Towards the end of the year, there are a lot of things.

First of all, the rent of the studio, which is due in less than two months, and the renewal of the lease must be negotiated with the landlord in advance.

It's a nice place.

Chen Ba plans to talk to the landlord for a longer time this time and strive to renew the lease for 3-5 years at a time. As for a longer period of time, or even buying this house directly, he doesn't think it's cost-effective.

First of all, more than five years is too long.

Who knows what Tianba Studio was really like at that time? What if you continue to expand and need to move elsewhere?

It's even more outrageous to buy it directly.

Based on the market conditions, the location, and the total area, he would have to buy the house where the studio was located, and the total price would have to be eight figures.

The eight-figure expenditure is now affordable for the current Tianba Studio, but in this way, there is not much money left in the studio's books.

What are you buying this for?

Can't eat or drink, there is no improvement to the studio as a whole, except for getting a property right certificate, just to save hundreds of thousands of rents every year?

"The landlord was very talkative."

Yang Dong was in charge of negotiating the lease renewal, and he told Chen Ba that the landlord agreed in principle to the long-term lease of Tianba Studio, so as not to look for new tenants.

However, the landlord has a requirement for an increase in rent, and if it is a long-term rent, then the rent must be fixed every year, and it is impossible to maintain the original price all the time.

"...... as it should be"

"As long as it doesn't go up too much and is higher than the market price, we can accept it. After confirming the long-term rent, we have to redecorate the house, and he will be rent-free during the renovation period. ”

Chen Ba stated his conditions.

The food court is really convenient, and the place is big enough that he doesn't want to move anymore.

It's a good thing to set up a long-term rental.

After signing the contract, he had to hire someone to redecorate the studio, and he was not very satisfied with the current decoration and wanted to make adjustments to some areas.

In addition to lease renewals and redecorations, one of the studio's most important things to do is to determine the year-end bonus criteria and organize people to sign up for the upcoming Neon Game Show.

The year-end bonus is reissued.

In fact, there was no year-end bonus last year, because at that time, Chen Ba couldn't take out too much money at all, and all of it was used to develop new games.

Because of this, Brother Ba didn't want to go, so he wanted to compensate everyone this year and raise the standard of the year-end bonus.

The neon game show is a bonus.

With the hot sales of many games, especially the popularity of the GAL professional league of "Star Emperor", Tianba Studio has also made a name for itself in the game industry.

As a result, the neon game exhibition that will be held in December this year took the initiative to send an invitation letter to invite Tianba Studio to participate in the exhibition.

That's something to be happy about.

Although the Neon Game Show is not as famous as Cologne, E3 and other international exhibitions, it is actually not bad, and there are hundreds or even thousands of game interactive entertainment companies participating in the exhibition every year.

It is worth mentioning ......

Although there are hundreds of exhibitors, and domestic game companies are flocking to it, "invited to participate" and "active participation" are two different things.

This is the same as the XX Film Festival held, and the XX actress wore a dragon robe to shine all over the audience!

Have you been invited?

Some people walk the red carpet because they are invited to accept the award, and some people walk the red carpet purely to show off the heat, and they are worried that no one will shoot them, so they bring the photographer over.

It's the same with game shows.

Chen Ba looked down on that kind of person who didn't invite you, so he took the initiative to run over to rub the heat, went back to find a few self-media editors, took a few photos of the queue, and there was a hot search the next day.

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Chen Ba disdained to do such a thing, and he was not interested in it. Generally speaking, at overseas game exhibitions, people don't take the initiative to invite Tianba Studio, and he won't go to the hot face and stick the cold butt.

This time I received an invitation letter, and the organizer not only promised to prepare a good booth for Tianba Studio, but also said that the majority of neon players were looking forward to their arrival, so Chen Ba decided to sign up for the exhibition.

"Going abroad?"

Xiao Lu is going abroad for the first time, and said with great anticipation: "This time I went to Neon, I should be able to meet many foreign game developers, right?" ”

"Definitely!"

"It's hard to say about indie game developers, but there should be a lot of well-known game developers working for big companies."

Yang Dong said with a smile: "And it is an exhibition held in Neon, and major manufacturers such as Sony, Sega, and Capcom should all participate." ”

"There is nothing to see in the big factory."

"These big manufacturers, in addition to 3A masterpieces, the games exhibited are also 3A masterpieces!"

Chen Ba shook his head and said: "We can't learn anything, after all, there is a gap in technology, and the game volume is not at the same level." ”

That's the big truth.

As an ordinary player, it's normal to focus on those big factories and pay attention to the 3A masterpieces they announced, after all, 3A is much more fun than other games.

But as a practitioner in the game industry, and also an exhibitor, it is not interesting to stare at the big manufacturers.

What can you learn?

Even if a large manufacturer demonstrates the technology to you, can you make the same effect? In other words, do you have the capital and confidence of a major manufacturer to incorporate these skills and experience into the game?

Don't be funny!

Even if Tianba Studio now has a full set of 3A game development experience and technology accumulation, it can't make the same game as it should be.

"We should visit and learn from game studios of our size and see what the games they are working on are highlighted."

Speaking of this, Chen Ba seemed to think of something, and couldn't help but smile: "This neon video game exhibition, there should be a lot of Galgame games unveiled, remember to learn it." ”

“Galgame……”

Yang Dong and Xiao Lu were speechless.

Neon is a big country of Galgame, which is something that everyone knows, after all, in that country, the otaku culture is really popular, and there are many players who like to play this kind of game.

But the problem is, even if they steal the teacher and learn the real skills, how can they have room to show it?

There aren't so many Galgame players in China, and it's a dead end to be astringent.

"Just learn the plot design, this is our shortcoming, and we have been criticized." Chen Ba explained.

I have to admit that the plot of some Galgame games is really "god"!

The lines are written so touchingly and warmly, the atmosphere is created, and the fullness of the character design is a two-dimensional game with "character plot" as the core selling point.

If Tianba Studio can learn this trick and do a good job in character design and plot, it will be easy to make money in this domestic environment.

"I see."

After understanding what Brother Ba meant, Xiao Lu nodded and said, "Then which one do we choose for the participating game?" ”

"The Divine Grace Continent is the Lord."

"In addition to exhibiting old games, I just took the opportunity of this exhibition to highlight the popularity of new games in advance......

Chen Ba is not going to travel.

Since he decided to participate in the exhibition, he will definitely make full preparations and break some information at the exhibition that has never been disclosed.

For example, next year's new game!

Although this thing doesn't even have a PPT, the exhibition exposure doesn't need to be tried, it should be a pie braggart contest to arouse the interest of players.

It doesn't matter if the game can be made or not, whether you start doing it or not......

The important thing is to draw the pie first!

Mature game developers have their own set of pie drawing skills, and although the pies they draw are different, they can always arouse the interest of players and whet their appetite.

In this regard, R Star God is a god!

As early as many years ago, someone broke the news on the Internet that R Star was preparing to develop "Give Him Love 6".

As soon as the news came out, the whole network was a sensation.

Countless players are eagerly awaiting, looking forward to the good news from R Star, as well as more of the latest information about "Give Him Love 6".

Every year since, there have been people on the Internet talking about this game that doesn't exist.

R-star also knows how to hang an appetite.

Whenever someone asks about the news of "Give Him Love 6", the answer is always "doing it, doing it".

Is it really being done?

Chen Ba felt that it must have been done, at least the "new folder" must have been done. But no one knows exactly what step will be taken.

After so many years, it is impossible to stay in the stage of "creating a new folder", right?

If it's true, then the pie of R Star is really big, spanning nearly ten years...... Since the rumors of "Give Him Love 6" first broke on the Internet, it has whetted the appetite of players for ten years.

This is the master of cake painting!

Although Tianba Studio can't do R Star so outrageous, the news of a new folder has been in control of players for a whole decade.

But Chen Ba has the same example, releasing a little exciting news, as well as "ambiguous" game content, there should be no problem in stirring up the heat.

……

There are more than a dozen people in the studio, half of them followed Chen Ba to Neon, and the other half took a holiday in place because of visas or other reasons.

The renovation company has already entered the market.

During the period when they are away, the decoration company will redecorate the studio according to Brother Ba's instructions, and the time is tentatively set for 10 days!

Jiangning has a high-speed rail station, but no airport.

Therefore, Chen Ba and others took the high-speed rail, arrived in Zhonghai first, and then transferred to a flight to Neon.

Before leaving, Tianba Studio has already announced in the community, player communication groups, and games that the game will stop maintaining and updating in the coming week.

Mainly for the two online games "Star Emperor" and "Junk Match".

Stand-alone games don't care, after all, many stand-alone games are normal if they don't update once for months or even years.

Online games are not available.

Whether the studio is on a long vacation or going out for team building, it doesn't update for a long time, so you really have to tell the players, otherwise everyone will think that Brother Ba is bankrupt and arrested.

In fact, stand-alone games should also be mentioned, such as Hideo Kojima, who also did not forget to take photos and share them on social platforms to tell players what he has been doing recently......

Many people in the studio are going abroad for the first time, and considering the language barrier, Chen Ba also specially called an accompanying translator.

After arriving at Neon and checking in at the hotel, everyone went to the exhibition venue and visited the booth of Tianba Studio.

03-S03！

This is the booth number of Tianba Studio, which is a very good location, next to the pig factory and the Mi family, but I didn't expect the organizer to stuff them together.

"Your old club is ......"

Xiao Lu stretched out his arm and stabbed Zhong Shengwei, but couldn't help but tease: "How is it?" Have you ever seen someone familiar? ”

"Nope!"

The people from the pig factory came relatively early and were already working on setting up the booth, and Zhong Shengwei did not see any acquaintances here.

This is also normal.

After all, the pig factory is a large factory, with many departments and studios, and most of the colleagues Zhong Shengwei knew before were in the same department.

How can it be such a coincidence that you can still meet acquaintances here?

"Wow! Open world, huh? ”

Chen Ba saw the poster hung out in the pig factory, and couldn't help but say: "If you don't add the words open world these days, will no one play the game?" ”

"Not really."

Yang Dong explained with a smile: "But the open world is really popular, and now players are more respectful of the open world." ”

It doesn't matter what type of game it is, just add the word "open world" to it!

This kind of atmosphere, in the final analysis, was brought up by the Mi family, after all, their O God is so popular that many friends are interested.

Speaking of the Mi family, Chen Ba took everyone to watch the Mi family's booth next door.

Well...... That's right!

Compared with the twisting posture of the pig factory, the Mi family is much more honest, and the booth layout is full of two-dimensional concentration, and the otaku and otaku look at the style of not being able to walk.

Well, the game.,There's nothing new.。

Several old games have been pulled out to show, and the only new game is still the traditional three-board axe of the Mi family, which is really nothing to see.

Of course!

This is from the perspective of a game developer, if you are an ordinary player, your opinion is definitely different from Chen Ba.

"Forget it, let's set up the booth."

I'm too lazy to think about other people's affairs, after all, whether it's the Mi family or the pig factory, it's a behemoth for Tianba Studio.

Instead of thinking about what you don't have, it's better to hurry up and set up the booth, and strive to get more exposure for its games through this video game exhibition.

Especially "Divine Grace Continent".

As an RPG adventure game, the Grace Continent has sold well in Neon. Especially after the release of the pro version, many users are from the neon animation industry.

Chen Ba brought the version of the NPC speaking this time, which I believe will arouse the interest of many people.

Not only that, but he also made a targeted optimization for the "other world" animation works where neon is more prevalent.

This optimization is interesting!

Many of the neon anime in the other world have the setting of "reincarnation", which is what everyone calls time travel.

There are different ways to traverse, there are mud trucks, shenanigans, and accidental deaths......

In the game "Divine Grace Continent", Chen Ba optimized the "Call of the Brave", which was previously the brave who was suddenly selected and came to another world from the modern city.

But now, the mud truck is coming!

How can a brave man who has not experienced the baptism of a mud truck be called a brave man?

You must get on a mud truck and crash open the door to another world at a speed of 100KM/h.

In addition to mud trucks, there are also strange crossing methods such as being killed by lightning, accidental falls, and sudden overtime death.

Players are free to choose.

All in all, this is all designed to meet the needs of some players.

If you don't like mud trucks, there are buses, trucks, buses and even trains to choose from, with a focus on attentive service......

(End of chapter)