Seven days after the Spring Festival, when people returned to the company from home and resumed work, Hatsune Games' Steam Platform also announced the winning works of the previous independent game awards.

Among them, "One Hundred Days of Love in the College Entrance Examination" won the Best Text Adventure Work with excellent reviews and excellent sales, with a high bonus.

Other games such as "Dark Dungeon" and "Blue Hill" have also won awards in their respective fields.

In this independent game award, at least three games with sales of more than one million were discovered, dozens of games with sales of 500,000, and countless more were available for sales of more than one hundred thousand, and all of them were independent games.

For this reason, when many game-related media reported this grand prize, they praised it as the title of "First Year of China Independent Games" and vigorously praised it.

At the award ceremony, Xu Rui announced that he would continue to hold independent game awards this year, and also announced two things.

The first is that the Steam Platform's New Year's Special Offer Discount will be extended for one week and will last until the Lantern Festival. In the next week, some of the winning works of this independent game will also join the ranks of discounted works.

The second item is the sales time of "Monster Hunter".

In fact, some media have already had some premonitions about this matter.

According to Hatsune's habits, the promotion of a game will inevitably be with the approaching sales day. They will not do the kind of thing that can be eaten without food. In addition, during the seven days of the Spring Festival, the trial version of "Monster Hunter" is very popular. I believe that the sales of the game will not be enough this year.

Many people speculate that this summer vacation to winter is just the time to participate in the business war at the end of the year, which is also very suitable in terms of production cycle.

However, Xu Rui's words still surprised them.

"...I'm honored to tell you that Monster Hunter will be sold on June 16 this year. Yes, it's exactly two years since Breath of the Wild, but in fact, it took us a longer time to design and polish this game. I hope everyone can reap their own joy on this new Big 6."

June 16th!

The moment Xu Rui said this, the flash lights under the stage began to clatter.

The game that I thought would not be sold until at least August's summer vacation could be played in early summer June.

Hatsune Game is really ready to do it this time!

"In addition, before the game is officially launched, we will have two tests to test the load level of the server. Of course, millions of online at the same time during the Spring Festival are equivalent to testing in advance, but with a rigorous attitude, we will still conduct two tests in March and May. Among them, the March test version will be updated and two additional tasks will be added so that everyone can experience this complex and wonderful world in advance."

The online function of the trial version of "Monster Hunter" was not always open, but lasted only for one week, which was until today of the award ceremony. After that, although the trial version could still be used to destroy the dragon, the online function was no longer available.

The tests Xu Rui mentioned are mainly aimed at online functions.

After these seven days of gameplay, many people have already discovered it. If played by Monster Hunter alone, it is an extremely hardcore action game that tests operation level and mentality. If played by multiple people, it will not only reduce the difficulty much, but also be more joyful, which is similar to the feeling of a big fight.

At this time, people noticed that "Monster Hunter" was originally an action game of "multi-player fighting together", and online is the complete body of the game.

This time, the three trial versions of "Monster Hunter" were really surprising.

In general games, we try our best to hide the content before the game is officially released, and some games even keep the gameplay confidential. This mode of opening up the game for players to play by themselves is extremely rare.

According to the idea of ​​a conventional game company, it will probably provide two or three weapons, and face weaker monsters, rather than the Destroyed Dragon that appears on the cover of the game.

But Hatsune Game is not afraid. It opens all fourteen weapons of the game for players to use, and introduces a bold Destroyed Dragon. In just fifteen minutes of hunting, people feel the core charm of the game.

Shin Gushu from the Hardcore Software Dragoon Studio was quite surprised when he saw this trial version.

He tried it a few times. In Shen Gushu's opinion, the completion of this Destroyed Dragon is quite high. Whether it is interaction with the environment, interaction with the players, or the entire battle process, even if it is regarded as the final boss of the game, it does not feel abrupt at all.

How many bosses of the Hatsune game will have at the same level as the Destroyed Dragon?

Shen Gushu felt that eight bosses of this difficulty were already at the limit. Unless most of them had unchanged skeletons and only skin-changing monsters with different appearances, it would take at least two to three years for an ordinary design team to design eight such monsters with rich elements.

For example, the game "The Witch of the Astrology" produced by Shin Gushu himself has six big bosses with different mechanisms in this game, ten mid-bos with certain connections to the monsters, plus many small monsters and decryption levels, which has taken them more than three years to open, and some of them are skin-changing monsters.

"The Witch of the Astrology" will be sold in May this year. Shingushu was relieved after seeing the sale date of "Monster Hunter". At least for more than a month, "The Witch of the Astrology" will not have to be compared with "Monster Hunter".

For purely stand-alone games like "The Witch of the Astrology", the game sales were the highest in the first month, and even the sales in the first week may be more than 70% of the sales this month. After that, unless it is a discount or the game content has caused some hot topics online, the sales growth will be roughly extremely slow.

"It's just that Suo Ren's group of people is unlucky."

Shin Gushu laughed and the second action game "Shanghai Swordsman" opened by Suo Ren Interactive Entertainment is sold in August. If the quality is not up to standard, it is likely to be hammered by "Monster Hunter".

Due to the addition of online function, if the content of "Monster Hunter" is as high as "Breath of the Wild", no, even if it is only 70% of the level, it is enough to firmly occupy the players' game time in half a year. It can be said that Hatsune game was sold in June, which means that it is to leave the first half of the year for other manufacturers, and I will have all the remaining half a year.

Thinking of this, Shin Gushu, who was originally joking about his competitors, suddenly felt helpless again.
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