My Animation Era

The day before the New Year's Day holiday, the national and foreign servers of the much-anticipated game "Machine Warrior" were officially launched.

Gu Miao, who received the news in advance, turned on the computer early, pre-downloaded and installed the game files.

At 11:00 noon, the game server starts.

There is no imaginary line jam and queuing, and Wanbao Game, which is prepared for distribution in advance, has done a very stable network.

Wanbao account one-click login.

Select a different server area of ​​China Telecom/Netcom, edit the nickname, enter the novice teaching level, and randomly match opponents with the same "ladder score".

There is no PVE mode.

The main feature is a player vs. player PVP competition, and the players' respective race choices are determined by guessing heads and tails of coins.

The game is very demanding of operation and consciousness.

Start with a bare base, collect energy amethysts to recruit troops and upgrade buildings through mining, and then expand the area of ​​influence until you defeat the other player...

As a light RTS player, Gu Miao's APM (operations per minute) is very low. His performance in this type of game can only be described as ugly.

no way!

For RTS games with strong competitive elements like this, too low apm is the fatal weakness, and it is expected that they will be easily defeated by others.

The game "King of Warcraft" gave him the same feeling as the "StarCraft" and "Warcraft" he had played before.

Very operable.

Strong is strong, there are not so many bells and whistles, their apm is several times that of yours, crushing you is as easy as crushing an ant.

Fortunately, Gu Miao will surrender!

If he can't beat a master, he can't click surrender and re-match a novice to find confidence?

The game has just launched, and the level of players is uneven. The masters with RTS foundation are terrible, but the beginners who try RTS competitive games for the first time are also suffocating.

But it's not a big problem.

This kind of chaos was only limited to the period when the game server was just launched.

After a period of time, the masters have scored higher ladder scores one after another, and they are no longer able to rank ordinary players, so the matching opponents will return to normal levels.

"Make an anti-cheating plan!"

After experiencing a few rounds, Gu Miao told President Xiao Lin: "This kind of game can be popular for many years, and it can also become the main event of e-sports. It can't be ruined by cheating."

"Then what..."

"We are not too worried about cheating, because unless it is a violent cheating with unlimited resources and invincibility, it should not be of much use."

President Kobayashi explained with a smile: "When you meet a master, you can't beat it. If you don't have enough apm, you might not even be able to get out of the house."

Too!

After thinking about it, Gu Miao realized that this is indeed the case. Unless the cheats of this type of game have unlimited resources, they really don't pose much of a threat.

It's not FPS after all.

If there is any type of game that is the hardest hit by cheating, it must be FPS games! Compared with rampant FPS cheats, games like RTS are definitely much better.

"That's fine, you pay more attention."

"The game is well done, and we need to pay more attention to the operation, so don't lose the chain."

According to the experience of taking care of Miao.

If this kind of RTS competitive game is operated properly, it will not be too easy to become popular for more than ten or twenty years.

After all, the player stickiness is very high.

Moreover, this type of game, thanks to its strong competitive nature, is very promising whether it is hosting a competition or engaging in e-sports, and it is also very enjoyable to watch.

It can't be ruined by shit operations.

...

It coincides with the end of the year.

Wanbao's annual year-end summary conference and outstanding employee commendation conference are also in full swing.

Before that, Gu Miao went to Wolf Castle Studio to inspect and watch the final version of the animated film "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Happy Year of the Monkey".

no difference!

The final version of the film and the samples he had seen before were not particularly changed, nor were they deleted.

This is also normal.

After all, in this movie, there are no sensitive elements or footage that can be deleted. Basically, it will be what it is when it is submitted for review, and it will be what it will be after review.

If I have to say that there is something different between the final version and the samples of the review version, it is probably the music...

The demo has no soundtrack.

And this time, a large number of soundtracks have been added to the finished film. The addition of these soundtracks has instantly raised the perception of the entire movie to a higher level.

"It will be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year..."

When talking about the movie schedule, Director Wang and Gu Miao had serious expressions on their faces.

Unlike last year's Lunar New Year stalls, which were mixed with fish and dragons, this year's Lunar New Year stalls can only be described in one word, that is, "strong enemies are waiting for you".

Not a single persimmon!

Probably the domestic film industry, which has been silent for a long time, has finally ushered in a round of explosion. The overall quality of the films released during the Spring Festival holiday is far superior to that of previous years.

This put a lot of pressure on Director Wang.

Originally, "The Year of the Monkey" was very ordinary. After watching it, everyone said that this movie for the Year of the Monkey is not as good as the previous Year of the Snake, Year of the Horse and Year of the Goat.

As a result, there was an explosion of domestic films, and a large number of excellent works were released together... This is really an express delivery under Big Ben, with the upper part and the lower part.

"It doesn't matter, I will make a move."

Gu Miao patted Director Wang on the shoulder, and encouraged him: "It's okay, not only your movie will be released this year, but the Neon Branch will also have a theatrical version!"

"Oh? They have movies too?"

"That's right, the theatrical version of the "Sailor Moon" series." Gu Miao grinned and said, "You are also considered to be brothers and sisters, and the box office hits the street, and some people will pay you back."

"No?"

Director Wang asked with some doubts: "That's Sailor Moon. Will the theater version with this name actually hit the street?"

"What you said..."

"If the movie doesn't hit the street, it doesn't matter what your title is called. It doesn't look good, no matter what the name is." Gu Miao shook her head and sighed.

The theatrical version of "Sailor Moon" was a project undertaken by the Neon Branch itself. Gu Miao did not intervene or ask about it, but simply learned about it through emails.

Can only say that it was terrible.

The internal evaluations are very low, let alone the results of the final release.

For this theatrical version, Gu Miao's only hope is to recover the production cost, and she doesn't even dare to think about it.

by contrast.

Although the internal evaluation of "Happy Year of the Monkey" is also very average, at least it has a strong sense of atmosphere. During the Spring Festival, a festival of family reunion, it may be able to counterattack.

That's why Gu Miao said that no matter how miserable Director Wang is, someone will give him a back.

The box office of "The Year of the Monkey" is expected to be 300 million yuan, while the box office target of the theatrical version of "Sailor Moon" produced by the Neon Division is only 500 million yuan...

The unit is yen!

The production costs of the two films are almost the same. In terms of the production cycle, the American War theatrical version will take longer, but the expected box office is different.

It can only be said that those gangsters in the Neon branch have too little understanding of animated films. They only know how to do TV animations, and they don't know how to do the theater version at all.

The IP of Sailor Moon was very popular in the past, but after that, it is not good anymore...