Chapter 160 The test is the highlight (please vote for the third update!)
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.
Thursday, November 28th.
During this month, the development progress of “Ascension” has been progressing steadily.
Xia Shiqing was very efficient. She worked overtime and continued to produce many concept original paintings within two weeks. Gu Fan immediately handed these original paintings to Lilith and asked her to take them to Hell and let the Hell''s art team start production.
During this period, Nitian''s previous games were still generating revenue. Gu Fan took some time out of his busy schedule to look after the finance department and get to know the current financial situation of the company.
Sales of Hellraiser, Sisyphus, and The Block have previously stagnated, but have picked up slightly recently.
This is obviously because of the MODs produced by Gan Emperor for these games, which gave them a second life.
"The Legend of Wolong" and "The Fire Thief" ushered in a small peak, with sales reaching 470,000 and 390,000 respectively!
The first month sales of "The Forsaken City" were 190,000, and the total sales so far are 240,000, but there is still room for continued improvement in the future.
In addition, Nitiantian also received all the net income of "Hell of Hell" from Hellfront.
Of course, because the quality of "Lemur" is so poor, even though it is very popular, it has not had a significant impact on sales, which is only more than 70,000 so far. Therefore, after deducting the total cost of 630,000, the profit was less than 200,000.
But no matter what, it is better than nothing.
Calculated in this way, in the past four months, these games have brought a total of 59 million in net income to the game!
Compared to the net income of 28 million when "Fire Thief" was first released, it has made great progress.
Of course, Gu Fan immediately took away 5% of his personal savings, which was 2.95 million. After tax deduction, his personal savings reached more than 4.1 million.
?Gu Fan couldn''t help but sigh, he finally looked like a company boss!
??Although this amount of money is still far from enough to buy a house in the imperial capital, it is much better than the poverty-stricken state when I first crossed over.
?The only pity is that Gu Fan is currently busy with work, so he doesn''t have much time to enjoy or consume. At most, he can just buy some digital products in the villa and play around with it.
?? After this funding replenishment, after deducting the development and operating expenses of "Forsaken City" and adding the previous balance in the company''s account, the funds used for game development and operation are approximately 53 million, which is quite sufficient.
This money is what gave Gu Fan the courage to develop a large-scale action game like "Ascension".
In addition to the company''s employees, Gu Fan also contacted some outsourcing companies, outsourced some relatively junior work directly, and also bought all the templates that could be purchased and used in the new engine.
In short, any problem that can be solved with money, try to solve it with money!
It may not work for other projects. After all, the level of outsourcing varies. Even if it is outsourced, it will take a lot of time to check and accept. Otherwise, a large number of BUGs are likely to appear, and the quality of the game cannot be guaranteed at all.
But the "Ascension" project is different, because these small bugs don''t matter in the first place.
There are too many lice but no need to itch, and too many debts don’t worry.
? Even without outsourcing, Gu Fan might not be able to collect 100 bugs just by writing it himself.
After all, after the game is developed, it still needs to be tested to fix some bugs that really affect the game experience. In addition, as a top programmer, the code written by Gu Fan has very few bugs. 100 BUGs would be embarrassing.
Due to the excessive funds on the books, Gu Fan also began to consider making appropriate investments in the future while ensuring investment in new games.
Such a large amount of cash cannot just sit on the books all the time, as it would be a bit of a waste.
?But that will have to wait until "Ascension" is officially released.
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noon.
?Gu Fan returned to his villa and prepared to take a nap.
Xia Shiqing followed over again and took off her glasses.
??Gu Fan understood immediately and said with a serious expression: "Mr. Xia! Do you have any other instructions?"
Chamier sat down on the sofa: "To make a long story short, in short, I reported to heaven about your situation. Heaven approved your request and considered including you as a non-staff member in heaven and enjoying special allowances."
??Gu Fan was a little surprised: "Hmm? Non-staff personnel? Special allowance? Mr. Xia, could you please explain in detail?"
Shamir explained: "The first thing you mentioned before is to increase the positive emotional value of speed-running players. This can be done. "But if you want to increase the positive emotional value of this type of players, you need to consume it first. A certain positive emotional value is paid. I can only provide you with a quota of 1 million positive emotional values. As for how much positive emotional values ??you can use them to leverage, it depends on your ability.
“But you’d better not let me lose money.”
??Gu Fan nodded: "Of course! I promise to complete the mission!"
Chamier continued: "Furthermore, Heaven considers you to be a talent, so it recognizes you as a non-staff member of Heaven and enjoys special allowances.
“The specific reward is...
“You can get a 10% commission on the positive sentiment value.”
?Gu Fan was stunned for a moment: "Ah? Isn''t it money?"
??Charmir looked a little embarrassed: "Well... maybe you have some misunderstandings about our paradise.
“I know that **** has some properties in the human world, and so do we. However, our properties in heaven are mainly charitable causes, and there are not many funds on the books. In many cases, even the profits will be spent quickly.
“However, in heaven, positive emotions are real hard currency, which is far more useful than your currency on earth.”
?Gu Fan asked: "What exactly can positive emotions do?"
Chamier explained: "In the hands of a powerful angel, it is basically equivalent to the power itself. But you are just a mortal, and there is no high-level application for the time being.
“There are currently two things you can do with positive emotions, which are the most basic: happiness and luck.
“You can consume these positive emotion values ??to increase the degree of positive emotion a certain person or group of people can gain from a certain thing, for example, allowing speedrunners to gain more positive emotions when speedrunning the game.
“Alternatively, you can consume these positive emotional values ??to increase your luck within a certain period of time.
“Of course, as I said before, if you want to make the impossible possible, the positive emotional value consumed will be an astronomical amount, which is definitely not what you can afford.
“But if you just increase the probability of some low-probability events, it can still be done.”
Gu Fan looked shocked: "So powerful? Then these positive emotions are indeed much more useful than money. After all, they are things that money can''t buy. Mr. Go through fire and water?"
Chamier frowned: "Huh? Without such a good thing, wouldn''t you be willing to serve Heaven?"
??Gu Fan coughed twice: "That''s not the case, I have always been righteous in my heart! Even if heaven doesn''t reward me in any way, I will definitely stand on the side of justice!
“Actually, positive emotions don’t matter at all, I just want to contribute to heaven.
"But Mr. Xia, you''d better tell me in advance if you have such good things in the future, otherwise it will spread and make others think that heaven is full of free prostitutes."
Chamier shook his head slightly: "Hey, there''s nothing I can do about it. After all, I''m a member of the system. I can''t just make promises to you with empty words. Otherwise, what if I can''t fulfill them? This is a principled mistake!
“I can only urgently ask for instructions from my superiors. Only after approval can I identify you as a non-staff member and give you permission to use positive emotions.”
Gu Fan laughed twice: "Yes, after all, your paradise is more formal and the rules are strict, which is understandable. But next time I ask for instructions, can the process be a little faster? As you look at the past month, "Ascension" "It''s almost a third of the way done."
??Charmir sighed: "Hey, I''ve worked very hard!
“Anyway, let’s leave it like this for now, and I’ll come back when your next game is finished.”
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Wednesday, January 8th.
The development of "Ascension" is officially completed!
The game is finished, but it’s hard to say when it will be released.
Because the most difficult part of this game is the testing part.
??All Nitiantian employees are facing a huge enemy. Not only the test team has to undertake testing tasks, but others also have to test the game.
? And Lilith showed up on time at Gu Fan''s villa every night to try out the game.
Later, when Gu Fan was sleeping on the second floor of the villa, he was often awakened by the sound of Lilith banging on the table angrily downstairs.
?At this time, Gu Fan would silently take out his mobile phone and buy her a few more spare keyboards or controllers.
(End of this chapter)