Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 534 The world needs more indie games

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   When I was a child, I ran in the farmland and watched the little insects churning in the fields. Occasionally, some squirrels or birds, these bad guys, would steal the crops in the farmland to eat.

   In the more than ten years of working in the city, Chiaki Suzuki has almost forgotten the feeling of being in his hometown.

   And this game allowed him to regain his childhood beauty.

   He really likes this game very much, even though the game looks so mediocre and the picture quality is a little bad, but this game has brought him back to his original intention.

   There are many people who have similar feelings with Chiaki Suzuki, and they all like the warm feeling of Stardew Valley very much.

   Several people even had the courage to return to their hometowns after playing this game.

   A game made by one person, sold 50,000, and the average selling price was 1,700 yen.

  Battle.net also just took this opportunity to promote its own sharing clause.

   Game developers can get 70% of the game revenue share.

  At the same time, Battle.net also added a special label to Stardew Valley: indie games.

The term   indie game is easy to understand, just like independent movies in the film and television industry, they are all works created by one or very few people with very low cost.

  Indie movies are very mature in the film industry, but few people have tried video games before this.

   Most people subconsciously define video games as high-investment products.

Perhaps it is because the programming, painting, music, and level design of video games are very specialized, which makes most people shy away from these complex jobs. In addition, the recent trend of video games is toward large investment. , only a few casual games of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment can capture some players outside the game, but no one can see the potential of casual games now, and more people still pay attention to games with high investment.

   Under such circumstances, no one expected that a little dark horse would suddenly appear.

  The sales of 50,000 games is really nothing for a big company, but it seems to open a whole new door for some game developers who are in a period of confusion.

   Stardew Valley wasn't very good graphics, but even that was a small success.

  Professional developers can quickly confirm that the development of Stardew Valley is not difficult in all aspects, and the only thing missing is that one idea.

   And if there is really enough creativity, then the level of picture quality does not seem to be so necessary, and high investment is naturally even less necessary.

   This has made many confused game developers find a new direction.

   It turns out that it’s not just big productions that succeed.

  Look, Stardew Valley is only created by one person, and it is not difficult to reproduce the gameplay and picture quality of Stardew Valley.

   This kind of game can sell 50,000 copies, and the money in hand is almost 50 million yen.

   This is almost five years of income for senior white-collar workers.

  The eyes of game developers who were still confused were all red.

   And the sales of Stardew Valley have not stopped, this game is still increasing sales, which means that the people who develop this game can continue to get the income of the game.

   This is simply a role model in their minds!

   For a while, Stardew Valley was not only circulated in the circle of game lovers, but also discussed this game in the small circle of game developers.

   At the same time, the developer of this game is also discussed: Nintendo is the master of the world.

   The name is really weird.

The name    seems to mean that Nintendo is very powerful.

  But what is Nintendo? Or who is Nintendo?

  A certain netizen 1: "The name Nintendo sounds like a century-old store, because only a century-old store is qualified to call itself a hall. This is our Japanese custom, don't you know?"

  A certain netizen 2: "What does Nintendo mean? It seems a bit resigned to fate?"

  A certain netizen 1: "It seems like this, a century-old store that is resigned to fate? Why is this century-old store dominating the world? It's really incomprehensible."

  A certain netizen 3: "Wait, what are you discussing?"

A netizen 1: "There is a new guy, and I have to repeat it for you again, forget it, I will say it again, we are now discussing what Nintendo really means, and why this game developer calls Nintendo the master of the world. "

  A certain netizen 3: "Is this the crux of the problem? I thought they were discussing the development concept in the game, which made me happy for a long time."

  A certain netizen 2: "The name of the game developer is also very meaningful. Why do you dare to underestimate the name of the game developer?"

A netizen 4: "Everyone! The latest news, I just found an ancient linguist. The ancient linguist seems to say that in ancient history, a kind of Varis language is called Nintendo, which represents the most holy god. Maybe this What Mr. Nintendo wants to describe is that a certain holy **** is the ruler of the world?"

  A certain netizen 123: "Why is this related to the gods again?"

  …

   Zhu Yuxing, who was a little bored and wandering the Internet, was stunned when he saw the chat content in this chat room.

  Why do these people always like to read such boring things when they have nothing to do?

The    users are just playing a joke on their own. Of course, people in this world can't know what Nintendo is.

And in addition to the username Nintendo is the world's master, he has also registered a series of users such as Sony Dafa, Ubisoft potato cultivation expert, ten years of gaming, nine years of CG, CG with heart, and games with feet, etc. Small name.

   Now he just spent ten years making games and nine years doing CG trumpets hanging out in chat rooms, and he didn't expect to see a group of people talking about this kind of thing.

  You can play my game when you have time, and let you understand that the game is not a big investment or a good one, and sometimes a small and beautiful game is also very attractive.

   However, it is meaningless to say Zhuyou Xingguang here, and the people here will simply ignore Zhuyou Xingguang.

   They were just there to discuss who this senior called Nintendo was and why he was the ruler of the world.

   Sure enough, netizens have unlimited brains, and it is meaningless to justify them.

   But it is interesting to watch the discussions of these sand sculpture netizens occasionally.

   Of course, after watching the discussion of sand sculpture netizens, he still has business to do, which is to encourage more people in the community to develop in the direction of independent games. This world should not only have large-scale games.

   The world needs more indie games.

   (end of this chapter)