Do gacha games!

This was the first reaction in Ke Jin's mind when he received this special task.

Although the first few games have made some money, the current available funds in the company's account are also less than 20 million.

But this money is a drop in the bucket for a game of a little size.

Let's not talk about the classic 3A-level in the previous life, any one is an investment of hundreds of millions of yuan.

Even if it is like some high-quality 2D flat games, if you want to polish it well, it is often tens of millions of investments thrown in.

Although high-quality indie games such as 'Hollow Knight' and 'Stardew Valley' can be completed by one or a few people, the development cost is only a few million, which may not seem like a lot of money.

But you must know that the corresponding price paid by the production team of several people is the lengthy time cost.

It took several years to make such a 2D game.

With so many IPs in my hands, it's impossible to wait a few years to make a game.

Otherwise, by the time you are seventy or eighty, there are few types of games that can be played on Blue Star.

If you want to move out quickly in a short period of time, you need a lot of manpower.

In the game area, in addition to the necessary hardware and equipment expenses, the most expensive thing is human resources.

Even if an employee is calculated as 3,000 a month according to the discount price of the cotton machine, a slightly higher-grade 3A needs a team of at least 500 people.

The salary of the cotton machine alone is 1.5 million a month.

But in fact, it is impossible to pay people wages in this way, and the employees who are in charge of the program in the company are now in charge of the basic salary have risen to more than 7K, and other departments have also increased their salaries.

Not to mention motion capture equipment, off-site guidance, outsourcing art, sound effects, and a series of other (Baidu, if you don't consider outsourcing, a team of 500 people is theoretically very difficult to do a 3A. To give a reference data: the production team of Big Cousin 2 has a full 3,000 people, and then it was developed for eight years and invested nearly 5.5 billion yuan. ）

As the level of the system increases, the quality of the games released in the future becomes higher and higher.

High-quality games are usually distributed with the design, and there is almost no finished game.

Therefore, Kejin needs to prepare a sum of money to be here first.

So that when you really want to make a big game in the future, you don't have to ask for people everywhere when the capital chain is abundant.

Then with the temporary relaxation of system restrictions, gacha games are obviously the fastest means of charging.

Highlight a production speed and efficiency, and focus on a trickle of water.

However, it is also important to choose what gacha game to put into production.

First of all, the degree of overlap cannot be the same as the type of Blue Star's big hit.

Blue Star players have long been aesthetically saturated in the popular game genre.

The ultimate popularity of turn-based is played by the Blue Star designers in every trick imaginable.

To grab this track is basically self-defeating, even if you take out the high-quality turn-based works on the earth, you may not be able to turn over any waves.

There are also many people who do match-3 and other puzzles, and if you can't do differentiation, you can't win the favor of players to the greatest extent.

Pass it too.

Then the answer is coming.

Original......

It turned out to be, Ark of Tomorrow!

The reason for choosing it is simple.

It's cheap.

When Eagle Horn made Tomorrow's Ark, the registered capital was a total of 10 million, which is even smaller than its current number one player.

At the beginning, those miserable standing paintings, and almost awesome dubbing.

Especially Amiya's outrageous leg shape is the best proof of this poor little workshop.

Later, after it slowly became popular, it began to increase investment, and all aspects got better and better.

If you get the project of Tomorrow's Ark, you will naturally have a series of beautiful vertical painting drafts under its current fourth anniversary version.

Having a draft for the artist to follow along with will naturally save a lot of time.

Secondly, porridge (short for Ark of Tomorrow) belongs to the tower defense genre.

There doesn't seem to be a tower defense game on Blue Star at all.

For the sake of insurance, Kejin specially searched the Internet.

The result was just as he expected.

Not at all, I've never heard of it.

If I have to say, there was an interview transcript 30 years ago, which was turned out by Ke Jin.

There is an old game designer in China who mentioned a concept when he was thinking about the concept of the game genre in the future.

We can design an offensive and defensive game similar to building the Great Wall and defending the Great Wall, similar to the ancient arrangement, in which the player, as the party defending and consolidating the Great Wall, needs to constantly allocate troops and resources to resist the attack of the Xiongnu outside the Great Wall. ’

This is probably the oldest tower defense game idea on Blue Star that Kejin can find.

It's just that this old-timer's statement sounds like it requires a lot of production, and it was difficult to bring up equipment at that time, and the development of the game industry was a little distorted later, so that the inspiration for tower defense did not emerge at all.

Previously, whether it was geese and ducks killed, or brother bullets, almost no publicity was done, and so many people bought it.

If you can do it now, Ke Jin will definitely fill the strength of the publicity section.

In addition to the production cost, how much money is invested and how much money is invested.

Show Blue Star players the charm of tower defense games!

After finalizing the general idea, Ke Jin originally wanted to try to upgrade the system to see if he could increase the upper limit of the blind box's entries.

However, it is a pity that after the system level is pulled up, the required experience points are also getting higher and higher.

10,000 exp is charged, and only half of the experience bar of the level 6 system has been raised.

Looks like one more game is needed to get to level 7.

Forget it, let's open the blind box directly.

Two platinum-level mystery boxes, reset twice.

It's equivalent to having four chances.

The first blind box, Ke Jin tried to enter the [card drawing] entry.

[Congratulations on successfully obtaining the D-rank gacha game - Dream Magical Girl!] 】

What...... What's that?

Ke Jin was stunned.

Is this thing a product of the earth?

But on second thought, there are so many games on Earth, and the system includes all of them.

It's normal that I haven't heard of it myself.

However, if you look at the rating and only have a D grade, then it is basically not considered.

Reset!

[Congratulations on successfully obtaining the B-level gacha game - Fgo!] 】

emmmm……

Neither will this one.

The gameplay is almost zero, and it is all supported by the player's cooking power.

Moreover, Fgo was a smash hit at that time, and a large part of it was related to the animation IP it was backed by.

The system gave itself a total of two months of indulgence.

For two months, let yourself operate such a huge worldview IP of the Fate series into the hearts of every Blue Star player.

It would be better to make all Blue Star players believe that they are Qin Shi Huang.

The first blind box is scrapped directly.

However, turning back FGO can also be used as a fragment and thrown directly into the fusion table, randomly smelting a new game, and it is not for nothing.

Put it in your inventory.

The second blind box was immediately removed.

Ke Jin felt he needed to change his mind.

The entries for card drawing are still too extensive, and it's easy to draw what you don't want.

"Try tower defense."

After entering the entry, you will be prompted quickly.

[Congratulations on successfully obtaining the B-level tower defense game - Defend the Carrot!] 】

Looking at the game in front of him, Ke Jin fell into deep thought.

This doesn't seem impossible......

If you need to do a low-krypton challenge, Kejin really chooses it.

But now it's meal time for indulgence.

"That ......" looked at the last chance left.

Ke Jin swallowed his saliva, and a bold idea suddenly popped up in his mind!

Quickly on the system panel, type the word 'jade foot'.

Click Confirm!

[Congratulations on winning the A-level game project - Ark of Tomorrow!] 】

Pinch Mom! It's really out!

And the entry seems to silence the system.

When you draw other games, the high and low will also show you an XX type.

As a result, here in Ark of Tomorrow, the game type is not displayed directly.

It is estimated that the system has been thinking about what kind of game the jade foot game is.

After a high-intensity search, it may be barely related to the [Ark of Tomorrow]

Well, it's a porridge ceremony.

I didn't expect you to ...... Brother Tongzi?

……

In the end, I chose the game I wanted to make.

It can be seen that an entry is still not stable enough, and the probability of something going wrong is quite high.

It seems that if you want to get the game accurately, you have to keep doing tasks to improve the level of the system.

After making up his mind, Ke Jin called Gou Chehua.

The position of secretary is temporarily vacant, so at present, the big and small things can only be handed over to Gou Chehua to take care of, but fortunately, he has been doing his best, busy and busy, so that Ke Jin is a little unhappy.

During this period, Ke Jin also tried to post secretary recruitment, with the system's [assistant search function] to find a suitable secretary assistant.

But it has not been successful.

During the interview, I met some little secretaries who seemed to be quiet and beautiful on the surface.

There is no problem with communication.

But after opening the system and glancing at her personal introduction, she was speechless.

Almost all of them think about how to dress up every day to make the domineering president fall in love with him, and how to seduce the president.

Together, you don't do things every day, and you do things cleanly, right?

Sit on the promoter and shake it up, and it's over.

There is no way, I can only suffer Brother Huazi again.

"Mr. Ke, have you finished planning for the new game again?" The so-called once born and twice ripe, Gou Chehua found that the CEO of his own company didn't care much about performance, running water, and the like every time.

Every time I call him into the office, nine out of ten is to discuss a new game.

The king of ideas belongs to yes.

But if you don't accept it, you can't do it.

Every game conceived by Man Ke is exquisite.

Let's take the last "Wind Journeyer" as an example.

Originally, Gou Chehua thought that the development of this game was basically absolutely useless.

Drama, dogs don't play!

The result was unexpected, and in just 10 days, it directly detonated the game circle, not to mention the high popularity, and sold 150,000 copies.

According to this trend, it should not be a problem to sell about 250,000 copies in the first month.

This directly gave the company a mouthful of more than 20 million blood!

No channels, no publicity, a plot game will return to 20 million in a month?

It's a natural contrast to the last story game that only sold 1,800 yuan.

even brought a small group of companies to start working towards the plot track, and as far as Gou Chehua learned, at least five or six companies began to set up projects.

Moment is simply born for the game industry!

"Well, let's do a gacha game this time. This is a plan, you see. Ke Jin pushed the proposal for "Ark of Tomorrow" over.

"Gacha?" Gou Chehua was stunned.

I was still thinking about it.

Is the moment always running out of inspiration?

Gacha games don't look like the style of carving.

Besides, gacha games are so volatile now...... Even if the number one player has accumulated a lot of players in the previous word-of-mouth.

But if you can't differentiate, it's hard to ......

In the middle of his thoughts, he took the thick stack of plans and quickly flipped through them.

After about a few minutes, the look in Gou Chehua's eyes changed from doubt to shock.

The whole person was almost petrified in place.

it?

What kind of unheard of game genre is this??

It's said to be a placement class, but it eats the player's decision-making, unlike the traditional placement class, and you will hang up and wait for benefits if you put it down.

In this game, you need to kill monsters and defend against enemies.

It's also not like turn-based, where damage settlement is generated in real-time.

Action? The player doesn't have to manipulate the character...... At most, the skill bar is stored and clicked.

Fight monsters to level up?

It's there to fight monsters.,But it's not upgraded when you put down the characters......

This, this, this......

Even Gou Chehua, who is a veteran player with three years of planning experience, has to sigh in his heart.

I've never seen anything like this!

How did Mr. Ke's brain grow......

Why everyone grew up under the same sun, as the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun.

Can you always give me a new flower pattern that is different from the other?

"This game...... OK! With Gou Chehua's many years of work experience, he knew at a glance that this game would definitely sell well as long as it was made!

Even in the gacha market that is rolled up and flying, it belongs to the category that can stand firm!

However, after thinking about it, Gou Chehua still cautiously asked more.

"Engraved ...... There shouldn't be anything special about this game, its charging pricing, right? ”

Please, Mr. Eng! Charge more!!

Don't make any more one-dollar purchases, unconditional refunds, and advertising to block internal purchases!

As far as the idea of the king of your idea is concerned, if you throw it to a company like Tengjing Netcom, as long as they make it, they will have at least hundreds of millions of revenues.

But why does this idea fall into the hands of the number one player, we can't make much money every time......

Gou Chehua is now more and more self-doubting, whether there is a problem with his own planning, so that the company makes too little money.

I'm guilty, I'm damned......

Fortunately, the next moment Ke Jin's answer made Gou Chehua breathe a sigh of relief.

"Well, the pricing of this game is on the normal side."

Call......

Gou Chehua wiped the sweat from his forehead, and finally let go of his hanging heart: "At that moment, do you think you should use the current average pricing of 50 yuan from medium-sized manufacturers, or move closer to the big factories and price to three digits?" In my opinion, the fresh gameplay of our game can even try to get closer to the charging standards of big manufacturers......"

"50 yuan a draw? Three-digit? Ke Jin frowned slightly when he heard this: "It's too high, 5 yuan is about the same." ”

"Huh?"

Gou Chehua stood messy in the wind.

No, you're just having fun making games???

"But 5 dollars a lot...... We don't make money...... Last time, the price of the bullet was six yuan a draw...... In the end, I didn't get much money back. ”

Ke Jin shook his head: "No, no, no, the goal of our game is not to earn five yuan a draw." ”

"Uh...... What's that? ”

"Monthly card." Ke Jin said with a smile.

"Monthly card?" Gou Chehua was stunned again.

What's the monthly card?

Membership similar to the video site next door? After opening a one-month membership, can I get an unconditional free gacha for that month?

Thinking of this possibility, Gou Chehua only felt that his eyes were dark.

This Nima ...... Isn't this more outrageous than five dollars a draw?

Yes!!

Engraved Mr. Ah!!

You've got me fired!!

If you can't make money from this game, I'll be hot when you pay me a salary!!

Let's talk about it first.,The second game should only be a game of Tomorrow's Ark.,Other games.,Either the volume is too small and there is no sense of substitution.,Not many readers know about it.。 And it's not appropriate to blow it, after all, the essence of the second game to attract players is still in the card drawing and choosing a wife, and the gameplay is not enough. Write porridge because people's high and low is a tower defense.,Take out the character attack mechanism of porridge.,Remove the gacha card and change it to a stand-alone machine.,Even if it's all replaced with stickman vertical painting, it's the same to play.,But some of the second games if you take off the card drawing and selling people.,It's really an instant death.,It's enough to show that the gameplay is too poor.。

At the beginning, I also considered the classic tower defense of Plants vs. Zombies, but I always felt that the return speed of this game was a bit slow, the price was too high, and the protagonist seemed to be a bit of a pit, and the price was low and he couldn't make any money. After thinking about it again, I still chose porridge.

As for the Mijia game, I'm sorry I really don't dare to touch it...... Whoever touches it dies, because it's really not right to write, and something will happen no matter how you write it, so let's let it live honestly in the stalk of this book.

In terms of online games, the follow-up will continue to make some more classic and well-known online games, interspersed with other games (online games will also not choose too small, too low visibility and no sense of substitution, and there is no particularly awesome gameplay and plot support, it is really not as good as a stand-alone machine)

Anyway, this book is mainly based on high-quality single-player games.

After the report, continue to code words!

(End of chapter)