What does it take to develop a game?

A programmer with awesome technology, a master planner who can control the pace of the game, and who is responsible for level design, numerical and plot planning, plus an artist who is responsible for game modeling, action and design style?

Well, these are all needed.

Of course, you can also include all of these, and then put it more simply and clearly, that is, small money!

The development cycle of a game, as well as the quality of development, if it is completely linked to money, it is absolute.

Most game development teams don't really mean that they have encountered some kind of bottleneck in the development process, but that their budget is not enough for them to solve them.

Yang Chen, who has hundreds of thousands of funds in hand and has already made up his mind to outsource, is at least much easier than some independent game makers.

Compared with Yang Chen's thoughts, it was a little smoother, including UI, music, and art modeling outsourcing, Yang Chen directly contacted a second-tier outsourcing company in Jiangshi.

Although the fee is a little more expensive, the corresponding scale reputation and strength are also guaranteed.

After all, the game outsourcing industry is also mixed, and some small company studios with outsourcing brands will even act as second-class dealers.

To put it simply, it is pimping, outsourcing the outsourced work to a third-party studio again, and this phenomenon is still relatively common in this industry.

If you really want to bump into it, then there will be a lot of nonsense, and even if you can get the money in the end, then your game project is basically over.

Therefore, Yang Chen would rather spend a little more money to find a reliable outsourcing company than find an outsourcing company with a lower price but has never heard of it.

"The price is so expensive!" In the rental house, Wang Yaliang, who was sleeping on Yang Chen's lap, licked the ice cream and said in surprise while looking at the quotation from the outsourcing company.

"It's a bit expensive, but with some small outsourcing, it's easier for them to trust; And eat less, don't eat your stomach. Yang Chen tapped his hands on the notebook, looked at Wang Yaliang sleeping on his lap, and moved without a trace.

It's been almost half an hour, and my thighs are about to be numb.

"No...... Yes...... I only ate the second one today, and the first one was in the morning. Wrapping the ice cream in his mouth, Wang Yaliang, who was cold and air-conditioned, said inarticulately.

"I have made an appointment with the other party, go to the other party's company in the afternoon to see their situation, do you want to go with me?" Yang Chen turned his head and looked at Wang Yaliang, who was licking Qiao Lezi back and forth with his tongue sticking out, and took advantage of her inattention to bite out a big gap in the ice cream under her startled gaze.

In general, outsourcing projects are basically through the transmission of effect samples online, and then I feel that I almost pay a deposit, and then pay according to the results.

As for the reason for going to the other company's company to talk, it is mainly because Chu Yang has some special requirements, and it is best to be able to explain it face-to-face, this game can be said to determine his future fate, and it is impossible to pay too much attention to it.

What's more, the other party's company is not far from Jiangshi.

"Don't go, the finale of the drama this afternoon." Wang Yaliang bit the popsicle that had been eaten, thought for about two or three seconds, and then said to Yang Chen very decisively.

"Okay." Yang Chen showed an expression that was really like this, and responded.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Chen came to the high-tech industrial park in Jiang City.

A game outsourcing company called 'Dream Chasing', if you really want to say that it is famous, it must not be comparable to the famous 'Vitas', but there are also some projects that can be handled, and the strength is not bad, which is one of the reasons why Yang Chen mainly chose it.

The scale of the company is okay, there are about 20 or so employees at work, and a slanted glance at Yang Chen can basically see that most of them are making art materials for page games and mobile games.

From the character painting style, you can see it at a glance.

In the office, moving the disposable teacup to the side, Yang Chen put his laptop on the table.

"Mr. Yang Chen, do you want to make a pixel style stand-alone game?" A man with glasses about thirty asked Chu Yang curiously.

Hu Jun, the boss of the 'Dream Chasing' outsourcing company, actually doesn't attach much importance to Yang Chen's business, but he is still very surprised by the game Yang Chen wants to make.

After all, stand-alone games are really not popular in China, although it is not without a market, but there is obviously a trend of polarization, especially for outsourcing companies like them.

Most of their businesses are mobile games, online games, and web games, and they basically don't receive a single order for single-player games all year round.

After all, companies that have the money to engage in stand-alone machines don't need to find third-rate outsourcing like them; Indie studios and indie game producers, because of the lack of development costs, want a single programmer to complete all the game development work.

So when Yang Chen told him about the type of game he developed before, Hu Jun was really curious.

"That's right." Yang Chen nodded.

"It's not easy to do this line of work!" Hu Jun couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Especially when it comes to pixel art games, to be honest, this kind of pixel-like game is really thankless, I remember that some time ago, wasn't there a pixel game with a dungeon magic theme that crashed?" ”

Pixel-art, dungeons, fantasy genre......

I'm so sorry, you're talking about me!

But then again, if you have the money, who wants to do low resolution, who wants to do pixels? Who wouldn't want to make their in-game modeling in HD 3D?

The expression on Yang Chen's face didn't change much, but there was a little embarrassment in his heart.

"I believe in the game I'm going to make."

But soon Yang Chen thought of his dream memories, and those countless amazing games made Yang Chen full of confidence.

Maybe I'm really a little shrimp in the game industry now, but I'm not alone, I'm standing on the shoulders of giants, and I have the wealth of another planet behind me.

Hu Jun didn't say anything about Yang Chen's self-confidence, although he was not a big man, but he had been in this business for a long time, before he opened 'Dream Chasing', after he opened 'Dream Chasing', he had seen too many young people who were full of self-confidence and did not hit the wall or look back.

"Chu Yang." Hu Jun shouted outside, and two seconds later, a somewhat handsome young man knocked on the door and walked in.

"Mr. Hu." Chu Yang walked in the door, glanced at Yang Chen who was sitting on a stool, and then walked towards Hu Jundao.

"Chu Yang, the art director of our company. Mr. Yang, if you have any specific requirements, and what are the requirements in terms of style, just mention them directly to Chu Yang. Hu Jun introduced Yang Chen.

After a few polite words, Yang Chen followed Chu Yang to his office.

A few minutes later, Yang Chen looked at the original sketch drawn by Chu Yang according to his description, and shook his head: "No, it's not this style. ”

How to describe it?

Yang Chen was a little short of words, and he didn't know how to describe the style of the game in his mind, as well as the monster style in it.