Chapter 3: The Lonely Desert Highway

As for the current environment of the game industry, it is basically similar to the situation in Pei Qian's previous life in 09.

For example, the most popular online game at present has changed from Yamaguchiyama to "Fantasy World", CS has become "Anti-Terrorism Plan", and DOTA has become "Apocalypse", the packaging is not the same, but the gameplay is very similar.

Mobile games have improved significantly, probably because the hardware is evolving faster than in previous generations.

For example, Pei Qian's card mobile games in his previous life benefited from the popularity of smart phones, which only appeared in 2012, and in the parallel world, due to the earlier appearance of smart phones, similar games have appeared around 08 years, and now they are a very mature game type.

"In that case, the situation will be clear."

"I only need to spend money to purchase templates and art resources on the resource station, and spend all 50,000 yuan, and then make a game that no one plays or sells, and after two weeks, it is equivalent to a total loss."

"Perfect!"

After making up his mind, Pei Qian began to search for the template he wanted in the resource station.

"Driving simulation basic template, 20,000 yuan, with a set of interior and exterior stickers of the vehicle."

"Scene template, desert road template, 15,000, if you need environmental change dynamics, you need to add another 8,000, a total of 23,000."

"It's a little expensive, but I just want it!"

"There's a little money left to go."

"Radio music, choose 30 songs from 100, or play randomly by the system in the music library, 6000."

"There's 1,000 left, huh...... Buy a simple leaderboard feature, you can't afford anything else. ”

After thinking about it for a while, Pei Qian frantically placed an order on the resource station, and quickly spent all the 50,000 yuan.

These resources are honestly inexpensive.

For example, this basic template of driving simulation can be set into the game editor to realize the basic functions of driving simulation games.

Throttle, brakes, cornering, collisions, and more, all there.

The desert road scene itself supports free adjustment of the distance length in the editor, and the desert scene will have some random changes.

With the addition of the environmental change simulation function, there will be environmental changes such as sunrise and sunset, wind and sand.

Because they are all universal templates, many indie game makers will also buy them, so face banging is 100% of the way things will happen.

In order not to hit their faces, some producers will customize some art assets to replace, of course, in that case, the investment will continue to increase.

But Pei Qian didn't care about this.

Face banging? Bang Bei! Anyway, I'm trying to lose money, and I can't ask for players who don't play this game because they hit their faces!

Pei Qian started making games.

Although it is a loss of money, the game must at least pass ESRO's review and be successfully listed.

If it is a semi-finished product with serious missing functions, it will not pass the ESRO review, and the system may judge Pei Qian as a violation.

Therefore, no matter how cheating the game is, the basic functions must be complete.

Drag the base template into the editor, and then drag the scene template into it.

Then the big frame of the game is there, and after the players enter the game, they can drive the car on the desert road.

However, the resources purchased cannot be wasted.

Pei Qian added a radio function to the car, so that players could turn on the radio station and listen to some random music while driving.

It's all niche music or very traditional classical music, and those popular songs can't be bought for this amount of money.

Next, there is a more critical question.

What exactly is the core gameplay of this game?

Pei Qian himself didn't know.

Racing?

Don't make a fuss, there's no money to do it.

You can only afford a basic template, you can only afford a texture for a car, and you can only afford a scene.

Those complicated tracks, beautiful cars, and racing related gameplay programs, all of them can't afford it!

Can't afford to play it?

Pei Qian patted his head, there is.

The core gameplay of the game is simple, it's to drive!

From the starting point to the end point, you have cleared the level!

But this alone is not enough, it is all cobbled together with general resources, and there is no gameplay innovation at all, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to pass the review.

You have to make a little change to make sure the game passes; But this change can't be too good, you have to make sure that the game loses money and no one plays it!

Pei Qian thought about it and directly extended the scene of the desert track infinitely.

Pull up to 8 hours of full gameplay!

That's right, you'll need to drive the road for 8 hours to reach the end, and the desert road will make a turn every once in a while.

Players want to beat the level with just one key, that's impossible.

In this way, the gameplay is different from the general driving simulation games on the market, and it should be able to pass the review.

Moreover, such a cheating gameplay, must not be scolded to death by the players? This game can make money, so there is a ghost!

Pei Qian was very excited, feeling that he was simply a genius.

Finally, I made a game clearance interface in a very simple way, and just displayed a line of words: "Congratulations, you have successfully wasted 8 precious hours of your life!" ”

Even if someone can clear the level, they will have to make him so angry that he will never play my company's games again!

The leaderboard function you bought can't be wasted, make a "time-wasting leaderboard", and count the "number of clearances" and "effective game time" of each player.

This ranking is useless, just to arrange the functions that you spend money on.

Three down five divided by two, and it was done quickly.

These functions are all basic in the basics of the functions supported by the editor, and you only need to perform some simple dragging, changing parameters, almost with your hands.

Teaching yourself the editor, buying resources, and making games all add up in less than two hours.

"I'm sorry for such a mentally retarded game!"

Pei Qian finished the game and tried it on his computer.

Then I quit the game in five minutes and almost didn't throw up.

To go in is to drive, drive, drive, and be bored to the point of exploding!

Pei Qian was satisfied, and then immediately released the game.

The name of the game: "Lonely Desert Highway".

Game Description: On a desert road, driving alone for a few hours, you will get some thoughts about life.

When writing the introduction, Pei Qian was very entangled.

Blow yourself? It's not suitable, what if it really attracts a group of title parties and loses a lot?

Hack yourself? It's not appropriate.,That's too obvious.,On the one hand, I'm worried about being judged by the system to be in violation.,On the other hand, I'm also afraid of stimulating the player's rebellious psychology.,The more you say this game is rubbish, the more he wants to play.

So, write an honest synopsis so that players won't be interested when they see it!

Then there's the pricing.

Pei Qian set a price of 1 yuan for the game.

He doesn't want to set it too high, it must be too high, there are really a few second-hand brains to buy it, isn't he losing less money!

The price is low enough, even if there are so many dozens of players who buy it, it will have no impact on Pei Qian's loss.

After everything is done, Pei Qian uploads the game, waits for the game to be approved, and automatically puts it on the official game platform.

This process generally ranges from a few hours to two or three days.

The official platform is a fully automatic recommendation effect, and the same batch of new games will automatically be recommended according to the change of data, unless there is malicious brushing, otherwise the management will not intervene.

Pei Qian was not worried at all.

It's such a garbage game, after it is put on the shelves, no one will care about it, and the speed of light will be cool, and when the time comes, 50,000 yuan will be in hand, isn't it beautiful!

Pei Qian closed his laptop, feeling comfortable and happy!