Chapter 36: Word Play

Lai Yiming looked at the expressions of everyone who were eager for knowledge, and sneered.

Do you really think I'm going to give you another open-book question?!

Last time, he referred to the experience of the two worlds and made a game with a completely opposite gameplay to the popular games of the current world, and the result was an unexpected explosion.

After a simple analysis, several main reasons were identified.

1. The game has good picture quality and can retain customers.

2. The gameplay is innovative and arouses the interest of players.

3. In the later stage, the staff was negligent in guarding and let the employees drill the loopholes and successfully drain the traffic.

At present, the biggest problem is that the explosion of "Silent Talk" will continue to bring good benefits to the company, and for the battle royale game, there are good changes that can be made in the future, and any rash changes may trigger greater enthusiasm for players to pay.

Therefore, Lai Yiming decided to treat "Taciturn" coldly, not paying attention, not updating, and not adjusting, so that this wave slowly dissipated.

At the same time, throw money into new projects and learn from the above experiences.

This time, Lai Yiming is not ready to follow up the whole process, but is preparing to write a proposition essay that will kill people!

He looked around and said slowly, "This time, we're going to make a game!" ”

"I'm not going to get involved in ...... personally"

"But I have a few requests!"

Everyone in the conference room was stunned for a moment, showing fanatical expressions.

Mr. Lai is completely decentralized!

The project is independently developed!

Isn't this the best opportunity to prove the value of yourself and others in front of Mr. Lai?

But since it's a game, you have to have a direction, and the few requirements that Mr. Lai said made everyone feel faintly uneasy?

So people took paper and pens and waited for Lai Yiming's request intently.

Lai Yiming smiled slightly and spoke eloquently.

"My request is simple. First, we want to make a single-player game, the game should have enough freedom, players can make different choices in the game, and come up with different endings, but the ending must be tragic. ”

"Second, I asked this game to be a text-type game, and no beautiful animation and character modeling were allowed, of course, some illustrations and sound effects could be added."

"Third, money has to be spent on the blade, this time is different from the past, because it is a play on words, so the funds for project research and development are excluded, and all the cash flow from the profit of "Silent Words" is spent on publicity expenses."

"For these few requests, you can ask any questions at any time."

Everyone didn't speak, they looked at the notebook in their hands in a daze, and fell into a state of madness.

Lai Yiming laughed wildly in his heart, and for the first time felt the pleasure of writing a proposition.

Are you still happy?

Still happy?

I really thought Uncle Ben's proposition essay was so easy to do?!

The domestic stand-alone game was originally a Shenkeng series, and it is also a text game, which has no audience in itself, and at the same time has no exquisite animation support, it is like breaking your arms and legs, what do you use to attract players, and what do you use to make money?

The most important thing is that the ending must be tragic, and the game will definitely not be fun!

The game is not fun, coupled with the overwhelming publicity, it is like making a lump of Xiang yourself, wrapping a layer of milk slurry, putting it in the oil pan to fry it crispy and selling it to everyone.

The player was so angry that he smashed his golden sign in a few clicks.

Under the scolding, he pounced into a ball with "Silent Words", which is simply beautiful!

Of course, Lai Yiming will definitely not say these things to his own people, he just needs to say another thing.

Ma Baolin raised his hand and gestured: "Mr. Lai, I probably understand the requirements you said, but what I want to ask is, if this game is not animated and made in the form of an adventure stand-alone word game?" Is it similar to Dragon Quest? ”

The game of Dragon Quest belongs to the product of the older generation due to the lack of game engine power.

This kind of game doesn't have beautiful graphics, just simple illustrations and a lot of text narration to show the whole game.

In Ma Baolin's understanding, with the improvement of the game company's engine and technology, this kind of low-pixel game, similar to the GBA, has no selling point in today's market.

Lai Yiming shook his head: "That's not right." ”

Dragon Quest's pixel game, adding a few lines of code, doesn't need to be operated by the company, just find a recent college graduate to do it, how much money can it cost?

At present, although the daily profit of the cash cow of "Silent Silence" has dropped slightly, it will be 10 million after a month, and it will be 20 million in two months.

Lai Yiming is full of calculations, and from now on, he will publicize in advance, through various media big V, platform publicity, and new media promotion, which is 7.5 million top days a month.

Lai Yiming estimated that the cost of the new game would have to be 5 million to barely make the company lose money!

"Although we don't animate in this game, the illustrations, sound effects and music of this word game must all be pulled to the highest specification, and there must be a very high degree of freedom, and it will be presented to the player in the mode of tree map branching!"

Ma Baolin was stunned, and everyone was also stunned.

They've never heard of a game with a treemap structure!

This is not a report, so what's the use of doing this?!

"Mr. Lai, that ...... Why does the ending have to be tragic? Ma Baolin hesitated for a moment and continued to ask.

If the ending is not tragic, you are responsible for the game?

Lai Yiming glanced at Ma Baolin with disgust: "The tragic ending is sometimes more convenient for players to think about life!" ”

"We want to package this game as a work of art, so that players can go from falling in love with it, to fully bringing their own values, and finally giving them a fatal blow with the ending!"

"This time, because it is a different game from the past, the purpose is to make players think about life, so the budget for promotional expenses is relaxed."

"Within a week of the establishment of the game, major platforms, media, and player groups will start to do promotion, publicity is not limited, the budget is not capped, and you can come to me at any time if you are short of money, understand?" Lai Yiming looked at Ma Baolin encouragingly.

Ma Baolin nodded violently: "Mr. Lai, don't worry, I understand!" ”

After finishing speaking, he added a question with some hesitation: "Mr. Lai, after the implementation of the inspiration income generation system, if employees can't do their original work, what should they do?" ”

After the implementation of the Inspiration Income Generation System, he felt that the efficiency of his daily work would most likely decrease, and he was also very worried about affecting the overall progress of the project.

Lai Yiming thought for a while, nodded and said: "What you said is very reasonable, the inspiration income generation system must be implemented, but the overall progress of the project must not be delayed." ”

"In that case, wouldn't it be nice to recruit more people?"