Chapter 376 The Preliminary Plan of the Haunted House
Wednesday, January 5th.
Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong were sitting in the coffee area of Moyu Internet Cafe, each holding a laptop and typing on the keyboard quickly.
Both of them seemed to be full of ideas, and their fingertips kept moving all the time. Only occasionally when they were sorting out their thoughts did they have time to stop and pick up the coffee on the table and take a sip.
The two of them are making plans for a haunted house.
During this time in the United States, everyone's experience was like a dream, just a nightmare.
"Foggy Mountain" State Mental Hospital is the site of an abandoned hospital and is also known as the scariest haunted house in the world.
During these five days, the tourist team experienced this haunted house completely "a small number of times", and the bitterness was simply unspeakable.
The impression is so deep, so many insights. Even in the past few days, when dreaming every night, I can often "get some new insights" and "review some memories that have been blurred."
Therefore, after returning to Jingzhou, Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong were full of humanistic thoughts and couldn't wait to write down their travel experiences and use them in their own haunted house projects.
However, it is not a copying, but a criticism and absorption.
I wrote all day yesterday and all morning today. Under this efficient working mode, the basic plan has almost been written.
"Come on, let's fight." Chen Kangtuo suggested.
The two people sent each other the documents written in their notebooks.
From the time they came back to now, the two of them haven't had much communication, mainly to avoid their thoughts interfering with each other.
Two people each come up with a plan. After full discussion, the best results can be achieved by combining the two plans.
Of course, both of their plans have a consensus, which is the general direction for the construction of the haunted house that President Pei once proposed.
Mr. Pei's opinion must be the core standard and cannot be violated.
"Let the brave people have nowhere to spend money, and let the timid people stay away", these are Mr. Pei's original words.
After Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong understood the standard process, they roughly summarized the following two key points:
Open three projects, and the level of terror gradually increases;
Through discounts and refunds, charge less for the brave and more for the faint of heart.
In this way, it can not only ensure the reputation of the haunted house, but also ensure the profitability of the haunted house, while taking into account different customer groups.
However, the two of them never had a good idea about what kind of project they wanted to do.
That’s why we need to go to some successful haunted houses to get materials.
Now that we have the materials and the scares, the key lies in the specific plan.
The two people browsed through each other's plans.
Chen Kangtuo was a little surprised: "It seems that we have consensus in many aspects. Maybe it's because we have both worked in the game industry, so we are used to using game thinking to solve problems?"
Hao Qiong nodded: "Well, maybe so."
There are a few points in the two people's plan that they couldn't help but think of together.
The first project is not very scary and is suitable for multiplayer social games.
Chen Kangtuo's idea is to make a more classic horror escape room, while Hao Qiong's idea is to change the gameplay of "be quiet" and make it a real-life version of "be quiet".
Of course, neither of them has a very good idea so far, they just have a simple general direction.
The second project, which is moderately scary, is used as a transition to the third project, which is basically a single-player game.
The venue for this project may be small, but the terrifying effect will definitely not be bad. Only those who pass this project are qualified to challenge the third project.
The two people had the same view on this project, and they both used a narrow space of a few to more than ten square meters for a single experience.
However, Hao Qiong made an additional point. It can be done with containers. The interior of the container is decorated with various scenes, and pulleys are installed underneath. This can ensure that several different projects can be adjusted at any time, so that players cannot guess which project they want to experience.
The third project, with the highest degree of horror, is dedicated to recreating everyone's experience in the "Fog Mountain" mental hospital.
However, the plans given by the two people were different from the routines of the "Wushan" Mental Hospital.
At present, most haunted houses are not so perfect in terms of rhythm.
Some small haunted houses in China are basically just a route from start to finish. If you want to leave in the middle, there is no extra exit, so you can only bite the bullet and keep walking.
Fortunately, there is no staff interaction in this relatively simple haunted house, and the scares are not that intense. Almost everyone can complete the journey.
For larger haunted houses, the process is longer and the level of fright is higher. It is necessary to leave enough safe exits. Once tourists can no longer persist, they can leave through the safe exits at any time.
Of course, enough monitoring must be installed to observe the status of tourists in real time.
A very large haunted house like the "Misty Mountain" Mental Hospital naturally needs to arrange more safe exits, and staff should be on standby at any time to usher out tourists who can't hold on.
But after visiting this haunted house, both of them came up with a common idea: Most people can't stand this haunted house, it's such a waste!
In fact, the challenge of the haunted house did not go well on the first day everyone went there.
Bao Xu and Hao Qiong were defeated after holding on for less than ten minutes. The ones who lasted the longest were Lin Wan and Li Yada, who persisted for more than twenty minutes.
Of course, Li Yada was forced to hold on for so long only by Lin Wan, otherwise she might have retreated as soon as she entered.
According to everyone's observation, this reaction is not unique.
After most tourists bought the tickets, they were frightened just after watching the short film that exaggerated the atmosphere in the waiting area, and they couldn't stand it not long after they entered the door.
Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong agreed that this was a pity.
It would be such a waste to put so much effort into building such a terrifying haunted house, but to turn away more than half of the tourists before entering.
As the saying goes, pigs must be fattened before they are killed.
Just like a game, if you make a difficult game and some people are persuaded to quit at the first level, this is normal, but if more than half of the people are persuaded to quit at the first level, then it can only be said that the difficulty setting is wrong.
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The difficulty should be gradual. Even if the players suffer, the level must be controlled well and they cannot really be tortured away.
If your own haunted house mindlessly copies the routine of the "Wisty Mountain" Mental Hospital, there will only be one result, that is, no one will care about it.
Because the "Wisty Mountain" Mental Hospital has a reputation as the most terrifying haunted house in the world, its customer flow is guaranteed.
However, our own haunted house is built on the outskirts of Jingzhou and is not well-known in itself. It is unlikely to attract tourists from all over the world for the time being. If the threshold is too high, it will definitely not be able to recover the cost.
Therefore, every tourist is important.
Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong each came up with some solutions.
Hao Qiong’s plan is to sell tickets that can be entered multiple times while deliberately lowering the initial level of terror.
In the early stages of the process, arrange some links that are more fun but less scary, and try to find ways to keep tourists here first.
At the same time, each ticket can be entered multiple times, and the ticket price can be set higher. This is equivalent to giving tourists a certain buffer time to calm down before entering the challenge.
This is what Hao Qiong and others did in the United States. In fact, the first time was very scary. I couldn't remember what I was playing and I was completely confused.
But when you enter later and have certain psychological expectations, the haunted house becomes interesting.
But it is impossible for normal tourists to queue up again, pay for tickets again, and suffer for the second time, so naturally they will not experience this feeling.
Therefore, Hao Qiong believes that tickets can be directly set for multiple entries.
In this way, even if some tourists are temporarily scared away, since the tickets still allow re-entry, after a period of time, their mentality has calmed down and they will come to play a second time.
In this way, you can gain a group of repeat customers.
Chen Kangtuo's plan is to design the haunted house as a circular route with a safe house in the center.
After passing each small stage, players can enter the safe house to rest and adjust their emotions.
Like the "Woghan" Mental Hospital, most people can't stand walking in a haunted house for more than an hour at a stretch, which means that it is impossible for most people to visit the entire haunted house.
This can be said to be a serious waste of resources.
Therefore, Chen Kangtuo thinks that some in-game practices can be used to solve this problem.
Many horror games have settings such as "save points" and "safe houses", which are designed to allow players to take a break from their highly stressed minds and relieve their tension before continuing with the process.
Therefore, Chen Kangtuo thinks that the safe house mechanism can be added to the haunted house, so that players can constantly adjust their mentality during the game and not be easily scared off.
Although the two people's plans are different, they do not conflict and can completely coexist.
After reading Chen Kangtuo's plan, Hao Qiong was a little worried: "With this arrangement, will our haunted house be cleared quickly? If tourists can clear it in one go, they will definitely not come back a second time, right?"
Chen Kangtuo shook his head: "I think the ultimate purpose of a haunted house is not to scare tourists so much that they cannot pass the level. If tourists are scared off at the first level, no matter how good and scary your subsequent processes are, they will not be able to pass the level."
What’s the point?”
"By allowing tourists to play the entire journey, there will naturally be many opportunities to frighten them."
"In fact, regardless of whether tourists have completed the entire haunted house, there is a high probability that they will not enter the same haunted house again."
"If most tourists are scared off at the beginning, then their evaluation of the haunted house will definitely not be very high, which is not conducive to building a reputation. Other new tourists will see the reviews and say that the haunted house scares people away from the beginning.
, they will probably be persuaded to leave.”
"In this case, finding a way to let tourists play for a while, step by step, and leave some deep impressions and thoughts on them will be more conducive to us building a reputation and attracting new tourists."
Hao Qiong thought for a while and nodded: "Well, that's the truth."
"Then next, should we report the progress to President Pei first, or should we come up with detailed plans for each project first?"
Chen Kangtuo said: "It is definitely not possible to come up with all the detailed plans at once. The first and third projects are both relatively difficult to design. They occupy a large space and have complicated gameplay, so they need to be considered in the long term."
"For these two big projects, we will first roughly set aside the space and recruit people while we work on it slowly."
"The second project is composed of many small projects. It is relatively simple and easier to implement. Let's roughly finalize the second project first. Then we will give the entire plan to President Pei for a look."
"After Mr. Pei nods, we can start construction. During the construction of the second project, we will slowly consider the first and third projects."