After hearing this, Manager Li led Zhao Yi and Zhang Ruimin directly to the crowd of people holding cartoon animation stickers who were judging them, and said: "This is the project leader of "Audition", Zhao Xin."
Those who can be project leaders still have some emotional intelligence. Although they may not know Zhao Yi well, they definitely know Zhang Ruimin.
Seeing Manager Li leading Mr. Zhang and a young man over, Manager Li had separated from the crowd and walked towards them, instead of standing there indifferently and continuing to discuss their topics like other programmers.
"Hello, Mr. Zhang!" After greeting Zhang Ruimin, Director Zhao looked at Zhao Yi.
"Just call me Mr. Zhao. The main reason I came here this time is because Mr. Zhao wants to know the status of the company's two online games, and your online game is one of them." Zhang Ruimin said.
"Hello, Mr. Zhao!" Zhao Xin first said hello to Zhao Yi.
Then he said: "Please follow me. We just talk about it, but it may not be clear. We happen to have an internal test server, so you can try it out on the computer."
After saying that, Director Zhao took the lead and walked to a work station and opened the game client of "Audition". When Zhao saw the client interface, he found that the animated characters on it were the same as the one posted on the wall just now. Cartoon characters look alike.
This shows that his project team is still very interested and enthusiastic about this cartoon casual online game, otherwise they would not record their creativity at any time and post it for repeated viewing.
After Director Zhao logged in to his account, Zhao took the lead and sat down in Director Zhao's seat and started operating it skillfully. Although this online game was not developed by him, the creativity and related designs in it came from him.
Although it is the first time to use it, it does not feel unfamiliar at all. Moreover, there are so many online games in the previous life, and many modules and functions are quite mature. It is very easy for anyone with a little exposure to online games to get started.
Moreover, this online game focuses on the girls market. The operation is simpler than ordinary online games, and the gameplay is also quite simple. You only need to listen to the beat and press the direction keys to play. This is too childish for Zhao Yi.
Although it is indeed a simple category for old netizens, and after a long time, it will be very boring. If you can't find a girl to play with, you probably won't be able to play for a long time.
However, in Zhao Yi's opinion, this game has good communication attributes. It has the following advantages:
First, the operation is simple, which is very important for novices in online games. Not only "Audition", but also "Legend", its operation also emphasizes simplicity and roughness, without such complicated settings.
The second is the cartoon characters and interface. In this era, it gives people a refreshing feeling and will attract people at first sight. Especially female players are more attracted to this.
The third is the friendship system. This is the biggest difference between online games and stand-alone games. Most of the graphics and refinement of online games are not as good as those of large stand-alone games. Why are there so many people playing them? The main secret is making friends.
Communication is a basic need of human society, and making friends with strangers is even more attractive. Not to mention the quality of people, at least on the Internet, people's emotions do not need to be hidden and can be released to the greatest extent.
Just as Zhao Yi was familiar with the interface, Director Zhao opened the game clients on several computers on the left and right, entered the test account and password, and logged in to the game.
Then he asked Zhang Ruimin to come and play. How did it feel? Since there were only three of them and the number was small, he called several game testers from other places to play as a team.
After everyone logged in, Zhao Yi created a room, and then everyone else joined the room. Looking at the scene in the room, Zhao Yi suddenly felt like he had regained his lost youth, a feeling that was both familiar and unfamiliar. , very special.
Although this game is also called "Audition", it only refers to the settings and gameplay of the previous life. The design of the picture elements and character design are different from the style of the previous life.
Because Polaris Game Studio is larger in scale and has more personnel, it invests more resources than the previous game development company. Although the time is advanced by more than twenty years, the exquisiteness of the graphics is not only not inferior to that of the previous life, but also slightly better. Better than that.
However, although the picture is exquisite, if there is a lag during operation, it will cause a fatal blow to the game. Especially for this kind of online game, lag will greatly affect the player's mood.
After everyone was ready, Zhao Yi pressed the start button, and a piece of music that Zhao Yi had never heard played. Zhao Yi followed the beat and key prompts, paying attention to pressing the corresponding direction keys.
Although it was Zhao Yi's first time to play, due to his relevant experience in his previous life and his already developed brain, he actually crushed the testers in this round.
This is despite Zhao Yi paying attention to other aspects of "Audition"'s performance. Zhao Yi's main purpose here is not to play games, but to see the development progress and performance of "Audition".
After one game, Zhao Yi saw that the game operation was very smooth. Even with his fast speed, there was still no lag. This shows that the game program itself has been well optimized in terms of resource consumption.
However, since there are only a few of them now, it is still impossible to get a real experience in the network connection test until everyone has finished the game.
Zhao Yi said: "The client program is well optimized. I don't know how the network connection is. Have you conducted relevant tests?"
"Mr. Zhao, we have passed the software test and stress test in terms of network testing. We have also conducted network data sampling analysis and found that the performance is very good." Director Zhao replied.
"Well, these are necessary testing processes, so have you considered going to an Internet cafe for testing? Only through field environment testing can we make more targeted improvements." Zhao Yi said.
"This is not yet available, but we will carry out relevant tests as soon as possible." Director Zhao replied awkwardly.
Looking at his expression, Zhao Yi knew that they probably had not considered this issue. This was normal. In the past, they only developed stand-alone games and did not consider network issues at all.
Moreover, the platforms for stand-alone game development are relatively fixed, and there is no need to consider such a complex machine environment to still run the game smoothly, so it is normal for them to have no experience in this area.
“Well, you need to conduct relevant tests as soon as possible.
Online games are different from stand-alone games. The environment for installing them is more complex, and the network conditions are also very different. You need to consider various situations as carefully as possible and strive to allow more machines to play this game. " Zhao Yi said.
Fortunately, the current Internet cafe operations are basically the business of trading companies, and not many individuals have entered this field. After all, the initial investment is still quite large, and if the fees are expensive, the number of consumers will not be very large.
What's more important is that when you open an Internet cafe now, there is not much Internet content. Even if you are not connected to the Internet and you are just a computer bar, you still can't open it because there are no adapted games.
Although Polaris Game Studio has also developed some computer games, if you want to play their stand-alone games, you need to have a very high-end graphics card.
Even a high-end graphics card costs more than an entire machine, and not many rich people in China can afford it.
This also means that if Zhao Yi wants to open the door to the Internet, he must invest in an Internet cafe himself. Otherwise, with the speed of natural growth, it is estimated that it will take many years to realize the prosperity of the Internet in his previous life.
It is precisely because most of today's Internet cafes are opened by trading companies, the machines they use are relatively uniform, and there are not so many miscellaneous machines, which is relatively beneficial to online game developers.
However, we cannot reduce testing in actual environments because of this. As Polaris has lowered the entry price of computers to 1,500 yuan, other computer companies must also launch low-priced models if they want to compete with Polaris in the domestic market.
Their low-priced models are likely to be purchased by some wealthy families, so online game developers also need to take this factor into consideration and not give up on these family users easily.
Moreover, compared with Internet cafe users, home users have better economic conditions and contribute more to the revenue of online game companies.
"Mr. Zhao, we will make arrangements as soon as possible without delaying the progress." Director Zhao assured.
The topic ended like this, and the next round had already begun, but Zhao Yi discovered that the music played was still the same music as the previous one, but now it had started, so Zhao Yi did not stop to ask.
Since it was the same music, Zhao Yi didn't need to read the button prompts at all this time. He knew which button to press just by listening to the music. Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, he performed very well. He even relaxed with his eyes closed. Get first place.
After the game ended, everyone looked at Zhao Yi completely differently than before, especially these testers. They had been testing for so long and could not play the game with their eyes closed, and they had not made a single mistake.
Although Zhang Ruimin still ranked last, he had no special feeling. As a 36-year-old, he would not be interested in this kind of game at all if he were not playing with Zhao Yi.
As for Zhao Yi's performance in the game, although he was surprised, it was not unbelievable, because Zhao Yi had performed very well in many aspects in the past, and playing the game well was nothing.
After playing two games, Zhao Yi found no problems in the operation. He said: "Why was the last piece of music played just now? Is it because the music library is too small or is it a technical problem?"
"We have built in 50 famous Chinese and foreign songs in the early stage. This amount of music is enough in the early stage. The reason why the previous one appeared just now should be the result of random selection. We will continue to optimize the random algorithm when we go back." Director Zhao replied.
After hearing what Director Zhao said, Zhao nodded and said nothing more.
In fact, he also discovered a serious problem, that is, the current music does not match the game well, and he does not feel much excitement when playing it. This may be related to the lack of tight rhythm of the music.
"Have you noticed that the music and the game are not well matched, and it feels a little different when you play it." Zhao Yi said.
"Well, there is indeed one thing. It's just that these 50 pieces of music have been selected and have a relatively strong sense of rhythm." Director Zhao said.
"Well, I think you still need to strengthen your musical selection, or simply invite music creators yourself to help create some more suitable works." Zhao Yi said.
"Well, I'll look back and have a look." Zhang Ruimin replied.
Because Polaris Company's entertainment plan gives them greater influence in the music field and they are familiar with many musicians, it is much easier for them to handle matters in this area.
Of course, Zhao Yi could also copy some music from his previous life, but he didn't think it was necessary, and he didn't want to do it. If he had this idea, he would have copied the songs for Qing Ning Entertainment Company a long time ago.
He doesn't want this life to be just a fast forward of the previous life, but hopes that through his changes, something new will appear. If it is just a rebirth without a huge golden finger, he also likes to follow the appearance of the previous life, which is easier to grasp. .
But his golden finger gave him enough courage. Even if he faced a completely different environment in this life than in his previous life, he could still compete for the top spot and maintain his dominant position.
After playing two games, Zhao Yi stopped playing and began to carefully check other system modules, such as the chat function. Zhao Yi conducted a lot of tests.
After reading it, Zhao Yi said: "In this chat message, I need to use colors to distinguish my chat messages from other people's chat messages, and I can also use different colors to distinguish people I pay special attention to.
With such a messy pile up, users need to spend more energy to distinguish them, so you need to modify this aspect.
There is also voice chat. I don’t know how you implement it, but I hope that person-to-person voice chat will not be enabled for the time being.
First, if there are too many people in the room and they all talk, it will be messy. Second, to prevent quarrels. Compared with text-based quarrels, voice quarrels are less expensive and will increase the chance of personal attacks. " Zhao Yi said.
Hearing Zhao Yi's words, Director Zhao quickly replied: "Okay, we will remove the voice function immediately, and other modifications will be made accordingly."
“You don’t have to remove the voice, you can convert the voice into text, which can reduce the user’s cost. Nowadays, many people don’t have much computer skills and many people can’t type. Voice is very important to them.
One more thing, in order to promote the chat software of Xinghan Technology Company as soon as possible, you can guide users to download their chat software when registering, and then use the account of the chat software to log in to the game.
This is not only the case for this game, but all online games in the future should do this. This is a matter of mutual benefit. " Zhao Yi said.
"Okay, I will communicate with Xinghan Technology Company to get this matter done, and other modifications will be made according to your instructions, Mr. Zhao." Manager Zhao agreed.
There is not much room for him to refute here. Not to mention the gap in status, the points mentioned by Zhao Yi are obviously much more thoughtful than them. It is also an opportunity for them to improve.
"What charging method do you plan to use for this game?" Zhao Yi asked.
"Why haven't we thought about it yet? We have no experience in this area before, so it's not easy to evaluate the market's reaction." Director Zhao said.
After hearing what he said, Zhao Yi didn't intend to ask any more questions and said directly: "There are two main charging methods for online games. One is time charging. Users recharge in advance, buy game points, and then deduct the game points according to the game time. .
The other is that the game is free and the props are charged, that is, users can use the basic functions of the game for free, but some special functions require the purchase of props.
For example, for the characters in this game, game users can use basic characters for free, and some good-looking and cool characters can be obtained by purchasing props in the game mall.
Since the content of your game is simple and it is aimed at female users, I suggest you charge more for props so that you can get more users. Even if the payment ratio is low, the overall income is still considerable. " Zhao Yi said.
Before Director Zhao could speak, Zhao Yi immediately realized how to let users recharge. He had not explained this issue to them before.
"How do you plan to let consumers recharge the game?" Zhao Yi asked.
“In terms of game recharge, we contacted United Network Technology Company, a subsidiary of the trading company (a subsidiary that operates Internet cafes).
They are responsible for issuing recharge cards, and then through the secret key on the recharge card, you can recharge the game with the corresponding amount. "Manager Li replied.
"Well, this is also a way, but it requires higher rebates to the Internet cafe, and your income is compressed.
In this way, I asked Xinghan Technology Company to develop an online payment system. You only need to connect with their payment system to realize the online recharge function.
In this case, your two sets of recharge channels coexist, which will help increase users' willingness to pay. " Zhao Yi said.
The online payment system still requires him to handle it in person.
First, payment software is relatively technically difficult, mainly in terms of network security. Now that the Internet has just developed, there are not many technical reserves in this area, and more technical support is needed.
The second is that it requires the support of banks. People's money is deposited in banks. If you want to use the payment system, you must connect with banks. However, with the strength of Xinghan Technology Company, it does not have much qualifications to negotiate with banks.
But Zhao Yi is different. First of all, he owns Minsheng Bank, so he can set an example in this regard to make the payment system operational, and then negotiate with other banks. (End of chapter)