Top game producer

Wang Jian put away the props and looked at the studio panel again.

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Name: Dragon Abyss Studio

Popularity: 40 (Represents the current popularity of the studio, with a maximum of 100. If no games are released for a period of time, the studio's popularity will decline. Before the game is released, you can increase popularity by releasing promotional videos, game demos, and other activities to ensure sales.)

Reputation: 73 (Represents the degree of player recognition of the studio's games, with a maximum of 100)

Number of fans: 25628

Released games: \\"The Demon King Hid the Holy Sword from the Hero\\"

Overall strength: Programming 19 Planning 25 Art 54 Music 32

(Overall strength is not a simple addition of employee strength, but represents the overall strength of a team.)

Evaluation: Released a reasonably interesting work, gaining some fame. Recruited several new employees to fill the shortcomings in art and music, allowing for the creation of more challenging games. Players have a good impression of the studio.

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Releasing a game for the first time, gaining fans, and recruiting excellent employees, the overlapping of two happy events should have resulted in a dreamlike happy time, but Wang Jian was happy and a little distressed.

He needs to buy a professional music arrangement keyboard and a monitor speaker for Bai Xueyao, and a set of drawing tools for Tong Ke and Ye Meng.

As well as various miscellaneous software.

Money is still a bit tight.

"In order not to disappoint the players' expectations, and to earn more money!" Wang Jian opened the document with full motivation.

Once this "To the Moon" is completed, he shouldn't have to worry about such trivial matters.

...

Three days of peace and quiet passed.

"The Demon King" now has 520,000 downloads and a rating of 9.6, still ranking third on the new game chart.

Today is also the last day for "The Demon King" on the new game chart. After today, without the eye-catching promotion bonus of the new game chart, the download growth will be very slow.

The daily downloads may only be four or five thousand.

However, for such a low-cost, small-production game, this achievement has shattered the glasses of many people.

While Wang Jian was typing on the document, Bai Li Ao suddenly came to him: "Boss, I have important news to report."

"What's wrong?" Wang Jian asked, looking up.

Bai Li Ao held his phone, pointing to a game called "The Demon King Hid the Hero's Underpants": "Someone is copying our game."

He saw a comment reminder when replying to player messages on the forum today, saying that a new game was very similar to their game, and immediately told Wang Jian.

"Oh, let me see." Wang Jian remembered what Kai Ge mentioned on the phone a few days ago and downloaded it with great interest.

Entering the game, the Demon King said to the Hero: "Are you here to marry my daughter?"

Hero: "What! I'm here to defeat you, I've never heard of you having a daughter."

Demon King: "Only by collecting all the underpants can I marry my daughter to you! Go!"

Hero: "Ah! Where have I been teleported to..."

Bai Li Ao watched from the side while Wang Jian was playing.

He came to Wang Jian to report the news as soon as possible, and he hadn't played it himself yet.

After more than ten minutes, Wang Jian put down his phone and asked with a smile, "What are your thoughts?"

Huh? Bai Li Ao's face was solemn, and his mind was racing. Is he asking about my feelings about the game? Something's not right, why is the boss asking so casually? He doesn't seem to care at all. If someone copied my game, I would definitely be furious.

Looking at Wang Jian's smiling face, Bai Li Ao suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "I understand, a game producer's limited energy should not be wasted on condemning plagiarists, but should focus on thinking about how to improve the quality of the game and how to make better games. This is the mind a game producer should have. It seems I still have a lot to learn."

Wang Jian: "...What you said is not wrong. Okay, if there's nothing else, go back to work."

In fact, he had made a preliminary judgment after playing it just now. This "The Demon King Hid the Hero's Underpants" is not plagiarism, but just following the trend. Apart from the game's name蹭 (cèng - to蹭 is a Chinese internet slang term that means to latch onto something for benefit, like riding on its coattails)ing the heat, and being a text puzzle game with a nonsensical comedic style, the puzzle-solving ideas are completely different.

The game's art style is more cartoonish and not as demonic. Most of the levels are quite interesting, but overall, the fun level is one level lower than Wang Jian's "The Demon King."

The current download volume has exceeded 4000, but the rating is only 7.3 points.

Wang Jian clicked on the comments to take a look.

"After playing the other 'Demon King', I always felt unsatisfied. Finally, a similar type of game has appeared."

"Plagiarism dog!"

"It's okay, but some levels are not very interesting."

Overall, the reviews are mixed.

Wang Jian didn't take this matter to heart and continued to code the document.

Just let them follow the trend, Dragon Abyss won't be developing this type of game anyway.

The most important thing now is to make "To the Moon" well.

What Wang Jian didn't expect was that the trend of bizarre text puzzle games actually intensified in the following period.

What "The Demon King Hid the Hero's Armor", "The Demon King Hid the Hero's Mask", "The Hero's Clothes Were Stolen by the Demon King", "The Demon King Secretly Hid the Slime That Was About to Be Killed by the Hero" sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

In addition to the hero who always had things stolen, various variants also emerged endlessly. "Mom Hid My Game Console", "Grandpa Secretly Dances in the Square Without Me Knowing", "Sister Hid My Pudding Without Me Knowing"...

For a time, the new game chart was almost dominated by these bizarre text puzzle games. Every few games, you could see a "XX Hid XX" or "XX Hid XX Without XXX Knowing", which made Wang Jian dumbfounded.

Some games are of good quality, such as "Mom Hid My Game Console", which tells the story of a child fighting wits with his mother, trying to find the game console hidden in various incredible places by his mother.

At the end of the game, the child finally got to play the game console as he wished and no longer had to worry about being discovered by his mother. 1000 days passed like this, the boy became a dead fat宅 (zhái - a person who is glued to their home), the room was very messy, and he couldn't feel happy when playing games.

At this time, the boy finally realized that there is more to life than games. He pushed open the door, embraced his family who had been waiting outside for a long time, and completely got rid of the shackles of the game console...

This "Mom Hid My Game Console" has an excellent theme and is ranked very high on the new game chart. Wang Jian couldn't help but give it a five-star rating after playing it.

However, more are shoddy works that follow the trend and蹭 (cèng - to蹭 is a Chinese internet slang term that means to latch onto something for benefit, like riding on its coattails) the heat, attracting a lot of骂 (mà - scolding).

Now, Wang Jian spends his days making "To the Moon" and watching the drama, until a Feixun (a messaging app) message pops up.

It was sent by Bai Li Ao, along with a web link.

"Boss, someone is炮轰 (pàohōng - to bombard; to denounce) you on Weibo!"

Wang Jian: ???

Thanks to 晨梦之辉 (Chén Mèng zhī Huī - a username) for the 100 Qidian coins reward! Receiving a reward for the first time, having fans for the first time, the overlapping of double happiness brings even greater happiness (滑稽 - huá jī - funny), only coding can repay it!