Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

Based on Xu Yi's understanding of his nephew Xu Xing, since the studio has begun to expand its recruitment, it must have some ideas for new games.

Xu Yi thought of the game Fruit Assassin, which uses the characteristics of cutting fruits and combines it with the interaction method of touch-screen smartphones to harvest players with its novel core gameplay. Then he thought that such a game was created by Xu Xing.

This made it difficult for Xu Yi not to be curious and excited about the new game planning plan he came up with.

But in fact, he doesn't have high expectations for this new game.

Human inspiration has its limitations.

Most producers who have made a game with good quality often get stuck in a rut because the game is too good. When creating a new game, it is difficult to break away from the influence that the previous game had on them.

Limitations and frameworks.

For example, Xu Xing made Fruit Assassin in one summer vacation, and it was such a hit. Once Xu Xing's creativity is affected and restricted, the new games are likely to be similar to "cutting cakes" and "cutting vegetables".

chemical products.

Of course, the best way to get rid of this restriction is to enter a new game category and change your mind.

But most game producers are actually only good at producing games of one or two categories.

Once you enter a new game category, you may suddenly drop from a top producer to a level that is not even as good as an ordinary producer.

It’s not like Xu Yi has never made games before. After so many years of ups and downs, he once worked in a company of a game manufacturer, so he has some understanding of this aspect.

But when he held these thoughts and looked through the [Secret Realm Escape Plan] in his hand, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Because at the very beginning of this planning plan, Xu Xing did not explain what type of game it was, what the core gameplay was, and what type of target player group it was.

Instead, I first gave people some popular science about the functions and characteristics of the latest gyroscope installed on Pineapple Phone 5.

Gyroscope is a concept that most people may have heard of in previous lives, but few mobile phone users would study its specific functions.

Only some experienced mobile phone users may learn how to use the characteristics of gyroscopes to obtain a better user experience.

However, for most mobile phone users, even if they don’t know what this thing is used for, they will use gyroscopes more or less when using their mobile phones in daily life.

The simplest application is to change the horizontal screen to vertical screen.

Why do smartphones only need to be placed horizontally, and the screen will automatically recognize it and change it to landscape mode?

This is actually the effect of the gyroscope.

Another example is the camera function of mobile phones. In the early days of mobile phone photography, it was easy for the user's hand to shake violently due to unstable hands.

Once a gyroscope is added, the mobile phone can adjust the lens in a timely manner based on the parameters fed back by the gyroscope, so that the screen and the user's jitter remain in a relatively static state, thereby reducing the degree of jitter.

In addition, gyroscopes are also involved in map navigation and other functions on mobile phones.

A gyroscope is an angular velocity sensor. If it is understood simply and narrowly in terms that ordinary people can understand, it is a gravity sensing device.

This device can determine the posture of the mobile phone in the user's hand in real time.

Whether it is held vertically or horizontally, whether it is tilted back and forth or left and right, whether it is laid flat, or whether it is held in the hand by the user and rotated in circles, can all be sensed by the gyroscope.

When he first saw the introduction of the gyroscope, Xu Yi was surprised, thinking that Xu Xing had made a mistake in the planning plan and other information.

But as he watched, he suddenly fell into deep thought.

The core gameplay of Fruit Assassin is also an interaction that can only be completed on a smartphone.

What is used is the interaction mode of direct contact between fingers and the mobile phone screen.

If you move the Fruit Assassin to a computer and control the mouse to cut, the fun of the gameplay will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, when most other mobile games are modified versions of online and web games, Fruit Assassin, a mobile game specifically designed for smart touch-screen phones, is very valuable.

Even though its gameplay is so simple, it still attracts a huge number of players.

But now, after reading the full page of Xu Xing's basic introduction and functional outline of gyroscopes, Xu Yi had a vague feeling in his heart.

It seems that this guy is thinking about using the previous differences and characteristics between smartphones and computers to create a new game tailored for the gyroscope effect.

A mobile game that can only be played on a smartphone and is specially created for mobile phone users.

But if Xu Yi was left to think about it on his own, he suddenly couldn't think of any good way to use the characteristics of gyroscopes to develop a new game.

This feeling is like having something very important in your mind, but you just can't remember what it is exactly. It's like a place in your mind is suddenly clouded.

,feeling bad.

So Xu Yi stopped thinking about it and simply turned to the second page of the plan, wanting to see what tricks Xu Xing had planned for him.

Then, what caught his eyes was a line of large characters——

【3D parkour mobile game】

If we insist on tracing back the history of the sport of parkour, then stories such as flying over walls and climbing over cliffs in ancient times can also be regarded as a kind of parkour.

However, as a concept, it began to spread widely. It was probably from the beginning of this century that parkour gradually became popular from abroad.

Of course, a series of operations similar to those in Uncle Long's action movies, using various objects in daily environments such as supermarkets and factories as tools for running, jumping and leaping, can theoretically be considered parkour.

But after the concept of parkour was introduced into mobile games, the gameplay is actually not that complicated. The basic gameplay of most parkour games is that the player can only control the character's jumping and skill release, but does not need to control the character's forward speed.

Under the premise that the character's forward speed cannot be controlled, the player must maintain mental tension at all times and use the few jumps and skills to avoid or destroy the roadblocks in front, so as to ensure that the character can run smoothly to the end of the level.

In this era, horizontal screen 2D parkour games are actually quite common.

But when it comes to 3D parkour games, Xu Yi has only seen it in some stand-alone games, and this element is relatively rare even in PC games.

Not to mention putting this concept on mobile phones.

But when Xu Yi patiently continued to read, he was slowly attracted by Xu Xing's extremely detailed planning plan.

So when he finished reading it, it was already past five o'clock in the evening.

If his cell phone hadn't suddenly rang, interrupting his immersive train of thought, Xu Yi probably wouldn't have come to his senses so quickly.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Lao Xu, are you coming back for dinner? If you don't come back, I won't be too lazy to cook."

"Ah, ah... um..." Xu Yi looked at the time and looked at Xu Xing again.

Xu Xing immediately understood and shouted to Bi Wenli on the other end of the phone: "Aunt! We happened to meet uncle when he finished the interview. We were walking around Min University and I invited him to dinner in the evening!"

"Oh, that's fine." Bi Wenli suddenly understood, then she laughed and scolded, "What's your treat? Let your uncle treat you to a big dinner!"

"Okay! You're welcome then." Xu Xing immediately responded with a smile.

"Okay, that's it." Xu Yi replied, "I won't be back until very late tonight, so you can go to bed early tonight."

"Why should I sleep? Ah Fang and the others asked me to play mahjong in the afternoon. I was still at home preparing to cook for you. If I had known earlier, I would have gone directly in the afternoon." Bi Wenli complained, "If you don't come back, I will

I went to play mahjong and failed."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Yi put away his phone, put the planning plan on the table, looked at Xu Xing with a complicated expression, and took a deep breath.

"Did you write this planning plan alone?"

"Well... the core gameplay is what I thought of, but other people also participated in modifying and improving the specific plan." Xu Xing knew very well how outrageous this plan was. In order to prevent his uncle from feeling too inferior, he was still a little humble, "

We started preparing in July, and it took almost two months to get it almost ready."

In fact, he only spent a few days working on this thing.

Because the original version itself had many problems, Xu Xing made some modifications based on the Temple Escape, and came up with the current secret escape plan.

The specific modifications generally fall into two aspects.

First, the character model has been added, from the original only one male character to one male character and one female character. Players can choose freely before starting the game.

Among them, the male character has strong jumping ability, but is slightly sluggish when dodging left and right. The female character has weak jumping ability, but is more smooth and flexible when dodging left and right.

Hmm... As for why there is an extra female character, of course it is to sell skins. After all, everything ends with skins.

If you want to make money from free games without destroying the balance of the game, game character skins are indeed a must-go.

Moreover, operating a big man wearing a vest and shorts, and operating a beautiful woman wearing a vest and shorts, showing off her slim waist and long legs, are definitely completely different in terms of the level of enjoyment.

The skin will naturally sell better.

The second point of modification is the map.

Xu Xing expanded the resources of the map from the single temple in the original work to new locations such as snowy mountains, rainforest canyons, and also distinguished the roads and roadblocks in different maps.

For example, in a rainforest map, the elements on the road may be more tangled things like vines, while in snowy mountains and canyons, they will turn into snowdrifts and falling rocks.

However, what really shocked the opposite Xu Yi was not the gameplay nor the interesting game settings.

But this planning plan... is really perfect.

You know, when many game planners write plans, they mostly only have one framework. It’s great to have more content and details, but more of them still rely on programs and art to understand the ideas in the planner’s mind and then synchronize them.

But most of the time, the final effect of the game may not be what the game planner originally thought.

Not to mention people like Xu Xing, who had already written the entire game's specific framework and content before production even started, and even implemented all the details. At the same time, he also took over the concept of the game's profit model.

I boldly chose a buyout system that was different from Fruit Assassin, and switched directly to a free system.

Even the various character skin designs for in-app purchases have very clear ideas.

What kind of game planning is this?

It's like being a father and a mother at the same time. All the people under my command can do is execute the above planning process without any brains. There is no need to use their brains at all.

It's as if, after Xu Xing thought about how to play the game, he naturally imagined what the finished game should be like, and even simulated the entire scene and scene of playing the game on his mobile phone in his mind.

detail.

Then, through these real mental images, I write this planning plan.

It’s so outrageous that he opened the door for outrageousness.

If Xu Yi hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that such a genius really existed in the world, and he was his nephew!

Not to mention whether this game can make a lot of money after it is developed, at least if this planning plan is obtained by those big companies, it will guarantee a minimum of several million project funds.

This is because the game itself is relatively lightweight, so there is nowhere to spend the money.

Otherwise, tens of millions is not a problem.

Xu Yi looked at the wonderfully perfect planning plan in front of him, and then looked at Xu Xing, who was sitting calmly across from him, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

He was very aware of the weight of this plan, but when you said that it was his nephew who spent two months working on it, Xu Yi felt that it was inconsistent with everything.

But the facts were in front of him, and there was no room for him to question, because it was impossible for someone to be idle and give such a thing to Xu Xing for no reason, just so that he could show off in front of his uncle?

If it does happen, Xu Yi wouldn't mind coming a few more times.

Winter winter winter.

Just when Xu Yi was about to continue talking, there was a knock on the office door.

Xu Yi shut his mouth and signaled Xu Xing to deal with it first.

So Xu Xing shouted outside: "Come in."

The door of the office was opened, Yan Chijuan poked his head in from the outside, and timidly looked at Xu Yi and Xu Xing inside: "Old, um... Xu, Mr. Xu, I bought dinner, I will bring it in for you

?”

"Oh, bring it in."

After receiving the agreed instructions, Yan Chijuan brought the two lunch boxes in, carefully placed them on the free space on the desk, and then obediently exited, closing the door gently.

"Then let's eat first?" Xu Xing looked at Xu Yi and suggested.

"Well, let's chat while we eat." Xu Yi picked up Kuaizi without ceremony, opened the lunch box, and started eating with Xu Xing.

While eating, he started talking about this new game.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​changing the charging model?"

Because he couldn't find any problems with the game's specific gameplay and content, Xu Yi had no choice but to focus on the game's profit model.

After all, in his opinion, Fruit Assassin achieved great success abroad by adopting the buyout system. In this case, why did the new game not follow the more reliable old path, but chose the free plus in-app purchase model?

You know, for free games, the in-app purchase payment rate is always a pain.

For a free mobile game, if recharge records such as first-time discounts are excluded, players who pay purely for the content probably only account for less than 3%.

In most cases, the number of free prostitutes accounts for more than 95%.

Of course, this is only a relatively early stage.

With the subsequent development of the mobile game market and the cultivation of the payment habits of mobile game players, in Xu Xing's impression, micro-Krypton parties such as monthly cards account for the majority.

The real Zero Krypton Party is actually a minority.

However, lightweight games such as Fruit Assassin and Secret Escape are not suitable for launching monthly cards, so Xu Xing can only start with in-app purchases such as skins.

"The main reason is very simple." Xu Xing raised a finger and said after careful consideration, "I think free games should be a major trend in the future mobile game market."

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect Xu Xing to give such a firm answer: "What's the reason?"

"The reason is very simple. There are probably three points." Xu Xing thought for a while and said, "The first point is that buyout games are too easy to be piracy. Even in the United States, where game copyright protection is relatively complete, there is no way.

Completely eliminate this situation.”

"What's more, we are not a local company there. Once piracy occurs, rights protection will actually be very troublesome."

"Not to mention the game piracy environment in our country. Any game with a buyout system that has a genuine rate of more than 10% is considered highly regarded. Many pirate users even don't know that they are using pirated copies and think that the game is naturally

Free.”

"So I don't even plan to implement the buyout system of Fruit Assassin in China. The domestic version will be free by then."

"Oh?" Xu Yi was a little surprised when he heard this, and then laughed and said, "Aren't you afraid of criticism from foreign players?"

"It doesn't matter if a game company has double standards, as long as it's for your own family." Xu Xing chuckled twice, not caring at all, "Besides, if noble foreigners play a more noble buyout system, doesn't that make them more powerful?

"

Xu Yi was speechless: "... Just say what you said here, don't let it slip outside."

"That's for sure." Xu Xing restrained his smile and said sternly, "The difference between buyout and free is not to specifically target players from one side, but to our company's exploration and trial of two profit models in order to accumulate

We have model experience in this area and built relevant data models to draw experience and lessons for our company’s future games.”

Looking at his serious remarks, Xu Yi suddenly smelled a strong official Hu Nong tone, and his face was speechless: "I really don't know where you learned this from."

"My uncle taught me well."

"I never taught you this." Xu Yi glared at him, and after calming down, asked, "What about the remaining two reasons?"

"Two other reasons." Xu Xing touched his chin, took a mouthful of food, and then said, "The second point is user attributes."

"Unlike computer users in the past, among those who use computers, there are not a few people who play games. After all, those who have the ability to access computers will be more or less attracted to games as a novel entertainment mode."

"But when mobile phones become more popular, the situation may change."

"Especially in terms of number of people, the number of people using mobile phones in the future will definitely have an overwhelming advantage compared to the number of people using computers."

"A person may not have a computer, but he definitely needs a mobile phone, otherwise he will not be able to easily contact other people."

"Compared with bulky things like computers, mobile phones are also lighter and easier to carry. Computers are mostly used in fixed scenarios, but mobile phones can be used anywhere. The usage rate alone is not the same.

"

"In this case, most mobile phone users are not serious game enthusiasts. For them, the mobile phone is just a tool rather than a game console."

"If a buyout payment threshold is added before this, a large number of mobile phone users will be shut out by the buyout system."

"And if a game is free and easy to use, most people won't mind playing it for free when they are bored."

Xu Yi ate his meal and listened to Xu Xing's long speech. The tachyon in his hand became slower and slower.

But he was not in a hurry to express his opinion and signaled Xu Xing to move on to the third point.

So Xu Xing continued: "As for the third point, it is the competition between games and other entertainment models."

"After all, people only have 24 hours a day. They have to work, eat, and sleep. There is not much time left to play games."

"If people can still read novels, watch anime, watch TV, watch movies, or other entertainment projects on their mobile phones in the future, then people's time playing games will inevitably be occupied by other entertainment activities."

"Therefore, the future war on mobile phones will not only be a war between games, but also a war between games and other entertainment industries."

"Whoever can seize more users' time will win this war."

"The free model is the most powerful tool for harvesting users' time. Get users' time first, and then consider how to make money."

After listening to Xu Xing's words, Xu Yi fell into deep thought for a long time.

He originally thought that this kid Xu Xing was secretly tinkering with games during the summer vacation, but he was lucky enough to run into a dead mouse and create such a game company. It was really unbelievable.

But after the exchange, Xu Yi realized a problem.

The success of my nephew in front of me may not be luck or accident.

Although the remarks just made contained a lot of speculation about the future situation, Xu Yi listened to it all the way and did not feel that there was anything particularly unreasonable in it.

I even vaguely feel that this may be the real situation in the future?

Although it is difficult to make a judgment at the moment, Xu Xing's interpretation and judgment of the market, as well as his ability to predict, have proven that he is not just playing around, but is actually doing something.

Even though he is still under 20 years old and has just started his freshman year in college.

But so what?

Many well-known Internet tycoons abroad all started working hard at about the same age. Xu Yi does not have any very traditional feudal ideas in this regard.

After confirming that Xu Xing was not just a child playing around with large sums of money, Xu Yi had completely settled down and began to carefully consider the future development of his company.

So in the end, he couldn't help but ask: "What about your studies at Min University? Can you take care of it?"

"Well..." Xu Xing pondered.

This is indeed a problem.

After all, there are actually quite a lot of courses for the computer major. During normal classes, he would definitely not be as free as that guy Li Zhibin.

Although the financial management major has a lot of professional courses, it is definitely not as outrageous as the science and engineering major, so Li Zhibin has the free time to complete the tasks assigned to him by Xu Xing.

As for Xu Xing himself, although he has also considered this issue, at the moment there are only two lightweight mobile games. As the planning plan is very complete, he does not actually need to stay in the company all the time.

Therefore, Xu Xing originally wanted to wait until the company had completely grown to consider this issue.

But since Xu Yi asked this, Xu Xing naturally had to give an answer.

So Xu Xing thought about it, and his eyes naturally fell on Xu Yi.

"uncle."

"Um?"

"How is your salary now?"

"What do you want to do?" Xu Yi asked warily.

"How about I double your salary and benefits and you come and help me?"

"Hey, wait a minute, I'm not here for the interview because I really want to resign, I'm just..."

"Three times? Or four..."

"Stop! Stop, stop, stop!"

Xu Yi stood up from his seat, walked around the office a few times, and then glared at Xu Xing fiercely: "Don't think you can squander it so much after making a lot of money! Who do you think your uncle is?"

"But I really lack talents like you, uncle." Xu Xing touched his chin and looked at Xu Yi, and finally tilted his head and asked, "How about five times as much?"

Xu Yi: "..."

Horse riding.

What to do if you feel a little moved.

You don’t really want to work for your nephew, do you?