Video Game Designer - Chapter 516

In a residential area of ​​Huashan Mountain, Yang Zheng was sitting in front of his computer in the study room at night, constantly refreshing the TEU interface.

He is an independent game maker. The whole team has only 5 people. Even they do not have a dedicated office space. All of them are scattered in the world.

Now that their game has experienced many difficulties, they will finally face the players.

Just like all independent game studios started, they also faced the biggest problem at that time, that was insufficient funds.

The game has been developed for more than a year, and even the program of the halfway game is gone, and there is no line of code left. The progress of the game is completely lost, everything has to be started from scratch, and then he learns the code by himself.

Trying to develop the game, they have also found a publisher in the middle, but there is no doubt that the other party is simply not looking at it.

First and foremost is the problem of code confusion in the game, and then the theme of the game itself, the game that is biased towards words, and the complex and huge game architecture.

Of course, it is not that no one expressed interest, but it is more greedy, such as 200,000 yuan to buy out the entire game.

But how could Yang Zheng sell them?

What the game will be changed by the other party’s second magic, this is another thing, but from the point of view of interest, how much two years of effort they have invested in this game, the cost alone has already been almost 300,000 How could two hundred thousand be sold?

Fortunately, later, domestic Tianhe Network and wegame led a domestic stand-alone support plan.

From this plan, their game successfully got a quota and received 150,000 yuan in financial support. At the same time, they also gained a lot for game content such as UI and novice guidance.

“Dwarf melon, how is the sales of the game? There are our recommendation positions on the TEU today, are there 1,000 sales?”

“The combined sales of the last few days are estimated to be less than 100, and you can only comment after buying game games for more than 5 hours or a week. I think we have less than 6 comments in our comment area, but fortunately they are all positive reviews.”

A group chat pops up in the lower right corner of the computer desktop, and a person with an ID called a wooden barrel asks.

Although it is just text, it seems that the other party’s complex emotions can be felt across the screen.

“I don’t know, I haven’t dared to go back to the producer’s backstage.” Yang Zheng, who has the producer ID of Dwarf Melon, hastily responded by typing.

“It’s okay, even if the TEU platform sales are not high, after all, this is a brand new platform, and most of the players are also attracted by Tianhe Network, EA and Ubisoft, plus our “Swire Scroll” can be said It’s a martial arts MUD game, and even a niche platform is not expected, even if sales are not high, and we can also log on to the steam platform and WEGAME.”

Only three other people from five chat groups spoke comfortingly.

Although it received the stand-alone support fund led by Tianhe Network, it did not emphasize the platform limitations of the game itself.

The priority to choose to launch on the TEU platform is mainly because they have received support funds from Tianhe Network. The copyright of the game is still in their hands, but the other party has a limited time profit share of digital sales, and more importantly.

That is, they cannot afford to advertise, and TEU promises that as long as the game passes the review, it will receive an official recommendation for a day, which is what they value most.

They need players to know this game too much.

At the urging of the team members, Yang Zheng opened his producer’s backstage and looked at the game’s sales statistics for the day. The whole person suddenly froze.

He looked at the computer screen with his eyes wide open for a long time, and then he rubbed his eyes hard, only to find that he was not wrong.

+41326.

A mathematical symbol, five numbers, bold red font.

More than 40,000 copies?

Looking blankly at the sales figures on the computer screen, Yang Zheng felt a bit ignorant.

The other four members in the discussion group on the other side are still urging Yang Zheng.

“Dwarf melon, how does the sales volume look like? I think it should be able to exceed 1,000!”

“I glanced at the comment area, there are many comments, and they are all praise, but there are a lot of opinions on the style of our game and the novice guidelines. At the same time, the game seems to have some special bugs and optimizations. Small problem.”

“No way, no money, everyone wants to do it well, but there is not so much money. That’s how it was done with the support of 150,000 from Tianhe Network.”

Everyone was particularly helpless in the group.

“We seem to be developed.”

When the four people in the group bragging and chatting to ease the tension, Yang Zheng froze for a long time silently sent a word in the chat group, and then did not wait for them to ask questions, and posted sales screenshots to the discussion group.

? ? ? ? ? ?

For a long time, there was nothing in the discussion group.

After waiting a few minutes, someone said: “Dwarf melon, aren’t you a picture of P? Did you add a number 6 in the back?”

“No, it’s really our game, this is really our game sales, 40,000 copies!” Yang Zheng said very excitedly.

Determined that this is true, everyone is excited.

“Lying trough, meaning that our game can make money? I don’t have to eat steamed kung fu fast food every day?”

“We set a price of 68 yuan, deducting 10% of the profit sharing provided by Tianhe Network to us, as well as the channel TEU channel and tax. Can the five of us share a total of 2 million?” Some people figured out that they felt a bit alive in their dreams.

To use a cliché to describe that happiness came too suddenly.

“And the TEU official also wrote us backstage, asking if we need to accept the technical assistance provided by them. They provide technical personnel to help us fix the game’s bugs, optimize, and provide art project modifications.” Yang Zheng continued. .

After talking about it, Yang Zheng added: “But TEU also has the conditions. After accepting their technical support, the subsequent update of other platforms needs to be one day later than TEU; or we pay the salary of the technical staff, we do not need to let Delay updates to other platforms.”

“Is it still necessary to think? It must be the support conditions of TEU! As for other platforms, we don’t want to consider this matter for now. Let’s do a good job of the game first, and solidify the foundation. Don’t think about the things that are not there The quality of the game is the foundation of our foothold.” The person in the discussion group whose ID is called the chairman said quickly. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

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In an office in the fifth ring of Beijing, a small studio called ‘Playing Cuttlefish’ with only two people is also looking at the sales statistics in the background of the game with excitement.

The sales volume of 20,000 copies marked in red made them excited.

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On the SuperData official website, the TEU sales list is a surprise to all people in the industry.

There are no surprises in the sales of the top games. They are all games of EA, Tianhe Network and Ubisoft, but the most important thing is that on SuperData, an additional independent game sales list is additionally listed.

More than 20 independent games, the sales of the first day exceeded 10,000. At the same time, according to the statistics of SuperData, most of the games that are listed on the TEU recommended position are okay.

And compared to the game evaluation of the steam platform, the game evaluation on the TEU seems to be more scientific.