Chapter 163: 8G is enough to play with, 16G is fun to play with!
There has always been a strange phenomenon in the gaming industry, that is, the legitimate products cannot beat the pirated ones! When a phenomenal game comes out, if the gameplay is very novel and it is not difficult to imitate, it will be very popular in the early stage, but will be crushed by the pirated games of other companies in the later stage.
There are too many similar examples.
A few years ago, there was even a news report that Tencent sued a small company that was not well-known and that many domestic players had never heard of.
What did the other party do? The answer is that they copied the popular Moba mobile game "Honor of Kings" in China, and through this copycat game, they directly destroyed the genuine overseas version of "Honor of Kings" in some markets in Southeast Asia.
This may sound a bit funny, but it is indeed a normal phenomenon in the gaming industry, especially in the domestic gaming industry.
The first mover may not necessarily occupy the market share, but the latecomer may be the ultimate winner!
Chen Ba doesn't want to say that plagiarism is rampant in domestic games, because the definition of "plagiarism" is relatively strict at the legal level. Many games may be considered plagiarism by players, but it is difficult to provide evidence and determine whether they infringe intellectual property rights.
Therefore, describing it as stitching or copying is more accurate and reasonable than plagiarism.
Is someone copying Tianba Studio's game?
Chen Ba had anticipated this and was mentally prepared. After all, a year ago, he saw a game on Steam that imitated "Living with Others".
The reason why he was more surprised this time was, on the one hand, because the imitator this time was not a small workshop or a small team, but a real domestic game company.
On the other hand, he could never have imagined that the game that the big company was targeting was actually "Shennong Continent"! Ah this...
Although "Shennong Continent" is amazing, if you want to imitate its essence and create a usable version, you need to have a certain level of AI tuning, right? "Magic animation?"
Upon hearing the name, Zhong Shengwei, who was chewing gum, complained: "It's quite ambitious, and it's benchmarked against the professional version of "Shennong Continent" right away."
I challenged myself to the highest level of difficulty right from the start, without thinking about how difficult it would be to imitate.
Even if it imitates "Study Simulator" and "Living with Others Simulator"! The development difficulty of these two games is much easier than "Shennong Continent", right?
“Maybe it’s disdain!”
"Big companies have their own pride. They probably won't take our low-priced games seriously..."
At this point, Chen Ba waved his hands and said, "Forget it, let them do whatever they want. If they make a fool of themselves, it's none of our business."
He has no time to care about friendly competitors.
As a medium-sized game, "Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm" has already taken shape after its development.
According to the studio's past practice, multiple rounds of "bar-ordered fried rice" testing are required before a new game is released to players.
This kind of testing is, on the one hand, for the stability and reliability of the game.
On the other hand, the testing phase is also a key step for Chen Ba to check for loopholes and fill in the gaps in the new game.
"Don't Leave After School" is of medium size and was not intended to be a large-scale game at the beginning of the planning. The expected price of the official version is only 68 yuan.
This is different from "The Drive".
As a game with an expected retail price of only 68 yuan, the development of "Don't Leave After School" is naturally easier than that of "Forza Motors".
certainly!
The main contributor to the short development cycle is actually the Tiehanhan system. If it hadn't solved the "marble" part of the game, this game would have taken at least 12-18 months to complete.
Chen Ba opened the details page.
[Game name: Don’t leave after school - Marble Storm]
[Planning: 85 (can be improved)]
[Program: 90 (can be improved)]
[Art: 87 (improvable)]
【…Comprehensive score: 96】
After staring at the system page in his mind for a while, Chen Ba suddenly asked Xiao Lu, "Are you sure you didn't detect any major bugs?"
"No!"
Xiao Lu said confidently: "The game is very stable. During the operation, apart from the high memory usage, no other problems were found."
"Memory usage is high?"
When Chen Ba heard this, he frowned and asked the specific reason for the high memory usage.
It turned out to be a false alarm.
After repeated debugging by Xiao Lu, the memory usage problem of "Don't Leave After School" has been optimized and solved, and now you can play it happily even with 8G of memory.
But then again…
Due to the limitations of the game map and scene modeling, the recommended configuration for the game "Don't Leave After School" is actually 16G of memory. 8G can only be said to be playable, but the game settings need to be lowered to reduce the number of people displayed on the same screen.
“Let’s optimize it further!”
Chen Ba knew very well that although everyone on the Internet always said that 16G memory was not enough, they still used 32G and 64G to play 3A games.
But talk aside, in reality, most people's computer configuration is generally 8*2, which means 16G.
Moreover, many people do not actually have a dual-channel system, and the motherboard only has one 8G memory stick.
So 8G is the foundation.
On this basis, we must ensure the experience of these players with 8G memory. We must not allow the game to not be played with 8G and the experience with 16G to be mediocre.
"The configuration threshold should be lowered a bit. This is not a game like "Need for Speed" and "Star Emperor". We don't need such a high configuration threshold."
Chen Ba explained: "It's best to have 8G to play, 16G is better! As for the graphics card, it doesn't matter if there is a dedicated graphics card or not, the integrated graphics card can also play..."
Different positioning requires different configurations.
The configuration threshold of the Call of Duty series is much higher than that of Crossfire, right? If Crossfire also raises the hardware threshold, will the dream of 300 million mice still exist?
To put it bluntly! The main theme of "Don't Leave After School" is childhood nostalgia, and the target player group is different from games such as "Star Emperor" and "Speed Racer".
If we have to compare the recommended configurations of other games to this new game, how many players can meet the requirements? "I understand!"
Xiao Lu nodded and said that he would carry out a round of optimization for "Don't Leave After School" to lower the threshold for playing as much as possible.
After talking about the recommended configuration, Chen Ba seemed to think of the 96 overall score given on the system page, nodded and said, "Prepare the trial version and release it in two days."
“So soon?”
Before Xiao Lu could say anything, Zhong Shengwei beside him asked in surprise: "Shouldn't we do a few more rounds of testing?"
“No need to test!”
Chen Ba shook his head.
What's the point of testing? The Tiehanhan system has given it a super high score of 96, which fully proves that the quality of "Don't Leave After School" has reached a certain level.
I don't know if there is any problem.
But this 96 points is still very valuable. Anyway, further testing will not reveal anything new, so it is better to release it directly and let players judge it.
A game with 96 points, even if it is just a bunch of defense, is it better than others, right?
…
Pengcheng, Crystal Garden.
When Jiang Yongqing woke up, his girlfriend had already left. There was a sticky note under the phone placed on the bedside table.
"I've prepared breakfast for you. Get up and heat it up for yourself. I'm going to work first^o^"
"Getting up so early..."
Putting away the sticky note, Jiang Yongqing smiled slightly. He was extremely satisfied with this considerate girlfriend whom he had known for less than half a year.
My girlfriend is from Xianyang.
Although both of them worked hard in the city of Pengcheng, Pengcheng is so big that they did not know each other half a year ago and had never even met each other.
"Thanks to Brother Ba!"
While Jiang Yong was washing his face and rinsing his face, he also did not forget to pay his daily respects to his benefactor, Brother Ba.
If it weren't for the game "Love Staff" developed by Brother Ba, he wouldn't have met such a considerate and gentle girl like Jingjing, nor would he have felt the warmth of home.
To put it bluntly...
Jiang Yongqing's current happy life is all thanks to Brother Ba. For this reason, he hung a photo of Brother Ba on the wall of the living room and worshipped him day and night, right? Unfortunately, Brother Ba is still alive.
Color photos always feel a bit weird when looking at them. If Brother Ba passes away one day, it would be perfect if they were replaced with black and white photos.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
This photo is the collector's edition of "Brother Ba's Photo" that he bought from the Tianba official peripheral mall for 199 yuan.
Is this sold in the official merchandise? Yes, it is!
Jiang Yongqing is not very clear about what peripherals other game companies sell, but Tianba’s official peripheral store does sell photos of Brother Ba.
The main theme is a maverick who dares to make any money! Jiang Yongqing felt bad when he thought that Brother Ba was still single and even had to wash his own clothes and socks, while he lived such a happy life under Brother Ba's care.
It’s no big deal to spend some money on Brother Ba, it’s just a photo.
Jiang Yongqing had already decided that as long as Tianba Studio released a game, he would buy one. He had to take practical actions to express his gratitude to Brother Ba and Tianba Studio.
"Unfortunately, I really don't like playing "Need for Speed"..."
Speaking of this, Jiang Yongqing was also helpless.
He bought "Need for Speed" and the most expensive platinum edition. But after playing for half an hour, the game just sat there gathering dust in his library.
He can't play racing games.
For some reason, he was fine playing other games, but when he played this kind of racing game, he felt dizzy and nauseous.
Jingjing said he suffered from 3D vertigo.
But Jiang Yongqing didn't think so. He played other 3D games just fine and didn't experience this discomfort. Only racing games would make him feel nauseous.
Could it be that the symptoms were mild? Jiang Yongqing couldn't figure it out. Anyway, he really couldn't play racing games with his physical condition, so he could only look forward to Brother Ba's new game.
“Ding ding ding!”
After washing up and eating breakfast, the cell phone suddenly rang.
Jiang Yongqing picked up the phone, unlocked it and saw that it was a few buddies in the "Love Staff" communication group who were discussing a new game.
"Brother Ba's new game?"
Upon learning that this was Tianba Studio's new game after "Need for Speed", Jiang Yongqing immediately became interested and asked in the group: "What is the name of this game? When can I play it?"
"The name of the game is "Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm", and the early access version has been released on both Steam and Nobug platforms..."
"Why is it 68 again?"
"It's OK. It looks pretty good from the introduction. It seems that it can be played online. Anyone want to play with me?"
"Add me, add me, let's play together!"
The old players of "Love Staff" in the group were discussing it heatedly, and Jiang Yongqing also got the answer he wanted.
What else for breakfast?
Although the loving breakfast made by Jingjing was delicious, it was still a little inferior to the defense done by Brother Ba.
Jiang Yongqing put down his bowl and chopsticks, walked to the computer impatiently, logged into his Steam platform account, and searched for the game "Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm".
Go to the game details page.
The first thing that catches your eye is a series of game promotional pictures that show the general situation of the game.
"Fuck..."
The marble duel scene in the promotional picture, especially the cool marble soul, directly stunned Jiang Yongqing.
He knew about marbles, having played with them as a child.
But what is this marble soul? How can you summon Pokémon spirits by playing marbles? It's too abstract!
After seeing the game promotional pictures, especially those cool marble duels, Jiang Yongqing could hardly suppress his inner impulse.
But he was not in a hurry and took another look at the detailed introduction of the game.
["Don't Leave After School: Marbles" is a multiplayer online competitive game. It is based on the childhood marble game and incorporates a variety of novel gameplays. You can enjoy the fun of marbles to your heart's content...]
It really is the marbles from our childhood!
After reading the game introduction and combining it with the game promotional pictures, Jiang Yongqing already had an idea in his mind.
Buy it! You must buy it! Not to mention that supporting Brother Ba was his original intention, even if this game was not made by Brother Ba, just for the childhood memories, it is worth buying a marble game.
[This game is in the early access stage...]
After taking a look at the game's price and confirming that his group members had not deceived him and that it was really 68 yuan, Jiang Yongqing decisively chose to scan the code to pay and bought the marble game.
The download and installation will take some time!
Jiang Yongqing was off today and didn't have to go to work, so he was not in a hurry. He left the game in the background and slowly downloaded it, then turned around and went back to the living room to continue eating.
About twenty minutes passed.
After finishing his meal, Jiang Yongqing washed the dishes and returned to his computer to open the game he had downloaded and installed.
The Logo of Tianba Game!
Starting from "Star Emperor", almost every Tianba game will load a studio-exclusive logo on the startup page.
After the logo is displayed, the game loading and Nobug account login page will appear.
"Pinching your face again?"
Jiang Yongqing also didn’t understand why Brother Ba liked to pinch the face so much. Couldn’t he provide a preset template so that he could enter the game with one click?
Skip, skip, skip!
Privacy permissions, game notifications... just skip them all. These are what annoy him the most. Every time he plays a new game, it takes him a long time.
Especially the privacy permission, almost all games require players to confirm it.
But what’s the point of this?
It is clearly a multiple-choice question, and you cannot enter the game if you don't select "I accept". However, these game developers pretend to be very generous and give you an option of "I do not accept".
It's just a waste of time to take off your pants and fart! Unless one day, you can enter the game by choosing "I don't accept", Jiang Yongqing will never accept this design.
(End of this chapter)