Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

In a blink of an eye, the time came to the morning of August 5th.

Xu Xing leaned on his seat and let out a long sigh, twisted his sore neck, and watched the opening animation of Fruit Assassin running on his phone, with a happy smile on his face.

"Is this considered the production is completed?" Li Zhibin, who was watching the excitement, asked curiously, "The next step is to upload it to the platform?"

"It's still early." Xu Xing rolled his eyes at him, "This can only be regarded as an internal beta version. It must be bug tested, modified, and perfected before it can be uploaded to make money."

"Then the game can't be played now?" Li Zhibin looked strange, "I think there's nothing wrong with it."

Li Zhibin picked up Xu Xing's pineapple phone from the table. Because he already knew how to play it before, Li Zhibin got started quickly.

After entering the game, there is a simple novice tutorial, and then you enter the infinite mode of melon-cutting fun.

Not to mention, although Li Zhibin had played the castrated version shown to him by Xu Xing before, the experience was really not comparable to the full version now.

After all, the core attraction of this game is the refreshing and vivid feeling when cutting the fruit.

To achieve this effect, the art resources of the fruit itself, the simulated gravity environment and rotation angle of the running code behind it, and the realism of the juice splashing after the fruit is cut are combined with the corresponding cutting sound effects.

All these things are integrated together to fully display the essence of the Fruit Assassin game.

As a result, Li Zhibin had just played a few games and was already a little addicted. Unknowingly, he sat on a chair beside him with his cell phone in his hands and started immersed in cutting melons.

Seeing his appearance, Xu Xing and Yan Chiju looked at each other, and the two of them smiled knowingly.

Among those around him who knew that he was making games, Yan Chijuan was the only one who always believed that this game could succeed.

On the one hand, it is because he trusts Xu Xing, and on the other hand, because as a developer, he has a deeper understanding of the core selling points of this game, so Yan Chijue can indeed understand the charm of the game that Xu Xing talks about.

As for ordinary user players like Li Zhibin and Yao Yuanyuan, no matter how fancy Xu Xing's words are, it is more practical to just start playing.

Seeing that Li Zhibin would not interrupt work for the time being, Xu Xing and Yan Chijuan began to conduct bug tests on the beta version of Fruit Assassin.

Unlike large-scale client games, this kind of small mobile game must undergo internal testing by players before launching the server, so as to collect a large amount of data and feedback, and then further optimize the game.

Even this kind of internal testing can be carried out for several rounds, and the testing will take a year and a half before the public beta server will be officially launched.

For small mobile games like Fruit Assassin, you only need to use specialized bug testing software for debugging, find out the corresponding problems and then repair and improve them to ensure that there are no bugs that specifically affect the operation of the game during operation.

This process may take a few days if it is quick, or half a month if it is slow.

After all, no programmer can guarantee that the code they type does not contain any bugs.

No matter what program it is, there will always be bugs, big and small. The purpose of testing is not to eliminate all bugs, but to ensure that these existing bugs will not cause major problems in the operation and service of the game.

The morning passed quickly.

Li Zhibin, who was playing Fruit Assassin on the sidelines, had accumulated a lot of points and achievements without realizing it. He thought he could exchange them for skins, but when he entered the mall page, he suddenly realized that this game seemed to be all in English?

I saw English when I entered the game page before. Because I don’t see such a UI interface when I play, Li Zhibin didn’t think much about it.

But now that he discovered that the entire game was in English, Li Zhibin was suddenly confused.

Just at this time, Yao Yuanyuan came upstairs to deliver lunch boxes. The four studio members sat around the coffee table and chatted about Fruit Assassin while eating lunch.

"To be honest, this game is really good." Li Zhibin decisively admitted that he had made a mistake in his judgment before. "At least I got good at playing it, and I feel that many people will like it."

"Is the rating so high? Let me play with it later." Yao Yuanyuan asked curiously.

She had played the castrated version before, but it was just for the sake of Yan Chi's jealousy.

At that time, the game resources were not well integrated, and the feel and experience of playing were rather awkward. Yao Yuanyuan was curious about what the current beta version looked like.

"I think it's really okay." Li Zhibin said, and then continued his analysis, "I have also looked at some games on mobile phones recently. In the past, there seemed to be many paid games, but now it seems that some small games have become free.

?But Xu Xing, the skins in your game mall seem to be redeemable for free, right? Can this still make money?"

"Didn't you realize that it's all in English?" Xu Xing took a piece of braised pork and stuffed it into his mouth, glanced at him and said.

"Yes." Li Zhibin reacted, and then felt strange, "Why do you make our domestic games all in English? I can understand some simple words in the game interface in English, but the words in your mall are all

Many people don’t understand English at all.”

"Because I didn't plan to distribute this game to China from the beginning." Xu Xing said with a matter-of-fact expression, "If you make money from foreigners, of course it will be in English."

"What?" Li Zhibin looked obviously startled when he heard this, "You want to send it overseas?! Are you sure?"

In Li Zhibin's view, the game environment abroad is much more mature than that in China, and there are more large-scale productions than the last, and the quality of games is far better than that in China.

Under such circumstances, let alone competing abroad, it is already quite difficult to get a share of the pie domestically and to be able to sustain the studio through game profits.

Not to mention that the first game will rush overseas and harvest the wallets of foreigners.

In Li Zhibin's opinion, this is simply a foolish dream.

Those big domestic game manufacturers can't even bring their games abroad, let alone a small workshop like them?

"Danding, Danding." Xu Xing patted him on the shoulder and told him to calm down, "Don't be so panicked when it comes to foreign countries. Of course there are specific reasons why I chose foreign markets for the first launch."

"No matter how many reasons there are, it won't work." Li Zhibin scratched his head and felt a little distressed.

Originally, after playing this game, he found it really interesting. If it were played in China, many people would like it.

But when I think about the ability of foreign countries to produce various large-scale 3A games, even if I take a step back, they can still produce games with a wide audience like League of Legends. Fruit Assassin is really childish in front of these games.

It's even so childish that even Li Zhibin feels a little helpless.

Xu Xing, who was eating on the side, looked at the expression on his face and guessed a lot about what he was thinking.

However, this cannot be blamed on Li Zhibin. After all, it is really embarrassing to use the perspective of future generations to crush a high school graduate who does not know much about the game market.

Although he felt that even if he explained it clearly, it would not be able to completely dispel the doubts of people like Li Zhibin and Yao Yuanyuan, but he still explained while eating:

"The mobile game market is different from the PC game market."