Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

"Is "Dark Souls" distributed by overseas agents?"

Listening to the news reported by Lin Rou, Chen Xu nodded to show that he knew.

The one who came to the door was a fairly well-known overseas agency distribution company in China: Target Software.

Obviously, as a large-scale PC game, "Dark Souls" has also attracted the attention of overseas agency publishing companies.

After all, "Dark Soul" is very popular in China. Although Nebula Games has not announced the sales results, there are also some third-party data companies that have made statistics.

There will definitely be gaps, but it can also be used as a reference.

Finally, the theme of "Dark Soul" itself is also a magical theme, and it will have a considerable audience in overseas markets.

As for the so-called difficulty issue, it's not that big of a deal.

Whether at home or abroad, there are gamers who like fast-paced and simple, and there are also gamers who like **** difficulty.

And from the perspective of the player base, the entire overseas market is also larger.

"Reply to the other party and make an appointment to talk about this aspect of cooperation." Chen Xu said to Lin Rou.

It is not so simple to distribute by overseas agents. The original "Magic Mirror" only landed on the official overseas platform, but in fact it was simply plated with a layer of skin.

And a game of the size of "Dark Souls" obviously cannot go this way.

At the same time, the so-called overseas is not one country, but involves multiple countries, as well as various channels for the promotion of games, etc.

Corresponding review, publicity, and precautions are also handled by the agency issuing company.

And there are also policies in some countries that require overseas games to enter the local market must have a local agency publishing company.

This channel is for Nebula Games to do on its own, and it will definitely be impossible to create a corresponding channel in a short period of time.

In the future, an overseas channel for Nebula Games to be operated independently will be established, but at this stage, finding a relatively powerful agency publishing company is obviously a way to maximize benefits.

Ask Lin Rou to inform the other party that in the office of Nebula Games the next afternoon, Chen Xu also met the person in charge of the other party.

At the conference table, the two talked about matters related to overseas agency issuance.

"Mr. Chen, we don't have much problem with dividing it into this part, but the modification of the overseas version and the operation rights..." said the person in charge on the opposite side.

However, it was interrupted by Chen Xu shaking his hand: "This is the bottom line."

Hearing Chen Xu's words, the words that just reached his throat were directly choked.

In other aspects, such as overseas promotion and operation, including game share ratio, etc., the chat was very smooth.

Basically, it follows the basic standards of the industry.

But it is the modification and operation rights of the overseas version that have fallen into some problems.

The target software wants to get some operation modification rights, and Chen Xu is very direct, which means that you are only responsible for normal overseas agency distribution and corresponding language translation and dubbing, and provide your company's channels for publicity to ensure the game is launched. Just wait for the money and it's over, don't even think about the management of the game.

The so-called operation modification right is a bit simpler. For example, "Dark Soul" is a pure buy-out single-player game, and multiplayer is just a bonus.

However, if the agency publishing company thinks that it may be more suitable for the country to change to the free + in-app purchase model, and has its rights, it can turn it into a free game, and the first charge is 6 yuan to get +4 dark sword at the start.

Of course, this is just an exaggeration, and it is unlikely that a game company will give such a big right. Generally, it belongs to the mutual negotiation between the two parties, or some rights and interests in profitable content.

The thing that makes the target software a bit difficult is that Chen Xu is obviously not going to give a little bit of rights in this regard.

"As for President Chen, I can't decide." The person in charge on the opposite side could only shake his head when he saw Chen Xu's determination.

Chen Xu nodded with a smile: "It's okay, but I hope your company can give me an answer as soon as possible. After all, besides your company, there are several overseas distributors who also have related intentions."

As for true or false? Believe it or not, it's not him who is under pressure anyway.

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After sending off the person in charge of the target software side, Chen Xu also logged into the official forum of Nebula Games.

Thanks to the player groups brought by the previous "Three Kingdoms Kill" and "Jelly Bean", after "Dark Soul" and its preferential activities were launched.

The number of active players of Nebula Games has also reached a peak.

At the same time, Chen Xu has always attached great importance to the community forum of Nebula Games, and set up a department to operate independently.

After all, in the early days when the number of games on the Nebula game platform itself was small, adopting this kind of social forum operation is one of the best ways to cultivate user stickiness.

From the point of view of the effect, the initial effect is also seen.

In the forum section of "Dark Soul", players are still talking more about various strategies, play styles, and routines.

In addition to what makes Chen Xu more happy, that is the creative workshop that was opened before, and some players have already made corresponding MODs.

The most downloaded is a text MOD, which turns the "you are dead" after the player's death into "you are a real dish".

In addition, there are some sound effects mods, which replace the more eerie mods of the underground prison.

Of course, these MODs that can pass through the official creative workshop will not affect the balance of the game.

If you do not go through the creative workshop, players need to back up a separate archive to play in offline mode.

Otherwise, it will be detected when entering the network line, and it will be judged as cheating and assigned to a special server.

However, there is a MOD post that makes Chen Xu a little interested.

Because "Dark Soul" also opened the creative workshop, many players in this post are discussing with their brains, what interesting MODs may appear in "Dark Soul" in the future.

Although there are quite a lot of people who are currently participating in the discussion, they don't even understand the content of the game themselves, let alone the customs clearance, and they can't even enter the king's city. know this stage.

But it does not prevent these players from imagining "Dark Soul".

Among them, Chen Xu saw a more interesting proposal, that is, if all the bosses and mobs in "Dark Soul" were immediately followed, wouldn't it be very interesting.

For example, in the Ash Graveyard, the player is not facing Ash Gouda with a spiral sword, but the hero Gouda in an unowned cemetery. Isn't that very exciting?

There are also changes to the weapons of the BOSS. For example, the halberd in Guda's hand is missing. Guda can only use his kicks and palms to lean against Tieshan throughout the whole process. How exciting!

Of course, it's more of the players' imaginations, some of which are completely unrealizable, but it gave Chen Xu some ideas.