Game production: I really have landed

Chapter 124
"Boss Luo, you mean, you've confirmed that this project will basically not make money?"

Xiao Weirui stared blankly at Luo Bai in front of him, a little puzzled.

There are of course many reasons. The first is Mr. Luo's judgment on the market. Before a game is made, Mr. Luo has never seen Mr. Luo's conclusion on the "making money" of the game before.

Now, in the process of handing over the project book called "Wanda and the Colossus" to himself and communicating with himself, he made it clear that this project probably won't make much money, and may end up losing money.

Another one is that Mr. Luo made it clear before that what he wants to do is at least to be able to produce → earn money → produce this positive cycle game.

Speaking like this now, there is no doubt that he is suspected of slapping himself in the face.

"Well, based on my analysis of the market, this result is indeed correct, but I will only say this conclusion to Mr. Xiao. For the game development department below, I still have to ensure that they Passionate."

Luo Bai nodded and said frankly,
"And the reason why I told Mr. Xiao this news in advance is that I also have the idea of ​​making certain adjustments in the subsequent announcement."

"Mr. Luo, since you have already confirmed that the existing plan cannot be paid back, why not make changes, or change the plan?"

To be honest, this is the strangest thing about Xiao Weirui.

This idea does not make money, you change it!You change!
If you know you don’t make money, you still do it, why?
"Because the core of the game is there, unless I am willing to drastically change the concept that "Wanda and the Colossus" itself wants to convey.

Otherwise, I can only make a fuss about the image quality and the comfort of operation. "

Luo Bai was also a little helpless.

In such a huge open and immersive world, apart from the characters in the plot and the various small animals on the map, there are only sixteen giant statues.

So empty, so lost, so lonely.

All the player has to do is to raise the sword in his hand to guide the direction in such a world, and then run a long and smelly road. After killing a colossus, the cycle repeats like this.

Of course, Luo Bai knew what the original author wanted to express. He wanted players to understand a real breathing game world and experience the protagonist's eagerness to save lives.

But in today's fast-paced social environment, how many people have time to calm down and experience it slowly?
It is true that the Colossus is huge, and the fighting process is intense and exciting, but after experiencing the initial novelty, players will soon get tired of it.

The map is too big, and there are too many "meaningless" running maps.

When Luo Bai can see the advantages of Wanda and the Colossus that shine like stars, standing on the current standpoint, he also needs to have a greater understanding of its shortcomings.

It’s not that he didn’t think about making adjustments to Wanda and the Colossus, such as transforming this game into that kind of Hakoniwa world to reduce the size of the game world, and then add more interesting exploration, excavation, and collection elements.

Through the design of the map, the process of traveling becomes more delicate, the rhythm of the whole game becomes faster, and the content of the game is richer.

Judging from Luo Bai's current level of cognition of the type of game like Galaxy Castlevania and the system's assessment of his current abilities, it is actually not difficult to do this.

But still the same sentence, the balance between commerciality and artistry is a long-standing problem.

If it really changed to Wanda and the Colossus like this, is it still Wanda and the Colossus?
What's more, Luo Bai can really tolerate his own works. The works under Chuxin's banner are just a simple covering of an already familiar game classification?

Every game needs a breakthrough.

The idea of ​​making Wanda and the Colossus into a Galaxy Castlevania just appeared in his mind for a moment before he rejected it.

Then it went back to what Luo Bai just said.

He can only choose to start with the picture quality of the game and the comfort of the game operation, and strengthen Wanda and the Colossus.

Minimize the discomfort of players who are willing to accept it when playing, and improve their game experience.

After all, it is a game of the PS2 era. The perspective of Wanda and the rigidity of the operation are still quite prominent because of the limitations of the era.

Xiao Weirui was really speechless by Luo Bai.

If you want to say that he is sick and wants to be more literary, express some opinions, and win some awards, he knows very well that the results of the new project are not good.

You ask him to change or change the plan, but he is reluctant.

It belongs to purebred silver, it can't go up and down, it's stuck there.

"Mr. Luo, I understand what you think..."

Xiao Weirui was silent for a moment, then said,

"However, you also have to anticipate the impact this may have on your original intention.

Excellent works such as Ori, Dark Dungeon, and Hollow Knight are in front of us, and the industry has a certain degree of expectation for us to enter the 3D market.

Therefore, no matter how the final product of this work called Wanda and the Colossus is, there will definitely be many people who buy it immediately.

If the game does not meet their wishes, it may lead to a large-scale backlash.

Moreover, the current game circle more or less calls us the best game production team in China, and you are the light of domestic games.

Will the failure of Wanda and the Colossus in the market lead to a change in the direction of the market?

Have you ever thought about how this will affect the industry? "

"I haven't thought much about it..."

Luo Bai was a little dumb,

"However, I'm just a stinking gamer, so there's no need to elevate my original intention to this.

Moreover, I just said that Wanda and the Colossus will sell poorly, but I didn't say that it will have a poor reputation in the industry. "

"It's the same... capital-oriented, not making money is the original sin."

Xiao Weirui sighed.

Luo Bai was also a little bit helpless by the big housekeeper in front of him, he could only be forced to take out another plan from his small drawer:

"Here you go, Dark Souls.

This kind of thing can definitely make a lot of money, and the word-of-mouth can explode. It's easy to get the TGA best game of the year. This kind of thing makes the whole game world tremble. "

"Mr. Luo? You have such a good plan and don't do it?"

"The 3D team has just joined in, so we must run in the team first."

Luo Bai muttered.

Xiao Weirui became interested, and immediately took the new proposal from Luo Bai.

But when she turned a page, she found that there was not a single word, and when she turned back to the blank paper, she squinted her eyes and looked at Luo Bai unkindly:

"Mr. Luo, is this the proposal you made that can make the industry tremble?"

"I'm doing it, I'm doing it, the new folder has been created, what else do you want..."

(End of this chapter)