On this day, the name Pasca once again made the headlines on the front pages of major gaming media.

Naturally, there is also "Paradise Lost", as well as three other games that are about to be released by herring. The prestige of this producer and his company has begun to reach a real palace-level level, and it belongs to the kind of "ancient" in the thick of the past and the present.

When people comment on a contemporary figure, if it is not easy to find a rival in their contemporaries, they often look for it in history. Although more often than not, some myths are attached to the great figures of the Ancient Age, but they also know what people might think of the person they are talking about when it comes time to become a figure of the Ancient Age.

Ye Shenxi is walking on this road, maybe his current age and qualifications can't be described as great, but people have begun to mention it, and maybe some media have begun to discuss it in order to guide the hype topic, players have begun to discuss, such as Pasca and Will Wright, Pasca and Sid Meier, Pasca and Miyamoto Shigeru, who is greater.

Because the history of video games is not that long, there seem to be only a few producers who have also reached this level. Since the beginning of "Eternal War", almost every game Pasca can push him to the top of the ranks alone, and those who add up have become the current Douzong powerhouse, terrifying.

These people have all had a great impact on the advancement of history, or shaped that history, sculpting video game culture into what it is today. Pasca will need time to prove that extent, but fortunately, he does have a lot of time.

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Xinghai Internet Cafe is one of the most luxurious Internet cafes in Funan, the city of games.

Compared with ordinary Internet cafes that provide some melon seed drinks and mineral water, Xinghai has scattered stations, Internet service areas, all kinds of card seats, and even integrates small movie theaters, karaoke rooms, and console game rooms (including somatosensory games), with unique trend decoration, high-quality service, and fashionable environment, to provide players with a green and healthy network life.

The price is definitely more expensive, if you are purely online, the leisure area is about 7 yuan / hour, the battle competition area is 10 yuan, the couple card seat is 14 yuan, and the private room is more expensive.

Half price for members, as well as a variety of recharge rebates, free time, more charge and more send.

There is a word "sea" in the name, and the decoration is basically the appearance of a marine world, basically the strokes on the wall can be seen in the horizontal fish, ginger fish, salmon, shark people, these ...... Seeing this, some people will ask, what does it have to do with the herring network.

It is rumored that Qingyu Network has invested in this Internet café and is one of the bosses behind the scenes, but it has not been confirmed.

When there was no class on Saturday, Deng Ziqi, a game design major at the School of Computer Science of Shu University, came here with a few friends.

His family can be regarded as a well-off family, the family background is quite solid, the family will give him about 2500 living expenses every month, 2000 in the freshman year, the sophomore salary adjustment, the salary adjustment cycle is one year, but ...... To be honest, this price is higher than many newcomers who have just entered the industry from other game companies, and of course they are the kind of newcomers whose academic qualifications are not very dazzling.

He doesn't need to think about the rent, the school cafeteria is cheap, and he goes home to eat everything on weekends, mainly because he doesn't have a girlfriend, and he has money to spare for other things.

He has his own computer, it's not that he has to go to an Internet café or Internet café to solve the needs of the game, but if you want to open the black, you still need an atmosphere, the main thing is to be pampered, where is the greasy keyboard of the general Internet café, he really doesn't fit in.

Now that the first semester of their sophomore year is coming to an end, their understanding of games is no longer comparable to that of when they first entered the school, and the conceptual and operational content of this major will be taught, but the sophomore year has not yet involved specific work-level things. For them, it's mostly a change in thinking, and now they see new games that are being experienced with a truly critical eye, rather than simply playing the game as before.

When encountering a lot of gameplay, they will think about why the designers are doing it, what the purpose is, and whether it has achieved the effect.

When they encounter some designs, they will also think about how to implement them. For example, in this escort mission, you have to escort an NPC from point A to point B, and protect him from damage when encountering monsters in between. The whole map is just such an NPC, you took him away, what should other players do to do this task?

Ah, that's how it is, I took away a fake NPC, after I accepted the quest, the original NPC hid it from me, and refreshed out a guy with the same image but a different ID that only I could see, he would run with me, but it wouldn't have any effect on other players.

And when they play online games by themselves, they will already learn to understand that game, what is it to understand thoroughly, is to predict the update content of the new version by themselves!

This is a very effective practice method for these newcomers, and it is a secret that their teachers used to pass on when they brought newcomers.

If you understand the game thoroughly, you will naturally know what the shortcomings of the current version are, whether it is urgent, and it needs to be adjusted immediately and fixed in the next version. The main understanding is that the goal is the game of herring, and of course there will be successful works from other companies. In most cases, there is something to be said about a successful project, at least there is something to learn from the planners.

Because of the good location and good service, although the price is more expensive, Xinghai's business is not bad, Deng Ziqi and 3 classmates walked in, and saw that there were still more than half of the people sitting in the leisure area and the battle area.

And the ambiance is good.

About 70% of the computer screens in the battle zone are showing the picture of "Eternal War", and occasionally I hear a radio broadcast: "Congratulations to the player of machine 66 in the battle zone for completing a 5 kill in the golden segment ladder game!" Win $10 in internet fees. ”

"Congratulations to the player of Unit 38 in the Battle Zone for being super god in the Platinum Segment Ladder Game and winning a cup of coffee!"

Many of today's network management systems come with special plug-ins that can identify the nature of the game in Eternal War, including normal matchmaking or ladder ranking, in which segment, and what operations have been completed.

Everyone is used to this.

Suddenly, there was a voice: "Congratulations to the player of the No. 47 machine in the war zone for successfully eating chicken in a single row!" Get a limited edition herring T-shirt! ”

Following the prestige, there are two rows of machines, about a dozen or so, and the screen is "Paradise Lost".

The little brother of machine No. 47 raised his arms and shouted, and then ran to the front desk without looking at the settlement screen and enjoying the fruits of success, and said to the network management girl: "I, No. 47!" T-shirt! ”

The network management girls were a little frightened by his aggressive momentum.

"ID ......"

"Give!" The little brother handed over the ID card.

"Give ......" girl hands a T-shirt.

It was changed on the spot, but fortunately, although it was almost Christmas, the indoor air conditioning was fully turned on.

On the front of the T-shirt is a promotional poster of "Paradise Lost", and on the back is the logo of Herring Fish Network and Henggong.

The little brother slipped to the toilet and ran to the toilet, probably looking in the mirror.

Deng Ziqi's classmate, a man with glasses, is a bit like the Hong Kong University graduate in "The King of Comedy", and said strangely: "What is eating chicken?" Isn't that Paradise Lost? ”

He and Deng Ziqi are in the same college but not the same major, and the future employment direction should be a programmer direction, etc., I have heard of the name of "Paradise Lost", but I have not played it yet.

Deng Ziqi explained: "Eating chicken is "Paradise Lost", and you will eat chicken when you get the first place. ”

"Huh?" I didn't understand the glasses too much.

"I'll take you to eat chicken later, and you'll know."

The four of them found a four-seater private room, and then opened the FG platform.

Glasses haven't bought a game yet, buy it now, each machine in Xinghai Internet Cafe provides an FG account, and they have already bought "Paradise Lost", but they still play their own accounts, and it's not that they don't have it, they have to rush to the ladder, why give others points.

"Hasn't this game just been out for more than a week, why are so many people playing it now?"

"The number of people online at the same time has exceeded 1 million, don't you know!"

"1 million is okay?"

"Big brother, how long has it been, it took 3 months for "Eternal War" to reach 1 million online at the same time, and "Paradise Lost" has only been a week!"

The glasses still understand a little: "The influence of herring fish is different now than it was at the beginning...... Isn't it a global simultaneous listing this time......"

"It's not free! It's more than 180 yuan! ”

"By the way, I forgot about that."

"You can forget if you're buying...... And is your dorm internet disconnected? The word chicken is so popular now, don't you know? ”

Since the first chicken eater when Ye Shenxi was live broadcast, this word has been spread by countless players by word of mouth, and it has quickly become popular, and even on Weibo, it has climbed onto the hot search list.

The conscience of heaven and earth, herring never buys the list, and it doesn't need it.

With the current popularity, reputation, and influence of herring, there will be countless pairs of eyes staring at their every move and even the slightest change in the company.

The response of the internet was swift.

On digging treasure, on the day the game was just launched, some boosting services have been launched, playing on behalf of the rank, brushing the box, and "Eternal War", players in "Paradise Lost" can still get the box for free to get decorations, but free must require operation, and some players don't have so much time and energy, so there is a market for this kind of boosting.

Qingyu has always been against boosting, but it is really not as tough as anti-plug-ins, and many things on the Internet are also difficult to eliminate, which is not just something that a company can do, but requires multi-faceted collaboration.

And the same as the "Eternal War Console, Play ABC Package", which was quickly launched before, the "Chicken Host" is here again.

The configuration requirements of "Paradise Lost", under the same level of special effects settings, will still be higher than "Eternal War", although "Eternal War" was also upgraded last year, from Athena1.0 to 2.0, but regardless of the size of the map, the performance of related art resources, such as polygons, texture fineness, these contents "Eternal War" as a god perspective does not need to be so finely performed, but "Paradise Lost" is different, its perspective is very close, and it can even be converted to first person when shooting.

So now I go to the computer city to buy a computer, or I shop online at Dibao, and the store asks: "What do you want?" ”

You say "Eternal War Host", which is the mid-range configuration, and you say "Chicken Host", that is, the mid-range is a little higher.

Of course, with the optimization ability of the herring, the mid-range or even low-end graphics settings will not cause great confusion to the computers of too many players.

Glasses glanced at his account: "Ouch, the money is not enough......"

He only had 135 yuan on it, a difference of dozens of yuan.

"Charge."

"There is no money in the sweeping treasure, you can borrow me first, it will be there next month, and ......you will be paid back after receiving the living expenses."

Deng Ziqi also hates that iron is not steel, and when it comes to this, he can only compromise, and he can't let the glasses watch the three of them play on the side.

The glasses glanced at Deng Ziqi: "Why do you have so much money in your account?" ”

The balance of Deng Ziqi's FG account shows that there are still more than 700 yuan......

"Why are you charging so much?"

"Oh, there was a plaid skirt in the box, I sold it, more than five hundred ......"

"Tsk, I'm going to sell dresses too."

"Each according to his ability."

Soon, they began to enter the quality square.

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In 2011, according to the game industry statistics report released by the third-party data statistics agency Aixun, the number of game companies in the country was distributed in Beijing, with about 360 companies topping the list, and a large number of colleges and universities provided the city with a steady stream of talents, so that its game and Internet industries continued to speak.

In second place is Huangpu, with about 320 stores, and Yangcheng, which was originally third, became fourth, giving up the third position to Funan.

Last year, the number of game companies in Funan was about 210, and by the end of this year, it had grown to 290, an increase of 38%, especially among the new 80, about half of which were engaged in FG game development, the so-called FG game does not necessarily refer to a stand-alone game, but it is indeed developed for landing on that platform, and the idea is completely different from the traditional free online game. Traditional free-to-play online games are more of a social product, providing players with a platform where they can communicate with others, while FG games always need to impress players with gameplay.

Funan is the representative, the rise of this kind of enterprises, which is also a microcosm of the current Chinese game market, in Beijing, in Huangpu, in Yangcheng is also the same, they know that as long as their games are really distinctive, FG can help them sell to the world.

One official confirmed news is that 7 of the 40 teams have received relevant support, funding, or technology from herring. And 5 teams put their creativity, gameplay, development process logs, some screenshots and video materials on the FG crowdfunding platform, looking for crowdfunding support, the highest one is called "Cloud Dragon" Roguelike (a game type, originated in 1980's "Rogue", the main feature is permadeath and random levels) side-scrolling action game, Xianxia theme, on par with "Getaway", the development team is called Green Shrimp, and it can probably be seen that their ambition and positioning.

So far, $800,000 has been raised from players around the world...... They set a target of $200,000. More than 300%.

In addition to raising R&D funds to support the survival of the project team to make the game, crowdfunding also has an obvious advantage is that in the project research and development, they will immediately announce the progress and the special content of the game, in the active opinions of the players, revise the move forward, and listen to the clear, compared to the idea of making a car behind closed doors, it will open up a lot, of course, the opinions of players, must be listened to selectively, there is a professional course called "Player Psychological Analysis" in the game development major of Shu University, and there is a special paragraph about how to sieve apartto distinguish player needs.

It's not all players who want to be called user experience.

A knife of level 99, the beginning of the explosion of the god costume, is this the player's appeal? It's cool enough, it's cool.

At the same time, the game already has a good reputation and popularity before it is released or even starts to be promoted. This is FG, tens of millions of active users, even if not everyone will visit the crowdfunding board, but the exposure on it is immeasurable. And with the review standards of the herring network, it shows that their project has been very authoritative in terms of creativity and ideas, this is a golden signboard, and players are quite confident in them, for these game manufacturers, this is the coveted free advertising.

Ye Shenxi sponsored 200 yuan, about 30 dollars, for this project, from his private player perspective. It's also that team is cautious and short-sighted, and this amount is the deluxe version in the end, which will include 5 DLC content after the game is released.

On this day, another one called "You Let Go! Don't let it go! The game has also been listed on FG's crowdfunding platform.