Build a game empire from scratch

Lin You took Xiao Meng and directly came to the Stormy Ocean on the moon.

Then, at the center of Kepler, the most conspicuous crater in the Ocean of Procellarum, a pure black rectangular stone slab with a ratio of [1:4:9] was placed.

——Absolutely [1:4:9]. At present, this is absolutely impossible to happen in reality, but in the virtual world it is as simple as filling in numbers by hand. Besides, the virtual world doesn’t have that kind of ruler with incredible accuracy...

Then came Copernicus Crater, Archimedes Crater, Plato Crater...

Lin You and Xiao Meng placed a pure black stone slab [1:4:9] in the center of all the craters in the lunar sea that looked more conspicuous from space.

Of course, Lin You has also programmed it so that players will only find a black slate on the moon.

Once the first piece is found, the other stone slabs will automatically disappear, ensuring the uniqueness of the first piece.

As for what is the use of this stone slab?

Well, Lin You hasn't thought about it yet.

But that's not important.

Anyway, the player just complained that there was nothing on the moon, and he has now added it.

As for what it does...that's not important.

Players can guess!

If you guess too much, you might guess right (and be copied by Lin You)?

After Lin You and Xiao Meng completed the work efficiently, they returned to the small sofa to fish in a refreshed manner.

What? Work?

The work in the morning is over. Let’s talk about it in the afternoon if you have anything else!

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After fishing all morning, Lin You took Xiao Meng to the moon again in the afternoon.

the reason is simple--

While he was taking a nap at noon, the "disappointment" post received more than 200,000 likes!

And it’s still rising!

The number of players leaving messages in the comment area is also growing, and there are even many foreign languages! Apparently, overseas players got the news somehow and came over for team building.

This made Lin You feel bad.

"Now it is no longer a problem that can be solved with a stone slab!"

“Got to give them a little creative jolt!”

"Okay!" Xiao Meng cheered, "Are we going to blow up the moon? Or blow up the earth? Or blow up their spaceship?"

Xiao Meng was in high spirits.

"Uh..." Lin You hesitated for a moment, "You are a bit extreme..."

"Oh...then what are we going to do?" Xiao Meng asked again.

"I'm ready to scare them!"

Lin You forgot about all the important things and started to get busy with Xiaomeng.

Anyway, integrating other domestic game developers is not a day or two away.

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He came up with the idea of ​​"integrating game developers" because he read Zeng Ningshuang's latest report in the "Daxia Industry Observer".

That was her third series of reports on the domestic gaming industry, with the main interviewee being the Jade Bird League.

At the time of her second interview, the Jade Bird League was still in the stage of "imitating Yunmeng" and had produced some very good quality casual games. These games had also caught up with the skyrocketing number of domestic players and strong demand from casual players. Dongfeng, make a lot of money.

Even if they don't imitate Yunmeng to make casual games, the skyrocketing number of domestic players has also greatly boosted their sales.

It’s just that after the emergence of [Phantom], their game carriers have lagged behind the times. This is an objective phenomenon that cannot be changed, and the prosperity at that time was only the last glimmer of light.

Nowadays, as the content of the virtual world becomes more and more expanded, rich and exciting, PC games and home console games have begun to decline—the decline rate is second only to VR games.

On the contrary, game formats such as arcades, handheld consoles, and mobile phones, which have their own unique application scenarios, have been less affected.

This has also led to the fact that in the eyes of the outside world, the Blue Bird Alliance is already in a state of half-death and will be finished sooner or later.

But Zeng Ningshuang’s interview this time broke this impression——

The output of independent games of the Blue Bird Alliance has indeed plummeted to a very dangerous level, but the number of members of this alliance has not only not shrunk, but is even more than before!

In the context of the continuous shrinkage of large companies, the number of people in these small studios has more than doubled!

Game output has decreased because they almost no longer make traditional independent games - they all go to the virtual world and make paid modules!

They turned their ideas, enthusiasm and creativity for the game into modules and released them in the virtual world.

As Yunmeng gradually opens and updates its module development kit, their technical capabilities are gradually increasing, and the quality of the modules they produce is rising steadily.

Some small studios have completed the transformation from "star independent studios" to "star module development teams". The most profitable studios on the rankings have even become local "advanced tax-paying enterprises."

——Yunmeng’s own games are tax-free, but the income from modules is.

Because the foreign exchange generated by the module is also handled by Yunmeng, after all, some module development teams only have less than 10 people in total...

However, those popular modules are often created by these small teams.

Two months ago, a module even appeared, creating the prototype of a MOBA game. It became very popular for a while, making the small team of six people rich overnight.

Up to now, with their continuous optimization and upgrading, that module still maintains considerable popularity and has become one of the evergreen modules on the module sharing platform.

In just a few months, such legendary stories have been repeated again and again.

Therefore, in the report, Zeng Ningshuang described Yunmeng as a towering tree, and these independent studios, large and small, as intricate and infinitely growing aerial roots.

They are already a complex, complete ecology with endless vitality.

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The content of this report is very rich, including a macro perspective, specific characters (she interviewed many protagonists of "legendary stories"), and jokes that are easy to spread——

The biggest wish of many small teams is to "be absorbed by Yunmeng as soon as possible", followed by "the popularity of their own modules".

Under the influence of these multiple factors, this report had considerable influence.

However, for Lin You, the most important thing is to understand the current business situation of domestic small and medium-sized game developers, and start to consider advancing his next plan——

Import these production capabilities that have undergone preliminary training into the virtual world.

It is no longer simply limited to [Module Sharing Platform], but truly contributes to the construction of the entire virtual world!

This was something he had considered since the [Taoyuan] external storage plug-in was launched.

But if you really want to start doing it, you must make preparations in various aspects such as "development team screening", "user consumption power assessment", "software and hardware adaptation", etc. This requires a sufficiently complete plan.

In short – “not a day’s work”.

Therefore, let’s fix the moon first!

“I’ve wanted to knock out their [logout] button since day one!”