Chapter 160 The test is the highlight (please vote for the third update!)
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.
November 28th, Thursday.
In this month, the development progress of "Ascension" has been advancing steadily.
Xia Shiqing was very efficient. She worked overtime and continued to produce many concept original paintings within two weeks. Gu Fan immediately handed these original paintings to Lilith and asked her to take them to hell and let hell The art team started production.
During this period, Nitian's previous games were still generating revenue. Gu Fan took some time out of his busy schedule to look after the finance department and get to know the current financial situation of the company.
Sales of "Hell Tracks," "Sisyphus" and "Heaven Cube" had previously stagnated, but have picked up slightly recently.
This is obviously because the MODs produced by Emperor Gan for these games have given them a second life.
"The Legend of Wolong" and "The Fire Thief" ushered in a small peak, with sales reaching 470,000 and 390,000 respectively!
The sales volume of "The Forsaken City" in the first month was 190,000, and the total sales volume so far is 240,000, but there is still room for continued improvement in the future.
In addition, Nitiantian also received all the net income of "Hell's Evil Dead" from Hellfront.
Of course, because the quality of "Lemur" is so poor, even though it is very popular, it has not had a significant effect on sales, which is only more than 70,000 so far. Therefore, after deducting the total cost of 630,000, the profit was less than 200,000.
But no matter what, it is better than nothing.
Calculated in this way, in the past nearly four months, these games have brought a total net income of 59 million to Nitiantian Games!
Compared with the net income of 28 million when "Fire Thief" was first released, it has made great progress.
Of course, Gu Fan immediately took his personal 5%, which was 2.95 million. After tax deduction, his personal savings also reached more than 4.1 million.
Gu Fan couldn't help but sigh, he finally looked like a company boss!
Although this amount of money is still far from enough to buy a house in the imperial capital, it is much better than the poverty-stricken state when I first crossed over.
The only pity is that Gu Fan is currently busy with work, so he doesn't have much time to enjoy or consume. At most, he can just buy some digital products in the villa.
After this funding replenishment, after deducting the development and operating expenses of "Forsaken City" and adding the previous balance in the company's account, the funds used for game development and operation are approximately 53 million. Quite ample.
And this money is what gave Gu Fan the courage to develop a large-scale action game like "Ascension".
In addition to company employees, Gu Fan also contacted some outsourcing companies and directly outsourced some relatively junior tasks. He also bought all the templates that could be purchased and used in the new engine. down.
In short, any problem that can be solved with money, try to solve it with money!
If it is other projects, it may not work. After all, the level of outsourcing varies. Even if it is outsourced, it will take a lot of time to check and accept. Otherwise, a large number of BUGs are likely to appear, and the quality of the game cannot be guaranteed at all.
But the "Ascension" project is different, because these small bugs don't matter in the first place.
If you have too many lice, you won’t be itchy. If you have too many debts, you won’t have to worry.
Even without outsourcing, Gu Fan might not be able to collect 100 bugs just by writing it himself.
After all, after the game is developed, it needs to be tested to fix some bugs that really affect the game experience. In addition, as a top programmer, the code written by Gu Fan has few bugs. Once, it would be embarrassing if we couldn’t collect 100 bugs.
Due to the excessive amount of funds on his books, Gu Fan also began to consider making appropriate investments in the future while ensuring investment in new games.
Such a lot of cash cannot just sit on the books all the time. It would be a bit of a waste.
But that will have to wait until "Ascension" is officially released.
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Noon.
Gu Fan returned to his villa and prepared to take a nap.
Xia Shiqing followed over again and took off her glasses.
Gu Fan understood immediately and said seriously: "Mr. Xia! Do you have any other instructions?"
Xia Mier sat down on the sofa: "To make a long story short, in short, regarding your situation, I reported it to Heaven. Heaven approved your request and considered you as a non-staff member to enjoy special allowances."
Gu Fan was a little surprised: "Huh? Special allowance? ? Mr. Xia, can you explain in detail? "
Xia Mier explained: "First of all, as you mentioned before, it can be done to increase the positive emotional value of speed pass players. To increase the positive emotional value of this type of players, they need to consume a certain amount of positive emotional value as a cost. I can only provide you with a quota of 1 million positive emotional values. As for how much positive emotional values you can use them to leverage, it depends on your ability.
"However, you'd better not let me lose money."
Gu Fan nodded: "Of course! Make sure to complete the task!"
Xamil continued: "Also, Heaven thinks that you are You are a talent, so I recognize you as a non-staff member of Paradise and enjoy special allowances.
"The specific reward is...
"You can get 10% of the positive emotion value."< br>
Gu Fan was stunned for a moment: "Huh? Isn't it money?"
Xia Mier looked a little embarrassed: "Well... maybe you have some misunderstandings about our heaven.
"I know there is hell. There are some industries in the world, and we also have them. However, our properties in heaven on earth are mainly charitable causes, and we don’t have much funds on the books. In many cases, even if we make profits, they will be spent quickly.
“However, in heaven, positive emotional value is real hard currency, which is much more useful than your currency on earth.”
Gu Fan asked: “What about positive emotional value? What can be done specifically? ”
Chamier explained: "In the hands of powerful angels, it is basically equivalent to the power itself. But you are just a mortal, and there is no high-level application method for the time being.
"Currently you can use positive emotions There are two things worth doing, which are the most basic: happiness and luck.
“You can consume these positive emotion values to increase the degree to which a certain person or group of people can gain positive emotions from a certain thing, for example, allowing speedrunning players to gain more points when playing speedrunning games. Positive emotions.
“Alternatively, you can consume these positive emotions to increase your luck within a certain period of time.
“Of course, as I said before, if you want to make the impossible possible, the amount of positive emotions you will consume will be an astronomical amount, and that is definitely not what you can afford.
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"But if it is just to increase the probability of some low-probability events, it can still be done."
Gu Fan was shocked: "So powerful? Then these positive emotions are indeed much more useful than money. After all, they are things that money can’t buy. Mr. Xia, if you had told me about such a good thing, would I have to die for heaven’s sake?”
Xia Mier frowned: “Huh? Aren’t you willing to serve Heaven for doing good deeds?”
Gu Fan coughed slightly: “That’s not the case, I always have justice in my heart! Even if Heaven doesn’t reward me in any way, I will. I will definitely stand on the side of justice!
“Actually, positive emotions don’t matter at all, I just want to contribute to heaven.
"But Mr. Xia, you'd better tell him in advance if you have such good things in the future, otherwise it will spread and make others think that heaven is full of free prostitutes."
Xia Mier shook his head slightly: "Hey, there's nothing we can do about it. After all, I am a member of the system, so I can’t just make promises to you in vain, otherwise what if I can’t fulfill them? This is a principled mistake!
“I can only ask my superiors for permission urgently. Only then can we identify you as a non-staff member and give you permission to use positive emotions. "
Gu Fan laughed twice and said: "Yes, after all, your paradise is more formal and has strict rules, which is understandable. But next time I ask for instructions, can the process be a little faster? As you look at the past month, "Ascension" is almost a third of the way done. "
Chamiel sighed: "Hey, I've worked hard!
"Anyway, let's do this for now. I'll come back when your next game is finished."
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January 8th, Wednesday.
"Ascension" is officially developed!
The game is finished, but it’s hard to say when it will be released.
Because the most difficult part of this game is the testing part.
All Nitiantian employees feel as if they are facing a formidable enemy. Not only the testing team has to undertake testing tasks, but others also have to test the game.
And Lilith showed up on time at Gu Fan's villa every night to try out the game.
When Gu Fan was sleeping on the second floor of the villa, he was often awakened by the sound of Lilith banging on the table angrily downstairs.
Every time at this time, Gu Fan would silently take out his phone and buy her a few more spare keyboards or controllers.
(End of this chapter)