At the end of August, Liang Qikun flew from the capital to Funan. This old brother got a master's degree in July, and has no plans to go to work in any company for the time being, so he decided to graduate and travel first, visit the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland, and broaden his horizons. I used to play games with that group of people, and then go back to study, and play small games by myself in my spare time, but I always felt that my life was too closed over the years.

Sometimes a landmark event is needed to make a decision, as if it were symbolic, and this time he decided to ignore it and play a lap because of the FG platform and the launch of Playing with Snakes.

It gives him the feeling of giving an account to his game career for so many years.

Finally, you can put everything aside for a while and enjoy the good youth.

The first stop was to come to Funan, and first went to find Ye Shenxi.

At this time, Ye Chenxi was preparing for another trip to Huangpu, because of the Beijing Olympics at the same time, this year's CJS (China Joy Sho) was a little later than in previous years.

Recalling last year, the company was poor and white, with no scale and no products, and the two bosses went to CJS alone to have a feeling that township enterprises were entering the city to attract investment. In contrast, this year, Qingyu Network will have a fairly large-scale booth, and Shengda, Shicheng, Tenghua, NetEase, EA, Yubi and other companies are all of the same specifications.

The size of the booth is also the face of a game company.

However, those who own their own Huangpu company arranged, where does Ye Shenxi have the leisure to manage your booth layout, guest invitations, peripheral giveaways, on-site lottery and other things, he is invited to participate in the "CJS Summit Forum" before CJS every year.

Every year, the day before the official opening of CJS, there will be a "CJS Summit Forum".

This year, the industry bigwigs who are confirmed to attend are Chen Qiao of Shengda, Ding Sanshi of Huang Yi, Shi Yushu of Titan, Chen Xiaowei of Shicheng, Yu Feng of E Time and Space Chi, Ren Yueqin of Tenghua, Qiu Bojun of Jin Chan, and Meng Xianmin of Zhulong, which are only domestic.

There will also be international friends such as Frank Pearce, vice president of glass slag, who is also the executive producer of "Warcraft", Zhuang Limin, president of EA Asia, and Andre Flavell, general manager of Giant Hard Games Asia.

This forum is not a technical forum for producers and technicians to exchange game technology and R&D ideas at the Game Developers Conference (CDC), just look at the list of speakers above, this is a real summit forum that really discusses the current situation of the industry, exchanges the direction of industry development, and plans the future of the game industry.

This year's game market pattern is very delicate, as if at a critical point in time, from the rise of web games last year, the impact on the terminal game market, that from this year onwards, web games are really blooming, as if overnight all over the country web games, especially Yangcheng and Huangpu as the north and south two base camps. Full flood.

By August of this year, Pasca of Qingyu Network has engaged in a stand-alone game publishing platform, although it has just been launched, but the data will not deceive people, they are all cunning people, everyone can see how profound the impact this platform will have on stand-alone games, at least stand-alone games seem to have a little possibility of resurrection.

Therefore, many game practitioners, whether qualified to participate or not, began to look forward to the arrival of this summit early.

……

Ye Shenxi saw Liang Qikun walking out of the elevator at the door of his company, and said strangely: "Why did you suddenly run over and didn't say anything in advance?" ”

Liang Qikun smacked his lips: "I didn't come to you specifically, I just went to travel through Funan and stopped by to take a look at your company." Herring Fish Network, tsk, it's very famous. ”

"How did you find it?"

"You can just ask about the software park, and I feel that everyone knows it, and you won't tell me that you don't know your company's reputation in the software park."

"I know, I just want to hear from you."

"Hush." Suddenly noticed that there was a snow-white creature squatting at Ye Shenxi's feet, wagging his tail at him, and walked up to touch the creature's head: "This is your 'employee encourager', right?" I still have a badge with me. ”

"Dumplings, call uncle."

"Wow~"

"I thought it was just a publicity stunt, but I didn't expect it to be true." Liang Qikun said in surprise: "Does it really have a salary?" ”

"It's a gimmick and it's true, let's go in first."

Accompanied by the encouragement division, Ye Shenxi led Liang Qikun to visit the R&D headquarters of Qingyu Network, and Liang Qikun couldn't help nodding in admiration: "One thing to say, your company really looks like a first-line big company." ”

"Isn't it just a floor, we are planning to buy a special herring building."

"Not only the hardware facilities, but also the working atmosphere and spirit of your employees." When I passed by the office just now, I happened to see Li Duo, the old system planner, discussing several new planning issues with the "Immortal Dao" project team.

In fact, it is not a very complicated problem, the cross-server battle of "Immortal Dao" intends to add a betting function, which is actually a kind of guessing, before the start of each battle, players can choose the player they are optimistic about, and then bet on a certain amount of game currency betting.

Several schemes are torn between the two options: the first is that the player bets on the game currency on his body, and if the bet is successful, he will lose the money he bets if he loses the bet; The second is that the player directly chooses the target of the competition, and if he loses, he has no loss, and if he wins, he will get a reward directly.

Li Duo called the three newcomer planners together, gathered in a circle, and asked them to explain the advantages and disadvantages of the two plans.

Someone said: "There is a risk of loss will be more immersive, and the output of game currency needs to be controlled." It's only fair that players enjoy the opportunity to get rich and also take the risk of possible losses. ”

Li Duo nodded in agreement.

Someone said: "Players are afraid of bearing such losses, and game currency is a basic resource, players have a lot of output and consumption every day to maintain the daily cycle, once you lose in the way of gambling, it will stimulate negative emotions, and it will also cause him to not recover for several days, falling behind the main competitors, and the impact is relatively large." ”

Another concluded: "It's okay for players not to get it, but it's hard to accept losing what they've already gained. ”

Li Duo also said that it made sense.

Each of the two plans has its own supporters, and after everyone has expressed their opinions on both logics and explained them clearly, Li Duocai summarized.

"So when we get bogged down in the details, why don't we go back and look at the original starting point, what was the purpose of our design for this feature?"

One person: "Enliven the game atmosphere, so that players who can't enter the cross-server battle can also participate in the event and have a sense of participation." ”

An event such as cross-server warfare must be participated in by a small number of players at the top of the server, and it requires a high level of strength, so such an event is needed.

Li Duo nodded: "That's right, do we need to consume players' game currency when we do this function?" Or do we need to consume the player's game currency in this system, and can the other systems meet the game currency consumption? ”

One person nodded and said, "No need, according to Mr. Ye's numerical documents, there is still room for game currency." ”

Li Duo said: "In fact, for planning, sometimes many solutions have their own reasons, and the logic makes sense. But let's think about what we want to do if we put this feature out. We did this in itself so that players who can't participate in cross-server battles can also feel the atmosphere of the event, so let everyone participate, and there is no need to add a barrier to participation. In other words, the theoretical player participation rate of this wonderful event should be 100%, unless the player forgets it or something. ”

"So we should go for the second option."

Several people nodded in unison: "Understood, Mr. Li!" ”

……

Liang Qikun stopped on the side, and Ye Shenxi accompanied him to watch the entire discussion.

Liang Qikun said: "The heritage of a company is passed down layer by layer. That old planner of 'lecturing' is what you brought before, right? ”

Ye Shenxi nodded and said: "That was one of the first veterans of this company, earlier than I entered the company, the systematic planning of the "Immortal Dao" project, I spent a lot of effort to train them at that time. ”

"Now it's their turn to train the newcomers. I'm quite interested in your model, and you bring people together to discuss things when you go to class. ”

"It's a small-scale discussion, you don't even have to go to the lounge, you just have to stand up. It's okay to have a question worth talking about anytime, anywhere. ”

"So your company has a good atmosphere."

Ye Shenxi brought Liang Qikun into his office, Liang Qikun looked left and right and sighed: "It's so spacious." ”

"Are you here to visit the company today?"

"Really, by the way, look at you. Huh? What about you woman? I didn't see it. ”

Xia Qingyu has not returned to China, the work in Huangpu is remote command, South Korea's JOYTO company has officially become history, and now it has officially changed its name to Fisoa, such as Huangpu Yubi, Funan Juhard, this company is now called Seoul herring.

"She's still in South Korea."

"It's about the Hanbok of "Eternal War", right? When will the server be launched? ”

"It should be at the end of August, and I don't know what the specific approval work will look like."

"Tsk, I really envy you."

"I'm kind of envious of myself, too." Ye Shenxi said.

"Eh, do you pay attention to the number of downloads of "Playing with Snakes"?"

When the herring fish FG platform was officially launched, "Playing Snake" was also one of the first games to land. Later, at the suggestion of Ye Shenxi, Liang Qikun added an online mode and a battle function. The former only provides a score leaderboard in single-player mode, and the latter function is also relatively simple, just search for matches very simply, and then put a few people together, and the player who reaches 20,000 points first wins, and there are no complicated functions such as seasons and ladders, but they are also in Liang Qikun's consideration plan.

On the store introduction screen of the FG platform "Play with Snakes" is written the basic information of this game, developed by SpiritFlame &Pasca; Publisher: Fisoa; Issue date: August 14, 2008.

The developers are the IDs of Liang Qikun and Ye Shenxi.

At that time, Ye Shenxi said that you can do it yourself, why do you have to add me, if you don't go to your dormitory, I won't know that this game has been made.

Liang Qikun said that I am that kind of person? This game was originally proposed by you before.

Ye Shenxi always pays attention to the various data of the platform, and now his brain is filled with these things every day.

"I just looked at it in the morning, and there are 500,000." Ye Shenxi said while making tea for Liang Qikun, he knew that this old brother liked to drink tea, and he used to be a teenager.

"You know what the best downloads of the games I posted on the Internet were the best, right?"

Ye Shenxi is a good listener, at this time, guessing a number will appear to be more engaged in communication than saying "I don't know": "Fifty thousand? ”

"Thirty-seven thousand, three months."

"Not bad."

"500,000, this data I couldn't think of before, it makes me feel like I'm going to retire."

Of course, Ye Shenxi knew that he was joking: "The good days haven't come yet." ”

If only one game "Survival" is popular, and no one cares about other games, and the court is cold, it is not the result that Ye Shenxi wants.

In Ye Shenxi's original idea, he wanted to use games such as "Eternal War" and "Survival" to bring up the functions of the platform, so that more players could know, accept and get used to it.

And then spread to other games.

In the past two weeks, there are 2.41 million players who have downloaded on the platform, of which 70,000 have made purchases, which refers to the number of users who have spent money to buy any game, which looks good, but there is still a long way to go.

Survival has been downloaded more than 2 million times, and more than 150,000 players are online at the same time, of course, this is only online, and there are many more offline ones that are not counted.

Liang Qikun's "Playing with Snakes" is now 500,000, and there are more than a dozen independent games uploaded by individual game developers like him with more than 300,000 downloads.

It looks like things are going well.

And those commercial games, so far, the best selling is still "Sword and Fairy 4", this game has been on sale for a year, and 37421 sets have been sold in two weeks on the FG platform, many players don't know about the launch of the FG platform store on the first day, and with the start of the fire of "Survival", the store traffic has been significantly driven, and there has been a large increase since the third day, which makes Zhan Ping not understand too much but enjoy it.

This is also the only game that has sold more than 30,000 so far, and many players are willing to pay for this good work, and the word feelings has not been used in this era. Of course, because of the super discount, it only costs less than 30 yuan.

In second place, "The Staggered Trajectory of the Wind Dream XX" sold 20,184 units, and the game sold 3,750 physical discs in the same period.

THIRD PLACE WENT TO EA'S NBA LIVE 2008, WITH 15,780 UNITS SOLD.

The power of the platform store is starting to show.

In the past few days, the bosses of several game companies have also called Ye Shenxi, and they didn't say anything thanks, but simply expressed the joy of very pleasant cooperation.

This kind of sales has greatly exceeded their expectations, and this joy also makes Ye Shenxi not know what to say, he can only feel that people are poor and short-sighted.

Liang Qikun asked: "What is a good life?" ”

Ye Shenxi said with a smile: "When a game like "Playing Snake" can be sold for money. He frowned and asked, "Why do you have to use the name "playing with snakes", it sounds weird." ”

Liang Qikun said with an innocent face: "Didn't you say it yourself before." ”