I just want players to save money, but I was made the richest man.

Chapter 116 The cusp of the storm! Demo is online!

After a large amount of capital injection and meticulous planning.

"Infinite" has also begun to invest in intensive research and development.

This is the first time that Ready Player One has developed a masterpiece with a scale of over [-] million.

As far as Kejin knows, there are quite a few games on Blue Star that have R&D expenditures exceeding [-] million.

There are also some works whose image quality is comparable to the previous 3A level.

But they all have a mainstream characteristic.

Serve krypton gold.

Whether it’s drawing cards, playing gashapon, or digging for treasure chests.

The content finally derived from various methods is still heavy on krypton.

Ke Jin once thought about the deep development model of games in this world.

There is good development soil in both literature and film and television.

Why has the game been so slow to improve?

Even if you, the designer, have no inspiration.

But isn’t it very difficult to buy a script and develop it yourself?

However, after a year of in-depth experience with Blue Star OL.

Ke Jin also understood a little bit.

First, there is no precedent.

The development of game culture on earth is intertwined.

Be it moba or dota.

In the earliest days, they evolved from SLG (strategy/strategy games).

Then, a large-scale category RTS (real-time strategy game, representative work: Red Alert) evolved from SLG.

After many evolutions, the two unique pronouns of dota and moba were finally born.

The development on Blue Star is like going from the steam age directly into modern civilization in one breath.

After skipping the era of internal combustion engines and computers, it is naturally impossible to imagine what internal combustion engines and calculators are.

Therefore, in the eyes of all game manufacturers at home and abroad.

High investment in game development can be done.

But it must be accompanied by high returns.

There have been many attempts to buy scripts and adapt them yourself in the past 20 years.

But if there is no matching gameplay as an assistant, you will basically lose all your money.

This leaves only the novel’s vast worldview + rich characters + card drawing to follow.

This is also the core reason for the abnormal development of Blue Star Games for 20 years.

Not to mention those big manufacturers.

Even our own employees.

When they first received the proposal for "Infinite", everyone was hesitant.

I think it is almost difficult to make a profit with a purely linear FPS+ narrative.

To put it bluntly, isn't this just a plot game with a little shooting element?

If you don’t set up a corresponding firearms card drawing system, it will basically be a loss...

However, after carefully reading the "Infinity" plan, all employees changed their minds.

In addition to the orderly progress of research and development progress.

Kejin also hired three well-known domestic motion capture actors.

For 3D games, if you want character models to be non-rigid, motion capture is an essential process.

It's just that the motion capture of other games usually only has a short sequence of actions.

A series of simple actions such as attacking, walking, skills, and standing upright.

After all, what is shown to the players is just a few simple sets of actions.

Therefore, when the three motion capture girls first came to the company, they thought they were pretty much the same.

As a result, when I got Elizabeth's script, I was stunned when I read it.

"Full motion capture...?"

"Am I only responsible for facial motion capture?"

"Am I specifically responsible for motion capture of the overall form?"

The three of them each perform their own duties, but only for the actions of one female character?
Unheard of!

I have never seen any game company have such strange requirements!

After all, a professional motion capture actor can control many styles, and the shapes and expressions are very expressive. He even has to maintain a specific figure for many years for the role he is suitable for.

Professionalism is also required in terms of body flexibility and difficult movements such as dance or martial arts.

Therefore, the cost of cultivating an excellent motion capturer is very expensive.

Their wages are also very high.

Conventional motion capture ranges from 1K to 10K/day, depending on the workload.

For example, the salary of these three well-known motion capture girls who came to Ready Player One Company to report is at least 10K~20K/day.

The workload is basically 2 to 3 drawing character full sets of actions a day.

And now I have Elizabeth's script in my hand, and I want to dub it all.

At least one to two months of work...

In other words, just for the design of movements and expressions, Ready Player One will have to pay at least a few million in costs...

Ha people!

You know, if many major companies complete the motion capture of all their characters, they may only cost less than 100 million.

Spending so much money just to destroy a female character, is this...

However, as I slowly get deeper into the character of Elizabeth and gradually understand the plot behind her.

The three motion capture girls couldn't help but fall in love with this character.

"It can be said that the creation of this female character is the most successful among all the female characters I have ever played!"

"Me too, I absolutely love this character!"

"Mr. Ke, if possible, we can also help you with a little promotion for free on the day the game is released. Although our Weibo fans are not as large as your company, we still have some." Until one and a half months. After the handover, the three motion capture girls all showed some reluctance.

"That's great, thank you for your help." Ke Jin also smiled back.

Ke Jin also saw their hard work during this period.

Sometimes when I watch the scene, I am obviously satisfied with the effect, but they still feel that it is not perfect enough and actively ask for a few more matches.

"If there is a chance, we can cooperate again in the future."

I shook hands with my three sisters and said goodbye.

In fact, he really wanted to just sign these three sisters.

In future games, there will be places where they will be used.

However, considering the recent stretched financial reserves.

The expense of raising a fleet of mocaps is no joke.

It’s better to wait until the company has spare money before considering it.

And time flies, and November quickly comes.

The game development progress has been 70% completed
The development process was smoother than Kejin imagined.

According to this trend, the finishing work should be completed by the end of November.

The selection for the celebration ends at the end of December, and the selection results will be announced at the Lantern Festival next year.

There is still a full month for the game to be announced and released.

There is plenty of time.

And, during this period.

Ke Jin asked Gou Chehua to make arrangements, and asked him to extract a small section of the actual game from the game itself to display the demo in the past two days.

Think of it as a warm-up announcement before the game is released.

This time is different from the past. "Infinite" is a work that can make money. Naturally, the bigger the promotion, the better.

It's just that the company really doesn't have the extra spare money to promote it heavily.Therefore, let players try out the demo version first, and let the actual game quality speak for itself, which is more effective than any flashy promotional video.

“Mr. Post a demo, create a wave of popularity and then wait a week for the main game to be released?"

Gou Chehua's advice was quite practical.

Ready Player One has already established a certain reputation in the domestic gaming circle.

But its status in the eyes of passers-by is the same as that of an Internet celebrity song that suddenly becomes a hit.

If you play a melody, I know I've heard it.

But if you ask me to tell you who this singer is, I really can’t tell you.

The "Jedi" that was previously released in the industry made Daji Taili's chicken tonight popular outside the industry for a while. Many fried chicken restaurants secretly changed the slogans without even paying any royalties.

But if you go to the fried chicken restaurant owner and ask them if they know Kejin.

He will only tell you, 'We don't sell by the gram or by the kilogram. A fried chicken costs 30 yuan and a bottle of Coke is given as a gift.'

This is the generation gap between people inside and outside the circle.

It doesn’t matter what reputation your number one player has in the gaming community.

The important thing is that you bring your work to the festival.

Then you have to be prepared to carry the load forward.

However, Ke Jin waved his hand and said it didn't matter.

Big rhythm?
Wouldn't that be better?

As the saying goes, black and red are also red, and black dragons are also dragons.

send!
Give me a hard blow!

Not only must you follow the rhythm.

Also send it when the rhythm is the loudest!

Your rhythm is so slow that I have to cough.

Ever since, two days later.

The nine art and cultural associations also announced on their official blog the major artistic works that participated in the annual best selection.

Most of them are already established works.

I posted it at the beginning of the year. After settling in for more than half a year, the reviews in the circle were pretty good, so I submitted it for selection.

On the day the list was announced, the topic about #九大ART# on Weibo instantly became popular.

Countless netizens also started discussing it.

"Ahhh! My brother's song "Sunny Turns to Rain" has been nominated for music and art? Sisters, aren't you going to throw out the votes?"

"What kind of music is "Sunny Turns to Rain"? It's a purely marketed song. My evaluation is not as good as my movie "High School Musical" starring Wang Yangyuan! I was wearing a wedding dress to see the premiere of the movie, ah Ah, they are so handsome!”

"What kind of clown is Wang Yangyuan? The box office is also screaming. It's really unlucky."

"Haha, I think the most promising thing this year is Sister Masa's hip-hop show. It's sexy yet innocent. My sister's eyes kill me!"

Ke Jin glanced at the Weibo netizens whose purity exploded and spoke.

Suddenly speechless.

I really thought your annual art selection was really a fight between gods.

Is the old man behind all the co-writing efforts?

It's really just capital...

Instead, there are several niche categories of art, such as sculpture and drama.

The selected works also have some artistic styles.

Ke Jin went to take a look.

Although there is also a somewhat commercial trend.

For example, in this year's drama/opera section of "Three Lanes of Pear Blossoms", Lao Sheng originally sang well, with a clear and high-pitched voice, which could also sink into a tender and melodious style.

As a result, a rap suddenly appeared in the middle of singing, which made Xiu Fei feel like he didn't want to scalp Ke Jin, and he almost couldn't swallow the coke in his throat.

But aside from this intriguing rap, the overall performance is pretty unsatisfactory.

It seems that Blue Star's entertainment-to-death phenomenon has far surpassed that of Earth at the same time.

Although several major arts also had their own outstanding works in the early years, some of them were even directly synchronized with the parallel time and space of the earth, and some of the works did not appear at all.

Kejin speculates that it may be due to the invisible impact of the abnormal development of the game industry.

After all, among so many works, there must be many works that have nothing to do with games, but the creator got inspiration from a certain game, and then after the style of his work came out, it triggered the imitation of some later generations. and improvement, one link after another.

But if the game categories of the overall environment on Blue Star no longer exist, some works in other fields will disappear, which makes sense.

Of course, for Ke Jin, the main business assigned to him by Brother Tongzi is games.

Even if there are no masterpieces from other industries, he cannot reproduce them.

At this time, there are topics about the Nine Arts on the Internet, and the comments are still exciting.

Some players in the gaming circle immediately became interested after seeing this year's game art selection.

"Me? It's me who's going to get the engraved treasure this year??"

“I’m envious that I can attend Gravograph/Shy/Shy this year”

"Mom, I'm still thinking that the cultural festival is getting worse and worse, and the artistry is getting worse every year. I don't want to watch it anymore. You told me that the number one player would also come to participate, didn't I?"

"I feel like those veteran judges are still a bit discerning."

"Huh? Why is Gravograph's selected work this year pending?"

"Damn it! I got excited just because I was patronizing you. It's true when you say that!"

"Hiss!! Does this mean that Ready Player One has a new game coming out?"

"Quick, quick, quick! Quick, quick, quick!"

"Now Gravity must not kill those little sissies so hard? I didn't expect our game art to turn around one day!"

"Gravograph, go, go! Give me those money-making bastards like Olive!"

It doesn’t take long for the small group of players in the gaming circle to be lively.

The little fairy from Weibo came right after smelling it.

"Ah? What kind of art do you practice?"

"My memory is not very good. What kind of art are you into?"

"Game art ranks at the bottom every year, how can you still have the nerve to shout out?"

"A bunch of krypton gold sows are saying that our brother is making money, right? Why don't you listen and see what you are talking about."

"I just went to check it out. There is only one participant in the game industry this year, and it is still pending. Is this because my brother is too scared to publish his work? Hehe~"

"Let me tell you a statistic. My brother's "Sunny Turns to Rain" was searched 5.71 million times on Douyin throughout the year, and it dominated the list for three months."

"I hope you bunch of nerdy gamers can recognize the reality and stop fantasizing about riding on this popularity and that popularity all day long. Just play in your small circle, be good."

Due to capital promoters and the power of star effect.

In fact, not only the music industry, but also the film and television industry and other art industries are now slowly moving towards the path of god-making.

Whether it’s about influence, public aesthetics, or the ability to make money.

A group of people playing games couldn't find the right words to retort for a while.

Besides, this is the main battlefield where fans gather.

After arguing for a while, they all reluctantly chose traditional arts and pretended to be deaf and dumb.

The little fairies returned triumphantly and did not take this little incident too seriously.

The gaming industry is such a messy circle.

If it dares to submit its works for competition, then use it to replenish its brother’s blood!It’s just a matter of heat!
The result was something that no one expected.

Ready Player One has really released a work on the cusp of this.

Not only did I post my work, I even directly bought the hot search!

3. #ReadyPlayer's latest narrative FPS "BioShock: Infinite", the demo is online! #
As soon as the front piece was published, the back piece has already become one of the top three most searched items. I must have bought it, and I didn’t even need to wash it.

It’s not uncommon to buy hot searches, it’s just traffic, not shabby.

But the problem is, you are a small A-level company, and under the impact of such a big topic as "annual", you don't know how to wait for a few days to avoid the limelight.

Buy Hot Search Now?
I'm really not afraid of being scolded...

This confusing operation made all netizens look stupid.

Hey guys, don't take the lead, this game company will take care of it themselves, right?
(End of this chapter)