Chapter 178: An Unexpected Harvest
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In the office, Arthur leaned comfortably on the boss's chair, holding a coffee cup in his right hand, sipping a fragrant caramel macchiato, he liked the smell of vanilla and caramel, taking a sip of macchiato coffee, in the gradual fusion of NAI foam and coffee, he could taste the mellow aroma of Italian coffee, and also appreciate the dense sweetness of cow NAI, intertwined and blended, wonderful.
Edward, who was sitting opposite Arthur, had no time to taste the coffee on the table, he was curiously looking at the stack of scratch paper handed to him by the boss in his hand, after he read the game idea on the first scratch paper, he cherished and valued the stack of paper in his hand, because in his opinion, no matter how great the technology is, there is price, and creativity is priceless!
Seeing that Edward finished reading the last page of the draft, and then carefully neatly organized, staring at himself with those bright eyes, Arthur smiled and put down his coffee cup, stretched out his hand and pointed to the draft in Edward's hand.
"FPPY Bird is the first mobile game I want the studio to develop, the graphics are very similar to Super Mario, and the style is also pixel-hand-drawn, the game is very simple to operate, and it is very easy to develop, I hope to make Ready Player One Studio a hit with this game.
Although I said that this game can be said to be very simple in terms of operation, but this simplicity will indeed make players feel helpless, it should be, players need to keep clicking on the screen in the game to let the bird fly, if you don't click or hold the screen, the bird will fall directly and die, so the player can only keep poking the phone screen.
Hehe, you can feel the simplicity of the operation, right?"
Arthur looked at Edward's somewhat surprised expression on the other side, and continued with a smile: "But it's such a simple operation that can make people helpless, I should have set up a lot of obstacles in front of the flight, the player needs to control the bird to fly through the middle, and must accurately control the time to touch the screen, early, late, fast, slow, and it will be sacrificed if it touches the pipe."
Moreover, I envision that this game does not have any level limitations, and all players can do is to rely on their own efforts to run through the pipes infinitely, and each time they pass through a pipe, there will be a number on the head to remind the player that they have passed the first one.
At the same time, the game is a cycle mode, if you hit the pipe halfway and sacrifice, then you have to start all over again, and if you want to resurrect and then come, there is no door. So this game also tests the player's ability to be steady, a life that can't be repeated, and every step must be taken firmly and seriously... ”
The operation is simple, the difficulty is great, and the loop is infinite... Hearing these keywords, Edward couldn't help but think of something, looked at his boss, and said with a serious expression: "This game may have a high addiction. ”
"Hehe, it's not possible, but it's really easy to play YIN, and the reason why the game is set to be difficult to change Tai is because it's so difficult to play, and it's so simple to die, which means that players will replay the same level over and over again many times. It's like a bad habit that people can't fix, the more you want to eat, the more you eat. In my vision, Fppy Bird is the devil who drives dopamine.
People love self-torture and like to share the results. The difficulty level of the game is the most important factor that makes it a hit. Guided by the self-nue model, it will bring about a word-of-mouth effect, which can form a strong secondary spread of the virus. ”
Arthur told all the reasons for the popularity of "Fppy Bird" in his previous life that he had thought of in the past two days, and to be honest, it was really hard to control a group of smart talents.
"And, this game, I'm ready to put it on the shelves for free for everyone to download, and as for monetization, my idea is through built-in ads, and I think that under the premise of being free, people will not refuse to put ads on the background screen in the game. ”
Hearing the boss's introduction and explanation, Edward nodded in agreement, looked down at the content of the painting on the draft again, couldn't help frowning slightly, then looked up at Arthur, and said with some uncertainty: "Boss, you said before that the picture content is similar to Super Mario, I saw that the pipe style drawn on your draft is almost similar to that of Super Mario, which will undoubtedly attract Nintendo's entanglement, and Nintendo has the legal department of the strongest multinational company on the surface, specializing in copyright lawsuits." ”
"Huh?" Arthur frowned slightly, groaned, recalled the memory of his previous life, and there was no memory of the lawsuit, but this game was taken off the shelves early, but since there was a risk of infringement, then it had to be changed.
"Then change the appearance of the pipeline barrier, distinguish it, I don't think there will be any problem... As for the second game, it's this cat, which I've called Talking John, and it's a mobile pet app that reacts when the player touches it and completely retells what the player says in a comical voice.
The most important feature and buying point of this game is imitation. Speak to it and it repeats it in its strange voice. For all the players who own the game, let John Cat learn to say something funny, and you can also upload the recording of John's retelling of the player's speech to YouTube or Facebook, or email it to friends and family. Play with this talking John's cat and enjoy the joy and laughter. ”
Arthur pointed to the scratch paper that Edward had found with a cartoon image of a standing cat.
"Talking John, does it imitate speech?" Edward looked at the cartoon character on the paper, muttered a few words in his heart, and then looked at Arthur and asked, "What about the way to make money?"
"It's still free to download, the game needs gold coins to buy props, we can sell gold coins, and we can also have built-in ads. Arthur smiled and said, "Free is the most expensive!"
Edward nodded approvingly, as the saying goes, there is no such thing as a free lunch. When you think it's pie in the sky, you don't know that it's easy to be stoned to death. When you get some kind of "free", you are definitely paying the cost of this "free" in another form, in exchange for the equivalent.
This "Talking John Cat" is clearly for players in the teenage age group, which is the most attractive to advertisers, and it is conceivable that once this game becomes popular, the advertising revenue will definitely be huge.
Thinking about it, Edward's eyes couldn't help but become brighter, and then he said with some excitement: "Boss, why don't we let this talking John Cat directly make an instant messaging app, you can add contacts to your list, set up a community group, so that our players can play games at the same time, you can also chat and interact, I think this is much more promising than a simple pet game!"
"Not a bad idea!" Arthur was reminded by Edward, and he really felt that he had a head, and he could take some of the functions of the prestige of his previous life and use them in the game, even if it didn't reach the level of instant messaging, it could also become a very good social JIAO game, so that the interaction could increase the playability of this game, and the lifespan.
I have to say that professional is professional, I just thought of copying creativity and continuing to make games, but Edward thought of social JIAO software because of an imitation of talking, and no matter how you look at it, mobile games can't be compared with social JIAO software.
"However, according to your idea, then Talking John Cat could have set up a studio of its own, and it is almost out of the category of mobile games. Arthur pondered for a moment, his eyes brightened, and the corners of his mouth turned up as he looked at Edward and said.
"Social JIAO dating APP, perhaps more suitable for positioning, you can play games, you can establish an interactive community, you can also meet new friends, the image of John Cat can be freely selected, you can buy a variety of props, to dress up your own characteristics of the image of John Cat, what you want to say, the background is processed instantly, and the image of John Cat is directly displayed in the community group. . . ”
At this time, Edward seemed to be awakened to an epiphany, all kinds of fresh ideas and ideas began to burst out, and Arthur, who was sitting opposite him, was a little shocked.
Talent, fortunately I didn't throw him on the side of the martial arts world website as a technical director, that is undoubtedly destroying the heavens and burying talents!
"Very good, very good!" Arthur clapped his hands a little excitedly, he was really happy, it was definitely the most unexpected gain, "In that case, let's directly set up two studios, a mobile game studio, and a social JIAO dating software that develops this "Talking John Cat", if you can work hard, you will be responsible for managing these two studios, is there a problem?"
"No problem. Edward smiled confidently, he was already a little eager to set up a studio and start working, he was very much looking forward to the development of "Talking John Cat" after the development of people's reaction, adults may not care, but teenagers will definitely love this app tailored for them.
"Hmm. For Edward's self-confidence, Arthur nodded with satisfaction, and after humming lightly, he continued: "In this way, the second game to be developed can only choose "Fruit Knight", yes, this is the one... ”
Looking at a draft of Edward's drawings of various cut fruits, he nodded and said, "This is an advertisement for fruit knives that I happened to see on TV at home, in order to show the sharpness of the knife, the salesman throws the fruit into the air, and then uses the fruit knife to cut the fruit in the air. Creativity that comes to mind. The touch screen of the crazy mobile phone,Undoubtedly, it is the most suitable for this game.,Fingers make knives.,Scratch through the tossed fruits that keep appearing on the screen.,I think it will be very interesting.。。。 ”