"...What's the point of buying hot searches? It's better to give me bonuses than to use this money." Zhou Sen whispered.

Zhong Ming smiled: "Buying hot searches can increase the popularity of the game and make more money. Give you bonuses, and you won't be more grateful to the company. Do you still have no idea where the leader wants to spend this money?"

"But the heat has not increased," Zhou Sen said.

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes. This is what popularity is like. Now it is difficult to understand the focus of everyone on the Internet. Sometimes it is useless to spend money to buy hot searches. If the popularity continues, it will continue. There is no better way."

"Poor Lao Xie is still trapped in a sea of ​​suffering." Zhou Sen was very sympathetic.

Zhong Ming said: "Don't worry about Lao Xie. What's there to be in deep pain? Now the project is under the supervision of Director Bai, and he just happens to continue his Buddhist abilities. And for others, the bonus has just become less, and it's not that I can't get through. When the storm gradually passes, President Yu no longer attaches so much importance to the project "The Sea of ​​Learning Nowhere". Director Bai has been transferred, and Director Xie and others can continue to point to this game to earn bonuses."

"But, will there still be bonuses by that time?"

"Yes. As long as there is no policy to completely ban this kind of question-answer program, it will definitely last forever. It's just a matter of how much you earn. The decline in popularity is a good thing, and you can continue to retire."

"Oh, keep working." Zhou Sen no longer struggled with the bonus and continued to type in the code.

...

On the Internet, the popularity of virtual idol competitions is gradually dissipating.

After the virtual idol competition, Xinghua Interactive Entertainment announced the company's next stage promotion plan. The two virtual idols Shangguan Yun and Tiya will be the focus of their subsequent promotion and will be created by a professional team to strive to meet all fans in two or three months.

At that time, at the virtual idol concert of Xinghua Interactive Entertainment, several newcomers will appear on stage with old virtual idols such as Su Bai and Dina.

But many fans wonder, what about Chanel?

After winning the first place in the virtual idol competition, why did there be no news after that?

Especially after Xinghua Interactive Entertainment’s official Weibo announced the promotion plan of Shangguan Yun and Tiya, many questions appeared below.

"Why is my Chanel's wife not on the list?"

"What the hell? The second place and third place have promotion, but the first place has not?"

"Spicy Chicken Xinghua Interactive Entertainment, it's a shady scene!"

"Brother, don't scold me... This is really not the cause of Xinghua Interactive Entertainment. Do you think they don't want to push Shanaire? They think too much, but the original author did not sign a contract with them and did not sell copyright. How do you ask Xinghua Interactive Entertainment to push?"

"Ha? I always thought that I had signed a copyright development agreement by default when participating in this competition."

"No, Xinghua Interactive Entertainment did not force all contestants to sign. I guess he is very confident in his company. But that's true. When ordinary contestants participate in the competition, they can sell their works and share them happily. I guess Xinghua Interactive Entertainment didn't expect that Zhong Ming would actually hold his virtual idol in his hand and would not sell it at all..."

"Then did the original author develop the copyright by himself?"

"What a big deal, the author is a newcomer. He just registered and established a studio after receiving the bonus two days ago, and he still made independent games... He has the right to develop resources..."

"...Damn, then won't I see my goddess at the concert? It's so uncomfortable to think about it! It's all over!"

"Hey, I don't know what the author thinks. I don't know how to cherish such a good promotion opportunity."

“So what is an indie game?”

"I don't know, I didn't do it. I also specifically followed the author's Weibo, and there has been no movement since the studio's Weibo."

"Send a private message to ask?"

Many people sent private messages to Zhong Ming’s Weibo to ask about Shanel’s situation.

In short, you have to continue to develop the image of Chanel. You have to keep it in your hands and don’t give it to others, and you can’t develop it yourself. That’s wasted?

However, these private messages were not responded to.

...

In the blink of an eye, a week passed.

Because there is already a script, it won't take much time in this regard. The program framework of the game itself is not complicated, and the character portrait does not require much precision, so it is done very quickly.

Of course, because there are too many portraits of character and original scenes, in order to be completed faster, a batch of less important characters need to be outsourced to reduce some workload. According to the market price, an ordinary portrait is about 2,000, which is also a expenditure of tens of thousands of yuan.

Moreover, since you are making an independent game seriously, it is definitely impossible to copy them all as they are, and many aspects can still be optimized.

For example, in terms of character portraits, each character will have various expressions and actions according to the different plots, and different sound effects and screen effects according to the plot.

Such as screen vibrations, red filters that imitate bleeding, etc., all of them also require a little time to do it.

Another important thing is the pronunciation of characters.

Although there is no voice, it is best to have it, so that players can have a stronger sense of substitution. In addition, with the automatic playback function, the text adventure game is more like a moving book, which will give players a better gaming experience.

And it's not difficult to do with voice, just spend money.

In fact, for Zhong Ming, the development of "Land of Red Road" can't cost more than one million yuan. This is done to control costs and prevent some uncontrollable situations from happening.

For example, what should I do if I can’t finish the original drawing? The music sound effects are not enough? Or try to buy some recommended positions when the game is online?

Zhong Ming also considered all these parts that may or may not be spent. After all, he could not get money from other places now. If the game is halfway through, it would be really difficult to do.

Fortunately, you can find a special studio for dubbing, the price is 90-120 yuan/minute/person. Moreover, because "Land of the Red Path" has many characters, with more than 50 people, even if the voice actors are monsters, they can dubb N characters by themselves, which is still a very huge project.

The game is almost in the whole process. If all the lines are connected, it may take 8 to 10 hours. In this way, the money spent on dubbing alone will have to be 60,000 to 70,000 yuan. Of course, there will definitely be discounts for matching so many sounds, but there are not many discounts.

After all, if you want to have a good dubbing, you have to find some particularly excellent voice actors, and some sentences with inadequate emotions need to be re-recorded.

Zhou Sen and Jiang Wanna are very tolerant and have never read the plot written by Zhong Ming.

Zhou Sen just set up the program framework according to Zhong Ming's requirements, and then provided a small part of the table. The main plot progress was directly controlled by Zhong Ming. Jiang Wanna's words only painted some of the characters, helping Zhong Ming draw different expressions and actions of the same character.

Because both of them were holding back and wanted to wait until the game was made and then go to the game to experience it themselves.

"Uh, Zhong Ming, I've always had a problem. How do we promote our game? To be honest, this name is really not suitable for promotion. It's a bit like trying to dismiss the name if you look at it."
Chapter completed!