“…… What's the point of buying hot searches? You might as well use the money to give me a bonus. Zhou Sen whispered.

Zhong Ming smiled: "Buying hot searches can increase the popularity of the game and make more money." Give you a bonus, and you won't be more grateful to the company, where does the leader want the money to be spent, don't you have a B number in your heart. ”

"But the heat hasn't picked up yet." Zhou Sen said.

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes." The popularity of this thing is like this, and now it is difficult to figure out the focus of everyone's attention on the Internet, and sometimes it is useless to spend money on hot searches. If the heat goes down, it goes down, and there is no better way. ”

"Poor old Xie is still in a sea of suffering." Zhou Sen was sympathetic.

Zhong Ming said: "Don't worry about Lao Xie, he has nothing to fall into the sea of suffering, now the project is supervised by President Bai, and he just happens to continue the Buddhist system." And for others, the bonus is just a little less, and it's not that it can't go on. When the wind gradually passed, Mr. Yu no longer attached so much importance to the project of "Endless Learning", Director Bai was transferred, and Director Xie and they could continue to point to this game to earn bonuses. ”

"But will there still be a bonus by then?"

"Yes. As long as there is no policy to completely ban this kind of answering program, it will definitely continue to exist, and it is nothing more than a matter of earning more and earning less. The decline in popularity is a good thing, and you can continue to retire. ”

"Hey, keep working." Zhou Sen no longer bothered about the bonus and continued to type the code.

……

On the Internet, the heat about the virtual idol contest is gradually dissipating.

After the virtual idol competition, Xinghua Mutual Entertainment announced the company's next stage of promotion plan, Shangguan Yun and Tiya, the two virtual idols, will be the focus of future promotion, created by a professional team, and strive to meet all fans in two or three months.

At that time, at the virtual idol concert of Xinghua Interactive Entertainment, several newcomers will take the stage together with veteran virtual idols such as Su Bai and Dina.

It's just that many fans wonder, what about Chanel?

won the first place in the virtual idol competition, why is there no news after that??

Especially after Xinghua Mutual Entertainment's official Weibo announced the promotion plan of Shangguan Yun and Tiya, there were many question marks underneath.

"Why isn't my wife on the list??"

"What the hell, the second and third places have promotion, but the first place doesn't?"

"Spicy Chicken Xinghua Entertainment, shady!"

"Dude, don't scold...... This is really not Xinghua Mutual Entertainment's pot, do you think they don't want to push Xia Nell, they want to do it too much, but the original author didn't sign a contract with them at all, didn't sell the copyright, how do you let Xinghua Mutual Entertainment push it. ”

"Huh? I always thought that by participating in this competition, I signed a copyright development agreement by default. ”

"Really no, Xinghua Mutual Entertainment did not force all the contestants to sign, it is estimated that they are very confident in their own company. But also, the average player participated in the competition, and how good it was to sell the work and eat it deliciously, it is estimated that Xinghua Mutual Entertainment didn't expect that Zhong Ming would hold the virtual idol in his hand, and he didn't sell it at all......"

"So the original author wants to develop the copyright himself?"

"The developer is a fart, the author is a newcomer, and he just registered a studio after getting a bonus two days ago, or is he still making an independent game...... He's got a fart resource exploitation copyright ......"

“…… Wouldn't I be able to see my goddess at the concert? It's uncomfortable to think about! It's uncomfortable! ”

"Hey, I don't know what the author thinks, I don't know how to cherish such a good promotion opportunity."

"So what is an indie game?"

"I don't know, I didn't make it. I also paid special attention to the author's Weibo, and there has been no movement since the studio's Weibo. ”

"Send a private message and ask?"

Many people sent private messages to Zhong Ming's Weibo, asking about Xia Nail's situation.

In short, you have to continue to develop the image of Xia Nell, big guy, you don't give it to others if you hold it in your hands, and you can't develop it yourself, isn't that blind?

However, the private messages did not receive a response.

……

In the blink of an eye, a week passed.

Because there is already a script, it doesn't take much time on this. The procedural framework of the game itself is not complicated, and the character drawing does not require much precision, so it is very fast to do.

Of course, because there are too many character paintings and original scene paintings, in order to be completed faster, it is also necessary to outsource a number of less important roles to reduce some workload, according to the market price, an ordinary vertical painting also costs about 2000, which is also a large expenditure of tens of thousands of yuan.

Moreover, since it is a serious indie game, it is certainly impossible to copy everything as it is, and many aspects can still be optimized.

For example, in terms of character painting, each character will have a variety of expressions and actions according to the different plots, and there must be a variety of different sound effects and screen effects according to the plot.

Things like screen shaking, red filters that mimic bleeding, etc., all of these things take a little bit of time.

What is also more important is the voice of the character.

Although it is okay to have no voice, it is best to have it, which can give players a strong sense of substitution, and with the function of automatic playback, the text adventure game is more like a moving book, which will give players a better game experience.

And the voice thing is not difficult to do, just spend money.

In fact, for Zhong Ming, the development of "Latent Red Path" simply could not spend more than one million, this was done to control costs and prevent some uncontrollable situations from happening.

For example, what should I do if I can't finish the original painting? Can't get enough music? Or try to buy some referrals where the game is live?

These parts that may or may not be spent, Zhong Ming also took them into account. After all, he can't get money from other places now, and if the funding chain breaks halfway through the game, it will be really difficult to do.

Fortunately, you can find a special studio for dubbing, and the price is 90-120 yuan/minute/person. And because there are many characters in "Latent Red Path", there are more than 50 people, even if the voice actors are monsters, they can dub N characters by themselves, which is still a very huge project.

The game is almost all about dialogue, and it may take 8~10 hours if all the lines are connected, so that the money spent on dubbing alone will cost 60,000 or 70,000 yuan. Of course, there must be a discount for dubbing so many voices, but it can't go anywhere.

After all, if you want to be brilliant in dubbing, you have to find some particularly good voice actors, and some sentences that are not emotionally in place have to be re-recorded.

Zhou Sen and Jiang Wanna are very tolerant, and they haven't watched the plot written by Zhong Ming.

Zhou Sen just set up the program framework according to Zhong Ming's requirements, and then equipped a small part of the table, and the main plot progress was directly controlled by Zhong Ming. Jiang Wanna's words only drew some of the characters' vertical paintings, helping Zhong Ming draw different expressions and movements of the same character.

Because these two people are enduring, they want to experience the game themselves after the game is made.

"Well, Zhong Ming, in fact, I've always had a problem. How do we promote our game? To be honest, this name is really a bit unsuitable for promotion, and it means that you will be persuaded to quit just by looking at the name. ”

Zhou Sen expressed his concerns.