Chapter 56: A Stunned Crowd

"By the way, when will the new game be developed?" Wang Yaliang, who was feeding the steel eggs with dog food, asked Yang Chen, who was paralyzed on the sofa.

"Next Monday, the finance, programming, art, and planning have been recruited. I still need to polish up "Resident Evil", and I don't plan to give this project to 'Dream Chasing'. Their hard work The strength is still a little worse." Yang Chen said.

All positions in the studio have been recruited, and a dedicated financial officer has also been recruited, which is almost on the right track.

"Then what is our new game?" Wang Yaliang said curiously.

"A similar game on a smaller scale." Yang Chen already had a general idea in his heart.

Make a game with less risk, at least eliminate the danger of cost breakage.

At the same time, it can be regarded as a run-in for the members of the team.

After all, the production of Resident Evil as a 3A scale will definitely cost a lot of money, and Yang Chen also needs to accumulate a lot of things.

Even though "Octopian Traveler" has made a lot of money, Yang Chen is really worried that he will encounter the dilemma of suddenly running out of money halfway through.

The two of them were leaning on the sofa, and they were discussing in the studio. When they were chatting, the phone next to them suddenly rang.

"Yes, that's right... Okay, no problem, of course I have time." Hanging up the phone, a smile appeared on Yang Chen's face.

"Who called? What's the matter?" Wang Yaliang approached curiously.

"Nominations for the Golden Bird Game Awards, invite me to participate next week." Yang Chen said with a smile.

The Golden Bird Game Award has another name in China, that is, the Best Independent Game Award, which is also a default unspoken rule.

Although the Golden Bird Game Award itself did not express it clearly, including the nomination of the game shows everything. Since the beginning of the event, there has not been a 3A-level game landing, whether it is a phenomenon that is popular or an unpopular one.

On the contrary, the outstanding independent games in the domestic industry have never been absent. Even if the producer does not go to the other party, the award will be awarded normally.

It can be said that it is much more formal than the Shanghai Independent Game Conference that Lin Jiayi invited Yang Chen to attend.

And this is also the most valuable award in China besides the authoritative independent game makers officially released, and the most influential annual independent game.

"Won the award!?" Wang Yaliang's eyes lit up.

She didn't really know how much gold the Golden Bird Game Award had.

"Who knows, it's just to invite me to participate in the nomination." Yang Chen smiled and shook his head.

Although he also thinks that "The Binding of Isaac" and "Octopian Traveler" have a high probability of winning, but after all, they are only nominations, so don't talk too much.

"That's it." Wang Yaliang lost the interest he had just heard.

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On Monday morning, Yang Chen and Wang Yaliang drove to the Nebula Studio.

Not counting Yang Chen and Wang Yaliang, the entire studio, including finance, has expanded to 14 people. Among them, there are 3 people in charge of art, including Chen Shu, and the client program includes Wang Ye and the three of them, a total of 6 people. 1, and 2 execution plans, and the rest are administrative, financial and server-side programs.

"I believe that everyone already knows each other. I won't say much more. Next, we will mainly have two projects." After everyone introduced themselves, Yang Chen said with a smile.

Hearing Yang Chen's words, everyone immediately became serious and excited, Chen Shu, Wang Ye and the other four even sat up straight.

I have to say that the great success of "Octopian Traveler" exceeded everyone's expectations. Everyone thought that "Octopian Traveler" would be successful, but they did not expect it to be so successful.

Excited at the same time,

The rapid expansion of Nebula Studio also made them feel a little bit of pressure.

In private, everyone signed up for the corresponding study class, including Chen Shu himself, who was also starting to learn simple procedures.

When there is an opportunity, no one wants to hang around, and Chen Shu and the others also don't want "Octopian Traveler" to be the peak of their careers.

"Escape is the next game we're going to make, a horror game." Yang Chen looked at the crowd and said.

Putting aside "Resident Evil" for the time being, this is a decision Yang Chen made after careful consideration. The most important thing is the huge scale and cost constraints.

It might not be a true 3A, but it's not that bad either.

After careful consideration, Yang Chen focused his attention on another game in his dream memory - "Escape".

In fact, before choosing "Escape", Yang Chen also considered another horror game "Silent Hill" in the dream memory.

But after thinking about it later, Yang Chen gave up, because compared to "Escape", "Silent Hill" is not a bit more difficult in game production.

Just like the elements that most horror games are good at using, religion, psychology, and unknown mysteries are all vividly displayed in "Silent Hill".

In the game, the atmosphere of depression and horror, as well as the psychological suggestion of self, Yang Chen felt that compared with "Resident Evil", it was a little deeper.

At the same time, there are too many colors about religion, although religion is obviously a good theme for horror games.

But Yang Chen has never been very interested in religion, and this kind of existence is also very easy to imply something. Even if you don't have such thoughts, someone will give you an excessive interpretation.

Just like reading comprehension in elementary school textbooks.

Author: "Good night!"

Student: The word "late" in "Good night" indicates the time, which reminds people that the sky is already dark, which symbolizes the dark society at that time, and the people are not living well. But under this black sky, people feel "safe", which reflects the numbness of the people, and the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence reflects the author's numbness towards the people, "sorrow for their misfortune, and indifference to anger"

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Whether it is literature, movies, anime or games, this phenomenon of over-understanding has always existed.

In addition, that is the creation of the atmosphere in "Silent Hill", which is really great, especially in the switching scene between the outside and the outside world, as well as the accessories, especially in the theme soundtrack of the final clearance of "Silent Hill 2" It's a stroke of genius.

That feeling was different from the soundtrack in Octopath Traveler. It even made Yang Chen feel that if the soundtrack was missing, the game would drop a rating.

So after thinking for a long time, Yang Chen finally decided to give up "Silent Hill" as a work for the team to run in before the development of "Resident Evil", but chose another simple and rude "Escape".

Compared with "Resident Evil" and "Silent Hill", the scale of escape is obviously much smaller. Self-suggestion and visual impact, plus the dual integration of marketing and pictures, this is the most terrifying part of "Escape". Just like "Silent Hill", you need to think about a lot of plot twists, and you don't have to think about resource allocation like "Resident Evil", and so on, which can let players substitute fear elements.

At the same time, the small development cost is also very suitable as a game for practicing hands, and how to create a terrifying atmosphere in terms of visual and auditory effects, this is what Yang Chen hopes to let the whole team learn.

But after listening to Yang Chen's words, Chen Shu and Wang Ye, including everyone who joined the Nebula Studio, were all dumbfounded.