Chapter 156 Nobug

Chapter 156 Nobug

"Face Hayate!"

"Soria K hurts..."

Accompanied by the crisp tapping sound of the mechanical keyboard, the character controlled by Chen Ba died again, leaving a gorgeous record of 1-16-7.

"trash game!"

After scolding him, Chen Ba closed the settlement page, turned around and cursed at Xiao Lu: "You said that if you play a top lane stone man, can it have some effect? ​​We agreed to have a mid-to-top linkage, but why do I have a big move at once?" Didn’t you even take it?”

"I haven't played for a long time..."

Xiao Lu rubbed the back of his head and said with an awkward expression: "When I start again, I can't replenish my troops, and my skills are also very crooked."

"Don't just say I'm cheating, Brother Ba, you're playing Yasuo, you feel stinker than me!"

"I haven't played for a long time."

Thinking of the famous scenes where he was killed many times in the lane and died suddenly after getting lost in a group fight, Chen Ba also felt a little lacking in confidence.

After all, it’s been too long since I’ve played.

The game League of Legends has become a memory of my youth. I picked it up again just to see what this game has become now.

As a game producer, you must first maintain your love for games.

Secondly, you must understand the changes and trends in the game industry in a timely manner and try out new games. You cannot do it behind closed doors.

Just like online article authors who scan the charts before opening a new book and choose the subject of their new book based on current market trends, game producers also have to play games frequently.

If you don't play it yourself, how do you know what the players' tastes are?

Chen Ba still remembers it.

In Tianba's core fan group, there is an employee of a pig factory. When he has nothing to do, he will yell at others in the group to play black and black. Yuan Nong Lupai plays all kinds of games.

When a new game comes out, among the first players to enter the game, there will definitely be employees from friendly companies and independent game developers.

Don't ask, ask just to eat this bowl of rice. Others play games just for entertainment. They play games not only to relax, but also as part of their work.

The same goes for Chen Ba and Xiao Lu.

In order to gain a deeper understanding of the current game market, Chen Ba called Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei to play several mainstream games with a working attitude.

Both online games and stand-alone games are available...

Let’s not talk about stand-alone games, mainly online games. After playing around, they found that there really were no outstanding new games in the past two years.

There are still many people playing League of Legends, and even CrossFire and Chicken Dinner, which are clamoring for their popularity every day, are also among the mainstream games.

“It’s been a long time since there was a hit PC game.”

After Yang Dong learned of Brother Ba's doubts, he sighed and said: "The last phenomenal PC game was the pig factory's eternal calamity. You also know the specific reasons."

This is a no-brainer.

Compared with computers, mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets are too popular and convenient.

This has also led to the fact that mobile games are the most popular direction in the domestic game market. The number of mobile games released in a month is more than the number of new client games released in a year.

This ratio is terrifying.

certainly!

Domestic stand-alone games have never been very prosperous, so even with the rise of mobile games, stand-alone games will still be the same.

There are even more single-player players!

This is no nonsense. According to statistics released by the Steam platform, the increase and active number of players in the country remain at an extremely high level.

"It must have something to do with us."

"Games such as "Star Emperor", "God's Grace Continent", "Love Staff" and "Speed" can also be regarded as cultivating a group of loyal single-player players."

Yang Dong took PUBG as an example.

When PUBG became popular, it also attracted many players who did not usually play stand-alone games.

At first, many people regarded the steam platform as a launcher for PUBG. As a result, while shopping around, one day they suddenly bought a game and became a stand-alone player from then on.

Many are like this.

Tianba Studio played a role in attracting traffic in this process. The popularity of many games also cultivated a large number of new stand-alone fans.

“It’s really frustrating to keep diverting traffic to the steam platform!”

Chen Ba frowned and said: "It's unrealistic to completely separate from the steam platform. After all, there are many single-player players on it. But it's time to build our own platform."

As of now, there are two purchase channels for games under Tianba Studio.

One is the third-party platform, such as the steam platform, such as the host platform, such as Ebao and Wegame, etc.

The other is the self-owned channel composed of Tianba official website and Tianba community APP.

Chen Ba plans to integrate it.

Based on the purchase and download page of Tianba Community APP and Tianba official website, an integrated version of Tianba game platform will be created.

This platform is similar to Origin. By bundling its game accounts, it first locks in a group of player users.

No matter where you buy and download the game, whether it is a steam platform or Wegame, you must first log in to the Tianba game platform before you can enter the game.

“What is the name of this platform?”

Yang Dong asked curiously: "Should we just call him Tianba? Isn't that too uneducated? Everyone has a special name. Can we also deserve one?"

"I really deserve one!"

Xiao Lu deeply agreed: "Steam, Orange, Xbox, epic... most of them are exclusive names, not company names."

This can be regarded as a convention.

There are no regulations that say the game platform cannot use the company name. If Chen Ba wants to use the company name, he can just call it Tianba Games.

But again, this is rarely done in the industry.

Generally speaking, game platforms will have an independent name. For example, Penguin's platform is not called Penguin Games, but Wegame, EA's platform is called Orange, and V's platform is called Steam...

It’s not good to not fit in with others!

In order to be as gregarious as possible, Chen Ba also plans to give this new gaming platform an exclusive name with a "meaningful" meaning.

He thought about it for a long time.

It wasn't until he thought about it for more than ten minutes that he finally made the decision: "Yes, our platform will be called Nobug!"

Nobug, simple and easy to remember!

The name of the platform must be simple and easy to remember. This is the most basic principle. If you choose a name that is meaningful but difficult to pronounce, not many people will remember it.

In addition, on the basis of being simple and easy to remember, it would be better if some game concepts or special meanings could be added to it.

Chen Ba thinks this is good.

Nobug, as the name suggests, means no bugs. This is not only the pursuit of Tianba Games, but also their solemn promise to players.

As for whether this name will be called Brother Niubi or Brother Louba, it doesn't matter. No game platform can avoid such things as nicknames.

"Nobug?"

Xiao Lu curled his lips, feeling that the name was too abstract, but since it was Brother Ba who named it, he couldn't say anything.

"So this platform needs to integrate existing players and games?"

"Definitely!"

Chen Ba explained: "When the platform is online, we will first add all our games to it, and then bundle several online games from "Star Emperor" to "Growth"."

Starting from "Star Emperor", the games developed by Tianba Studio are basically online games, only "God's Grace Continent" is not.

But even if "God's Grace Continent" is not online, the professional version still needs to log in to a Tianba account and be fully connected to the Internet to play. This is no different from online games.

These games will all receive updates, push special Nobug bundles, and transfer the original Tianba account to the Nobug platform.

In addition, the Tianba community will also be integrated into it and become part of the platform, similar to the player community on the steam platform.

Various MOD and creative workshop functions will also be integrated into the platform.

As a result, there is a disadvantage.

Suppose the player Zhang San purchased "Star Emperor" on the steam platform. To start the game, he only needs to start the steam platform.

But now, he not only needs to start the steam platform, but also start a Nobug verification component to enter the game.

There is one more step in the process.

But the good thing is that now he no longer has to go back and forth between the Tianba community and the steam platform. Even players on the steam platform can directly use various MODs and creative workshop functions, and browse various strategy posts or tutorial posts in the community.

Overall, there are pros and cons.

Players must find it annoying. After all, without this thing before, the game would start faster. Now that this thing is added, starting the game is extremely slow.

However, we must also consider that after the Nobug component is added, players on the console platform, E-Bao, wegame, and steam platforms will be able to browse the player community and creative workshop functions without specifically jumping to the Tianba official website.

"If players find it annoying, there's nothing they can do about it. No one wants to see V being the dominant player!"

Chen Ba sighed.

To be honest, if there was a unified gaming platform for the whole world, no one would want to disgust players and start their own business.

However, V Company cannot dominate the world, and many major manufacturers are not convinced by V Company and do not want to see the steam platform monopolize this market, so it has become like this.

Nowadays, game platforms, especially PC game platforms, have a complete one-super-multi-power structure.

Steam is a super platform, but it cannot command the crowd. It is understandable that some people set up their own business and build their own platform.

Monopoly is not good for anyone.

Once V is really in control of the life and death of PC games, and no one can live without it, that may not be a good thing. After all, at that time, everyone was at the mercy of others.

The development and launch of Nobug did not take much time.

To put it bluntly, this platform is an integration package that integrates existing resources and functions into a component and software.

You don’t really think this is a lot of trouble, do you?

What is really troublesome is actually introducing more games to the Nobug platform and firmly grabbing the hearts of players.

"Is the new game still Gun Car Ball?"

After a round of updates for "Speed", Xiao Lu asked about the studio's next work plan.

Brother Ba said that guns, cars, and ball are the most famous themes in the gaming industry and also have the greatest market potential.

They made the car.

Are you going to get involved in the two fields of guns and balls next?

"I told you, the gun can't be used for the time being."

Chen Ba said helplessly: "FPS games are too scrolling. Whether it is a stand-alone or online game, we can't scroll."

"Then let's play ball games!"

Zhong Shengwei suggested: "If it doesn't work out, continue to delve deeper into the racing theme and make a racing game that is more exciting than "Speed"."

"ball……"

Chen Ba thought for a while and found that this was not impossible.

Although ball games, also known as sports simulation games, require the collection and accumulation of a lot of data and information, the development difficulty is not generally high.

But that's the hot ball game.

Don't even think about football, basketball, etc. Tianba Studio doesn't have that kind of background and accumulation, and may even not be able to collect all the information.

Other goals, less popular ones, might be possible.

"Golf?"

"Billiards? Ice hockey? Table tennis?"

Xiao Lu talked about many kinds of ball games in one breath, but unfortunately, most of these are not what Tianba Studio can do well.

"These balls you mentioned, it would take us ten days and a half just to fully understand the rules."

Chen Ba rolled his eyes and said: "It's a simpler ball, don't play this kind of ball that makes everyone confused when they hear it, and they can't even understand the game."

"I can't think of that."

Xiao Lu covered his forehead and said: "You asked me to think about a simple ball game. It seems that I can only think of a three-dimensional pinball."

Three... three-dimensional pinball? !

Hearing this name, Chen Ba subconsciously froze for a moment, then rolled his eyes and said, "Who told you that three-dimensional pinball is easy?"

"Although three-dimensional pinball is an antique game from many years ago, this game has a plot and an upgrade system..."

"ah?!"

Xiao Lu's eyes widened: "This game also has a plot and a development and upgrading system? Isn't it just mindless playing around and just getting points?"

"That's because you didn't understand the game. There is a plot. The name of the game is Space Cadet! You only remember the three-dimensional pinball and forgot that there is a subtitle behind it."

Chen Ba was speechless.

In fact, he didn't understand games such as three-dimensional pinball, spider solitaire, aerial solitaire, and minesweeper back then.

It was only after watching a popular science video in college that he realized that the three-dimensional pinball game had so much content, and he had never understood it before.

Focus on praising Minesweeper!

Chen Ba dared to say that nine out of ten children didn't know what the numbers on Minesweeper were for, let alone the correct way to play the game. They only knew how to click the mouse randomly.

This is nothing to be ashamed of.

He didn't know how to play back then. He was just messing around and doing whatever he clicked on. He mainly played a minefield of disco.

The same goes for three-dimensional pinball. One person controls one side with a classmate. It seems that division of labor is more efficient, but in fact, when two people play, the ball is more likely to fall.

"Even the three-dimensional pinball is so complicated, so I can't think of any other ball that is simpler."

Xiao Lu gave up.

He said the three-dimensional pinball was just a joke, but Brother Ba pointed out that the three-dimensional pinball was quite complicated, at least more complicated than he thought.

So here comes the question...

What other ball can meet the requirements put forward by Brother Ba, be as simple and easy to understand as possible, and not require so much information to be collected?

"Glass ball!"

"What...what the hell?!"

Hearing these three words, Xiao Lu's eyes widened: "Brother Ba, is this glass ball you are talking about the glass ball I understand?"

"It's the glass ball you're thinking of, also known as glass beads or marbles..."

While I was typing, my neighbor suddenly knocked on the door and asked me to talk about something. His daughter is getting married tomorrow, and the eldest sister who has played with us since childhood must have some special arrangements. There is only this chapter in 4K tonight, a private Marseille of red bean paste!