This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

Little did Chen Ba know that Xiao Zhong, who had not yet formally joined the company, had already experienced the studio's "unique" culture in advance.

Brother Dong and I have just finished re-recording the game sound effects. He is so tired now that he wants to go back to the house and sleep immediately.

As we all know, games have various sound effects.

For example, in "Household Simulator", players can dig through the trash can, and when the trash can lid is opened, a crisp "pop" sound will be heard.

Where did this sound effect come from?

On the one hand, you can search online or in professional forums, and you can get most of the sound effects and use them.

On the other hand, you can also hire a professional team to provide game dialogue dubbing, background music, percussion sound effects, map music, etc.

Another option is to record, tune and synthesize by yourself, like Tianba Studio.

Some players complained that the door-opening sound effects of "Household Simulator" are a bit noisy, and the sound effects of the elevator arriving at the designated floor are missing.

So, in order to solve this problem, Chen Ba and Yang Dong took the equipment and took a two-hour elevator ride, opening and closing the studio's security door hundreds of times.

After a lot of back and forth, I finally got it done.

Chen Ba, who had just finished replacing the audio source files and was about to go back to his house to rest, suddenly received a notification email from the Steam Platform Developer Community.

[Dear developers, registration for this Lunar New Year sale is about to open. If you are interested, please contact the community administrator...]

"what activity?"

Yang Dong, who had just finished taking a shower, came over and asked, "New Year's sale?"

"Yes! The steam platform launches a special large-scale promotion event for the Lunar New Year. You can sign up by filling out the form."

After answering Yang Dong's question, Chen Ba clicked on the attachment, opened the registration form, and checked the precautions for the event.

The content is actually very simple.

Most of the content is not worthy of attention. The main one is "Games do not have to be discounted, but discounts are recommended." This one is more important.

During the Spring Festival, Tianba Studio originally planned to sell two of its games at a discount, so it met the registration criteria for this event.

"Then take part."

Yang Dong didn't think much about it. It was going to be discounted anyway, and he could get a certain amount of exposure by participating in the platform's special sales, so why not?

"No hurry! Take a look at this first..."

Chen Ba did not rush to fill out the form, but looked at the description of the "bundle package" in the notes.

To put it simply, this special sale supports the Bundle format.

Participating games can be bundled with any DLC, other in-house games, or games from across publishers.

He thinks this is pretty good.

Although the two games owned by Tianba Studio do not have DLC, the two games are highly related and can be regarded as a "before and after" relationship.

The players are mostly the same people.

If the two games are bundled and sold together, not only can players be given the greatest discounts, but the games can also gain maximum exposure, a complete win-win!

"Then how to price it?"

Although he has never made bundles, Yang Dong, as an old user of the steam platform, has purchased quite a few bundles.

According to his understanding, in order to attract players to buy, most bundles will provide large discounts, which is more cost-effective than buying them individually.

Two games priced at 10 yuan can be bundled together for only 18 yuan or 17 yuan, which can attract players to buy them.

Otherwise, if the price is the same, why would players buy the bundle? What's the point of bundles?

"The simulator for studying hard in the cold window is 50% off, and the price is 9 yuan! The simulator for living under the fence is 20% off, and the price is 20 yuan..."

Elementary school students can calculate this question, and the total is 29 yuan!

But this is the total price. If you plan to buy a bundle, it must be cheaper.

Chen Ba took out his calculator and typed for a while, and finally decided: "On the basis of the discounted price, the bundle will be discounted by 15%, and you can get two games for 25 yuan."

"Okay! The price is delicious."

Hearing this, Yang Dong couldn't help but nod his head and said: "It's equivalent to buying "The Living Simulator" at the original price, and then getting a copy of "The Hard Studying Simulator in the Cold Window" as a gift."

Four dollars is not money, is it?

The reason why bundles of other games can be cheaper by twenty or thirty yuan at a time is because their prices are already very high.

The original prices of the two games owned by Tianba Studio are already very low, and they can be reduced by an additional four yuan on top of the historically low prices, which is a substantial discount.

In the words of our Mr. Chen, I sold it to you at this price purely to make friends with you, and I didn’t dare to make a penny more!

"Yes, that's right!"

Chen Ba greatly appreciated it and thought that Yang Dong was the right employee. Look at how high his ideological consciousness is.

Make a friend for 25 yuan!

If you buy it, you will become Chen Ba's friend. It's okay if you don't buy it. You will get it for free next year, and everyone can be friends.

"If you give it to me for free, then you are no longer a friend, but a big brother!"

Yang Dong couldn't help but laugh and said: "Learn Ub, right? When will our studio also introduce the industry-leading Tudou server?"

"Ahem! Forget about the potatoes."

"But you must have a server, and you must rent one." Chen Ba said very seriously, "Many games now have online modes, and we have to follow up."

"Online..."

Bringing a stool to sit down, Yang Dong looked a little curious: "What do you mean, the new game will have an online mode?"

"I have this idea."

The online mode of "Give Him Love V" has been a great success and is still at the top of the sales list. This has attracted the attention of many game manufacturers who focus on stand-alone games, and Chen Ba is no exception.

It is not difficult to find that the boundary between stand-alone and online games is no longer so clear.

Stand-alone machines also need to be connected to the Internet to play in online mode.

More and more major games are beginning to add online modes to their games, hoping to explore a new path and take into account the needs of more players.

Considering this situation, Chen Ba actually wanted to make an online game and give it a try.

But he doesn’t have a particularly great idea yet, he just vaguely thinks it would be cool to make a fighting game.

"Why did you become interested in fighting?"

"I'm not afraid of your jokes. I really like reading novels, especially those fantasy novels."

Chen Ba explained: "So I was thinking, can I apply the framework of a fighting game and use the physics engine to create a fantasy fairy tale-like battle scene?"

"Forehead……"

Yang Dong thought of something.

The two supreme beings fought to the edge of the universe. With one punch and one kick, the avenue was wiped out.

Good guy!

The Supreme War is just about rubbing the joystick and pressing the keyboard wildly, right? With so much anger, has the "fuel-consuming root" become the ultimate sublimation?

"It's so inconsistent!"

Shaking his head, Yang Dong was speechless and said: "With a fantasy fairy background, the result is that the duel between strong men only involves punches and kicks?"

"Add some special effects!"

Chen Ba touched his chin and said, "What's wrong with punches and kicks? With the special effects, it's the Heavenly Emperor's Fist and the Supreme Kick! With one punch, stars will be crushed to pieces."

Yang Dong: "..."

Sure enough, he still lacked imagination. He couldn't even dream of such a scene.