Game Development: I Built a Game Empire

《"Soul Knight" has completely become a hit, there is no doubt about it.

And on the twelfth day after its launch, it even surpassed"Undertale" in terms of download numbers.

Officially exceeded 10 million downloads.

Of course, this does not mean that there are really 10 million players, but tens of millions of downloads also prove the success of its game.

Moreover, it can be said that the impact of"Soul Knight" on the game industry and the media is far greater than that of"Undertale"》

《Is Undertale a good game?

So far, it has 9 million downloads and a player rating of 9.7.

The certification income alone brought Chen Xu more than one million.

Turned on the popularity of a category in METAGAME.

These are enough to prove the excellence of"Under Legend".

But the commotion caused by"Undertale" was not as big as imagined.

Because it was a free game, and although the meta element brought a lot of shock to the industry, it was more of an artistic shock.

Whether it can be successful in business is something that no one knows.

Although judging from its performance, there is a high probability that it will become popular, but this is just a guess.

But"Soul Knight" is different.

From the beginning, it didn't even touch the tail of the best-selling list of new games, and then the download volume and paid volume increased steadily, and finally it directly reached the first place before 24 hours of recording.

It has an excellent reputation and is on the best-selling list of new games, coupled with this unique random gameplay.

This really shocked the industry.

People in the game industry have a hunch that, just like"Undertale","Soul Knight", a small-scale game, will become a new trend again.

And it is a broader business outlet.

Especially with the increasing popularity of"Soul Knight" on the Internet.

This makes many media and gamers paying attention feel as if they have witnessed history.

《A different shooting game, a unique experience of Soul Knight!》

《Topping the best-selling list of new games, Vitality Knight’s daily revenue continues to exceed one million!》

《After METAGAME, Chen Xu brings another unique style of game!》

《From Undertale to Soul Knight, analyze the past of game designer Chen Xu!》

《Shocked, Tenghua lost to a little-known independent studio!"

With the results of"Soul Knight" coming out, many game media have also made"Soul Knight" the headlines.

After all, we are on the cusp of the storm, and if we don’t eat this traffic, we will get nothing.

Of course, there are also some media who want to attract attention and use headlines to focus their information on Chen Xu, You Zifang, and Tenghua, hoping to create a big event.

There are also many so-called 'players', and of course they are more likely to be media who want to make big news, and they have come to You Zifang's official blog to ridicule him.

‘Stay tuned, the results are out now!’

‘The number one new game is"Soul Knight" again, and"City of Legend" has dropped to third place. Are you used to it? That's okay’

‘Fortunately, someone didn't play any gambling game with Chen Xu, otherwise it would be really hard to get off the tiger now. '

Especially when You Zifang replied to Chen Xu with his words of"wait and see", now he was also pushed back.

Needless to say, You Zifang did not reply to any messages at all.

In this situation, pretending to be dead is the most effective way.

And what Chen Xu said here did not pay attention to the rhythm of the Internet and made no sense.

Take the initiative to mock You Zifang?

Chen Xu wasn't that bored yet. The main reason why he met the other party in the first place was because the other party came to take advantage of the popularity of"Under the Legend".

In addition, You Zifang's speech later made people feel a little uncomfortable.

Now, the initial success of"Soul Knight" has proven his ability.

Staying silent is the best way.

As for the media, Chen Xu didn't have too many mood swings.

Nowadays, it seems that all the media is on his side, but Chen Xu also knows it very well.

If"Soul Knight" didn't show such results.

That should be the kind of news that a genius designer does not live up to his name, and a wanderer has a far-sighted vision.

For Chen Xu, how to maintain the follow-up of"Vitality Knight" is the main thing now.

For a Roguelike game,"Soul Knight" is still different from ordinary card games.

That's one of the repeat profit points.

The reason why card games can create a steady stream of income is that players can even enter the game through continuous roll-out of servers.

Its deep enough card pool and extremely high cap on krypton gold play a big role.

Therefore, even if there are no new content updates in the future, the card game will be able to make enough profits for a long time just by rolling out the server.

But"Soul Knight" is different. The gold points in the game currently lie in new characters and skins.

Although it is free with in-app purchases, it is actually no different from selling DLC.

If"Soul Knight" is a paid game with skins and new characters, it can actually be understood as DLC.

At present, through a data situation in the background of the game editor, Chen Xu can also see that the revenue of"Vitality Knight" has continued to decline.

Although the daily turnover basically remains at the level of one million.

But you must know that the daily user growth of"Soul Knight" is an explosive growth.

In this case, the turnover is only maintaining or even declining, which shows that the subsequent profits of"Soul Knight" are not very impressive.

However, players who joined later were able to maintain such a revenue balance.

And according to the data, the growth rate of players has also slowed down, which shows that the number of players in"Soul Knight" is approaching a saturation state.

There will definitely be more players joining in the future, but don’t expect the same surge in users as before.

Under this situation, if no measures are taken, the revenue of"Soul Knight" will definitely continue to slowly decline.