Tokyo Video Game Tycoon: Chapter 534 The world needs more indie games

 Chapter 534 The world needs more independent games

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 When I was a child, I ran around the farmland and watched the small insects tumbling about in the fields. Occasionally, there would be some bad guys like squirrels or birds stealing crops from the farmland to eat.

 After more than ten years of working in the city, Chiko Suzuki has almost forgotten the feeling of being in his hometown.

 This game allowed him to rediscover the beauty of his childhood.

He really likes this game. Even though the game looks so mediocre and the picture quality is a bit bad, this game allows him to regain his original intention.

There are many people who have similar emotions to Suzuki Chihiro, and without exception, they all like the warm feeling of Stardew Valley.

 Several people even finally plucked up the courage to return to their hometowns because of playing this game.

 A game made by one person, with 50,000 sales, and an average selling price of 1,700 yen.

 Battle.net also took this opportunity to promote its own sharing terms.

Game developers can receive 70% of game revenue share.

At the same time, Battle.net also added a special label to Stardew Valley: independent game.

 The term independent game is easy to understand. Just like independent movies in the film and television industry, they are all works created by one or very few people at a very low cost.

 In the film industry, independent films are already very mature, but few people have tried video games before.

Most people subconsciously define video games as high-involvement products.

Perhaps it is because video game programming, painting, music, level design, etc. are all very professional, which makes most people daunted by these complex types of work. In addition, the trend of video games has recently been towards large investments. , only a few casual games from Youxing Electronic Entertainment can capture some players outside of games, but no one can see the potential of casual games now, and more people are still paying attention to games with heavy investment.

 In this case, no one expected that a little dark horse would suddenly appear.

 50,000 game sales are really nothing to big companies, but for some game developers who are in a period of confusion, it seems to have opened a new door.

Stardew Valley's graphics aren't that great, but even so it's still a modest success.

 Professional developers can quickly confirm that Stardew Valley is not difficult to develop in all aspects, it just lacks that one idea.

And if you really have enough creativity, then the level of picture quality does not seem to be so necessary, and high investment is naturally not particularly necessary.

This has allowed many confused game developers to find a new direction.

 It turns out that it’s not just big productions that can be successful.

 Look, Stardew Valley was created by just one person, and it is not difficult at all to reproduce the gameplay and picture quality of Stardew Valley.

 Just this kind of game can sell 50,000 copies, and the money received is almost more than 50 million yen.

 This is almost the five-year income of a senior white-collar worker.

The eyes of game developers who are still confused are red.

And the sales of Stardew Valley have not stopped. The game is still increasing sales, which means that the people who develop this game can continue to receive game income.

 This is simply a role model in their minds!

For a time, Stardew Valley was not only circulated in the circle of game enthusiasts, but also discussed in the small circle of game developers.

At the same time, the developer of this game was also discussed: Nintendo is the master of the world.

This name is really weird.

This name seems to mean that Nintendo is very powerful.

 But what is Nintendo? Or who is Nintendo?

 A certain netizen 1: "The name Nintendo sounds like a century-old store, because only a century-old store can call itself a store. This is our Japanese custom. Don't you know?"

 A certain netizen 2: "Then what does Rentian mean? It seems a bit resigned to fate?"

 A certain netizen 1: "It seems like this, a century-old store that is resigned to its fate? Why is this kind of century-old store dominating the world? I really can't understand it."

 A certain netizen 3: “Wait a minute, what are you discussing?”

A certain netizen 1: "Here comes a new guy, I have to repeat it to you again, forget it, I will say it again, we are now discussing what Nintendo means and why this game developer calls Nintendo the world master. "

 A certain netizen 3: "Is this the crux of the problem? I thought you were discussing the development concepts in the game, which made me happy for a long time."

 A certain netizen 2: "The names of game developers are also very meaningful. Why do you dare to look down on the names of game developers?"

A netizen 4: "Everyone! The latest news, I just found an ancient linguist. This ancient linguist seems to say that in ancient history, there is something called Waris. In the language of Waris, Nintendo represents the holiest god. Maybe this What Mr. Nintendo wants to describe is that a certain holy **** is the master of the world?"

 A certain netizen 123: “Why does this involve gods again?”

 …

Zhu Youxing, who was bored and browsing the Internet, was confused when he saw the chat content in this chat room.

　Why do these people always like to interpret such boring things?

Or it is just a joke for myself. Of course, people in this world cannot know what Nintendo is.

And in addition to the user name of Nintendo being the world's dominator, he also registered a series of users such as Sony Dafa Hao, Ubisoft potato cultivation expert, ten years of making games, nine years of making CG, making CG with heart, making games with feet, etc. Name trumpet.

Now he happened to be wandering around the chat room as an accountant who had spent ten years making games and nine years doing CG. Unexpectedly, he saw a group of people discussing this kind of thing.

You can play my games when you have free time, and I will let you understand that games do not necessarily require a lot of investment to be good. Sometimes small and beautiful games are also very charming.

However, it is meaningless to mention Zhuyouxingguang here. People here will not pay attention to Zhuyouxing at all.

 They were just minding their own business there discussing who this predecessor called Nintendo was and why he was the master of the world.

 Sure enough, the imagination of netizens is unlimited, and it makes no sense how they defend themselves.

However, it is quite interesting to watch the discussions of these shady netizens occasionally.

Of course, after reading the discussion among the netizens, he still has something to do, which is to encourage more people in the community to develop independent games. This world should not only have large-scale games.

The world needs more indie games.

 (End of this chapter)