Chapter 179: Chapter 135: Divine Grace Animation Festival (Part 2)
The awards, including the prizes and all the expenses of the Divine Grace Animation Festival, are mainly funded by the mbership fees and sponsorship from Tianba Studio.
The first Divine Grace Animation Festival is scheduled to take place at the end of this month.
Qian Xin started preparations early, finding a suitable venue, renting it, setting up the stage and venue, and customizing trophies.
Most importantly, contacting major animation companies and producers to submit their works for the judging panel’s review as quickly as possible, so they don’t miss the opportunity to compete.
Since it’s the first Divine Grace Animation Festival, the process is quite rushed, basically just for show, and the awards were already predetermined.
There’s no other way but to predetermine them.
After all, ti is limited, and the judges are very busy, so they can’t afford to waste too much ti.
However, although the awards were predetermined, the winning works are truly outstanding and say it’s a standout of Divine Grace Animation is not an exaggeration.
Interestingly enough...
The first Divine Grace Animation Festival established a Lifeti Achievent Award and awarded it to Ba.
The award speech went as follows:
"He has pioneered a new track in the animation industry, created the Divine Grace Animation category... Even though he’s not an animation person and has no works, he has left a colorful mark in the history of animation."
Giving out a Lifeti Achievent Award at the first event indeed breaks many people’s perceptions.
But thinking about it carefully, the award really should go to Ba. If he hadn’t developed the ga "Divine Grace Continent," would everyone be where they are today?
The applause was very enthusiastic.
The crowd sincerely accepted Ba receiving the award.
Even though he’s not in the animation industry, his legend is well-known in animation circles. A remarkable achievent of leveraging a ga to impact the entire animation industry is unique worldwide!
"Ba actually won an award?"
"Yes! He did!"
After clapping, Yang Dong regretfully said, "It’s a pity it’s not a ga award. Otherwise, we’d have an excuse to ask Ba to give us a raise."
Why isn’t it a ga award?
Even in his dreams, Ba wants to win a grand ga-related award, but unfortunately, he has not realized this dream yet. On the contrary, in the animation field, Ba has already beco quite successful, collecting trophies to his heart’s content.
It’s not just in the animation field.
In other fields, Ba has also won nurous awards, like Best Distributor, Jiangning’s Most Beautiful Matchmaker, and his achievents are not low there either.
Why is the main business so lacking?
Thinking it over, Yang Dong believes it’s still an issue with the ga’s subject choice. Tianba Studio is focused on small-scale gas and has no large-scale gas.
If it’s not a large-scale ga, competing for awards is pretty difficult. Mainly, the ga’s scale determines its content; if you have less content, you lack competitiveness.
Unless it’s sothing like "It Takes Two," which, though small in scale, is indeed dazzling and impressive, it’s tough to compete directly with AAA gas.
"Co on!"
Lu pouted and said, "We’re talking about a raise, not getting fired by Ba is already a success!"
Fired?
Yang Dong couldn’t help but ask, "Did you hear sothing?"
"Do you need to hear it?"
"Ba has already announced in the group that the studio will expand to about 25 people while clearing out employees who lack skills and have poor work attitudes."
Lu sighed and said, "Don’t worry, a few of us founders won’t be thrown under the bus by Ba just yet."
It’s hard to say for others.
In Tianba Studio, out of a dozen people, not everyone is exceptionally capable, and not everyone is as diligent as Lu and Yang Dong.
Ba getting angry is inevitable.
So are indeed just passing ti. Such an attitude isn’t wrong in a big company; you can indeed slack off, and there’s always soone to do the work.
But in an "entrepreneurial" team like Tianba Studio, having slackers typical of big companies is sothing Chen Ba certainly can’t accept.
His requirents are already quite low.
He doesn’t expect everyone to be superstars, but in a startup team, at least have the right work attitude, right?
If you’re just slacking, why not apply to a big company? Coming to a startup, not only are you miserable, but Chen Ba finds it annoying to watch as well.
There will be a group of people who will face being fired.
But likewise, Tianba Studio will welco a batch of new employees, further expanding the team.
A team of 25 is the current maximum capacity of the studio’s office space, a number Chen Ba has thought through carefully.
This team size is already enough to et the developnt needs of so "dium-sized" gas.
The so-called dium-sized gas are priced starting at 98 yuan, approaching over 100 yuan.
Three digits!
This is Chen Ba’s next phased goal and the work arrangent for Tianba Studio next year: a dium-sized ga priced at three digits.
This isn’t AAA...
Indeed, so AAA gas do have prices in this range, but those are "discounted" prices, not the regular prices.
What Chen Ba aims to do is a ga originally priced in the hundreds, even after discounts can sell for sixty or seventy yuan.
This type of ga, although not reaching AAA heights, still maintains a very high overall quality and level of completion, incomparable to previous gas developed.
After the Divine Grace Animation Festival ended, Chen Ba has been pondering a question.
If a ga wants to reach a three-digit price, what conditions must it et?
It’s not about random pricing.
Under normal circumstances, a hundred-yuan ga should have top-notch graphics or exceptionally outstanding gaplay.
In other words, it must be better than a 68 yuan ga, making players willing to pay the extra tens of yuan, rather than feeling the price is unjustifiably high for the original purchase.
PUBG is probably an example of this.
But even PUBG’s early price was only 98 yuan, and its gaplay was relatively monotonous, besides the basic map, it didn’t have the desert and rainforest maps then.
In other words...
In its early phase, PUBG couldn’t support that price with just the basic map, only when counting the desert and rainforest maps, it seed reasonable.
The gas under Tianba Studio, like "Divine Grace Continent" and "Love Advisor Departnt," are both priced at 68 yuan.
These two gas are worth that price.
Not considering these gas for other roles, purely from a gaplay and ga size perspective, selling at 98 yuan would be purely overpriced.
"If ’Star Emperor’ could have a larger map, a richer storyline, optimized combat thods, and a robust world background, it might barely justify being a hundred yuan ga."
Yang Dong explained, "Not joking, if we can really create the grand experience of ’Star Emperor’s’ journey from humble beginnings to peaks, combined with an open world map, this would be the groundwork for a AAA ga."
Indeed!
Chen Ba nodded.
From being weak to reaching the height of ’Star Emperor’ to prove his worth, battling on the ’Path to Immortality.’ When combined with an open world map, this is the standard of a AAA masterpiece.
Unfortunately, the process is too long.
Portraying ’Star Emperor’s’ magnificent life from weakness to peaks, along with creating an open world map, involves an enormous workload.
This is why AAA gas are hard to co by.
A complete AAA ga, where multiple components alone, isolated, can be sold for fifty to sixty yuan.
Take for example the classic Gwent card ga.
That’s part of a AAA ga, and could it not be made into a standalone ga? The answer is yes!
Or the driving and vehicle systems from Grand Theft Auto, couldn’t that be made into a standalone racing ga?
It’s largely feasible!
"In the future, if there’s a chance to remake ’Star Emperor,’ then why not, but by then, it might not be called by this na anymore."
As Chen Ba spoke, he couldn’t help but burst into laughter, "Also, by then, the remade ’Star Emperor’ could very likely beco an actual AAA masterpiece!"
At that ti, would it be excessive to sell the ga at 300 yuan?
Though that’s just a joke.
What Chen Ba referred to as three digits is just to barely cross the hundred-yuan threshold, not to leap to sell the ga for two or three hundred, four or five hundred yuan.
Even though both are three digits, there’s a significant difference, the ga prices at 100
yuan and those at 200
yuan are completely different concepts.
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