Chapter 8: Tianba Game
In the night, the sky of Jiangning City was dark, and there was no trace of stars.
In fact, I could see it before.
About four or five years ago, when Chen Ba was admitted to Jiangning University, the night sky was very beautiful. You could see many stars and the gorgeous Milky Way...
In the past few years, I don’t know if it’s because of city light pollution or some other reason, but there are fewer and fewer stars at night.
Walking on the way home, Chen Ba took out his mobile phone and checked the WeChat messages.
Good news, KunKun is home! Bad news, KunKun was drunk and was scolded by his mother again, and someone introduced him to a nurse in the city hospital, and they will go on a blind date tomorrow.
"A moment of silence!"
After expressing sympathy for his good brother's experience, Chen Ba shook his head and immediately looked at the real-time sales data of the game.
Very good, it has exceeded 50,000 copies!
However, the sales curve of "Study Simulator" has been unable to keep up since it broke through 50,000.
"Not bad, it should be able to sell around 150,000 copies in its entire life cycle..."
As the first game produced by Chen Ba, he is very satisfied with the sales performance.
After all, the input is not proportional to the output. Compared with his investment, the returns brought by this game are huge. It is not an exaggeration to say that he became rich overnight.
[God of gods, although the game graphics are abstract and rough, the plot is quite touching, highly recommended! ]
[Qian Duoduo fans check in...]
[I saw this while watching videos. The name of the Cattle Herding Simulator is well-deserved! Judging from the length of time I have played the game, I have become completely obsessed with that damn old ox! ]
[I bought this for my child, he likes it very much, it can also be used on sensitive skin, the merchant's service is very considerate, I will buy it again next time...]
[After a day of 996 get off work, I go home, open the game, herd cattle, cut grass for pigs, and break corn... What a fulfilling and wonderful day! ]
[I am Sand Dollar, and I actually paid to release the Cybertron Bull for a day! "1047 people found this review very enjoyable"]
The popularity of the game continues to rise, and there are many reviews from new players in the comment section. The deserted game community has suddenly become lively.
Of course, all of this was within Chen Ba's expectations.
What really surprised him was that someone in the community actually asked if there were any fan works of "Protagonist X Old Ox"? Novels and comics were fine, he needed them urgently!
Ah? Chen Ba exclaimed, "What a good fellow!"
He knew that human XP was free, but wasn't this too free? Even an old ox could charge, what kind of people were they?
Shaking his head, Chen Ba put away his phone and walked into the Shuxiang Meiyuan community where he rented a house.
After taking a shower, he turned on his computer and began to answer and make adjustments around the issues raised by some players.
The first problem is the abnormal physical strength value.
Some players found that their physical strength did not recover after a night's sleep, but instead they fell into a "weak" state. They thought this was a bug and reported it to the producer.
After investigation, Chen Ba found that this player should have encountered the "random illness" incident for the first time, so he patiently explained it to him.
In the game, players will randomly trigger various illness events due to their special physical condition of being "weak and sickly". If they are unlucky, they may even randomly get an incurable disease and be killed in one go.
Most of the players who reported the bug to him were encountering this situation for the first time, so they seemed a little overwhelmed.
After answering various questions from players, he began to edit the content of the second update.
[Study Simulator] does not have many built-in random events, and many players have reported that they often encounter repeated events in the game.
This needs to be changed.
The main thing is to add some new random events to reduce the repetitiveness of events as much as possible to prevent players from getting bored.
Received love letters, asked for protection money by gangsters, laughed at by classmates, received home visits, and was misunderstood...
More than ten new random events were quickly written based on the basic framework established by the system.
"Phew! Finally finished."
Stretching his body and rubbing his neck which was sore from sitting for a long time, Chen Ba pushed the update package to the platform server.
If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the last major content update for [Study Simulator].
After this, Chen Ba will no longer make any content patches or updates for this game, but will instead devote all his energy to the production of the next game.
But before that...
Chen Ba stared at the "Profit Profit Settlement" page displayed in the background and felt that he should first register and establish a game studio.
He was an independent game producer before, but that was because he had no money and couldn't afford to hire employees, so he had to do everything by himself.
With the popularity of "Study Hard Simulator", the share of profits he received was at least in the millions.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Even though this amount of money is not much and cannot even buy a nice house, if you spend it frugally, it is definitely enough to recruit employees and set up a small studio.
What should the studio be called? Chen Ba frowned and thought for a long time, and finally decided to name it "Tianba Games".
The word "Tianba" comes from a Moba game he often plays. There is a character in the game whose ultimate move is called "Tianba Hengkong Liehong". He thought it was so cool the first time he saw it.
What? Too immature? What's wrong with a man being a little immature?
And what about those famous game studios? Which name is not a bit silly? Zulong, Kuangtu, Lei Ting, Linlang Tianshang... I'm just used to hearing them, so I don't think they are weird.
Besides, it’s very common in the industry for the founder to name the studio after himself!
After deciding on the name of the studio, Chen Ba found a residential house with a decent size and fine decoration on the Internet and planned to rent it first.
There's no rush for computers or anything.
Renting a house has drained Chen Ba’s savings, and he can only wait for the platform’s share of the profits to be transferred to his card before purchasing equipment.
Regarding registration and handling related formalities, I would hand them over to scalpers, who are professionals in this area. Although Chen Ba would save a lot of money by going through the process himself, I still don’t know how long it would take to complete it! The most important thing at the moment is to recruit people.
In the early days of Tianba Game Studio, due to limited funding and office space, Chen Ba did not plan to hire too many people and tried to keep the number to around five.
Although there are fewer people, he still has the system's assistance, which is definitely enough.
"Then recruit four people!"
Thinking of the senior student whom Wang Kun recommended to him before, since he is a programmer, including Chen Ba himself, they are currently still lacking an artist and planner with decent abilities, as well as a substitute player who can do everything.
After determining the recruitment needs and basic salary and benefits, Chen Ba sent the recruitment notice to a WeChat public account in the same city.
If a job posting like this is posted on a professional forum, few people will respond. After all, who would be willing to come to a newly established small studio that is uncertain whether it can survive?
Therefore, when Chen Ba was recruiting people in the early stage, he never thought about recruiting any god-level figures. As long as they had decent abilities and could share some work with him, it would be OK.
Even if a master with too good skills or too strong came to apply for the job, Chen Ba couldn't afford it with his current financial resources...
It's a bit embarrassing to say.
The one million or so that Chen Ba has is probably not even as much as half a year's salary and bonus for others. Given the financial situation at home, he doesn't have any better solution.
(End of this chapter)