It is unclear what kind of changes Yunmeng Group's AR equipment will bring to the industry, but the impact of the birth of "Minecraft" on the Xia Kingdom gaming industry can be seen with the naked eye.
In just three days, seven well-known game studios announced plans for new casual-themed games.
Prior to this, casual games were almost an even less popular category than FPS games. Except for card-themed games that were barely related to casual games and were still somewhat popular, pure casual games were almost unpopular for several years. Can't see a new one.
It is worth mentioning that two of these seven game studios are owned by Sea Lion Group.
When PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds first came out, Sea Lion Group released a promotional PV for the chicken-themed game "Law of the Jungle".
However, now, the demo version of "Law of the Jungle" has not yet been produced, and the new game of Yunmeng Games has been released. This sea lion, which cannot take advantage of the hot weather, is really distressing.
Of course, these industry news and the overt and covert struggles between game companies have no impact on players, but are a beneficial and harmless thing.
After all, the more intense the competition among game companies, the more good games will be produced.
It’s better to have more and more themes to choose from than to be crazy about one category. For example, in the past two years, before Yunmeng Games, an industry disruptor, appeared, the entire Xia Kingdom's game industry was almost completely filled with RPG games.
No matter how good the quality of the game itself is, playing the same type of game too many times will make people feel bored.
This is true for ordinary players, and it is also true for those game area UP owners who rely on games.
For example, a fat guy named Zhou Xuan has become famous recently because of "Minecraft".
Speaking of Zhou Xuan, this guy is also quite miserable.
Although this kid is the anchor of the game area, the most viewed videos are all in the ghost area, and they all rely on the inarticulate songs of the Ziyuan brothers.
Now Brother Ziyuan's singing is becoming more and more normal, and he almost no longer sings in the dormitory. He has fewer and fewer opportunities to collect material. Although he also tried to make videos on World of Warcraft and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, his videos never had any highlights, so few people watched them.
Until recently, "Minecraft" suddenly became popular. He was bored and recorded a survival video on hell difficulty, and then titled it "**Survival Diary" and posted it on Station B.
It just so happened that during this period, the search volume and topic popularity of "Minecraft" on major platforms were both high. His video became popular all of a sudden, and he received 99+ reminders every day.
Zhou Xuan was also confused about those private message messages.
He never thought that his video would become popular, so he immediately hooked up with Wang Ziyi, the tool man in the dormitory, and made "** Survival Diary" into a series.
However, there is a fatal problem in all farming games, that is, once it reaches the later stage, as the equipment level is full, the difficulty of the game reaches the bottleneck, and after all the survival crises faced by the players are resolved, the game will start to become boring.
Especially his gaming talent itself is very strong.
Even on Hell difficulty, after getting through the rough early days.
On Day 5 of the Survival Diary, when Zhou Xuan finally cleared Hell and upgraded the Diamond Suit to the Hell Fire Rock Suit, the feeling of emptiness and loneliness became even stronger.
No matter how hard he organizes his life, no matter how much he creates goals for himself, it will be difficult to get the full effect of the show just by going out as he did in the early stages of development.
Unless you intentionally run into danger...
But this kind of deliberately created crisis can be seen by veteran players at a glance. He can even predict how those barrages will spray him to death.
Strictly speaking, "Minecraft" is not originally a survival game. The survival mode is just one of the many officially provided gameplays.
After several hours of hard thinking, Zhou Xuan finally made a decision. On DAY 6 of "** Survival Diary", he and Wang Ziyi built a circle of red stone traps and torches around the base, and surrounded the base. The entire island has become a safe zone.
he spoke into the microphone at the end of the video recording.
"Viewers, as you can see, it has developed to this stage. Basically, there is no existence in this world that can pose a threat to us."
"So, after discussing it with my roommate, Brother Ziyi, we decided to do something big!"
"That is to restore a real-life Forbidden City on a one-to-one scale in this world full of dangers!"
"Starting from today, I will broadcast live at Station B every night. At the same time, I also welcome friends with ideas to join us in our great project!"
Recording completed.
Zhou Xuan turned off the recording function and started editing the previously collected material. After taking off the headphones on his head, Wang Ziyi looked at Zhou Xuan in surprise and said.
"Are you really planning to build a Forbidden City? On a one-to-one scale?"
Zhou Xuan looked at him and asked.
"Any questions?"
"It's not that there's any problem... but I think everything is a problem," Wang Ziyi said with a wry smile, "If nothing else, can you build a house?"
Zhou Xuan looked at him strangely and said.
"What does this have to do with building a house? The blueprints can be found online. Just pile the grids in the game according to the proportions and then dye them with paint. That's it."
It's not that simple!
Seeing Zhou Xuan's relaxed look, Wang Ziyi didn't know how to complain about this guy for a moment.
"...Okay, regardless of the difficulty of construction, do you really plan to let the audience join in?"
"yes."
Wang Ziyi continued.
"What if there are anti-fans causing trouble?"
Zhou Xuan said with a smile.
"This is easy to say. We can first create a group to screen, and then give qualified players permission to place plots and dig. Group members without permission can only fight monsters and synthesize equipment. As for tourists who enter the server, they can only enter our server There are activities outside the red stone trap and there is no way to enter the construction area.”
While I was talking, the video had been successfully uploaded.
In less than a few minutes, the number of comments has exceeded 100.
Looking at the fans' comments, Zhou Xuan smiled proudly and said proudly.
"You see, the fans are quite looking forward to tonight's live broadcast."
Wang Ziyi: “…”
Seeing that his good brother was silent, Zhou Xuan scratched the back of his head and continued embarrassedly.
"Uh... I'm sorry that I didn't discuss this decision with you. If you're not interested in the subsequent plans, it's okay for me to do the rest of the work."
Wang Ziyi was silent for a while, seeming to be hesitating.
Finally, he sighed.
"Hey, forget it, who wants dad to love you?"
Zhou Xuan rolled his eyes and said angrily.
"Gungun, if you don't want me to calculate the ball, I'll find someone else to cooperate."
"No, good brother," Wang Ziyi patted his shoulder with a playful smile, "How could such a fun thing leave me behind? You have to let me be the group manager anyway."
"Call me daddy and I'll give it to you."
"Gan!"
Just when the two of them turned off the computer and went to class, Li Zongzheng, who was far away in Yunmeng Building, happened to finish watching DAY 6 of "** Survival Diary", with a thoughtful expression on his face.
Build a purple gold city in the game
He didn't expect there to be such boring players.
However, what surprised him even more was that in the comment area below the video, so many players who were interested in this project expressed their desire to join the group and participate in this project together.
Vaguely, Li Zongzheng seemed to have figured out something.
"How about... let's plan an event together."
Du Ziteng, who was sitting aside, immediately cheered up when he heard this.
"Activity? What activity?"
"My World Creative Architecture Competition...or just call it My World," after a pause, Li Zongzheng continued with interest, "Whether it is a survival server or a creative server, all open servers can participate in the selection, and then The most creative and ornamental man-made structures will be selected from all registered servers, and prizes and event commemorative medals will be awarded.”
Hearing these words, Jiang Lexeng's eyes immediately lit up.
"Okay, okay, I agree with this idea! Mr. Li, can employees also participate?"
Li Zongzheng coughed and said.
"Well, in principle it's okay, as long as you don't play games during working hours."
"It's decided!" Jiang Lecheng said with confidence, "I want to lead the small changes in our art team to fight!"
Looking at Jiang Lecheng who exuded a strong aura, Du Ziteng and Liu Ye looked at each other and whispered.
"I didn't expect Xiao Jiang to be so addicted to this game."
Liu Ye nodded and said.
"Yeah... I thought she didn't play games."
"What do you mean by not playing games?" Jiang Lecheng couldn't help but rolled his eyes after hearing the whispers between the two of them. "I have played every game in our company, but this one is slightly different from mine." Just a little appetite."
Du Ziteng and Liu Ye looked at each other.
Is this called "a little" and "a little"
By the way, this was the first time they met. This guy came to work with dark circles under his eyes every day.
"Speaking of which, what has Mr. Hao been busy with recently?" Jiang Lexeng continued doubtfully, "I remember that every time a new game was launched, he would personally play it for a hundred hours, but I haven't seen him online recently?"
Du Ziteng and Liu Ye were also very curious about this issue. Even Zhang Ding, who had just joined the company, pricked up his ears and listened.
It has almost become Mr. Hao's routine to cause trouble in the games he designs. Not only the employees of Yunmeng Games are curious, but many players are also waiting for him to cause trouble.
The result this time was very surprising. There were no rumors about the master hao12345 in the world, and the game time of "Minecraft" under Mr. Hao's own account also stayed at 0.1 hours.
just like…
It's not like playing this game at all.
Facing the questioning gazes of all the employees, Li Zongzheng thought for a moment and then said.
"Mr. Hao... seems to be working on an AR project."
Du Ziteng was stunned for a moment.
"AR?"
"Well," Li Zongzheng nodded, "He seems to be planning to move my world to the newly launched AR platform of our group. I don't know the specific details..."
"If nothing else, he should be testing the compatibility of the equipment now."