National Game Producer

214 Absolutely impossible!

Time soon came to evening.

Meng Lanqing has not always been immersed in the fantasy world of "Under the Legend"...at least in the company, she cannot be completely immersed in it.

She experienced the underground fantasy adventure in the conference room for more than an hour, and then returned to her office.

However, during the remaining time, she did not focus all her attention on work. Instead, she would go online from time to time to pay attention to news about "Under Legend" other than the plot.

...Although this may seem like fishing, it is really not fishing.

As the deputy said, how can she, an executive responsible for managing various game projects, not do her job properly by "researching" a game herself?

This is all a necessary "sacrifice" to improve the competitiveness of her game projects in the market!

As long as she can produce a hit project, all the efforts will be worth it.

Therefore, after she goes home at night, she will definitely continue to work overtime.

Maybe you have to work overtime tomorrow night?

Hmm... Then it depends on how much content is worth learning in the game "Undertale".

Off work time.

Meng Lanqing stepped on the spot and left the office.

In the elevator, she met Pan Mingyu, the person in charge of the "Jianfeng" studio.

"I'm in a good mood." A tall, middle-aged man in excellent spirits said hello with a smile.

"Are you in a good mood?"

Meng Lanqing returned the smile, "Is it because of the new game from 'Jianfeng' Studio?"

"The sales volume of "Rusty Sword" in its first two hours really exceeded my expectations."

Pan Mingyu raised his eyebrows lightly, and could not hide the pride on his face, "I didn't expect that the first time I worked on this game project, I achieved such good results... I can only say that I found Jiang Yuan and those people to form it."

Jianfeng's Studio is a pretty good decision."

After a pause, he turned to ask, "What about you, how is your studio over there?"

"I'm still far from it."

Meng Lanqing shook his head and did not dwell on this topic. He quickly turned the conversation to the other party, "I heard that you plan to continue to set up several game studios... Aren't you going to take the elite route? On the handle.

The resources have been dispersed, how can we still follow the elite route?"

"I don't plan to set up too many... I'll just set up two more studios next time."

Pan Mingyu chuckled and said, "This mainly depends on whether "Rusty Sword" can dominate the charts on the game platform for two or three weeks. If it can successfully dominate the charts, I will basically have no shortage of resources here."

"Dominating the list for two or three weeks..."

Meng Lanqing repeated in a low voice, then pursed her lips slightly, "This is a bit difficult!"

"Is it difficult? There don't seem to be many well-known game producers recently. Are you planning to release a new game?"

Pan Mingyu asked doubtfully, "Or are you referring to Solar's "Resident Evil"?"

Although the news that "Resident Evil" will soon be launched on the official domestic game platform has been circulating on the Internet, and the popularity has always been high, there has never been a positive response from the official game platform.

...Their attitude is very ambiguous, and there is a high probability that they have not made a unified decision internally.

The information Pan Mingyu obtained from some friends basically confirmed his own conjecture.

In short, "Resident Evil" should not be available on domestic shelves in a short period of time.

Games that cannot be released in China obviously cannot threaten the plan of "Rusty Sword" to dominate the charts.

"It's not Resident Evil."

Meng Lanqing shook his head, "It's from the 'Jinlin' studio, helping 'Hua Yao' promote 'Under the Legend'."

""Under the Legend"?" Pan Mingyu frowned.

He had no impression of the name "Hua Yao".

But he still knew to some extent about the "Jinlin" studio.

After all, the other party is one of the few first-tier game studios in China and has a great reputation in the industry.

Even if he didn't want to poach people and was just doing market research, he would definitely not be able to avoid them.

"It poses a great threat to "Rusty Sword" and is likely to steal the first place from "Rusty Sword"." Meng Lanqing said with a smile.

While talking, the two of them had already left the elevator one after another.

Pan Mingyu fell behind and subconsciously took out the mobile phone in his pocket:

"you sure?"

"I am very sure."

Meng Lanqing paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "If you don't believe it, you can try it yourself."

"What are you trying?" Pan Mingyu didn't respond.

"Try to play "Under the Legend"!" Meng Lanqing said matter-of-factly.

"..." Pan Mingyu was silent for two seconds and said, "I don't have time."

After saying that, he picked up the phone and dialed a number.

When Meng Lanqing saw this, he curled his lips and turned to leave.

She was in a hurry to go home and continue "researching" "Undertale", but she didn't have the energy to spend time with the other party here.

When Pan Mingyu saw her leaving, he didn't say anything more and turned his attention to the phone.

Three seconds later, the call was connected.

He got straight to the point: "Jiang Yuan, do you know the game "Under Legend"?"

""Undertale"? That new game of "Hua Yao"?"

Jiang Yuan asked doubtfully, "Of course I've heard of it! What's wrong? What happened?"

"I heard that it poses a great threat to "Rusty Sword"?" Pan Mingyu asked.

"How can it be!"

Jiang Yuan subconsciously raised his voice, and then said in a funny tone, "How can a game like that, which requires graphics but no graphics, and technology but no technology, pose a threat to "Rusty Sword"? Who said this?

It’s so irresponsible!”

"Are you sure there is no threat?" Pan Mingyu asked seriously and seriously.

"Sure!" Jiang Yuan said without hesitation.

"Ah That's good."

Pan Mingyu softened his tone slightly and said, "Next, you should cooperate with the publicity work and try to keep "Rusty Sword" at the top of the list for a few more days."

"Okay, I understand." Jiang Yuan responded.

"Okay, that's it, you go about your business, I'll hang up first." After Pan Mingyu finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly.

The threat to "Rusty Sword" is great...

Tsk!

It seems that that guy Meng Lanqing has completely messed up!

Pan Mingyu smiled, put away his phone, and left the company.

…

the other side.

After Jiang Yuan hung up the phone, he thought quietly for a moment, then picked up his phone again and logged into the "New Era" game forum.

In the comprehensive discussion area of the forum, he noticed that at least one-third of the posts were discussing "Rusty Sword"; the remaining two-thirds were discussing "Resident Evil", "Legendary"

"Under", and other games.

Judging from this point alone, the popularity of "Rusty Sword" in the circle is obviously the number one.

However, Jiang Yuan discovered that although the number of posts about "Under the Legend" was not large, the number of comments was not large at all.

It can even be said that the number of comments in the post and the total number of comments on all other games on the homepage may not be comparable to the number of comments on "Undertale".

What's happening here?

Jiang Yuan could think of only one reason.

That is... although "Undertale" is not very popular, its core player conversion rate is ridiculously high!

If for an ordinary game, one player among ten players is willing to spend time discussing the game with other players... then, for the game "Under Legend", he is willing to spend time discussing it with other players.

The number of players discussing with other players may be five or even more!

In other words, the discussion effect that ten players in "Undertale" can achieve, other games may require fifty or even more players to achieve the same effect.

Players who play "Undertale" don't want to comment, but really want to discuss this game with other players.

This is completely different from the situation where "posts about "Rust Sword" occupy one-third of the home page, but more than half of them are meaningless posts."

The players of "Undertale" are really enthusiastic!

From this point of view, "Rusty Sword" seems to be a complete failure.

Jiang Yuan's expression gradually became serious.

When such a situation occurs, it can only explain one problem.

——The quality of the game "Undertale" is astonishingly high!

"..."Rusty Sword" is not really going to be surpassed by it, right?" Jiang Yuan felt a little shaken in his heart.

no, I can not!

Absolutely impossible!

How could he lose to a novice with no qualifications!

Jiang Yuan thought for a while, stood up and glanced at the studio members who had already left one after another, picked up the [Editor Resonator] on the desk, put it on, and immediately logged in to the official game platform.

When he found "Undertale", he didn't read the comments in the review area. Instead, he purchased and downloaded it directly and opened the game.

At the beginning, he looked at all the content in the game with a preconceived and biased perspective.

Therefore, his mind is always wandering between the game world and the real world. He is neither completely immersed in it nor does he completely ignore the content of the game.

In this way, he pushed the game plot all the way to the battle with the sheep mother Toriel.

Like most players.

Jiang Yuan actually didn't want to fight Toriel at this time, but he couldn't find a way to change the plot for a while, and in the end he could only kill Toriel with a knife with a little regret.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered an "Undertale" discussion thread he had just seen on the game forum.

He hadn't played the game yet, so he didn't know what the other person was talking about.

But now that he has played the game, thinking back to the content of that post at that time...it seemed to be a strategy post?

Anyway, he seemed to have figured out how to let the sheep mother Toriel go.

So, he decisively read the files and started again.

...This should be considered an old tradition among RPG players.

It's a pity that this game does not have an instant save function, otherwise many players would probably save one step at a time, and they would never be upset by some small mistakes.

After reloading the file, Jiang Yuan successfully [forgave] the sheep mother Toriel.

Then, he encountered the evil little flower and faced the shocking effect that meta games bring to first-time players.

At this time, Jiang Yuan finally realized the uniqueness of this game!

At the same time, it was precisely because of this uniqueness that his self-confidence was completely shattered!

The opponent of "Rusty Sword", what kind of magical game is it!

And what kind of magical game producer is the "Hua Yao" he faces?

Jiang Yuan raised his head and glanced at the darkening sky outside the window, thought for a moment, and finally chose to order a takeaway and continue playing the game.

Anyway, he lives alone now. He eats wherever he eats and sleeps wherever he sleeps.

If there was a bed in the studio, he felt it would be okay to spend the night here.

Of course, he didn't think he would spend the night here.

He estimated that by the time the takeout dinner was delivered, today's trial would be almost over.

After this, he probably won't continue playing this game.

...He needs to let himself reflect on it and then make new breakthroughs.

Time passed by minute by minute.

The takeaway was delivered in twenty minutes.

Jiang Yuan spent five minutes finishing the takeaway, and then after hesitating for half a minute, he put on the [Editor Resonator] again.

... He felt it was still early and he could play for a while longer.

Just like that, another half hour passed.

Jiang Yuan solved N "puzzles" created by the Skeleton Brothers, met many interesting and cute monsters, and finally came to Snow Town in the underground world.

At this time, he was completely immersed in the game world.

He discovered that the underground world in the game might be more interesting than the real world!

...This even gave him the idea of wanting to live in this underground world!

He felt like he was really in a daze.

Is this the charm of a masterpiece-level game?

What are his games compared to games like this?

'We are both game producers, why is the gap so big!'

Jiang Yuan muttered silently in his heart.

He suddenly felt really sad.

…

Nine p.m.

Pan Mingyu was sitting on the sofa, drinking hot water and watching TV when he suddenly received a call from Jiang Yuan.