Start your day with a look at your game's sales.

It's not bad, today's game sales have increased a lot compared to yesterday, which should be due to the Steam platform's recommendation for an "indie game" booth.

Chen Ba was in a very good mood.

Because he woke up in the morning, he actually saw the words foreign currency settlement in the developer background.

What does this mean?

It means that the cold window hard reading simulator has been purchased and played by foreign players, which simply refreshes his cognition.

The game is only available in English and Chinese Simplified!

Among them, the English translation of the game documentation is still full of loopholes, which is only a little better than the machine translation, after all, he doesn't pay attention to this.

Don't blame him for not paying attention to ......

Who would have thought that this game would be of interest to foreign players? He hadn't thought about this possibility at all, so he had to make do with the translation.

The sudden appearance of foreign players surprised Chen Ba, but also made him a little puzzled.

Where did this come from?

Cold Window Reading Simulator is not famous abroad at all, and foreign players who suddenly appeared, where did they hear about this game?

After flipping through the comment area at the bottom of the game's details page and selecting "Sort by Time", Chen Ba seemed to have found the answer.

Fooled!

These overseas evaluations are either traditional Chinese characters, or a combination of Chinese and English, and the ghosts know that they are overseas Chinese.

"I'll just tell you where the foreign currency settlement came from, it turns out like this......"

Chen Ba suddenly realized.

He was still happy for a while, and almost thought that the cold window hard reading simulator had captured foreign players and unlocked a new achievement in cultural output.

As a result, foreigners are indeed foreigners, but these foreigners are not authentic, and there are those purchase orders from the "Pampas District", and the reviews are all Chinese players.

The Steam platform has a high-price zone and a low-price zone, and each region is subject to local policies and regulations, and some games may not be available for purchase and download.

As a result, the operation of "transfer area" has been derived, and many of the purchase orders that seem to be foreign users are actually domestic players.

Of course, there are also overseas Chinese.

Chen Ba, who was happy in white, shook his head and exited the steam developer background, skillfully entered the website of the Dream Building Engine forum, and clicked on the business collaboration section.

This is an industry forum he often visits, and when he first started to learn the dream building engine, he learned a lot of things here, and he also consulted many gods in the game industry.

However, he is not here to hang out today, but plans to find a few useful and cheap "2D artists" from the forums to find outsourced staff for the new game that Tianba Game Studio is producing.

Because [Simulator Under the Fence] is a 2D game, Chen Ba directly searched for the "2D artist" tag, and soon saw a large row of job search posts.

【Freelance UI deisgn， 2D character design.】

“Hello everyone，thanks for visiting! My name is Kent.”

“I've been working as game UI designer and 2D drawing since 2018……”

"18 years into the industry?"

As soon as he saw this series of introductions, Chen Ba immediately shook his head, and he didn't even bother to open his portfolio, so he passed it directly.

This kind of newcomer who has been in the industry for less than three years is cheap, but to be honest, how many can meet the demand?

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if this Kent is really a genius who has become a blockbuster, then he will not go to the forum to find a job, and he has long been taken over by a large company.

It's not that there are no geniuses missing, but this probability is no different from winning the lottery, and Chen Ba has no interest in spending a lot of time on a newcomer.

What's more, this is still a foreigner......

It's not that I look down on foreigners, it's just that foreigners are game artists, and it may be difficult to meet the actual needs of [Simulator Under the Fence] in terms of art style.

After all, cultural differences are also a point to consider.

The second place is much more normal, a Chinese painter and has been in the industry for 12 years, with a lot of representative works, and he has built a small team to specialize in docking art resource outsourcing orders from major game studios.

Chen Ba added his micro-message.

may be because the other party was busy, and it took half an hour to pass Chen Ba's friend application, and then after chatting for less than ten minutes, Chen Ba gave up.

This is also too expensive.

Although you get what you pay for, the quality of a single original painting is indeed worthy of their asking price, and it is not deliberately slaughtering, but Chen Ba is shy in his pocket, and he really can't afford this kind of quotation of tens of thousands at every turn.

"There are cheap ones!"

"What price point you want, we can negotiate according to demand."

Probably because he didn't want to miss Chen Ba, a customer, the other party said that he could tailor a set of art plans according to Chen Ba's needs.

"Do I need it?"

When Chen Ba heard this, his heart was immediately moved.

He really can't afford expensive art resources, but he doesn't have to use the most expensive ones! He can completely ask the other party to customize a set of art plans for him according to his budget and needs.

For example, the original picture of the game promotion can be drawn more delicately, after all, this is the packaging of a game.

As for the rest, it doesn't need to be elaborate.

Anyway, the propaganda is picturesque, and players have long been used to this kind of thing when they enter the game and find out that they have been deceived.

Use the actual screen to do publicity?

Please, you're not sick!

How confident are you in your game to dare to use the actual screen as a promotional image? You're not going to say a triple-A masterpiece, right?

Game Promotional Graphics, UI Design, Character Image Design, Map and Scene Design, Character Vertical Illustrations......

The art resources covered by a game, the overall amount of content is very large, even if the volume of the [Simulator under the Fence] game is small, but all of them are packaged is an amazing number.

After talking on WeChat for about an afternoon, Chen Ba finally negotiated a preliminary solution to art resources, and the two sides agreed to hold a group for detailed communication another day.

When it comes to this kind of outsourcing division of labor, it is impossible to make a decision in a few words, at least Party B must clearly receive Party A's needs before we can continue to talk about future cooperation.

Let's put it bluntly.

Even if it is the "colorful black" Party A joke that has been ridiculed by netizens, it at least puts forward specific needs.

Whether Party B can complete the requirements put forward by Party A will not be discussed, at least Party A cannot give a vague answer of "whatever" or "can".

Art requirements must be precise.

The more precise the requirements, the better the final effect will be, but those ambiguous requirements may be made into a "four dislikes"!

The game needs a lot of art resources, Chen Ba needs the help of Yang Dong and Lu Jing, one person is responsible for submitting a part of the art requirements, and the division of labor and cooperation can ensure that the progress of game development is not delayed by art.

Otherwise, he alone doesn't know how many brain cells he will kill and how many hairs he will lose after the game is finished!

Cold Window Bitter Reading Simulator?

There is no need for art for that thing, it is all free public templates set by Chen Ba, and at most when designing the characters, a little "Van Gogh" art style is integrated.