Chapter 38 Online Mode
Chen Ba didn’t know that Xiao Zhong, who hadn’t officially joined the company yet, had already felt the “unique” culture of the studio.
Having just finished re-recording the game sound effects with Brother Dong, he was so tired that he wanted to go back to his room and sleep immediately.
As we all know, games have various sound effects.
For example, in "Living Under Someone Else's House Simulator", players can rummage through trash cans, and when they open the lid of the trash can, a crisp "click" sound will be heard.
Where does this sound effect come from?
On the one hand, you can search on the Internet or in professional forums, and most sound effects can be made and used.
On the other hand, you can also invite a professional team to provide game dialogue dubbing, background music, percussion sound effects, map music, etc.
Another way is like Tianba Studio, where they record, tune and synthesize by themselves.
Some players complained that the door opening sound effect of "Living with Others Simulator" is a bit noisy, and there is no sound effect of the elevator arriving at the designated floor.
So, in order to solve this problem, Chen Ba and Yang Dong took the equipment and took a two-hour elevator ride, opening and closing the studio's security door hundreds of times.
After running back and forth, I finally got it done.
Chen Ba, who had just replaced the audio source file and was about to go back to his room to rest, suddenly received a notification email from the Steam platform developer community.
[Dear developers, registration for this Lunar New Year sale will soon be open. If you are interested, please contact the community administrator...]
"What activities?"
Yang Dong, who had just finished taking a shower, came over and asked, "New Year's sale?"
"Yes! Steam is launching a large-scale promotion for the Lunar New Year. You can sign up by filling out a form."
After answering Yang Dong’s question, Chen Ba clicked on the attachment, opened the registration form, and checked the precautions for the event.
The content is actually very simple.
Most of the content is not worth paying attention to, the most critical one is "Games do not necessarily have to be discounted, but discounts are recommended."
During the Spring Festival, Tianba Studio had originally planned to sell two of its games at a discount, so they met the registration criteria for this event.
"Then join us."
Yang Dong didn’t think much about it. There would be discounts anyway, and he could get a certain amount of exposure by participating in the platform’s special sales. Why not do it?
"No hurry! Take a look at this first..."
Chen Ba did not rush to fill out the form, but instead checked the description of the "bundle package" in the notes.
Simply put, this sale supports the Bundle format.
Participating games can be bundled with any DLC, other games of the company, or games from different publishers.
He thinks this is pretty good.
Although the two games from Tianba Studio have no DLC, the two games are highly related and can be considered a "previous and next" relationship.
The players are mostly the same group of people.
If the two games are sold together, not only can the players be given the biggest discount, but the games can also get the maximum exposure, which is a win-win situation! "So how do we set the price?"
Although he has never made a bundle package, Yang Dong, as an old user of the Steam platform, has purchased quite a few bundle packages.
According to him, most bundles will offer huge discounts to attract players to buy, which is more cost-effective than buying them individually.
Two games priced at 10 yuan can be bundled together for only 18 or 17 yuan, which will attract players to buy.
Otherwise, if the prices are the same, why would players buy the bundle? What is the meaning of the bundle? "The hard study simulator is 50% off, priced at 9 yuan! The living under someone else's roof simulator is 20% off, priced at 20 yuan..."
Even elementary school students can do the math, the total is 29 yuan! But this is the total price, if you plan to buy a bundle, it will definitely be cheaper.
Chen Ba took out his calculator and typed for a while before deciding, "On top of the discounted price, the bundle will be discounted by another 15%, so you can get two games for 25 yuan."
"Sure! This price is great."
Hearing this, Yang Dong couldn't help but nodded and said, "It's equivalent to buying "Living Under Someone's Fence Simulator" at the original price, and then giving away a copy of "Studying Hard Simulator."
Isn't four yuan a lot of money? The reason why other game bundles can be reduced by 20 or 30 yuan at one time is because their prices are originally very high.
The original prices of the two games from Tianba Studio are already very low, and they can be reduced by another four dollars on top of the historical low price, which is definitely a bargain.
In the words of our General Manager Chen, we sell it to you at this price purely to make friends with you, and we don't dare to make a penny more!
"Yes, well said!"
Chen Ba was very impressed and thought that Yang Dong was the right person to hire. Look at how high his ideological awareness is. 25 yuan to make a friend! If you buy it, you are Chen Ba's friend. If you don't buy it, it's okay. I will give it to you for free next year, and we can still be friends.
"If you give it away for free, then you're not a friend, you're a big brother!"
Yang Dong couldn't help laughing and said, "Learning Ub, right? When will our studio introduce the industry-leading Tudou server?"
"Ahem! Forget about the potatoes."
"But we must have a server, and we have to rent one." Chen Ba said very seriously, "Now many games have online modes, and we have to follow up."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"Online..."
After moving a stool over and sitting down, Yang Dong looked a little curious: "From what you said, the new game is going to have an online mode?"
"I have this idea."
The online mode of "Give Him Love V" was a huge success and still ranks at the top of the sales list. This has attracted the attention of many game manufacturers who focus on single-player games, and Chen Ba is no exception.
It is not difficult to find that the boundary between stand-alone games and online games is no longer so clear.
The single player also needs to be connected to the Internet, and can also play in online mode.
More and more blockbuster games are beginning to add online modes to their games, hoping to explore a new path and take into account the needs of more players.
Taking this situation into consideration, Chen Ba actually wanted to make an online game and give it a simple try.
However, he doesn't have any particularly great ideas yet, but he vaguely feels that it would be cool to make a fighting game.
"How did you become interested in fighting?"
"I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I really like reading novels, especially those fantasy novels."
Chen Ba explained: "So I was thinking, can I use the framework of fighting games and the physics engine to create a battle scene like the fantasy fairy tale?"
"Forehead……"
Yang Dong thought of a sentence.
The two supreme beings fought to the edge of the universe, punching and kicking each other, and even the Great Dao was wiped out.
Oh my goodness! The ultimate battle is just about rubbing the joystick and pressing the keyboard, right? When the anger is full, the "gas-consuming root" has become the ultimate sublimation?
“How discordant!”
Shaking his head, Yang Dong said speechlessly: "A fantasy fairy hero background, but the final result of the battle between the strong is just punching and kicking?"
"Add some special effects!"
Chen Ba stroked his chin and said, "What's wrong with punching and kicking? With special effects, it's like the Emperor Fist and the Supreme Kick! With one punch, even a star will be shattered."
Yang Dong: “…”
It turned out that he was too lacking in imagination. He wouldn't even dare to imagine such a scene in his dreams.
(End of this chapter)