Chapter 16 Customized Art Plan
A new day starts with checking the game sales.
Not bad, today's game sales have increased a lot compared to yesterday, which should be because the Steam platform gave a recommendation for an "independent game" booth.
Chen Ba was in a good mood.
Because when he woke up in the morning, he actually saw the words "foreign currency settlement" in the developer background.
What does this mean? It means that overseas players actually bought and played the game, which completely refreshed his cognition.
The game only has two language options: English and Simplified Chinese! The English translation of the game documentation is full of loopholes and is only slightly better than the machine translation. After all, he doesn't care about this.
No wonder he didn't take it seriously...
Who could have imagined that this game would be of interest to foreign players? He had never thought of this possibility, so he just translated it.
The sudden appearance of foreign players made Chen Ba surprised, but also a little confused.
Where did this come from?
Study Simulator is not well-known abroad. Where did the foreign players who suddenly appeared hear about this game? Chen Ba seemed to have found the answer after flipping through the comments section at the bottom of the game details page and selecting "Sort by time".
I was fooled! These overseas reviews are either in traditional Chinese or in a combination of Chinese and English. You can tell they are from overseas Chinese.
"I was wondering where the foreign currency settlement came from, it turns out this is the case..."
Chen Ba suddenly understood.
Fortunately, he was happy for a while and almost thought that the hard-working simulator had captured foreign players and unlocked a new achievement in cultural output.
It turns out that the foreigners are indeed foreigners, but these foreigners are not authentic. Also, those purchase orders from the "Pampas District" all have comments from Chinese players.
The Steam platform has high-price areas and low-price areas, and each area is subject to local policies and regulations. Some games may not be available for purchase and download.
Therefore, the operation of "region transfer" was derived. Many purchase orders that appear to be from foreign users are actually from domestic players.
Of course, there are also overseas Chinese.
Chen Ba, who was happy for nothing, shook his head and exited the Steam developer backend. He skillfully entered the Dream Engine forum URL and clicked on the business collaboration section.
This is an industry forum he often visits. When he first entered the industry and started learning Dream Engine, he learned a lot here. He also consulted many great people in the game industry. He likes to come here to hang out when he has nothing to do.
However, he was not here to hang out today, but to find some good and cheap "2d artists" from the forum to find outsourcing workers for the new game being produced by Tianba Game Studio.
Because [Living Under Someone Else’s House Simulator] is a 2D game, Chen Ba directly searched for the “2D artist” tag and soon saw a long row of job postings.
【Freelance UI design, 2D character design.】
"Hello everyone, thanks for visiting! My name is Kent."
“I've been working as game UI designer and 2D drawing since 2018…”
“You only entered the industry at 18 years old?”
Upon seeing this introduction, Chen Ba immediately shook his head. He was too lazy to even open his portfolio and directly passed it.
These newcomers who have been in the industry for less than three years are cheap, but to be honest, how many of them can meet the demand?
To take a step back, even if Kent is really a genius who can make a big splash if he doesn't make a name for himself, he wouldn't have to go to the forum to look for work. He would have been recruited by a big company long ago.
It's not that there are no missed geniuses, but the probability is no different from winning the lottery, and Chen Ba is not interested in spending a lot of time on a newcomer.
What's more, this is a foreigner...
It's not that we look down on foreigners, it's just that foreign game artists may find it difficult to meet the actual needs of [Living Under Someone Else's House Simulator] in terms of artistic style.
After all, cultural differences are also a point that needs to be considered.
The second one is much more normal. He is a Chinese painter who has been in the industry for 12 years and has a lot of representative works. He has set up a small team of his own to specialize in connecting with art resource outsourcing orders from major game studios.
Chen Ba added him on WeChat.
Maybe because the other party was busy, it took him half an hour to approve Chen Ba’s friend request. Then after chatting for less than ten minutes, Chen Ba gave up.
The price is too high.
Although you get what you pay for, the quality of a single original painting is indeed worthy of their asking price and it is not considered a deliberate rip-off. However, Chen Ba is short of money and cannot afford such a quote of tens of thousands.
“There are cheaper ones too!”
"What price do you want? We can discuss it based on your needs."
Perhaps because they didn't want to miss out on Chen Ba as a client, the other party said that they could tailor-make an art plan based on Chen Ba's needs.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"My needs?"
When Chen Ba heard this, he was immediately moved.
He certainly couldn't afford expensive art resources, but he didn't have to use the most expensive ones! He could have the other party customize an art plan for him based on his budget and needs.
For example, the original painting for game promotion can be more delicate and exquisite, after all, it is the sales packaging of the game.
As for the others, there is no need to draw them too elaborately.
Anyway, players are already used to seeing the promotions sound great, but they find out they have been cheated once they enter the game.
Using real game footage for promotion? Come on, you are not crazy! How confident are you in your game to dare to use real game footage as promotional pictures? You are not talking about 3A masterpieces, right? Game promotional pictures, UI design, character image design, map and scene design, character illustrations...
The amount of art resources and content contained in a game is huge. Even if the game "Living Under Someone Else's House Simulator" is small, it is still an astonishing number when all are packaged.
After talking on WeChat for about an entire afternoon, Chen Ba finally reached an agreement on a preliminary solution for art resources, and the two parties agreed to set up a group another day for detailed communication.
When it comes to this kind of outsourcing division of labor, it is impossible to make a decision in a few words. At the very least, Party B must clearly receive Party A's requirements before we can discuss future cooperation.
Let me put it bluntly.
Even if it is the "colorful black" Party A joke that has always been ridiculed by netizens, it at least puts forward specific requirements.
Regardless of whether Party B can complete the requirements raised by Party A, at least Party A cannot give an ambiguous answer like "whatever" or "anything is fine".
Art needs to be precise.
The more precise the requirements are, the better the final result will be. On the contrary, those ambiguous requirements may result in a "weird mess"! The game requires a lot of art resources. Chen Ba needs the help of Yang Dong and Lu Jing. Each of them is responsible for submitting a part of the art requirements. Only by division of labor and cooperation can the progress of game development be guaranteed not to be hindered by art.
Otherwise, if he relies on himself, who knows how many brain cells will be killed and how many hairs will be lost by the time he finishes the game!
A simulator for studying hard? That thing has no art requirements. It’s all free public templates of Chen Batai. At most, a little bit of the "Van Gogh" art style is incorporated when designing the characters.
I wish you all a happy National Day in advance! (End of this chapter)