Chapter 156 Nobug
"Face the wind!"
"Soria K hurts..."
Accompanied by the crisp tapping sound of the mechanical keyboard, the character controlled by Chen Ba died again, leaving behind a brilliant record of 1-16-7.
“Rubbish game!”
After a loud scolding, Chen Ba closed the settlement page, turned around and scolded Xiao Lu: "You said you were playing a top laner, can you do something? We agreed on a mid-top linkage, why didn't I receive a single ultimate move?"
"I haven't played for a long time..."
Xiao Lu touched the back of his head, and said with an embarrassed expression: "I can't even last hit again, and my skills are all crooked."
"Don't just say I'm a jerk. Brother Ba, your Yasuo is even worse than mine!"
“I haven’t played for a long time.”
Thinking of the famous scenes in which he was killed multiple times in the laning phase and died suddenly after getting lost in team battles, Chen Ba also felt a little lacking in confidence.
After all, I haven't played for too long.
The game League of Legends has become a memory of my youth. I picked it up again simply to see what the game has become now.
As a game producer, the first thing to do is to maintain your passion for games.
Secondly, you must keep abreast of changes and trends in the gaming industry and try out new games instead of working in isolation.
This is just like how online writers will scan the charts before starting a new book and choose the subject of the new book based on the current market trends. Game producers also have to play games frequently.
If you don’t play it yourself, how do you know what the players’ tastes are?
Chen Ba still remembers it.
In Tianba’s core fan group, there is an employee of a pig factory who always calls on the group to recruit people to play games together. He is a farmer and player who plays all kinds of games.
When a new game comes out, the first players to enter the market will definitely include employees of friendly companies and independent game developers.
Don’t ask, the answer is this is to make a living. Other people play games just for entertainment. They play games to relax and it is also part of their work.
The same goes for Chen Ba and Xiao Lu.
In order to gain a deeper understanding of the current gaming market, Chen Ba called Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei to play several mainstream games with a work attitude.
Both online and stand-alone games have...
Not to mention stand-alone games, mainly focusing on online games, after playing around, they found that there have been no particularly outstanding new games in the past two years.
There are still many people playing League of Legends, and even CrossFire and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which are said to be on the decline every day, are also mainstream games.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve had a hit PC game.”
After learning of Brother Ba's doubts, Yang Dong sighed and said, "The last phenomenal PC game was Naraka: Bladepoint from QQ Mobile. You all know the specific reasons."
This is an obvious thing.
Compared to computers, mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets are so popular and convenient.
This also leads to mobile games becoming the hottest direction in the domestic game market, with the number of mobile games released in a month being more than the number of new PC games released in a year.
This ratio is terrifying.
certainly!
Domestic stand-alone game has never been very prosperous, so even if mobile games rise, stand-alone game will remain the same.
There are even more single-player players!
This is not nonsense. According to statistics released by the Steam platform, the increase in the number of players and the number of active players in the domestic region still remain at an extremely high level.
“It has something to do with us.”
“Games such as Star Emperor, God’s Grace, Love Staff, and Speed Rush have also cultivated a group of loyal single-player players.”
Yang Dong took PUBG as an example.
When PUBG was very popular, it also attracted many players who did not usually play single-player games.
At the beginning, many people used the Steam platform as a PUBG launcher. As a result, while browsing around, one day they suddenly had an idea and bought a game, and since then they have become single-player players.
Many of them are like this.
Tianba Studio played a role in attracting traffic in this process. The popularity of many games also cultivated a large number of new stand-alone fans.
"It's really annoying to keep diverting traffic to the Steam platform!"
Chen Ba frowned and said, "It's unrealistic to completely leave the Steam platform. After all, there are many stand-alone players there. But it's time to build our own platform."
Up to now, there are two purchasing channels for games under Tianba Studio.
One is a third-party platform, such as the Steam platform, the host platform, Ebao and Wegame, etc.
The other is the proprietary channel consisting of Tianba official website and Tianba community APP.
Chen Ba plans to integrate it.
Based on the purchase and download pages of Tianba Community APP and Tianba official website, an integrated version of Tianba game platform is created.
This platform is similar to Origin. It locks in a group of player users by bundling its game accounts.
No matter where you purchase and download the game, whether it is Steam platform or Wegame, you must first log in to Tianba game platform before you can enter the game.
“What is the name of this platform?”
Yang Dong asked curiously, "Just Tianba? Isn't that too uncultured? They have specially chosen a name, so should we also choose one?"
"I really deserve one!"
Xiao Lu agreed: "Steam, Orange, Xbox, Epic... most of them are proprietary names, not company names."
This is also a common practice.
There is no regulation that says a game platform cannot use a company name. If Chen Ba wants to use the company name, he can just call it Tianba Games.
But again, very few people in the industry do this.
Generally speaking, game platforms will have their own names. For example, Penguin's is not called Penguin Games, but Wegame, EA's platform is called Orange, and Valve's is called Steam...
It’s not good to be a loner!
In order to fit in as well as possible, Chen Ba also planned to give this new gaming platform a unique name with "meaning".
He thought about it for a long time.
After thinking for more than ten minutes, he finally made a decision: "Got it, our platform will be called Nobug!"
Nobug, simple and easy to remember! The name of the platform must be simple and easy to remember, this is the most basic principle. If you give it a name that is very meaningful but obscure and difficult to pronounce, few people will remember it.
In addition, it would be even better if you could add some game concepts or special meanings on the basis of being simple and easy to remember.
Chen Ba thought this was a good idea.
Nobug means no bugs, as the name suggests. This is not only Tianba Games’ pursuit, but also their solemn promise to players.
As for whether this name will be called Niu Bi Ge or Lou Ba Ge, it doesn’t matter. No game platform can avoid giving nicknames.
"Nobug?"
Xiao Lu curled his lips, thinking that the name was too abstract, but since it was Brother Ba who gave it the name, he couldn't say anything.
“So, does this platform need to integrate existing players and games?”
"Of course!"
Chen Ba explained: "When the platform goes online, we will first add all our games to it, and then bundle several online games from "Star Emperor" to "Speed Racer"."
Since "Star Emperor", most of the games developed by Tianba Studio are online games, except "Divine Grace Continent".
But even if "Shennong Continent" is not online, the professional version still requires logging into a Tianba account and being connected to the Internet throughout the process to use it and play, which is no different from an online game.
These games will all be updated and a special Nobug bundled package will be pushed to transfer the original Tianba account to the Nobug platform.
In addition, the Tianba community will also be integrated into and become a part of the platform, similar to the player community of the Steam platform.
Various MODs and creative workshop functions will also be integrated into the platform.
There is a downside to this.
Suppose player Zhang San purchased "Star Emperor" on the Steam platform, then to start the game, he only needs to launch the Steam platform.
But now, he not only has to start the Steam platform, but also a Nobug verification component before he can enter the game.
There is one more step in the process.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But the good thing is that he no longer has to go back and forth between the Tianba community and the Steam platform. Even players on the Steam platform can directly use various MOD and creative workshop functions and browse various strategy posts or teaching posts in the community.
Overall, there are pros and cons.
Players must feel annoyed. After all, the game started faster before this thing was added. Now that this thing has been added, the game starts up extremely slowly.
But we also have to consider that after the Nobug component is added, players on the console platform, Ebao, wegame, and Steam platform will be able to browse the player community and creative workshop functions without having to specifically jump to the Tianba official website.
"Players are annoyed, but there's nothing we can do about it. No one wants to see Valve dominate the market!"
Chen Ba sighed.
To be honest, if there really is a unified gaming platform for the whole world, no one would want to disgust the players by doing such a thing as setting up their own business.
But Valve cannot dominate the market, and many big companies are not convinced by Valve and do not want to see the Steam platform monopolize the market, so it became like this.
Today's gaming platforms, especially PC gaming platforms, are dominated by one superpower and many strong players.
Steam is a super platform, but it cannot command the masses. It is understandable that some people set up their own businesses and create their own platforms.
Monopoly is bad for anyone.
Once Valve really controls the life and death of PC games, no one can do without it, which may not be a good thing. After all, at that time, everyone will become at the mercy of others.
The development and launch of Nobug did not take too much time.
To put it simply, this platform is an integrated package that integrates existing resources and functions and makes them into a component and software.
You don't really think this is a lot of trouble, do you?
What is really troublesome is to introduce more games to the Nobug platform and firmly grasp the hearts of players.
"Is the new game still Gun, Car, and Ball?"
After a round of updates for "Need for Speed", Xiao Lu asked about the studio's next work plan.
Brother Ba once said that guns, cars and balls are the most famous themes in the gaming industry and also the ones with the most market potential.
The car they made.
Are we going to get involved in the fields of guns and balls next? "I told you, guns are not an option for now."
Chen Ba said helplessly: "FPS games are too exciting. Whether it's a stand-alone or online game, we can't get enough of it."
"Then let's play ball games!"
Zhong Shengwei suggested: "If it really doesn't work, continue to delve into the racing theme and make a racing game that is more exciting than "Need for Speed"."
"ball……"
Chen Ba thought about it and found that this was not impossible.
Although ball games, which are commonly known as sports simulation games, require the collection and accumulation of a lot of data and information, the development difficulty is extremely high.
But that’s the hot ball game.
Don’t even think about football, basketball, etc. Tianba Studio doesn’t have the foundation and accumulation, and it may not even be able to collect all the information.
For other balls, less popular balls, there is a possibility.
"Golf?"
"Billiards? Ice hockey? Ping-pong?"
Xiao Lu talked about many kinds of ball sports in one breath, but unfortunately, most of them were not something that Tianba Studio could do well.
"It would take us ten days or half a month just to thoroughly understand the rules of the balls you mentioned."
Chen Ba rolled his eyes and said, "Let's play a simpler ball. Don't play a ball that confuses everyone and makes it hard for them to understand the game."
"That I can't think of."
Xiao Lu covered his forehead and said, "A simple ball game. If you ask me to think of it, the only thing I can think of is a three-dimensional pinball."
Three... three-dimensional pinball?!
Hearing this name, Chen Ba was stunned for a moment, then rolled his eyes and said, "Who told you that 3D pinball is easy?"
"Although 3D Pinball is an antique game from many years ago, this game has a plot and a development and upgrade system..."
"ah?!"
Xiao Lu's eyes widened as he said, "This game has a plot and a development and upgrade system? Isn't it just mindlessly playing and brushing points?"
"That's because you didn't understand the game. It has a plot. The game is called Space Cadet! You only remember the 3D pinball game and forgot there's a subtitle."
Chen Ba was speechless.
In fact, he didn't understand games like 3D pinball, Spider Solitaire, Air Solitaire, and Minesweeper back then.
It was only after watching a popular science video in college that he realized that the content of the 3D pinball game was so rich, and he had never been able to understand it.
I want to give special praise to Minesweeper! Chen Ba dares to say that nine out of ten children don’t know what the numbers that appear in Minesweeper are used for, let alone the correct way to play the game. They just know how to click the mouse randomly.
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
He didn't know how to play back then. He just clicked randomly, whatever he clicked on was the one that came to his mind, and he was dancing in a minefield.
The same goes for 3D pinball. With a classmate and each controlling one side, it seems that division of labor and cooperation is more efficient, but in fact, when two people play, the ball is more likely to fall.
"If even a 3D pinball is this complicated, I can't think of any other ball that's simpler."
Xiao Lu gave up.
He said 3D pinball was just a joke, but he didn't expect Brother Ba to point out that 3D pinball was also quite complicated, at least more complicated than he thought.
So here comes the question…
What other ball could meet Brother Ba's requirements, be as simple and easy to understand as possible, and require less information to be collected? "Glass ball!"
"What...what the hell?!"
Hearing these three words, Xiao Lu's eyes widened: "Brother Ba, is this glass ball you are talking about the same glass ball as I understand it?"
"It's the glass ball you think of, also called glass beads or marbles..."
I was typing when my neighbor suddenly knocked on my door to talk to me about something. His family is marrying off their daughter tomorrow. The older sister who I have played with since childhood must have some special arrangements. This is the only chapter in 4K tonight. Red Bean Paste Private Marseille! (End of this chapter)