Chapter 106: Garbage Elimination
Match-3 games are pretty basic.
As we all know, the more basic something is, the more difficult it is to innovate because the upper limit is locked.
There are so many match-3 games on the market. Putting aside all the fancy graphics and gameplay, how come the match-3 games made by Tianba Studio can stand out?
Because you are more handsome than others?
The essence of games is to be fun. Only fun games can attract and retain players.
But the core of match-3 games is the same for all, and the playability and gameplay are also the same, there is no so-called difference at all...
Unless they do something dirty! But this is impossible. As a serious game producer, Tianba Studio is also a serious game studio. It is unlikely to take such shortcuts and attract players by skirting the rules.
"After all this talk, Brother Ba, you haven't given any specific plan yet!"
Xiao Lu rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't do this, and make a serious match-3 mobile game, I think you might as well play Happy Match 3."
"Just listen to me first..."
Chen Ba explained: "Didn't I tell you? If our game wants to stand out from the countless match-3 mobile games, we have to make some innovations and differentiation."
How to differentiate? Of course, it is to give the game a unique "selling point" that other match-3 mobile games do not have or cannot achieve.
"Give me your phone!"
Chen Ba reached out to Xiao Lu to ask for his cell phone, and Xiao Lu did not hesitate and took out a Huazi Mate 30 from his pocket and gave it to him.
“It’s been a long time, right?”
"yes!"
Xiao Lu nodded: "This phone was bought for me by my dad. It's been two or three years. I have to save money to buy a house, so I can't afford to buy a new phone."
"All 128GB is fully occupied..."
After taking a quick look at the various apps installed on Xiao Lu's phone and the memory usage, Chen Ba returned the phone to him and asked, "Have you ever used any software to clean up your phone's junk?"
“I have used it! I clean up some duplicate files, installation packages and cache files when I remember to do so. After all, the phone has a small memory and is often filled with various files.”
“Good habit, I suggest you keep it!”
Chen Ba smiled and said: "Regularly cleaning up junk files in the phone is something that many people do, and it is also the reason why many cleaning apps are downloaded at the top."
Cleaning app?
Why are you talking about this?
No... After spending so much time together, Xiao Lu seemed to have caught up with Brother Ba's way of thinking. He responded and said, "Brother Ba, do you want to combine garbage cleaning with the three-in-one game?"
“That’s right!”
Since it was guessed, Chen Ba did not hide it and told the reason why he did it: "The download volume of garbage cleaning apps has always been very high, and there are also a group of loyal fans."
"If we can convert these people into players of our games, so that they can play games while cleaning up the bloated junk files on their phones, then there will be no shortage of players."
"The blocks that are eliminated will be made into Q-version icons for various apps, testing the boundary between infringement and non-infringement, looking very similar but not the original ones."
"By merging and deleting the three WeChat icons, you can clear some of the junk files cached by WeChat. By merging and deleting the three album icons, you can clear the duplicate photo files in the album..."
Is this possible? This is the first time Xiao Lu has heard of someone cleaning up junk files on a mobile phone and turning it into a match-3 game for people to play.
An operation that could originally be completed by clicking "One-click Cleanup" now requires playing the game and completing the game before cleaning.
Wouldn't this be more troublesome?
"If you treat this game as an ordinary mobile junk cleaning software, then the operation logic is indeed more complicated and troublesome."
Chen Ba explained: "But this is a match-3 game, a game to kill time! Isn't it killing two birds with one stone to clean up the junk files on your phone while playing the game?"
Play games and clean up the trash!
When the two things are combined together and the main focus is on "playing games", it becomes less troublesome and even more convenient.
"It seems to make some sense..."
Xiao Lu was vaguely convinced by Brother Ba, but he soon thought of another question, that is, is it difficult to achieve this?
“It’s not that difficult!”
Chen Ba smiled and shook his head.
Be it a match-3 game or a garbage cleaning program, they are all relatively basic things. Even without the system's help, Chen Ba can produce a decent finished product.
The main thing is the speed of cleaning!
While playing the game, every time the player eliminates a software block, the background will execute the garbage cleaning command to clean up the APP.
There are so many apps on mobile phones, and each app involves many types of files. Which ones are junk files and which ones are not? "Before entering the game, we will ask players to check the types of junk files they want to clean up, such as useless installation packages, duplicate files, cached data..."
"This will reduce the scope of cleaning a lot, but there is still a problem, that is, the speed of retrieving files may not keep up with the speed at which players eliminate blocks."
Chen Ba looked a little embarrassed.
This is indeed a big problem. Junk cleaning software generally performs a search and screening of local files. This process will last for several minutes if it is slow, and at least ten to twenty seconds at the fastest.
But when players play the game, they can eliminate blocks almost one at a time. Sometimes, a combo can be triggered and more than a dozen blocks can be eliminated in a few seconds.
How can junk cleaning software retrieve junk files in such a short time and then quickly perform the "cleaning" operation?
"Ugh! I can't do that..."
Seeing Brother Ba looking at him, Xiao Lu shook his head and said, "Sifting through junk files and performing cleanup operations so quickly will consume a lot of the CPU performance and memory reading speed of the phone."
The software is not difficult to write, but the problem is, can the performance of the mobile phone chip and the memory reading speed support such a fast response? In the past, it took one or two seconds to kill a background program. It is unlikely that the workload of filtering junk files and clearing them can be completed in a few tenths of a second.
"I know you can't, so I'm going to do it myself!"
Chen Ba did not make things difficult for Xiao Lu. In fact, he knew that this had nothing to do with Xiao Lu.
With this level of software and hardware collaboration, even if software engineers from the three mobile phone giants Huaguoxing were present, they might not be able to achieve such extreme speeds.
In fact, he couldn't do it.
But he has a plug-in! He can ask the system for help and use the underlying code provided by the system to achieve such extreme operations.
Within one second when the player eliminates the blocks, the junk files of the target software are found, and then the cleaning command is executed and displayed in real time in the game status bar.
When playing other match-3 games, after eliminating the blocks and watching the game score go up, all you get is a false sense of accomplishment.
But when playing Tianba Studio's match-3 game, while eliminating blocks, you can watch yourself clear several GB of junk files. You will feel a greater sense of accomplishment and will be more motivated to eliminate blocks.
"bite!"
The three installation package icons are eliminated.
[1.72G of useless installation package files have been cleared for you! ]
“Ding Ding~!”
The three WeChat icons are eliminated.
[12.14M WeChat cache garbage has been cleared for you! ]
Relying on the system's black technology, the size of the cleaned junk files is displayed in real time and appears in the form of "game scores", which is different from other match-3 games.
"In the online PK mode, the winner is no longer determined by the score, but by who can clean up more junk files within the specified time!"
Chen Ba said with a smile: "In this way, the winning players will reflect on themselves. Why do I have so many junk files in my phone? It seems that I need to clean them up more often."
"The losing players will not be discouraged, but will be thankful that their phones do not have many junk files, and will laugh at the other party's phone, saying that it is a trash can, and how can it clean out so much junk?"
Whether you win or lose, you will always gain positive feedback.
Because even if you lose the PK, it is because your phone is in good health and has not accumulated so many junk files.
Looking at the opponent, although he won the PK, he cleaned up 10G of junk files in one round, which is not something to be happy about.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
“That’s not right!”
"Winning or losing once or twice is nothing, but if you keep losing in PK because your phone is clean, that would breed dissatisfaction, right?" Xiao Lu asked.
"I understand what you mean..."
"So the mechanism I want to add is that after each round of PK, the player who wins the PK will be rewarded with a comprehensive cleanup."
Chen Ba smiled and said, "If you win the PK, the rewards will be cleaned up in all aspects. If you lose the PK, the rewards will remain the same, so you won't keep winning or losing all the time."
I lost a few games because the junk files accumulated to a certain level, and I was bound to win after that.
By the same token, after winning a few games, you will naturally lose because you have cleaned your phone so thoroughly.
As for cheating, before each PK, prepare a bunch of junk files and fill your phone with them...that's a tactic!
He came well prepared and paid such a high price to win the PK, so it’s no big deal to let him win a game.
You can do this too!
But by then, it will become the same environment as the path to becoming an immortal in "Star Emperor".
Let's see who has more memory and can hold more junk files! How dare you be so arrogant with only 32G memory? What if your phone is filled with junk files?
Buddy, 512G memory!
"I think that no one would prepare dozens of GB of installation packages or junk files in advance just to win a PK game with no reward. That's too outrageous."
Chen Ba shook his head.
It would be fine if there were rewards for PK, but the problem is that if there were no rewards, what’s the point of doing it?
For junk files under 50G, the Tiehanhan system can handle it easily. For junk files over 50G, it will only freeze for a few seconds at most, but the cleaning speed is still very fast.
But how long will it take to download 50G of junk files, taking the software and game installation package as an example? How much more expensive is it to use data without WiFi? To put it bluntly, it's not worth it! Wasting so much time, so much data, and causing the phone to become laggy, just to win a PK game with no rewards, is simply too stupid.
The most important thing is...
If you cheat once and keep winning, it's fine. At least you can increase your games and win rate. There are also rankings for win rates!
But the problem is that after winning a PK, the phone will be cleaned up in all directions, and this has to be done every time. If you have the perseverance and determination, then it doesn't matter if you can increase your winning rate.
"After having a taste of the sweetness, I think everyone will keep this game and play it when they are bored."
Chen Ba smiled and said, "This is what I want to achieve, to make this match-3 game a must-have for your computer."
"Yes, very strong!"
Xiao Lu nodded and said, "While playing the game, you can also clean up the junk files on your phone. It really qualifies as a must-have game for your phone."
But here comes the problem!
What should we name a match-3 game that is fun, can clean up phone junk, and allows you to draw various characters to develop?
"Garbage elimination game!"
Chen Ba said without hesitation: "The main selling point is that it combines a match-3 game with garbage cleaning. This name is simple and easy to understand."
The game icon is made into a broom, which is highly consistent with many common mobile phone cleaning software.
Are you stupid? You thought this was a junk cleaning app? It's actually a match-3 game. Click it and you'll find a surprise!
Having said that, the basic framework of the entire game has been released.
At its core, it is a very common match-3 game, but it incorporates the functionality of junk cleaning software, has a character development system, and can also play online PK!
The gameplay is just like that...
To put it bluntly, the main theme of "Garbage Match 3" is companionship.
Players don’t need to be in the game all the time, and it’s normal not to play for ten days or half a month.
But when the mobile phone memory is insufficient, or it becomes slow and difficult to use, people will think of the game "Garbage Match" and come in to play a few rounds.
That's enough!
On the mobile side, there are 700 to 800 million users in China alone. With so many mobile phones, we can’t expect everyone to use “Garbage Elimination” to clean up mobile phone garbage.
Even if only one percent or one thousandth of people use it, given a base of 700 to 800 million users, the number of users is still an extremely staggering number.
A must-have for installation!
Don't underestimate the value of these four words. Any game or software with these four words has hundreds of millions or even billions of downloads. Chen Ba's expectations are not high.
As long as "Garbage Match 3" has a player base of more than 1 million, he will be very satisfied.
After all, with one million players, at the worst 1% spending ratio, that means there are 10,000 people spending money to draw characters. Assuming each player spends an average of 10 yuan per month, the monthly turnover would be 100,000 yuan.
Can you get your favorite character with 10 yuan? Impossible! And among these 10,000 people, there must be a rich guy who can spend 648 yuan on the game without blinking an eye.
If you spread it out evenly, with millions of players, it would be very easy to have a recharge turnover of over one million per month.
This is still the most conservative estimate! Anyone who knows the mobile game market knows that the percentage of krypton gold is not as low as 1%.
With millions of genuine players, if the activities are more active and the characters are more attractive, it is possible to make millions or even tens of millions from a card pool.
What else do you want a bicycle?
A match-3 game that can achieve this level of revenue can not only maintain the daily operation of Tianba Studio, but can even sponsor Brother Ba to buy a house.
And is one million players a lot? Maybe in PC and console, especially in single-player games, one million players is a lot. But in the mobile game world, what is a million users?
(End of this chapter)