Cannon Fodder Genius Game Producer

Not to mention how much Lin Cheng was gnashing his teeth staring at the words "no loss studio", but after the meeting between Pei Shu and Wang Fei, the no loss studio, which was still in the preparatory stage before, began to make great strides—the main The reason is still because Lao Wang is here.

Previously, the registration of the studio, the selection of the office location, and the configuration of the hardware had all been completed during the preparatory period. According to Pei Shu's plan, there should be plenty of time.

As a result, he did not expect that after Wang Fei handled all the handover work of the "Super God" project on the third day, he waved to his old friends who had been with him for many years, and then directly killed him, who is located at 29 Yuefeng Building, without saying a word. floor studio.

"Old Wang, are you here now?"

The studio on the 29th floor was originally a hardcover suitable for office work. After purchasing a full set of office furniture, the manufacturer of customized office furniture also provided renderings and simple designs.

A bright office floor that can be seen at a glance, a clean and translucent floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall, with a simple and cold office suite and a plush carpet on the floor. In addition, it is decorated with green plants and a coffee lounge that looks quite comfortable.

After Wang Fei saw this scene, he narrowed his eyes and glanced at Pei Shu: "Is the studio well decorated?"

Pei Shu also felt that the studio was well furnished, but the yin and yang in Wang Fei's voice was almost overflowing. He looked at the studio again, and suddenly felt...as a game studio with a total capital of only 80 yuan Speaking of him, the office space in front of him does seem a bit extravagant.

"I think you have plenty of money?" Seeing Pei Shu's guilty look, Wang Fei couldn't help but stab again, but thinking that the office of this studio was sponsored by Li Chuyue, he swallowed more complaints into the stomach.

With such a large office space, it is impossible for the future studio to have only three of them.

Wang Fei guessed that this might be Li Chuyue's one-step preliminary preparation for Pei Shu's subsequent studio expansion.

And he has just joined Pei Shu's studio, and he has a one-year non-compete agreement on his back. It is not suitable for Pei Shu to tell him this, nor is it suitable for him to know it.

In short, it is enough for them to have this tacit understanding in their hearts.

Wang I don't know the truth Naobudi convinced himself in this way.

Pei Shu didn't mind the few words Wang Fei stabbed at himself. This at least shows that Wang Fei has quickly adjusted his thinking, from the working mode of "Super God" where the money is not bad, to the "poverty" that does not lose the studio. ? 'model.

"Ah, don't lose to teacher, Teacher Wang. Good morning!"

When Jiang Ziye came up, he saw Pei Shu and Wang Fei who were talking at the door. He was holding his notebook in his hand, and he planned to start working in the studio normally in a few days.

Seeing that all the current members of the studio have arrived, Pei Shu simply clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Since Lao Wang and Ziye are here, shall we have the first meeting?"

"Ah! Okay!" Jiang Ziye was a little nervous when he heard the meeting.

Wang Fei, on the other hand, has become so proficient at meeting that he is almost instinctive.

The three of them had nothing to choose, and they sat together in the coffee leisure area that also had meeting functions. When Jiang Ziye sat down, he poured three cups of warm water and brought them to the seats.

Among the three, Jiang Ziye was the youngest, and he also consciously undertook the work of meeting minutes, but before he could start writing, Wang Fei threw out a recording pen.

"Record directly, after the discussion, extract the voice to text, and sort out the key points of the discussion."

"Ah! Good teacher Wang." Jiang Ziye immediately took the recording pen, and after a brief study, he clicked on the recording.

Seeing the recording pen Wang Fei took out, Pei Shu smiled and said, "Teacher Wang is well prepared!"

After Pei Shu smiled and was glared at by Wang Fei, the first formal discussion belonging to the Bulo studio came suddenly.

As the founder of the studio, Pei Shu was the first to open his mouth without hesitation. There was nothing fancy about it, he just went straight to it very simply.

"Old Wang, about the first project of the studio, I also briefly introduced it to you the day before yesterday. The project type is planned to be idle games on mobile phones-this is also a hot category in the mobile game market from last year to this year. Games of this type are also more suitable for our current small team in terms of production difficulty."

Wang Fei nodded. He had heard these contents once in the cafe two days ago.

Pei Shu is a former independent game producer who spent 8 years in a muddle. When Wang Fei heard Pei Shu's first project plan, he thought that Pei Shu would still start with the independent games he was familiar with.

After all, in the studio, Pei Shu and Jiang Ziye's experience, creativity, and thinking are all biased towards indie games, and if they can make an excellent boutique and best-selling indie game, it will definitely not be low in terms of market return.

And if you only start from the direction of creativity and emotional expression, it is actually easier to cover up Pei Shu's lack of market exploration during the eight years.

As a result, Wang Fei did not expect that Pei Shu actually chose to make mobile online games.

"About 10 years ago, I speculated that the future game market would be dominated by mobile games. The two puzzle-solving games I made back then were also based on mobile phones. Now 8 years have passed, and the development of mobile phone hardware has even It's beyond my original imagination...I want to try it."

When introducing her goal in the cafe that day, Pei Shu's face was radiant, full of anticipation.

Since Pei Shu had this idea, and this kind of commercial mobile game is indeed Wang Fei's field of expertise, Wang Fei also agreed with Pei Shu's idea.

Compared with the indie game market, where players' tastes are more unpredictable, Wang Fei is confident that under his own control, the mobile games he launches will at least earn enough revenue to maintain the continuous operation of the studio, and even have a chance to become a hit. .

At the same time that Pei Shu mentioned the target game category, Jiang Ziye also opened his notebook, in which the PPT has sorted out the existing idle games on the market, including game themes, gameplay, and the WG download list. And the all-time high ranking and average ranking on the best-seller list, etc.

It can be seen that with the explosion of an idle card game at the beginning of last year, a large number of manufacturers have also embarked on the development path of idle games in the past year or so.

At present, in the WG new game section, there are dozens of new games under development with the label of placing category.

These idle games under development, aimed at last year's hits, although the names of the games seem to have their own characteristics, but aside from those blindfolds, various keywords such as knights, magic, witches, and dragons are aggregated together. I also know that all of them are western magical themes.

Not only the subject matter, but also the gameplay introductions written on their respective pages have their own bells and whistles, but the core is exactly the same as last year's idle card game.

"The homogeneity is too serious." Wang Fei pointed to these competing idle games under development.

The developer of last year's blockbuster placement game was not Huanyu, but Xingyun Games, one of the three giants in the industry. The industry's nickname for Xingyun Games is Lucky Game, and the hit rate of this company is the highest among the three giants. The highest, but their mine explosion rate is also the highest.

There are some Thunderbolt games that are collectively optimistic within Xingyun, and even the word-of-mouth among players during the test period is top-notch. In the end, many people can't understand why Thunderbolt.

So much so that when mentioning Xingyun, the first reaction of the industry and players is: lucky game, explosive money and thunder, basically depends on fate.

Xingyun's "Sword, Flower and Magic" launched last year is their super lucky star. With its unique exotic style and distinctive art features, the placement gameplay that was vacant in the market at that time, and its excellent value and level design, in the project It detonated the entire game market in the early days of its launch.

"Sword, Flower and Magic" has been in the top five of WG's best-selling list for 20 months in the entire 5-year period. The average monthly revenue in 2020 exceeded 10 million, and the peak monthly turnover was nearly [-] billion.

Under this crazy data, it is not difficult to understand that the followers will continue to follow suit.

After all, follow the trend, even if you can't eat meat and drink soup?

"Theme, art style, main gameplay system... how are these determined so far?" Wang Fei asked directly.

Pei Shu glanced at Jiang Ziye, Jiang Ziye nodded, and switched the PPT to a new page.

"I also talked about this when we met the day before yesterday. The theme I have chosen so far is the Eastern Fairy, and the overall scene style..." At this point, Pei Shu directly took over and switched the PPT to the style hint on the next page.

"I originally considered that the scene should be mainly in the ink style, highlighting the elegant and free and easy characteristics of the Eastern Xianxia, ​​but in the past month, I downloaded and played most of the games on the best-selling list, and the too pure ink style may not be able to hit the bigger picture. Part of the player base."

"So I observed the most popular two-dimensional art style at present..." Pei Shu pointed to the schematic diagram on the PPT: "This is the fusion effect I adjusted with PS. What do you think of it, Lao Wang?"

What does Wang Fei think?

He felt that Pei Shu had indeed completely exceeded his expectations!

He originally thought that in today's first meeting, he would have to keep rejecting Pei Shu and Jiang Ziye's ideas and content that were too biased towards the style of independent games, but he didn't expect that Pei Shu, who originally focused on evaluating console games and independent games Lord, I am an independent game producer, but when I want to make a commercial game, I can look at myself from a fair and objective perspective without hesitation.

It's like the choice of art style in front of you.

If Pei Shu is still making an independent game, it will definitely highlight his own personal style and preferences to a great extent, then in the choice of art style, he will definitely go in the direction of ink and wash.

But look at the reference renderings Pei Shu gave now—this is a fusion of Two-dimensional characters and ink freehand style, exquisite and beautiful Two-dimensional oriental characters, but in the treatment of the edges of the robes and hair, Contaminated with the freehand brushwork of ink and wash.

In an instant, this kind of feature that can not only attract the interest of the public players but also independently distinguish it from other pure Two-dimensional art images has emerged.

Wang Fei paused, and nodded seriously: "This direction is good. You and Jiang Ziye will give out the setting of the scene and the main characters first. The first version is also fine. I will invite the art outsourcing team I am familiar with and let them try it out." Try this style."

This first meeting, the smooth selection of the art style at the beginning stage, seems to have also allowed Wang Fei, Pei Shu, and Jiang Ziye to have a preliminary mutual affirmation and adaptation.

In the following time, Pei Shu began to introduce the gameplay and a key point in his plan more quickly.

"This game doesn't require krypton gold." Pei Shu calmly dropped such a bomb.

Wang Fei:!

Originally, Wang Fei was feeling deep in his heart, but after Pei Shu's brain recovered, he really had full potential.

In the next second, Pei Shu threw out such a sentence that made Wang Fei feel that his mind was broken again.

Seeing Wang Fei's reaction from the side, Jiang Ziye covered his mouth with his hands rarely, and coughed softly—speaking of which, he also found it very incredible when he first heard the key point proposed by Buba teacher.

But after listening to it, a rare thought arose in his heart, which he was embarrassed to say to others: [If you don’t lose to the teacher, your heart is really dark. 】

Wang Fei didn't know what Jiang Ziye was thinking at the moment, he just felt that he should perform his duties as a senior project manager and scold the guy in front of him who suddenly had a seizure.

"Pei Shu, what do you mean you don't need krypton gold? Are you planning to build ads? I advise you not to do this. This is definitely not a good way to charge for a game."

"This is the first game of the same studio. Now that you are ready to go to the public, you must accept the market standard recharge model. The current game recharge model has been verified by the market for many years. It is not a wise choice to make changes in this link!"

Wang Fei's tone was serious, and he was frowning like if Pei Shu didn't listen to the persuasion next second, he would continue scolding him until he woke up.

Pei Shu: "..."

Pei Shu smiled, and pondered: "Old Wang, calm down, I have no intention of changing the current recharge mode that is already very mature, what I mean is... one of the hidden key points of our game is , Players don’t need krypton gold.”

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Wang Fei looked at Pei Shu suspiciously: "The key point of the gameplay is that players don't need krypton gold?"

Pei Shu smiled: "Of course, this is a casual, idle game, and the theme is all cultivators. Cultivators must first cultivate their minds. As the saying goes, if the sky will send a great mission to you, you must first suffer from your heart." Work hard. Since you want to be a practitioner, of course you have to endure loneliness."

Wang Fei: ...

Wang Fei seems to have a little understanding - since this game is about comprehension, the direction of krypton gold is of course something that increases cultivation.

But since you want to be a cultivator, you need to be mentally tough.

Cultivation is just practice, spend money to buy cultivation base...then your xinxing cultivation base can still be good?

Seeing Wang Fei's dazed expression, Pei Shu smiled modestly.

And Wang Fei looked at the modest smile on Pei Shu's face, and immediately became expressionless - if he followed Pei Shu's idea, there would be a lot of play points that would be derived from it.

And based on the habit of most players playing games at least for the first charge, once they enter this game...

This guy Pei Shu has a dark heart for tricking players!