Chapter 52 Games from China
Qin Shaoyan pondered for two seconds, "You know, I am also a game developer. Our company recently developed a stand-alone game for the North American market."
"But we are not familiar with each other here in the United States. I would like to ask you to help contact the publisher."
"That's no problem." Fatty G said with a smile, "Let George help you contact us. In fact, Just send me an email and I will recommend it for you."
"Thank you so much." Qin Shaoyan quickly stood up, shook hands with Fatty G, and said goodbye.
Every minute and every second is precious now. After all, traveling thousands of miles to the United States still costs a lot of money.
Qin Shaoyan must seize the time to sell the game.
At this time in 2003, game distribution basically relied on publishers to make CDs, promote and market them, and then distribute them to offline channels for sale.
V's online platform, Steam, which is also famous in later generations, is still immature at this time, and it leaves a terrible impression on players.
The interface is ugly, there are many bugs, frequent updates, long loading time on the Internet and other problems.
The platform launched a beta version in March 2002, and it was not until September 12, 2003, shortly before Qin Shaoyan arrived, that the steam platform launched a full version.
It was not until 2005 that the steam platform began to list non-V games.
Steam at this time is not complete yet, otherwise Qin Shaoyan could just put the game on the steam platform directly, without having to go all the way to the United States.
George took the two people to the reception room, made them each a cup of coffee, and then started to call the publisher.
Although George looks like a common otaku in the game industry, he works vigorously and quickly settled on a publisher.
"A marketing director from a publisher will come over in the morning." George put away the phone and asked, "Did you bring game CDs?"
"We brought computers with demo games inside." Qin Shaoyan He patted the computer bag in Zhang Pingyi's hand.
"Very good." George stood up immediately, "I'll find a projector to make the display more convenient."
George immediately took action and asked several colleagues to pull up the curtain. Then assemble the projector.
Qin Shaoyan also stood up to help, connected the computer to the projector and turned it on, and invited George to try out the game.
"Plants vs. Zombies, wow." George opened the game and started to comment on the game, and other colleagues who were helping came over to watch the fun.
With the completion of the novice teaching, George has mastered the game operations and began to place plants randomly.
"John, your idea is not bad, but I don't think this game has any advantages now."
Qin Shaoyan didn't refute, just smiled and said, "Be careful, there will be more later." Difficult.”
“Such a simple game can’t be difficult for me.” George said proudly, “Look, isn’t this very simple?”
"This design is not good. Players will find it boring. You should increase the difficulty of the game. It is too childish now... alas!"
As George was talking enthusiastically, a prompt suddenly appeared on the screen, "One A big wave of zombies is approaching!”
Before he could react, piles of zombies came over in dense numbers and quickly gnawed away the pea shooters and nuts he had placed randomly.
"Fake, oh, I bought it!" George watched helplessly as the monsters overwhelmed his defense line.
The others burst into laughter.
"George, you idiot, you are so careless!"
"I told you it's not that simple."
"Hahaha, George's head was eaten."
George's face turned red, "I'm just not familiar with the game, please wait until I try it again."
The second time George began to deal with it carefully, thinking about his own placement strategy, the colleague next to him also said Keep messing around and coming up with ideas.
After passing several levels, the difficulty of the levels gradually increased, and George was too busy to take care of it.
“Put some cherry bombs.”
“Idiot, add an extra layer of nut defense.”
“Freezing is the best, don’t add fire!” "There is not enough sunshine, pick it up quickly."
"Fake, this zombie can also throw small zombies?"
"Hahaha, George, your brain has been eaten again."
"Let me come, let me come."< br>
The colleagues who had been watching behind for a long time became interested in the game. They were itching to watch it and started to compete for the trial position of the game.
In the end, everyone had to draw lots to decide and queue up to try it out.
The second player lasted longer than George, but still failed, and was then pushed out by the third player, usurping the throne position.
George scratched his head and scratched his head as he watched. At this time, he was addicted to this little game and began to beg Qin Shaoyan non-stop.
"John, do you have a second copy? I'm going to get another computer, please let me play for a while, please!"
Qin Shaoyan frowned, He looked very confused, and finally nodded reluctantly, "Okay, I still have three copies of the CD here, no more."
"Oh John is great, you are simply an angel." George He hugged Qin Shaoyan hard, then hurried out of the reception room and quickly brought three laptops.
Soon the scene became chaotic again, and everyone began to compete for the trial position.
As the hero of the increase in quotas, George naturally had one quota to himself, and the other two were allocated to others.
Soon the movement in the reception room attracted the attention of others, and gradually more people came over.
The small reception room was quickly filled with people and turned into a game room. A dozen people crowded together and watched four people fighting zombies.
This game seems to have magical power. It seems to be only a little bit interesting, but when you start playing it, you will find that the more you play, the more you get into it.
Time passed quickly, and the whole morning passed quietly. Everyone was so absorbed in watching that they forgot about the time.
It wasn't until their stomachs began to growl that everyone thought of having lunch, but some people still refused to leave, saying they would rather give up lunch and play more.
At this time, George's cell phone rang. He glanced at the caller ID and paused the game reluctantly.
“Damn, I’ve already placed the cannon, but it’s just at this time.” George answered the phone with some annoyance, said a few words and then hung up, “The operator’s people will be here soon, let’s find another one. A reception room, it seems, these lunatics won't make room for us."
"It doesn't matter." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile and packed up Zhang Pingyi's laptop.
George found the reception room next door and rearranged the projector. Soon a middle-aged white man in a suit and tie walked in.
“This is Mr. Hall Bank, the marketing director.” George introduced enthusiastically, “This is John Qin, a game developer from China. He has brought a very good game. Game, you must check it out, I swear this is a very special game."
Mr. Bank glanced at Qin Shaoyan, shook hands with him very reservedly, and then sat on the sofa.
"How about the quality of the game? I have to watch it first before I say anything."
George immediately said enthusiastically, "I'm here to demonstrate it to you. This game is really fun."< br>
Mr. Bank did not speak, he just smiled and made a gesture of invitation, and then looked at the big screen.
While demonstrating, George kept praising the advantages of this game.
Qin Shaoyan sat aside and carefully observed Mr. Bank's expression.
It seems that Mr. Bank is very difficult to get along with, and he behaved a little coldly as soon as he came in.
At this time, Hall Bank watched the demonstration without saying a word, never showing any expression.
Qin Shaoyan's heart tightened, this guy seemed a bit difficult to deal with.
After the demonstration, Mr. Bank slowly spoke after seeing George's enthusiasm.
"The game is not bad." Bank turned to look at Qin Shaoyan, "It is quite good for a game developer from China to achieve this level."
"Thank you." Qin Shaoyan Thank you politely.
“But I am not optimistic about this game from China.” Bank said lightly, “You know, American players may not accept it well, because no Chinese game has ever been released in North America. .”
(End of this chapter)