145 Indie Game Planning
Recently, everyone's final choice of the club has also settled.
Wan Chaoxiong naturally signed up for the animation club, which is exactly the place he dreamed of;
Xiang Bingbing signed up for the basketball club, and she is now also the freshman main player of the school women's basketball team.
In addition, Xiang Bingbing also said for the first time that he was actually very interested in photography, so he signed up for the photography club;
Liu Xiaoyu actually didn't have any idea of joining the club at first, and Xia Yuan pulled her to participate in the selection of the Etiquette Division.
The etiquette department has a bit of a student organization in this club, which is equivalent to the selection of the host of the party and the master of ceremonies who present and greet the host, and there will be a lot of beautiful clothes to wear.
Liu Xiaoyu and Xia Yuan both have outstanding temperaments, and they were both successfully selected into the Department of Etiquette.
Of course, Liu Xiaoyu has an arranger job on hand, and this is Xia Yuan taking her to familiarize herself with the use of fruit music software.
Because it is a job that interests her, and she can subsidize the cost of living well, she studies very seriously and progresses quickly.
Except for a selection of the Etiquette Division, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi didn't bother with other clubs, and they followed Mei Fang to prepare materials for creating clubs during this time.
With the experience of two games, including "Life Reopening Simulator" and "Throne" that have been released on the APPSTORE, their application for the creation of a club was quickly approved, and the three of them also found an office space for themselves in the club building.
The signboard of Simi Lu's studio is officially registered in Jiangcheng Division, and the officially registered members of the club currently only include Mei Youyuan and Liu Xiaoyu, who is responsible for assisting in the arrangement.
The most valuable assets of the entire community are the three laptops purchased by Mei Fang for 10,000 yuan, as well as the top-of-the-line single-camera Olympus E-P3 purchased for filming the fate performance.
"Life Reopening Simulator" and "King Power" quickly received a relatively strong market response after their launch, and the first week sales of the Appstore in the country exceeded 1,000.
Although it adds up to a thousand yuan of income at present, it is a very good start, and more and more domestic users are beginning to know the name of Simi Lu Studio, and they have left messages in the comment area to participate in the discussion.
In addition to observing the market response of self-developed products during this time, another thing that Mei Fang did the most was to visit the Internet.
With the special identity of the stationmaster of Station C, he easily met many indie game producers who were looking for like-minded friends in the extranet forum.
The first producer was a college student from Kama University, Gao Kang, who was working on a narrative-oriented game using traditional RPGMAKER software.
Although Gao Dang doesn't know much about programming languages, his debut novel is all composed by himself from arrangement to copywriting to process, and it is said that he has been designing it since his sophomore year.
The work is set in a scientifically advanced future, where humans can already use machines to change and write human memories. This technology is being used to help fulfill the dreams and aspirations of dying people so that they can leave without regrets.
In the story, we need to play two professionals from the company and help the protagonist realize an unattainable childhood dream by rewriting his memory.
In the process of realizing their dreams, players will also gradually understand a touching story of waiting and companionship from the perspective of professionals.
When this work was just released on the Internet forum at the beginning of the year, it did not cause much influence abroad, and after Mei Fang discovered this work, he took the initiative to provide Chinese localization distribution support to Gao Dang, because there are many high-quality Chinese groups stationed at the C station.
At this time, Gao Da, who was still a hairy boy, was full of gratitude to [Mountains and Forests], and took the initiative to ask the other party some procedural and technical questions.
In addition, with the assistance of Xia Yuan, Mei Fang also took the initiative to help Gao Dare optimize the melody and rhythm of some of the music, and completed an impressive prelude to the theme song "For River" with 2 notes.
In return for Meifang's selfless dedication, the young Gao Dare and Meifang simply reached a contract agreement, handing over the game agency distribution rights in the domestic region to Station C.
After the stationmaster of Station C [Mountain and Forest] put this game on the game section of Station C, he even gave a famous comment in person:
[This is undoubtedly a garbage game, because you can't see the screen through tears at all]
This is the process of the most famous rpgmaker plot in the previous life to the indie game "To the Moon" on the C station.
The second young man Mei Fang met was a well-known celebrity, Liang Qiwei, a master of Yelu University in the Beacon Country, who had just released a martial arts ink game "Rain Blood: Dead Town" that he had been brewing for many years and finally completed.
Although the art style and gameplay design of this game are cool, his program code is very bad in Mei Fang's opinion, and there are many bugs when you take two steps.
So Mei sent Liang Qiwei a private message invitation willing to help the other party refactor the code, and the next day received an email reply from the other party, including the development source code of "Rain Blood: Dead Town".
Mei Fang and Lin Youxi only spent a weekend to complete the code reconstruction of this game, and when they sent it back to each other, Liang Qiwei was also very satisfied with their results, and planned to pay 3000 US dollars in return, but Mei Fang politely declined, what he hoped to get was the domestic distribution rights of Station C.
People tend to attach great importance to their first game work, and Liang Qiwei did not rush to make a decision, and Mei Fang waited for a month to finally receive his consent email.
At this time, the game section of station C has just completed development, and Mei Fang gave this plate a name that is not popular now-
Indie games.
In fact, the concept of indie games will be close to 13 or 14 years before it slowly becomes well-known to the public because of a movie about game developers, "The Indie Game Movie".
The games introduced in this section of station C currently only involve independent games, including two self-developed by Simi Lu Studio, plus four games, "To the Moon" and "Rain Blood: Dead Town", of which the most expensive "To the Moon" is only priced at 8 yuan.
You don't have to think about making money anymore......
Because the C station itself has a relatively high membership threshold, the players who comment on these games are users with relatively high game taste, and they have also received a lot of praise under this section, and the comment area is harmonious.
Mei Fang knows that when the section of its own independent games becomes louder and louder, more masterpieces of independent games that were once on the market will soon be added to the section of Station C.
Compared to the popular smart mobile games in the previous life, such as Temple Run, Angry Birds, Happy Match 3, and Fruit Ninja, the amount of money you can earn is almost negligible.
Of course, Mei Fang is not rejecting the games mentioned above, and the money he should earn will still be earned.
It's just that he thinks that the current C station has gradually gained a foothold in the portal.
And its existence may also bring some fresh atmosphere to domestic games?
For domestic games, especially domestic stand-alone games, even if there is only 1% of the market development space, they may produce unexpected qualitative effects, showing unprecedented possibilities.
And when Mei Fang officially took this step, the name of the stationmaster of Station C began to spread rapidly among various game practitioners at home and abroad, especially independent game developers......
Sorry for the slow posting of chapters! Recently, I have been driving in various cars, and today's chapter lowers blood sugar.
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