Chapter 180: Asymmetrical Competitive Game

In the evening, Wang Yuejin invited a few sketch actors to dinner, and Chen Xiao followed cheekily.

These people are worthy of being jokers, and they can make people laugh even if they have a meal.

Early the next morning, Chen Xiao went to the game company first.

Zhang Yunyi reported the results of the game as soon as he saw Chen Xiao, although "Three Kingdoms Killing" Chen Xiao did publicity, but the best results at present are still "Snake".

Now "Snake" is known as a "completely unstoppable game" on the Internet, and it is very popular.

"Mr. Chen, at present, the daily active users of "Snake" have exceeded 10 million, and it has been on the free game list during the first recommendation period, and now it is at the top of the free list. ”

What does it mean to exceed 10 million daily active users, it means that it has become a phenomenal game.

Chen Xiao asked, "How is the profitability?"

"The profitability is not optimistic, so far the turnover is less than two million, and now it can only be regarded as a break-even, Mr. Chen, should we increase the fee. ”

Chen Xiao: "The charge is not in a hurry for the time being, if we are Tianyu, we can already harvest a wave now, but it is not good to change to any other game company, we are even more not, for the time being, this game can only be raised first, just as it is to increase users for us, and we will do a good job of word of mouth first." ”

The status of Tianxia Entertainment Company in the game industry is like a penguin in the previous life, not to mention a monopoly, it can also be regarded as a leading enterprise in the game industry, and it has a large number of network industries in addition to games.

"Mr. Chen, this game has a good reputation now, not only dominating the list for a month, but also exceeding 300,000 user reviews, which is the download of the game. ”

Zhang Yunyi took a chart, Chen Xiao looked at it, and it was a very beautiful curve that rose steadily.

Zhang Yunyi said: "The number of official Weibo fans of "Snake" has also exceeded 300,000, and the number of Weibo topic #Snake Mobile Game# has reached 1.2 billion, 17,000 fans, and nearly 3,000 posts, and the headline push of the official public account can reach 10W+ reading volume within half an hour. ”

It can be seen that Zhang Yunyi has done a very full job, almost in all aspects.

The download list is at the top, but the sales list is missing, this is the current situation of "Snake".

Then Zhang Yunyi reported on the operation of "Three Kingdoms", which is generally not a little worse than "Snake", but the user viscosity is very high, and the evaluation is also very good.

However, in general, it is still the development stage of the game, and it is still a little difficult to make money.

However, the good thing is that the fans of the scarecrow game have increased a lot, and the previous decline has been completely reversed.

Now it looks like a thriving start-up company, not yet making money, but the momentum is very strong.

Now the difference is that it is a game that can make money in a short time.

Chen Xiao said: "In the Chinese New Year, "Cat and Mouse" will be released as a movie, and "Cat and Mouse" will also enter the publicity period after a while. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yunyi already knew that Chen Xiao was preparing to launch the IP of "Cat and Mouse".

"Mr. Chen, are you finally going to make "Cat and Mouse"?"

Chen Xiao nodded: "I plan to take advantage of this publicity period to join in directly, and when the "Cat and Mouse" movie is launched, the attention of "Cat and Mouse" will usher in an increase, and at this time, we will directly release our game, which will definitely have an unexpected effect." ”

Although the reputation of "Cat and Mouse" is good now, the number of fans is definitely not as good as in the previous life.

After all, it is a game that has accompanied the growth of a generation, and it has feelings.

"Then Mr. Chen, what type of game are we going to make?"

Chen Xiao asked, "What do you think?"

"Mr. Chen, I know that the company will use this IP sooner or later, so I have been thinking about the development of this game in terms of playability. ”

"It's okay, sit down and listen. ”

Chen Xiao heated the tea on the side, poured himself a cup, and poured another cup for Zhang Yunyi.

Zhang Yunyi hurriedly took it with both hands, and then said: "First, I think you can make a parkour game, let the cat chase the mouse, the player controls the mouse, and then you need to avoid various obstacles, and you need to collect gold coins halfway......"

Chen Xiao listened to it, and it felt like "Temple Escape", he nodded: "Yes, what else?"

With Chen Xiao's encouragement, Zhang Yunyi continued: "The second one, I think it can be designed as a mode of breaking through the level, there are two ways of thinking, one is that the player controls the mouse, and finally needs to defeat the cat, and you can collect various props in the middle of the road, and you can solve the mobs that stand in the way along the road......"

It's like Super Mario again.

"Second, the player can control the cat, and need to remove the rats in various places......"

It's like a variant of a collection game again.

"Also, I think we could make a confrontation game where players play as a cat and a mouse at the same time, and fight against each other in one scene. ”

Now Chen Xiao was interested and said, "You can tell me in detail about your idea of fighting the game." ”

Zhang Yunyi: "Mr. Chen, I think so, cats have a natural advantage over mice, so they can attack with claws, and the speed can also be designed to be a little faster than mice."

And the mouse is the weak side, so you need to use a variety of props, just like in the animation, it can be a fork or a fruit bowl, both sides have a certain amount of blood, the one who empties the blood volume wins, and the game setting can also add a piece to wait in place for three seconds to continue to recover the amount of blood.

In terms of props, invisibility potions, transformation potions, explosives, etc. can be made to increase the fun of the game. ”

Chen Xiao asked, "Then have you considered too many people to fight?"

"Mr. Chen, if it is a multi-person confrontation, the advantage of the cat's side will increase exponentially, and if several cats are together, I am afraid it will be one-sided, so the difficulty in terms of game balance will also increase exponentially. ”

Chen Xiao shook his head: "I'm talking about asymmetrical competition." ”

"Asymmetrical competition? Are there unequal numbers of cats and mice? There seems to be no precedent for this, right?"

"Wouldn't it be best if there was no precedent? ”

"Set this precedent?"

Zhang Yunyi was stunned, as if he had fallen into a misunderstanding.

But in the game industry, we have always learned from each other, and it takes a certain amount of courage to create a precedent.

For example, "Snake" and "Three Kingdoms Killing", although there are no similarities, this model can still be found.

And in the game, not the more unique the design, the more likely it is to win word-of-mouth, on the contrary, it is likely that word-of-mouth will directly collapse.

But on the other hand, if done well, it may set a precedent.

He looked at his boss again, perhaps because of this courage, he was able to achieve such success.

Thinking of this, his heart was hot.

"Mr. Chen, then let's do an asymmetrical competitive game!"