Forced to become an idol in order to make games

Chapter 249 Gossip
"This kind of opportunity is used by you to accumulate skills. You are very confident! This is completely different from your usual performance in other things!"

Zhao Hanyun was even more puzzled when she heard Lu Yu's words. The usual Lu Yu and the Lu Yu who talked about games seemed to her like two different people.

Usually he is humble and gentle, his behavior is impeccable, and his sharpness is all restrained, no matter what it is, he will never be full of words when it comes to Lu Yu.

But in the field of games, Lu Yu's performance is just the opposite. He is full of aggressiveness everywhere, showing his sharpness, and his self-confidence is beyond expectations. He is like a dictator who controls everything by himself. He quickly sailed towards the goal in his heart.

Moreover, Lu Yu's family history in games is full of coincidences for many people, but in Zhao Hanyun's eyes, he never thinks so.

Her saying that Lu Yu was a very purposeful person was not derogatory, on the contrary, it was a complimentary word for Zhao Hanyun.

Because like Lu Yu, she is the kind of person who is driven by purpose, but the purpose they want is different from what ordinary people want.

And people like them absolutely don't like things with a gambling nature. As long as they do it, they will try their best to do the best.

But according to this logic, it is impossible for Lu Yu's first work to be of the quality of digging ground for improvement, at least it should be the standard of his subsequent works.

But the fact is that Lu Yu's digging for promotion became an instant hit, and the latter two games both enjoyed the dividends of this game, which allowed Lu Yu to gain a firm foothold in the game circle. It was a coincidence, but on Lu Yu's side, Zhao Hanyun would never believe it.

"Really? Isn't it good to be confident?"

Lu Yu naturally understood Zhao Hanyun's subtext, but the source of his self-confidence is an undisclosed secret. This confidence does not come from the system, but is shaped by so many years of experience in his previous life, which gave him a certain understanding of his own game. The most basic estimate.

"It's good to have confidence, but it's no fun to screw up!"

Although Zhao Hanyun didn't know where Lu Yu's confidence came from, he still reminded him that such things with obvious political missions should not be done according to ordinary standards. Zhao Hanyun has been in the industry for so long, so naturally he has participated in various Without this kind of task, if nothing else, the annual Spring Festival Gala is a routine task.

And this kind of thing, even someone like Zhao Hanyun, is walking on thin ice, because this is not just a performance, but also represents a huge responsibility.

"If I didn't have this confidence, I wouldn't have agreed before!"

Lu Yu replied with a smile. Since he dared to agree, he naturally planned for the worst. Some people may ask here. Lu Yu only needs to copy the annual game from his previous life, not to mention winning prizes, but at least there will be no problems. Why bother? Preparing for the worst?
Lu Yu is very clear about these, but those games are all suitable. They are all excellent and excellent games. If you take out any carefully crafted games, they will definitely be outstanding, but those are not what Lu Yu and the GAME platform want.

What they want is an annual game that can promote their own culture, and what they want is a game that justifies the name of domestic culture and tells the world that domestic culture can also produce excellent annual games.

If they rely on foreign culture to compete for this award, it will already be a failure for them, which is a disguised admission of their own failure. Such a game that carries a certain political significance cannot be allowed to appear. .

Therefore, no matter whether it was due to his own reasons or his own mission, Lu Yu would not choose those classic annual games in his previous life. He would rather take the risk to reset the fairy sword because of this factor.

So don't look at Lu Yu's answer to Zhao Hanyun's swearing, but he actually doesn't have much confidence in his heart, because this is different from other games, Lu Yu doesn't have a good reference to know what level he can achieve, and some designs are good or bad It is also unknown.

"Really? I remember that your game must sell more than [-] million. As far as I know, this goal is very high!"

Due to personal reasons, what Zhao Hanyun sees is very messy. Although she doesn't know much about the game industry, it doesn't prevent her from knowing how difficult this goal is to achieve. Regarding Lu Yu's confidence, she really wants to know where it comes from .

"It's indeed very high. If I were to rely on myself, the possibility would be too small! I would definitely not agree to it!"

"so?"

Zhao Hanyun didn't say it clearly, but Lu Yu knew what she wanted to ask and smiled immediately.

"Games, like the entertainment industry, require a huge amount of traffic. This task itself can save me from worrying about publicity, but I'm a little worried about the market itself. So for this, didn't I even make a TV series?"

Lu Yu sees this matter very clearly. Although the domestic game community in this world is much larger than in the previous life, all this is due to the genuine awareness that the GAME platform has established over the years.

But really speaking, it's only around [-] million, or even lower. These are what Wang Pengtao has told Lu Yu before. These are the user base of domestic stand-alone games in the world.

In the previous life, there were hundreds of millions of game players, which refers to the number of online games and mobile games. The share of stand-alone games is pitifully small in comparison. Only with the addition of foreign players, can there be such a base of [-] million, and foreign countries are also exactly Because of its huge base, the stand-alone market can form a virtuous cycle.

After limiting the subject matter to the domestic cultural background, Lu Yu has only a small possibility of achieving this goal relying on the existing domestic market.

Relying on foreign players is also quite difficult. Although Lu Yu has a certain reputation in China, he can be regarded as an independent game producer with a slight appearance in the world.

Under the constraints of such no popularity and no matching cultural background, Lu Yu had to find another way, not for the foreign market, but to broaden the domestic market, give full play to his star advantages, and let people who are not originally stand-alone game audiences People become its audience.

So Lu Yu chose the theme of Xianjian. After all, the reason why Xianjian became so popular in the past is largely due to the TV series. Although many people have played the game itself, it is self-evident how many pirated versions of it.

Lu Yu has always been feeling that if there were no pirated copies before, games like Xianjian would indeed sell a lot more, but they would definitely not reach their current status. After all, due to the conditions back then, they had computers at home and were willing to spend dozens of dollars to play There are still a small number of people who buy genuine game CDs, but it is precisely because of the existence of pirated copies that the spread of the fairy sword has increased by several orders of magnitude in an instant. No one knows whether this kind of thing is good or bad.

In the past, Lu Yu didn't know whether this matter was good or bad, but after coming to this world, Lu Yu understood that there is no piracy in this world, and as a result, domestic game companies basically ran to represent games instead of developing them themselves. Transitioning to online games and mobile games, in this world, there is no domestic game that can achieve the status of the former fairy sword in China.

After all, at that time, there was not enough legitimate users to support them, so in this world, historically, these game companies had to cooperate with Internet cafes to sell all their games to Internet cafe computers at a suitable price. That is to say, from this, they found that agency games make more money than self-developed games, and naturally no one is willing to invest energy in this.

Talking back to the Fairy Sword itself, from Lu Yu's current perspective, it is naturally outdated for a long time. The game system and graphics must be upgraded. The graphics are not bad. With the technology of the GAME platform, it can naturally be the best in the industry. Top-notch, but a good triple-A game must have a good game system and excellent plot performance.

However, the domestic games in the previous life had many deficiencies in these aspects, so Lu Yu directly chose to reset, but resetting means unknown, and after losing the halo of feelings, Lu Yu is left with only a top-notch plot That's all, and in order to match the triple-A level, the plot of the original work is simply not enough to support it, and it must be added to it.

"Then what are you going to do? You know, for a TV series, spoilers ahead of time will greatly reduce its ratings. Even if you let the game be released after the TV series ends, I don't think that after watching your story ending, Will be in the mood to play your game!"

Zhao Hanyun continued to ask, this is the reason why she never believed that Lu Yu's fortune in the game industry was a coincidence. People who don't know him have no way of knowing the purpose of Lu Yu's work. What he seeks is not what ordinary people think.

"I have also thought about this issue. Spoilers are not only a serious impact on TV dramas, but also a very serious problem for a plot-oriented game. My current thinking is to go through the details and the ending of the game. To attract everyone to buy the game, but how effective it is, I can’t say that, I have to discuss it!”

Lu Yu was also very troubled by Zhao Hanyun's question. Although telling a good enough story is not afraid of spoilers, it will have an impact after all, especially a game that relies on the plot itself to drive the gameplay. The impact is quite large.

This is also a lot of plot-driven games in the previous life. Before the release, it was forbidden to leak. After the live broadcast era, some even have a clause that prohibits live broadcast for a period of time after the release. These are all taken to prevent spoilers. way.

It is for this reason that many games adapted from novels in previous lives do not focus on the plot itself, but drive the development of the story through the gameplay, and the plot is an appendage of it, so as to minimize spoilers the impact.

For this matter, Lu Yu can only do his best to obey the destiny, rely on the work itself to attract enough players, and use good enough gameplay to offset these effects. This is why he wants to add a plot. It's a different experience than playing.

"Can this work?"

"I don't know, but I know that as long as the work itself is good enough, this problem won't have much impact!"

Lu Yu shook his head slightly. He didn't say a word. He actually wanted the game to be released in the early stage of the TV series to get more sales. You must know that the advantages of the plot of Xianjian are here. The plot in the early stage is very sweet, just like a dream. It's the same as in the middle, but just because of this, the dream will be shattered directly from the middle stage, and you can be as cruel as you want.

And because Lu Yu is in charge of the script this time, he will not copy the plot of the TV series from his previous life, but choose to use the plot of the game. After all, he doesn't need to care about the opinions of investors.

For a project that is somewhat linked to the government, no investor would be willing to offend him. Without them, there are plenty of people who are willing to take over the project, so Lu Yu can be confident and does not need to change the plot at all.

And when the previous life sword was released, spoilers were already flying around, but it still couldn't stop it from becoming a memory of a generation. For this reason, Lu Yu wanted to transfer the risk to the TV series. After all, after the game was released and players got through it When I came back to the spoiler, the TV series had already reached the mid-term, and those who followed the series would not choose to abandon the series because of these reasons.

"It's true to say that, but then you have to talk it over with Sister Hui and the others. It's not good to have a disagreement!"

Zhao Hanyun didn't have any opinion on Lu Yu's thoughts. After all, she was not a professional, but she just knew a little more and thought a little more. It is enough to give some appropriate opinions.

"Well, I know this, and we will discuss it carefully at that time!"

Lu Yu smiled and nodded. He naturally knew this kind of thing. If he really wanted to transfer the risk like this, Lu Yu would naturally proceed after reaching an agreement with Rao Linghui and the others. At this time, Lu Yu didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so he changed the subject with a smile.

"Stop talking about this! Sister Han Yun should have received an invitation to this year's Spring Festival Gala!"

"Well, after this period of work, I have to make special preparations. According to your momentum this year, you may also get an invitation!"

Zhao Hanyun nodded. She has always been a frequent visitor to the Spring Festival Gala, and she has a certain political background. She can't refuse this kind of thing even if she wants to. She can only participate in this task every year. In her opinion, Lu Yu has something to do this year. They may be invited, after all, the Spring Festival Gala in recent years has shown a younger direction, and Lu Yu and other famous calligraphers and painters are well-known, so it is very likely that they will be invited to participate.

"I'm not as powerful as Sister Hanyun, and even if I get invited, I really may not have time to participate. I can only tell when the time comes!"

Lu Yu smiled and shook his head. He really didn't get the invitation to the Spring Festival Gala. After all, two days ago, Lu Yu was just a newcomer. When it comes to the invitation, Lu Yu has to think carefully. After all, the time needed for the Spring Festival Gala is no less than that of making a fairy sword, and his time may not be enough.

(End of this chapter)