Chapter 2 An FPS game experience like never before!
Gu Fan opened the game editor on the computer and began to look for a suitable game template.
The game development technology in this world is very advanced, and there are many easy-to-use professional tools for game development and testing, which can greatly shorten the development time and cost of various games.
As for art and music resources, they are provided directly from Hell.
According to Lilith, Hell has a lot of talent, and there are a lot of good artists, architects, and musicians, and it's a dimensionality reduction for the concept art, modeling, or soundtrack in the average game company.
In the case that "design" and "art" are completely controlled by demons, Gu Fan almost has no room for small actions!
The only thing that can be called a "loophole" is only two points.
First, Lilith, as a demon from hell, can only appear for 12 hours from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., and cannot come to earth for 12 hours other than that.
Second, Lilith emphasized that once the game is released, it can't be modified in any way.
This is because the demon's use of the game to collect the player's negative emotions is actually a kind of contract, and the game content is considered as part of the contract.
Although demons often play with words and leave a lot of holes when they sign a contract, they have an iron rule that once the contract is signed, it cannot be modified.
So, if the game is modified or taken down, the contract becomes invalid, and the demon can no longer derive negative emotions from the player.
Even if the game is changed back or re-released later, it is useless, and the expired contract cannot be restored.
But with only these two loopholes, what can Gu Fan do?
Can he unwittingly transform a garbage game into a boutique game under Lilith's nose without being noticed afterwards?
Can he make "Reverse Heaven" the most valuable game company in the world when Lilith only wants to harvest the negative emotions of players and does not allow him to interfere in the design at all?
Gu Fan fell into deep thought.
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For the next month, everything went according to Lilith's plan.
Gu Fan successfully completed the development of "Hell Track", and spent another three days to conduct a simple test with the test tool "AI-debug" that comes with the official editor.
Normally, even if the game production technology in this world is more advanced, it is safer for the game to be tested for at least a week before it is released.
But Lilith apparently didn't care if the game was buggy or not.
After all, the game "Hell Track" is used to collect players' negative emotions, and encountering bugs is also a type of negative emotion.
If it weren't for the official platform's mandatory requirement that the game be released without major bugs, Lilith wouldn't even want to leave these three days of testing time.
After submitting it for review, Gu Fan also uploaded some information about the game according to Lilith's requirements, such as promotional pictures, slogans, etc.
This content will be displayed on the details page of the game platform.
The promotional image of the game is very easy to do, and you can take a few real pictures directly in the game.
As for the slogan, it was written by Lilith herself: "Helltracks" will change your perception and bring you an unprecedented FPS gaming experience!
This propaganda slogan seems a bit of a headline, but this level of lying is not even deception for a cunning demon.
The player is beaten by the mob in the first level, so you can say that it is not subversive! Let's just say it's an unprecedented experience!
There's nothing wrong with this slogan!
In short, the game still successfully passed the review of the official platform.
On Saturday at 8 p.m., the game will be officially released!
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"The show is ready to begin!"
In the rental house, Lilith is lying on the lazy sofa, holding potato chips in her left hand and a Coke in her right hand, looking at the projection screen in front of her expectantly.
The rent in the imperial capital is very expensive, and the monthly rent of Gu Fan's simple one-bedroom apartment has reached 5,000 yuan.
Although Gu Fan is now the president of Paradise Games, Lilith will also pay him on time according to the contract, but he only has a basic salary of 8,000 yuan per month.
Whether this game can make money or not will directly determine whether Gu Fan will eat and drink spicy food or cut back on food and clothing in the next few months.
There isn't much furniture in the one-bedroom apartment, and there is only a lazy sofa and a projector in the living room. Now that Lily has unceremoniously occupied this position, Gu Fan can only silently move a small bench and sit next to it.
On the projection screen, it is currently the most popular live broadcast platform "My Neighbor Totoro Live".
Gu Fan pressed the remote control and found the live broadcast room of the first brother "Lecturer Xiaoding" in the game area at this time.
Lecturer Xiao Ding, full name Ding Qiang.
His appearance is very unsophisticated, and his hair is shaved to a round inch every few months, at which point his hair looks a little uneven when it grows. The beard is unshaven, and according to himself, he just grows too fast by shaving every day, but the audience doesn't believe a word about it.
However, Xiao Ding used to be a professional FPS game player, the reaction speed and game operation are basically online, and he is a congenital live broadcast holy body, and every live broadcast can always produce a lot of eye-catching program effects, so he won the throne of the first brother in the game area without any suspense in My Neighbor Totoro Live.
At this time, he had just started broadcasting, and shouted in front of the camera: "Brothers, it's time to eat again, brothers!" ”
As soon as this remark came out, the barrage audience knew that this product was just right again.
As an anchor, Ding Qiang has never refused to come to the matter of Cha Fan, no matter what kind of game he is looking for to promote, he will accept it all.
Of course, sometimes he will be a bit of a "picky eater", and after playing for a while, he can't play anymore, so he finds an excuse to slip away.
But most of the time, he was able to endure the ravages of these garbage games and broadcast enough time for Party A's requirements.
And his audience is also very tolerant of his cha fan, although he may not really play, but at least the scene is still very popular, not like some anchor fans, as soon as they see the anchor cha fan, they will madly insult the brand.
It is for this reason that Lecturer Ding has become the first choice for some garbage game companies to promote their games.
Gu Fan already knew that the game that Lecturer Ding was going to eat today was "Hell Track".
Obviously, this is part of Lilith's game promotion plan.
Lilith's promotion plan is quite simple and crude, with a total of about 2 million promotion funds, of which 400,000 is used for the anchor Lecturer Ding, and the price is 400,000 for 2 hours of live broadcast; The other 1.6 million is used to buy exposure on other platforms other than the official platform.
Although the recommendation slots of these platforms vary, the cost of buying volume in the industry at this time is about 3 yuan per person.
In other words, the 1.6 million funds can almost buy about 530,000 "living people" for the game "Hell Tracks", that is, the number of people who not only saw the promotion of the game, but also actually downloaded and tried to play it.
The price of this purchase volume is quite cheap for Gu Fan.
Of course, it's hard to say how many of these people can really spend money on the game.
Soon, Lecturer Ding in the live broadcast room officially entered the game "Hell Track".
Seeing the game screen, Lecturer Ding's eyes lit up.
"Hey! Brothers, isn't this game pretty good! Look at this volcano, this demon, and this gate, this art resource is very accurate!
"Is it high-quality, big-scale? I didn't lie to you, did I?
"18 yuan can't buy a loss, you can't be fooled, you can try to play for two hours before paying, it's not too cost-effective, I love to tell the truth."
Because of Lecturer Ding's unscrupulous personality, he has also promoted a lot of garbage games with rough graphics before.
This advertisement was placed by a small manufacturer, and Lecturer Ding didn't have much hope, but he didn't expect the picture of this game to give him some surprises.
The price of "Hell Tracks" is 18 yuan, which is the lowest level and quality of the game.
In fact, Lilith doesn't care about the price of the game at all, if it weren't for the official platform's mandatory requirements, she even wanted the game to be completely free.
In order to maximize the trick on players, she uses a very outrageous charging strategy: any player can try the game for free for 2 hours, and only pay for it if they want to continue playing.
Lilith is very confident, let alone 2 hours, the vast majority of players will be dissuaded if they can't hold on for even five minutes.
What she wants is a hammer deal, using the first few minutes to frantically harvest negative emotions and then dissuade the player.
If these hundreds of thousands of players can provide a large wave of negative emotions after entering, it will be considered a perfect plan for Lilith.
"Okay, brothers, let's not talk nonsense, let's just start."
Lecturer Ding moved the mouse to the "single player mode" and officially started the game.
After a short black screen, Lecturer Ding found himself at the spawn point of the first level.
It seems to be an overpass or viaduct in the city, and it is very wide.
The bridge deck was littered with craters or signs of destruction. Cars, buses, RVs, trucks, concrete mixer trucks and other vehicles were parked in a variety of places, some riddled with bullet holes, some with only wreckage, and some burning.
Looking up, the vista seems to be faintly visible with fires and hurricanes, as well as a huge gate of hell that stands between heaven and earth.
Obviously, that's where he's headed.
A line of writing appears in the upper left corner of the field of vision: "One Goal: Reseal the Gates of Hell."