Chapter 43 We are still young and idealistic after graduation.
Chapter 43 We are still young and idealistic after graduation.
The little girl's roar was so earth-shaking that it not only frightened Lan Xuesheng so much that her hands trembled and she almost spilled the half cup of tea, but also almost frightened Lu Shinian, who had just sat down, so much that he fell flat on his face.
Seeing this, the young man in Taoist robe who had finally managed to sit firmly in his seat, turned around and glanced at Xu Yichi with mixed feelings; the woman over there noticed the little girl's trembling fingers holding the plan, and smiled gently.
"Xiao Xu, we can look at the plan later. Don't be nervous. Let's talk about something relaxing first." Lan Xue said, while carefully taking the small stack of design plans handed over by the little girl and placing them carefully on the shelf beside her to ensure that the pages would not be splashed by tea.
"Let's talk about something relaxing first?" Xu Yichi was stunned when he heard that, as if he was unable to get around that problem for a moment.
"Yes, let's talk about something relaxing first. I see that you seem a little too nervous. Why don't we relax for a while?" Lan Xue said calmly, "We can also improve our understanding of each other at the same time."
"Oh, okay." The little girl nodded in confusion. Although she agreed verbally, her back subconsciously straightened up. "So what do you think we should talk about now?"
"Now... let me think about it." The woman held the teacup, smiling and curving her eyes. She raised her eyes and saw Xu Yichi sitting as if he was suddenly called by the teacher in class, and she couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Well... for example, Xiao Xu, why do you want to make a mobile game with a non-legacy theme?" Lan Xuesheng put down the teacup and supported her chin with one hand. "This is a hard job that requires a lot of effort and may not be appreciated."
"——If you don't do well, there will be a lot of people waiting to criticize you; even if you do well, you may not make much money."
"Being well-received but not popular is the most common situation for those of us who work in 'culture' - besides, if a studio just wants to make money, wouldn't it be more appropriate to make a small game with a mature model that basically only requires you to change the skin to pass the review and be put on the shelves?"
The woman had gentle features. The question she asked was similar to the one Yang Yanan had asked her that day, but they were completely different when looked at in detail.
——Although the demon spirits who have lived for thousands of years have clear thoughts, they are not like ordinary people. They have all the joys and sorrows of human beings. Naturally, it is difficult for them to explain all the problems they may face in the future.
What Lan Xuesheng asked her today were - the temptation of the huge profits that skin-changing games could bring, and the fact that they had been trying to avoid and did not want to face, that even if the intangible cultural heritage games were done well, they would probably be well-received but not popular.
These things usually weighed heavily on her head like a rock. She usually just tried her best to avoid them, but today, after Lan Xuesheng's words, she was forced to turn back and face the problem that she had always deliberately ignored.
If reskinned games can indeed bring greater benefits to the studio.
If a game with the theme of "intangible cultural heritage" is not well made, it will definitely be criticized, and if it is done well, it may not necessarily bring any profit.
Then, in her, in Xiaobai, in Qingqing——
On the premise that everyone in their studio is actually very clear about this.
Why do they still grit their teeth and insist on making such a game?
——Is it for the "one hundred and fifty" investment mentioned by the senior at the top, or is it for the reputation of this game, to leave a name in history, so that he can become famous in the future?
But at the beginning, no one knew that they would meet the top seniors by chance, and no one expected that they would be so lucky to attract such a "huge investment".
At first, they came to Shanxi Province with the mentality of "I can't negotiate a cooperation with any company, and the project will have to be shelved, or I can only use some open-ended marginal materials to satisfy my desire" - they didn't even think at first that they could really find a protection agency willing to authorize them and cooperate with them.
But at that time, they still wanted to make this game well...even if they couldn't get exclusive authorization and could only make things that had already been opened to copyright.
"It may be because... I like it." Recalling the days after the project was launched, Xu Yichi unconsciously let his eyes go. "To be honest, Ms. Lan." "For those skin-changing games you mentioned that can make quick money, our studio did use other vests before and took over a few orders outsourced by the client."
“But everyone is unhappy doing it.”
"Xiao Bai is good at painting in the ink painting style combined with freehand brushwork, but she has to follow the client's requirements and paint one after another of the 'Chinese style girls' that she hates the most, which look exquisite and gorgeous, but are actually just a pile of elements and materials; Qing Qing is obviously the best at building a magnificent fantasy world, but she has to follow the examples given by the client, copy and paste from the TV series, and make up a lot of sweet love words."
"Our efficiency was extremely low at that time—" Xu Yichi grinned, "Basically, no one would do their work properly until ddl."
"So, after taking a few orders and making sure that the money left in the studio's account was enough for us to save a little and live a normal life for a while, we stopped taking such jobs."
"——We still want to create original games, games that don't require re-skinning, games that don't require people to spend money on games, and games that we ourselves will like."
"Maybe it's because we're still young after graduation," Xu Yichi said sincerely, "Everyone in the studio is a bit idealistic."
"We want to make something that can leave a mark in the history of Chinese games... We want future players to mention our name and say, 'Oh, Dream Studios, the games produced by that studio are pretty good.'"
“So we focused on ‘intangible cultural heritage’, a subject we once thought we understood, but now we realize that our ‘understanding’ of it was really superficial.”
"——The diversified development of culture is a trend in the future. It is inevitable that the excellent traditional Chinese culture represented by intangible cultural heritage will be brought to the stage." Xu Yichi's waist slumped and he leaned back comfortably against the backrest.
Talking about their original intention and motivation for making this game, she seemed to be really relaxed now.
"It just so happens that everyone in the studio likes these intangible cultural heritages with profound cultural heritage. It just so happens that we are all the girls who grew up wearing bed sheets and pretending to be fairies."
"The speed at which this issue was passed was incredible. Xiaobai and I were packed up and sent to Shanxi Province for field research and investigation without knowing what was going on."
"Of course, I have to admit that I had selfish motives when I first raised this issue."
Xu Yichi raised the corner of his lips lightly while speaking: "I like you very much, Ms. Lan, whether it is your experience over the years or the zither music and guqin that have been formed under your hands--"
“I originally wanted to make a music game with a guqin theme – but I’m really tone-deaf and don’t have a good understanding of the music game market.”
"However, the cost of long-term leasing of music libraries or purchasing the rights to use songs in bulk is beyond our ability to bear."
I have played several skin-changing games, and they are really worth spending money on ()
The key is that the game experience is terrible if you don’t pay
(End of this chapter)