Let you make games, you directly shoot blockbusters?

"How's it going? Has Honghuang accepted it?"

Yiyu headquarters, in the office.

The senior executive in charge of this development festival asked.

"Accepted, but they have conditions." The assistant replied with some hesitation.

"What conditions? If it's just a matter of sharing, I can call the shots and give them the same 80% as Steam!"

Today's prehistoric times are already different from those of the past.

We can no longer look at small factories with the same eyes.

Since they want to build a PC platform, they naturally need to establish a good relationship with each game manufacturer.

What's more, there are three games under Honghuang's sales volume of tens of millions. Even if the agents of those three games are negotiated, they can attract a lot of traffic for them.

Control player traffic.

This is the horror of today's prehistoric times.

"Honghuang did talk about the commission, but in addition to this, they also put forward a condition. Due to the recent shortage of manpower, they are unable to produce medium and large games."

"Can't make it medium or large?"

The man frowned tightly.

His original intention was to hope that Honghuang would support one of their masterpieces, which would definitely attract many players.

But now, this plan has come to nothing.

"It seems that the news circulating on the Internet is true. Honghuang has indeed allocated all its manpower to develop MMO games. Okay, small games will be small games. Let's ease the relationship first. Anyway, there are several other large-scale stand-alone games that have just been negotiated. "

"Okay, I'll reply to them right away."

The assistant also knew that the main purpose of inviting Hong Huang this time was not to play games, but to ease the relationship that had been simmering before.

As a platform developer, it is a very stupid thing to have bad relations with game companies.

What's more, it's still an existence like the Great Desolate that cannot be ignored.

Soon, he edited the message and replied to Honghuang, inviting them to come over and sign the sharing contract.

Done with all this.

The man next to him finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, now that the matter on Honghuang is settled, let's contact the other companies to see when their masterpieces will be completed. Our platform will be reset and online during the winter vacation."

The Game Development Festival is just a cover.

Its real purpose is to promote Yiyou's own platform and prepare to fully enter the PC field, so it must have sufficient game support.

to this end.

They have received strong support from the capital behind them.

Just to expand your own game library.

Now everything is ready.

Just waiting for the game to be released during the winter vacation at the end of the year.

…

the other side.

Inside Honghuang Studio.

After receiving the reply from Yiyou, Chen Lin and others also held a small meeting in the conference room.

"I called you here today for the Game Development Festival of Yiyou. I have a small project for you to work on."

Chen Lin got straight to the point and said directly.

"Small projects?"

"I heard that Yiyou has talked about several large-scale stand-alone games this time, and the momentum is very strong. Wouldn't it be bad if we just make a small game?"

There was a commotion among the people below, obviously they all knew about this matter.

Other manufacturers come out with big productions, but they come up with a small game, which always feels weird.

"Don't worry about whether he is good or not. We just accepted the invitation to participate in the event. We didn't say how big we must bring out, and we don't have to compete with those big productions."

Chen Lin spoke slowly, expressing Honghuang's position this time.

Yiyou took the initiative to invite them, so it was up to them to decide what game to play and whether to love it or not.

Moreover, in previous comparisons with other major manufacturers, it was because they were suppressed and had to fight back, so they tried their best to show their full strength.

Now they are not the ones asking for help.

Naturally, there is no need to take it too seriously.

"Then... what game are we going to play this time? We can only mobilize a dozen people at Dawn." Lao Li from the side intervened.

Then Lao Song spoke: "As for Liming, we need to arrange people to maintain the online game. I estimate there are only seven or eight people."

The two teams totaled almost twenty people.

What kind of game to make is indeed a difficult problem.

After all, it's autumn now, and the winter vacation is not far away. Game testing and optimization still need to be considered.

"Since time is tight, why not simply give up on picture accuracy and rely on gameplay to support it?" one of the team leaders suggested.

"This is a good idea." Lao Song nodded, "The super rabbits and humans we made before were a complete failure because of this tricky method, and the response was pretty good."

"What about the gameplay? Both games are mainly action-based, so we have to think of a new gameplay."

"If the picture accuracy is not enough, I suggest you simply take the strategic route and reduce the proportion of operations."

"Isn't this going back to the battle flag gameplay we talked about before? Then just make a battle flag."

"Battle flag? What a great idea! The most difficult part of this game is the calculation of various rules. Twenty people are completely enough."

The employees were chatting and sharing their ideas and suggestions.

Chen Lin, who was in the first place, listened silently, and a vague picture gradually formed in his mind.

"The battle flag is indeed the best choice now." He said, "What do you think of it coupled with the sandbox gameplay?"

"Sand table?"

Everyone fell into thinking after hearing this.

Immediately, his eyes lit up.

"Sand table war! Mr. Chen, shall we have a sand table war?"

One of the group leaders, who loved this type of game, suddenly burst into excitement.

When others heard this, vague images also appeared in their minds.

Or.

It is the childhood memories of each of them.

once Upon a time.

They also bought various soldier dolls, and then got together, circled a place, put the soldiers on the field to fight, and innocently voiced their own voices.

bang bang bang—

biubiubi——

Very simple to play.

But it allows them to play all afternoon.

Combining this gameplay with the battle flag is a good idea.

But if it is paired with a ghost-like character model, it doesn't seem to work.

"Em... wouldn't this be a bit stupid?" Lao Li said what everyone wanted to say the most.

"Haha, for other people's battle flags, they all want to model the chess pieces and maps to the extreme. No one has really done it in a ghostly style."

"There's nothing you can do about it. This type of game doesn't have much investment in it, so the room for improvement is limited."

"Then we can enrich the gameplay a little bit and make up for the shortcomings?"

Everyone looked at each other and fell into deep thought.

But he didn't notice that Chen Lin, who was in the first place, suddenly had a smile on his face.

Now.

He finally remembered what the blurry picture was.

It seems that there is indeed a game that fits this design.

Thinking of this, he spoke again: "Try to join the troop system. Each troop has different attributes and attack modes. Players can freely fight through matching, without being stuck in a fixed grid."

"Mr. Chen, what do you mean, instant freedom to fight?" The employees reacted with a glimmer of light in their eyes.

"Yes, it means real-time free combat." Chen Lin nodded. "In the past, battle flags also had chess pieces, but they were all limited to grids. This way the pace was too slow, and the threshold for entry was too high."

"really."

Everyone strongly agrees with this statement: "Nowadays, the gameplay of Battle Flag is becoming more and more complex, which is a good thing for high-end players, but it abandons the largest number of ordinary players."

"So, why don't we just walk all the way to the dark side of the ghost road? Let those ghost chess pieces fight each other?"

"Okay, okay, this plan sounds pretty good."

"I agree too!"

While speaking, everyone showed a knowing smile.

They are the best at ghost games.

After all, he became the team leader by being a ghost in the first place.

Seeing that none of them had any objections, Chen Lin made a decision directly: "Okay, the project is settled like this. I will come up with a detailed plan for you later. Old Song and Old Li will gather the manpower first."

"OK."

"give it to me."

After assigning the tasks, everyone left the meeting and made preparations outside. Chen Lin returned to his office.

Because he didn't have time to prepare a plan in advance, he had to start all over again.

until noon the next day.

Finally, a simple plan was drawn up, printed out and handed over to the temporary project team of twenty people.

"Total War Simulator?"

Several employees gathered together to read the plan curiously.

"How was it? Is it difficult?" Chen Lin asked.

This game was exactly what he had played before, a ghost-style sandbox real-time war game.

Mainly because the projects he had recently produced were all large-scale game plans, which made him forget about it. He finally remembered it after discussing it in a meeting.

"no problem!"

"Guaranteed to complete the task!"

After a brief search, the members of the temporary group responded one after another with surprise in their eyes.

Because the types of soldiers designed in this plan are so rich, even far more than any War Flag game they have ever seen!

For example, spearmen, shield soldiers, musketeers, trebuchets, cannons, ballistas, and war elephants are just the most basic units.

There are more than a dozen major categories at the back.

There are at least seven or eight types of arms in each major category.

It’s simply more complete than an encyclopedia!

"If you have any new unit designs, you can add them as long as they don't seriously affect the balance."

After leaving a few words, Chen Lin turned around and left.

The members of the special team gathered together and began to allocate work.

In this way, everyone responsible for programming is assigned a dozen role programs on hand.

The difficulty seems great.

But they have prehistoric AI, and the basic code can be written quickly and then modified by them.

"After all, it doesn't seem like it will take much time. Let's just optimize and strengthen other aspects. We want to use the worst image quality to defeat those masterpieces!"

"Roar--"

Amidst the cheers, the twenty members sat back down and began to work hard.

The entire Honghuang Studio was once again busy.

...

Time flies.

Winter is coming.

After two months of overwhelming publicity, the Game Development Festival held by Yiyou Platform has finally been officially launched.

For this day, manufacturers large and small are working hard to promote projects and upload games to the Yiyou platform.

Players only need to click on the homepage to see a special page for the event, with a 20% discount on the entire event. It can be said that the event is very intense.

Because this discount is completely transferred from Yiyou to the game manufacturers.

The difference will be paid by the platform.

"It's so cool. There are more than 100 games on Steam, but you only need 80 or 90 here."

“There are many games on Steam that are also logged into the Yiyou platform!”

"I was reluctant to buy it before, but now I can finally do it."

"The masterpieces released by these companies all look good. Download them first and play them."

"You want to keep my heart with just a 20% discount? Are you...fuck? Is this game also on LineArt?"

Originally, the player base of Yiyou Platform in China was not low, but it was just not as good as Steam.

Nowadays, vigorous promotion and discount tactics have naturally attracted more players.

in.

The most popular ones are naturally those masterpieces.

Although it has not yet reached the 3A level, it is still a rare product, and its sales have soared at a very impressive rate.

"Very good. If this situation continues, our domestic market share should exceed 15%. It's not worth the high price I paid for these games."

The CEO of Yiyou looked at the increasing data and looked happy.

This data is already very scary for a game platform.

As long as they gain a foothold in the country, they can expand overseas and continue to expand their influence. Then it might be possible to compete with Steam.

"By the way, what game did Honghuang release this time?"

Suddenly, the boss thought of something and asked.

"This... seems to be a war-type sandbox game, very small in size." The project leader next to him answered hesitantly.

"Is that all?" The boss sighed, "That's right, after all, the time is so short, it's already good to be able to make a game."

"Forget it, our focus this time is to promote those masterpieces. Remember to pay attention to their trends and report to me at any time."

"clear!"

The person in charge responded and left in a hurry.