Video Game Designer - Chapter 528

c526 unexpected sales

In a community in Huaxia Mountain City, Yang Zheng was sitting in front of the computer in the study late at night, constantly refreshing the TEU interface.

He is an independent game producer, the entire team only has 5 people, and they don’t even have a dedicated office space, all of them are scattered all over the world to work.

And now their game has gone through many difficulties, and it will finally be available to players.

Just like all independent game studios started, they also faced the biggest problem at that time, which was insufficient funds.

The game has been developed for more than a year, and even the program of the game is gone midway, and there is no line of code left.

Trying to develop the game, they also found a publisher in the middle, but there is no doubt that the other party didn’t like it at all.

First of all, the most important thing is the problem of code confusion in the game, and then the theme of the game itself, a text-oriented game, coupled with the complex and huge game structure.

Of course, it’s not that no one has expressed interest, but more of it is greed, such as buying out the entire game for 200,000 yuan.

But how could Yang Zheng and the others sell it?

How the game will be changed by the opponent’s second magic is another matter, but from the perspective of profit, they have invested so much effort in this game for two years, and the cost alone is almost 300,000 How could it be possible to sell it for 200,000 yuan?

But fortunately later, the domestic Tianhe Network and Wegame took the lead in carrying out a domestic stand-alone support plan.

From this plan, their game successfully got a quota and received 150,000 yuan of financial support. At the same time, they also gained a lot from the game content such as UI and novice guidance.

“Aigua, what’s the sales volume of the game? Today, we have a recommendation on TEU. Has the sales volume reached 1,000 copies?”

“The combined sales in the past few days are estimated to be less than 100. You can only comment after buying and playing the game for more than 5 hours or a week. I think there are less than 6 comments in our comment area, but fortunately they are all good reviews.”

A group chat popped up in the lower right corner of the computer desktop, and a person whose ID was called Wooden Barrel asked.

Although it’s just text, it seems that you can feel the other party’s complex emotions across the screen.

“I don’t know, I haven’t dared to go to the backstage of the producer to see it.” Yang Zheng, whose producer ID is short melon, quickly typed back.

“It’s okay, even if the sales volume of the TEU platform is not high, it’s okay. After all, this is a brand new platform, and most of the players are attracted by Tianhe Network, EA and Ubisoft. In addition, our “Prime Scrolls” can be said It is a martial arts-style MUD game, and it is expected that even if the sales volume is not high on a niche platform, and we can also log on to the steam platform and WEGAME.”

The other three people in only five chat groups offered words of comfort.

Although it has received stand-alone support funds led by Tianhe Network, it has not emphasized the platform restrictions on the game itself.

The main reason why they chose to launch on the TEU platform first is because they have received support funds from Tianhe Network. The copyright of the game is still in their hands, but the other party has a limited time profit share from digital sales, and a more important point.

That is, they can’t afford to advertise, and TEU promises that as long as the game passes the review, it will get an official recommendation for one day, which is what they value most.

They really need to let players know about this game.

Under the urging of the team members, Yang Zheng opened his producer background, and looked at the sales statistics of the game that day, and he was suddenly stunned.

He stared at the computer screen with his eyes wide open for a long time, and then he rubbed his eyes vigorously, only to realize that he was not mistaken.

+41326.

One math symbol, five numbers, bold red font.

More than 40,000 copies?

Staring blankly at the sales figure on the computer screen, Yang Zheng felt a little dazed.

On the other side, the other four members in the discussion group were still urging Yang Zheng.

“Short melon, what’s the sales volume? I think it should be able to pass 1000!”

“Glanced at the comment area, there were a lot of comments, and they were all good reviews. However, there were a lot of opinions on the style of our game, as well as the novice guide. At the same time, there seemed to be some special bugs in the game, and there were some optimization problems. Small problem.”

“No way, no money, everyone wants to do well, but there is not so much money, that’s why it was made with 150,000 support funds from Tianhe Network.”

The people in the group were particularly helpless.

“We seem to be developing.”

When the four people in the group were bragging and chatting to ease their tension, Yang Zheng, who was stunned for a long time, silently posted a sentence in the chat group, and then sent the sales screenshot to the discussion group without waiting for them to ask questions.

? ? ? ? ? ?

For a long time, there was no word in the discussion group.

After waiting for a few minutes, someone said, “Short melon, isn’t this the picture of P? Is there an extra number 6 added at the end?”

“No, it’s really our game, this is really our game sales, 40,000 copies!” Yang Zheng said very excitedly.

It was confirmed that this was true, and everyone was excited.

“Fuck, does that mean our games can make money? I don’t have to eat steamed Kung Fu fast food every day?”

“We set the price at 68 yuan. After deducting the 10% profit sharing that Tianhe Network provided us with, as well as the channel TEU and taxation, the five of us can share 2 million in total?” Someone counted the numbers, feeling a bit like living in a dream.

To use a cliché to describe it, happiness comes too suddenly.

“And the TEU official sent us a letter in the background, asking if we need to accept their technical assistance. They provide technicians to help us fix bugs and optimize the game, as well as provide modifications to art projects.” Yang Zheng continued. .

After finishing speaking, Yang Zheng added after thinking about it: “But TEU also has conditions. After accepting their technical support, subsequent updates to other platforms need to be one day later than TEU; or if we pay the salaries of the technicians, there is no need to let Delaying updates for other platforms.”

“Is there any need to think about it? It must be the conditions for accepting TEU’s support! As for other platforms, we don’t need to think about this matter for now. Let’s do a good job of the game first and lay a solid foundation. Don’t think about these things. The quality of the game is the foundation of our foothold.” The person whose ID is the president in the discussion group said quickly.

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And in an office on the fifth ring road of the capital, a small studio called ‘Playing Squid’ with only two people, also looked excitedly at the sales statistics of the game backstage.

The sales of 20,000 copies marked in red made them all excited.

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On the SuperData official website, the TEU sales list surprised everyone in the industry.

The few top-selling games are not surprising. They are all games owned by EA, Tianhe Network and Ubisoft, but the most important thing is that there is an additional independent game sales list listed on SuperData.

More than 20 independent games sold more than 10,000 on the first day, and according to SuperData’s statistics, most of the games listed on the TEU recommendation position are not bad.

And compared to the game evaluation on the steam platform, the game evaluation on TEU seems to be more scientific.