Say Yes To Making Bad Games, What the Hell is Titanfall? Chapter 3

  Chapter 3 Ready to take off

Add money?

  Gu Sheng was taken aback for a moment.

  In the past, when he was making games, what he heard most was that the budget was too high and investment needed to be controlled.

   But I have never seen a boss who offered to increase the budget!

   It stands to reason that this is a good thing, willing to increase the budget, it shows that the boss believes in his ability.

but…

   Looking at his plan, Gu Sheng felt a little worried—

  Where should I start to increase the budget?

   You should know that the only fee that needs to be paid for this "Cat Leo" is the license fee for the licensed version of the Flash game development platform!

   “As for character modeling and UI design, I drew them all by myself.”

  Gu Sheng said that with a guilty conscience.

   As she spoke, she even peeked at Shen Miaomiao.

   After all, such a game design process does sound too sloppy.

   Sure enough!

   After listening to Gu Sheng's words, Shen Miaomiao frowned: "You drew it all yourself?"

   "Uh, yes." Gu Sheng grinned and nodded.

   "Didn't you spend a cent?" Shen Miaomiao asked.

   "Uh, um." Gu Sheng continued to nod.

  Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao slapped the sofa with a bang, which startled Gu Sheng:

   "How can that work!"

   Saying that, Shen Miaomiao stood up and spoke righteously:

   "We, Golden Wind Game Company! We are a formal and professional game company!"

   "And you! Director Gu! You are the soul of our company! You are the commander! You are the superstructure!"

   "How can I do everything by myself? Is it worth the effort?!"

ah…?

  Shen Miaomiao's impassioned speech made Gu Sheng a little confused:

   “…but I finished it in ten minutes.”

"That's not OK!"

  Grandma, how can I increase my budget if you cover everything!

  How can I lose money without increasing my budget!

  How can I make money without losing money!

   "Outsource! Must Outsource!"

  Shen Miaomiao waved her little hand:

   "I checked yesterday, and the production of a game requires a lot of people and financial support, such as art, levels, programs, etc., often cost tens of millions!"

   "Just make arrangements! You don't have to worry about money!"

   "Our purpose in making games is - not to seek the best! But to seek the most expensive!"

  Gu Sheng: …

   But I just want to get a cat Leo!

   A flash game!

  Obviously my art level is completely enough!

  Why do you need an outsourcing team?

   Did you burn too much money? !

   "Boss, that's it,"

  Gu Sheng really couldn't bear to cheat fools into spending money:

   "The soul essence of this game lies in its abstract and scribbled style of painting. If you switch to outsourced art design, you may not be able to achieve this effect."

  Stop it! Little Nezha! You can't do that even if you have money!

   But unexpectedly, little Nezha waved his hand as if determined to prodigal:

   "Hey—Director Gu's words are wrong!"

   "Change your thinking, can't we let the outsourced art, according to your template, carry out a one-to-one reproduction?"

   One word! Just silenced Gu Sheng!

  Do you know what you are talking about?

  Gu Sheng felt that his CPU was about to burn:

   "Then may I ask... what is the meaning?"

   It seemed that he had expected Gu Sheng to ask this question, but Shen Miaomiao smiled calmly.

   Put his arms around Gu Sheng, who had a bewildered expression, and patted him on the shoulder:

   "You don't understand this, do you know the brand effect?"

   "Would you like to hear more about it?" Gu Sheng bent down slightly and looked at Shen Miaomiao.

  Little Nezha is a head shorter than him. In order to cooperate with the boss's pretentiousness, Gu Sheng needs to condescend a little.

   "We are a newly established company with little reputation,"

  Shen Miaomiao raised an eyebrow at Gu Sheng, persuasively:

   "So, in order to make a name for yourself, we need to build up the reputation of those famous people in the industry. Only in this way can we make the first shot!"

"Wow-"

   Gu Sheng pretended to sigh, with an ambiguous attitude.

  Obviously, I still feel that Nezha's actions are very unfair.

  However, the boss said so, and he couldn't refute it.

   Anyway, it's not his money, so let's make it.

"Oh well,"

  Gu Sheng sighed inwardly, shrugged:

   "Then I'm wasting money... No, did I increase the cost?"

   "Throw! Throw hard!"

  Shen Miaomiao smiled happily, with a look of 'I like you':

   "Just 'just do' the game! Don't save me money!"

  In the afternoon of that day, Gu Sheng took Little Nezha's concept of injustice as his guiding ideology.

  Under the premise of keeping the original screen gameplay unchanged, take off your pants and fart as much as possible.

  In this parallel world, there is a website called "Game Factory".

   This is a gathering place for game production practitioners, covering creative planning, art design, UI production, modeling and rendering, engine provision, etc.

  Gu Sheng entered the website, directly using the method of "sorting quotations from high to low", and began to contact top practitioners in various fields including art, UI, and programming, and asked them to subcontract to produce this seemingly inferior and abstract game.

  But you must know that those powerful practitioners don't take on every job.

  Especially a simple and clumsy little game like "Cat Leo".

  Many well-known practitioners refused at a glance, because the price of doing this thing is too cheap, and they don't accept how much money they give.

  Thus, Gu Sheng could only keep backward compatibility.

finally!

  After a whole afternoon of searching for communication!

  Gu Sheng barely made this 'Gold-plated' Cat Leo with a total cost of 10,000 yuan, and it is scheduled to be released tonight.

   Prodigals also need ability, and he really tried his best.

  After hearing Gu Sheng's report, although Shen Miaomiao was still not very satisfied, she could only nod her head, reluctantly accepting it.

   Ten thousand is ten thousand.

  Ten times as much as 100,000, which is better than 200 yuan.

   Ready to take off!

  Shen Miaomiao felt secretly refreshed in her heart.

  I really know pigs with eyesight (that's right), and I have bound such a great intelligence as Gu Sheng.

  Now, I need to think about how to comfort Director Gu.

  After all, if Director Gu saw zero results when he woke up tomorrow morning, he would definitely feel bad.

   "Hmm... how should I comfort Mr. Wolong in my family? It's really nerve-wracking, **** ho **** ho..."

  Eight o'clock in the evening!

   Shark live room game area!

   "Thank you Jiehouer for giving me a big flyer, thank you..."

   "Thank you biabiabia for sending 99 cards, thank you boss..."

  A Yin, who had just finished today's game promotion session, twisted his neck and thanked the bosses who collected gifts:

   "If you are interested, you can click the icon in the lower left corner of the screen to enter the game, Dragon Slaying Sword, click to give it away, I will wait for you in Shacheng."

  In the live broadcast room, a barrage of cheers floated by—

  'It's fun, I've already charged 100,000'

  'Great, the house has been sold for krypton gold'

  'Professional test sensitive skin can also be used'

  'Crying for the wrong grave buddy (dog head)'

  'Outrageous hahahahahahaha...'

  'Just finished taking a shower, and the dinner session is over? '

  'Wuhu! Mentally retarded game evaluation is coming! '

  'The boss changed the disc! '

   'Feature begins...'

  As the head anchor of the game zone, A Yin has many fans.

  And viewers who often watch A Yin's live broadcast know that 8 o'clock every night is the happiest moment in the live broadcast room.

  Because during this period of time, A Yin will randomly select games on the game platform that seem to be the most mentally retarded, and conduct play evaluations.

  Each game was tested for 20 minutes, and the audience decided to "stay" or "carry away".

  Looking at the voices and small gifts all over the screen, A Yin nodded:

   "Come on! Let's see how many lucky ones will be carried away today!"

   Talking!

  A Yin opened Yiyou Platform, an independent game publishing platform, known as a small valve in China.

   After some checks!

  A Yin focused on the three entries of "small size", "stand-alone" and "price 1-10 yuan".

  Bear the brunt!

  A game that was just released came into view—

   "Cat Leo"

  (end of this chapter)

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