Game Development: I Built a Game Empire

In about a week, the popularity of "The Shore of the Land" on the Internet still hasn't gone down.

But at the same time, there are already some similar games appearing.

"Three Kingdoms" type of games, there are no game manufacturers on the market to do.

Mainly because the sense of déjà vu is too strong, and "Three Kingdoms" itself is the product of the official tour of the Game Committee this time.

There are a few more things to worry about.

After all, "Three Kingdoms" is such a game, no one knows if this gameplay can be liked by players if it is changed to a different framework.

But "The Shore of the Land" is different.

Unlike this model of "Three Kingdoms", "The Shore of the Land" gives more game designers the feeling that it shows a new direction for SLG.

Even if you don't do the Three Kingdoms, there are still many themes that you can do.

The Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, the Chu and Han dynasties fought for hegemony, and if it was really not possible, they moved the battlefield abroad.

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At this time, Chen Xu and his team had already moved to a new workplace.

Tianda Plaza in the urban area is exactly three floors, the first floor is used as an experience store, and the second and third floors are used as office spaces, and the sound insulation effect is also better.

Although the cost is not small, it is completely affordable for the current game of the storm.

Of course, the difference between the experience store and the previous free trial is that now there is a fee.

15 yuan an hour, which is about the same price as the average high-end Internet café, even in the imperial capital, it is relatively expensive.

However, in fact, counting the rent and a daily manual operation, it is actually still a loss.

But Chen Xu didn't expect to make money from this thing, but more to make contact with players and then understand their feedback.

And the newly opened experience store, there are actually quite a lot of customers coming in.

On the one hand, the students at the school will also come to experience it after they know that Chen Xu has opened an experience store.

The other is that there are also a lot of players in "The Shore of the Land", and they all come in to experience it.

Especially when a player posted on the forum, saying that on the day of the opening of Chen Xu's experience store, Liu Bei was drawn in it, which made many players near the imperial capital also rush to experience a wave.

"It's not scientific, I am in the experience store and the company every day, and I can't draw Liu Bei. Hearing the movement of the players on the first floor, Qin Yi smacked his lips a little strangely.

"Okay, you really believe in such metaphysical things. Chen Xu, who heard Qin Yi's words next to him, was a little speechless.

"This is the third in the past few days!" Qin Yi expressed disbelief.

"There have been hundreds of people in the past few days, isn't it normal for 3 to come out, and maybe they are kryptonite bosses. Chen Xu said speechlessly.

Chen Xu will not do such a thing as a card lock rate.

Although there is no so-called guaranteed mode in the game, there is actually a guaranteed card draw.

And Chen Xu didn't deliberately set it high, and the explosion rate of the constant card draw would be infinitely higher.

Therefore, even if you are an ordinary monthly card player, if you insist on playing, you will be able to put together a complete lineup for a period of time.

After all, even if you know that "The Shore of the Land" is a long-term game, as long as it is a game, it has vitality, and it is really too much to rely on "The Shore of the Land" for a lifetime.

Since he didn't want to eat for the rest of his life, Chen Xu would not deliberately engage in any card lock rate, or launch various krypton gold content that affects the balance in order to make a profit.

There's no need for that.

"Mr. Chen, there have been a lot of games similar to our "Shore of the Land" on the Internet recently. Chen Qingzhu next to him leaned over and said to Chen Xu.

"Yes, even some small manufacturers have just changed their skins!" Zhao Shan said indignantly.

"What about Tenghua's big factories?" asked Chen Xu.

"These big factories haven't done it, after all, it's a game for the Game Committee to march, and I guess I'm still a little worried. Zhao Shan said.

"Then don't worry about it, these games are imitated, most of them are death. Chen Xu smiled and said.

He wasn't worried about that at all.

Why did even he dare to use "Genki Knight" to accumulate start-up funds in the early stage, and then rely on "Three Kingdoms" to accumulate popularity before he dared to make an SLG game like "The Shore of the Land"?

Because this genre, although it is a niche genre, it is different from the genre of text adventure and visual novel games.

SLG is not something that a small factory can play.

Because of its unique characteristics, it takes enough players to keep this game alive.

And it is a niche genre itself, and it is quite difficult to get started, which is destined to require huge promotion costs, and only by pushing the game away can there be enough player ponds.

In addition, compared with ordinary SLG games, the genre of "The Shore of the Land" is more difficult to get started than similar SLGs.

So this is why he used pan-entertainment marketing in the early days, mainly to select player groups in a targeted manner.

The second is that the core of "The Shore of the Land" seems to be in the gameplay, but in fact, the real core is in the balance.

If the civilian player has no role in the game and has no sense of existence, then the gameplay of this game is like a castle made of sand, which will fall apart with a push.

Just imagine, if you add a setting to the march in "The Shore of the Land", you can spend jade talismans to fast forward directly, and then add another one that can spend money to buy physical strength, what will the whole game look like?

If it's a big factory like Tenghua, it's a threat.

But the average small factory wants to do "The Shore of the Land"?

Chen Xu is not alarmist, if you come to die one by one, you can die a hundred if you come to a hundred.

In the previous life, "The Shore of the Land" was operated for four years, and there was a third war later.

And the three wars are not ordinary small characters, but real industry predators.

The big IP of Three Kingdoms, coupled with the promotion of Ali, can be said to be a top combination.

Therefore, for some small and medium-sized manufacturers who want to make games similar to "The Shore of the Land", Chen Xu can be said to be not worried at all.

"Download these games, play them seriously, and write me an analysis book when the time comes. After chatting for a few words, Chen Xu took out a list and handed it to several people.

"Huh...... Real-time strategy games?Mr. Chen, are we going to make a real-time strategy game next!" After seeing the name of the game on the paper, Qin Yi was surprised.

Hearing this, Chen Qingzhu and Zhao Shan were also a little surprised.

"This is a game that is more suitable for our game of the game at the moment. Facing the surprised gazes of several people, Chen Xu nodded lightly.

Real-time strategy, but also RTS, is also the type of game that Chen Xu chose after doing some market research.