"By the way, when will the new game be developed?" Looking at Yang Chen, who was slumped on the sofa, Wang Yaliang, who was feeding the steel eggs dog food, asked.

"Next Monday, finance, programs and art, and planning have all been recruited, and I still need to polish some more "Resident Evil", and I don't plan to hand over this project to 'Dream Chasing', their hard power is still a little worse." Yang Chen said.

The studio's various positions have been recruited, and a dedicated finance department has been hired, which is almost on the right track.

"So what's our new game?" Wang Yaliang said a little curiously.

"A game of its kind on a smaller scale." Yang Chen already had a general idea in his heart.

Make a game that is not so risky, at least eliminate the danger of cost breakage.

At the same time, it can also be regarded as allowing the members of the team to run in.

After all, the cost of making Resident Evil on a triple-A scale is definitely not a small amount, and Yang Chen also needs to accumulate a lot of things.

Even if "Octopath Traveler" made a lot of money, Yang Chen was really worried about encountering the dilemma of suddenly running out of money halfway through.

The two of them leaned on the sofa and had a discussion about the next studio, when the mobile phone next to them suddenly rang while chatting.

"Yes, that's right...... Okay, no problem, of course there is time. Hanging up the phone, a smile appeared on Yang Chen's face.

"Who's calling? What's the matter? Wang Yaliang came over with some curiosity.

"Nominated for the Golden Bird Game Awards, I was invited to participate next week." Yang Chen said with a smile.

The Golden Bird Game Award has another name in Huaxia, that is, the Best Independent Game Award, which is also a default unspoken rule.

Although the Golden Bird Game Award itself does not make it clear, including the nomination of the game, it says it all, since the beginning of the event, there has not been a 3A-level game landing, whether it is a phenomenon or a popular one.

On the contrary, it is an excellent indie game in the domestic industry every year, and it has never been absent, even if the producer does not go to the other party, the award will be awarded normally.

It can be said that it is much more formal than the Shanghai Independent Game Conference that Lin Jiayi invited Yang Chen to participate in.

And this is also the most valuable award in China in addition to the official release of authoritative independent game producers, and the most influential annual independent games.

"Got the prize!?" Wang Yaliang's eyes lit up.

She doesn't know how much gold the Golden Bird Game Award is.

"Who knows, it's just an invitation to participate in the nomination." Yang Chen smiled and shook his head and said.

Although he also thinks that "The Marriage of Isaac" and "Octopath Traveler" can have a high probability of winning awards, after all, they are just nominations, so don't talk too much.

"That's right." Wang Yaliang lost his interest when he heard this.

…………

On Monday morning, Yang Chen and Wang Yaliang drove to Nebula Studio.

Not counting Yang Chen and Wang Yaliang, the scale of the entire studio, including finance, has expanded to 14 people, including Chen Shu, a total of 3 people in charge of art, and a total of 6 of the three of them, including Wang Ye, and 2 executive planning, and the rest are administrative finance and server-side programs.

"I believe that everyone already knows each other, I won't say anything else, and we will have two main projects next." After everyone finished introducing themselves, Yang Chen smiled and said.

Hearing Yang Chen's words, everyone immediately became serious and excited, and Chen Shu, Wang Ye and the other four sat up straight.

I have to say that the success of "Octopath Traveler" exceeded everyone's expectations, everyone thought that "Octopath Traveler" would be successful, but they did not expect it to be so successful.

At the same time, the rapid expansion of Nebula Studios also made them feel a little pressure.

In private, everyone signed up for the corresponding study class, including Chen Shu herself, who also began to learn the program simply.

When there is an opportunity, no one wants to get by, and Chen Shu doesn't want "Octopath Traveler" to be the peak of their careers.

"Escape is the next game we're going to make, a horror game." Yang Chen looked at everyone and said.

Temporarily put down "Resident Evil", this is a decision that Yang Chen has carefully thought about and made, the most important thing is the huge scale and cost constraints.

It may not be a true 3A, but it's not far off.

After thinking carefully, Yang Chen focused his attention on another game in his dream memory-"Escape".

In fact, before choosing "Escape", Yang Chen also considered another horror game "Silent Hill" in his dream memory.

But after thinking about it later, Yang Chen still gave up, because compared to "Escape", "Silent Hill" is not a little more difficult in game production.

Just like the elements that most horror games are good at, religion, psychology, and unknown mysteries are vividly displayed in "Silent Hill".

For the creation of a depressing and terrifying atmosphere in the game, as well as self-psychological suggestion, Yang Chen feels that it is a little more in-depth than "Resident Evil".

At the same time, there are so many religious overtones in it, although religion is obviously a great subject for horror games.

But Yang Chen has never been very interested in religion, and this kind of existence is also very easy to imply something, even if you don't have such thoughts, someone will give you excessive interpretation.

For example, reading comprehension used to be done in elementary school textbooks.

Author: "Good night! ”

Student: The word "evening" in "Good Night" indicates the time, reminiscent of the darkness of the sky, symbolizing the darkness of society at that time and the lack of livelihood of the people. However, under this black sky, people feel "peaceful", which reflects the numbness of the people, and the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence reflects the author's numbness of the people's "mourning their misfortune and being angry with them"

Author:......

Whether it's literature, movies, anime or games, this phenomenon of over-understanding has always existed.

In addition, it is the creation of the atmosphere in "Silent Hill", which is really great, especially in the switching scenes between the world and the inside world, as well as the supporting aspects, especially in the theme soundtrack of the final clearance of "Silent Hill 2".

That feeling is different from the soundtrack in "Octopath Traveler", and even makes Yang Chen feel that if the soundtrack is missing, the game will drop a rating.

So after thinking about it for a long time, Yang Chen finally decided to give up "Silent Hill" as a work for the team to run in before developing "Resident Evil", and instead chose another simple and crude "Escape".

Compared with "Resident Evil" and "Silent Hill", the scale of escape is obviously much smaller, autosuggestion and visual impact, coupled with the dual integration of marketing and graphics, this is the most essential and scary part of "Escape", there is no need to think about a lot of plot tactfulness like "Silent Hill", nor do you need to think about resource allocation like "Resident Evil", and so on can allow players to substitute fear.

At the same time, the scale of development cost is not too large, which is also very suitable as a game for practice, and how to create a terrifying atmosphere in terms of visual and auditory effects is something that Yang Chen hopes to let the whole team learn.

But after listening to Yang Chen's words, Chen Shu and Wang Ye, including the newcomers to Nebula Studio, were all confused.