There is a Problem with This Online Game Planning

The end of an old era.

The opening of a new era is always full of reverie.

Although Lin Yao still doesn't know what the mobile Internet era in this world will bring.

It is not clear whether she can reach the height of her previous life.

But as an orphan who has experienced the mobile Internet era, or a cheat.

Lin Yao has to test the water no matter what.

After all, the level of hardware related to this world is actually very mature, but limited by the lack of breakthroughs in mobile communication technology and the influence of the general environment, it has not evolved much.

Mobile Internet in this world is still in the stage of cultivation and growth.

In fact, many companies, companies that have little to do with the game industry, have already begun to explore how to seize the entrance to the mobile Internet after the new generation of mobile communication technology has started to be commercialized.

It's just that no one can tell what the future trend will be, and no one can make accurate predictions.

So few companies dare to say for sure what to do and how to do it.

The vast majority of companies are still in the groping stage.

Some companies that dare to directly stud a certain direction are just betting, betting on a future.

Just like Lin Yao's previous life, after 5G commercialization, no one knows what the future will hold.

All kinds of concepts came out all of a sudden.

What about smart cars, Internet of Everything, Metaverse, AR scene applications...

Big business is betting on what it sees as its future.

They are all speculating on the imagination, they are all speculating on the future.

A group of demons danced wildly, without a leader.

This is the stage that every new era will inevitably go through.

Just like the world Lin Yao lives in now, facing the commercialization of a new generation of mobile communication technology, after the breakthrough of the key technology of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, people with sensitive senses smell new opportunities and choose to explore to find a new starting point .

only.

Although Lin Yao is currently exploring a new starting point, she has a little advantage over other smart people...

That is, she knows what the future will become, although this future cannot be directly applied.

But in terms of direction, there shouldn't be much change.

Others cannot make accurate predictions, even rough predictions, they can only rely on guesswork.

But she could vaguely see that future.

This is her advantage.

This is also the reason why she made mobile communication software in advance.

Although her main purpose of doing this is to allow Linmu Studio's games to have a stable traffic entrance in the future.

But she's really trying to play to her strengths in other areas besides the game.

So the three things listed.

Lin Yao is most concerned about the second point.

Open the black mobile terminal, and the plan to test the waters of mobile games in the future.

The former is Lin Yao's attempt to make use of her advantages in other fields, while the latter is an important attempt in the game field.

And at this stage, it is no exaggeration to say that every decision Lin Yao makes will affect the future of Lin Mu Studio.

In human terms it is.

Just like World of Warcraft.

If you don't do it, you can, once you do it.

Either be born great.

Or die a heroic death.

Compared with the second point.

Others, such as whether to make a sequel to Dark Souls or not, and the next development plan, are not very important.

Because relying on accumulation, Linmu Studio is already qualified to fail in this respect.

And the third point, Qi Jianhua's suggestion is more about expansion, even if it fails, it will not affect too many things.

Only if the future decision is wrong, Lin Yao really can't guarantee that Lin Mu Studio will have another chance...

There is in the field of games, but Lin Yao is really not sure about other fields.

After all, not whoever comes up with a good idea first will definitely survive and become the ultimate winner.

There is still pressure.

So Lin Yao looked at the three things she listed.

In the end, my thoughts were all on the second thing.

until.

There was a knock on the door.

Lin Yao suddenly came back to her senses, straightened her waist, and said please come in.

"Lin Yao, this is the stable version of Kaihei mobile terminal, you can try it."

Zhong Xiu hurried in, took a test mobile phone with dozens of stickers on it, and handed it to Lin Yao.

"good."

Lin Yao took the test phone, without any nonsense, just bowed her head and tried it.

In fact, the transplantation of Kaihei mobile terminal is said to be transplantation, but it is no different from doing it again...

Lin Yao has also been following this project for a long time.

So she got the stable version of the mobile terminal and was quite calm.

And Lin Yao has a good understanding of the operating system of this world.

Although it wasn't her own mobile phone, she got started very quickly.

Not like at first.

Bumping with a mobile phone.

Because the mobile phone market in this world is also full of demons, there are still people buying mobile phones with physical keyboards, which are far from sunset. Although the market share of mobile phones with touch screens is increasing steadily every year, it has not yet reached the point of dominating the entire market.

And just because the mobile phone market is full of monsters, and the related operating systems are also varied, it is really difficult for someone who is familiar with full-screen operations to suddenly return to the past.

But it's okay.

Lin Yao finally found a substitute similar to Android, although the three physical buttons of King Kong gave her a feeling of going back to the past.

But it took a while to get used to it.

Now she is using a touch-screen mobile phone, and the mobile phone tested is also a touch-screen mobile phone.

"Chat, voice, call, circle of friends..."

Lin Yao tried to turn on the functions of the black mobile terminal one by one.

The only impression is.

This is WeChat...

And probably because she came across familiar software, her long-lost memories resurfaced, and then she started to be silly again, using full-screen gestures to operate the software.

aside.

Zhong Xiu saw Lin Yao swiping back and forth on the three physical buttons, and slowly made a question mark.

I don't know what Lin Yao is doing.

Lin Yao was stupid a few times, and she came to her senses.

She stopped, holding the phone, suddenly lost in thought.

By the way...

When did the full-screen mobile phone rise in my previous life?

In 2011, 4G was commercialized.

It seems that in the second year, BlackBerry launched an operating system with similar full-screen gestures.

Then domestic Xiaomi seems to have launched a mobile phone with a full-screen concept in 2016.

But in the end, it seems that Apple has opened the era of full screen, and then let all manufacturers start to embrace the full screen and the gesture interaction it brings.

Um……

Is there such a thing here?

"How about it?"

Zhong Xiu saw that Lin Yao had been silent, and finally started to think while holding the phone, so he asked softly.

"fine."

Lin Yao came back to her senses, and handed the test phone back to him with a smile: "Then let's use it for internal testing first, there is no need to launch it now, and the time has not yet come."

"Okay, then I will install the software for all of you later, and then we will build a small group internally and use it."

Zhong Xiu took the test phone, and then said: "However, the scope is limited to the core staff? After all, the mobile phones that everyone uses now are all kinds of strange, and it is too troublesome to be compatible. It is no problem for the core staff to change mobile phones, but it is unnecessary for ordinary staff to change mobile phones. , and secrecy will become an issue.”

"Um."

Lin Yao nodded in agreement.

"In addition... Actually, before I started doing it, I didn't expect that the communication software on the mobile terminal could do this."

After hesitating for a moment, Zhong Xiu said slowly: "It's probably too much for us to explore alone, but Lin Yao, whether this will be successful or not is actually something to talk about before. Although it feels very interesting, it is currently only limited to the WIFI scene to achieve the best results. Good experience, I tried the current mobile network usage, it is too slow, no one knows how the market will react, so you should be mentally prepared.”

"Um."

Lin Yao didn't explain too much.

Zhong Xiu is just worried that she is too confident, if the software fails to meet expectations, she will fall too hard and feel sad.

After all, when the mobile terminal project was established, Lin Yao seemed quite confident as if she knew what the entire software would look like in the end.

But games are games, and software is software.

Lin Yao currently has no achievements in convincing others in this regard.

No one knows what the future holds for this software.

Worrying is also normal.

Lin Yao didn't want to say anything more, she couldn't just tell people that she could predict the future.

After she responded, she paused, changed the subject suddenly, and asked, "Zhong Xiu, what do you think of the current operating method of the mobile phone?"

"How to operate the phone? It's pretty good."

Zhong Xiu was a little surprised when he heard this: "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

"Actually, I was thinking, a brand new gesture interaction based on the full screen... Forget it, nothing."

Lin Yao was halfway through.

He stopped suddenly and shook his head.

no.

Zhong Xiu is the leader of the PC game department, there is no need to let him think about these things anymore.

No no.

Rather, the root of Forest Studio is in the game.

Crossing borders requires a lot of energy and brings great risks.

The current mature game system of Linmu Studio happens to be the best industry to resist risks.

Now it is not a good choice for Zhong Xiu, the head of the PC game department, to expand his territory.

"?"

Zhong Xiu slowly made a question mark again.

But he didn't think too much: "Then I'm leaving, I'll install the software for you later, and then I will return to the PC game department! In addition, I think the sequel to Dark Souls can be considered."

Say it.

Zhong Xiu then left.

Before leaving, he remembered the word full-screen gesture interaction, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

And Lin Yao watched him leave.

He looked down at the paper on the table.

After thinking about it, I wrote my own answer.

1. The next development plan of the host and PC departments, whether to make a sequel to Dark Souls or not.

The mainframe department maintains the existing advantages and finds a new way for the next generation of Pokémon "swapping" gameplay. The main purpose of the next stage is to launch masterpieces that are different from mobile games.

As for the PC department, the Dark Souls sequel, do it!

2. Open the black mobile terminal, and plan to test the waters of mobile games in the future.

The Kaihei mobile terminal was announced when the new generation of communication technology was officially put into commercial use. At the beginning of testing water mobile games, you can start with some small games that are lighter in size but have good gameplay. wave of fame.

As for games and Kaihei mobile terminals, you can try to cooperate with Forest Financial Holdings.

The whole wave is big!

3. The suggestion made by Qi Jianhua just now.

try it.

Anyway, it doesn't cost much. Since Motion Capture Studio and Qi Jianhua both have this intention, let's try the water.

Under each answer, Lin Yao wrote out her own plan.

Then drop the pen.

stand up.

Ready to go to various departments.

...

end of May.

The popularity of "Monster Hunter" just dropped.

The small-scale test of "World of Warcraft" was officially launched.

Although the number of players who made an appointment for the test in the end soared to tens of millions.

But in the end, not many people participated in the small-scale test.

After all, as Lei Hongguang said, there are still Pokémon to be released later, so we can't steal the limelight too much.

And this small-scale test, the popularity is not high.

The first is because the number of people participating in the test is limited, and the test requires a non-disclosure agreement.

The second is that after the forest carnival meeting was held, the demo was opened immediately.

The discussion about "World of Warcraft" was overwhelming at that time.

In the trial play, the gameplay that the player can touch has been discussed.

Expectations are already very high.

Unless there is a public beta, or Linmu Studio announces big news again.

Otherwise, players will discuss and pay attention to it, but it is basically impossible to attract as much attention as when the game was first announced.

And Linmu Studio currently has more than one game on sale, World of Warcraft.

Therefore, it is impossible to announce new news at this juncture.

The final heat is generally understandable.

And this completes "Pokémon".

June 10th.

"Pokémon" is officially unlocked.

Because there is a background from the previous work.

This game sold 3.2 million copies in three days!

Undoubtedly, a huge success.

In the end, deputy director He did not go head-to-head with Linmu Studio...

After seeing the Pokémon succeed.

For the sake of money.

He still changed the release date of his game back.

The success of "Pokémon" also officially indicates that Linmu Studio's carnival activities have taken a big step towards the dazzling moment in game history.

The next two games from Linmu Studio.

As long as there are no major problems.

Then the Forest Carnival will become one of the most successful game events in the history of the game.

After the success of "Pokémon".

The pressure came to Tianhu and domestic counterparts...

After all, although there is still a "Diablo" left in the stand-alone game, those colleagues in Linmu Studio who are doing stand-alone games are already mentally prepared.

Commonly known as, lie flat.

Anyway, I can't stop it.

Even the game player, the archenemy of the Vaporwave gaming platform, has recently let go.

Although I don't know if it was a good deal.

Anyway, Dreamland and Gilber contacted Linmu Studio again, and talked about the game sharing issue of the Vaporwave game platform again.

Take care.

After they set up their own company, they shouldn't talk to Linmu Studio about the game revenue.

After all, it's none of their business now that their games are no longer on the Vaporwave game platform.

But they just connected.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, he seemed to want to take a step back with Linmu Studio.

You lower the game commission, I will go back...

In the end, Linmu Studio's reply was also very simple, only saying that you have no games on the Vaporwave game platform.

None of your business.

The two companies did not contact each other after hearing such a reply.

Probably also because the games launched by Linmu Studio are all console-side.

The two games that have landed on the Vaporwave gaming platform have not yet come out.

but.

Although the mouths of the two companies are still hard.

But Game player has really been less active lately.

Whether it is the enthusiasm of contacting third-party manufacturers or the number of promotions.

It also feels quite flat.

As for how they will react after "Diablo" and "World of Warcraft" land on the Vaporwave game platform, it is unknown.

Anyway, there is not much action at present, and there seems to be no pressure at all.

By contrast.

On the contrary, domestic online game companies are under great pressure in the face of "World of Warcraft", which occasionally has to jump out to create a sense of presence, but has no public beta.

The unfallen knife is always the scariest.

fell down.

At most click and wipe a knife.

Anyway, no matter what.

The follow-up impact of the Forest Carnival is indeed great.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it has stirred up the entire game market.

The entire game ecology has suffered a blow.

The vast majority of game companies have been forced to move.

It doesn't matter whether you imitate Linmu Studio, or firmly believe that you can fight against Linmu Studio.

Always do something.

And now Linmu Studio is a veritable top-line game developer.

The first top-line game developer in China!

No one can deny this.

but.

After the carnival.

During this period of time, the helm of this first-tier game developer in China has been a bit out of business...

Not only did she fail to take advantage of the opportunity of her rise, pursue her victory, continue to blossom, and start a new game—although there was a game project, but Lin Yao's main intention seems to be not on it.

On the contrary, she is quite interested in the two fields of mobile terminals and mobile games.

There is also the field of CG animation movies, and the completely unrelated... field of mobile phones.

And many insiders of Linmu Studio also know this.

Because of market research, Lin Yao can't handle it alone.

As for why they are interested in these fields, most of the staff can't figure it out.

Not to mention ordinary staff, many core staff can't figure it out.

But at this time, the benefits of a leader's charisma come out.

Although I can't figure it out.

However, there was no objection within Forest Studio.

After all, neither World of Warcraft nor Diablo has been released yet.

Just rest and recuperate.

And the time soon came to mid-June.

Lin Yao received the last market research report provided by Mu Wanqing, and she has a very clear understanding of the current situation in several areas she cares about.

She re-read all the investigation reports submitted during this period.

Then, start writing a plan.

And this plan.

Except for Ma Wanqing, all the staff in Linmu Studio didn't know what was written.

...

Ten days after the release of Pokémon.

The heat started to drop.

And Lin Yao's planning book was also finished.

She got off work on time with the written plan, and then contacted Lin Xi on the way.

Seven o'clock in the evening.

"Xiao Yao."

Lin Xi returned home, changed his shoes at the porch, and called out to his sister before he reached the living room.

Lin Yao specially called her to come back.

Very anxious look.

This made her a little nervous, thinking that something had happened.

But as soon as he walked into the living room, Lin Xi stayed where he was, a little dumbfounded.

on the sofa.

Lin Yao nestled on the sofa, holding her round and well-proportioned thigh with one hand, looking down at the cat beside her, holding a small dried fish in the other hand, teasing the cat while talking to herself.

Talking nonsense like four dishes and one soup, transformation...

Beside her, a black and white puppet cat sat on the sofa, raised its head, looked at the small dried fish in mid-air, and called out from time to time.

Poor.

"Are you calling me back in such a hurry just to tease the cat?"

Seeing this healing and nonsensical scene, Lin Xi was amused.

"No, I just happen to be a little bored."

Lin Yao raised her head, smiled brightly, and then passed the small dried fish in her hand to the cat's mouth.

The puppet cat opened its mouth and picked up the dried fish, then turned around and jumped off the sofa.

It seemed that he was afraid that Lin Yao would snatch it back.

Because I was snatched back just now... I was teased again.

However, it hadn't run two steps before it bumped into Lin Xi head-on and was picked up again.

"Gululu..."

The puppet cat bit the dried fish and made a purring sound, but it didn't struggle, but lay quietly in Lin Xi's arms.

Lin Yao took out the paper and wiped the oil stains on her fingers, then glanced at the cat in Lin Xi's arms: "Why was it not so good when I hugged it just now?"

"When you catch it, you usually give it a hard time...Of course it's afraid."

Lin Xi hugged the cat and sat down gracefully beside Lin Yao, saying gently.

"oh……"

Lin Yao's fair face showed an expression of sudden realization: "Understood, just like you did to me."

"What did I do to you?"

"When taking a shower, especially when washing your hair, how can you hold someone else's waist and prevent them from wearing clothes..."

"That's for helping you..."

Lin Xi put the cat on his lap, and said with a smile: "Who made you so anxious every time you take a bath... Well, what's the matter? Then call me back in such a hurry."

"There is something, I have an idea, but I need to ask for your opinion."

Lin Yao threw away the paper in her hand, and didn't bother about the cat, but talked about the business: "How is the production of Switch and related accessories?"

"very smooth."

Lin Xi gently stroked the cat on his lap, and then replied: "With the improvement of proficiency and the optimization of the production process, the cost of a machine has been reduced to a new low, and with the price reduction of materials, the cost of each machine will be reduced by the end of the year. Costs are expected to come down.”

"Hmm...then sister, are you confident in opening a new production line?"

Lin Yao nodded, and then continued to ask.

In fact, she is very clear about the current situation of Forestry Financial Holdings.

But out of emotion and reason, she still wanted to ask Lin Xi a question.

"A new production line?" Lin Xi was a little surprised.

"Um."

Lin Yao picked up the plan book on the table, handed it to Lin Xi, and said at the same time:

"Sister, I am very optimistic about the prospects of the mobile Internet, so I did some research on the current situation in various fields, and then wrote a plan.

The content of this planning, Linmu Studio alone can't do it, because there are too many things involved, and Linmu Studio's energy is limited, so it can't affect the game development.

So it can only be led by you and assisted by Linmu Studio. See if you have confidence. "

"...what do you want to do?"

Lin Xi took the proposal, but didn't read it directly, but looked at Lin Yao and blinked.

Lin Yao thought for a while and said concisely:

"Develop a full-screen mobile phone and launch it after the commercialization of the new generation of communication technology."

"And Linmu Studio will develop a new communication software for this phone, pre-install a variety of free casual mobile games, and at the same time tailor a mobile game that perfectly supports this phone, As a stunt."

"Mobile phones are aimed at gamers at the beginning, and then use this as a basis to open up a larger market."

"Are you confident? Sister."