the future, this game may really become the next "The Sims".

"You're right, but don't you think that the progress of "Living Simulator" is too slow just for us to add bricks and tiles?"

Chen Ba smiled and said, "As the saying goes, many hands make light work! Instead of slowly adding content, why don't we let the players work for us and enrich the content of the game?"

Creative Workshop!

After the creative workshop of "Divine Grace Continent" was opened, a large number of extremely creative and imaginative works emerged, which gave Chen Ba an immature idea.

Since "Living with Other People Simulator" has great potential, it would be troublesome and time-consuming to rely solely on Tianba Studio to fill it with content.

Why not open a creative workshop and let players fend for themselves? "That makes sense."

Xiao Lu couldn't help but think: "If we open the creative workshop and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the players, the progress will indeed be much faster."

Maybe, with the efforts of the players, "Living Under Someone Else's House Simulator" may become popular again and become the new king of simulation games.

After all, the foundation of this game is really good, and it is entirely possible that it will become the second "The Sims".

"Then I'll leave it to you!"

"I'm going to go to Zhonghai next door to receive an award first. When I come back, I hope to see a different version of "Living with Others".

"Receive the award?!"

When Xiao Lu heard this, he suddenly became curious. What award did Brother Ba go to Zhonghai to receive? It wasn't even award season yet! "The Animation Association held the annual Golden Crab Award. The best online animation was awarded to "The Adventures of Jayne". I was the special guest..."

When Chen Ba said this, he felt extremely complicated.

Xiao Lu actually guessed it right.

Damn, this year's best online animation was actually awarded to "The Adventures of Jayne", which has been viewed over 1 billion times online.

If you can’t win TGA, then go to the animation industry next door to get an award! Although the Golden Crab Award sounds low, it is still very valuable in the domestic animation circle and is definitely not a fake award.

…

Early the next morning, Chen Ba met up with Qian Xin and boarded the high-speed train to Zhonghai.

Qian Xin was invited to attend this year's Golden Crab Awards ceremony as the director of the animation "The Adventures of Jayne".

And Chen Ba is the producer.

One of them is a former UP host of the Pili Pili game area, and the other is the head of a game studio. In fact, neither of them has anything to do with animation.

But the game "Shennong Continent" brought them into the animation industry. Fortunately, Chen Ba did not deviate from his original intention and still considered himself a game producer.

Qian Xin is different.

Maybe it’s because the name “Director Qian” sounds better than his previous online name “Qian Duoduo”. Now he no longer says that he is a UP host in the gaming area, but calls himself an animation director.

certainly!

Ever since "The Adventures of Jayne" became popular, Qian Xin has never made any game videos again and has devoted himself to the field of animation production.

There's nothing wrong with saying he's an animation director.

"Brother Ba!"

"Have you ever thought about setting up an animation company? With your strength, it shouldn't be a problem to sweep the animation industry, right?"

Sitting on the high-speed train to Zhonghai, Qian Xin asked some questions about the personalized customization of "Divine Grace Continent" out of curiosity.

What he was most curious about was whether Brother Ba would enter the animation field and set up a special animation company to produce Shen'en animations? "I haven't thought about it!"

Chen Ba decisively denied it, "I sell software and collect tolls. It's so easy to make money! If I enter the animation field, not only will I offend people, but will I still sell software?"

Why stand when you can make money while lying down?

In Chen Ba's opinion, relying on the game "Divine Grace Continent", it would be good enough to just sell the software and collect 30% toll.

As for switching to animation, isn't that just a waste of time? Besides, he only knows how to make games, and the risk of switching to another industry is too high!

"Too……"

Qian Xin thought about it and suddenly felt that what Brother Ba said was right.

Animation and games are two different fields. Just because Brother Ba is successful in the gaming industry doesn’t mean he will be successful in the animation field as well.

The simplest truth.

No matter how good your movie is, if there is no theater to show it, it will be doomed, right?

"What about the new game?"

After learning that Brother Ba was not planning to change careers but was determined to stick to his old business, Qian Xin immediately asked about Tianba Studio's next new game.

"A new game? I haven't thought of one yet."

"But according to our studio's preliminary discussion, the new game should be a mobile game..."

Considering that this was no secret, Chen Ba simply told the truth: "The profits from stand-alone games, especially PC stand-alone games, are too unstable."

"In order to ensure the normal operation of the studio, we plan to create a pay-to-win mobile game as a source of cash for the studio."

It is a normal business decision to continuously provide blood transfusions to the studio through mobile games, and then produce new stand-alone masterpieces for PC.

“Mobile games do make money.”

Qian Xin was not surprised to hear this, because he used to be a UP host in the gaming area and he knew very well how powerful mobile games are in making money.

It is no exaggeration to say that in China, mobile games’ ability to make money is dozens of times stronger than PC games and console games.

A popular mobile game can easily earn several hundred million yuan in monthly revenue.

If it is the likes of "Nongyao" and "O God", it would be even more terrifying. On the day when the new card pool and new skin are launched, the daily revenue flow can catch up with the development cost of a 3A game.

Although Tianba Studio made money and lived a comfortable life, who wouldn’t want to live a better and more comfortable life? No one would really think that the money was too much, right? “What kind of mobile game is it, can you tell me about it, Brother Ba?” Qian Xin asked curiously.

"Leisure type!"

Chen Ba said with an awkward expression: "Well... mobile games that are too complex and large in size will not be very effective. You should understand this principle, right?"

"I understand. This is how mobile games work."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Qian Xin nodded.

Compared to PC and console players, who are nitpicking about the game, mobile game players are much easier to deal with.

The simpler and more brutal the game is, the higher the chance of it becoming popular.

For example, "Sheep!" On the contrary, those games with large size and complex content are generally not very popular on mobile terminals.

This is a unique feature of mobile devices, that is, the gaming time is too fragmented, and people prefer casual games that can be played anytime and anywhere and can be put down at any time.

Enduring games such as Candy Crush Saga and Landlords are the eternal kings of the mobile gaming world.

But then again…

After all, it is a stand-alone game developer, and Chen Ba doesn't want to make a game that is too simple and crude.

He has his own considerations.

There are so many types of casual mobile games to choose from, and not every one of them is so simple and crude. As long as it is fun and can kill time, it's fine.

By the way.

Several games from Tianba Studio already have mobile ported versions.

Although sales are not good, it cannot be said that Tianba Studio has no experience in mobile game development.

“Multiplayer is definitely a possibility.”

Since he has decided to make mobile games, Chen Ba must have understood the domestic mobile game environment and knows that pure stand-alone games are difficult to survive, and that online games are more promising.

Therefore, the casual games he considered would definitely have multiplayer online features, just like the online mode of "Star Emperor".

"Speaking of Star Emperor, why not consider releasing a mobile version of this game?" Qian Xin asked curiously.

He really thinks "Star Emperor" is fun, and if the so-called "Star Emperor M" is developed, he will definitely give it a try.

"no!"

Chen Ba shook his head and said, "If even the PC can't handle the pressure, do you think the mobile phone can handle it?"

Reducing the image quality is feasible.

But the question is, without the game graphics and gorgeous special effects that it was proud of, what else can "Star Emperor" do to attract players?

No one really thinks that "Star Emperor" is very playable, right?

This is pure nonsense! Without super high picture quality and gorgeous special effects, "Star Emperor" is not even as good as ordinary fighting mobile games.

If you copy the original or make minor cuts and modifications, or your phone or tablet doesn't have enough performance, and you drastically reduce the image quality and special effects, then you lose the core selling point...

This is also the reason why there is no plan to port "Star Emperor" to mobile devices so far.

Unless one day in the future, the GPU of mobile phones can be comparable to the level of 3070, we can consider porting "Star Emperor" to mobile terminals while slightly improving the image quality and special effects.

At the moment, this is not realistic.

As we were chatting, the high-speed train soon arrived at Zhonghai Station.

Chen Ba and Qian Xin got out of the car and took a walk around the City God Temple before the award ceremony began. They then had lunch and then staggered towards the venue.

The Animation Association was really poor! The venue they rented was small, and there was no air conditioning. It was so hot that Chen Ba was sweating. He regretted not letting Dongge accept the award on his behalf.

Fortunately, the organizers understood how difficult it was for everyone and the award ceremony went on very quickly.

While the awards were being presented on the stage, Chen Ba was not idle either, and chatted with several animation producers and directors.

They are very interested in the "personalized customization" service of "Divine Grace Continent". After all, there is the precedent of "This Brave Man is Too Steady", and everyone knows the value of this technology.

However, they didn't come for the animation.

To be precise, it's not a TV animation, but a big screen animated film! "Are you making a movie?"

Chen Ba frowned and thought about it, and felt that the ideas of these two people were acceptable, but what "Divine Grace Continent" is best at is actually the deduction of long-form continuous animation.

For a work like a movie with a length of only one or two hours and an extremely fast-paced plot, I'm afraid it would be difficult for "The Land of Divine Grace" to control.

“We’re going to shoot more than one movie!”

The animation producer excitedly said: "With "The Land of Divine Grace", the film can be shot in three, five or even ten parts in one go!"

Wow! So many movies are released at once, and the audience can buy tickets for free, right? Who would watch such a long movie? "That depends on the script."

Chen Ba shook his head and said, "If you have a good script, we can work together. If you don't have a suitable script, forget it."

He can't do anything to cheat people out of money.

Ordinary Shenen animations are broadcast on the Internet for free, so at least you won’t lose much if you don’t like them.

But if he were to bring the Shen'en animation to the big screen without a good story to support it, it would be purely for the purpose of making money, and he would not do such a thing.

These two are not good people.

They probably think that with the powerful functions of "Divine Grace Continent", they can mass-produce a batch of low-cost "animated films" and send them to theaters for release.

Anyway, it is low-cost and in large quantities. If it is sent to theaters for screening, there is no guarantee that there will be audiences who will be attracted by the title and introduction and buy tickets to watch it.

The cost is too low! Spend a few million and get personalized customization services from Tianba Studio, and it won’t be a problem to fool around with a dozen or twenty movies.

Isn't this kind of movie just for the purpose of making money? When the movie is released, just spend some money on promotion and there will definitely be groups of audiences who will be fooled.

Who will the audience scold then?

It goes without saying that the audience spent money to buy movie tickets, but was greatly disappointed after watching the movie. When they came out, they would definitely curse Tianba Studio for making so many bad movies that polluted the cinemas.

You can't make this kind of money! (End of this chapter)