"The development progress of Dota 2 is normal, and version 2.0 will be released as scheduled next month."

The person who answered was Liu Xiaohui.

As the vice president of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, he is not only in charge of operations, marketing, channels, business cooperation and event operations, but also in charge of the newly established large project department of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment.

It is different from the project management center.

The Large Projects Department is responsible for the research and development of client games and AAA masterpieces. Of course, some blockbuster mobile games, such as "Clash of Clans", are also under the supervision of the Large Projects Department.

"What about the other three client games?" Zhang Shuo asked.

""Tianya Mingyue Knife" is in the product development stage and is expected to start a closed beta at the end of the year; "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is more difficult to produce and is expected to open a closed beta in the first half of next year. As for the 3A masterpiece "Black Myth", it is still in the

In the product preparation stage, a series of technical research is underway."

For a AAA masterpiece like "Black Myth", the product preparation phase alone may take a year, including but not limited to the formation of a development team, conceptual design, design documents, organization of resource production lines, etc.

Take the resource production line as an example.

The production team needs to have a complete production line to ensure that the game can be produced smoothly. Tool programmers are responsible for producing various resource generation tools, such as level editors for level planning, import and export tools for artists, etc.

"Black Myth" wants to be put into internal testing, and conservatively estimates it will take three years.

"Okay, has Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment done anything else recently?" Zhang Shuo's posture was a bit like an examiner's.

"There's no big action for now."

Cao Yanhua also murmured that in addition to mobile games, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment has done some work in Unreal Engine, game AI and other aspects, but they have not yet produced results.

What can I say?

The only 71 assistant that could be obtained was sold by the group.

"Oh, by the way, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment has sold the animation adaptation rights of several mobile games such as "Burning Vegetables" and "Chain Chronicle" to domestic partners to explore the value of IP and further enhance the popularity of the games."

Since the pan-entertainment strategy proposed by Cao Yanhua has been shelved indefinitely, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment has not only provided support plans in the field of original music, but also cooperates with external companies for animation, online game novels, etc.

No longer do everything by myself.

"Okay!" Zhang Shuoden stopped being pretentious and took out a stack of game planning plans. "This is the key mobile game plan for this year. You can decide how to arrange the development progress."

"Thank you Mr. Zhang!"

Cao Yanhua subconsciously counted and found eight portions, and he was satisfied immediately.

"These eight mobile game plans are all the inventory I have here this year. I don't have any more." Zhang Shuo pointed to his head, indicating that he had been drained of inspiration.

"Ah? Oh, okay."

Cao Yanhua was subconsciously disappointed. Although there was a lot of planning for eight new games, it seemed a little thin to support the full-year performance of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, especially compared with last year.

The quantity was directly cut in half.

Then he realized something was wrong and immediately restrained his emotions.

Because it really shouldn’t be!

Originally, planning new games was Jade Bird Interactive's own job, but it had to rely on Zhang Shuo, the big boss. It was okay to rely on him, and he still wanted to rely on Zhang Shuo alone to support him.

This is a little bit different.

The most critical work is already done by the boss, so what else do they need to do?

The main reason is that all previous mobile game planning of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment was done by Zhang Shuo, which subconsciously formed a serious path dependence within Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, including Cao Yanhua, the president.

I thought Zhang Shuo was omnipotent.

But I quickly realized that in reality, where is there really an omnipotent existence?

People always have their limits.

"There are already a lot of eight game plans. I was greedy just now." Cao Yanhua quickly made amends.

This is also true.

For such a heavyweight game plan, let alone eight copies in one go, any planning team that can write even one game plan of this quality can be regarded as a giant in the industry.

In such a comparison, Zhang Shuo is still very incredible.

Inhuman!!!

"It's enough."

Zhang Shuo just smiled when he saw this and didn't point it out.

He was really stingy this time, and only took out "Hearthstone", "Legend of Dota", "Clash of Kings", "Summoner", "Fantasy Garden", "Boom Island" and "Miracle for All".

First, the number of popular mobile games is limited, and the performance of many mobile games cannot keep up with current smartphones.

And as mentioned just now, we need to fully tap the potential of old mobile games and develop sequels to them. For example, Mihayou Studio is already working on the development of "Honkai Academy 2".

Added together.

Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment will also have fifteen or six new games launched in 2012, which is enough!

"By the way, I have a little gift here." Seeing that Cao Yanhua's mind was still clear, Zhang Shuo came up with three more game plans like magic.

They are "Dyson Sphere Project", "Guigu Bahuang" and "Taiwu Scroll".

Needless to say, "Dyson Sphere Project" is known as the light of domestic stand-alone games. It was completed in less than two years with only five developers.

But for such an independently produced game, it topped the best-selling list on Steam shortly after its release.

The key is it’s fun!

The completion quality of "Guigu Bahuang" and "Taiwu Scroll" is slightly worse, but they are already considered good among domestic stand-alone games.

The sales volume of "Guigu Bahuang" is also very high, but "Taiwu Painting Scroll" has been under testing.

It’s so embarrassing!!!

"Is this a single-player game?"

Cao Yanhua scanned it and was very surprised. It was another area that Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment did not cover.

"That's right!"

Zhang Shuo explained with a smile: "There is currently no game platform similar to Steam in China. In the future, whether we release "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" or "Black Myth", we will suffer a lot because piracy will inevitably be rampant."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is not what he said randomly.

In my impression, Yuan Shikong Tengda had some disgraceful infringement behavior on "Taiwu Scroll".

"so?"

Cao Yanhua failed to follow his train of thought.

It's not a single-player game, so why is it suddenly involved in gaming platforms?

"My idea is, with the development of these three stand-alone games, can Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment develop a game platform similar to Steam, even if it is only run in China." Zhang Shuo revealed the answer on his own.

He does not want to introduce a Steam Chinese version in China.

Why?

Not to mention that Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment only has a strategic partnership with V Agency. Even if it fully acquires V Agency, it cannot stop Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment from expanding its influence in the global market.

"should be no problem."

The technical threshold for building a game platform is actually not high. The key is to gain player recognition.

And Jade Bird Mutual Entertainment is uniquely endowed.

Oneself owns several high-quality client games, AAA masterpieces and stand-alone games, which are enough to support a game platform from the content supply alone.

Second, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment has a high reputation among players and has great appeal.

Moreover, when Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment acquired Quwan Technology two years ago, the PC version of Quwan Forum was still in operation and was not packaged and sold to Qiandu. The relevant forum functions could be directly transplanted there.

With the operating experience of 71 Assistant, Jade Bird has no obstacles in operating a new game platform.

It can be said that the time, place and people are right.

"Then I'll leave this to you. You must go online before the internal beta of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds"."

Compared with large-scale client games and AAA masterpieces, stand-alone game development is relatively less difficult. With the technology accumulation of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, "Dyson Sphere Project" can be produced within half a year.

As long as there is a stand-alone game as a basis, the architecture of the game platform can be built.

Another unique advantage of the game platform developed by Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is that it is backed by Weixin. You can directly log in with a Weixin account and make payments using Weixin.

Saved a lot of trouble.

As for the game platform being on the computer, Weixin is, so this is not a problem. Firstly, Weixin will launch a PC version soon, and secondly, you can also scan it to log in.

So simple!!!

"Don't worry, I will make arrangements."

Cao Yanhua is also very motivated, as if he sees the bright future of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, including mobile games, client games, 3A masterpieces, stand-alone games, and game platforms. He wants to catch them all in one go.

Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is even expected to become the most famous game manufacturer in the world through this.

It's exciting just thinking about it.
To be continued...