Chapter 118: Chapter 105: Match-Three Ga (Part 2)
The first mobile ga should ideally be simple. Even if it fails, it’s okay, we’ll treat it as practice.
With this premise, Chen Ba felt that everyone was a bit too excited, talking about making stuff like Identity V and Honor of Kings right off the bat, which just sounds terrifying.
Co on!
This is our first ti making a mobile ga. Can we be a bit more realistic and not think too far ahead?
"Simpler?"
Hearing Ba’s words, everyone looked at each other in dismay.
"That’s right!"
Chen Ba straightforwardly said, "Even though we’ve had so success on PC, it doesn’t change the fact that we’re a blank slate in the mobile market."
Newbies should keep a low profile.
Whoever heard of a new player in the industry going all-in right from the start? Do you have the capital to go all-in?
The developnt cost for mobile gas isn’t low either. Tianba Studio, dipping its toes into the mobile market for the first ti, should set its sights a bit lower and not aim for big titles right away.
"I think match-three gas might be a good subject in the realm of casual gas!"
"Match-three?"
Everyone looked puzzled.
Tianba Studio had Star Emperor before and Divine Grace Continent after; each one a renowned masterpiece.
And now their new ga turned out to be a match-three ga?
That’s really sothing...
Although not spoken out loud, Chen Ba could tell from their expressions that they found this plan too conservative.
True, match-three is very basic.
But so what if it’s basic? A well-made match-three ga can still be the absolute "casual" king of the mobile ga market.
Not to ntion mobile gas.
Even on PC, a well-made match-three single-player ga can still sell many copies, so why look down on match-three?
"But Ba... didn’t you say we’re making this mobile ga as a multiplayer online ga, not single-player?" Lu timidly raised his hand.
"Exactly, multiplayer online!"
Chen Ba nodded in confirmation, "Is there a conflict between match-three and multiplayer online? There isn’t, right!"
Lu: "..."
There may not be a conflict, but there are hardly any multiplayer online match-three gas on the market.
How does this even work as a multiplayer ga?
"Matching opponents and doing a PK system!" Chen Ba said casually.
"Within five minutes, whoever clears more blocks wins and the player with the highest score wins. Isn’t that a form of multiplayer online?"
We could even set up a room and pull in friends and family to see who scores higher and clears more levels.
"Well, that could work!"
Although Ba’s multiplayer plan sounded unreliable, it could be used, preventing it from being a pure single-player ga.
But is match-three really that fun?
Zhong Shengwei, who had played many match-three gas and often saw people playing match-three gas on the subway, had sothing to say about it.
He explained, "Ba’s subject choice isn’t the problem here; the user base for match-three gas is still very large. Both the elderly and children like match-three gas."
The subject isn’t the problem.
Match-three gas have always occupied a significant share in the mobile ga market. You think no one is playing? That’s just your perception.
It’s similar to how people scratch their heads wondering who exactly plays Tanwan Blue Moon...
That’s just how match-three gas are.
They have incredibly tenacious vitality and their popularity is comparable to card gas like Dou Dizhu and Mahjong.
"Match-three gas also depend on the situation."
After thinking slightly, Chen Ba said, "Conventional match-three gas certainly don’t have much appeal or eye-catching elents. I wasn’t planning on making simple, crude gas either."
"This is what I have in mind..."
"Traditional match-three gas, let’s be honest here, even a keyboard warrior in a forum could make one."
"But we’re going to make a pseudo match-three ga wrapped in a match-three ga’s skin with embedded character developnt systems."
"What?!"
Now everyone was even more confused.
What is a match-three ga with an embedded character developnt system? Everyone recognized those individual words, but when pieced together, why do they sound so unfamiliar?
"You guys are clueless!"
Chen Ba said helplessly, "Why are we making a mobile ga?"
"To make money!"
"There you go! Since we aim to make money, to support our single-player business, don’t we need a monetization sche?"
Then Chen Ba pondered while touching his chin, "There are generally two ways for match-three gas to make money; one is through ads, the other is selling various items."
But Chen Ba didn’t like either of them.
Match-three gas with ads have a terrible gaplay experience, where an ad pops up anyti and can easily cause players to quit.
Selling items is slightly better, but only slightly. After all, to push items, so levels have their difficulty adjusted to be ’just right.’
What’s ’just right’?
It’s when you’re so close to passing, but the tir ticks away quickly. If you had an item, you’d pass instantly, but without it, you’re left in failure...
There’s actually another way!
But that one’s too shaless—having both ads and item sales, not missing a single opportunity to make money. It looks too ugly.
Chen Ba doesn’t like that approach, so he decided to embed character developnt gaplay on the foundation of traditional match-three gas.
This way, it ensures playability and opens up a new monetization channel.
Monetization is through drawing characters.
Each character has different skills, which can be seen as ’items’ in traditional match-three gas.
"Isn’t that still just selling items?"
"Not the sa!"
Chen Ba shook his head and explained, "Items you can use together, but for characters, you choose one, so you can only use that one skill."
"Besides, each character has different elents, and each level map will also have elent distinctions. Using the mutual restraint of elents to tackle specific levels works great."
The elents are tentatively set as the five elents.
A character with Water Elent in a Fire Elent level will be significantly enhanced, with not only more powerful skills but also special effects.
Or say a Fire Elent character has a skill to explode a certain area of blocks, originally a 2*2 area, but in a Water Elent level, it might beco a 1*1 area.
Cultivating characters can also upgrade skill levels to unlock more interactions and dialogues.
"Okay!"
After basically understanding Ba’s so-called character developnt system, Yang Dong was the first to speak up, "So for this ga, Ba, who do you plan to put in charge?"
Surely not all of us?
It’s just a match-three ga. No kidding, anyone in Tianba Studio, except for Zhang Xiaojun, could handle it.
It’s just a matter of ti taken.
"I’ll do it with Lu, and you guys can contact the voice actors and artists, which are quite important."
Chen Ba explained, "Our monetization point is the characters, so their design really needs attention and can’t be done randomly."
The ani style has to be there, the style that young children like, and characters that appeal to the aesthetics of middle-aged and elderly people also have to be there...
To put it bluntly,
The art style of this ga aims for comprehensiveness. Regardless of age or gender, everyone can find a character they like in the ga.
Whether they’re strong or not is another matter...
After all, each character only has one skill, and there’s a cooldown. How strong they are really depends on how players use them.
"And for the multiplayer part..."
After thinking it over, Chen Ba made a final arrangent, "Just make a matching entertainnt system, let’s not go into rankings."
Casual gas are for playing in fragnted ti; making it too formal with ranking battles would be ridiculous.
This kind of ga is just to kill ti, playing it like it’s work isn’t good.
Of course!
We definitely need a leaderboard.
Clearing a certain number of levels can get you on the board. The more levels you clear, the higher the ranking, and that’s an honor!
There’s no shortage of top players in match-three gas, providing them a platform to showcase skills. Let ordinary players see how aweso match-three ga’s technical masters are!
Apart from level leaderboards, matches can also have a win rate leaderboard.
As for the core ga—matching and clearing blocks—is what Chen Ba least cared about. After all, as everyone knows, the easiest thing in match-three gas is the matching part...
With just a few blocks, who are you looking down on? Even two college students could do it, right!
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