Genius Game Planning

Chapter 42 Some positive changes have taken place

At the end of the month, Zhang Jie and Peng Shuang also resigned from the company after receiving the project award. During this period, many people knew that Liu Neng had opened a game studio, and the former employees of Qicai Technology came to visit.And the boss of Qicai Technology knew, especially when he knew that the studio was in a park, he was so angry that he almost threw the table.

No matter how you say it, it all has some provocative taste in it.

However, these are not within the scope of Liu Neng's thinking for the time being.His recent troubles are related to the operation of "Happy Farm".

He did some research on game companies in this world, maybe not just game companies, and found that the situation is not very optimistic.

For example, in China, there is actually a relatively complete webpage promotion system, and the main products of many companies are webpage games.Compared with the R&D cycle of one or two years for casual games, the R&D cycle of web games is much shorter.Moreover, many web games nowadays are more used to, after large-scale deletion of some gameplay content of the end game, retain the core gameplay content and then make it into a web game for promotion.

Liu Neng's former owner, Qicai Technology, is a relatively well-known web game maker in China, and the company has its own web game platform under its umbrella.This is also what most web game companies are used to. They develop their own web games, and then promote and operate them through their own web game platforms.

The advantage is that all player account information is in their own hands, which is the foundation of their business for game companies.The disadvantage is that most web game platforms are not very big, and the games are often web games produced by their own companies, and they are indeed not very popular.

What's more interesting is that web games are relatively popular game categories in this era.Liu Neng finds it very strange that the CPU performance of computers in this world is very strong, but the graphics card performance is several generations behind.This has led to a lot of games—especially client games, even though the graphics of the game itself are very exquisite, but when it is moved to the player's personal PC, because of the relatively low-end graphics card, it can only run with relatively rubbish effects .

As for web games, the graphics are not much worse than those of end games.At most, because of the large amount of loading required, the gameplay of web games has been castrated too much, and the gameplay is much weaker.

However, some recent news made Liu Neng see many different things: ATI released a new generation of commercial graphics card Radeon9550, which can easily reach a refresh rate of 500~600MHz after simple overclocking. The performance of the graphics card at the current stage has been greatly improved.And soon there was news that ABM, a major graphics card manufacturer, wanted to acquire it and mass-produce this type of graphics card.

At the same time, the chip manufacturer VIDIA also released a new generation of graphics card 8800GTX, which made Liu Neng feel that the eve of a battle was about to start.At the same time, I also feel unprecedented benefits. For game companies, the expressiveness will be doubled, and many earth-shaking changes will take place in this industry in the future.

Another interesting thing is that some domestic social networking sites have gradually become clear.As a giant of instant messaging software, QC under Tengfei Software has defeated foreign opponents one by one. Although those foreign "famous companies" have not completely withdrawn from China for the time being, it should only be a matter of time before they withdraw.The SNS social networking, mainly two companies, is still in the melee.Among them, Campus.com mainly focuses on college students' social networking, and Happy.com mainly focuses on young people's urban youth socializing. Each is flourishing in its own field, but it has gradually felt a bit of gunpowder.Especially after the campus network changed the domain name from "xiaoyuan.com" to "laoyou.com", called Renqi.com, it began to set foot in the SNS social networking of urban white-collar workers, firing the first shot in the battle.

In the following period of time, in addition to continuing to improve the quality of "Happy Farm" itself, there is another important thing, which is to build the server.Zhang Jie actually understands these things relatively well, but he is just a server program, not an operation and maintenance program.Although it is reasonable that these two positions are interoperable in some places, it is somewhat wrong to ask a server to do operation and maintenance.

"Happy Farm" is unlike other web games that require a large number of servers to support user account data. The data structure of "Farm" is relatively simple, just like the game "Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period". If a group of servers can support 8000 players online at the same time, then in terms of the data structure of "Happy Farm", it can carry data X10 There is no problem.Of course, this is just an example. According to Liu Neng's estimation, a set of servers with fairly good performance can handle approximately 50W to 100W users.And another point is that games like "Farm" do not have a large number of players online at the same time.

At the same time, because the data of these players can be migrated and communicated with each other, when the pressure on a certain server is too high, some players' data can be migrated to other servers, and players will not feel this kind of fluctuation.This game actually has very low server requirements.

So in fact, the server is really no big deal. Now his biggest headache is that he was only working on projects before, and rarely did specific operations.A very important problem in front of him is that he can't do operations and marketing.In the past, he had made a complete set of operation plans for the games he produced.

But that is based on normal operating activities, that is, the game has already been launched, and the operating activities performed in the game.So he was ready to make two-handed preparations, especially when he saw the SNS social networking site in full swing, and felt that the account system he made was really a pain in the ass.In fact, social web games like "Happy Farm" are most compatible with those SNS sites.Liu Neng temporarily added a broadcasting system and an account importing system to this game to make some preparations for future events.

After figuring out these things, Liu Neng called everyone into the conference room for a short meeting for the first time, "I am very glad that you finally chose our Venus Game Studio. Although it is still a bit rudimentary, everything will become It's all right. Vice President Xu, you may need to be busy with something in the next period of time. The first is recruitment. Yes, we need to recruit some people. We lack a client program and need a plan. For our current team In other words, a planner is almost the same. I can do most of the planning work concurrently, but I will also be working on a series of games in the future. It is impossible not to recruit new system planners. Besides, I need you to recruit someone who understands Business and operation talents come here, one operation and maintenance."

Liu Neng made a general inventory, and there are already four people, and the general business and operation may not be the same person, so one needs to be added.

"What about art? I can do some UI work, but I'm not very proficient in original painting." Xu Jiaojiao asked.

Liu Neng thought for a while, "Look around and find a suitable original painting. You can hire it. But if you can't wait for a suitable one, you can temporarily stop it. Art can be outsourced, although it is relatively expensive. "

Xu Jiaojiao nodded to show that she understood, and Liu Neng continued to talk about her future plans, "In the next few days, I will go to Shanghai, the Shanghai city, to talk to the campus website and happy website about the cooperation, and everyone will go to the interview. Dim Sum, you can roughly set the salary standard yourself, and the suggestion is that it should be about 20% higher than the salary level in the industry.”

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