In recent times, everyone’s final choice for the society has been settled.
Wan Chaoxiong naturally signed up for the animation club, which was exactly the place where he had always dreamed of being surrounded by people of similar interests;
Xiang Bingbing signed up for the basketball club, and she is now also a freshman and main player on the school women's basketball team.
In addition, Xiang Bingbing also expressed her interest in photography for the first time, so she signed up for the photography club;
Liu Xiaoyu actually had no idea of joining the club at first, but Xia Yuan pulled her to participate in the selection activities of the Etiquette Department.
The Etiquette Department is a club that has some student organization characteristics. It is equivalent to selecting the host of the evening party and the emcee who will present awards and welcome guests. They will have a lot of beautiful clothes to wear.
Both Liu Xiaoyu and Xia Yuan have outstanding temperaments, and were successfully selected for the Etiquette Department.
Of course, Liu Xiaoyu had a music arrangement job on hand, and Xia Yuan was helping her get familiar with the use of the Fruit Music software.
Because it was a job she was interested in and it could help subsidize her living expenses, she studied very hard and made rapid progress.
Apart from a selection by the Etiquette Department, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi did not put much thought into other clubs. They both worked with Mei Fang during this period to prepare materials for establishing a club.
With experience in two games, including "Life Restart Simulator" and "Royalty", which have already been listed on APPSTORE, their application to create a club was quickly approved, and the three of them also found an office space for themselves in the club building.
The sign of Ximilu Studio was officially registered at Jiangcheng Normal University No. 1 High School. The officially registered members of the club currently only include Mei Youyuan and his two friends and Liu Xiaoyu, who is responsible for assisting in the arrangement of music.
The most valuable assets of the entire society are the three ten-thousand-yuan laptops purchased by Mei Fang, as well as the top-of-the-line Olympus E-P3 mirrorless camera purchased earlier to film Yuanyuan's performance.
After the launch of "Life Restart Simulator" and "Reign", they quickly received strong market response, and the first-week sales in the Chinese app store exceeded 1,000.
Although the total income is only a few thousand yuan at present, it is a very good start. More and more domestic users are beginning to know the name of Ximilu Studio and are leaving messages in the comment area to participate in the discussion.
In addition to observing the market response to his self-developed products, Mei Fang's other most common activity during this period was browsing the Internet.
With the help of the special identity of C Station's webmaster [Shan You Lin Xi], he easily met many independent game producers who were looking for like-minded friends in the external forum.
The first producer was Gao Gan, a college student from the University of California, Irvine. At that time, he was using the traditional RPGMaker production software to make a narrative game.
Although Gao Gan doesn't know much about programming languages, he created all of his debut work by himself, from the arrangement to the copywriting to the process. It is said that he started designing it in his sophomore year.
The background of this work is set in the future where science has advanced and humans have been able to use machines to change and write human memories. This technology is used to help realize the dreams and wishes of dying people, allowing them to leave without regrets.
In the story, we need to play the role of two professionals of the company and help the protagonist realize an unattainable dream of his childhood by rewriting his memory.
In the process of realizing their dreams, players will also gradually understand a touching story of waiting and companionship from the perspective of professionals.
When this work was first released on an external forum at the beginning of the year, it did not have much influence abroad. However, after Mei Fang discovered this work, he took the initiative to provide Chinese localization distribution support to Gao Gan, because there are many high-quality Chinese translation teams stationed at C Station.
At this time, Gao Gan, who was still a young boy, was full of gratitude to [Shan You Lin Xi] and took the initiative to ask the other party some procedural and technical questions.
In addition, with the assistance of Xia Yuan, Mei Fang also took the initiative to help Gao Gan optimize the melody and rhythm of some music, and completed an impressive prelude to the theme song "For River" with just 2 notes.
As a reward for Mei Fang's selfless contribution, the young Gao Gan and Mei Fang simply reached a contract agreement, handing over the domestic game agency and distribution rights to Station C.
[This is undoubtedly a garbage game because you can't see the screen through your tears]
This is the process of putting the most famous RPGMaker story-based independent game "To the Moon" on Station C.
The second young man Mei Fang met was a well-known celebrity, Liang Qiwei, a master's degree holder from Jerusalem University. He had just released a martial arts ink-and-wash style game called "Rain Blood: Dead Town" that he had been planning for many years.
Although the art style and gameplay design of this game are cool, Mei Fang thinks its program code is very bad, and many bugs will appear after just a few steps.
So Mei Fang sent a private message to Liang Qiwei, inviting him to help refactor the code. The next day, he received an email reply from him, which included the development source code of "Rain Blood: Dead Town".
It only took Mei Fang and Lin Youxi one weekend to refactor the code of the game. When they sent it back to each other, Liang Qiwei was very satisfied with their results and planned to pay him $3,000 in return. However, Mei Fang politely declined, as he hoped to get the domestic distribution rights of Station C.
People tend to attach great importance to their first game work. Liang Qiwei was not in a hurry to make a decision. Mei Fang waited for a month before finally receiving his consent email.
At this time, the game section of C Station had just been developed, and Mei Fang gave this section a name that is not popular now -
Independent game.
The concept of independent games did not become known to the public until around 2013 or 2014, thanks to a movie about game developers called “The Independent Game Movie.”
The games introduced in this section of Station C currently only involve independent games, including two games developed by Ximilu Studio, plus "To the Moon" and "Rain Blood: Dead Town". The most expensive one, "To the Moon", is priced at only 8 yuan.
Basically don't think about making money...
Because Station C itself has a relatively high membership threshold, the players who review these games are users with relatively high gaming tastes. In this section, Mei Fang and his team have also received many positive reviews, and the comment section is harmonious.
Mei Fang knows that as his independent game section becomes more and more popular, more famous independent games that were once on the market will soon be added to the C station's section.
Compared to those popular and hot smart mobile games in the past, such as Temple Run, Angry Birds, Happy Match 3, and Fruit Ninja, the money that these independent games can earn is almost negligible.
Of course, Mei Fang is not opposed to the games mentioned above. He will still earn the money he should earn.
But he thought that Station C has gradually established itself as a portal website.
And perhaps its existence can bring some fresh atmosphere to domestic games
For domestic games, especially domestic stand-alone games, even if there is only 1% market development space, they may produce unexpected qualitative changes and show unprecedented possibilities.
When Mei Fang officially took this step, the name of the C station administrator [Shan You Lin Xi] also began to spread rapidly among various game practitioners at home and abroad, especially independent game developers...
Sorry for the slow posting! I've been busy driving a lot lately, so I'll take a look at today's chapter.
(End of this chapter)