After making up his mind, Pei Qian entered ESRO's official resource site and searched for general templates for mobile card games.
Soon, Pei Qian found one.
This is not the template of "Q Meng Three Kingdoms".
Because "Q Meng Three Kingdoms" is the founder of the mobile card game, and it is currently the most popular mobile card game on the market. It is equivalent to a cash cow. This company cannot be stupid enough to sell its own game as a template.
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But just because they don’t sell it doesn’t mean others don’t sell it.
Many game companies have followed the trend and made mobile card games. They wrote the code themselves, but they just borrowed the gameplay from "Q Meng Three Kingdoms".
Because these companies didn't make any money from their games, they had no choice but to modify their own games and sell templates on resource sites, which allowed them to recoup some of their costs.
The template Pei Qian found now was derived from a failed imitation of a mobile card game.
"A failed piece? I love it!"
Pei Qian thought this was a good sign.
Click in and take a look at the gameplay system inside.
From the popularity of mobile card games in 2008 to now, "Q Cute Three Kingdoms" has already gone through many version innovations, and the gameplay has been continuously increased.
And this set of templates is obviously a bit old-fashioned, with only the most basic things.
For example, levels, sweeps, arenas, etc.
There are no new ways to play!
The whole game seems quite shabby.
Pei Qian is very satisfied with this!
This is the kind of mobile card game template he dreams of. It has no fun features and absolutely no advantages in terms of gameplay!
I looked at the selling price, 100,000!
"...Why is it only 100,000?"
Pei Qian was quite dissatisfied with the price, it was too cheap!
If you directly price it at 150,000, I will buy it as well!
But then I thought again, the driving simulation type template is only 20,000 yuan. Although the template for the mobile card game is more complex and contains many relatively complete gameplay systems, it is not cheap to sell for 100,000 yuan.
It can be seen from the download volume that the download volume of this set of templates is far behind the set of simulation driving game templates that Pei Qian bought before.
This shows that its price is exaggerated and it is not very practical.
Pei Qian placed the order without hesitation!
I like this kind of product with inflated prices. I can burn more money without being warned by the system.
After buying this set of templates, the basic gameplay is already there, and the next step is to fill it with art resources.
Art resources include interface UI, combat special effects, card original paintings, etc.
In addition to the expenses, there are purchasing music sound effects, renting cloud servers, etc., but these do not cost much.
The bulk of it is still in the area of art resources.
Pei Qian considered setting aside 20,000 to 30,000 yuan for music and sound effects, and more than 10,000 yuan for other expenses, and the remaining 160,000 to 70,000 yuan were spent on art resources.
160,000 to 70,000 yuan, which is a lot less than a lot.
However, Pei Qian still hasn't thought much about what the art resources will be like.
Card games are the most suitable games for skin reskin.
It can also be understood that for card games, "skin" is the most important.
It is precisely because this layer of skin is so important that Pei Qian must ensure that it must be smashed!
Of course, deliberately painting something ugly won’t do.
Because of system regulations, goods or services that are obviously of low quality cannot be purchased.
After spending the 160,000 to 70,000 yuan, if you only buy art resources worth 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, the system will not be able to pass that level.
You must purchase services of approximately equal value, allowing a slight fluctuation up or down, but not too much.
At this time, Pei Qian needs to use his little brain.
How can we buy good-quality art resources while ensuring that players won’t like them?
It's very simple. Wouldn't it be enough to let the artist use superb painting skills to draw a style that the players don't accept?
The key is to come up with an art demand plan.
Pei Qian is not very confident in his ability in this area. After all, he has had the failure experience of "Lonely Desert Highway" and has some doubts about his execution ability.
At this time, Ma Yang's role is reflected!
Pei Qian downloaded a general template of an art resource requirement form from the resource site.
On this demand list, the sizes of the various resources required are specified in detail, and then some simple descriptions of these resources are needed.
Resources are roughly divided into two categories. One is original paintings, which are more expensive and require higher requirements from painters. They must be painted in more detail, and the needs must be very clear.
The other category is other resources, such as interface UI, special effects, etc.
There are similar resources on the Internet, and you can use them with some modifications.
But of course Pei Qian is not satisfied with casual changes. How can he spend money on casual changes?
Therefore, all art resources are customized!
Pei Qian first listed all relatively uncritical resources such as system UI and special effects, and then filled in some very simple requirements himself.
For example, be cool!
It must conform to the style of the Three Kingdoms!
These are all vague statements.
As for what the final product looks like...
Pei Qian doesn’t care, I love you as much as I want!
Then, Pei Qian sent this form directly to Ma Yang.
Ma Yang had already woken up at this time.
However, he held the big book and read it for two minutes, and he already showed signs of falling asleep again.
Seeing that Pei Qian sent him a form, Ma Yang instantly became energetic. He threw the book in his hand on the bed, looked down from the upper bunk, and whispered: "Are we going to start working?"
Pei Qian nodded: "Fill out the form. Use your imagination and fill it out boldly!"
Ma Yang nodded fiercely: "No problem!"
The work enthusiasm is very high!
Ma Yang looked at it and saw that it was an art resource requirement form. He had to fill in quite a few parts, mainly describing the character's original painting requirements.
Pei Qian has already decided on the theme of the game, the Three Kingdoms.
There are just so many characters in the Three Kingdoms. Pei Qian picked out a total of 50 characters, including 15 rare cards, 25 fine cards, and 10 ordinary cards.
In terms of price, the price of an original painting fluctuates greatly, ranging from seven to eight hundred yuan to four to five thousand yuan.
If you go to an art academy in a second- or third-tier city and recruit a student, you can buy one for a hundred dollars.
If you go to a well-known Dalu to customize it, it’s not surprising to spend seven or eight thousand on a card.
Anyway, you get what you pay for.
It is absolutely impossible for Pei Qian to find a well-known big touch to customize it, although this will allow him to spend more money.
Because the fame of the well-known Dalu is there, it is very likely that it will have a publicity effect on the game!
In the same way, you can indeed spend more money by buying four or five thousand original paintings, but once such a beautiful original painting is released, what if the players like it?!
Again, the most important thing in a mobile card game is a skin. If you make this skin look so good, you can still make money no matter how crappy the gameplay is!
So Pei Qian decided to buy cheaper original paintings!
If you want to spend more money, buy more!
50 characters, and then create different characters’ different states after promotion and star promotion.
That is equivalent to 50 base pictures, each base picture has four changes, used to express the effect of leveling up.
Calculated based on the price of each base map + four variations, which is 3,000, this is 150,000. Pei Qian’s budget is just right.
After all, the first-generation card game did not require models, which saved a lot of money.
Of course, the specific quotation needs to be submitted by the other party. Pei Qian's is just a rough estimate.
Ma Yang was a little confused. These things have been decided, so what is my main responsibility?
I carefully read the notes written by Pei Qian and understood.
His job is to create original creations and magical modifications!
In other words, it is to use your imagination to completely subvert these 50 characters and change them beyond recognition!