Build a game empire from scratch

As soon as Lin You arrived at the company the next day, Shen Ping came to find him.

Although Lin You and Xiao Meng made games, although he would pay attention to them himself, he would only pay attention to important things.

The daily operation of the game is handed over to a special operation team, that is, to Shen Ping's subordinates.

The group under Shen Ping has expanded many times, and as Lin You produces more and more content, it is foreseeable that this team will continue to recruit people and form new groups.

Seeing Shen Ping walk into the office, before she opened her mouth, Lin You said, "Player feedback? Smell like shit?"

The two key words made Shen Ping stop immediately, and even took a step back subconsciously.

Of course, Shen Ping noticed the huge amount of player feedback immediately.

In order to verify the authenticity of the feedback, she also took a responsible attitude and entered the game to experience it herself.

How about the specific feeling——

Judging from Lin You's subconscious back-off reaction as soon as Lin You mentioned the "shit smell", she obviously left some psychological shadows...

Although he felt a little uncomfortable psychologically, Shen Ping still nodded and said, "That's right, the two biggest opinions of players, one is krypton gold, and the other is the smell of shit."

"The current players are too fragile!" Lin You hated that iron could not be made into steel, but he easily compromised in the blink of an eye: "It's not impossible to reduce the taste a little."

It's just Lin You's compromise, and it's not a complete compromise to the end: "But they can't ask me to surrender, and I will surrender immediately. We have to consider the silent majority. Maybe more players don't care, and even think this is a game feature?"

"After all, players who don't care, don't write a special feedback, saying [I don't care about the smell of animal feces, you don't need to change it], right?"

"It seems... also?" Shen Ping was a little uncertain, "Then what do you mean, boss?"

"Let's open a vote, let all the players who participated in the test vote, and decide how to change it based on the final results."

Shen Ping blinked, feeling very good, very democratic, so she nodded in agreement.

After solving this problem, Lin You asked another question——

"You said players have opinions on krypton gold, what do you mean? We don't have krypton gold channels, where do we get opinions from?"

Shen Ping couldn't help laughing, and replied: "The opinion is that there is no krypton gold channel. They hope that Yunmeng can open the krypton gold channel, so that they can directly buy guns, fishing rods and mountain bikes in the store."

"Especially the latter two, the demand is extremely strong. Also, among the players who put forward this opinion, [sightseeing players] who are not interested in hunting account for a very large proportion."

[The player actively calls for krypton gold] This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened in Yunmeng.

Except for the free "Wind Journey", in every subsequent game of Yunmeng, there are such players who jump out and want to spend money to buy convenience.

The difference is that some games have very strong calls, while others are just polite shouts. Shen Ping is almost used to it.

With Lin You's high vigilance towards things like "in-app purchases" and "micro-transactions", he is actually not willing to open them, otherwise the money he can earn from the previous games will double.

But he also knew that he was by no means infallible, so he didn't say what he thought, but instead asked Shen Ping's opinion: "What do you think?"

"I think it can be opened to a limited extent." Shen Ping obviously had thought about this issue before coming to see Lin You, "Only fishing rods and mountain bikes are allowed, and shotguns are not allowed."

"The theme of the game is determined, and the content will be completely biased towards players who like hunting. Players who are not interested in hunting will have very little fun in the game."

"Compared to the wilderness area of ​​"Paradise", the scenery is only different, and the attraction is obviously not enough. If the fun of leisure items such as fishing and sightseeing can be enhanced, the attraction to this type of players will definitely be significant. enhance."

"At the same time, players who are keen on hunting can also get convenience. There are more shotguns that need game currency to buy, and they will not seriously reduce their hunting enthusiasm."

Lin You thought about it, and felt that what Shen Ping said was very reasonable.

But in the end, I still said: "Wait for the content of the vote, add this too, more than seventy achievements are open."

Shen Ping nodded, and quickly made preparations.

Lin You logged into the virtual world, intending to see the progress of "Battlefield".

As a result, as soon as he logged in, Xiaochun's invitation was sent over without a second delay.

Looking at the content of the invitation, it means that there is a problem with the internal testing of "Minecraft", and he needs to take a look as soon as possible.

Lin You then changed his plan and accepted Xiaochun's invitation without stopping to come to "Minecraft" to develop maps.

"What's wrong? So anxious."

There was a flat grassland in front of me. A dozen members of the "Minecraft" development team were suspended in the air, staring wide-eyed at the towering and strange buildings in front of them.

Lin You also walked over, looked up at the building, and was a little confused, so he asked, "What is this?"

Xiao Chun then said, "That's the problem, come up and have a look."

Lin You opened the panel, let himself float in the air, and followed Xiaochun's pace.

He stood in the air and began to examine the building carefully——

There is no special place at the bottom, it looks like a simple base, supporting the main body of the building.

The core of the building is a comfortable house: two rows of small beds, torches on the ground, chandeliers on the ceiling, and even full glass exterior walls on both sides, with first-class lighting.

But in this comfortable house, the five villagers looked panic-stricken and fled frantically back and forth.

Although the house is fairly comfortable, it is a fully enclosed structure, and the villagers naturally cannot escape, so they can only run back and forth in despair.

Why are the villagers panicking?

Because within five meters, there is only a fence that is put together to block it, and a zombie is staring at the villagers.

"What is this for?" Lin You didn't understand.

"Look carefully, it's coming soon." Xiaochun didn't answer, but motioned Lin You to pay attention to the roof.

The roof is a rectangular pool made of rocks. Two [flowing water] were placed on one side, which turned into water sources and flowed continuously to the other side.

In the corner on the other side, there is a hole, and a lava block hangs above the hole.

"?" Lin You didn't understand.

suddenly--

"Boom!"

An iron golem spawned out of thin air and landed in the pool.

"Oh!" Lin You realized why zombies were used to scare the villagers.

——The villagers are frightened and can't run away, so they will pray to God to give them a warrior, so the iron golem is summoned.

It's just that as soon as the iron golem was summoned, it was immediately pushed by the flowing water to slide to the other side.

What was waiting for him there was—【Lava Cube】!

The iron golem was pushed onto the lava by the water flow, and with a "boom", the fire burst into the sky!

The body of the iron golem was immediately scalded red hot, and its blood volume continued to decline until it was burned to death by the lava.

After the iron golem died, the dropped iron blocks fell down the hole and were collected into the box below.

As a result, the zombies below are always roaring, and the villagers in the house are always living in fear.

Even when night came, they would wake up with fright as soon as they lay down, unable to sleep at all, and could only keep praying to God to give them a warrior.

But the summoned warriors, as soon as they hit the ground, would be pushed onto the lava, scalded to death, turned into pieces of iron, and collected into boxes.

So strictly speaking, this is actually a set of strict "iron brushing machine"!

"Which ghost... came up with this?" Lin You was amazed.

He is very curious: what kind of mental state is the player who invented this set of things...

—what a devil!

"This morning, Super Tomato made it in his own world." Xiao Chun explained to Lin You.

"This kind of behavior is really...too cruel." She looked at the panicked villagers in the house, who looked like real people, and frowned.

"Should we change it?" Xiaochun suggested, obviously she felt that it was necessary to improve the protection mechanism of the villagers.

"Well, it really needs to be changed." Lin You nodded in agreement.

The eyes of Xiaochun and the staff around him lit up, and a girl nodded repeatedly: "Is it right! This is too hell!"

But what Lin You said next was: "So, let's turn the villagers into idiots!"

"Ah?" There was an unbelievable exclamation around him.

Lin You explained for them: "You will feel compassion for the villagers, mainly because the villagers are too real and too real. As long as you make them fools, and make their behavior logic simple and rough, you will know that they are fake people at a glance. , doesn't look so cruel, does it?"

After hearing this explanation, the employees were all dumbfounded.

But no matter what they think, Lin You will not ban this kind of gameplay anyway.

In his previous life, he was a standard peaceful player. He honestly explored and built houses, and spent all his energy on building various large-scale creations. He was really unheard of such outrageous things.

This is probably another example of an information cocoon.

But that doesn't stop him from admiring the idea.

In particular, Super Tomato has unearthed so many potential rules in one day, and even cleverly used these rules to produce such a set of things, which made Lin You amazed!

What he likes to see the most is that players use their wisdom to dig out unique ways of playing.

Rather than follow the route they have set, follow the rules and step by step.

Therefore, not only will Lin You not ban it, but he also strongly encourages this kind of gameplay.

Just looking at this set of "iron brushing machines", Lin You can imagine that players who are stimulated to be creative will definitely be able to do even more outrageous things.

The torment that the villagers will suffer is far from over.

Lin You made the villagers mentally handicapped, and he helped the players clear their psychological barriers in advance.

"Okay, okay, let's start working! Delete the language modules and behavior logic of ordinary villagers, and try to fix them within two days."

"Okay..." The girls in the development team wanted to roll their eyes at him speechlessly when they heard Lin You refer to "retardization" as "repair".

But the boss had to listen to the request, so he could only reluctantly delete the behavioral logic he compiled.

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At the same time, the world of "Hunter Shit... Call of the Wild".

In front of all online players, a letter jumped out of the air and unfolded in front of the players automatically.

Above are the two votes of [Animal Feces Taste] and [Limited Opening of Krypton Gold].

Players who are not online can also receive voting information through the Yunmeng game app on their mobile phones.

All players who have participated in the internal beta of the game have received invitations without exception. It can be said that the "democratic spirit" has been brought to the extreme.

Although the content of this [Player Referendum] is outrageous to a certain extent...

But in terms of democracy, it is definitely advanced enough!