230 The Teachings of the Fat Leader

The booth of the peach production team is less than ten square meters, and there are only two computers that can play games, and by the way, they sell some character peripherals designed by themselves out of their own pockets, which should be very good when the Hollow Knight is on fire, but now this production team is not very famous, so there are almost no people in line.

After communicating with the fat leader, I learned that there are only three people in their studio, and there is just one master, one master, one master, and one mastermind. However, the division of work in the small studio is not so detailed, and the fat leader himself is the main planner, but also responsible for the operation and implementation of part of the program code, and by the way, he does some art logo design, which seems to be a very versatile producer at first glance......

"It's said that there are three people...... Jiang Yueya looked around, "But I think, only one of you is busy?" ”

"A guy was dumped by his girlfriend yesterday and cried at home."

"What about the other one?"

"The other one found a girlfriend yesterday and is now out on a date."

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Jiang Yueya was about to ask, but the fat leader hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's not a girlfriend!" If we had, our studio would have collapsed. ”

"That's still a fat leader, your love life is more stable......" An Ruosu began to tease the fat leader again, "You are still a few years away from being promoted to the Great Magician?" ”

"Don't delve into this, okay......" The fat leader wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned his head to look at Su Mo, "I heard Sister An say before, you have your own game production club at school, right?" ”

"Hmm...... yes, there are a dozen of them now. Su Mo nodded.

"It's better to be a student club," the fat leader sighed, "Everyone is enthusiastic and obedient...... The most important thing is that you don't have to pay. ”

"Aren't you generating electricity for love?" Jiang Yueya was puzzled, "You're going to pay the other two people?" ”

"We're a commercial studio, so of course we have to pay, but ...... There is also the nature of generating electricity for love," the fat leader said, "I write to earn manuscript fees and pay them salaries, and they also take on the outsourced work themselves, and everyone currently lives together, and it is convenient to communicate." ”

"Wow, it sounds so miserable...... Jiang Yueya shook her head, "I thought that games were made in that kind of high-end office building with a strong sense of technology." ”

"Of course, if you make an independent game, you can't play it with no money, so you can only live in the old and shabby ......"

The fat leader then shared with Su Mo some of the pits he stepped on when he was playing games, Su Mo and Jiang Yueya recorded them well, An Ruosu only thought about taking more photos, and seeing that he couldn't finish it for a while, he ran out to visit the comic exhibition by himself.

"It's so hard to make a game......"

"It's not terrible to work hard, it's just that I'm just worried that I won't be rewarded for my efforts," the fat leader thought for a moment, "or...... Give up halfway. I don't have to write this myself, because it's the progress that the author can control alone. Whether it can be completed normally depends on the author's conscience; But game projects are different, they are always something that can only be done by multiple people, and it is almost impossible to do it alone. ”

"Well, we understand that, too." Su Mo nodded.

"In addition, although student associations are free labor, they are also very unstable...... Over time, a lot of people's enthusiasm may fade or be attracted away by something else, which is also a problem. ”

The fat leader advised, "Those core frameworks and planning tables or something, it's best to hold them in your own hands." You say you're doing casual mobile games, I think it's very good - college students are not suitable for making too complex games, it's the same every year, and you don't have that much time, but it's a good idea to lay a good foundation. ”

"Uh-huh, it's really a leader...... There is so much knowledge that seniors know! "In fact, Su Mo usually tells Jiang Yueya these truths, but Jiang Yueya is used to being with Su Mo, and she doesn't think Su Mo is so powerful." So what casual mobile games are you optimistic about? ”

"I think it's very popular to have a free mobile game on the mobile phone recently, and it's very simple to do, and it's a kind of micro-innovation. For example, this "2048", it feels a bit like Huarong Dao to play, I have been analyzing the flow experience of this game recently, have you played it? I'll show youβ€”"

The excited fat leader put on a leadership stand in front of Su Mo and Jiang Yueya, not noticing the surprised expression on Jiang Yueya's face, "That, fat leader, that "2048" is-"

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

"No, nothing."

Su Mo covered Jiang Yueya's mouth and found that the fat leader's mobile phone was an Android machine.

The Android version of "2048" Su Mo was also released in schools, but there was no platform cooperation, so it was not promoted on a large scale.

And this "2048", whether it is a texture or a feel, seems to be much smoother than the version made by Su Mo.

"This ...... Is it the official version of "2048"? Su Mo frowned and said, "I remember that the official "2048" is only available in the IOS version, right?" ”

"It doesn't matter if it's genuine.,For ordinary programmers.,This kind of game is basically a game that can be reproduced at a glance.,You're talking about the 2048 on the APPSTORE, right? I've played it, and it doesn't feel as good as these. ”

"How can this be!"

"2048" is also Jiang Yueya's debut, at least the later functional modules are also designed by her, and it is normal for her to be angry, "These people are plagiarizing the creative gameplay of "2048"! ”

"Plagiarism in gameplay is hard to define." The fat leader shook his head, "As long as the evidence is conclusive that it is not the source code directly removed, otherwise it will be difficult to sue for plagiarism." You see, when the bubble hall and go-karts were very popular before, didn't the penguins come out of the penguin hall and penguin speed? Do you see how many people are playing flying cars now, how many people are playing go-karts? ”

"That's not the penguin channeling through the platform, otherwiseβ€”"

"The platform is really one aspect of the problem, but do you want to say that karts are really a lot better than flying cars in terms of gameplay experience? Maybe it was true at the beginning, but now the situation has changed, which point of the Penguin team's follow-up ability, operation and maintenance, and gameplay innovation is not as good as go-kart? You can't just stare at the plagiarism gameplay, if you want to talk about plagiarism, go-karts don't either-"

"yes, yes." Jiang Yueya nodded, "If you want to talk about plagiarism in gameplay, karts and flying cars are all copied from our Nintendo's plumber cars." ”

"The world's games are all a big copy, whoever makes it first can eat the initial dividends, but then whoever has better quality wins." The fat leader said earnestly, "If you want to keep the game you make to be remembered, you still need to cultivate the core competitiveness of your own products." ”

Su Mo was a little unimpressed with the fat leader's theory at first, but after listening to it, he also figured out some truths.

"But the quality polishing of a small team must not be comparable to that of a large game company......

"yes, so what you can do is polish your product as much as you can before the game is made. If the polishing is good enough and then release it, it will be time-consuming and laborious for large companies to catch up with your fineness, and they will propose cooperation to you, so as to avoid the fate of being killed by large companies plagiarizing competition. ”

"That's it...... Can only bow down like that shameless big company? I don't want to work with that kind of commercial company. ”

Su Mo really thought like this - build the studio, make it bigger and stronger, and then sell it to Penguin to exchange shares to earn financial freedom or something;

However, it seems that Yueya has no such plan here......

Also, her family is not short of money.

"Of course, there is another way." The fat leader explained, "That is, to make your products niche and segmented into categories, so small that large companies simply don't care about the profits and market share you may generate - such as doing a stand-alone machine or something like us." ”

"Finally, build your own product style and form your own 'culture' in the game," the fat leader smiled slightly, "In this way, the market will change in the future, and others will not be able to learn the essence of the game even if they copy it." ”