The Creator of the Second Dimension

Seven days after the Spring Festival, when people returned to the company from home and resumed work, the steam platform of Hatsune Games also announced the winning works of the previous independent game awards to everyone.

Among them, "A Hundred Days of Love in the College Entrance Examination" won the award for the best text adventure work with a high bonus due to its excellent reviews and good sales.

Other games such as "Dark Dungeon" and "Azure Hills" have also won awards in their respective fields.

At the Independent Game Awards this time, at least three games with a sales volume of more than one million were discovered, dozens of games with a sales volume of 500,000, and countless games with a sales volume of more than 100,000, and these were all independent games.

Because of this, when many game-related media reported on this award, they gave it the title of "the first year of independent games in China" and touted it vigorously.

At the awards ceremony, besides announcing that the Independent Game Awards will continue to be held this year, Xu Rui also announced two things.

The first is that the steam platform’s Chinese New Year special discount event will be extended for one week until the Lantern Festival, and in the following week, some of the award-winning works of this independent game will also join the ranks of discounted works.

The second thing is the release time of "Monster Hunter".

In fact, some media have already had a premonition about this matter.

According to the habit of Hatsune Games, the announcement of a game must be accompanied by the approaching of the release date. They will not do the kind of thing that does not give them food. In addition to the seven days of the Spring Festival, the demo version of "Monster Hunter" is very popular. , I believe that the release of the game body will not have to run this year.

Many people speculate that this year's summer vacation to winter period will happen to participate in the business war at the end of the year. From the perspective of the production cycle, it is also very suitable.

However, Xu Rui's words still surprised them.

".I am honored to tell you that "Monster Hunter" will be released on June 16 this year. Yes, this time is exactly two years from the release of "Breath of the Wild", but in fact, we have used it longer I spend more time designing and polishing this game, and I hope that everyone can reap their own joy in this new continent.”

June sixteenth!

The moment Xu Rui said this, the flashlights under the stage began to click and click.

The game, which I thought would not be released until at least the summer vacation in August, was actually available in June in early summer.

Hatsune Games is really well prepared this time!

"In addition, before the game is officially launched, we will have two tests to test the load level of the server. Of course, millions of simultaneous online during the Spring Festival is equivalent to testing in advance, but we are rigorous. There will still be two tests in March and May, and the March test version will be updated with two additional tasks, so that everyone can experience this complex and wonderful world in advance."

The online function of the trial version of "Monster Hunter" is not open all the time, but only lasts for one week, that is, until today of the awards ceremony. But it's gone.

The test Xu Rui mentioned is mainly for the online function.

After these seven days of playing the game, many people have discovered that if you play "Monster Hunter" alone, it is an extremely hardcore action game that will test your skills and mentality. If you play it with multiple people, the difficulty will be much lower , and more joyful, similar to the feeling of Smash Bros.

At this time, people noticed that "Monster Hunter" was originally an action game of the type of "multiplayer fighting together", and online is the complete body of the game.

The trial version of "Monster Hunter" released three times in a row this time is really surprising.

Ordinary games try their best to hide the content before the game is officially released, and some games even keep the gameplay secret, but it is extremely rare that the demo of "Monster Hunter" is open for players to play by themselves.

According to the thinking of conventional game companies, they will probably provide the use of two or three weapons, and they will also face weaker monsters, rather than the exterminating dragon that appears on the game cover.

But Hatsune Games is not afraid. It opens up all fourteen kinds of weapons in the game for players to use, and also introduces the aggressive Miejinlong. In just 15 minutes of hunting, people feel the core charm of the game.

When Shen Gushu of Hardcore Software Dragoon Studio saw this trial version, he was quite surprised.

He tried a few games. From Shen Gushu's point of view, the Extinguishing Dragon has a very high degree of completion. Whether it is the interaction with the environment, the interaction with the player, or the entire battle process, even if it is the final boss of the game, it will not be difficult. It didn't feel awkward at all.

How many bosses at the level of Miejinlong will there be in Hatsune?

Shen Gushu felt that eight bosses of this level of difficulty were already the limit. Unless most of them were skin-changing monsters whose skeletons remained the same but only had different appearances, designing eight such monsters with rich elements would be the limit. The design team will take at least two to three years.

For example, the game "Star Witch" made by Shen Gushu himself. In this game, there are six big bosses with different mechanisms, ten middle bosses that have a certain relationship with mobs, plus many mobs and decryption levels. This has already consumed a lot of money. They have spent more than three years of development time, and part of it is skin-changing monsters.

"Star Witch" will be released in May this year. After seeing the release date of "Monster Hunter", Shen Gushu was relieved. At least for more than a month, "Star Witch" will not be released Take it out and compare it with Monster Hunter.

For a pure stand-alone game like "The Witch of the Star World", the first month of the game's release is the highest sales volume, and even, the sales volume in the first week of release may be more than 70% of the sales volume of this month. After that, unless it is Discounts or game content caused some hot spots on the Internet, otherwise sales growth would generally be extremely slow.

"It's bad luck for Suo Ren and his gang."

Shen Gushu laughed, Suo Ren Interactive Entertainment's second development department's action game "Wind and Rain Swordsman" will be released in August, if the quality is not up to standard, it is likely to be hammered by "Monster Hunter".

Due to the addition of the online function, if the content of "Monster Hunter" has the level of "Breath of the Wild", no, even if it is only 70% of the level, it is enough to firmly occupy the players' game time for half a year. It can be said that Hatsune game selection It will be released in June, which means that the first half of the year will be reserved for other manufacturers, and the remaining half of the year will be taken by myself.

Thinking of this, Shen Gushu, who was still laughing at his competitors, suddenly felt helpless.

He has already tacitly accepted that "Monster Hunter" will sweep the game circle and beat their works.