Chapter 116: Chapter 104: Mobile Ga (2)
If you can make money lying down, why stand up?
In Chen Ba’s opinion, by relying on the ga "Divine Grace Continent," just honestly selling software and collecting a 30% toll fee is already quite appealing.
As for diversifying into animation, isn’t that just sothing for when you’re overfed and bored? Besides, he only knows how to make gas, and rashly branching out carries too much risk!
"True..."
Qian Xin thought about it and suddenly felt that Ba’s words made sense.
Animation and gas are two completely different fields. Just because Ba is thriving in the gaming industry doesn’t an he’ll thrive in animation.
It’s a simple truth.
Even if you have a great movie, if no theater is going to screen it, it will still fail, right?
"What about the new ga then?"
Upon learning that Ba wasn’t planning to branch out but rather stick to his roots, Qian Xin imdiately asked about the next new ga from Tianba Studio.
"The new ga? We haven’t decided yet."
"But from the initial discussions at our studio, the new ga will probably be a mobile ga..."
Given that this wasn’t a big secret, Chen Ba straightforwardly said, "It’s too unstable to profit from single-player gas, especially PC single-player gas."
"To keep our studio running smoothly, we plan to make a money-making mobile ga as a cash flow source for the studio."
Using mobile gas to continually fund the studio, and then creating new large-scale PC single-player masterpieces, is also a very typical business decision.
"Mobile gas indeed make money."
Qian Xin wasn’t surprised to hear this because he used to be a gaming content creator and was well aware of how powerfully mobile gas can bring in cash nowadays.
It’s no exaggeration to say that in the dostic market, mobile gas have a cash-generating power dozens of tis stronger than PC gas or console gas.
A popular mobile ga can easily start with a monthly revenue of several hundred million.
If it’s a ga like Honor of Kings or Genshin Impact, it’s even scarier. On the day a new card pool or skin is released, a day’s revenue can equal the developnt cost of a AAA ga.
Although Tianba Studio is making money and life is good, who doesn’t want an even better and more comfortable life?
Is there really anyone who dislikes having more money?
"What kind of mobile ga is it, could you give
a hint, Ba?" Qian Xin asked curiously.
"Casual type, I guess!"
Chen Ba said with a sowhat awkward expression, "You know, overly complex and large-scale mobile gas don’t really perform well, right?"
"I get it, that’s how it is with mobile gas."
Qian Xin nodded.
Compared to PC and console players, mobile gars are much easier to please despite nitpicking.
The simpler and more straightforward a ga is, the more likely it is to blow up.
Like "Goat Simulator"!
On the other hand, those massive, complex gas generally don’t perform well on mobile platforms.
This is a unique characteristic of mobile gas, where ga ti is too fragnted, favoring gas that can be played anyti, anywhere, and easily put down.
Gas like "Candy Crush" and "Doudizhu" are tiless kings of the mobile ga world.
But then again...
Although he’s a single-player ga developer, Chen Ba still doesn’t want to make overly simple and straightforward gas.
He has his own considerations.
There are many types of casual mobile gas, and not all are that simple and straightforward; as long as they’re fun and kill ti, they’ll do.
By the way...
Tianba Studio’s several gas already have mobile versions.
Although sales haven’t been great, it’s not like Tianba Studio has no experience in mobile ga developnt.
"Multiplayer is definitely on the cards."
Since he’s decided to make mobile gas, Chen Ba has surely researched the dostic mobile gaming environnt and knows that purely single-player gas have difficulty surviving; online gas have more potential.
Thus, his envisioned casual ga will definitely feature multiplayer, much like the online mode in "Star Emperor."
"Speaking of Star Emperor, why not consider making a mobile version of it?" Qian Xin asked curiously.
He genuinely thought "Star Emperor" was fun, and if a so-called "Star Emperor M" was developed, he’d definitely give it a try.
"No way!"
Chen Ba shook his head, "If the PC can’t handle it, do you think a phone could?"
Reducing the graphics quality is doable.
But then the problem arises: without its prestigious graphical quality and stunning effects, what does "Star Emperor" have to attract players?
Surely no one thinks "Star Emperor" has strong playability, right?
That’s pure nonsense!
Without the ultra-high graphics and splendid effects, "Star Emperor" isn’t even as good as a normal fighting mobile ga.
A direct port or light reduction doesn’t cut it as mobile or tablet performance is insufficient, and significant graphics and effects reduction would lose its core selling point...
This is why there’s still no plan for a mobile version of "Star Emperor."
Unless one day, mobile GPUs can rival those of a 3070, then maybe, with slight adjustnts to graphics and effects, "Star Emperor" could be ported to mobile.
For now, that’s not realistic.
As they chatted, the high-speed train quickly arrived at Zhonghai Station.
Chen Ba and Qian Xin got off the train and wandered around the City God Temple area before having lunch and leisurely heading to the venue for the awards ceremony.
The Animation Association is really poor!
The rented venue was small, and there wasn’t even air conditioning. Chen Ba was sweating profusely, regretting not asking Dong to accept the award on his behalf.
Fortunately, the organizers understood the hardships and conducted the awards ceremony swiftly.
During the awards presentation, Chen Ba stayed busy, chatting with a few animation producers and directors.
They were very interested in the "customization" service of "Divine Grace Continent," especially given the precedent of "This Hero is too Steady," everyone knew the value of this technology.
However, they weren’t here for animation.
To be exact, it wasn’t about TV animation, but about big-screen animated films!
"Make a movie?"
Chen Ba frowned and pondered, thinking the idea was plausible, but "Divine Grace Continent" was best at long-form serial animation deduction.
For a movie with a short duration of just one or two hours, pacing the plot rapidly, "Divine Grace Continent" might struggle to handle it.
"Not just one film!"
The animation producer excitedly said, "With ’Divine Grace Continent,’ we can easily produce trilogies, quintologies, or even decalogy of films!"
Oh boy!
Releasing so many films at once, it’s like saying people don’t have to pay for cinema tickets, right? Who would watch such long films?
"It all depends on the script."
Chen Ba shook his head, "If you have a good script, we can collaborate; otherwise, no need."
He’s not into scamming people for money.
Ordinary Divine Grace animations are free to watch online; if they aren’t enjoyable, at least there’s not much of a loss.
But if Divine Grace animations were brought to the big screen without a good story to support them, purely for scamming people out of money, he wouldn’t want to do that.
These two aren’t good people.
They probably thought, with the powerful capabilities of "Divine Grace Continent," they could mass-produce a batch of low-cost "animated films" and send them to cinemas.
Since they’re low cost and in large quantity, there might be audiences attracted by the title and description who buy tickets to watch.
The cost is so low!
With a few million, they could get a personalized customization service from Tianba Studio and easily churn out ten or twenty movies.
Such movies are essentially scams for money, right?
When the film releases, with so money spent on advertising, crowds of audiences might be deceived.
Then who will the audience bla?
Clearly, when audiences spend money on movie tickets only to be disappointed, they’ll surely bla Tianba Studio for releasing so many diocre films tainting the theaters.
This really isn’t money worth making!
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