"Fortunately, it was detected early, it was a benign mesothelioma, and a minor surgery was all it would do. I think the old man's physical fitness is quite good, and he will be fine after the operation and recuperation for a period of time. ”

Gu Wei specially asked the director of the internal medicine department of the hospital for diagnosis, and the director's words also relieved everyone present.

Gu Cancan had mixed feelings in his heart.

In the time and space before her rebirth, her grandfather was diagnosed with a lung tumor two years later, and it had become cancerous by that time. Now it is detected two years in advance, and the tumor is still benign, so it is good to have surgery.

Fortunately, now that I am here, I must make my family healthy.

Gu Cancan's grandfather went through the hospitalization procedures directly on the same day, and the next day, he successfully underwent surgery.

The operation was very successful, and the elderly were able to go home after recuperating in the hospital for a period of time.

Knowing the result, Gu Cancan completely relieved his heart, in this life, his grandfather's illness was discovered early, and the treatment was timely, and he would definitely not die before Gu Xi was like in the original time and space.

During her grandfather's surgery and hospitalization, Gu Cancan insisted on being with her all the time, and she had experienced the grief of losing her loved ones, and now she cherishes the time when her relatives were alive.

Jiang Meiying kept urging Gu Cancan to go to Shanghai quickly, but Gu Cancan insisted on waiting until his grandfather was discharged from the hospital and confirmed that his grandfather's health was okay before leaving for Shanghai.

Before going to Shanghai, Gu Cancan chose to go to the capital to take a plane, and by the way, he went to the mobile game company in the capital to inspect it.

The mobile game version of "Three Kingdoms" has been launched two months ago, thanks to the popularity of the terminal game, the mobile game "Three Kingdoms" has reached 4 million installed bases after it was launched, and the average daily active users are 1 million, the monthly revenue is less than 2 million, and the profit is only a few hundred thousand.

This value was nothing in 2017 before Gu Cancan's crossing, but now it is 2005, and the number of smartphone users is not more than 100 million.

In fact, Mango smart phones are very mature products once released, whether it is the design or the Anbang operating system, which also invisibly raises the entry threshold, and now well-known mobile phone manufacturers have launched their own smart phones, but whether it is in the design, or the mobile phone operating system, there is a big gap with Mango mobile phones.

What's more, now Mango Technology has open-sourced the Anbang system all over the world. The entire smartphone world has completely exceeded Gu Cancan's previous cognition.

The rise of Mango mobile phones naturally has the shadow of the country standing behind it.

Of course, Gu Cancan is not so ambitious in business, and her interests are on the other hand. The reason why Bright Future was established is just to make money in mobile games.

After all, there are many successful mobile games in her head, and she can "originalize" them in advance to make some money to support her dreams.

Dreams always burn money.

The launch of the mobile game version of "Three Kingdoms" in the bright future far exceeded expectations, and the second game is also based on Gu Cancan's planning and has been completed. Gu Cancan went here to experience this game and provide the planning of two more mobile games at the same time.

Everything was arranged at home, and Gu Wei drove to the capital with Gu Cancan.

Since 2005, Gu Wei has spent a lot of time in the capital presiding over the operation of the bright era, and his horizons have broadened a lot.

"Cancan, what do you think, how about we merge the Bright Times and the Bright Future, and move the Bright Times to the capital?" Gu Wei said suddenly.

Gu Cancan was texting with Jiang Meiying, and when he heard this, he glanced at his father in surprise, and said suspiciously, "Dad, what do you think?" ”

Gu Wei stared at the road in front of him, and said, "Qingjiang is too small. CancanYou may not know that 35% of the country's Internet practitioners are in Beijing. Internet talents, venture capital institutions, and large companies are all gathered in Beijing, and the factors of production are concentrated in Beijing, and the Matthew effect is obvious. We are in Qingjiang, first, we can't find good technicians, and second, we can't find investors, so it's difficult to develop and grow. ”

Putting down the phone, Gu Cancan listened carefully to his father's words, and his eyes could not hide his surprise.

His father seems to have really entered the state of entrepreneurship, and his vision is no longer the small boss who guards a garment factory.

Could it be that under his own influence, his father wants to become an Internet tycoon?

Gu Cancan thought for a while and said: "The capital does have great advantages, and policies, capital, technology, and talents are all here. If we want to raise money, the opportunities we find in the capital will be much greater. But Dad, do you want to do a big job on the Internet and online games? ”

Gu Wei stretched out his hand to touch Gu Cancan's hair, and said with a smile: "Young people always talk about ideals and dreams. As for your father and me, I am 41 years old this year, which is the golden age of men, but we are past the age to talk about dreams. Last year, the dad who fell that fell was almost about to collapse, thanks to your brain, the creation of the bright era, relying on those two games, to slow down. ”

"Actually, it's up to Dad, and I'll only offer an idea." Gu Cancan didn't want his father to feel sorry for himself in front of him, so he hurriedly said.

"Huh." Gu Wei smiled, and then said: "I have spent more time in the capital for most of the past six months, and I have also met some friends, so I really realized that in Qingjiang, we can have a reliable lower limit, after all, our garment factory can ensure that the family has no worries about food and clothing; But only in the capital, in the big cities, can there be an immeasurable upper limit. Cancan, you personally handed over a treasure box to Dad's hands, and at the same time, it also stimulated Dad's ambition. ”

The treasure box refers to her ideas for games.

Speaking of this, Gu Wei probably felt a little embarrassed to tell his daughter this, and looked ahead and said slowly: "During this time in the capital, it seems that a new world has opened up in front of me. Especially the smartphone software, whether it is a mobile game or the software in the mobile phone, is a vast blue ocean, which contains a huge market. ”

Gu Cancan listened quietly.

Perhaps it is a lot of gains from this period of time in the bright future of operating in the capital, Gu Wei's ideological pattern is much more open than before, he continued: "The advantages of smart phones are too great compared with traditional mobile phones, I can foresee that in the next few years, I am afraid that it will not exceed 10 years, and the market share of smart phones may be at least 50% of the global market." This is a huge market of hundreds of billions, and now whether it is a mobile app or a mobile game, it is in the exploration stage, and it is the best time to intervene at this time. ”

Gu Cancan is a person who has experienced the process of occupying the market like the destruction of smart phones, and naturally knows that smart phones are terrible compared to traditional mobile phones. Gu Wei's prediction is too conservative, now Mango mobile phone is a mature product once it is launched, including the mobile phone operating system Anbang, plus Anbang has been open source, the future smartphone brands are afraid that they will spring up everywhere, and smartphones can occupy more than 90% of the share in 5 years.

The mobile phone industry is about to, or rather, is already undergoing a major reshuffle.

Gu Wei's vision is right, they are not qualified to participate in hardware, but in terms of software applications and mobile games, Gu Cancan's prophet has already occupied an absolute advantage.

Looking at his high-spirited father, Gu Cancan said with a smile: "Dad, your vision is good, and I also think that the field of smart phones is a blue ocean." So what do you do next? ”

"Online and mobile games are a sunrise industry, and now we can continue to grow bigger and stronger in this field. It's easy to recruit game designers and programmers in Beijing, and my plan is to put my base camp in Beijing. ”

"Dad, are we going to move to the capital?"

It's not impossible to develop in Beijing, but what to do at home.

Gu Wei frowned slightly, obviously this was a difficult problem.

"At this stage, I'll run at both ends first, anyway, Qingjiang and the capital are three hours by car."

……

Gu Cancan looked at the icon on his phone, this is a cartoon image of an astronaut, the big head occupies more than half of the pattern, it can be seen from the details that it is an oriental, and there is a trace of unknown radio waves in the upper right corner of the icon.

This is the second mobile game developed by Bright Future, a text adventure puzzle game: Lifeline.

That's right, Gu Cancan "borrowed" the lifeline of the three-minute game company.

Lifeline was originally a game launched in 2015 in Gu Cancan's original time and space, and the biggest charm of the game is not only the plot with a strong sense of substitution, but also the real-time interactive gameplay that coincides with reality. For example, if the protagonist tells the player that he wants to leave for an hour, there is really no movement for an hour.

In fact, this text adventure puzzle game is too easy to develop, as long as you have a good script, it is enough, and then ask someone to make a set of good-looking standing drawings and do a good job of dubbing. Because the game has almost no game screens, the sound effect only has background music, and occasionally there will be chaotic sounds and gasps, but the game's communication interface and flashing text will not change This setting gives players a strong sense of substitution.

"The development cycle of the game is not long, and the key is that the post-dubbing takes some time." Product manager Wu Mo introduced on the side.

Gu Cancan nodded and clicked on the icon.

Entering the game, the first thing is a small pop-up window: Lifeline is an interactive game, Li Qiang will keep in touch with you at any time, please allow this game to send you notifications. There are two options above: Allow and Deny.

The characters in it naturally wanted to be changed to names with Chinese characteristics, Gu Cancan was too lazy to think of names, and directly named Li Qiang, a very popular name.

Tap Allow to skip to the phone settings screen. If you click Decline, the game will be closed.

Gu Cancan specially explained that the artist made the game interface into a chat software interface with a bit of sci-fi style, just to create this sense of reality, including sending notification messages to players, and also to give players the illusion that someone is really talking to me.

Actually, the game Lifeline is not very novel, it is nothing more than an interface that resembles a chat software, plus a chattering virtual character.

It's not even as expressive as some of the text adventure games from a few years ago. If you turn all the content of the game into text for readers to read, most people may not be able to read it, because it is really boring.

The real beauty of Lifeline, though, is that its narrative rhythm depends not on the speed of the reader's reading, but on the actual speed of time.

Every step of Li Qiang's actions in the game can be as short as a few minutes or as long as several hours, and players must wait patiently.

One might say that someone can play such a game?

In fact, the game is a form of expression that perfectly fits the social rhythm of people in the Internet age, and the intermittent connection not only does not make people feel bored, but makes players full of anticipation.

And as the plot continues to advance, Li Qiang will encounter many difficulties, and even many dilemmas.

The choices made by players may be wrong, and every death of Li Qiang will affect the hearts of players.

Therefore, this requires players to check it frequently, or communicate with each other, and carefully come up with ideas for Li Qiang, for fear that a wrong idea will kill him.

In this process, the players' sense of identity with the protagonist of the game, Li Qiang, will continue to increase, as if he is not a virtual AI, but a real person, a person trapped in space waiting for his rescue, a ...... Friend.

And this sense of identity is sublimated in the final happy ending, and the players' emotions are released, as if a good life has really been saved.

And this triple stimulation of rhythm + plot + sense of identity makes this seemingly simple text adventure game glow with strong vitality, and in Gu Cancan's original time and space, after being released in China in 2015, it quickly rushed to the first place in the Apple Store paid list.

Gu Cancan liked this game very much in the original time and space, and she still remembered the plot vividly, so she developed a mobile game in the bright era, and she provided the plot for the company's employees to develop.

Gu Cancan believes that in this time and space, people will also like this game, because players' love for the game's plot creativity and desire for a strong sense of participation will make them fall in love with this game.

Another point is that as long as there is a good enough script to support it, this game is very easy to develop into a series of games. If the word-of-mouth of the lifeline is a hit, the subsequent version can be easily launched.

After trying to play for a while, Gu Cancan nodded, and the scenes and dialogues of the game expressed the style she wanted.

She put down her phone, smiled at Wu Mo and said, "Manager Wu has worked hard, the game development is good, let's arrange for online sales." ”

Wu Mo asked, "Miss Gu, is the price really set at 8 yuan?" ”

"Yes, the price is set at 8 yuan. According to the plan we set, we will be charged after playing the game more than halfway through. If the player is not willing to pay, it is okay to give up and continue playing. ”

"Okay." Wu Mo responded.

While the game is certainly fun, will players pay for this extremely simple, text-only game? Wu Mo was skeptical.

……

's own game is online, of course Gu Cancan has to work hard to promote it.

Soon, people who followed Gu Cancan's Weibo and blog found that Gu Cancan updated his blog and Weibo simultaneously: The mobile game lifeline developed by our network technology company has been launched in major application communities!

Her family's mobile game? The netizens who eat melons are all at a loss, what is Gu Cancan doing?