Chapter 86 Current Status of the Game
In the following days,
Zhong Xiu could be said to have been working day and night to study the Blue Star Engine. At
one point, he was so crazy
that he even lived in the studio for the first two days and didn't even go home.
Mu Wanqing told Lin Yao about this.
Lin Yao was stunned and ran to persuade Zhong Xiu.
Zhong Xiu was still not happy, with an expression of "I can still work hard, don't stop me".
Lin Yao had no choice but to say something harsh like "Don't come back if you don't go back" before she reluctantly drove him back home.
So, this kind of technical nerd can be really deadly sometimes.
You should know that Zhong Xiu doesn't like to work overtime, and he also adheres to the principle of completing the work within the planned schedule.
Fortunately,
Zhong Xiu's state did not last long.
As he continued to understand the game engine, he gradually became calm.
Of course, occasionally his voice of exclaiming magic would still be heard from his position, frequently attracting the attention of other staff in the studio...
At the same time,
the engine group also recruited a lot of people during this period.
Of course, it is impossible to recruit talents who specialize in developing game engines in China, so the people who were finally recruited were all members with experience in 3D game production.
Lin Yao's plan was to let them familiarize themselves with the use of the engine first, and then on this basis, research, develop and maintain the engine.
When these people first came, they were also a little confused when they heard that they were going to the engine group, but when they went to Zhong Xiu's side, they were just like Zhong Xiu, shouting amazingly...
The engine group shouted about small monsters every day, which has become a regular program and a landscape of the studio.
Because of this, Zhu Nianqiao even seriously proposed to Lin Yao that Zhong Xiu should be sent to a mental hospital, because she suspected that Zhong Xiu was crazy and could be contagious... This made Lin Yao angry and amused, and finally gave her a chestnut.
And what was Lin Yao doing during this time?
She was slacking off and playing games...
Yes. The
boss played games during work hours, not to mention openly, and occasionally she could be heard complaining in a soft voice, which became another landscape of the studio...
Of course.
Slacking off and playing games.
It was just that Mu Wanqing thought so.
Lin Yao felt that she was collecting materials.
During this period, she played a lot of domestic shooting online games, and also played a little stand-alone games at home and abroad.
After nearly two weeks of playing, she basically understood the current situation of domestic shooting online games thoroughly, and also had a general understanding of the quality of foreign stand-alone games.
Domestic shooting online games have developed relatively slowly, and the battle mode is relatively simple, basically to the extent of transport ship battles, that is, two teams are divided into two camps to fight, and whoever kills the specified number first wins.
Because the gameplay is relatively simple, this has led to domestic shooting online games becoming like racing games. Those who like it will play a few games when they have nothing to do, and they will turn it off when they are satisfied or tired. There are not many audiences. You say that there is user stickiness like turn-based online games, then forget it.
Of course.
Because there are not many people playing, and the negative feedback caused by the direct enhancement of the krypton gold gun values in shooting online games to ordinary players is too strong, it has prevented this type of online game from becoming a disaster area for krypton gold, which is a blessing in disguise. Now the shooting online games with better operations are generally very restrained, and there is no such thing as Fire Kirin.
As for stand-alone games...
what can I say.
China is very similar to Lin Yao's previous life, but not quite.
Although the strict management of copyright here makes single-player games free of piracy, due to the game ban, the rise of online games, and the habits of players, the soil for single-player games here is quite scarce, and the technical strength is also quite different from that of foreign countries.
Of course, foreign single-player games are not that good. After all, decades ago, the situation was quite tense and the entertainment industry stagnated for a long time.
Lin Yao judged that the level of single-player games here is only at the level of the first and second generations of Assassin's Creed, which is the level of 2007 in the previous life.
But the problem is.
The hardware level here is simply outrageous. If the game screen is still in 2007, then the hardware level here is 2020...
According to the publicity, the graphics card is close to Lao Huang's Air 30 series graphics card in terms of performance, but the graphics card here is not designed for games at all, but professional graphics cards, and its main purpose is for electromechanical engineering design and architectural design.
Although the rapid development of foreign single-player games in recent years has in turn led to the emergence of graphics cards designed specifically for games, overall, the development of software and hardware is still unbalanced.
...
"Ah... where on earth did these people come from?"
Lin Yao dropped the mouse, raised her pink fist and lightly hammered the table, looking at the death interface on the screen, feeling a little helpless and a little angry.
Forget it!
I won't play it anymore!
Rubbish game!
She turned off the game directly, then took a deep breath, leaned back in her chair, calmed down, and began to think.
Why has she been playing shooting games so hard recently? It
's very simple.
Lin Yao just wanted to make a shooting online game. As for why she made a shooting online game, the reason is not complicated. She wanted Zhong Xiu and the others to practice with the new engine, and there was also the factor that she was not good at it but loved it...
After all, which girl... No, a tough guy can resist shooting games.
But after actually playing so many shooting online games.
She found that making a shooting online game is quite difficult.
First of all, the first point.
It's the revenue problem.
There is no way.
Your game company has to make money anyway, especially online games. She wants to generate electricity with love, but the other people in the studio need to eat.
"Revenue..."
Lin Yao took out an A4 paper, thought about it, and slowly wrote a few words on the paper.
Fire Kirin, buyout system, micro-transaction.
These are the three revenue directions she can think of at present, but after thinking about it, she added "appearance".
"Forget about Fire Kirin. I can't do CF here... Although it feels quite profitable."
Lin Yao looked at the words on the paper and crossed out the first one, Fire Kirin.
She still has to save face. She doesn't want to be stared at and scolded when the game industry matures.
Of course, there are actually factors that she can't learn. Although CF has a very bad reputation for a long time, you can't deny that the project team has put a lot of effort into the game. It is also the childhood memory of many people. The right time, place and people are all indispensable, and finally created this controversial phenomenon-level online game.
Simple imitation may not be successful.
So she crossed out Fire Kirin first.
As for the next three.
Lin Yao has not made up her mind which one to choose.
The main thing is the prospect of the buyout model.
This model is not available on the market yet, and she really can't say whether players will accept it. Although she remembers that there was a very successful buyout online game like Overwatch in her previous life, that kind of success may not be replicated. Besides, Overwatch is dead...
As for stand-alone games... Lin Yao doesn't think her studio is capable of making a mature stand-alone game now. The accumulation of technical strength is long-term and continuous. Even with the Bluestar engine, it can't be achieved overnight. At least Lin Yao has no relevant ideas now.
"Forget it."
Lin Yao looked at the content on the paper, hesitated for a long time, and temporarily put it aside, and wrote down two other words below.
Graphics and hardware.
This is also a problem.
After her understanding during this period of time, the current Bluestar engine is a dimensionality reduction attack for 99% of the games on the market in terms of graphics.
So this raises another question. Should the game's graphics be adapted to the hardware of most mainstream players, or should it be completely free and make a game that can shock its peers...
If it is an ordinary situation, Lin Yao doesn't even have to think about it and choose the first one.
But Zhong Xiu's words that day made her realize that selling the engine... might be a way out.
Moreover, with such a good engine, and at her own expense, she took the initiative to reduce the graphics effects. The problem is that the hardware can't keep up, which is always a pity. But your online game is for sale... This doesn't cater to the hardware of most mainstream players, so it's not suitable.
Lin Yao looked at the words on the paper.
She became even more entangled.
"Revenue, graphics, gameplay..."
Lin Yao put down her pen, leaned back in her chair again, slightly raised her snow-white chin, looked at the incandescent light above her head, and began to think.
Various thoughts came to her mind.
Lin Yao thought of Battlefield, Call of Duty, CSGO, and so on.
At a certain moment.
She suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
She had an idea.
How about... making a demo with a unique gameplay and try it out first?
(End of this chapter)
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