The Ten Years of Rebirth

Chapter 153 What should I do if my uncle is a little excited?

Based on Xu Yi's understanding of his nephew Xu Xing, since the studio has begun to expand its enrollment, it must be that he has some ideas for new games.

Xu Yi thought of the game Fruit Assassin, which uses the characteristics of cutting fruits and combines it with the interactive mode of touch-screen smartphones to harvest players with a novel core gameplay, and then thought that such a game was created by Xu Xing.

This made it hard for Xu Yi not to be curious and looking forward to the planning plan of the new game he presented.

But in fact, he doesn't have too high expectations for this new game.

Human inspiration is limited.

Most of the producers who have made a good quality game are often stuck in a rut because the game is too good. When creating a new game, it is difficult to break away from the previous game. Limits and frameworks.

For example, Xu Xing produced a fruit assassin in one summer vacation, and it was still such a hit. Once Xu Xing's own creativity is affected and imprisoned, the new games are likely to be homogeneous like "cutting cakes" and "cutting vegetables". chemical products.

Of course, the best way to get rid of this limitation is naturally to enter a new game category and change your mind.

But most game producers are actually only good at making games of one or two categories.

Once entering a brand new game category, it may suddenly drop from a top producer to a level that is not even as good as an ordinary producer.

It's not that Xu Yi has never made games before. He has also worked in the company of a game manufacturer for so many years of ups and downs, so he has some understanding of this aspect.

But when he held these thoughts and looked at the [Planning Plan for Escape from the Secret Realm] in his hand, he still couldn't help being stunned.

Because at the very beginning of this plan, Xu Xing did not first explain what type of game it is, what is the core gameplay, and what kind of target player group is it.

Instead, let me popularize science first, what are the general functions and characteristics of the latest gyroscope on the Pineapple 5.

Gyroscope, a concept that most people may have heard of in previous lives, but few mobile phone users will study its specific functions.

Only some experienced mobile phone users may learn how to use the characteristics of the gyroscope to obtain some better user experience.

However, for most mobile phone users, even if they don't know what the use of this thing is, they will use the gyroscope more or less when using mobile phones in daily life.

The simplest application among them is the way of changing the horizontal screen to the vertical screen.

Why do smartphones only need to place the phone horizontally, its screen will automatically detect and recognize, and then change to landscape mode?

This is actually the effect of the gyroscope.

Another example is the mobile phone camera function. The early mobile phone camera screens were prone to severe shaking due to the user's unsteady hands.

Once the gyroscope is added, the mobile phone can adjust the lens in time according to the parameters fed back by the gyroscope, so that the image and the user's shaking can be kept in a relatively static state, so as to reduce the degree of shaking.

In addition, functions such as map navigation on mobile phones also have the shadow of gyroscope participation.

A gyroscope is an angular velocity sensor. If it is understood in simple and narrow terms that ordinary people can understand, it is a gravity sensing device.

This device can judge in real time what posture the mobile phone is in the user's hand.

Whether it is held vertically or horizontally, whether it is tilted back and forth or left and right, or whether it is placed flat, or is held by the user in circles, can all be sensed by the gyroscope.

When he first saw the introduction of the gyroscope, Xu Yi was still very surprised, thinking that Xu Xing had made a mistake in the content of the planning plan and other materials.

But looking at it, he suddenly fell into thought.

The core gameplay of Fruit Assassin is also an interaction that can only be done on a smartphone.

What is used is the interaction mode of direct contact between the finger and the screen of the mobile phone.

If you move Fruit Assassin to the computer and control the mouse to cut, the fun of the gameplay will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, when most other mobile games are revisions of web games, Fruit Assassin, a mobile game specially designed for smart touch-screen phones, is very valuable.

Even though its gameplay is so simple, it still harvested a huge number of players.

But right now, after reading Xu Xing's previous page full of basic introductions and functional outlines of the gyroscope, Xu Yi had a faint feeling in his heart.

I feel that this kid seems to be thinking again, using the differences and characteristics between smartphones and computers before to create a new game tailored for the effect of the gyroscope.

A mobile game specially designed for mobile users that can only be played on a smartphone.

But if Xu Yi was asked to think about it by himself, he couldn't think of any good way to develop a new game by using the characteristics of the gyroscope.

This kind of feeling is like there is an important thing in your mind, but you just can’t remember what it is, it’s like a place in your mind is suddenly blinded ,feeling bad.

So Xu Yi stopped thinking about it, and simply turned to the second page of the planning plan, wanting to see what tricks Xu Xing made for him.

Then, what caught his eyes was a line of big characters——

【3D parkour mobile game】

For the sport of parkour, if one insists on going back to history, stories such as flying over eaves and walls in ancient times can also be regarded as a kind of parkour.

However, only as a concept, it began to spread widely. It was probably from the beginning of this century that parkour gradually became popular from abroad.

Of course, a series of operations similar to Uncle Long's action movies, using various things in the daily environment such as supermarkets and factories as tools for running, jumping and leaping, can theoretically be regarded as the category of parkour.

But after introducing the concept of parkour into mobile games, the gameplay is actually not so complicated. The basic gameplay of most parkour games is that the player can only control the jumping and skill release of the character, but not the speed at which the character advances.

Under the premise that the character's forward speed cannot be controlled, the player must keep mentally tense at all times, and use a few jumps and skills to avoid or destroy the roadblocks ahead, so as to ensure that the character can run to the end of the level smoothly.

In this era, horizontal screen 2D parkour games are actually not uncommon.

But when it comes to 3D parkour games, Xu Yi has only seen them in some stand-alone games, and this element is relatively rare even in terminal games.

Not to mention putting this concept on mobile phones.

But when Xu Yi continued to look down patiently, he was gradually attracted by Xu Xing's extremely detailed plan.

So much so that when he finished reading it, it was already past five o'clock in the evening.

If it wasn't for the sudden ringing of the mobile phone, which interrupted his deep thoughts, Xu Yi probably wouldn't have recovered so quickly.

"Hey?"

"Hey, Old Xu, are you coming back for dinner? If you don't come back, I won't be bothered to cook."

"Ah, ah... um..." Xu Yi glanced at the time, then looked at Xu Xing again.

Xu Xing immediately understood, and shouted to Bi Wenli on the other end of the phone: "Auntie! We just ran into each other after the uncle's interview, and we walked around Min University. I'll treat him to dinner tonight!"

"Oh, okay." Bi Wenli was stunned, and then laughed and cursed, "Why do you invite your uncle to treat you to a big meal!"

"Okay! Then I won't be polite." Xu Xing immediately responded with a smile.

"Okay, that's it." Xu Yi replied, "I don't think I will be back until very late at night, so you should go to bed early at night."

"Why sleep? Originally, Ah Fang and the others called me to play mahjong in the afternoon. I was still at home and prepared to cook for you. If I knew it, I would have gone straight in the afternoon." Bi Wenli complained, "If you don't come back, I will I went to play mahjong, hang up."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Yi put away his mobile phone, put the plan on the table, looked at Xu Xing with a complicated expression, and took a deep breath.

"You wrote this plan by yourself?"

"Well... the core gameplay is what I think, but the specific plan, other people have also participated in the modification and improvement." Xu Xing is very clear about the outrageousness of this plan. In order not to make his uncle feel too inferior, he is still a little humble, " We have been preparing since July, and it took almost two months to get ready."

In fact, he only spent a few days working on this thing.

Because there were many problems in the original version, Xu Xing made some modifications on the basis of the escape from the temple, and only then did he come up with the plan for the escape from the secret realm.

There are roughly two aspects to the specific modification.

One is to increase the character model, from the original only one male character to one male character and one female character, players can choose freely before the game starts.

Among them, the male character has strong jumping ability, but will be a little slow when dodging left and right, and the female character has weak jumping ability, but is more smooth and flexible when dodging left and right.

Hmm... As for why there is an extra female character, of course it is to sell skins. After all, everything is a skin.

If you want to make money from free games without destroying the balance of the game, game character skins are indeed a must.

Moreover, operating a big man wearing a tank top and shorts is definitely different from operating a beautiful woman wearing a tank top and hot pants showing a thin waist and long legs.

The skin will naturally sell better.

The second point of modification is the map.

Xu Xing expanded the resources of the map from the single temple in the original work to new venues such as snowy mountains, rainforests and canyons, and also distinguished the roads and roadblocks of different maps.

For example, in the rainforest map, the elements on the road may be more entangled objects such as vines, but when it comes to snowy mountains and canyons, they will become snowdrifts and falling rocks.

However, what really shocked Xu Yi who was facing him was not the gameplay, nor the interesting game settings.

It's that this plan... is really perfect.

You must know that when many game planners write plans, most of them have only one framework. It is great to have more content and details, but more rely on programs and art to understand the ideas in the planner's mind, and then synchronize them.

But the final product of the game may not be what the game planner originally thought in most of the time.

Not to mention that like Xu Xing, before the game started to be produced, he had already written the specific framework and content of the entire game, and even implemented various details. At the same time, he took over the idea of ​​the game's profit model. Boldly chose the buyout system different from Fruit Assassin, and directly switched to the free system.

Even the various character skin designs for in-app purchases have a very clear idea.

What kind of game planning is this?

It's like being a father and a mother at the same time. The people under him just need to follow the above planning process without thinking, and they don't need to use their brains at all.

It's as if, after Xu Xing thought about the gameplay of this game, he naturally figured out what the finished product of the game should be like, and even simulated in his mind all the pictures and details of playing the game with a mobile phone. detail.

Then, through these real mind images, I wrote this planning plan.

That's outrageous. Open the door to outrageous.

If Xu Yi hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that there was such a genius in this world, and it was his own nephew!

Not to mention whether this game can make a lot of money after it is developed, at least just talking about this planning plan, if it is taken into those big factories, it will guarantee a few million project funds.

This is because the game itself is relatively lightweight, so there is no place to spend more money.

Otherwise tens of millions is not a problem.

Xu Yi looked at the wonderfully perfect plan in front of him, and then at Xu Xing who was sitting obediently opposite him, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

He is well aware of the weight of this plan, but when you say that his nephew spent two months working on it, Xu Yi feels that everything is against harmony.

But the facts are in front of him, and he can't allow him to question it, because it's impossible for someone to have nothing to do and give such a thing to Xu Xing for no reason, just to let him pretend to be a coward in front of his uncle?
If there is, Xu Yi doesn't mind coming a few more times.

dong dong dong.

Just when Xu Yi was about to continue talking, there was a knock on the office door.

Xu Yi shut his mouth and signaled Xu Xing to deal with it first.

So Xu Xing shouted outside: "Come in."

The door of the office was opened, and Yan Chijiu poked his head in from the outside, and looked timidly at Xu Yi and Xu Xing inside: "Old, uh cough...Xu, Mr. Xu, I bought dinner, I'll bring it in for you ?”

"Oh, bring it in."

After receiving the order of consent, Yan Chijiu brought in two boxed lunches, carefully placed them on the vacant space on the desk, and then obediently retreated out, closing the door gently.

"Then let's eat first?" Xu Xing looked at Xu Yi and suggested.

"Well, let's chat while eating." Xu Yi unceremoniously picked up the chopsticks, opened the lunch box, and started eating with Xu Xing.

While eating, he started chatting about the new game.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​changing the charging model?"

Because he couldn't find any problems with the specific gameplay and content of this game, Xu Yi had no choice but to focus on the game's profit model.

After all, in his opinion, Fruit Assassin won a complete victory by taking the buyout system abroad. In this case, why did the new game not take the more secure old path, but chose the free plus in-app purchase model?
You know, for free games, the in-app purchase rate is always a pain.

For a free mobile game, if the top-up record such as the first charge discount is excluded, the players who only pay for the content probably account for less than 3%.

In most cases, the number of prostitute players can account for more than 95%.

Of course, this is only the early days.

With the development of the mobile game market and the cultivation of payment habits of mobile game players, in Xu Xing's impression, the micro-krypton party like the monthly card accounted for the majority.

The real Zero Krypton Party is a minority.

It's just that light-weight games like Fruit Assassin and Secret Realm Escape are not very suitable for launching monthly cards, so Xu Xing can only start with in-app purchases such as skins.

"The main reason is very simple." Xu Xing held up a finger and said after consideration, "I think free games should be a major trend in the future mobile game market."

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect Xu Xing to give such a firm answer: "What's the reason?"

"The reason is also very simple, there are probably three points." Xu Xing thought for a while, and then said, "First point, the buyout system game is too easy to be pirated, even in Laomei, where the game copyright protection is relatively complete, there is no way. Put an end to that completely."

"What's more, we are not a local company over there. Once piracy occurs, rights protection will actually be very troublesome."

"Not to mention the game piracy environment in our country. For any game with a buyout system, if the genuine rate is more than 10%, it is considered a high profile. Many pirate users even don't know that they are using a pirated version, thinking that the game is naturally free."

"That's why I don't even plan to implement a buyout fruit assassin in China. The domestic version will be free at that time."

"Oh?" Xu Yi was a little surprised when he heard this, and then laughed, "Aren't you afraid of criticism from foreign players?"

"It doesn't matter if the game company has double standards, as long as it's for your own family." Xu Xing chuckled twice, not caring at all, "Besides, noble foreigners play more noble buyout system, doesn't it make them more powerful. "

Xu Yi was speechless: "...just talk about what you said here, don't let it slip outside."

"That's for sure." Xu Xing restrained his smile and said righteously, "The difference between buyout and free is not to specifically target players from one side, but our company's exploration and trial of two profit models for the purpose of accumulating Experience in this model, and build a relevant data model, to draw experience and lessons for our company's future games."

Xu Yi looked at his serious remarks, and suddenly smelled a strong smell of official deception, and his face was a little speechless: "I really don't know where you learned all this from."

"My uncle taught me well."

"I never taught you this." Xu Yi glared at him, and after he calmed down, he asked again, "What about the remaining two reasons?"

"Two other reasons." Xu Xing stroked his chin, took a mouthful of food, and then said, "The second point is user attributes."

"Different from previous computer users, among those who use computers, there are not a small number of people who play games. After all, those who have access to computers are more or less attracted by the novel entertainment mode of games."

"But when mobile phones become popular, the situation may change."

"Especially in terms of the number of people, the number of people using mobile phones in the future will definitely have an overwhelming advantage compared to the number of people using computers."

"A person may not have a computer, but he must have a mobile phone, otherwise he will not be able to communicate with other people conveniently."

"And compared to bulky things like computers, mobile phones are also lighter and easier to carry. Most of the usage scenarios of computers are fixed, but mobile phones can be taken out and used anywhere. The usage rate alone is not a level. "

"In this case, most mobile phone users are non-heavy game enthusiasts, and mobile phones are just a tool for them, not a game console."

"If there is a threshold for buyout payment before this, then this large number of mobile phone users will be turned away by the buyout system."

"And if a game is free and easy to play, most people won't mind playing it for free when they're bored."

Xu Yi was eating and listening to Xu Xing's long speech, the chopsticks in his hands were getting slower and slower.

But he was not in a hurry to express his opinion, and motioned Xu Xing to move on to the third point.

So Xu Xing continued: "As for the third point, it is the competition between games and other entertainment modes."

"After all, people only have 24 hours a day. They have to work, eat, and sleep. There is not much time to play games."

"If people can still read novels, watch anime, watch TV, watch movies, or other entertainment items on their mobile phones in the future, then people's time playing games will inevitably be occupied by other entertainment activities."

"Therefore, the future war on mobile phones will not only be a war between games, but also a war between games and other entertainment industries."

"Whoever can take more time from users will win this war."

"And the free model is the most powerful tool to harvest user time. First get the user's time, and then it's time to consider how to make money."

After hearing Xu Xing's words, Xu Yi fell into deep thought for a long time.

He originally thought that this kid Xu Xing was secretly working on games during the summer vacation. If he was lucky enough to bump into a dead mouse, he came up with such a game company, which is already against the sky.

But after some communication now, Xu Yi realized a problem.

The success of my nephew in front of me may not be luck or accidental.

Although the remarks just now contained a lot of speculation about the future situation, Xu Yi didn't feel that there was anything particularly unreasonable in it after hearing it all the way.

I even vaguely feel that this may be the real situation in the future?
Although it is difficult to make judgments at the moment, Xu Xing's interpretation and judgment of the market, as well as his ability to predict, has proved that he is not playing around, but is really doing something.

Even if he is less than 20 years old now, he has just started his freshman year.

But so what?

Many well-known Internet giants in foreign countries also came out to work hard at a similar age. Xu Yi does not have any very feudal and traditional thinking in this regard.

After confirming that Xu Xing is not a child playing around with a lot of money, Xu Yi has completely calmed down and began to think carefully about the future development of his company.

So in the end, he couldn't help asking: "Then what about your studies at Min University? Can you take care of it?"

"Hmm..." Xu Xing pondered.

This is indeed a problem.

After all, there are actually quite a lot of computer courses, and he certainly can't be as idle as Li Zhibin when he is in class.

Although there are many professional courses in financial management majors, they are definitely not as outrageous as science and engineering majors, so Li Zhibin has the spare time to complete the tasks assigned to him by Xu Xing.

As for Xu Xing himself, although he has also considered this issue, but right now there are only two light-weight mobile games. With a complete planning plan, he doesn't really need to stay in the company all the time.

Therefore, Xu Xing originally wanted to wait until the company had fully grown before starting to think about this issue.

But since Xu Yi asked this question, Xu Xing naturally wanted to give an answer.

So Xu Xing thought about it, and his eyes naturally fell on Xu Yi.

"uncle."

"Ok?"

"How is your salary now?"

"What do you want?" Xu Yi asked cautiously.

"I'll double your salary, how about you help me?"

"Hey, wait a minute, I came to the interview not because I really want to resign, but simply..."

"Three times? Or four..."

"Stop! Stop! Stop!"

Xu Yi quickly stood up from his seat, turned around in the office a few times, and then gave Xu Xing a fierce look: "Don't think that you can spend so much money after making a lot of money! Who is your uncle?"

"But I really lack talents like you, Uncle." Xu Xing rubbed his chin and looked at Xu Yi, and finally tilted his head and asked, "How about five times?"

Xu Yi: "..."

on horseback.

What to do if you are a little excited.

You don't really want to work for your nephew, do you?

(End of this chapter)