Chapter 106 Garbage elimination fun
Match 3 games are very basic.
As we all know, the more basic something is, the more difficult it is to innovate because the upper limit has been locked.
There are so many match-3 games on the market, excluding all kinds of fancy painting styles and gameplay, how can the match-3 games produced by Tianba Studio be so successful?
Just because you are more handsome than others?
The essence of games is to be fun. Only fun games can attract and retain players.
But the core of match-3 games is the same for everyone, and the playability and gameplay are also common. There is no so-called difference at all...
Unless it’s sour!
But this is impossible. As a serious game producer, Tianba Studio is also a serious game studio. It is unlikely to take such shortcuts and rely on side games to attract players.
"After all, Brother Ba, you haven't given a specific plan yet!"
Xiao Lu rolled his eyes and said, "If I don't do Sesese, I'm serious about playing match-3 mobile games, then I feel like I'd rather play Happy Match."
"Listen to me first..."
Chen Ba explained: "Didn't I say it! If our game wants to stand out from countless match-3 mobile games, it must make certain innovations and differences."
What kind of difference?
Of course, it is to give the game an exclusive "selling point" that other match-3 mobile games do not have or cannot do.
"Give me your phone!"
Chen Ba reached out to Xiao Lu and asked for his mobile phone. Xiao Lu did not hesitate and took out a Huazi mate30 from his pocket and gave it to him.
"Have you been using it for a long time?"
"yes!"
Xiao Lu nodded: "My dad bought me this phone. It's been two or three years. I have to save money to buy a house, so I can't bear to get a new phone."
"128G is all occupied..."
After taking a look at the various apps installed on Xiao Lu's phone and the memory usage, Chen Ba returned the phone to him and then asked: "Have you ever used mobile phone junk cleaning software?"
"Used it! There are some duplicate files, installation packages and cache files. I clean them out occasionally when I think of them. After all, the memory of the mobile phone is small and it is often filled up with various files."
"Good habit, I recommend you keep it!"
Chen Ba said with a smile: "Regular cleaning of junk files in mobile phones is something that many people do, and it is also the reason why many cleaning apps are among the most downloaded."
Cleaning APP?
Why are you talking about this properly?
No... After being together for so long, Xiao Lu seemed to have caught up with Brother Ba's thinking mode and reacted: "Brother Ba, do you want to combine garbage cleaning and match-3?"
"That's right!"
Now that he had been guessed, Chen Ba did not hide it and told the reason why he did this: "The download volume of garbage cleaning apps has always been very high, and there are also a group of loyal fans."
“If we can turn these people into players of our games and let them play games while cleaning up the bloated junk files on their phones, there will be no shortage of players.”
"The eliminated blocks will then be made into Q-version icons for various APPs, testing back and forth on the edge of infringement and non-infringement. They look similar but are not the original ones."
"The combination and elimination of three WeChat icons can clear some of the junk files cached by WeChat. The combination and elimination of three photo album icons can clear duplicate photo files in the album..."
Is this okay?
It was the first time Xiao Lu heard that someone cleaned up the junk files on their mobile phones and made a match-3 game for people to play.
What could have been done by clicking "One-Click Cleanup" now requires playing games and completing levels to clean up.
Wouldn't this be more troublesome?
"If you treat this game as an ordinary mobile phone junk cleaning software, the operational logic will indeed become more complicated and troublesome."
Chen Ba explained: "But this is a match-3 game, a game to kill time! Isn't it possible to clean up junk files on your phone during the game? Isn't it killing two birds with one stone?"
Play games and clean up the trash!
When the two things are merged together and the main focus is "playing games", this is no longer troublesome and even more convenient.
"It seems to make sense..."
Xiao Lu was vaguely convinced by Brother Ba, but he quickly thought of another question, that is, is it difficult to achieve this?
"It's actually not difficult!"
Chen Ba smiled and shook his head.
Whether it is match-3 or garbage cleaning programs, they are all relatively basic things. Even without the need for the system, Chen Ba can produce a decent finished product.
The main thing is the cleaning speed!
In the process of playing the game, every time the player eliminates a software block, the garbage cleaning command is executed in the background to clean the APP.
There are so many software on mobile phones, and each software involves many types of files. Which ones are junk files and which ones are not?
"Before entering the game, we will ask players to check the types of junk files they wish to clean, such as useless installation packages, duplicate files, cached data..."
"This reduces the scope of cleaning a lot, but we still face a problem, that is, the speed of retrieving files may not be able to keep up with the speed of players eliminating blocks."
Chen Ba looked a little embarrassed.
This is indeed a big problem. Junk cleaning software generally performs a retrieval and screening of local files. If this process is slow, it will last several minutes, and the fastest can take more than ten or twenty seconds.
But when players play the game, they eliminate blocks almost one at a time. Sometimes a combo is triggered, and more than a dozen blocks can be eliminated in a few seconds.
How can junk cleaning software retrieve junk files and quickly perform "cleanup" operations in such a short period of time?
"Uh! I can't do it..."
Seeing Brother Ba looking at him, Xiao Lu shook his head and said, "Sifting junk files and performing cleanup operations so quickly takes a toll on the phone's CPU performance and memory reading speed."
The software is actually not difficult to write, but the problem is, can the performance of the mobile phone chip and memory reading speed support such a fast response?
In the past, it took a second or two to kill a background program. Screening out junk files and clearing out such a workload was unlikely to be completed within a few tenths of a second.
"I know you can't do it, so I plan to do it myself!"
Chen Ba did not embarrass Xiao Lu. In fact, he also knew that this had nothing to do with Xiao Lu.
With this level of software and hardware collaboration, software engineers from the three mobile phone giants of Huaguoxing may not be able to achieve such extreme speed.
In fact, he couldn't do it either.
But he has a cheat! You can turn to the system to achieve such extreme operations through the underlying code provided by the system.
Within one second after the player eliminates the blocks, the junk files of the target software are found, and then the cleanup command is executed and displayed in the game status bar in real time.
When playing other match-3 games, after eliminating the blocks and watching the game score increase, all you get is a superficial sense of accomplishment.
But when you play Tianba Studio's match-3 game and eliminate blocks while watching yourself clear several gigabytes of junk files, you will gain a greater sense of accomplishment and be more active in eliminating blocks.
"Ding!"
The three installation package icons are eliminated.
[1.72G useless installation package files have been cleared for you! 】
"Ding ding!"
Three WeChat icons are eliminated.
[12.14M WeChat cache garbage has been cleared for you! 】
Relying on the black technology of the system, the size of the cleaned junk files is displayed in real time and appears in the form of "game score", which is different from other match-3 games.
"In the online PK mode, the two sides no longer determine the outcome based on points, but rather see who clears more junk files within the specified time!"
Chen Ba said with a smile: "In this way, the winning players will reflect on it, so there are so many junk files in my phone? It seems that I need to clean it up frequently."
"Players who lose will not be discouraged. Instead, they will be glad that there are not many junk files on their phone. They will laugh at the opponent's phone as a trash can. How can they clean out so much junk?"
No matter you win or lose, you will always get positive feedback.
Because even if you lose the PK, it is because your phone is very healthy and has not accumulated so many junk files.
Looking at the opponent again, although they won the PK, one round of cleaning cleaned up 10G of junk files, which is not something to be happy about.
"its not right!"
"It doesn't matter if you win or lose once or twice, but if you keep losing in PK because your phone is clean, wouldn't it also breed dissatisfaction?" Xiao Lu asked.
"I understand what you mean..."
"So the mechanism I want to add is that after each round of PK, the player who wins the PK will be rewarded with an all-round cleanup."
Chen Ba said with a smile: "If you win the PK, you will be rewarded with a comprehensive cleanup. If you lose the PK, it will remain the same, so that you won't always win or lose."
If you lose a few games because junk files accumulate to a certain level, you will definitely win later.
In the same way, after winning a few games, you will naturally lose because your phone is clean.
As for cheating, prepare a lot of junk files to fill your phone before every PK...that's a tactic!
He came prepared, and he paid such a high price to win the PK, so it was nothing to give him a win.
You can do the same!
But then it will become the same environment as the road to immortality in "Star Emperor".
See who has more memory and can hold more junk files! How dare you run rampant with just 32G of memory? So what if your phone is filled with junk files?
Dude, 512G memory!
"I think no one would prepare dozens of gigabytes of installation packages or junk files in advance just to win a PK game with no reward. That's outrageous."
Chen Ba shook his head.
Even if there are rewards for PK, the problem is that there are no rewards. What is the point of doing this?
Tiehanhan system can handle junk files smaller than 50G with ease. If it exceeds 50G, it will be stuck for a few seconds at most, but the cleaning speed is still very fast.
A total of 50G of junk files can be stored. Take software and game installation packages as an example. How long does it take to download them? How frustrating would it be if there is no WiFi data?
To put it bluntly, it’s not worthwhile!
It's so stupid to waste so much time, waste so much data, and cause the phone to become laggy, just to win a PK game with no reward.
The key is……
If you cheat once, it's good to keep winning. At least you can increase the number of games and win rate. The win rate is also listed on the list!
But the problem is that after winning a PK, the phone will be cleaned up in all aspects. It has to be done every time. If you have this perseverance and perseverance, then it doesn't matter if you give him a higher winning rate.
"After tasting the benefits once, I think everyone will keep this game and open it to play when bored."
Chen Ba smiled and said: "And this is what I want to achieve, to make this match-3 game a must-have."
"Okay, very strong!"
Xiao Lu nodded and said: "While playing games, you can also clean up junk files on your phone. It does qualify as a must-have game for your computer."
But here comes the problem!
What is the name of a match-3 game that is fun, can clean up junk on your phone, and can draw various characters to develop?
"Garbage elimination fun!"
Chen Ba said without hesitation: "The main selling point is the match-3 game and garbage cleaning in one. The name is simple and easy to understand."
The game icon is made into a broom, which is highly consistent with many common mobile phone cleaning software.
Are you stupid?
Do you think this is a junk cleaning software? It’s actually a match-3 game, you’ll get a surprise when you click it!
Speaking of which, the basic framework of the entire game has been released.
At its core, it is an extremely common match-3 game, but it incorporates the functions of garbage cleaning software, has a character development system, and can also be used for online PK!
The gameplay is just like that...
To put it bluntly, the main focus of "Garbage Elimination" is companionship.
Players do not need to be in the game all the time, and it is normal not to play it even once in ten and a half months.
But when the mobile phone has insufficient memory or becomes laggy and difficult to use, everyone will think of the game "Junk Crush" and then come in and play a few games.
This is enough!
On the mobile side, there are 7.8 billion users in China alone. With so many mobile phones, we don’t expect everyone to use "Junk Eliminator" to clean up mobile phone junk.
Even if only one percent or one thousandth of the people use it, the number of users is still an extremely astonishing number based on a base of 7.8 billion.
essential softwares!
Don’t underestimate the value of these four words. For any game or software related to these four words, which one has downloads that are not hundreds of millions or even billions?
Chen Ba’s expectations were not high.
As long as "Garbage Breaker" can have a player base of more than 1 million, he will be very satisfied.
After all, there are one million players, and based on the worst one percent krypton gold ratio, there are still 10,000 krypton gold characters. Assuming that each player recharges an average of 10 yuan per month, the monthly turnover is 100,000 yuan.
Can you draw your favorite character for 10 yuan?
impossible!
And among these ten thousand people, there must be some rich guys who are not short of money and can earn 648 krypton gold in games without blinking an eye.
Divided evenly, with millions of players, it is not easy to make over one million recharges in a month.
This is still the most conservative estimate!
Anyone who understands the mobile game market knows that the krypton gold ratio is not as low as 1%.
With millions of real, water-free players, if the activities are more active and the characters are more attractive, it is possible to earn millions or even tens of millions from one card pool.
What more bikes do you want?
A match-3 game that can achieve this level of turnover can not only maintain the daily operations of Tianba Studio, but can even sponsor Brother Ba to buy a house.
And is one million players a lot?
Maybe on PC and console, especially in stand-alone games, one million players is already a lot. But in the mobile gaming industry, what is a million users?