Chapter 71 Community Development
The new project has a rough outline, and the next step is to populate it. Future Oasis has chosen to be meticulous in this project and is not in a hurry.
On the other hand, the Oasis Community, which Li Haoming is in charge of, is developing extremely rapidly.
The editor craze has swept through the circle of indie developers, many of whom have abandoned their original projects, remastered them with editors, and simply started from scratch.
In the future, Oasis's ability to operate the community has also developed steadily, and from the launch of the community to the present, the page of the community has undergone a small revision and has become a lot more beautiful.
At present, the layout management of the Oasis community often depends on the staff of the future Oasis, and Li Haoming has begun to set up a moderator team of the Oasis community to help with the layout management.
According to the plan, the day-to-day management of the layout will eventually be handed over to the moderator team, and the staff of the operation department will only be responsible for handling some major matters.
In the community development plan formulated by Li Haoming, the layout management team of the community not only appears as a manager, but also needs to be an excellent content provider. Or that when they choose a layout management team, they also prefer "technical" active users who can produce excellent content and have a passion for building communities.
The activity of the community is increasing as more and more independent developers settle in, and the daily traffic is also increasing. Alanson now has an additional position, the official technical spokesperson for the Oasis community, responsible for answering some of the most difficult technical questions.
At present, the community has not cultivated a stable group of "high-end question answerers", and it is only Alanson who can make a cameo in this role. As the community grows further and developers become proficient in the use of the editor, it is natural that there will be enthusiastic developers who will answer these questions in place of the official.
During this time, after completing the engine upgrade work, the work pressure on Alanson was much less, everyone else was busy with new projects, and Su Li did not put forward new technical requirements for the time being.
Therefore, during this time, Aranson has become one of the most active "big guys" in the Oasis community, answering almost all the questions on the page, and is quite loved by those independent developers, and has a group of little fans.
At the same time, he took over the update and maintenance of The Lost Realm. Now, the future Oasis has handed over the update of the game content to the developers who use the editor, and the characters of "Lost Secret Land" have now become the launcher that launches those mods, and the official Oasis will not update the content in the future.
The update work of Aranson is to add some new features and make technical optimizations to the existing game framework.
During this time, the most important update in "Lost Secrets" is the addition of a multiplayer mode.
The addition of multiplayer mode has been foreshadowed for a long time, and if there is no multiplayer mode, then the developer's mod production will have great limitations.
The addition of multiplayer mode has rejuvenated The Lost Realm, and it is foreseeable that it will not be long before self-made mods will become the mainstream content of The Lost Realm.
Soon after the opening of the multiplayer mode, the first batch of high-quality mods appeared in the Oasis community, and these mods are not simple skin mods, but have real game content.
For example, one of the most popular mods right now is a tower defense mod.
Since the release of this mod, it has immediately swept the player base of "The Lost Secret Land". This mod was made by a Russian team who took advantage of Lost Realm's original crafting system and reworked it to some extent to create a building system.
They modified the game's terrain and changed the distribution of resources. Now the player is born on the top of the mountain, and there are three paths that lead from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Every once in a while, three groups of monsters will rush to the top of the mountain, and once the ruins at the top of the mountain are destroyed, the game will be declared a failure.
All you have to do is use your resources to build a variety of defenses, or go into battle to stop these monsters.
It's a co-op multiplayer game that can be played by up to five players, although there are only three ways to defend. Tower defense games have always been popular, and this tower defense mod makes full use of the production system and is very replayable.
Thanks to this crafting system, players will be able to craft some very unique traps or weapons, and each level will have a completely different way to complete it.
The difficulty of the game is very high, with a total of twenty-five waves of monster attacks to be defended, and the average player will basically collapse at the tenth level. Every fourth wave, the fifth wave will appear a boss-level monster, which cannot be killed by traps and defenses alone, and must be fought by the player himself.
After the release of this mod, the popularity of "The Lost Secret Land" ushered in a small explosion here, and the sales volume has climbed a lot compared to last month, and the popularity of live streaming has also resurged.
The Oasis community quickly set up a section for the mod, leading players to discuss and carry out related activities from the game.
Alanson also urgently added a related interface to the game, adding a leaderboard to record the first players to clear the mod.
The first team in the world to complete the game will receive a commemorative gift from the future Oasis and add a unique badge to their account in the Oasis community.
Soon, the popularity of this section surpassed that of the technical discussion forum and became the most popular section in the Oasis community.
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"Early release?"
Su Li looked at the relevant documents handed over by Li Haoming and asked with some confusion.
Li Haoming nodded and said: "The follow-up performance of "The Lost Secret Land" exceeded our expectations, according to statistics, the average number of active players of "The Lost Secret Land" has rebounded rapidly this month after the trough of last month. ”
"This is just the first batch of mods, and Lost Mysteries is very malleable, and once subsequent mods are released on a large scale, it is very likely that the number of active players will exceed the peak of the game's debut, and it will have a stable group of players."
"The editor of Lost Secrets gives more independent developers the possibility of making qualified large-scale 3D games, solves a lot of trouble for them in the program, saves a lot of development time, this is a very good platform, and it is also an opportunity for us."
Li Haoming pointed to the file in Su Li's hand and continued: "The Oasis platform plans to release it ahead of schedule this month, further optimize the MOD loading of "Lost Secret Land", and use the "Lost Secret Land" MOD to accumulate the first batch of users for the platform. Players who have purchased Lost Secret on any platform will be able to play on our Oasis platform without having to make a duplicate purchase. ”
"The platform and the community will be closely connected, and the two will complement each other very well. Integrating the community into the platform is one of our next plans. ”
"Finally, I'd like to set up a dedicated fund to support the great modding projects in The Lost Realm. A good mod can drive the subsequent sales of "Lost Secrets", and we will only gain more. ”
Su Li agreed to Li Haoming's plan, and now is indeed a good time to accumulate the first batch of users of the free platform relatively simply.
With this user base, new projects in Oasis may no longer have to rely on third-party platforms in the future.