At this moment, Chen Mo's phone rang.
Chen Mo saw that the caller was Zhao Zihao, a close buddy of his in college.
"Hello?"
Zhao Zihao's incoherent voice came from the phone: "Chen Mo, can you be the champion of the game design competition? It's so boring not to tell my buddies!"
Chen Mo smiled: "I just settled down, there are too many things. How do you know this?"
Zhao Zihao said: "Ask me how I know, you're going to be popular! The video of you yelling at the judges in the competition has already been uploaded on the Internet!"
Chen Mo was speechless: "Huh?"
Zhao Zihao said: "Go and see for yourself. By the way, do you have time tonight? The three of us haven't had a good time together after graduation. It just so happens that you have also obtained the status of a game designer this time, and you have earned a lot of money as an individual." Inspection shop, this is not a treat?"
Chen Mo said with a smile: "Okay, treat. Then you can call Lin Mao when the time comes."
Zhao Zihao said: "Okay, then it's settled. In this way, I will pick up Lin Mao first, and then go directly to your experience store, and then we can discuss what to eat. Let's make an appointment at four o'clock in the afternoon. See you soon."
Chen Mo said, "Okay, see you soon."
In the memory of the parallel world, Chen Mo had two very good buddies in college. The three of them were not in the same major, but they all entered the game industry.
Zhao Zihao is a rich second generation, and his family seems to be engaged in a traditional industry. Chen Mo doesn't know the specific situation, but he just knows that this person is not very short of money.
However, Zhao Zihao is not a game designer. He has opened his own studio and established a game guild. The content includes but is not limited to: power leveling, gold making, game channel promotion, etc.
This company is not too big, but the wages of the employees are not low, and all of them are good gamers, and those who play poorly in the game will not be paid.
These employees can basically be regarded as playing games with Zhao Zihao, other jobs are incidental business, and no one cares whether the company is losing money, anyway, Zhao Zihao himself is purely for fun.
Some time ago, Chen Mo heard that Zhao Zihao intended to start a club, but the investment was too high, so he hadn't made a decision yet.
Zhao Zihao himself has no airs. He is not like a rich second generation in the traditional concept. He spends all day thinking about playing games. When he was in college, he often went to Internet cafes with Chen Mo and the others. A friend, Lin Mao, jokingly called it: "The body of a rich second generation, but the heart of a dick."
And Chen Mo's other buddy, Lin Mao, is a game designer like Chen Mo, and has obtained the qualification of a D-level designer almost immediately after graduating from university. Now he is concentrating on developing his own independent game.
Among the three, Chen Mo majored in literature, Zhao Zihao majored in finance, and only Lin Mao graduated from a major in game design.
The three of them have known each other since their freshman year in a game club at school, and they have always had a very good relationship, and they are also one of the few good friends of Chen Mo in this world.
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At noon, Chen Mo went around the neighborhood to familiarize himself with the environment around the experience store, then found a small restaurant, went in and ordered a rice bowl.
By the way, he took out his mobile phone and read the news.
Sure enough, the game competition was reported by many game sections of the media, and there were quite a few people who participated in the comments.
"Game Design Contest Ends, Who Will Get the 300,000 Bonus and Experience Store?" "
"A Fantastic Bird Wins the Game Design Contest!" "
"Live Audience: It feels like the most abusive game in history"
"350 hours of game time for 700 viewers, this game is poisonous! "
"The Judges Criticize: Can This Be Considered a Game? ! "
"flappybird designer: the judges have no objective spirit"
"The founder of Hengyou.com blew up this small game to the sky"
Chen Mo flipped through the news, and basically reproduced the scene of the game, but these media focused on the quarrel between Shi Huazhe and him, obviously trying to use this as a gimmick to stir up the topic.
There are also live videos, Shi Huazhe's comment session and Chen Mo's final speech, which were played repeatedly, and the popularity was very high.
Chen Mo didn't care about these things. For him, it was a good thing for him to have the media to help him stir up popularity. The more players who knew him, the lower the user cost of releasing the game in the future, and saved a lot of publicity costs.
There is a term in this era called attention economy, which is also applicable to the game industry.
The richer the information, the more precious the user's attention is. For the same two games, one is not noticed by anyone, while the other has been hotly discussed before it is released, so even if the quality of the latter is not as good as the former, it will The income will be much higher than the former.
If you have a fan group of 5,000 people, and the fans in the group obey you, then you can count on this fan group to support yourself, whether it is through Taobao stores, game channels or any other monetization methods, you can do it at this point.
At this time, Chen Mo noticed that a game media published an exclusive interview with Shi Huazhe.
On the screen, Shi Huazhe's face was very ugly, and he said to the camera: "What I said to this player Chen Mo was to persuade him as a person who has experienced it, but he took it as me to belittle him. It's really ridiculous."
"I still hold the same point of view. The game industry is an industry that requires sincerity and accumulation. It is impossible for Chen Mo to go far. I think his next game will not sell more than 100,000 in the first month. "
Chen Mo laughed, this Shi Huazhe is really stubborn, anyway, no matter how he is bullied, he will never admit defeat.
Chen Mo opened Weibo silently.
His Weibo has already passed the real-name authentication, and after becoming a d-level designer and the champion of the design competition, all the information has been updated.
Chen Mo directly reposted the interview on Weibo, and then added a comment: "Don't you want to eat something?" Then @ the official blogs of several game media.
You have to make trouble with me, right? Okay, buddy, I'll stay with you to the end!
After a while, Chen Mo's Weibo exploded!
The official blogs of several game media found that Chen Mo actually responded, and they all smelled "making a big news" and forwarded it one after another!
Game Information Network, Tianji.com, WeChat Game Channel... Even an executive from Dynasty Interactive Entertainment forwarded it!
After such a commotion, a large number of players noticed Chen Mo's Weibo!
"Chen Mo? Is this the champion of the design competition?"
"Is it me?"
"It must be, you see there is a real-name authentication."
"Fuck, what kind of trouble is this going to be? Is it going to die to the end?"
"Young man has great character, I admire you!"
"What does he mean by that sentence? What does he want Shi Huazhe to eat?"
"... Upstairs, has your village just connected to the Internet?"
These players directly cheered up in Chen Mo's Weibo comments.
What Chen Mo said, "Don't you want to eat something?" is actually a stalk, because people often predict on the Internet, and then they often add a sentence "Don't eat Xiang" or "I'll eat the mouse if you don't allow it", etc., to make a gimmick. There are all kinds of things, all kinds of strange things, so when encountering forecast posts, many netizens will reply: "Don't you want to eat something?"
The meaning of Chen Mo's words is very clear: "Shi Huazhe, you said that my next game won't sell 100,000 copies in the first month. What if it breaks? What don't you want to eat?"
Soon, the retweets and replies on this Weibo began to skyrocket, one hundred, three hundred, five hundred!
Moreover, enthusiastic netizens are still helping @史华哲 one after another, it’s simply not too big a deal to watch the excitement.
Chen Mo was much calmer than Shi Huazhe, so he didn't take this matter to heart. In fact, Chen Mo doesn't dislike hype. If hype can bring attention to his next game, why not do it
Soon, Shi Huazhe replied: "Boring!"
Chen Mo laughed, Shi Huazhe really didn't dare to gamble.
In the comments on Weibo, the onlookers sighed, and some people continued to fan the flames, encouraging Shi Huazhe to bet with Chen Mo, eating keyboards or mice.
Shi Huazhe simply pretended to be dead and never replied again.
Chen Mo smiled and put the phone away. To him, this was nothing more than a small episode, so there was no need to take it to heart.