This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival doesn’t coincide with National Day, so the festive atmosphere is quite okay.
Tianba Studio is bustling with activity.
After a round of recruitnt, the current total number of employees at the studio has surpassed 20.
These are the core employees. Including the staff from Xianyu Digital and dia operations, channel specialists, and so on, the total employee count is nearing fifty.
Of course, mooncakes must be distributed for Mid-Autumn Festival.
To ensure the customized mooncake gift boxes satisfy everyone’s tastes and preferences, Chen Ba organized a public vote, allowing everyone to choose their favorite type of mooncake.
The result was unexpected.
Initially thought to be a frontrunner among mooncakes, the five-nut mooncake seed a sure winner, but the final voting results showed that red bean paste mooncake was everyone’s favorite!
"Really tired of the five-nut mooncakes."
Honestly, after hearing about the five-nut mooncake so many years, everyone is already unimpressed.
Red bean paste it is!
Since it was a collective voting decision, Chen Ba had no objections and arranged for a batch of custom red bean paste mooncake gift boxes to be distributed to everyone the day before the festival.
With the mooncakes eaten, the short holiday ca to an end.
On the first workday after Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Ba gathered all the core employees of the studio for a new ga discussion eting.
That’s right, a new ga!
The official version of "Love Advisor Departnt" has been released. Although the ga’s nature changed during the process and experienced many twists, things eventually stabilized.
Not many people are needed for mobile developnt anymore, so the next focus for Tianba Studio is definitely developing a new ga.
But here’s the problem...
What genre should the new ga be?
According to Ba’s description, their next new ga is expected to be priced at over a hundred dollars, i.e., three figures.
At this price and scale, there aren’t many the options.
"Guns, cars, balls!"
Chen Ba knew he had to set a broad range for everyone. Otherwise, if they just discussed aimlessly, they wouldn’t co to any conclusion, even after a year.
So he narrowed it down.
That is the enduring "guns-cars-balls" combo, which has been popular in the gaming world and widely loved by players!
Guns refer to first-person or third-person shooting gas like "Half-Life", "Call of Duty", and "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive".
Cars refer to racing simulation gas, or you could call them driving simulation racing gas, like "Need for Speed" and "Forza Horizon".
Balls are quite unique...
Narratively, ball gas refer to sport simulation gas like the classic "FIFA" and "NBA".
But since the internet boom and a slight shift in the word "ball", in a broader sense, it also refers to those "18 only" adult gas.
Ahem!
Who says XX isn’t a ball?
In any case, using "guns-cars-balls" as the ga trail for Tianba Studio’s first ga priced in the hundred range is absolutely suitable.
No one had any objections to this.
However, when it ca to choosing specifically within the guns-cars-balls, everyone got into a heated discussion.
"FPS it is!"
Lu raised his hand and said, "Shooter gas always have a market. This would definitely be the most suitable to make."
"Makes sense."
"But aren’t shooter gas a bit saturated? Whether big or small firms, they all basically have their shooter gas. We might struggle to compete."
"Moreover, while the shooter ga market is huge, the player base is saturated. It’s hard for new gas to snatch users away from those classic shooter gas..."
This is indeed a significant issue.
Unquestionably, among the guns-cars-balls, shooter gas are the most popular, with the largest player base.
But that field is really competitive!
Even the fearless Chen Ba, when hearing nas like "Call of Duty", "Battlefield", "Counter-Strike", "Halo", "Far Cry", "Rainbow Six", "Borderlands", and "Titanfall", feels overwheld.
It’s just too hard to keep up...
Imagine the imnse effort and hard work needed to stand out in the shooting ga field?
"Then let’s do a racing ga!"
"Ball gas are niche on one hand, and on the other hand, they require a high degree of specialization. We don’t have enough preparation and experience to do well in a sports ball ga," Yang Dong analyzed seriously.
FIFA is exemplary in this class!
But for a studio that has never developed such a ga to start from scratch and produce sothing comparable to FIFA, the challenge is substantial.
"Sounds good!"
Chen Ba thought about it; although racing gas are also quite competitive and new developers find it hard to earn player trust, at least it’s a bit less daunting than shooter gas.
"Does anyone have any other opinions?"
After confirming that everyone agreed with the proposal, Chen Ba decisively announced, "Then it’s settled. Next year, we’ll release a racing speed ga."
The direction was set.
The next discussion involves so rough frawork for the project and the ga’s core features and gaplay.
There’s nothing much to say on this front.
Chen Ba had heard a joke a long ti ago about a company boss who wanted to make a new ga, putting forth many requests for it.
In the end, the project leader or the ga’s chief producer didn’t listen to what the boss requested and simply asked, "So, who are we copying?"
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