Reboot the age of gaming

Chapter 128 Virtual Idol Contest! (610 begging for subscription!)

Director Xie himself is not a star producer, nor has he done any particularly successful projects. The only ones worth mentioning may be "Xuehai Wuya" and Million Dazai, but they are not routine. game.

The top management obviously didn't trust Director Xie and the project's ability to develop conventional games at all, so they were not willing to invest money at all.

Zhong Ming could try to win by writing a detailed design concept draft, but after thinking about it, forget it, even if he wrote it, the chances are not great.

If it is a game with a relatively large investment, such as some high-quality bracelet games and computer games, the company will definitely not approve it. Even if the design draft is well written, it is estimated that the company will directly take it to some experienced teams for development. , will not be handed over to Director Xie.

If it is a game with a small investment, then it must be unique, and it must be completely different from the games on the market.But in that case, in the eyes of the company's top management, it may be a game of moths. There is no previous successful experience for reference, and most of them will not approve the project.

Therefore, the current situation is considered unsolvable, and it is not something Zhong Ming can win at all.

That being the case, it's better to calmly earn a two-month bonus, and then slowly find better opportunities.

Of course, if you want to get rid of these idleness, the best way is to start your own company, open a studio, and do your own projects, but the threshold in this world is very high.

If you want to make a very ordinary wristband game yourself, you need at least one office location, about 300 employees, and the shortest development time is two to three months.Considering some of the resources in the game, and the publicity after the game goes online, the minimum investment is [-] to [-] million.

Indie games are much cheaper, but also much riskier.

Where the money will come from is the question.

Pay by yourself?It is very difficult for Zhong Ming to earn two to three million yuan by himself now, because he does not want to sell the paintings and music in his hand cheaply.

A better way is to find venture capital, or to attach to a large company.Of course, there are other problems in doing this, that is, you will be controlled by others, and there will always be people who will tell you what to do, which is very uncomfortable.

Moreover, venture capital is not something that can be lured just by pulling it. Other venture capital companies don't just throw money at people on the street. If they want to get money, they still rely on eloquence and qualifications.

Zhong Ming has only graduated for more than two months and has a knitting qualification.

Does ability matter?Of course it's important. In fact, the venture capital side also hopes to see the ability of each producer, but this thing is false, and if you can't see it, you can only look at eloquence and qualifications.

Therefore, although some producers with successful projects have no ability, they can still cheat investors of their money by relying on their qualifications and tricks.Of course, these are just the corner of the chaos in the game circle, which is not surprising.

It's still a matter of earning the bonus at hand.

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Zhong Ming was fishing, when the small chat group of three people in the internal chat software sent a message.

Zhou Sen: "Zhong Ming, what's the matter, can I go to your project?"

Zhong Ming replied: "I told Supervisor Xie that the problem should not be serious. However, the matter of the new project is probably out of date. The superiors do not agree with us to make regular games, and will not give approval."

Zhou Sen: "Okay, then I will happily wait for the move."

After 2 minutes, Jiang Wanna also replied: "Then I'd better stay in "Mecha Age". Oh, by the way, Zhong Ming, have you heard about the virtual idol contest?"

"Virtual Idol Contest?" Zhong Ming was stunned for a moment, "I haven't heard of it."

Jiang Wanna conveniently sent a link: "Click to enter, do you want the three of us to cooperate?"

Zhou Sen: "Cooperation is nothing, I'm not interested. What kind of virtual idol, it's just a thing to deceive your female fans. It has no technical content at all. I am a serious programmer. I usually have to work hard to learn programming knowledge. I don't have time to do it. These moths."

"Oh, that's a pity. I think the third prize still has a bonus of 50 yuan." Jiang Wanna replied.

"Huh? The third prize is 50 yuan?! What about the first prize?" Zhou Sen asked.

Zhong Ming looked at it: "The first prize is 200 million yuan, and it will be responsible for the subsequent copyright operation of the avatar. Depending on the situation, there will be a share of the income."

Zhou Sen: "...Okay, add me. Such a big deal, which company did it?"

Jiang Wanna was speechless: "You click in and take a look yourself, it's all written on the webpage."

Zhong Ming was also browsing the page of the Virtual Idol Contest, and found that the organizer of this competition, he actually knew, was Xinghua Interactive Entertainment.

Although Xinghua Interactive Entertainment is also an interactive entertainment company, it mainly focuses on virtual idols, covering film and television, songs, dances, etc.Games are also made, but not the main business.

In terms of volume, it is much larger than Light Wing Interactive Entertainment.

Xinghua Interactive Entertainment is considered a big company in the world, and many of its subsidiaries are virtual idols for China, such as Su Bai, who is a frequent visitor at virtual idol concerts in various big cities.And a virtual idol like Dina has a good influence in other districts.

Similar virtual idol contests are held every year, but this time the battle is bigger.

This time, there are four levels of awards, the first prize is 200 million yuan, the second prize is 100 million yuan, the third prize is 50 yuan, and the excellence award is 10 yuan.

The awards for each category also have additional follow-up copyright operations and promotion agreements. In short, if you can win this award, your follow-up income will definitely not be small.

And the most important point is that there are two options for this competition, one is to buy out the copyright, that is, to directly sell the copyright of the virtual idol to Xinghua Interactive Entertainment. If you win the prize, the prize money will be doubled directly, that is, The first prize of 200 million becomes 400 million!And the follow-up income is also a lot, and Xinghua Interactive Entertainment will definitely spare no effort to help promote it; the other is to retain the copyright and simply participate in the competition, and you will still get a bonus, but the follow-up promotion, copyright operation, etc. will have to be done again. talked about.

In this kind of virtual idol competition, many event organizers directly buy out the copyright of the entries by default, which is relatively domineering. Xinghua Interactive Entertainment can be said to be relatively enlightened this time.

After all, the rich and powerful, doing so can attract more people to participate, and it can also give yourself a good name.

Strictly speaking, Xinghua Interactive Entertainment's behavior this time can be regarded as buying horse bones with a lot of money.

Xinghua Interactive Entertainment is so sure, is the work that won the first prize worthy of these prizes?Not necessarily, how can the virtual idols selected by the people be better than the virtual idols made by professionals in Xinghua Interactive Entertainment Company?

But the key point is an attitude. Xinghua Interactive Entertainment uses this event to promote its company and its virtual idols, and at the same time, it can attract all kinds of talents who want to enter this industry.

Zhou Sen thought about it for a while: "Well, there are three of us, one is in charge of design, one is in charge of modeling, and the other is in charge of programming. It's barely doable. But... what's the shortcoming? I've used all the awesome virtual idols. Motion capture, but also to develop special artificial intelligence programs for different personalities, we seem to be unable to handle these.”

(End of this chapter)