There has always been a strange phenomenon in the game industry, that is, genuine copies can't beat piracy!

A phenomenal game comes out, if the gameplay is very novel and the difficulty of imitation is not high, then there will be a situation where it will explode in the early stage and be crushed to death by a friendly copycat game in the later stage.

There are so many similar examples.

A few years ago, there was even a news that the goose factory sued a small factory with a very low reputation, and even many domestic players have not heard of it.

What did the other party do?

The answer is to copy the king of pesticides, a popular Moba mobile game in China, and through this copycat game in some markets in Southeast Asia, the genuine overseas version of pesticides has been shattered.

This is a bit funny, but it is indeed a norm in the game industry, especially in the domestic game industry.

The first mover may not be able to occupy the market share, but the latecomer may be the ultimate winner!

Chen Ba doesn't want to say that domestic games are plagiarized, because the definition of "plagiarism" at the legal level is relatively strict. Many games may be plagiarized by players, but it is difficult to provide evidence, and it is difficult to judge whether intellectual property rights are infringed.

Therefore, it is more accurate and reasonable to describe it as stitched or copycat than plagiarism.

Someone copycat the game of Tianba Studios?

For this matter, Chen Ba had expected it for a long time, and he was also mentally prepared. After all, as early as a year ago, he saw a game on the Steam platform that imitated "Simulator Under the Fence".

The reason why he was surprised this time was because the imitator this time was not a small workshop or a small team, but a real domestic game manufacturer.

On the other hand, he couldn't have imagined that the Tianba game targeted by the big factory was actually "Divine Grace Continent"!

Ah......h

"Divine Grace Continent" is amazing, but if you want to imitate the essence and make a working version, you have to have a certain level of AI tuning, right?

"Magic animation?"

As soon as he heard this name, Zhong Shengwei, who was chewing gum, complained: "The ambition is quite big, and I will benchmark the professional version of "Divine Grace Continent" when I come up." ”

As soon as I came up, I challenged the highest difficulty, and I didn't think about how difficult it was to imitate.

Even if you imitate "Cold Window Reading Simulator" and "Simulator Under the Fence", it's good! The difficulty of developing these two games is much easier than that of "Divine Grace Continent", right?

"Maybe it's disdain!"

"Big factories have the pride of big factories, and they probably can't look down on our low-cost games......"

Speaking of this, Chen Ba waved his hand and said: "Forget it, regardless of them, let them imitate if they love to imitate, and it's none of our business to make jokes when the time comes." ”

He didn't have time to care about his friends.

"Don't Leave After School: Pinballs" is a medium-sized game, and it has begun to take shape so far.

As has always been the practice of the studio, multiple rounds of "bar-to-pop fried rice" testing are required before a new game is about to be released to players.

This kind of test, on the one hand, is for the stability and reliability of the game.

On the other hand, the testing session is also a key step for Chen Ba to check and fill in the gaps in the new game.

"Don't Leave After School" is medium in size, and at the beginning of the project, it was not a large-scale game, and the expected price of the official version is only 68 yuan.

It's not the same as "The Rush".

As a game that is expected to cost only 68 yuan, the development of "Don't Go After School" is naturally easier than "Extreme Hurricane".

Of course!

The main contributor to the short development cycle is actually the Tie Hanhan system, if it hadn't been for the "marble" part of the game, the game would have taken 12-18 months to complete, to say the least.

Chen Ba opened the details page.

[Game Name: Don't Leave After School - Marbles]

[Planning: 85 (can be promoted)]

[Program: 90 (can be promoted)]

[Art: 87 (upgradable)]

【…… Overall score: 96]

After staring at the system page in his mind for a moment, Chen Ba suddenly asked Xiao Lu, "Are you sure you haven't detected any major bugs?" ”

"Nope!"

Xiao Lu said firmly: "The stability of the game is very strong, and during the operation, except for the relatively high memory occupation, no other problems have been found. ”

"High memory footprint?"

When Chen Ba heard this, he immediately frowned and asked the specific reason for the high memory occupation.

The result was a false alarm.

After Xiao Lu's repeated debugging, the memory occupation problem of "Don't Go After School" has been optimized and solved, and now you can play happily with 8G memory.

But then again......

Limited by the game map and scene modeling, the recommended configuration of the game "Don't Leave After School" is actually 16G memory, 8G can only be said to be playable, but you need to lower the game settings to reduce the number of people displayed on the same screen.

"Let's optimize it again!"

Chen Ba knows very well in his heart, although everyone always says that 16G memory is not enough, all kinds of 32G, 64G cool play 3A masterpieces.

But in reality, everyone's computer configuration is generally 8*2 collocation, that is, 16G-based.

And many people, in fact, do not have a dual-channel, motherboard only has an 8G memory module.

So 8G is the foundation.

On this basis, it is necessary to ensure that the experience of this part of the 8G memory player cannot be played, and the 16G experience is very average.

"The configuration threshold is lowered a little more, this is not a game like "Speed Hurricane" and "Star Emperor", we don't need such a high configuration threshold."

Chen Ba explained: "It is best to reach 8G to play, 16G to play!" As for the graphics card, it doesn't matter if there is a separate display or not, the nuclear graphics can also be played......"

The positioning is different, and the configuration is also different.

In the Call of Duty series, the configuration threshold is much higher than that of CrossFire, right? So if CrossFire also raises the hardware threshold, will there still be a dream of 300 million mice?

Plainly!

"Don't Leave After School" focuses on a childhood nostalgia, and the target audience is different from games such as "Star King" and "Speed Hurricane".

If you have to benchmark this new game with the recommended configuration of other games, how many players can meet the conditions?

"I see!"

Xiao Lu nodded, indicating that he would carry out a round of optimization for "Don't Leave After School" in the future to lower the threshold for playing as much as possible.

After talking about the recommended configuration, Chen Ba seemed to think of the 96 comprehensive score given by the system page, nodded and said: "Prepare for the trial version, and release it in two days." ”

"So fast?"

Before Xiao Lu could speak, Zhong Shengwei on the side was surprised: "Let's not test a few more rounds?" ”

"No need to test!"

Chen Ba shook his head.

It's also a chicken feather test! Tie Hanhan's system has given a super high score of 96, which fully shows that the completion quality of "Don't Go After School" has reached a certain level.

I don't know if there is a problem.

But this 96 points is still very valuable, anyway, the next test can't measure anything famous, so it's better to release it directly and let players taste it.

A game with a score of 96, even if it's a defense, it's more fragrant than others, right?

……

Pengcheng, Crystal Garden.

When Jiang Yong woke up, his girlfriend had already left, placed under the mobile phone at the bedside, pressing a post-it note.

"Breakfast is ready for you, get up and warm it up yourself, I'll go to work first ^o^"

"Wake up so early ......"

Putting away the post-it notes, Jiang Yongqing smiled slightly, extremely satisfied with this considerate girlfriend who had known each other for less than half a year.

My girlfriend is from Xianyang.

Although both of them are working hard in the city of Pengcheng, Pengcheng is too big, and the two didn't know each other half a year ago, and they haven't even met.

"Thanks to Brother Ba!"

Jiang Yong cleaned and rinsed, but also did not forget to worship his benefactor Brother Ba every day.

If it weren't for the game "Love Staff" developed by Brother Ba, he would not have met such a considerate and gentle girl as Jingjing, let alone feel the warmth of home.

To put it mildly......

Jiang Yongqing can have a happy life now, all thanks to Brother Ba's efforts. On this point, he hung a photo of Brother Ba on the wall of the living room, and it was not too much to worship day and night, right?

It's a pity that Brother Ba is still alive.

Color photos, I always feel weird when I look at it, if Brother Ba goes to the west one day and changes it to black and white photos, it will be right.

This photo is a collector's edition of "Brother Ba Photo" that he bought for 199 yuan from the official peripheral mall of Tianba.

Official merchandise sells this?

It does sell!

Jiang Yongqing doesn't know exactly what peripherals other game companies sell, but Tianba's official peripheral mall does have a photo of Brother Ba.

The main one is a maverick, and you dare to make any money!

Thinking that Brother Ba is still single, and even has to wash his clothes and socks by himself, but he has lived such a happy life under the care of Brother Ba, Jiang Yongqing feels unhappy.

It's nothing to spend some money on Brother Ba, it's just a photo.

Jiang Yongqing decided early on that as long as Tianba Studio released a game, he would buy a game. You must use practical actions to express your gratitude to Brother Ba and Tianba Studio.

"It's a pity, I really don't like to play "Speed Hurricane......"

Speaking of which, Jiang Yongqing was also very helpless.

He bought "Extreme Hurricane", and he bought the most expensive platinum version. But after buying it and playing for half an hour, the game was lying in the library and eating ashes.

He can't play racing games.

I don't know why, he plays other games well, but playing this racing game, there is a strong feeling of dizziness and nausea and discomfort of wanting to vomit.

Jing Jing said that he was 3D vertigo.

But Jiang Yongqing thinks no, he plays other 3D games very well, and he doesn't have this discomfort, only racing games will be nauseous.

Could it be that the symptoms are mild?

Jiang Yongqing doesn't understand, anyway, he really can't play racing games with his physique, so he can only look forward to Brother Ba's new game.

"Dididi!"

After washing up, I was eating breakfast when my phone rang suddenly.

Jiang Yongqing picked up his phone, unlocked it, and saw that it was a few buddies in the "Love Staff" exchange group, discussing a new game.

"Brother Ba's new game?"

Knowing that this was a new game from Tianba Studio after "Extreme Hurricane", Jiang Yongqing immediately became interested and asked in the group: "What is the name of this game?" When will I be able to play it? ”

"The name of the game is "Don't Go After School: Pinballs", and the Steam platform and Nobug platform are available in Early Access ......"

"Why is it 68 again?"

"It's okay, it's pretty good to see the introduction, it looks like it can still be online, do you have anything to play with?"

"Add me, add me, play together!"

The old players of "Love Staff" in the group discussed it hotly, and Jiang Yongqing also asked the answer he wanted.

What else do you have for breakfast?

Although the love breakfast made quietly is very delicious, it is still a little less interesting than the defense made by Brother Ba.

Jiang Yongqing put down the dishes and chopsticks, couldn't wait to walk to the computer, logged in to his steam platform account, and searched for the game "Don't Go After School: Pinballs".

Go to the game details page.

The first thing that catches your eye is the promotional images of the game, showing the general situation of the game.

"......"

The marble duel scene in the promotional picture, especially the cool marble soul, directly stunned Jiang Yongqing.

Marbles he knew, played as a child.

But what is this marble soul? How can you summon a Pokémon sprite by playing marbles?

It's too abstract!

After reading the promotional pictures of the game, especially those cool marble duels, Jiang Yongqing couldn't hold back his inner impulse.

But he's not in a hurry, and let's take a look at the details of the game.

["Don't Leave After School: Pinballs" is a multiplayer online competitive game, with the childhood marble game as the core, incorporating a variety of novel gameplay, and enjoying the fun brought by marbles......]

Sure enough, it's a childhood marble!

After reading the introduction of the game, combined with the game promotional map, Jiang Yongqing already knew it in his heart.

Buy! Must buy!

Let's not say that supporting Brother Ba is his original intention, even if this game is not made by Brother Ba, just rush to that childhood memory, and buy a pinball game without a loss.

[The game is in Early Access ......]

After glancing at the price of the game and making sure that the group friends did not lie to him, it was really 68 yuan, Jiang Yongqing decisively chose to scan the code to pay and bought this pinball game.

It will take some time to download and install!

Jiang Yongqing is resting today, he doesn't have to go to work, and he is not in a hurry, he hangs the game in the background and downloads it slowly, turns around and goes back to the living room to continue eating.

About twenty minutes passed.

After eating, Jiang Yongqing, who also washed the dishes by the way, returned to the computer and opened the game that had been downloaded and installed.

The logo of Tianba game!

Starting from "Star Emperor", almost every Tianba game will load a studio-exclusive logo on the splash page.

After the logo is displayed, it's time to load the game and the Nobug account login page.

"Pinching your face again?"

Jiang Yongqing doesn't understand, why Brother Ba likes to pinch his face so much, can't he provide a preset template and enter the game with one click?

Skip, skip, skip!

What Privacy Permissions, Game Notifications...... Just skip them all, it's these things that annoy him the most, and every time he plays a new game, he has to grind for a long time.

Especially the privacy permission, almost all games have to ask the player to check it.

But what's the point?

It's obviously a multiple-choice question, and you can't enter the game if you don't choose "I accept", but these game developers still pretend to be very generous and give you a "I don't accept" option.

Pure take off your pants and fart, it's too much!

Unless one day, you can enter the game by choosing "I don't accept", otherwise Jiang Yongqing will never be able to recognize this design.

(End of chapter)