Strongest Game Architect Chapter 8
Overnight
Game name: Minecraft
Game category: Adventure/Survival
Game icon: A square figure holding a dirt cube
Recommended age: 9+ (occasionally slight cartoon or fantasy style violence)
Preview image: five (omitted).
Game introduction: A high-degree-of-freedom sandbox game, 99 points for colleges and universities, this year’s graduation design champion! Embark on an adventure, collect, build and make friends to your heart’s content in this world! (Expand)
Developer: BlueStar Studio
Size: 212.3GB
In-app purchase items: Yes (6 yuan to unlock the full version)
—Above.
This is the first message of <Minecraft> registered on the Fei Yang Game platform.
On the night when it was officially online, he slept all the way to 12 noon as soon as he fell asleep due to the fact that he had stayed up all night.
The communicator was muted, and he missed many messages.
…
About five o’clock in the morning.
The editor-in-chief of Fei Yang Game Platform had just returned home from socializing. Before he even had the time to take off his jacket he fell face first down into the blanket.
The snoring sound can be heard immediately, but a harsh sounding telephone ringtone followed.
“Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep—-” The unique alarm sound made the editor-in-chief wake up in a moment, waved his hand to give himself a crisp and loud slap, immediately bounced off the bed, stood at attention, and answered the call.
“Hello, Chairman Wang… aye aye aye, yes yes yes, I’m at home now…”
“…”
“Minecraft? Uh, yes, it was signed by an intern on our platform, and it will go live today… …”
“……”
“What?! It pushed down <Florda’s Legend Chronicle>? Isn’t it the top ten on the free category list?…No, no, that’s not what I mean, I definitely gave the best resource…”
“…”
“Aye aye, of course of course. I’ll go back to the company and watch it right away! Don’t worry, I will watch it right away!”
It was about six in the morning.
Inside the Fei Yang platform company, the editor-in-chief, who had not taken off his clothes, rushed back as it was, slammed opened the door with his body, and hit the office like a whirlwind.
He opened the real-time download ranking (a list of downloads within 24 hours) and take a look—
This week’s <Florda’s Legend Chronicle>, which was the main pusher this week, is already in eleventh place, obviously being pushed down.
The tenth place is not <Minecraft>.
Ninth place, nor is it.
The eighth place is still not it.
……
Fifth place, impressively written <Minecraft>.
Downloads: 40235.
The editor-in-chief’s pupils spread rapidly, showing the feeling of extreme shock in his heart.
Although he has years of editing experience, he can’t even imagine what kind of thing this “Minecraft” is? Why can an ordinary student’s graduation design work be on the ranking list?
It only took him more than half an hour to get to the company from home, but this thing had already climbed from tenth to fifth?
This is *dropping from the sky!
It’s a God level of dropping from the sky!
*usually people get their achievement by slowly climbing from the bottom. But some people get their achievement too fast, which makes it seem like they reach the top by directly jumping/dropping off the sky. It’s a term used to describe such an occurrence.
The editor-in-chief clicked on the data curve of “Minecraft” so far.
The game was available for download at 0:00 in the morning, and the number of downloads reached more than 8,000 in the first ten minutes.
The number of downloads in the first hour reached more than 26,000 people, directly claimed the top 30 plus ranking in the 24-hour download list.
Furthermore the play time of the first batch of players has reached an hour, and they must pay 6 yuan to continue to play the full version of the content.
Then the shocking data appeared.
Player retention rate for one hour: 82%!
Pay rate: 67%!
What kind of concept is this, it’s the middle of the night, and these players actually wanted to pay even when they are sleepy?
The editor-in-chief feels that these people are poisoned! The kind of poison that makes them forget the existence of study and work for the next day, and be completely immersed in a game experience that they can’t escape from…
(T/N: A poison called game addiction you mean. Seesh could have summarised the whole sentence in 2 words)
More than four hours after “Minecraft” went online, it finally climbed to the tenth place in the rankings. The original tenth place was pushed down.
It is the sixth hour of the launch, and it is already in the fifth place!
The top few in the rankings are all recent IP masterpieces, and the commission for signing on Fei Yang platform is 10%.
The editor-in-chief was also helpless. Their platform is about to be killed. If they don’t get back some games from the town, they will really be forgotten.
But now they have an exclusive debut best-seller!
He was so excited that his entire face flushed red, and he immediately began to write a recommendation plan book by hand, wanting to immediately give more resources to popularize <Minecraft>.
But at this moment, he remembered the contract on his desk.
The share ratio between him and the producer of <Minecraft>, BlueStar Studio, is 10% to 90%.
The editor-in-chief was absent minded, and fell into the seat.
He regretted it.
The difference between 10% and 20%, he felt that if he were the one doing the negotiations at the beginning, he might be able to get tens of millions of shares! This is a game that can have such a result in the first six hours, and maybe the future will be even higher…
Yes, a dusty pearl was once placed in front of his eyes, as long as it is picked up in time, he will be successful in a day with a net worth of one million, and reach the pinnacle of life.
But his eyes were blinded by arrogance, and he couldn’t see the inner radiance of this pearl.
He took a big step wrongly with his chess piece…
It was too late for him to regret.
In terms of a discerning eye, he was actually not as good as a student who came for an internship.
…
At noon the next day, he yawned and sat up.
As he slept all the way until noon, he had a lot of nightmares about the past.
The destruction of Earth originated from natural disasters. On the day of the end of the world, a cold current of close to absolute zero engulfed the whole world…
Ming Yan had been frozen to death, so he was particularly afraid of the cold now.
It’s winter now, and he took a long time to wear his clothes.
But before waking up, he noticed his communicator, which displayed:
[ Missed communication: 42 ]
[ Unread SMS: 29 ]
The corners of his mouth twitched, he picked up the phone and glanced briefly. The first few messages were from Fei Yang game platform, and the others were all from other platforms.
He didn’t rush to reply, but rather opened Fei Yang’s software and took a look first.
Entering the first page, a huge banner popped out!
“Warmly celebrating champion work <Minecraft> for reaching 100,000 downloads in 10 hours! The holy land of adventure and construction, looking forward to your arrival!”
A perfectly fine “graduation design champion work”, had “graduation design” removed from it, isn’t this kind of marketing a little shameless?
However, Ming Ye likes it.
He smiled, clicked in, took a look, and first saw another slogan:
[ Full score recommended by the editor-in-chief! 98% player praise rate! ]
Then, the download page of the game was placed below, and there have been hundreds of player comments on the game.
The comment with the highest number of likes is written like this:
[ Came and reviewed specially! I really don’t remember when was the last time I played a game overnight. I’m so happy to be able to play this game! It’s mind blowingly fun! I was addicted on the first day. I never thought that this kind of survival game could be so fun. I built a small house by the water and spent a few hours digging underground, and then I started desperately looking for a cow… When the cow was finally found, it was already bright outside, and I’m also already late…to hell with work, I took three days of annual leave! I want to grow my wheat field first to raise my cows! I also want to find pigs and sheep and cats. I need to fish for the cats, and I need a fishing rod for fishing, so I need three spider silks, so I need to find the spiders first! Ah! This fascinating great ambition that causes people to drown in it! ]
The second highest comment is even more interesting, it reads:
[ Fuck! Censored monster! ! ! ! ]
Short and powerful.
It made every player empathize with the grief, and he quickly topped the comments.
After that, Ming Yan opened the backstage of BlueStar Studio.
The intellectual brain in the interstellar age operates very fast, like the work that has been determined for profit distribution, it is all real-time.
As of noon, the number of purchases of the full version of <Minecraft> had reached more than 400,000 copies, each priced at 6 yuan, and the income can be simply counted as 2.45 million.
Then the tax needs to be deducted, before allocating 10% to the Fei Yang platform while the rest will all go to BlueStar Studio.
The total is 1.64396 yuan!
This is the revenue from the first 12 hours of launch, thanks to such a large recommendation position given by Fei Yang platform—even though the platform itself is not large, the traffic is not very good.
For a recent graduate it is already a very good result, but he is still not satisfied.
<Minecraft> has high potential, and the final sales volume far exceeds this amount.
It’s just that for it to be so popular in the past life, a part of it can be credited to the MOD producer. Thousands of mods have brought endless possibilities to this already open world—it allows players to truly dominate everything in the game world!
Regarding this matter, Ming Yan has already placed it on the plan schedule.
However, this matter cannot be rushed. You must wait for the sales of the original version of Minecraft to increase and have a certain number of players before you can continue to make greater plans.
Even though good wine needs no bush, it also takes a while: let the aroma spread out first.
Another impact brought about by the popular launch of the game is that the personal media account that Ming Yan stated suddenly became popular.
Because there is no “BlueStar Studio” content found online, and there is only one account with the relevant title “BlueStar Studio Game Architect”.
So many players and fans paid attention to this account directly.
A few hours ago, the number of new fans Ming Yan acquired had already reached 999+, which can be said to be an overnight fame.
By the way, he posted a total of four blogs in the past, and now they have all been pulled out to *whip the corpse.
*to vent their anger/feelings on something what does not matter, like using it as a punching bag
Especially this one: [The censored monster is a dangerous creature. Once it appears in your field of vision, your life and property will be in danger. Therefore, preventing you from seeing it is also a kind of protection for you. ]
Now, the most praised comment below is: [ Mr. Architect! Are you a devil who takes pleasure in torturing players? ]
The comments that followed were all crying about the censored monster—that is, the terrible Dick monster.
After all, being caught off guard will cause it to self-destruct together with you…And if you are not careful, it can blow up the home that has been built with a lot of hard work!
Sure enough, “As soon as it appears in the field of vision, there will be danger to your life and property”!
Many players who were XXed cried like a land filled with starving people, and they shed tears like a waterfall in the comments.
Seeing their miserable cries, the corners of Ming Yan’s mouth curled up, and a happy smile appeared.
Even the first blog on Ming Yan’s account that no one cares about was reposted.
[ Strawberry Pudding: From this smile, I actually saw the eyes of the devil’s black holes, and there was a terrible smile with no humanity. Behind this smile is definitely the heart of a ruthless evil villain! ! //@Tiny work: 🙂 ]
(T/N: ML will appear in the next chapter!)
