"What expansion pack?" Geng Xiaowen was a little confused.
Seeing the little fat man's puzzled look, Lu Li chuckled and said, "It's just to add some content or functions to the original "Mario Brothers". I want to add the function for players to design their own levels."
It’s no wonder that the little fat man is ignorant. His understanding of the game industry is not deep.
Moreover, all games in this world are "one-of-a-kind" and will not be updated once they are released.
For popular games, game companies will do the same thing as Page's "Star Force" and will choose a sequel.
The "Mario Maker" that Lu Li wanted to "move" is a design game based on "Mario Brothers".
It was released half a century after the original "Mario", making it a game of the new century.
However, twenty days after the game was released, the operator made a high-profile announcement that the game had sold more than 3.5 million copies, which is enough to illustrate the enduring popularity of "Mario" as a global game star.
In this game, players can use their imagination to create their own Mario levels, and publish new map levels online to share them with netizens.
It is not difficult to transfer this game to the Star Card Game Console, just make another game card.
In the original "Mario Bros." game deck, Lu Li specially set up a material card, which was only used to store various game materials.
The essence of "Mario Maker" is to open all game materials to players for them to DIY levels.
Therefore, Lu Li only needed to make an additional game card for players to use to create and save new levels.
But there is also a difficulty with this game card, which is that it must be able to "connect to the Star Network".
Fortunately, many mechanical accessories in this world have been transformed into star cards. For example, the "CPU", "graphics card" and "network card" in the computer host have been transformed into a card with almost no thickness.
In this way, Lu Li did not need to research a star card that could connect to the Internet from scratch. He only had to stand on the shoulders of network card designers and make slight changes.
"Let players create their own levels..." Geng Xiaowen pondered for a moment, nodded in approval, "This idea is okay."
"Based on the new features brought by this expansion pack, I think we can also set up a set of 'level creation competitions' to select a few of the best maps through online voting, and randomly select a few as offline competitions. Part of the map.”
Lu Li then added: "In this way, the participation and anticipation you mentioned will be achieved.
Maybe we can even get a whole living group? Let’s see what messy levels players from all walks of life can create. "
"I always feel... the 34 million I invested seems to be a bit small." The little fat man stretched himself and joked to himself.
It seems that I have been underestimating this roommate's potential in the gaming industry. How much else does he hide?
But again, if this kind of creativity is not used in the research and development of technology, it will still be a waste of resources.
"More, Boss Geng." Lu Li said with a smile, "You are still the exclusive sponsor of Carp Star Card House."
"At this stage, more than 30 million star coins are enough. If you spend more, you won't know where to spend it." Geng Xiaowen said with a smile.
He hit the nail on the head and pointed out the current situation of Carp Star Card House.
This sentence is true. Lu Li spent so much money on games.
Because the development cost of a game is the highest, but for Xingkawu, Lu Li can complete the entire process of developing the game, which only consumes time, not to mention spending any money.
Is it necessary to invest all the investment money into game production? Because with the current game market in the Eastern Federation, such large-scale production will only make the market oversupply.
"But," Geng Xiaowen continued, "If you want to spend money on research and development of light curtain technology, you can spend as much as you want. Why don't you put some thought into it?"
"Definitely next time." Lu Li replied, "But I have something else I can give you to play with first, and I can make it for you later."
Yu Xin, who was in Yin City, also received a message from Lu Li.
The news was also bittersweet for her.
Fortunately, with the support of "Mario Maker", the Mario contest they want to hold will definitely have higher popularity, and at the same time, it can also provide attention to the game center that will be opened in the future, killing two birds with one stone.
Worryingly, a group of them have to work overtime again.
In addition to the usual work such as publicity and production chain, they also need to build a server belonging to Carp Star Card House.
After all, the game "Mario Maker" requires an Internet connection. Players want to transmit the level data they create to the star network, so a server as a "level data storage" is essential.
But as we all know, the core employees of Carp Star Card House are basically graduates from the art department.
"Liu Fei, why don't you study for a while? Your science and engineering majors should be interoperable, right?" Yu Xin approached the only science student and carefully asked questions that could show the "professional gap".
Of course, Accountant Liu, who studies mathematics, rejected her request. Mathematics has nothing to do with things like building servers.
In the end, Sister Xin gave up and had no choice but to ask Lu Li to move reinforcements.
After Lu Li replied "OK", he gave the job to Geng Xiaowen, who owns a technology company.
His old god said on the ground: "I plan to set up a server for the research of light curtain technology to store data in the cloud."
Hearing that his roommate had "changed his mind" and was about to start research, the little fat man was naturally very happy and nodded: "Okay, do you have any requirements for the server?"
"Medium to high configuration will do." Lu Li said casually, "If it's convenient for you, get one for Carp Star Card House. It doesn't cost anything to have a server anyway, right?"
Geng Xiaowen: "???"
Good guy, I saw you in the end, right?
But he didn't care about anything and just asked the people below to do it.
Just get two servers, it’s a piece of cake.
"No problem. Regarding the server, you just wait for someone to come." Lu Li replied to Yu Xin on his mobile phone.
After receiving the news, the Carp Star Card Houses also started to move.
The only stumbling block - the server - has been taken care of, and all that's left is regular work.
They have repeated this process from publicity to sales several times this month, and they have become extremely familiar with it.
On the night when Lu Li proposed to enjoy the game, the publicity committee member Yao Yao worked overtime to produce a poster for "Mario Maker".
"Mario Maker, create your own levels."
