Chapter 202: Unpromising real daughter 18
One year after Lu Xingzhou joined the company, Junxin Studio was still a studio.
At the same time as the development of "Shimmer", "Crybaby" released DLC, and also opened a creative workshop. "Xingyue Lakeside" also made four DLCs for spring, summer, autumn and winter, with high evaluation and rich income. This year, "Xingyue Lakeside" also reaped multiple game awards. Real fame and fortune.
But the studio wasn't able to expand because all the energy, all the money, went into making Shimmer. For the first time in Gu Jun's heart, he realized what it means to burn money.
"Shimmer" has experienced many twists and turns from project initiation to release.
The character modeling that has been done is finally overturned and repeated three times. Modeling was overturned and redone, because the first version was more cartoonish, and the second version of the heroine is very real but too beautiful. After she visited Gu Ai, she adjusted the character's face and modified the heroine to make her image tougher and more realistic.
The action system has also been reworked. Gu Junxin spent huge sums of money to purchase an optical motion capture system, and invited professional action actors and expert guidance to make the movements natural, smooth, beautiful, and as real as possible. Nowadays, mainstream games have begun to enable motion capture, but no one has tried it in China. Since Gu Junxin tried this type, he must keep up with the mainstream.
Of course, these are not the most troublesome, but a major revision that caused Gu Jun's heartache the most, and caused the delay of "Shimmer" almost bounced, which fundamentally changed the worldview of "Shimmer". All settings are reworked, and the modeling of many characters and wild monsters has also been re-added.
The original setting of "Shimmer" is very close to reality, and the plot is relatively simple. A female paratrooper parachuting down on a desert island to perform a solo mission can be summed up in such a simple way.
Action shooting games are for people to play, not for people to watch CG movies. Gu Junxin believes that the plot doesn't matter. The selling point of "Shimmer" is the game mode that combines action and shooting, and it is a variety of fresh and original mechanisms in the game. She didn't want to make it too complicated.
But Lu Xingzhou kept suggesting that he thought Gu Jun should be a little more courageous.
"The current world view is very small, the game structure is not grand enough, the characters are not rich enough, and the forces are relatively small." Lu Xingzhou analyzed: "The contact battle made in this way is not confrontational enough, and it is relatively tasteless."
Among the action and design games, the multiplayer online versus competitive games have basically reached the ceiling level. If you want to stand out among the god-level competing products, you must be new and different, otherwise you will not be able to beat the competing products on the altar.
For him personally, he hopes that all the products he will shoot are high-quality products. If online battles are optional, it is better not to do them.
Gu Junxin pondered over and over again, and in the end he really pushed back.
"Twilight" has changed from a realistic story to a setting of apocalyptic wasteland popular overseas. The airborne soldiers simply do the task mode and add a clear and suspenseful main line, and the plot has been strengthened many times.
Gu Junxin joined various forces and created the alien masters of the end of the earth, mutated people, beasts, plants, new government forces supported by aliens, new religions, primitive religions, and the rebel organization where the heroine belongs. With so many character design and modeling, action design and combat design must be supplemented.
Gu Junxin took a month to get it right, and it was all done. If you don't make good use of it, it will be a loss. So, she took another stab at it, and opened up nearly a hundred small subplots for these characters to enrich the world view and deepen the theme.
In the end, "Shimmer" became a game about the human struggle of survivors in a desperate situation, discussing whether to surrender or resist in order to survive.
With a profound plot, complex world view settings, and numerous characters and forces, the capacity of "Shimmer" is still controlled within 10GB, which is even smaller than "Xingyue Lakeside" with DLC added.
The content of the game story takes place on a desert island, and there is only one desert island map in the whole game, which is divided into different scenes. Gu Junxin uses it in various ways, every building and every location has its role to play.
There are other maps too. Lu Xingzhou has developed a new map for the online system, which is also a major selling point of the online system, and there are many tricks that can be played.
Gu Jun thought to himself, if "Shimmer" sells well, then these ready-made maps can be used to make plot DLC. It is also very convenient.
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On Christmas Eve when Gu Junxin was studying in the first year of graduate school, the promotion work for "Shimmer", which had been polished for a year, began.
As the third stand-alone game of Junxin Studio, Gu Junxin really spent a lot of money on publicity.
Movie-level trailers, free demos available worldwide on Christmas Day. Game platform advertising, promotion of major social media game information accounts.
Gu Junxin arranged all the cards that a big game should have for "Shimmer".
Excellent quality, mainstream theme types, interesting models, and strong publicity campaigns equal explosive sales.
The price of this game is 128 yuan, which is indeed the ceiling of the price of a single-player game in China, but the sales volume has doubled compared with "Xingyue Lakeside".
"Strictly speaking, "Shimmer" is a quasi-AAA level work, and it has already stepped into this field with one foot. The graphics, music, action system, playability, and competitiveness are all top-notch in every aspect. It’s a production, but the volume is still a little small. It’s hard to imagine that this is just the work of four programmers.”
"I didn't expect that I would be able to witness the birth of a star game producer. A year ago, we even collaborated on a video together... ah ah ah ah, Xinmei let me hug your thigh!"
"Gu Junxin is in charge of the main creation, she is in charge of the plot and battle system design, and Lu Xingzhou is in charge of online battles. This is really a combination of gods, gods and gods."
It was well received in China, and "Glimmer" was even directly offered to the altar. Many people regard it as a milestone for domestic games.
"Glow" marks that domestic games have caught up in technology.
After so many years, I've finally been looking forward to a masterpiece!
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"Twilight" was released and sold. Gu Junxin gave the programming team (including herself) a half-month vacation.
She didn't hear the praise and praise from the outside world. She returned to the original small studio and lay on the old sofa. Gu Junxin just fell asleep and rested for five days.
I didn't think about anything, I didn't plan anything, and my head was completely empty.
Unless there is an emergency on the operations and legal side, she doesn't answer the phone.
In the next year, Gu Junxin is not going to continue producing the originally planned game projects.
Plans can't keep up with changes.
She didn't expect that she could reach the 3A technical level in the third work "Glow", and it also attracted such enthusiastic attention.
The technical level has been raised to the level of "Shimmer", and the next works cannot be worse than "Shimmer".
Can't go backwards. Players' requirements will only increase, not decrease.
After resting for half a month, Gu Junxin decided to settle down and increase the size of the company.
The studio now has three games in operation, enough to maintain revenue.
The most important thing now is to expand the team and recruit programmers and artists.
Last year, because of the tight schedule of "Glow", she couldn't make time to teach new people, so she simply didn't do it. Taking advantage of the time to prepare for the new game in the coming year, Gu Junxin decided to expand the technical team and teach newcomers well.
Junxin Studio, after recruiting 30 programmers, also officially changed its name to Junxin Information Technology Co., Ltd.
As the scale of the company increases, the volume and quality of the games to be made will also increase.
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"Shimmer" was released for three months, and the popularity and praise continued unabated.
The online battle took shape after three months, and people in the e-sports circle contacted Gu Junxin, hoping to start a large-scale competition.
Gu Jun thought for a while, and then handed over the matter to Lu Xingzhou.
"Me?!" Lu Xingzhou was a little confused.
"I don't know anything about e-sports, so you can talk about it." Gu Junxin really doesn't understand e-sports. Lu Xingzhou had played e-sports before, and he knew a little better than her.
"But..." Lu Xingzhou's psychological shadow has not subsided, since Bai Yiyi's incident, he really wanted to be a tech house.
"You are the vice president of the company, so you can't stay in the company all the time to engage in technology and not come out to communicate with people." Gu Junxin said.
Let’s be honest, who doesn’t want to sit quietly in front of a computer and code? But nowadays, some business entertainment is essential. If she attended all in person, she would have to die.
"Okay, I'll try." Lu Xingzhou was not confident.
"Go, it doesn't matter if we can't agree." Gu Junxin advised. E-sports is the icing on the cake. It doesn't matter if you can't do it.
Lu Xingzhou went, and when he came back the next day, his face darkened.
He has always been easygoing with anger on his face, and the new little programmers dare not provoke him.
Lu Xingzhou didn't want to anger others, so he hid behind the small villa to smoke. The two friends enlightened him, but he said nothing.
"What happened?" Gu Junxin asked himself.
Lu Xingzhou pinched the **** of the cigarette and said carefully, "Didn't we go to talk about business yesterday? I found out that this person is being manipulated behind the scenes."
Gu Jun turned his head: "Bai Yiyi?"
Lu Xingzhou nodded.
"She did it very covertly, but I still found out." Lu Xingzhou said weakly.
The conditions for the other party to drive are very good, but since Bai Yiyi, Lu Xingzhou was really scared and extremely alert.
In business, if the other party promises too well, he will wonder if this is a trap. Then a survey, sure enough!
There is no pie that falls in vain. If there is, it must be a trap.
"What is her plan to use e-sports to contact you?" Gu Junxin asked.
Lu Xingzhou shook his head, "Who knows? However, if the organizers of e-sports competitions fail to do well, the reputation of the game company will also be damaged. This is the reason I can think of."
Lu Xingzhou thought she was revenge.
"Forget it." Gu Junxin didn't care about e-sports anyway.
"We can't just forget about it. Let's do the competition ourselves, we don't need someone else's agent." Lu Xingzhou believes that competitive competition is a means of making the game itself enduring for a long time. With proper planning, it doesn't cost too much to host a competition. Instead, it can create more value for the company.
"Okay, while there are no major projects during this time, you can make a plan for me." Gu Junxin ordered.
Lu Xingzhou agreed.
However, what appeared in front of Gu Junxin earlier than Lu Xingzhou's plan was a vulgar gossip.
[Take a look at the story of a boy in the game circle who finally cooperated with Xiaosan for the sake of Xiaosan and went out of the house and became the light of domestic production]
Without reading the content, countless people decoded Lu Xingzhou and Gu Junxin in an instant.
Gu Junxin called Zhang Sa.
This year, piracy has been restrained a lot. The legal department has been idle for a long time. It is time for them to be dispatched.
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