Chapter 1264 "Bullet Marks 2"

At this moment, the feeling that President Pei gave everyone was like that of an unparalleled master.

The disciples went to ask, Master, what martial art will you teach me today?

President Pei replied: What do you want to learn?

The meaning was clearly that he would teach whatever they wanted to learn!

Otherwise, if a disciple said he wanted to learn swordsmanship and the master said, "I don't know that, pick something else,"

Wouldn't that be ridiculous!

It had to be that he had whatever they wanted to learn before he could ask that question with such confidence.

So, President Pei's question stumped everyone.

Those designers who had been eager to show their stuff for a while temporarily lost their courage to step forward and fell into silence.

Because they had never even considered that they could participate in such a discussion.

According to the normal process, the producer should first finalize a game type, or even a rough game prototype, and then everyone would discuss and express their opinions on that basis.

Now, they were discussing the game type directly?

Such a broad and vague topic left everyone at a loss for words.

Coupled with the invisible pressure from President Pei, everyone was afraid of saying the wrong thing, making it even harder to speak.

Pei Qian was a little puzzled. Was this question really that outrageous?

He was just asking them what kind of game type they wanted to make, they could just say whatever they wanted!

Why didn't anyone say anything? Some people even lowered their heads in shame?

He couldn't help but look at Zhou Muyan, thinking, are you sure these are the best designers Tianhu Studio has to offer?

Zhou Muyan cleared his throat twice, "President Pei, let's just follow Tengda's process. You don't have to pay too much attention to our opinions."

Clearly, Zhou Muyan also had some misconceptions about Tengda's work mode.

No matter what, the game type should be decided at the beginning, right? Discussing it at the meeting was just too strange.

Pei Qian said, "This is Tengda's process. Everyone can express their opinions on the game type. You can say whatever you want, and it doesn't matter if you're wrong."

Hearing what President Pei said, everyone was even more certain of their previous guess.

President Pei could really design anything!

Such a multi-talented person could only be described as awesome...

Obviously, the fact that Tengda's games were all different was not a coincidence.

Zhou Muyan was silent for a while before recovering from his shock. Seeing that others were too embarrassed to speak, he had no choice but to speak up.

"Currently, our studio mainly develops three major categories of games: The first two categories are more traditional, namely MMORPGs and shooting games, both of which have had successful projects. The last category is mobile games."

"If we break down the mobile games, there are many types, including projects adapted from previous PC games, as well as self-developed card and national war mobile games."

"If President Pei is choosing a game type, try to choose from these types as much as possible. We have some experience in these areas, so we won't be too clueless."

Zhou Muyan was also afraid that President Pei would give them a design proposal for an action game like *Turn Back is the Shore*, which would be a bit difficult to make.

It wasn't that they couldn't make it, but they were worried that they wouldn't get the feel right.

Pei Qian nodded, "Okay, in that case, let's make a shooting game."

He also thought it was best not to make a single-player game, but for completely different reasons.

Mainly because he felt that single-player games weren't too difficult. The more niche and unconventional the game type, the more likely it was to give people a bright feeling and succeed in breaking through the circle.

On the other hand, with shooting games, Tianhu Studio had the failure experience of *Bullet Marks*, and there were also very strong competitors such as *Sea Fortress* on the market, greatly increasing the possibility of failure.

Of course, if he wanted to be even more ruthless, he could have Tianhu Studio develop a MOBA game and compete with GOG.

But considering that Min Jingchao himself was the main designer of GOG... this plan was of course rejected.

In short, shooting games met the requirements of Tianhu Studio and Longyu Group, the chance of success was not high, but this chance still existed. Pei Qian felt that considering everything, it was the most suitable choice.

As soon as he heard FPS game, Zhou Muyan was instantly energized.

This was Tianhu Studio's specialty!

Although *Bullet Marks* was no longer doing well, it was still a small hit for a while when it first came out, so it didn't lose money.

Moreover, Tianhu Studio had a very sufficient talent reserve in the FPS game type, and President Pei had already validated successful ideas such as *Sea Fortress*...

Adding it all up, wasn't this almost 100% going to succeed?

Pei Qian thought for a while and said, "I remember you guys had a game called *Bullet Marks* before, right? Don't waste a good IP, let's call the new game *Bullet Marks 2*."

Zhou Muyan: "..."

The enthusiasm that had just risen was instantly doused with a bucket of cold water.

Wasn't this name a bit unlucky?

Although *Bullet Marks* didn't lose much money, it wasn't really a successful project! It was completely beaten to the ground by *Sea Fortress* and couldn't move.

Was there any need to continue using this IP?

Couldn't they use a better one?

Zhou Muyan looked at Min Jingchao and found that Min Jingchao didn't say anything, just kept his head down and recorded.

Was this Tengda's work process?

Zhou Muyan thought about it. He had said before that he wouldn't ask too many questions and would fully cooperate. Now, he was making suggestions about the name, which seemed a bit inappropriate, so he had to accept it silently.

Seeing that everyone wasn't speaking, Pei Qian was a little uncomfortable.

You have to speak!

You have to reject my proposal!

If you don't speak, where will I get my inspiration?

If I don't have inspiration, how can I do the design without refuting your rejections?

Thinking of this, Pei Qian said again, "Everyone can speak freely if you have any questions. Don't be embarrassed or afraid of saying the wrong thing. I'll make the decisions for everyone, so don't feel pressured."

"Min Jingchao, you can give everyone a demonstration first."

Min Jingchao, who had been keeping his head down and recording, nodded, "Okay, President Pei."

"Then, for the game *Bullet Marks 2*, should we continue to use the previous design of *Bullet Marks*?"

"For example, the feel, art style, and charging model?"

This question stumped Pei Qian on the spot.

It wasn't that he didn't know how to make a decision. There was nothing in this world that Pei Qian wouldn't dare to decide. The key was that he had forgotten what kind of game *Bullet Marks* was...

After all, it was more than two years ago, how could he remember so clearly?

But he couldn't show it, and he couldn't ask Zhou Muyan directly. Otherwise, he had just said that he wanted to make *Bullet Marks 2*, but he didn't even know what kind of game *Bullet Marks* was. Wouldn't that be ridiculous!

Pei Qian fell into a brief silence. He was trying hard to recall what kind of game *Bullet Marks* was.

Hmm... he remembered that when he came to Tianhu Studio, Zhou Muyan seemed to have introduced the design intention of *Bullet Marks*.

At that time, Pei Qian was listening below, and he felt confident that *Sea Fortress* would definitely lose money.

That meant... it should be the opposite of *Sea Fortress*.

Oh, he remembered.

*Bullet Marks* maximized the restoration of *Counter-Terrorism Project* in terms of feel, achieving eight or nine tenths of the similarity; the art style was realistic, with absolute reproduction of weapons; the charging model seemed to use the MMORPG set, free + item charging.

So now, from a hindsight perspective, *Bullet Marks*' combination of skills would indeed lose money.

Imitating *Counter-Terrorism Project* but not being perfect, but discouraging some novice players because of the high difficulty, the realistic art style was real but not as cool and pleasing as the Fire Kirin, and the charging model seemed conscientious but was actually much more pit than *Sea Fortress*...

It was a pity that Zhou Muyan had already used this perfect money-losing model once, so it was not good to use it again.

Should *Bullet Marks 2* completely continue the setting of *Bullet Marks*?

Pei Qian silently glanced at Zhou Muyan. Seeing his expectant expression, he silently dismissed the idea.

If he completely continued the setting of *Bullet Marks*, it would be too obvious. Zhou Muyan would probably be the first to come at him with a knife.

Therefore, it was best to retain the most critical failures of *Bullet Marks* as much as possible, and only make some adjustments and modifications to irrelevant places.

After all, it was a spiritual sequel, so it was reasonable to continue a little of the previous setting.

Pei Qian quickly considered it and then said, "Since it's a sequel, of course, it must inherit some and modify some."

"In my opinion... the feel can be inherited."

"The art style should be modified."

"As for the charging model... sell very cheap skins, and don't sell them too expensive."

The feel of *Bullet Marks* was close to *Counter-Terrorism Project*, but it wasn't perfect, so it was not pleasing to either side. The core players felt it was lacking, and the novice players were discouraged.

In Pei Qian's view, this was obviously the core element of the failure of *Bullet Marks*. He couldn't change anything, he had to continue it.

In terms of the charging model, although item charging was scolded a lot, it also made a lot of money!

There were many cases in the game circle where players scolded and paid money at the same time, so he must not take it lightly.

What's more, there was the successful precedent of Fire Kirin. The consumption power of the rich players in FPS games should not be underestimated.

So like GOG, making it a very cheap skin charge would definitely earn less.

Of course, GOG didn't earn a little bit, but that was because the player base was large, so there was a small profit but large sales effect.

There were only so many FPS game players, and a large number of players were on the *Sea Fortress* side. If *Bullet Marks 2* sold the skins cheaply, it would be difficult to earn money.

Conscientious games don't always have small profits but large sales, and it is also possible that the income is too small to support the cost. *Game Producer* had already introduced this way of dying.

Of course, just these two changes were still too few and not obvious enough.

In the end, he just changed the charging model, what's the difference from not changing it?

The same dish, just changed the price?

It seemed that he couldn't fool an old fox like Zhou Muyan, and it was easy for him to doubt his motives.

So Pei Qian thought about it. In order to better shut Zhou Muyan's mouth, he had to make a ruthless attack on the packaging.

Anyway, the packaging was just a skin, and how it was changed did not affect the core of the game.

A major change in this area, it looked like there was a big change, but in fact, it was just a change of soup without changing the medicine, which was very perfect.

Min Jingchao lowered his head and recorded quickly.

Zhou Muyan and the other designers looked at each other.

At this time, they had many doubts in their minds.

President Pei, you didn't do this when you designed *Sea Fortress*!

We highly suspect that you are deliberately avoiding the design of *Sea Fortress*, just to trick us into taking the wrong path, so as not to affect *Sea Fortress* making money!