Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Interactive movie games are not as exciting as shooters, but if the plot is done well, they can maximize the immersion of a VR game. Also, interactive movie games have fewer actions and a smoother perspective, which is more in line with the nature of VR.

The success rate for both of these game types seems too high to ever do!

Although real-time strategy games seemed to have a low probability of success, but after all, the lessons of Mission and Choice had only just passed, and Pei Qian was slightly PTSD with this game type, so it was better not to consider it.

Pei Qian waved his hand, "Not good."

"The types of games you're talking about can't be made effective with a small capacity, and it's hard to support devices with a large capacity."

"After all, the device hasn't been developed yet, and it's still unclear how high the resolution can be. Most of these types of games you mentioned are realistic in style, and they need a relatively high picture precision to produce an effect."

Lin Late nodded, feeling that Pei was right.

Especially for interactive movie games, if all the audience saw was a bunch of mosaics, it would definitely seriously affect the game experience.

"Then ...... Pei, if the realistic drawing style is not good, then we'll have to do something a little more cartoonish."

"But, VR games and cartoon style seem rather incompatible, right? What type of game can you make?"

When the device function is relatively low and the screen resolution is low, doing cartoon style is a more pleasing approach. For example, the very good "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", the Switch screen is only 720p, but also made the picture a very detailed feeling.

And this style is distinctive and easily impresses the player.

The only problem is that the types of games that can be chosen in this style are rather limited. Of course, it is not impossible to force this style to be used for FPS games and interactive movie games, but it will be a little less interesting and not in line with Pei's pursuit of excellence.

Pei Qian said, "To sum up, this game should meet the following characteristics:"

"We have to fully take into account the feeble functions of VR devices at this stage, so we use a cartoon drawing style, and at the same time, the game's capacity should not be made too large."

"Also, considering that VR devices at this stage are prone to create a dizzying feeling for players, the game's perspective shift should not be too fast, and it's best to be smoother and focus on the transient perspective."

"The game's operation should also not be too difficult, so don't create obstacles for the player because of the operation."

Lin Late was thoughtful, "It sounds like it would be better to make a casual game, but there are some current VR games that are simpler casual games, but these games seem to have a mediocre response."

"It's true that casual games are the most stable in terms of current device capabilities, but they're also very unlikely to be successful, right?"

"If we make our own VR glasses to go with a game that is on sale but doesn't have enough appeal, it's likely to pull down the sales of the glasses, which in turn will affect the sales of the game, and that's a problem."

Pei Qian said, "The reason why other casual games have a lukewarm response is mainly because the designers are incapable, too little investment, and the game play is not deep enough, if we invest heavily and make a game with enough depth of play, then we can drive the sales of VR glasses through the game and successfully open this market!"

Lin Late nodded slightly, thoughtful.

Pei's whole analysis made her somehow feel quite reasonable.

Pei Qian continued, "My idea is to make a casual cultivation game where players are born on a deserted island and can pull weeds, plant flowers, cut down trees, and fish on the deserted island, as well as visit other players' islands."

"Then do some in-depth build-up gameplay for maintaining player stickiness, and make it as engaging as possible with just this one game and our VR goggle device."

"Of course, you can give more thought to the specific details, the design of this game still focuses on you."

Pei Qian's words were seven parts truth and three parts lies, and although they sounded quite reasonable, there was actually nothing actionable about them.

Making casual gameplay deep enough to keep players addicted was easier said than done, but it was actually too difficult to do.

Casual games have a very low barrier to entry, and with so many casual games popping up in the world every year, how many of them really stand out?

If it were on the computer or mobile side, casual games would have no trouble finding a sale as long as they were sold cheaply.

But the problem is that on the VR side, trying to play the game would mean spending another $2,000 or $3,000 on a VR goggle, and who would be willing to spend that money unless the game is exceptionally, exceptionally good?

So Pei Qian's statement sounds like nothing wrong with it, but the chances of actually succeeding are very low.

Lin Chang's eyebrows furrowed slightly and said with some suspicion, "Mr. Pei, it sounds like there's something wrong, right? These ideas all seem a bit too idealistic and have to be considered realistically ......"

Lin Evening immediately interrupted him: "Don't get mixed up if you don't understand, I think this idea of Mr. Pei's is really novel and worth a try."

Lin Chang: "......"

Pei Qian smiled a little, OK!

As long as Lin Evening approved of the design, then everything that followed would be easy.

It was true that Lin Chang didn't know anything about games, although instinctively he felt as if there was something wrong with it, but since Pei and Lin Evening had both agreed on it, there was nothing more to say.

"Okay, one last question then, how much to invest?"

The development of the game and VR glasses both require money.

Late Night Studio was jointly funded by Shenhua Group and Tengda, and the shares of both sides were the same, so the funding should also be the same. Of course, considering Lin Nian's relationship, Lin Chang felt that it was perfectly fine for Shenhua to contribute more money.

Lin Evening estimated a bit and said, "For casual games, the investment shouldn't be too much, 10 million would be almost enough."

"As for VR glasses, it's estimated that 15 million is almost enough if it's completely independently developed, but if it's just for a headset then it will be much cheaper, a few million should be fine."

There were three main components of VR glasses, namely the head-mounted display, the grip and the base station locator. If you want to save costs, you can develop only the head-mounted display, while the handle and the base station locator use foreign ready-made ones.

When the time came, it would only be necessary to sell the homegrown head-mounted displays with other brands of grips and base station locators.

Lin Chang nodded slightly, thinking that this investment was completely within reach, and he wouldn't be distressed even if it floated.

With the size of Shenhua Group, the mobile phone department's random backlog of inventory is more than this amount of money.

However, Pei Qian shook his head and said categorically, "That won't do!"

"Everything must be done to be the best, and the key to the success of Tengda Games is excellence!"

"It is better to spend twice as much money on a 100 per cent. work than to save half the cost of an 80 per cent. work. For the former will be remembered by gamers for a long time, while the latter will soon be drowned in many excellent games."

"In my opinion, the development cost of the game doubles to twenty million."

"The R&D cost of the VR glasses rounds up to twenty million."

He looked at Lin Chang, "If you think the cost is a bit high, it's perfectly fine for Tengda to take on more here ......"

Lin Chang hurriedly stated his position, "How can that work! Let's follow the previous agreement, half of a family."

Originally, Lin Chang felt that it was completely unnecessary to invest so much money into VR, but now that the entire market, not to mention the complete opening, hadn't even sprouted yet, it was too risky to invest so much money.

But total Pei said, "Tengda bear a little more is okay," Lin Chang certainly can not back down.

Because Pei took the lead in setting up this company would have some help meaning, and then let Pei total more money, that is something that people do?

Lin Chang's side definitely had to make a resolute stand, the amount of money Pei offered, Shenhua's side must also offer, otherwise it would be too meaningless.

In this way, all the preparatory work of the Late Xing Studio was finalized.

The next step was to recruit while preparing the game's design. As for the VR glasses, he could work with the mobile phone department of Shenhua Group.

Pei Qian stood up, "In that case, the preliminary preparations are all done, I still have things to do in the afternoon, so I'll leave first. If you have any questions, don't be polite, feel free to come and ask me."

Lin Late also stood up, "Okay Mr. Pei, I will definitely bring Late Xing Studio to do a good job with this game!"