The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games

  Chapter 381 378.Poor fairy road

  On October 8, 2007, Cao Yang met the legendary icefrog.

  Bing Frog is tall, probably taller than Cao Yang, maybe 188 or 190.

   There is a small beard on the chin, a little thin, and although the facial features are three-dimensional, but it is not blond, but brown hair, and does not look like a purebred American.

  Ice Frog was invited by Bomi Company to join the DOTA project team with a few of her friends. It was actually very happy.

  Furthermore, the ice frog itself is very interested in Chinese culture. He also learned some Chinese by himself. It can reach the level of barely communicating in Chinese. This is really beyond Cao Yang's expectation.

  Cao Yang graduated from National Tsing Hua University, and his English is also very good, so when everyone communicates, they basically use two languages ​​in a mixed manner, but everyone can understand and know what the other party is expressing.

  Speaking of this conversation is also quite interesting.

  Ice Frog was invited by Bomi to make DOTA independent games in China. All the designs will perfectly restore the DOTA content, but the screen and performance will get a qualitative improvement.

In order to obtain the production rights of DOTA, Bomi Company also paid a large amount of copyright money to Ice Frog to purchase the copyright of DOTA games.

  Even if icefrog does not plan to come to Bomi to participate in the production of Dota, he can still take the money and enjoy it for a while.

  Bomi Company can make DOTA by itself after leaving the Ice Frog, but it is definitely more stunted and more justifiable without the participation of Ice Frog.

  ……

  Ice Frog said that being able to come to his favorite company to make his own games is really a very happy thing.

  There is nothing in the world that makes people happier than doing a job that you like and promoting it to the world.

  After meeting several people, Cao Yang asked how he came to China.

   "After I came to China, I went to see the cross talk of Deyun Club," said Bingwa. "Although I don't understand it, I think it's funny. I always think that the cross talk actors don't speak like Mandarin."

   "Hahaha..." The people around laughed.

  Cao Yang explained, “Maybe their tongues are too sharp? The Mandarin of cross talk actors has a relatively strong Beijing flavor, and some of the performances on the stage use dialects, so it is normal to sound that there are differences.”

  Everyone chatted with each other for a while, Bing Frog said that after he came to China, in addition to watching the cross talk of Deyun Society, he also watched the face-changing in Sichuan Opera. He felt that the face-changing in Sichuan Opera was really amazing, and the face-changing technique was really superb.

  In addition, I also tasted Chinese moon cakes.

  Bing Frog said that he likes Chinese mooncakes, especially the mango flavors.

  Accompanying Ice Frog this time are the members of the Bomi company’s DOTA project team, such as Meng Xiao, Lao Yang and Ma Tianyuan. They have played DOTA for a long time before, and they all respect the Ice Frog very much.

  I feel that this person’s unconstrained imagination makes the whole game full of fun and exploration experience.

After the transformation of the ice frog, the number of DOTA players is now more and more, and different combinations of heroes have played different genres, and the tactical changes of each are different. It is relatively mature and can be regarded as a qualified competition. Class games.

The most popular in the game now is the 4 guarantee 1 tactic, which is also the most popular tactic in DOTA at the beginning, such as 4 heroes to protect the ghost, or 4 heroes to protect the Voidwalker... As long as the ghost, the void or the phantom thorn can be up in the later stage. , You can hit 5 and win the game properly.

  It is expected that the dual-core system will be developed in a while.

  Then go to Global Stream, Triple Core, Dual Tour...

  In short, as the DOTA heroes and skills become more and more abundant, the tactics that can be produced are also changed, and the game is more interesting.

  I believe that in one or two years, DOTA will become a large-scale competitive game that is popular all over the world.

  So Cao Yang chose to lay out the development in advance at this point in time is very correct.

  Everyone chatted for a while, and Cao Yang asked him if he was used to coming to China and whether he would feel uncomfortable or regret working at Bomi.

  "I am really happy to come to work at Bomi," said Bingwa.

"I also played Warcraft made by Bomi, and it feels very good," Bing Frog learned from the Panda Crazy Sword in the game and gestured for a while. "Chinese Kung Fu is really amazing. I have long wanted to come to China to have a look. "

   "That's right, this time you come to China to enjoy the customs and charm of China."

   According to rumors, Bing Frog seems to have an Asian or Chinese girlfriend, so he is regarded as a Chinese son-in-law himself, and he is quite interested in Chinese culture.

"It's very happy to be able to do what I like." Bing Frog said, "Especially when I heard that Bomi Company was going to take out the map of Dota and make it into a game alone, don't mention how happy I was in my heart. ."

  Ice Frog is really a very serious and responsible map author. In his previous life, even though he was invited to make DOTA2, he did not forget to update DOTA.

  V agency started to develop dota2 in 2009 and went online in 11 years. While participating in the production of dota2, BingFrog has also updated Dota1 to 2017.

  Although there are certain commercial reasons in it, everyone still admires his professionalism.

  Either you don’t take over, you must be responsible to the end if you take over, and do well.

  This attitude is quite worth learning.

  ……

  Everyone chatted for a while, and then Meng Xiao took the ice frog team to visit the company to familiarize them with the company environment.

  Cao Yang sat in the office alone and giggled.

  He is really happy to be able to invite Bing Frog back to be the producer of Dota.

  The ice frog in the past life is very mysterious and basically does not show up in front of the media. The photos of him on the Internet are basically replaced by pictures of the ice frog.

  Now I can see a real person, after some conversation, he found that the ice frog is quite easy to communicate.

  Before, Cao Yang was a little worried, what if the ice frog is unwilling to work in China?

  Should we put the team in the United States at that time, or just abandon the ice frog, just get the copyright.

  Now that these problems are solved, everyone is really happy.

  The next step is to look forward to when DOTA's independent games will be launched.

  ……

  After they left, Cao Yang turned on the computer by himself and started to work.

  At this moment, his phone rang, and it turned out that Liu Qiang was calling.

   "Hey, boss, have you read the financial report of the mobile phone department last month?" Liu Qiang asked.

"Um?"

  After checking a bunch of emails, he found the report sent by the financial manager of the mobile phone department.

  Cao Yang took a look, and he bounced off the chair.

   "One hundred million yuan? So much?"

  This 100 million yuan refers not to the cost of Bomi’s smartphone sales, but the share of revenue brought to Bomi by third-party applications.

  Bomi smartphone sales reached 900,000 units last month.

As of October this year, in almost three quarters, Bomi has sold a total of 8 million smart phones. Basically, as long as the phones are just shipped, they are directly robbed, and the rest can only be waited for the next blog. When Mi phones are in stock.

  Now it can be said that demand exceeds supply.

  8 million mobile phones, what is the concept?

   means that the global sales of Bomi smartphones have reached a terrifying figure of 36 billion.

  If it is not because Bomi phones are mainly supplied to domestic regions, but preferentially sold abroad, this number will increase a lot.

  Because the state has given very good policies, there is a five-year tax holiday, Bomi can reach 7 billion in net profit by relying on smart phones.

   is converted into U.S. dollars, which is almost 900 million U.S. dollars.

   is already a very exaggerated number.

  The most important thing is that Cao Yang saw an article on this financial report——

  The income from third-party software sharing can actually be as much as 100 million yuan.

  In other words, a lot of third-party software has begun to make money on Bomi smartphones, and the number is not small.

  This is equivalent to the mobile platform market has been opened up, and it will become hotter and hotter in the future.

  ……

After the emergence of Bomi smart phones, the impact on the third-party software market on the entire mobile platform is huge.

  Now many domestic manufacturers have begun to add new applications to Bomi smartphones.

  The mobile application market has also begun to become hot.

  The third-party application software developed by non-Bomi, which was the first to enter Bomi smartphones, was AutoNavi Maps. However, in less than half a year, Baidu also launched its own Baidu Maps.

  In addition, Baidu puts its own Baidu APP and Baidu Tieba APP on Bomi smartphones.

  Because these softwares are free to use, Bomi can't make a cent.

  At the beginning, Bomi smartphones were based on some basic application types, such as Meitu Xiuxiu. This software appeared one year earlier than the previous life.

   And when Meitu Xiuxiu came out, it had already built a dual-platform PC and Hongmeng system, so users can modify their photos to a certain extent on their phones.

  Although Meitu Xiuxiu's functions are still relatively small, it has been able to meet the beauty needs of a considerable number of girls.

  Meitu Xiuxiu has been online for many days and has been ranked first in the free list of the Bomi App Store for many days. In June this year, the mobile version was launched and just needed the puzzle function.

  In October, the mobile version of Meitu Xiuxiu was updated, and the “art” category special effects were launched.

Because the [art] photos made by Meitu Xiuxiu are very happy, such as embossing, blackening, big head... etc., many users' emoticons have become popular on the Internet, so Meitu Xiuxiu has a wide spread. Followed the fire.

In addition, there are fitness, recipes~www.wuxiaspot.com~software...... These do not have high requirements for mobile phone traffic, and software with relatively small packages has been born, and they have gradually appeared on the app store of Bomi smartphones. , So that the function of the mobile phone becomes more and more powerful.

  ……

  In addition to the popularity of third-party applications, Bomi smartphones have also driven the game market on mobile devices.

  The emergence of smart phones has spurred a wave of [migration fever]

  Many established manufacturers have started to port their previously developed PC games to mobile phones.

  For example, Daewoo has successfully transplanted its own "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" to mobile phones.

  Now the mobile platform is equivalent to a new field that has not yet been developed, and the popularity of smart phones has broadened a large number of players who have never played a game.

  So after the Xian 1 was transplanted to the mobile phone, not only did it not become obsolete because of fried rice, it also aroused the nostalgia of many old players, and the number of downloads soon exceeded 200,000.

   is even more popular than when Sen 1 was released.

  However, Xian 1 is a large-scale game after all. The package body alone has more than 400 megabytes. Ordinary players still dare not download it easily. Only some people with ample hands can do it.

  Otherwise, this download traffic fee will cost more than ten or twenty yuan, which is very heartbreaking.

   is equivalent to buying a 68 game, the price is the same as 88.

After   xian 1 achieved good sales results, Daewoo tasted the sweetness, and successively transplanted the "Monopoly" and "Xuanyuan Sword" series to the mobile platform.

NetEase has developed a game called "Ninja Cool Run". In this game, the ninja will run up, and then various organs and darts will appear on both sides. If it is hit, the ninja will die, so In the process of running, you need to bounce and slide left and right to avoid these hidden weapons.

  Players said that playing Ninja Cool Run is very good.

  So NetEase once again became popular with the help of mobile games.

After   , Boss Ding opened a lot of mobile phone project teams one after another, mainly doing small games that favored this kind of stand-alone experience.

  In addition to games developed by Chinese manufacturers, more and more games appear on smartphones:

  "Temple Escape", "Tetris", "Snake", "Endless Sword"... a lot of games were born.

   Ubisoft’s gameloft ported "Rainbow Six 3" to smartphones, and it was immediately welcomed by a large number of players.

  In the previous life, gameloft is also a very powerful mobile game developer.

  Supercell has not yet been born, otherwise, many heavyweight games can be added to the history of mobile games.

EA also transplanted its own "Need for Speed" series to the mobile phone, but because of the limitation of the package, they have compressed a lot of content, the number of game maps has been reduced, and the car model has also been streamlined a lot. So enjoyable on the PC.

  But this game has one advantage-

  Used the gyroscope function on the mobile phone.

  Cao Yang has to thank EA, otherwise many people don’t know what the mobile phone gyroscope is for.

  Before the Need for Speed ​​was transplanted to the mobile game, the biggest role of the gyroscope was to conduct navigation——

  Google Maps and AutoNavi Maps, many times need to use the gyroscope to perform accurate positioning calculations.

  Then is the switching of horizontal and vertical screens, the gyroscope will calculate the adaptability according to the state of the screen.

  So everyone didn’t know that there is a gyroscope in smart phones before.

  After EA developed the mobile game of "Need for Speed", players discovered that the gyroscope was so interesting——

  You can hold your phone horizontally, just like driving a car. You can control the direction of the car by rotating the direction of the phone.

  The gameplay of this game is not very good, but it can be regarded as a good publicity for the functions of the smartphone.

  The only regret is that——

  These games are not exclusive to Bomi phones, they are also applied to Apple phones, but because Bomi phones have a larger screen, it is more enjoyable to play games.

  ……

  One of the biggest advantages of mobile devices is to play games anytime, anywhere.

  So even some older games can get good results.

  The biggest problem with mobile games now is the speed of the mobile network.

  In the past life, the first 4G network opened and promoted in the United States in the world was in 2010.

  There are still 3 years left.

  Our country will open a 4G network until 11 years later.

  In addition, the level of mobile phone hardware is still at a relatively low stage, and the performance of the processor and memory is limited, so large-scale games cannot be used as mobile games at all.

  Bomi smart phone, the highest configuration is only 8G of memory, the package of the fairy sword 1 has 400M, can not install a few fairy swords, the phone memory is gone, and it can only be stuck at that time.

  There are still some problems when porting many games to mobile phones. It is expected that it will take about two years before the entire mobile phone market becomes mature.

  ……

   "Mr. Cao, I think there are many media reports on the Internet now that the mobile game market has huge potential and it is likely to replace PC games in the future." Liu Qiang was talking over there, and his voice seemed unusually happy.

Judging from the current momentum, the mobile game market really has great potential. Just last month, Bomi was able to get 100 million yuan in revenue by sharing. It is conceivable how much software is now profiting through mobile platforms. .

  Cao Yang smiled lightly.

  The potential of the mobile game market is huge.

  But there is still a long way to catch up with PCs. The key is that mobile phone hardware and Internet speed cannot keep up. When these two problems are solved in the future, mobile games will become China's largest game market.

  But it can't replace PC games for a long time.

  Playing games on mobile phones will be subject to great restrictions, such as accuracy and multiple operations.

  These are flaws.

  As long as the AIR game platform is still there, PC games will not decline.

  Of course, unless there is a newer device that can replace these games, such as the brain computer that Musk has been trying to study.

   or VR technology can really produce a qualitative leap, allowing players to get a good experience in VR, then PC games will have the possibility of being replaced.

  But the arrival of this day seems to be far away.

  At least from the year Cao Yang is in now, it is still unknown whether it will be there in 10 years.

  So although the future mobile game market is huge, the PC market cannot be underestimated.

  It's just that there will be a change in function. Mobile games will become the main gathering place for online games, while PCs are mainly biased towards selling single machines.

  In general, this is a visible market size, which depends on the total upper limit of the player population, and the total upper limit of the player population depends on the total upper limit of the country’s population.

  The age-appropriate game crowd, probably the ceiling can reach 60% of the country's total population.

  In the future, with the development of aging and declining birthrate, the ceiling will reach a peak and then gradually decrease.

  Then the money that can be generated each year is visible to the naked eye.

  ……

how to say?

  Later, after pursuing technological changes, the benefits produced were no longer as high as the benefits brought by the development of the population.

  So after a certain period of time, population development is the last word.

  But Cao Yang doesn't need to worry too much about this.

  After all, the total base of the global population is still rising, not to mention that the dividends of eating so many people are already very large.

  ……

  After reading the financial report and relevant market analysis, Cao Yang laughed happily.

  Although mobile games cannot replace PCs, page games are likely to die.

  In the past life, Apple's mobile phone entered the Chinese market relatively late, and it will probably not be until 11 years later that smartphones will appear.

Prior to this, from 2009 to 2011 is the development period of web games, especially a web game called "Shenxian Dao" has achieved unprecedented success, directly ignited a large number of web games, and even gave birth to a huge scale. Page game market.

The main features of   page tour are——

  You don’t need to install the client, you can open the webpage to play. It has a small size, fast loading speed, more convenient, and strong concealment. Even if you want to play games when you are at work, you can shrink the webpage before the boss finds it out.

  So page games have become a favorite of many office workers, such as "Shendao", "Happy Farm", "Car Space Robber", "Divine Comedy", "Sweet Girl DreamWorks", "Heroes Biography"... a bunch of games...

  Before the popularization of smart phones, web game manufacturers still chanted the slogan of replacing traditional online games, but they did not expect to die so soon.

  And now--

  With the advance of Bomi smartphones on sale in China, the poor "Shenxian Dao" is not sure if it will come out.

  ……

  (End of this chapter)