Chapter 94: Handing Control to Players
Independent Games Festival.
It lasted for a week before it was successfully completed.
As the event came to an end, games that received good responses gradually emerged and appeared in the players' field of vision.
Among the dozen most popular ones, more than half were produced by independent game developers and have received wide acclaim from players.
certainly.
"Human: Fall Flat" produced by Honghuang is also among them.
Stand out from the crowd of studio works .
This made the old employees who were responsible for making this game very happy.
Early in the morning.
Under the chairmanship of Lao Song, they gathered in the conference room to make the final decision.
"What to do, I'm a little nervous."
“I wonder whose level is the most popular.”
"I'm nervous too, but let's make it clear first, let's compete fairly, and those who are not selected should not be anxious."
"Of course. If you are not as skilled as others, you can just go back and practice."
"Our group is probably on the ropes, so whoever is chosen should remember to treat us."
“I agree!”
Just as the employees were discussing nervously, the door of the conference room opened and Chen Lin, Lao Song and Lao Li walked in from outside.
Seeing the information in their hands, everyone was startled and fell silent instantly.
"Okay, I've invited Mr. Chen to come as a witness for this team leader selection. Everyone, take your seats."
Old Song coughed twice, walked to the front of the stage and started the meeting directly.
The big screen behind him also lit up with the game data that had just been counted.
You can see it.
In this week alone, more than 500,000 players played Human: Fall Flat.
Although it was due to the free trial, it still exceeded their initial expectations .
The most playable level, which has an exaggerated 71% play rate, was developed by one of the most experienced teams that is most familiar with the game market.
When the old employee saw that the first level was designed by his team, he was immediately excited, and others also cast envious glances at him.
It was just as expected.
After Lao Song read it out loudly, the old employee became the leader of the first group and stood up amid congratulations.
Then, the leaders of the second, third and fourth groups were determined one after another.
All of them were selected based on their performance in this game and their overall performance in daily life.
"Okay, today's meeting ends here. I'll contact you individually to arrange work later."
“Others who were not selected should not be discouraged. When the studio develops in the future, there will be plenty of opportunities for you.”
After hearing what Lao Song said , the eyes of those employees who were disappointed because they were not selected were rekindled with fire.
Yeah, this is just the beginning.
As the studio develops in the future, there will be more and more positions and there will be plenty of opportunities waiting for them!
"Then Mr. Chen, we will go back first."
After saying something to Chen Lin, everyone left the meeting room and started to go back to prepare for the team establishment in advance.
After they all left, Old Song turned to look at Chen Lin with a serious expression.
"Something happened?"
Chen Lin knew him best and couldn't help but ask.
Old Li next to him looked over curiously.
"Well, it's just a little trouble." Lao Song nodded. "I did as you said. As soon as the event was over, I contacted those independent game authors with good results and invited them to join Honghuang, but they were all preempted by other manufacturers."
"Is it so fast?"
Chen Lin supported his chin with his hands crossed, looking thoughtful.
In addition to selecting team leaders, another purpose of having employees participate in the Independent Game Festival this time is to demonstrate their strength in front of independent game authors in order to better recruit them.
After all, they have just started out, and what they lack most is talent in production. It also takes a long time to train new people.
And this independent game event.
It is also a stage for independent authors to showcase themselves and hope to get offers from major domestic companies.
"It seems that other manufacturers have the same idea as us. Is it because they offer higher salaries than us?"
"That's not the case." Old Song shook his head.
"What's that? The salary we offer is no lower than those big factories." Old Li looked confused.
Old Song glanced at him and said, "It's the size."
"Those independent authors care more about the size of a company. I've talked to several of them before, and they all thought our studio was too small. They said they would consider it, but ended up switching to other big companies the next day."
"This... It's fine that we don't look down on them, but they look down on us because we are small in size?" Old Li could no longer sit still and his temper immediately flared up.
really.
Although Honghuang is not ranked high in the country, they have produced several popular games, which are not comparable to ordinary studios and small factories.
Even this is despised, it's really out of line.
"There's nothing we can do about it. After all, when the pay isn't that different, most people still prefer working for large, well-known companies," Lao Song said helplessly.
"And this is not the most important reason. The reason why independent authors choose big companies is also because of this reason."
As he spoke, he picked up the tablet, opened the page and handed it over.
Chen Lin and Lao Li looked at the computer and found that it was the game review of this Independent Games Festival.
[Professional Review (General): This game is really good and is a fun choice worth playing with friends, but it has a huge flaw: there are too few levels! It is easy to become boring due to repetitive content. ]
[Xigua Review (average): It can be seen that the object collision and design have been carefully considered, but there are indeed too many bugs. It doesn't look like a game made by a well-known studio. Outsourced? ]
【Old Man Wu’s review (bad): Jumping blocks, climbing walls, moving things, that’s all the content, the graduates can do better than this!】
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"Why are these guys spewing shit?"
Old Li glared at him. Although he was not responsible for this game, he had tried his best to make all other aspects good except for the unconventional style of painting.
And anyone with a discerning eye can see that this game was so popular at the Independent Games Festival. Is this something a bad game could achieve?
These people are simply lying with their eyes open!
"Okay, it's just business competition. It's not like you haven't seen it before."
Chen Lin's expression remained unchanged, as he could tell the nature of these comments at a glance.
Whether it is smear campaign by peers or real comments, the result is the same.
That is to distort the ordinary players' initial impression of this game.
When men and women are in love, they all say that the first impression is very important.
What’s more, it’s a click-and-play game?
Now what they have to do is to erase the impact of these negative comments.
"Then what should we do? These comments are officially disclosed to the public by the event, and we don't have the right to delete them." Lao Song asked.
"It's very simple." Chen Lin smiled slightly.
"Didn't they say that our game has little content and low playability? Then we will just hand over the control to the players and let them make the game themselves!"
