Chapter 7： People have no dreams, what is the difference with salted fish?

Compared to the world in dream memory, the speed of the game review in reality is much faster, but the next day Yang Chen received a text message from the mobile phone about the official review of "The Combination of Isaac".

did not surprise him, the game was rated 17+ by the rating agency.

After all, although it is a pixel style, there are still many limited-level performances in the game, such as illustrations, scenes, and monster styles.

"The game will definitely sell well, at least sell 100,000 copies!" Wang Yaliang watched Yang Chen open the web pages of several domestic game publishing companies, and then sent the demo version in the past, said these expectations.

Hearing this, Yang Chen, who just sent the email, was a bit crying and laughing: "Silly girl, we invested 400,000 in the entire game. If we only sold 100,000 copies, the price is set at 58 yuan. After that, the platform will be deducted and released. After the company's share, and after paying taxes, we will recover the cost."

It sounds 58 yuan, and selling 100,000 copies is 5.8 million, but after deducting the platform's share, the issuer's share, and taxes, it can be said that Yang Chen's hands are far less than I thought. Counting the time cost, Make a small profit under the premise of maximum return

If it is an individual who invests in the game platform, after deducting the platform's bonus and tax, 100,000 copies will definitely make money.

But Yang Chen doesn't want to be like this, because such an effect is too slow, and it may even make the game pearl dusty. This kind of example is not uncommon in the game world.

Because the game maker has no ability to promote and advertise, he can only spontaneously publicize in some places such as the post bar, resulting in no one knowing the game.

Finally missed the time and missed the craze, resulting in a game that could have been a big fire without much waves.

This kind of work is not rare, and there are even specialized video producers who mine this kind of game, and then analyze it based on the quality of the game itself and the situation at that time.

Of course, this is not the most uncomfortable thing for developers. It may be that your game has no fire, and other people have borrowed your game's creativity, and then he has fired.

This is not uncommon in the game circle.

I have enough confidence in "The Combination of Isaac" Yang Chen. This confidence is not just about myself, but more about the trust in another world in the dream.

And more importantly, that is the game itself is excellent, mainly the gameplay design.

Like all the posterior cannons, standing on the shoulders of giants and watching others solve a puzzle, you will express ‘ah, this thing turns out to be so simple, I can do it with me’.

But the pioneers are undoubtedly great.

Yang Chen is now the man who is standing on the shoulders of giants. From the perspective of a game maker, he looks at this game from the perspective of a game maker. He is sincerely convinced by the gameplay design of this game.

The composition of random elements, in reality, this kind of random element game is not uncommon but has a lot of defects.

But the random game that understands the world in dream memory, that is, the game called roguelike in that world, after referring to several models, Yang Chen already has a rough design idea.

Random means that not all elements are random, and that only brings clutter.

The real random game fun is to construct unlimited fun in the limited data props.

Anything different can be combined to create a brand new gameplay, instead of just trying hard.

Numerical design and special effects are the foundation of this type of game.

'S excessive pursuit of so-called randomness is just the upside-down.

gameplay is the core selling point of this type of game.

Leaving aside the main infinitely possible dungeon shooting and prop monster elements, then there is not much weight in "The Combination of Isaac".

plot?

Indeed, the plot of "The Combination of Isaac" is wonderful, but there are too many games with good enough plot.

And the plot of "The Combination of Isaac" still has elements of the Western Bible, domestic players may not necessarily be able to think that the plot of this game is very powerful, and may even be a bit unintelligible.

Similarly, games that rely on plots to attract players also have a more fatal flaw, that is, players are easy to clear through the cloud.

Even if the world is full of piracy than the memory of dreams, the reality has very perfect laws to effectively combat the piracy industry, but the official players of the video cloud clearance can not control it.

Finally, the more important point is that the gameplay is patent-free.

Although it is not the same as the memory in the dream, a small company has a game, and a large company can copy a game on the same day.

But there is no special patent for gameplay. There is only a limited time protection for the characteristics of the gameplay. The relevant gameplay elements are officially registered after the game is reviewed, and there will be a period of protection. If the value, art UI, code, and proprietary elements are different, then it will not be judged as plagiarism.

If Yang Chen chooses to put the game on a certain platform and sell it slowly, Yang Chen is even more worried that the word of mouth of the game has not been fermented at all, and is watched by some game manufacturers and then launched according to the model. A game of similar gameplay.

When the big companies have more complete resources and more money to promote, even though Yang Chen has another world dream memory, UU reading www. uukanshu.com, but the clever woman can't cook without rice, Yang Chen doesn't think that his game quality can be comparable to others.

After all, game development, small money is really too important.

At present, even if he has given himself a complete 3A-level GDD game in front of him, Yang Chen has no way to realize it.

"Set a small target, 500,000 sales." Yang Chen said with a smile.

In his dream memory, the final sales of this game in that world are close to ten million, and the world where he is located has a stronger sense of genuineness, and the laws against piracy are more standardized. Even in a different world, the quality of the game is placed in The problem of setting 500,000 sales as the initial target here should not be too big.

Wang Yaliang didn't know anything about what Yang Chen thought.

After listening to Yang Chen's words, Wang Yaliang lying on his face looked at Yang Chen seriously: "You swell! Let's stop YY, be honest."

500000? 10,000 copies of your last game were not sold!

"People have no dreams, what's the difference with salted fish?"

Yang Chen stretched his waist, patted Wang Yaliang's arm, and said with a smile.

Wang Yaliang, who was lying on Yang Chen, just pouted.

Okay, she really didn't know where Yang Chen came from. Although she said that she also played "The Combination of Isaac", and it felt quite interesting as fun as the consumer.

But in this kind of game, can we really sell 500,000 copies?

didn't know much about Wang Yaliang in the game industry, but she estimated to think about it in a transposition. If she is an ordinary player and spends money to buy such a game, she is definitely unwilling.

After all, from the style of painting, she has been dissuaded.