Game production, I entered the Star Iron shooting CG

They are also a key component of a game's revenue.

But even among such a critical group of players, some of them inexplicably stopped coming online after the launch of Star Iron.

Even the sales of their newly launched mythical beast saddles only reached 70% of the expectations.

At first, Wu Zhiqun thought it was a coincidence, but as the number of paying players in other games operated by Penguin increased, some also quietly left.

He sensed a bad trend.

Something is wrong. It's nine out of ten times wrong.

originally.

He also thought that Star Iron's pricing strategy would only attract some ordinary players, and due to the limitations of the two-dimensional subject matter, it should not affect the player group of Penguin Games.

But then the real-time online statistics of players sent by various project teams gave him a heavy blow.

They are all falling!

I just watch the data drop rapidly, but I don’t know the reason and I don’t even have a direction to adjust.

How could Wu Zhiqun sleep well after hearing this?

It is precisely because I don’t know the reason.

In addition, Xiao Ma Ge above put pressure on me.

He did not go home on New Year's Day. He was deep in thought in the company and pulled out a lot of his hair.

In the end, there was really no other choice, so Wu Zhiqun, who had never played the game before, even downloaded Star Tie and played for a while.

After all, only those who have actually played the game are qualified to comment on how good it is.

At first, Wu Zhiqun chose real-time combat, and then he couldn't get past the Doomsday Beast in the plot. Later, he switched to a turn-based system and barely passed it.

When it came to the stage of free exploration, Wu Zhiqun was completely dumbfounded.

The quality is too high.

Are players really paying for love? !

After being shocked, Wu Zhiqun’s first reaction was: Damn, how can I copy this?

Chapter 119: Vegetables, can this be cut by a knife?

Like Mihoyo, adjust the pricing strategy.

Can it attract lost players back?

If only it were that easy, Wu Zhiqun knew clearly that it would be useless to do so.

And if he really did that, the game would go from slowly dying to being completely dead, with even the coffin lid sealed.

Because it directly offended all the big spenders.

"Ask the Heavens" emphasizes conflicts and competitions among players. The big guys spend real money but can't beat the common people. Isn't that a joke?

In the Internet age, players have a natural tendency to compete.

What is character development in the game? In addition to satisfying the players' own sense of accomplishment, more people do it to defeat their opponents in PVP.

Where there are people, there will be competition and comparison.

This is inevitable.

To put it crudely.

The purpose of playing games is to show off. Everything players do in the game is to satisfy themselves. The kryptonian gold tycoons spent a lot of money to train the game characters. The stronger they are, the more they want to compete with others.

From a revenue perspective, PVP is indeed the most stimulating point for players to spend.

This is also the common operating logic of many games under Penguin, and it has been making money in this way for many years.

But Mihoyo's Star Iron completely cut off this piece?

Although PVP gameplay has not been released yet, Mihoyo has promised that PVP gameplay will be absolutely fair.

How the hell did you copy this?

I can't do this question! I can't do it!

The existing game operation logic can no longer be changed, so Wu Zhiqun can only place his hopes on several games that are still in the development stage.

As for now, he could only pray to God that the players were just playing Star Iron for the sake of novelty. After the novelty wore off, they would come back. After all, they had already spent so much money, they wouldn't just stop playing, right?

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Thursday, January 4th.

The New Year's Day holiday has just ended and Mihoyo's employees are full of energy.

However, this is also normal.

The boss is generous, bonuses are generous, and he is not vague about holidays. He is also capable in command and makes wise decisions.

Haven’t you seen how popular Star Iron is now?

Many employees, who went home during this holiday, were able to straighten their backs and say, "Have you heard of the Star Dome Railway? I participated in its production," when faced with questions from their aunts and uncles.

You gain both money and face at once!

Besides, Director Heita would come to the company occasionally, which was pleasing to the eyes. If Director Heita was in a good mood, I could learn a few tricks from her and benefit a lot.

It's really uncomfortable to work in such a company.

12 o'clock noon.

An Yi stepped into the company and walked towards his office while yawning.

I heard some noise coming from the work area on the way, so I went over to take a look out of curiosity.

It turned out that Qu Ziyi and his team were playing games openly at work. There were more than ten guys and two girls in the group playing the game enthusiastically...and the game they were playing was the mutation mode that An Yi asked them to make some time ago.

An Yi didn't say anything. He stood behind Qu Ziyi and watched quietly for a while.

This unnamed game is just a very crude demo. The map and gun models are acceptable, but the character modeling has not yet been done. The character models in Star Rail are still used as a temporary replacement.

Even the gunshots in the game were made by Qu Ziyi with his mouth, "da da da da...", which was quite exciting.

This kid might have learned Bbox.

After watching for a while, An Yi found that these young men were quite proactive. He just mentioned the airdrop supply mechanism, but they actually made it.

In the supply boxes, you can get special weapons against insect mutants to help humans survive.

At this moment, Qu Ziyi was shouting, "I'm out of bullets, cover me, cover me, I'm going to get the grenade." Then he jumped off the platform, and was immediately caught by the mutant who was hiding behind a wooden box under the platform and recovering his health.

Then Qu Ziyi turned around and rushed towards his teammates.

"Brother Ziyi has changed. Leave some blood. Don't beat him to death. Knife him, knife him."

"I'm so hot, who can beat me? You are not allowed to stay and work overtime with me tonight!"

"Hahaha……"

The atmosphere of the entire game production team suddenly became cheerful.

An Yi couldn't bear it anymore and quickly took off Qu Ziyi's headphones.

This guy is too weak, how can he be stabbed?

"cough……"

Hearing the cough, Qu Ziyi finally realized that it was An Yi who came over. He turned around and said awkwardly: "Boss An, we are testing the rationality of the map defense points and the airdrop supply placement locations..."

"I'm not blaming you. I think it would be unreasonable if the planner didn't play the game." An Yi looked at the screen again and said, "Not bad, it's already been completed in such a short time."

"The main reason is that all departments have come to help, and several maps are almost ready."

"Well, you've worked hard. But..." An Yi suddenly looked at Qu Ziyi with some disdain, and then said: "You're just too bad at fighting. Let me have a go!"

Qu Ziyi's heart was in his throat when he heard the twist in the words. He never thought that Mr. An was actually complaining about his poor gaming skills...

"This... I, I just want to give it a try..."

"Cooking, just practice more."

As he spoke, An Yi put on his headphones, greeted everyone in the group, and started another game.

The game was over quickly, and An Yi felt a little unsatisfied, but considering his position as a company leader, he put down the mouse.

Although this game is still in its infancy, the core gameplay is already there.

Putting aside the somewhat inconsistent character models, this is already a qualified game.

Thinking of this, An Yi stood up and left, saying at the same time: "Not bad, I thought it would take some time. I will go and confirm the original character drawings. Come to my office this afternoon to pick them up."

Quickly returned to the office.

An Yi quickly pulled out the digital screen, and when he picked up the pen, he couldn't help but chuckle. He was already the president of Mi, but he still had to be the original artist himself.

This reminded An Yi of the chairman of the empire in the original world, who was a painter by profession and later worked his way up from a society to the position of chairman.

But it seems that he hasn't painted for a long time.

Shaking his head to clear these distracting thoughts from his mind, An Yi began to conceive the original character painting.

Let’s start with the insectoid mutants.

Although Anyi has no plans to add special mutants for the time being, he wants to make an authentic biochemical mutation model first.

But even so, there must be a distinction between parent and secondary variants.

Breeding...assimilation...

Recalling the specific details of the early outbreak of the locust plague in the story told by Heita, an inspiration flashed through An Yi's mind.

Chapter 120 Press E to transform into human hope!

The Insect King became a Star God with the concept of reproduction. When an insect swarm arises due to his destiny power, the first things to be affected must be things closely related to the birth of new life.

Obviously, apart from the soldiers who came into contact with the Zerg on the front battlefield, the pregnant women waiting to give birth in the rear hospitals were most likely another group of people who were affected first.

However, it is certainly impossible for Anyi to take the image of a pregnant woman as the mother.

That's too much 18G.

Not to mention whether players can accept it or not, it will not be easy to pass the review process.

After much thought, I decided to downplay the concept of pregnant women.

Thinking about this, An Yi created a new canvas and slowly sketched out the image in his mind.

This time he did not use Mihoyo's usual two-dimensional character painting style, but instead changed to a thick painting realistic style using large blocks of color to start the draft.

Because after his trial play just now, he found that the integration of two-dimensional characters, realistic scenes and guns was still too poor, so it would be better to unify them all into a realistic style.

Only for a moment.

A tall but very thin young woman appeared on the screen. She was wearing a torn blue and white striped hospital gown. The strap of the only slipper left on her foot had long been broken, and the other shoe was long gone.

She had a warm and gentle smile on her face, which showed her hope for new life. However, part of her skin was broken, and what was exposed in the wound was not flesh and blood, but the chitinous shell unique to insects.

The maternal tenderness is organically combined with a unique gloom, and an eerie aura permeates her whole body.

If you ignore the sharp limbs that may grow between her palms at any time, at first glance, she looks very confusing, like a refugee who has escaped death from a disaster.

Of course, this was just her instinctive disguise. In fact, her human thinking had disappeared, and what remained was only her obsession with increasing the number of her kind.

Whenever she gets the chance, she approaches humans and assimilates them.

An Yi also specially drew two images for her: normal state and attack state. In the normal state, most of the Zerg features were covered by the torn hospital gown, and she looked like an ordinary human woman in distress. Even half of the white could be seen from the missing button under the collar.

When in attack mode, it is very terrifying. Its originally gentle facial expression becomes distorted, and sharp limbs grow between its palms, ready to tear apart any approaching humans at any time.

After checking the various details and drawing the corresponding three views, An Yi nodded with satisfaction.

Some text notes were added next to it: mother body, fast movement speed, strong jumping ability, and higher life limit.

After writing this, An Yi paused.

I imagined some exclusive skills in my mind that suited this character design.