Gu Fan paused slightly, and then said: "If our company wants to continue to develop and continue to expand new business, I am the best candidate." Mr. Li's arrangement is very reasonable, and there is no problem. ”

When they heard this, they were all silent.

They looked at each other, and although they couldn't ask questions directly, they instantly understood each other's thoughts through eye contact.

Is there any truth to what Mr. Gu said?

Of course, there is some truth to it.

Although there is a saying that "it is harder to keep a business than to start a business", in general, it is definitely more difficult to develop a new business across fields than to continue a successful business in the past. After all, the latter can refer to some existing successful experiences, while the former wants to cross the river but does not even have to touch the ready-made stones.

In addition to Mr. Gu, who else can be responsible for the important task of developing new business for Reverse Heaven Games?

Zhou Yang? Wei Chengjie? Feng Hui? Zhao Haiquan? Or Su Tong or Xiao Mingyu?

Apparently neither.

At most, they have done a good job in the business they are personally responsible for, and if they really want to coordinate the overall situation and make decisions in the cadre program, it has to be Mr. Gu himself.

Anyone else will make the development of this new business suddenly difficult, and the success rate will be greatly reduced.

But......

Does this mean that Mr. Li's arrangement is fine?

Of course not!

Because everyone can obviously feel that Mr. Li's arrangement seems to have another hidden meaning, and they always feel that Mr. Li is suspicious of Mr. Gu, so he was transferred out of the company's core game department. It's called "opening up new business", but in fact, it's marginalized!

Therefore, even if this arrangement is reasonable, everyone will never think that this is Mr. Li's wise decision, but will only feel sorry for Mr. Gu and break his heart for the game against heaven.

I feel sorry for Mr. Gu!

In short, with Gu Fan's final decision, everyone finally accepted this arrangement.

Zhou Yang asked weakly, "That'...... What is our company's new business? ”

Lilith looked at Gu Fan: "This point is decided by Mr. Gu. For the new business, there are no restrictions per se, except for one thing: it needs to be directly related to our main game business. ”

Gu Fan nodded: "Okay, Mr. Li, I will think about it seriously." ”

After successfully achieving her goal, Lilith was so happy that she clapped her hands: "Good! Then this matter is settled, let's dismiss! ”

Everyone looked at Gu Fan one after another, and after Gu Fan got up to leave, the others also got up.

But then, Lilith said again: "Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie, the two of you will stay for a while." ”

Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment, he secretly glanced at Gu Fan, and after getting an affirmative look, he sat down again with Wei Chengjie.

Soon, only Lilith, Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie were left in the conference room.

Lilith coughed lightly: "After Mr. Gu is no longer in charge of the game business, the two of you will be fully responsible for the new project."

"This is the design plan of the new game, and it is also the idea left by Mr. Gu.

"You must carefully develop according to the content of the design plan, don't let Mr. Gu's hard work be in vain!"

Lilith said, handing the printed design to the two of them.

"This is not the final draft, and you can bring up any comments you have. After the final draft, according to our company's practice, it cannot be changed. ”

Since it wasn't yet final, Lilith had only printed two copies for the time being.

Zhou Yang hurriedly stretched out his hand to take it, his expression was very respectful, but he sneered in his heart.

Do you have any comments? Pull it down, who doesn't know you, you've never heard serious opinions......

However, as a professional with a city government, Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie still did not show any dissatisfaction, but just read the design plan from beginning to end.

I have to say, the name of this game is a bit of a blockbuster.

Road Rage Simulator!

Quite simple and crude.

The game itself is a single-player game, but it has an online gameplay.

And this time the network gameplay is different from the previous one, and the requirements for network bandwidth are higher!

In the past, Reverse Heaven had also made some games that required networking, such as "Hell Tracks" and "Fire Stealer", but at that time, the problem of networking was relatively easy to solve.

For the convenience of the average indie game producer, the official itself has an online server. This is one of the features and services that come with the official platform, and these services are also maintained by the official platform's commission on game sales.

Otherwise, it is impossible for those indie games to afford too much server cost.

The official platform has relatively complete regulations on the use of servers, and for games with small volume and few people online at the same time, you can use the official server for free.

However, if the developer itself is relatively strong, or the number of people online at the same time reaches a certain value, then you need to pay extra for cloud services.

However, according to various factors such as the size of the company, game sales, the number of people online at the same time, and the bandwidth required for the game, some small companies can still get a high discount on cloud servers, and the price of a small server that supports 20 people can even be as low as 90 yuan/month.

According to the calculation of 100,000 yuan for a game online at the same time, after getting the official discount, the server cost is only more than 400,000.

This is a huge boon for indie games. After all, a game with 100,000 simultaneous online is definitely much higher than the cost of the server every month.

Games like Firestealer don't have to worry about that, as there are many ways to connect to the game, such as players directly using their own console or creating their own servers to play.

Therefore, the cost of the game before Heaven's death on the server is not particularly high, and it is not particularly obvious when it is amortized into the R&D cost and publicity cost.

But the situation is slightly different with Road Rage Simulator.

"Hell Trail" and "Fire Stealer" are not online at the same time, and they are divided into rooms to experience the game.

But "Road Rage Simulator" supports up to 2000 people on the same server!

You must know that at present, some relatively large MMORPG games have basically about 5,000 people on the same server.

The larger the number of people on the same server, the more data exchange in the server will also increase exponentially, and the server cost will naturally increase accordingly.

What's more, Reverse Heaven Games is now a medium-sized game company, and it can no longer enjoy various preferential policies for small companies on the official platform.

There is no doubt that the cost of the server this time will not be underestimated.

But it's not a big deal, after all, Reverse Heaven is now bulging in his pocket, enough to afford it. The only problem is...... Is it necessary to spend so much extra money to complete this online function?

Road Rage Simulator will build a virtual city with an area of about 15 square kilometers.

Among the many open-world games that are often tens or hundreds of square kilometers in size, this map is not particularly large, its area is roughly larger than Fallout 4 and Spider-Man, and slightly smaller than GTA4.

But for the games that Reverse Heaven has ever developed, this area is already quite impressive.

While some open-world racing games are more than 70 square kilometers, those games have a lot of wild scenery and idyllic scenery, while Road Rage Simulator is mainly in the city.

The gameplay of the two is also different, racing games encourage players to drag racing, while "Road Fury Simulator" is to restore the characteristics of urban roads as much as possible and create negative emotions for players, so there are certain differences in the production of specific maps.

In networked mode, up to 2,000 people will be crammed into this 15-square-kilometer map. It's not hard to move an inch, but it's definitely not loose either.

Of course, even in networked mode, these 2000 players will be surrounded by NPC-driven vehicles, keeping the vehicles on the city roads at a certain density.

Especially in the morning and evening peaks.

Zhou Yang continued to look down, and soon he found a setting that shocked him even more.

The price of the game itself is still outrageously cheap, at 88 yuan. Considering the significantly increased server costs, this pricing is clearly unreasonable.

But fortunately, there are value-added services in the game.

But Zhou Yang took a closer look, the value-added service of the game is not the appearance of the vehicle or the skin, but the life!

That's right, it's the player's life in the game.

When a player is injured, disabled, or dies in the game, they can pay for their lives. It can be topped up with in-game currency or with real-life money.

There are three ways to earn in-game currency in the game, corresponding to three classes.

Office workers: They have to commute to and from work on time during the morning rush hour every day, receive a fixed salary, and deduct money if they are late.

Taxi drivers: You can make money.

Internet celebrities: You can live stream in the game and earn money based on the number of viewers and popularity data.

In terms of the upper limit, Internet celebrities are definitely the highest, theoretically as long as there are enough people watching, there is no cap on income, but the income fluctuates the most; Office workers are the most stable, as long as they commute to and from work on time, they are basically guaranteed by drought and flood; Taxi drivers, on the other hand, fall somewhere in between, with a lower limit than influencers and lower than office workers, and a lower upper limit than influencers and higher than office workers.

And then, that's the point of the game.

In the game, all players must be cautious and fully follow the rules of the road. Otherwise, you will be fined and deducted points!

However, on this basis, the system will often arrange some NPC vehicles near the player to repeatedly change lanes, add traffic and other uncivilized driving behaviors, so as to stimulate the player's anger as much as possible!

In the event of a car accident, the player must also stop and follow the correct steps to come to the rescue.

If the rescue is done correctly, then a small bonus can be obtained; But if the rescue is incorrect, or just drive away, then the money will also be deducted!

In addition, there are some details of the setting, such as the car model that players can drive in the game, specific traffic rules, and so on.

Since there is no copyright of various car dealers, most of the vehicles are directly copied from the popular vehicle models and logos in reality, and the driving feeling of the vehicle must not be exactly the same as in reality.

However, the game intimately allows players to ride motorcycles, and there are many types of motorcycles, which is a big highlight.

After all, in other racing games, there are not many motorcycles. Even if you do it, you will do motorcycle racing alone, and it will not be confused with cars.

Obviously, the real purpose of this design is to further exacerbate the player's road rage through the motorcycle, which will create more negative emotions!

In addition, there are also battery cars and bicycles in the game, which also allow players to ride, and even ride this to commute to work or become an Internet celebrity.

It's just that if the player has a car, not many people will choose to ride it.

After reading the design draft of "Road Rage Simulator", Zhou Yang couldn't help but gasp.

Hey, how the hell did this game manage to get all the elements of hitting the streets!

He looked at Lilith, "Mr. Lith...... Is this really Mr. Gu's idea? The details are also designed by Mr. Gu? ”

Lilith nodded, "It's true! Lie to you and I'll go to hell. ”

Zhou Yang coughed dryly: "Mr. Li is serious, but there is no need to ......"

(End of chapter)