What happened next was that the second elder and the younger sister began to ask questions about this and that, a posture that vowed to break the casserole and get to the bottom of it.
Little girl Meng even hugged her brother's arm, with a look in her eyes saying, "Brother, our family is rich!" 'Excited look.
But the second elder is more worried and nervous, fearing that his son has done something illegal with so much money.
So Meng Shu was helpless and checked the company's qualifications on the spot with his mobile phone. He was relieved after they saw the legal representative.
Although the second elder still seems not to understand.
But as long as they know that it is through formal channels, they don’t think much about anything else.
Then, under Meng Shu's persuasion, the second elder chose to resign, but said he would not quit his job.
After all, if you quit your emergency job, you will deduct the salary for that month. Although it is only two to three thousand yuan, the two elders are hard-working people and have been through it. For them, two to three thousand yuan is earned with hard work, so there is nothing they can say. Never give up.
Therefore, Meng Shu, who has a net worth of tens of millions, has no choice but to stop persuading him.
After finishing the hot pot, Meng Xiaoyatou went directly back to her room and searched for games made by her brother on the computer.
Half an hour later, I saw my sister running to Meng Shu's room with a VR, saying that she didn't dare to play alone, so she simply grabbed her brother's computer and started playing "Blackjack."
As a result, they played until about 1 o'clock in the morning, and screamed from time to time. Meng Shu, who could not sleep, drove him back to his room.
...
...
Since the official start of the "Face" project, Meng Shu has been extremely busy every day.
Not only did he have to develop the game, he also had to go to the motion capture room to direct the action shooting.
In addition, he also changed the scene of Xia Nianzhen's mansion again and again, but the place was always inappropriate and the scene was not done well.
Considering that she is not an architect, her grasp of the area and structure of the house is not very accurate, so this type of game is also a challenge and temper for her, and it is inevitable to make mistakes from time to time.
In contrast, modeler Qiu Yuan and animator Xu Hong are much better.
Basically, engineering documents are sent to him for confirmation every day.
In such a busy environment, the development of the game is proceeding steadily.
So much so that Boss Meng had no time to hire people to do game transplants, nor did he have time to buy himself a house or look for a new office space.
He is now diving headfirst into game production and going all out.
It wasn't until another month passed that, with his work, good results were achieved in all aspects of "The Face".
For example, the scene that Xia Nianzhen was responsible for has been restored to at least nine levels under Meng Shu's guidance. The rest only needs to be adjusted by himself.
And Qiu Yuan, after approval, he hired a modeler to share his huge workload, and the progress was stable.
The other is animator Xu Hong. He occasionally participates in motion capture for Meng Shu to shoot. He works overtime to adjust the motion files afterwards and does his best.
With the joint efforts of all members of the company, the first two chapters of "The Face" were developed in just two months.
Of course, the main thing among them is Meng Shu who does the most things.
Fortunately, he had a development engine that even a monkey could use, and he was able to complete the first two chapters of the game in such a short time.
You know, in the original world, this game has been developed for several years!
Fortunately, the focus of this game is on the plot and atmosphere, so there is no outstanding music, which also allows Meng Shu to skip the production of music.
But some basic music is still there. In this regard, the music score included in the concept design has been given to Infinite Entertainment, allowing them to arrange for the record company to produce the music. This is also the job of their publisher.
With such efforts, another week has passed, and the progress of the game is progressing rapidly like a train on the track.
But at this moment, Meng Shu received an emergency call from Infinite Entertainment.
The person who came was none other than Manager Lian, who had been communicating with him for a long time.
"Plagiarism?"
In the office, Meng Shu crossed his legs and frowned as he listened to the news from his supervisor on the phone.
[Yes, Mr. Meng, haven't you paid attention to the latest games released? One of them is very similar to "Dark Forest" and is also a survival horror game called "Dark Forest". ]
Meng Shu:......
Can this name be obtained any lower?
"Um, so what's going on?"
Manager Lian on the other end of the phone was stunned when he heard Meng Shu's unresponsive words, and expressed some confusion.
[Mr. Meng, this game has plagiarized your gameplay. It seems to have settings and stitched some other game elements into it. It’s like re-skinning your "Dark Forest" and adding something else. Just take it out and sell it. ]
"I know, what's the problem?"
Manager Lian:......
[Mr. Meng, your game has been plagiarized. Isn’t that a problem? ? ]
The female voice on the other end of the phone looked surprised, as if she didn't understand why Mr. Meng, a businessman, didn't pay much attention to this kind of thing.
In her opinion, that is using the popularity and traffic of your game to sell his game!
Even if you, the developer, don't care, then we, as publishers, must show our attitude!
This can be regarded as making money through our games!
Meng Shu sat in front of the computer, shrugged, straightened his posture, and touched the mouse.
"Which platform?"
[ah? ]
Manager Lian was stunned for a moment, and then reacted immediately.
[Cyber platform and Xiyou platform. Xiyou is our competitive platform in China. Behind it is a listed company similar to ours called Jiyou Network. ]
Is Jiyou Network...
No impression
Meng Shu shook his head, directly clicked on the cyber platform, and searched for "Jumanji".
The moment he saw the search results, he was stunned, with some disbelief on his face.
Good guy!
This game actually...
Sold for 168 yuan! ?
Is this a masterpiece?
I only sold it for 69 yuan!
"Is this game so expensive?"
Meng Shu casually clicked in, ready to find out.
After hearing this, Manager Lian immediately spoke to explain.
[The consistent style of technology games is that the prices of the games they develop are generally two to three times higher than the average, and the games they publish are twice as expensive as those on the market, regardless of whether they are good or bad. There have even been cases where the price suddenly increased one hour after the product was released and sales were good. ]
Meng Shu frowned when he heard the news. Why did he feel a strong sense of familiarity... But after thinking about it for a moment, isn't this the parallel world version of SE?
The high selling price in the domestic region, the sudden price increase of "NieR Automata", and the famous pricing unit "Octopath Traveler" are all taking advantage of players in the domestic region.
So much so that after the highly-invested "Marvel Avengers" and "Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy" failed in the market, players started popping champagne.
Meng Shu didn't have much favorable impressions of such manufacturers. After expressing that he understood, he watched all the videos and screenshots on the display panel of "Jumanji".
Finally came to a shoddy conclusion.
If "Dark Forest" is deliberately made to have a pixel-like style, then "Dark Forest" has a completely crappy picture quality.
The viewing angle also adopts a vertical bird's-eye view, but the movement of the characters looks very floating, without the weightiness of "Dark Forest", and the shooting feel is not obvious. It requires hands-on experience, but the sound effects can be heard as very cheap.
The graphics of the entire game look very clean, unlike "Dark Forest" which is dark and weird.
This is obviously because the materials have not been processed during modeling, so the game screen looks new and clean.
I don’t know much about the others at the moment, after all, he hasn’t played them yet.
And the manufacturers are not fools. The pictures and videos naturally show the good side of the game.
The bad parts can only be known by playing it yourself.
Meng Shu scrolled down and looked at the game introduction.
There is a lot of content, roughly meaning:
'You are an ordinary intelligence officer. While performing a mission, you obtained a piece of intelligence that could change the victory of the war. When you escaped with the information, you accidentally entered this dense forest. Then you discover that there is an unknown existence in this area... a witch! During the day, you must explore the jungle in search of useful items. At night, you must use these items to fend off witch attacks in the dense forest. Your goal is to survive, travel through the jungle, and deliver information! '
Hmm... Just reading the introduction, it's quite interesting, but...
Meng Shu looked at the game reviews and saw that they were not pretty.
"The game was released the day before yesterday, and there were 96 reviews. Well... most of them had negative reviews."
Director Lian nodded in agreement, with a hint of a smile.
[Yes, the game was not copied well and the quality was not high. Players just didn’t buy it. ]
Meng Shu read the reviews and found that there were very few positive reviews and mostly scoldings.
0.4 hour passerby:
"I thought it was a spiritual sequel to "Dark Forest", but what the hell is this?"
3-hour passerby:
"Reading for 2 minutes, there are air walls everywhere, the picture quality is poor, the shooting fan's judgment, the witch piled blood without thinking, and caused me to have a cerebral hemorrhage, fuck!"
1 hour passerby:
"I believe you when you say this game is for money laundering. You can't copy "Dark Forest" even if it's in front of you. Horror games are caused by garbage manufacturers like you! And this is not a horror game!"
1.4 hour passerby:
"I don't recommend buying it. The game has obviously not been polished yet. There are obvious differences with the naked eye, and the optimization is not good, and the price is not close to the people. Anyone who knows it, you really have a technical game. It is recommended to buy it after a discount. If you are of the same type, you can play " Dark Forest", this is a horror game!"
1.4 hour passerby:
"You know how to make a horrible horror game. If you don't know how to make it, don't contaminate this category, Zhuo! When you see others making money, you immediately make a garbage trap and sell it for 168. You are obviously just trying to get away with it, so get lost!"
0.5 hour passerby:
"I'm a fool."
After reading the comments, Meng Shu had a general understanding of the game and couldn't help but chuckle.
Manager Lian was a little unsure of what this young entrepreneur was thinking.
[Mr. Meng, this game has been suspected of plagiarism, and we are going to ask the Ministry of Justice to sue them. ]
Hearing this, Meng Shu shook his head.
"I don't care. It's up to you what you want to do. After all, you are a publisher. But like I said before, I don't worry about other manufacturers making horror games to divide the market, and I don't care if they copy my games. "
"In a sense, their plagiarism, regardless of quality, will publicize us, which is a good thing. Moreover, they only copied the gameplay and some settings, and the plot and other things are still original. This, They are quite professional.”
"But if the prosecution for plagiarism of gameplay can be successful, most of the shooting games on the market will suffer. Not to mention..."
Meng Shu smiled and lit a cigarette.
"...Without their weaknesses, how can we highlight our strengths?"
"So, copy it, I don't care. But I chose to release it during the time when the trailer of "The Face" was released. I don't know if this is a good thing."
Octavia, the manager of Lian on the other end of the phone, noticed the key words in this sentence.
["The Face"... trailer? Mr. Meng, has your game been developed enough to release a trailer? ]
Meng Shu took a puff of cigarette and slowly exhaled it. Hearing this, he smiled.
"Not only can I announce the trailer, but I can also announce the release date. It just so happens that you can also help me promote it on the V blog. After all..."
Meng Shu pressed the switch button, and soon the computer screen jumped to the video upload page of Danmaku.com.
The progress bar above has already shown a 100% and approved reminder!
"...After all, the trailer just happened to be uploaded successfully..."
