The next day, Meng Shu clicked on the developer backend of the cyber platform. The moment he saw the sales, he couldn't help laughing in the office.
In three weeks, the sales of his "Dark Forest" have increased significantly after the official version was announced yesterday.
166W sets have been sold now!
The sales amount has reached an unimaginable 114.5 million!
This money finally gives a new company some confidence.
Although compared to the assets in the original world, this money is still a little less.
But which self-made entrepreneur has a small goal in three weeks?
But this is also thanks to the advertising placed by Infinite Entertainment across the entire network.
Now open a mainstream video website and you can see the promotion of "Dark Forest".
Not to mention other medium-sized websites, which must have attracted a lot of people.
"Dark Forest" can achieve its current results not only because of its excellent quality, but also because it has benefited from the blank market in the world.
The extremely excellent depressive atmosphere and horror survival gameplay allow players to experience something new for the first time while stimulating their senses and psychology.
It's like Meng Shu eating hot pot for the first time. Although he is afraid of spicy food, he just wants to eat it. Even if the weather is hot, he still wants to eat steaming hot pot in an air-conditioned room.
Even if you drink Wong Lao Jia Duobao, you still want the refreshing feeling of a piece of meat in one bite.
Now that the official version of "Dark Forest" is on sale, this game will naturally disappear over time.
This is an inevitable problem.
But Mengshu wants to keep the game's popularity alive.
So the best way is...
"Open MOD."
Meng Shu looked at the computer screen and spoke softly.
MOD is a game module, which can optimize and enhance the game itself, giving the game more possibilities and more playing experience.
It turns out that the world's steam platform has a creative workshop, which is full of MODs for various games.
There is a similar cyber platform in this world, with a simpler name, just called 'MOD Community'.
Meng Shu grinned, smiled softly, and crossed his legs.
"Opening "Dark Forest" to players, allowing players to make their own MODs, adding freshness to the game, increasing playability, adding new plots, and allowing players to optimize the game content themselves, is the best way for a game to maintain its popularity. What a good idea."
He said slowly, thinking of the most classic game in the world.
"The Elder Scrolls 5"!
This game was released in 2011, but until he time traveled, the game was still popular. It became popular around the world thanks to MODs, and new MODs were released every three to five to enhance the freshness of the game.
Some players even made this sword and magic game come alive through MODs.
Some players have used MOD to turn this role-playing game with zero impact into an action role-playing game with blood and fists, and the impact has increased sharply.
It’s really players who teach developers how to make game series.
Just because of the MOD, this game has been popular for eleven years!
This shows how long-lived game modifications involving players can be.
Therefore, in order to keep the game popular and topical, Meng Shu does not mind opening up the MOD community to allow players to make limited modifications based on the game.
But there is no need for him to do this himself. He can recruit a group of programmers to do it. It will also make it easier to port the game to other platforms.
As for him, he only needs to concentrate on developing new games.
Then, he wrote a congratulatory letter, the main content of which was to celebrate the breakthrough of "Dark Forest" to 1.5 million sets, and to thank everyone for their support.
At the same time, he also emphasized that the VR game "Blackjack" will be released on the IGame platform for free on time. Please support it at that time.
After writing this congratulatory letter, he casually posted it under his account status on Danmaku.com, and then ignored it.
"Blackjack" is released for free to prove its sincerity.
He knows that the VR games in this world are extremely poor due to technical problems. Even if well-known major manufacturers take action, they will end in miserably.
We also know that players are skeptical and distrustful of VR games.
This is not difficult to understand.
In the original world, it is like a small factory popping up in a corner, claiming that it will develop "Red Dead Redemption 2" within a month with the ability of four or five people. It seems so funny and so overestimating its capabilities.
So when Meng Shu announced that he would develop a VR game within a month that even major manufacturers couldn't make, players didn't expect it. On the contrary, they didn't even pay attention.
There are only the initial congratulatory remarks for breaking 200,000 yuan on the Internet and some reprinted articles that no one has read for a long time.
Everyone's focus is more on "Dark Forest".
It shows how much players in this world don’t trust VR games, or in other words, they don’t trust Meng Shu.
This may lead to players not buying the game after it is released.
Even if it keeps up with sales due to its excellent quality, it will only take time to prove it.
Therefore, he decided that when the VR game "Blackjack" is released, it will be downloaded for free, so that everyone can give it a try and experience it without spending any money anyway.
After all, VR has become popular, and you can use VR to play games if you have a computer at home.
When they are shocked by this gaming experience that transcends the current era, Meng Shu believes that the next VR horror game...
Absolutely popular!
His free idea was persuaded many times by Infinite Entertainment, but they were all ignored.
So in the end, we had no choice but to agree to Meng Shu’s free listing on the IGame platform.
However, the commission for "Dark Forest" will be increased by 0.5%, which is counted as the cost of releasing "Blackjack" for free.
This point can only be said about the nature of a businessman, and Meng Shu doesn't care.
Now that the matter of "Dark Forest" has come to an end, it is time to concentrate on the development of "Blackjack".
There is only one week left for a month of ambitious plans.
Meng Shu looked at the Monkey Simple Development Engine in front of him.
Inside, there is a scene made by Xia Nianzhen.
I have to say, this girl's skills are really good.
Although there are some differences from the original game, it is basically a high-quality copy.
At this point, he was relieved.
Now there is another question.
That is, "Blackjack" is the DLC of "Resident Evil 7", and its characters are related to the main game.
Now if we take it out and make it into a brand new independent game, then we need to revise the relationship between the characters.
Meng Shu sat on the chair with his arms folded, frowning and thinking.
Suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, and he thought of a very good reference!
"Chainsaw"!
yes!
The opening of "Blackjack" shows Lucas explaining the rules of the game to players and opponents through a black-and-white TV and taking control of the entire scene.
So why not delete Lucas's character and adapt it into a character like Jigsaw?
Put another mask on him and modify his appearance lines.
That’s simply not too similar!
As he said it, Meng Shu immediately began to revise it.
In addition, because the game is only a small-scale DLC, it does not feature much about the protagonist Clancy’s card game opponent, Hoffman.
Now if "Blackjack" is to be made into an independent game, the characters must also be fleshed out.
Therefore, in terms of lines, the protagonist Clancy and the opponent Hoffman should also add some lines, so that the players can be impressed, and it is best to feel the hardship of survival!
Thinking of this, Meng Shu's hands gradually increased in frequency...
Then during the remaining time, he contacted Infinite Entertainment and asked them to help find suitable dubbing and soundtrack by giving them the script.
And this publisher is worthy of being a leading domestic manufacturer. Within three days, it sent encrypted audio.
Meng Shu quickly imported it into the program, and the engine automatically matched and optimized it, saving him a lot of energy.
Finally, with Meng Shu’s modification and development, this independent VR game “Blackjack” was finally completed!
