The Strongest Animator [Rebirth]

Although the Huaying game has nothing to do with them, Fang Lian and Wen Feihang, as the guest game reviewers of "The Witch's House", are still very concerned about the situation of this game.

"As far as the current situation is concerned, we don't have to worry about visual novels. There are "Emperor's Development Project" and "I'm in Hogwarts". By analogy, I believe that someone will make a similar development game soon. The pixel RPG game is a bit troublesome..."

Wen Feihang was a little worried.

"There is no way to do this." After all, Jiang Yucheng is a game producer himself, and he has some understanding of the psychology of players. He analyzed: "Although the level of horror is not high, "The Witch's House" is still within the scope of horror games. , this game category itself is relatively unpopular. And it is also a pixel RPG game, which means that players who like horror games will give up because the picture is not scary enough—”

"How about we find a few game up master recorders to record the live broadcast and promote it?" Fang Lian suggested.

"I'm afraid it won't work, at least not at this stage." Jiang Yucheng shook his head: "Although there are not many plots, I believe you should have seen it. The special reversal plot is the biggest charm of this game. Once the player If you know the ending in advance, then when you start playing the game, the final shock will undoubtedly be reduced a lot.”

Wen Feihang thought of Mu Suxing's "old problem" all the time, and suddenly thought: "Otherwise, let's let Amu try to promote it by himself?" In this way, even the advertising fee can be saved.

Shepherd Xing has no objection to this proposal, after all, the whole picture is his, but...

"Don't you guys really like to see me being scolded and addicted?" Shepherd Xing asked suspiciously.

He could even imagine the scene when players would turn their heads and line up to settle accounts with him after finishing "The Witch's House" one after another.

"You think too much," Fang Lian said with a serious face and a very righteous tone: "Everything is for the promotion of the platform."

Mu Suxing was noncommittal about this, but he still listened to everyone's opinions, and took the time to log in to his Weibo account to promote his game.

Shepherd Star V: It is a very inspirational game, I recommend you to play it. [Game address]

He looked at the editing column and made sure that the promotion did not contain any spoiler risk, so he posted it on Weibo.

According to common sense, people who are behind the scenes, such as animation directors, should not have many fans.But Mu Su Xing is obviously an outlier among them. The distribution of his Weibo fans can be described as diverse: there are animation fans, comic fans, face-activated fans, and voice-activated fans who are begging him to go to the sea for dubbing. The game stand painting he drew back then fell in love at first sight, a game fan who never forgets.

At this moment, just a few seconds after he posted on Weibo, the comments below began to increase at a speed visible to the naked eye:

"? Are you starting again?"

"Let me translate for everyone: a very depressing game, come and cry for me! [funny]"

"I haven't started playing yet, although I don't know what an inspirational game means, in short, it's right to buy a box of blades online and prepare in advance [confirmed]"

"No, aren't you a little bit too ignorant... Isn't the original saying about an inspirational game? It's not about healing. It can't be connected with 'depression', right?"

"I understand the truth, but don't you think that in a dog thief, everything can be depressed?"

……

"Are you sure this method of propaganda is really effective?" Jiang Yucheng hesitated.Judging from what he saw in the comment section at the moment, fans seem to be more interested in "whether the game is depressing or inspirational" than the game itself. Erbajing mentioned the game but not many, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem to be able to effectively convert fans into "Witch's House" players.

Knowing that motivation is mostly equal to depression, will there really be players who will actively seek abuse?

It turns out, yes, there are, and there are many such players.

With the release of the honest promotion of Shepherd Star, the download volume of "The Witch's House" began to increase significantly-although it could not be compared with the two games in the same period, the gap between the previous disparity began to gradually close trend in the direction.

Jiang Yucheng even saw several five-star ratings for one-minute games. If it wasn't for his own company's business, he would have suspected that they were trolls specially hired by Huaying to review the ratings.

"I haven't started playing yet, I heard it's very depressing, let's wait and see for five stars first."

"The dog thief is really getting more and more inflated. Does he think that I can't see its depressive nature because of the name of inspiration? The official itself admits that it is a depressive game, and I will take the initiative to play it." Jumping into the sea of ​​swords and fire? Yes, I really will."

Jiang Yucheng picked a few full-star reviews and looked at them. He wanted to learn from them. In the future, when a new game is launched, he can also consider similar publicity methods. confused.

Does this work too?

Why?

As if seeing the question marks on his head, Fang Lian couldn't help laughing: "Maybe this is the legendary uprightness of mouth and body," he explained: "Actually, this can be regarded as the past three years. For the fans of Huaying, the depression of Huaying not only means the depression itself, but also represents a kind of quality assurance."

As for why the fans still persevere in sending blades to Shepherd Star...

Is there any conflict between high-quality animation (game) and sending blades to dog thieves?Obviously not.

For this horror puzzle game containing the "Depression Warning" of the Shepherd Star, the players' mentality was very stable at the beginning.

Although solving puzzles is a bit more difficult and the game is a bit scary, once you pass the initial adaptation period, you will naturally start to get acquainted later on. As for the plot... as long as you accept the setting of "depression", then no matter what the subsequent plot Abusive heart, shouldn't be tortured to the point of crying, right?

In fact, this time, the players who held such thoughts were not slapped in the face until the end. They did not cry because of the plot of the game - because all the players who cleared the game independently went crazy.

"???"

"This game is not depressing at all. Viola successfully escaped from the forest and went home with her father. We were deceived by dog ​​thieves again!"

"No, no, the dog thief didn't lie to us. Seriously, this is really the most inspiring game I've ever seen. No kidding, it's really inspiring. The protagonist and I have paid off in the end, perfect!"

"Hahahahahahaha I'm not crazy. You may not believe me when I say it. I have played more than 40 good endings in this game, and I am satisfied with one book."

"I feel sorry for the upstairs, I have a pity that you have gone crazy again."

With the spread of various game reviews with unclear meanings on the Internet, those who have played "The Witch's House" will naturally understand, but players who have not played before are a little confused.

According to the past practice, if "The Witch's House" is more cruel, most of the players who have played it will nonchalantly point out that Yu Yu is a cure. It is best to drag everyone into the pit and cry together, so that no one can escape.

No matter how bad it is, the angry players should also send the dog thief to the hot search, so that there is still no movement at all.

It’s not that no one tried to ask the truth to the players who have cleared the level and obviously know the inside story. However, in the face of these people’s inquiries, the general public, who always love spoilers, acted extremely firm this time, and insisted on rejecting spoilers to the end:

"There is a big difference in the experience of this game with or without spoilers. For the sake of your game experience, I will not spoil it."

"It's a very interesting game, and I strongly recommend you to experience it yourself! No spoilers! Don't spoilers! Don't spoilers! Say important things three times!"

It has to be said that this behavior of resisting spoilers has also aroused the curiosity of passer-by players to a certain extent-what kind of plot will have a subversive impact on a horror puzzle game?

Players who have already cleared the level are vague, and passers-by players who have not downloaded are standing on the edge of the big pit, so they don't know whether they should jump in or not. At this time, several game up masters, well-known game evaluation groups, Even the editors of game magazines suddenly added game recommendations from "The Witch's House" one after another.

Probably out of fear of spoilers, these game recommendations rarely mention the plot of "The Witch's House" itself, and more generally evaluate the game on a large scale——

"The game that surprised me the most this year is not one of them."

"I have to say that the plot and setting of "The Witch's House" are very complete, and it can even be said to form a complete closed loop. The foreshadowing can basically find echoes. What's more valuable is that some feelings will follow the player to clear the level The number of times has changed, it’s a great game, I suggest everyone to experience it.”

"The masterpiece in my heart. The producer has a good grasp of the fear of the players."

……

Not only these well-known special players.

With the passage of time, Huaying fans who were originally played by the shepherd star Amway also joined the ranks of tap water.Players' curiosity about the game's plot, the unanimous praise of popular players and star players, and the further fermentation of word-of-mouth drove the game, and even the download volume of the Huaying game platform itself began to increase significantly.

A week later, when the download volume of "The Witch's House" finally overtook "The Emperor's Growth Plan" and "I'm in Hogwarts" and reached the top of the Huaying game download list, in the app store that comes with the mobile phone, it was once Huaying game, which is underestimated by many large game platforms because of its focus on pixel RPG games and visual novels, has also entered the top five monthly download rankings for the first time!