Thursday, February 16.

Imperial Capital, the incubation base of the "Poor Road Project" independent game.

After the Chinese New Year, the incubation base has also returned to normal operations, and indie game producers have also resumed the development of games.

Before the Spring Festival holiday, the promotional video released by the "Poor Road Project" had a very good publicity effect, and the success of the "Office Worker Survival Handbook" and "Ink and Smoke" demo gave all indie game makers a shot in the arm, making them feel that their dream of indie game production seemed to be closer than ever.

Wu Zhicheng is clearly the most motivated.

The DEMO of "Ink and Smoke" is very successful, and players are supporting it with real money, and it has almost been determined that as long as the follow-up content of "Ink and Smoke" is completed step by step, the sales will definitely not be bad.

Moreover, the staff of the entire incubation base are also fully cooperating, and Wu Zhicheng lacks nothing, just need to focus all his energy on game design.

The only fly in the ointment is that there is a rule on the side of the incubation base that a certain amount of game time must be guaranteed every week to "collect inspiration", which makes Wu Zhicheng quite a headache.

It would be nice if I could use that time to develop games.

At this time, Wu Zhicheng was at his workstation, seriously designing the follow-up level of "Ink and Smoke".

Each level chapter has to be featured in terms of packaging and gameplay, which is also a very brain-intensive thing.

Qiu Hong came to the incubation base, looked around, and found that everyone was working very attentively and seriously, and was very satisfied.

He couldn't help but think about the situation when he opened a game company and started a business again.

At that time, Qiu Hong was also the boss, but every time he went to the company, he could see that the employees seemed to be working hard, but they were actually fishing; And the indie game makers here in the incubator are really serious about designing their games.

Qiu Hong couldn't help but sigh, is this the charm of Mr. Pei?

Even though almost no one knows the relationship between "Poor Project" and Mr. Pei, and even if all the independent game producers have not been inspired by the "Tengda Spirit", they still do the same thing as Tengda employees.

Mr. Pei's incentive buff can be effective without revealing his identity? And can it directly affect the imperial capital from the Jingzhou side?

It's outrageous.

Qiu Hong came to the middle of the office area and clapped his hands: "Please stop the matter at hand for a while, I have two things to announce." ”

Wu Zhicheng and the other indie game producers all looked up and listened attentively.

Qiu Hong said: "First of all, the first thing is that I will be away for a period of time, and I don't know how long it will be, maybe one or two months, or three or five months, depending on the work situation." ”

"The independent game incubation base here in the imperial capital is on the right track, and then I will go to Modu, Yangcheng and other cities, and then open an independent game incubation base."

"The initial plan is to set up three studios, namely the 'Poor Project' North Studio, the East Studio and the South Studio."

"Everyone has to work hard in the future, our northern studio was established first, and if it is surpassed by the eastern studio and the southern studio in the future, it will be embarrassing."

"If you encounter any problems at work, continue to look for Xi Hao, and he will communicate with me at any time."

There was some surprise on everyone's faces, but they didn't overreact.

This is actually an unexpected and reasonable thing.

The "Poor Road Project" was originally for independent game developers across the country, and the independent game developers here in the imperial capital have almost arranged it, and it will definitely be the turn of the independent game developers in the magic capital and Yangcheng.

It's just that everyone didn't expect it to be so fast.

However, it is Xi Hao who is responsible for the normal operation of the incubation base, so Qiu Hong's departure can be said to have no impact, and everyone will not make a fuss.

Qiu Hong paused and continued: "The second thing is that I have set up a membership for everyone in the incubation base to manage the gym, and everyone must go to exercise on time. ”

"In the future, everyone's working meals will also be replaced with fitness meals that are matched with the managed gym, which is to ensure everyone's health."

"After all, game development requires sitting for a long time, and the lumbar spine and cervical spine are prone to problems after a long time.

Hearing the news, everyone was stunned.

What's that?

Got us a gym membership?

Wu Zhicheng was also at a loss, he was already very dissatisfied with the rule of "you must ensure game time every week", but now in addition to taking time to play games every week, you also have to find time to exercise?

And everyone has been eating the regular meals of fish takeaway, the taste is very good, although the health level is not as good as the fitness meal, but compared with other takeaways, everyone is quite satisfied.

Isn't it redundant to have a gym meal with a managed gym now?

Wu Zhicheng hurriedly raised his hand and said: "Mr. Qiu, the gym is not necessary, everyone is young, and their health is very good......

Qiu Hong's expression became serious: "How is your health?" Do you believe this yourself? ”

"Before you came to the incubation base, you played independent games in your own residence, all of them were reversed day and night, and the diet was irregular, although there was no major illness when you were young, but who didn't have any minor problems?"

"It just so happens that the managed gym has opened in the imperial capital, and I heard that the fitness effect is very good, and I have arranged everyone on it, and I can't help but go! Xi Hao, you have to supervise everyone, urge everyone to hint at exercise, if someone doesn't go, I'll ask you! ”

Xi Hao also froze at his workstation, not knowing how to react for a while.

Qiu Hong said very toughly, but in fact, he didn't know the bottom in his heart.

In fact, these requirements were all put forward by Mr. Pei, who was just a mouthpiece.

Previously, after Pei Qian learned that the Touching Fish Internet Café, Touching Fish Takeaway and Managed Gym had been opened on a large scale in the Imperial Capital, Magic Capital and other cities, he had been thinking about how to counteract and hold back.

It suddenly occurred to me that there are a lot of industries in the imperial capital!

There are independent game incubation bases, there are cold-faced girls, all of them are arranged to host gyms, which can not only create certain losses, but also interfere with everyone's work progress, why not?

However, the relationship between the incubation base and Tengda Group cannot be disclosed, so Qiu Hong can only continue to be a tool man.

Wu Zhicheng and the other producers stood up one after another, wanting to discuss with Qiu Hong.

There's no need for a gym!

Wouldn't it be nice for us to make a game down-to-earth?

But Qiu Hong had no intention of bargaining with them at all, and said categorically, "That's it", and then left.

Wu Zhicheng and they will obviously be wrong, because Qiu Hong can't actually be the master of this matter, isn't this the wrong person to bargain with Qiu Hong?

Looking at Qiu Hong's departing back, Wu Zhicheng and the other producers looked at each other, and they all saw the dazed look in each other's eyes.

At the same time, it seems to taste a familiar taste......

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At the same time, the magic capital, Longyu Group.

In the conference room, Eric looked at the latest report with a very smug smile on his face.

Zhao Xuming sat opposite Eric, trying to reduce his sense of presence and leave the stage to Eric.

Nearly a week has passed since the implementation of the "Eric New Deal", and some clues can already be seen from the IOI data.

The reason why Eric is so happy is because the data this time is exactly what he expected, and the effect is even better than he expected!

The decline in revenue is certain, after all, the heroes are all free, and the price of the skin has been directly cut to 30% of the original, and the player base of IOI will not grow explosively in the short term, but the average amount of money spent on each person's head has become less, and the revenue will inevitably decrease.

But the decline in revenue data is much more optimistic than Eric expected!

Judging from the data, although the price has dropped, many old players have been compensated and bought a lot of skins that they didn't plan to buy before.

Although the money for each skin is less, the number of copies sold has increased, which has the effect of small profits but quick turnover.

For example, some veteran players who originally wanted to spend 80 yuan to buy a skin, but now find that they can buy two, will still spend this money instead of choosing to spend only 40 and save the other 40.

After the price of the skin plummeted, it has reached an all-time low, and the vast majority of players feel that it is absolutely impossible for the price of the skin to be reduced for a long time in the future, so they no longer wait for the discount, but choose to buy it immediately.

Moreover, this big price cut has created a good heat, and the number of people online at the same time and the average game time per capita in the national and even world servers have increased significantly.

Many players buy several skins in one go, so it is natural to play a few more rounds to appreciate and feel them in the game.

In short, Eric is very satisfied with the data on the report, and is naturally very proud and even slightly inflated.

Eric looked around at everyone: "The new version of the data, the senior management of Dayak Group is also quite satisfied, and it is completely in line with our previous expectations. ”

"So next, we have to take advantage of the victory and continue to make up for a big shortcoming of IOI."

"Mobile version!"

"A big reason for GOG's success is its mobile version. Whether it is promoted in the national server or in the world, GOG's mobile games have played a very key role. ”

"Before, we were really arrogant and felt that the mobile game version was useless, so we missed the opportunity, and seeing GOG achieve such great success in the mobile game market, we also realized our mistake."

"Therefore, at present, the finger company is already working on the development of the mobile game version of IOI, which is a dual-end interconnection between terminal games and mobile games like GOG."

"After making up for this shortcoming, the gap between IOI and GOG will be further narrowed, and with our price war, we will definitely be able to regain the market that GOG has taken away!"