Reboot 2003

Chapter 275 054: Necessary Sacrifice (Two in One)

"Okay, okay, I'll change it right away..."

Vaguely feeling that the fear he had when he was a code farmer was a little activated, Chen Qin thought to himself that he must find a hard worker in the next few days.

Surrounded by a lot of vigorous tests, I sat down in front of my computer behind the counter, ready to start doing the 'work' I had been procrastinating for the past few days.

Before starting work, I tried to chat a few words.

When taking the notebook, Chen Qin sighed: "You are very diligent in measuring!"

Brother Dibu in the crowd said: "No, my brother played all night yesterday."

"So exaggerated?" Chen Qin was surprised, "I don't think you are that enthusiastic about playing Friends Brawl."

"That's different." A brother said, "Friends Brawl can only be played casually, and you can't play it until you finish playing it in a day, but this is different."

"What's the difference?"

"This is fun," Xiaoshuai said, "I haven't logged into the Friends Battle account for a few days, and I thought I would buy new costumes before."

Everyone laughed, and Chen Qin also laughed, becoming more and more uncomfortable.

He glanced at the computer behind him: "Speaking of which, why are you playing on it? WOW is not open today?"

The brothers replied: "It's open..."

"Then why aren't you hanging up?"

"Aren't we seizing the time to do a test?" The brothers said confidently, "I will do it slowly later, and put the script aside for now."

This group of people said it lightly. Chen Qin complained that you were not so enthusiastic the last time the friends fought. He didn’t want to play, so he used this reason to occupy the computer on the third floor...

Xiao Guo was too young and was a little touched. He said seriously: "We will definitely live up to the expectations of our brothers."

Then he found the work files from the previous two days on the computer and assigned a task to Chen Qin: "Chen Qin, we have finished the configuration file of the new hero..."

What can Chen Qin say?

Of course, it’s time to have a sense of mission. As a programmer who writes code, most of the time, you may be like an old monk sitting in meditation, sitting for hours in front of boring code.No matter how great the project is, sometimes it is not as important as going home early.

But if you are expected and praised by others, even if you have no income at all, the long and boring work does not seem so difficult. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why many open source projects can survive.

Thinking about it this way, I do have some enthusiasm for work.

Of course, at the same time, the vague thoughts on the way here became clearer.

It's certainly a good thing that these people like to play this map so much, but thinking of what he was thinking about before, Chen Qin pondered.

Maybe this is a useful thing at the same time...

"Wait, I have to go downstairs and take a look."

The work was so heavy, Chen Qin suddenly stood up from his seat again, and Guo Yang followed him... It was not that he was afraid of running away, but he was the only 'programmer' on this map now.

When I went out, I saw the brothers who stayed in their seats playing games.

Several of them sat together, and one brother who seemed to have just joined the game was leaning against the screen, carefully watching the special effects of a building.

The other brothers had just sat down and were looking for rooms. When they took a closer look, they turned on the VS battle platform, and there was already a long list of 'Ruins Brawl' rooms on the screen.

"Are there many people playing this game now?" Chen Qin asked.

The brothers didn't notice the abnormality and replied: "It's very popular. Our Internet cafe is full of people playing this..."

With that said, Chen Qin went to take a look at the Internet cafe downstairs.

The Internet cafe was indeed full, but of course this had nothing to do with the battle in the ruins.

Recently, the government has been cracking down on illegal Internet cafes, and white Internet cafes are also being inspected every day. It is becoming more and more difficult to obtain Internet cafe licenses. If the increase cannot increase, it is naturally a problem of inventory.

But I entered the Internet cafe and inspected it with my brothers...

It's pretty much the same as last time, there are still people doing everything in the Internet cafe.

But compared to last time, there are fewer people playing other games. A few people who play WOW are still playing WOW, and those who play Three Kingdoms are still playing Three Kingdoms. There are probably two people playing the newly opened DNF.

The rest of the computer screen is a green Warcraft III interface.

Among them, there are indeed many people playing "Relic Brawl". Walking all the way, there are already half of the people in the Internet cafe, which is higher than other games.

Chen Qin had doubts at this time. He could think of many people playing, but this was a bit too much.Returning to the third floor, he asked: "Why are so many people playing Ruins Brawl? Is it the same in other Internet cafes?"

"In our Internet cafe, there are a lot of people playing this. There are a lot more people playing Dota in the flying boat. I see that there are a lot more Dota in Moyou." A brother who is playing games said, "But our Brawl has only been out for a week. I I think it will definitely surpass Dota in the future.”

Chen Qin chuckled. To be honest, he didn't believe it.

I made a World of Warcraft map with my teenage niece, and it became more popular than Dota in an instant. I’m not kidding.

But then he stood behind the seat and watched the brothers play a game of "Relic Brawl".

The brother he watched probably just started playing. When selecting players, he chose a Juggernaut. Later in the operation stage, he would spend a lot of time reading the text descriptions of the buildings.

But after the fight started, he understood the game mechanics very well. He led five or six soldiers of various races and walked out of the spring area with his opponent.

The two began to move closer to the 'flag' that would win the set if they got it in the middle.

However, because the two sides were about the same strength, the outcome of the fight was obviously unpredictable, so the two of them kept moving around the 'flag', looking for opportunities to cut in. In the end, the brother he saw was the first one who couldn't bear it anymore and used The Sword Master activated the Wind Step and rushed forward...

Guo Yang followed Chen Qin. At this time, he reminded Chen Qin from the side: "Ah Yue came up with a new way of playing here yesterday. He said that it is not good for players to play each other. It is better to set up other facilities on the map. , so that they can use the facilities to help each other across the battlefield..."

Chen Qin nodded, this was indeed what he taught A Yue, but he was concerned about another question, and now that he had some conclusions, he asked again: "What mode are you playing recently? Are they all 3V3?”

A brother replied: "Yes, you can only play in a team. The 'brawl mode' can only be played by solo players."

Another person said: "Nowadays, Haofang has more people playing Brawl, and VS has more people playing 3V3."

Chen Qin asked: "So when discussing this game on Weibo, what are people mainly talking about? Is it operation or construction coordination?"

Guo Yang replied: "There are all of them. In addition, when I look at the water platform, the videos with higher clicks are mainly operated by the great master Xiu."

Some brothers seemed to have also watched it: "Yes, that video was sent by Brother Gai. He didn't understand anything, he grabbed the buildings randomly, and finally won the battle with operation. It was so fierce."

"Oh……"

Chen Qin suddenly realized it and sat back.

No wonder it's so popular, it turns out it's e-sports...

In his opinion, Auto Chess is probably a casual game that relies on the IP ecosystem. It focuses on relaxing games and a certain degree of strategy. Naturally, it cannot be more interesting than the original Moba game.

But first of all, this game is different from the Auto Chess in his memory. Secondly... Auto Chess is very popular. Although the main gameplay is 'automatic battle', in addition to this, there is actually another core gameplay.That's chicken eating.

The most popular year of Auto Chess is the second year of chicken game. Chicken game is a competitive game with high randomness. On the surface, everyone is searching for 98x mirror and [-]K, but in theory, it can be obtained purely by operation. Chicken. Later, in order to continue operating, Chicken-eating also took the road of competition. It is true that it cannot be among the first-class, but there are indeed many people watching.

Now, A Yue has removed the self-propelled element from the "Relics Brawl". Chen Qin didn't think about it carefully before, maybe it was like an accidental hit, turning it into a War 3 version of a chicken game...

Thinking of this, Chen Qin took another look at various player communities.

On Moyou.com, the number of downloads of the game has indeed increased, and it is now only ranked behind "Dynasty Warriors".

I checked Weibo and Tieba again and found that the community activity is also higher than that of Dota.

If you think about it carefully, due to translation and version update issues, Dota's popularity was not that high before. The recent stable version 6.51 was a watershed. Because of this version, Dota's popularity exploded rapidly, but this version was only launched last month. It's still in the 'market education period', and in fact it's not that far ahead of "Remnant Brawl".

Thinking of this, Chen Qin leaned back and sank into the back of the latest gaming chair specially given to him by his brothers.

Maybe... I really inadvertently developed a game that is more popular than Dota?
Maybe from the perspective of people in the future, it is indeed quite magical.

Dota is the ancestor of Moba games. As a person from the future, of course I know how powerful it is, but of course there is no such category yet, and even the category of 'Dota-like' has not yet appeared.

What would happen if a game more powerful than Dota were created at this time?

This is of course a good thing. If it can be done well, it may indeed be something that can make history.

but……

Just at this moment, A Yue came.

In the studio filled with the stench of young men's sweat, Ah Yue, wearing school uniform, walked in easily, greeted the brothers in the studio familiarly, and asked curiously why are you upstairs today?

The brothers put out the cigarette butts in their mouths and said to her with a smile, "This is to test the money-making script for you..."

A Yue, like Guo Yang, was a little touched by their behavior of pretending to serve the public for their own benefit.

He clenched his little fists happily and said, don't worry, everyone, we will definitely work hard!
The brothers laughed and said, "Go in quickly!"Ah Yue quickly walked behind the counter and placed the lunch box brought from the canteen on the table.

Before I even sat down, I was already muttering words like 'bug, bug' as if chanting sutras...

But as he said this, he saw that Chen Qin's face was a little solemn.

"Ah Yue, do you remember why we played this game in the first place?" Chen Qin said.

"In order to change the platform? And then to help the company and make commercially successful games." A Yue was quite relaxed, "But now that I have reached this point, it feels like it has completely deviated from the original plan."

If it goes astray, then it goes astray. She probably just said it casually.

After all, as Chen Qin said before, as long as there are people playing it, it has commercial value. The current situation of "Relics Brawl" is already very good.

But when it came to this, Chen Qin said: "Actually, it didn't go astray."

A Yue was curious: "But you didn't say you wanted to transplant it to mobile phones... Do you want to transplant it into a client game?"

Chen Qin nodded: "No, mobile phones are the most promising platform. If you want to transplant, this is it."

"But you said before," A Yue said, "mobile phone performance is limited. You think it will take a few years to make a simplified version of the hero battle game and move it to mobile phones. Now the battles on our map are comparable to those of ordinary heroes. The battle is much more intense.”

Chen Qin said: "This problem can be solved slowly. After all, our gameplay comes from Warcraft 3 from the beginning, so the gameplay of heroes leading troops to fight against each other is difficult to transplant outside of custom maps."

A Yue was curious: "If we can't do this, how can we transplant it?"

"In addition to controlling units to fight, our core gameplay actually has other things." Chen Qin said, "In addition to controlling heroes to fight, our other core gameplay is to separate the operation and operation stages, and then build buildings to fight; if we use this A little bit of transplant product development actually doesn’t require much performance..."

Chen Qin didn't go into too much detail, but he had considered this issue before.

No matter what the platform is, device performance must be considered in order to implement functions. Previously, even using this map in the official Warcraft program had some lags, which led Chen Qin to change the map from an eight-player limit to a six-player limit.

So what should we do to implement it in Kaitian OS?
The plan is quite simple.

Anyway, the operation has been a simplified version from the beginning. It is better to have a braised egg collision like the Hearthstone Tavern, allowing players to build buildings and fight with card collisions.

If it's fun, it's definitely not as fun as this.

but……

At this moment, Chen Qin looked at the cheerful little niece beside him who was listening carefully to his 'plan', and some cold thoughts arose in his heart.

That’s right, fun isn’t the important thing.

A game that can cause social phenomena requires great opportunities, and the right time, place and people are indispensable.

Now he has to work hard to make a game by himself, so he can only copy the homework. Before, he copied Happy Farm and made his own social game platform popular.

But now it’s back to the same old trick, can Angry Birds do it?

The advantage of "Farm Farm" lies in its gameplay. In history, there are also examples of successful plagiarism by the American company Zynga. However, the success of "Angry Birds" was an accident. If it were to do it again, it would not necessarily become popular in the first place. .

Looking at the preview information of Flash Empire, this company was hired by Chen Qin to produce various web games, and now it has a lot of light fans.

The Weibo post that previewed "Angry Birds" only received dozens of replies after half a month. On the other hand, Ah Yue posted a Weibo post yesterday asking "Who do you want to be the next hero?" Someone diverted traffic from the post bar. Today Already received over a thousand replies.

Of course, considering the player size, Flash Empire is still higher after all.Casual players generally do not pay special attention to the creator's information, but core players are generally more sensitive to relevant information.

and……

It may be more loyal to the brand, if a transplant marketing can be carried out during its explosion of popularity...

Thinking of this, it seems that there is nothing to hesitate about.

Chen Qin took a deep breath and held A Yue's little hand.

Your Uncle Chen has loved you for so long, it’s time for you to take action... No, this is a necessary sacrifice for the rise of the country, and it is also the last step for your favorite Kuaikan Media to get out of the quagmire completely.

For these purposes, a mere game...

A Yue was a little confused. She turned to look at Chen Qin, and a question mark slowly appeared on her head.

But before Chen Qin could start speaking, suddenly there were people moving at the door.

A large group of people suddenly rushed in quickly. The brother at the door stood up, but the stern middle-aged man in police uniform seemed to be indifferent and just looked at the furnishings in the room.

Xiao Gao put away his mobile phone: "You are..."

"What is this going on? Who runs this place?"

　Aba aba aba

　　
　
(End of this chapter)