An Expert Is actually By My Side

Chapter 444 Quick Sound Beta Version

While Hao Yun was busy designing the AR version of Minecraft, the first "Minecraft" Creative Architectural Design Competition officially kicked off.

A total of 270,000 players submitted their works.

While the competition is hot, it also adds a lot of difficulty to the review of the works.

Fortunately, Yunmeng Games has recruited a large number of interns recently, and most of the review work is handed over to these interns, which does not have a great impact on daily work.

"There are 270,000 works...there are still more than 100,000 unqualified works after screening," Jiang Lecheng, who was sitting in front of the computer while dragging the progress bar of the form, said with emotion, "How do we choose so many works? .”

Du Ziteng who was standing beside said with a smile.

"Isn't that hard to say? Choose one or two hundred works with the largest amount of engineering and put them on the official website, and let the players vote for themselves, and it's over."

asked an employee of the art department.

"Wouldn't this be a little unfair to ordinary players who don't have a fan base?"

Those players who have a fan base can solicit votes directly from fans. And those players without a fan base, no matter how good their work is, will be at a disadvantage compared to those players with a fan base.

Du Ziteng thought for a while and said.

"It may be a little bit, but our player base is there, so the impact should not be great."

Moreover, Minecraft has only been online for less than two weeks. Even if many talented players with a large number of fans have been born during this period, the fan stickiness will not be so strong that fans will stand in line unconditionally.

Besides, popularity is also part of strength.

Being able to get the support of so many players, it must have its own merits.

While Yunmeng Games was busy screening works, Zhou Xuan, who was far away in the male dormitory of Jiangcheng University, was staring at the screen meticulously, directing the players in the server to build the magnificent Forbidden City in a 1:1 ratio.

Wang Ziyi, who was sitting at the next table, turned his head and glanced at his screen, and asked.

"We have only built a foundation until now. If we continue to work at this speed, will we still have time for this competition?"

Zhou Xuan said with a sigh.

"It's a little hanging, the time given by the competition deadline is too tight... I can only say that I will do my best."

Originally in his plan, he planned to complete the project in half a year.

But I didn't expect that the Yunmeng game official suddenly launched a new event, to select the most creative man-made buildings among the players, and to reward them with limited edition medals.

As a die-hard fan of Yunmeng Games and a master player of the creative workshop, Zhou Xuan certainly didn't want to miss this event, so he signed up without thinking.

However, the competition deadline is only until the middle of next month, which means there is only one month.

It is a bit unrealistic to complete this huge project before the submission deadline.

"If it really doesn't work, let's make the part of the Golden Luang Palace first, and then submit this part separately."

Wang Ziyi also sighed.

"It can only be the."

For his own work, Zhou Xuan can be said to be full of confidence.

However, what he didn't know was that he wasn't the only one who thought so, but also other contestants.

While he and his friends in the group were busy working on the "construction site", other "My World" UP owners on station B also updated their works on their accounts.

Probably because of the terrifying number of submissions, many people have gradually realized that the smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys.

At this moment, they didn't care about their creativity being seen by others, they cut their creative process into videos and uploaded them to video websites to canvass votes for themselves in advance.

After reading these works, even Hao Yun couldn't help feeling that these players are really talented.

Some players restored the terracotta warriors and horses in a 1:1 ratio, and some players restored Stormwind City in World of Warcraft.

However, this can only be regarded as generally awesome.

There are even more awesome players who directly use redstone circuits to build a computer that can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

And just like this, the player is not satisfied. In the video, he said that he is studying how to improve the Redstone computer, and strives to play the magic tower in Minecraft.

In theory, this is not impossible. When designing Minecraft, Hao Yun once considered that there might be some hardcore players who would play with redstone circuits, so he designed the redstone circuit series components. A lot of effort has been put into it, and some functions that were originally implemented by mods have been added.

The time is fast approaching the end of October.

Good news came one after another.

The first is Yunmeng Villa.

Living up to the high expectations given by Hao Yun, this resort hotel located in the remote southern suburb of Jiangcheng finally ushered in a wave of small passenger flow peaks.

However, even though it is the peak of small passenger flow, it is only compared to the empty scene when it first opened. According to Lin Jun, the current hotel operation is still in the loss-making stage, and the occupancy rate must be increased by at least 50% in order to achieve profitability.

Without asking what the current occupancy rate is, Hao Yun thought it would be better for him to give Feng Tiancai a little more time. Besides, Yunmeng Group now has so many profitable projects, even if two projects occasionally lose money, it doesn't seem to affect the overall situation very much.

Another thing is Zhang Tao's short video project called "Kuaiyin".

Hao Yun really didn't expect that this guy's mobility was so high that he found someone to develop the software in such a short time.

Although it is only a beta version and there are not many interesting videos, it already has 10,000 to 20,000 active users, and the active users are mainly students from college circles.

This part of users has two major characteristics, one is that they accept new things quickly, and the other is that they are free enough.

With these two elements at the same time, these users are not only users of the software, but also creators of content. Perhaps because Kuaiyin is still relatively small, many people simply regard this software as a circle of friends, and share some videos that are inconvenient to share in the circle of friends with strangers.

"The beta version has been running stably for a week, and the reputation among users is quite good. Some creators with a strong desire to share can even shoot five or more short videos a day."

"At the same time, we noticed that many users are sensitive to privacy issues, so we launched the function of blocking address book and blocking users in the same city. As long as these two functions are enabled, content creators basically do not need to single-line their own videos. It will be picked up by those around you.”

"At present, the number of our videos is still too small, and we have to find ways to attract more content creators to settle in. According to the estimates of our marketing analysts, only when the number of users reaches 500,000 can we form a relatively stable To create an ecology, the most urgent task now is to promote our APP."

"So I propose to start the next round of financing as soon as possible."

"Only when we get more funds, can we spend money on promotion. And if we introduce strong partners, maybe we can use the resources of partners to further expand our user base."

In the meeting room of Yunmeng Building.

Zhang Tao said these words to Hao Yun in one breath.

After listening to his suggestion, Hao Yun thought for a few seconds before continuing.

"How much will it cost?"

Zhang Tao took a deep breath, summoned up his courage and said.

"According to the current funding needs... I plan to raise 300 million in this round."

300 million is not a small sum.

When he said this, Zhang Tao actually didn't have much confidence in his heart.

After all, up to now, although Kuaiyin has shown a certain market potential, it has only shown potential.

This is different from the shared bicycles at the time. Although the modern bicycles were losing money on the books at that time, the assets were constantly snowballing, so major companies were willing to invest money.

However, this short video software is currently a bottomless pit of burning money, not to mention whether it is losing money or not, and even a series of problems including the profit model have not been solved.

Only philanthropists and gamblers dare to give generously to such a project.

However, what Zhang Tao didn't expect was that after listening to his words, Hao Yun shook his head slightly and gave an unexpected answer.

"Three hundred million is too little... Let me think about it, five hundred million."

"What we need is not only traffic, but also big data algorithms to help users accurately match the content they want to see, and at the same time push them what they may be interested in... I will let the researchers of Yunmeng Technology help you solve this problem question."

"I don't think there is any need to find someone else. This round of financing will continue to be led by us."