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After 263 days, people who looked forward to the game of autumn water finally looked forward to the long-lost version number.
Yesterday evening, the State Press and Publication Administration officially announced the approval information of domestic online games in April 2022 on its official website, and a total of 45 games became the first lucky people to obtain version numbers since July last year. As soon as the news came out, the U.S. stock market was the first to react, in the case of the NASDAQ finally fell by 2%, Tencent, NetEase, bilibili stock prices have risen against the trend, and today's A-share market, the game sector is also collectively high, and it has once become "a little red in the evergreen bush".
In addition to the carnival of capital, GameLook noticed that yesterday game people also expressed their joy on social platforms. If you want to sum up this grand situation, perhaps the first joy of the four great joys of life may be the most appropriate - a long drought and a ganlin.
"Make dumplings tonight!"
In terms of knowledge, Huang Yimeng, CEO of the Heartbeat Network, who has always been a temperamental person, directly posted his dinner - dumplings. At the same time, he also wrote in an appendix: "I have been holding back for more than ten days in the shanghai epidemic risk control, and it is considered that there is a beam of light in the long night." However, in this seemingly calm statement, GameLook still felt his inner excitement, because he beat "sealing control" into "risk control".
On Twitter, he also beat "Happy Tear Run" into "Tears Big Run".
The reason he was so excited, of course, was that The Heartwarming platform fighting game "Flash Party" finally got the version number. In mid-February, this product was first launched in Japan, and it topped the Japanese iOS free list on the day of release. Although the style of painting is biased towards Europe and the United States, the refreshing fighting experience and outstanding localization operation have made this game popular with Japanese players, and also made domestic players who previously participated in the bonfire test look forward to the early launch of the national costume.
Therefore, like Huang Yimeng, Tap Tap could not help but share the joy of getting the version number with the players for the first time. Although GameLook thinks it has experienced a lot of big winds and waves, the scene of directly posting a nuclear bill on Weibo still makes GameLook can't help but sigh "this face has never been seen."
Equally excited is Li Zhe, who is certified as ceo of Tianjin Teammate Technology, and the product he is responsible for is the PC game "Box Fission" published by Thunder Interactive. Four "ahs" and an exclamation point made his excitement overflowing, and his brief descriptions could better illustrate the origin of this ecstasy.
Due to epidemic prevention reasons, some colleagues can not arrive at work normally, only three people go to work at the worst time, and he still insists on paying salaries and continues to cooperate with the outside world, and the double pressure of funds and cooperation makes his desire for version number particularly urgent. And when I finally received the version number yesterday, in addition to ecstasy, I was also relieved.
Compared with the above two CEOs, the independent game developer AZGames may have a more mixed feeling when he got the version number, because his version number story is more tortuous.
Indie game developer who won the version number: "All the effort and wait is worth it"
AZGames is an indie game called Master pottery, which first landed on steam in November 2019. As soon as this simulated handmade pottery product was launched, it was recognized by players, and many foreign players also deepened their understanding of Chinese ceramic culture.
The initial test on Steam made AZGames determined to land the game in the form of a mobile game in the domestic market, and began to apply for a mobile version of "Pottery Master" in September 2020, and cooperated with the publisher to modify the content. In order to comply with the approval requirements, he also removed the game from the Steam country before declaring the version number.
By February 2021, the completed Master of Pottery was submitted to the Copyright Office. Unexpectedly, the publishing house responsible for declaring the game version number at that time was suspended for rectification due to some improper trading behavior, so the "Pottery Master" relying on the publishing house also needed to resubmit for review and go through the process again. After several rounds of repeated modifications and declarations, at the end of July last year, the game officially completed the modification in accordance with the opinions of the copyright office, but it also bumped into the 8-month suspension of the release of the version number.
On Christmas Last Year (December 25), AZGames even released a video to complain about its application for a version number, which also triggered a hot discussion in the game circle, and GameLook also reported on it. At that time, he claimed to have waited for 477 days, and from then until yesterday, this waiting ended on the 584th day.
After getting the version number yesterday, AZGames said in Zhihu that at the moment when the version number was issued, he did not have too many emotional fluctuations, because this long wait also made him feel that his mentality was more mature during this time, and all the efforts and waiting were worth it.
At present, "Pottery Master" has been re-listed in Steam National Costume, and mobile games have also made final preparations before going online.
For the story of AZGames, "Sand town time" may also be very empathetic. This is not only because the latter is also an indie game, but also because the game has not been given a version number before, and the launch time of this game on PC platforms such as Steam has never been determined.
Sandstone Town Time is another farming stream simulation business RPG game launched by Chongqing Pasia Technology, the developer of the previously acclaimed "Portia Time". As the orthodox sequel to Portia Time, Sand town time continues the art style and main gameplay of the previous game, but the game stage is selected in the desert town of Sand and Gravel, and as a result, the IGN editorial board commented that "this may be a special environmental game".
After yesterday's Xi ti version number, the official blog of "Sand town time" said for the first time that the game will be released on the four major platforms of Steam/Epic/bilibili/WeGame on May 26. Subsequently, the official blog of Pasia Technology also forwarded it, and once again showed his joy at getting the version number with a "tearful" expression.
Edition issue follow-up: Come on, game man!
Recently, a video blew up the circle of friends of Shanghai gamers. Under the epidemic situation, Mr. Xu, who is engaged in game art design, moved the computer to the fang cabin hospital. Because art work has extremely high requirements for screen color accuracy, it is difficult for ordinary laptops to meet professional needs, so Mr. Xu, who sits on an isolated hospital bed and works with two large-size monitors, is particularly eye-catching. This video also brought a long-lost pleasure to the game people who have been plagued by the epidemic.
However, with the release of this edition number, the game people who could eat melons and watch the drama of Mr. Xu's encounter suddenly found that they might be busy.
For example, the official account of heartbeat admitted on Zhihu that because there was a similar discussion every month before, the company did not bet on April because of the rumors of the previous "April release number", and since this year, the company's business direction has also been in accordance with the industry's lower version number to resume the issuance expectations for strategic and business planning. Therefore, now that "Party Star" has obtained the version number, it is expected that there will be marginal improvements in the company's domestic business this year.
Also bubbling up because of this "windfall" is a "former gamer" who has left the game industry, while saying hello to the game circle, Ta also bluntly said that he hopes that the future game industry will not engage in a lot of art skinning games with deep values, "I hope that all gamers will cheer up."
And Li Zhe, who is in the game circle, expressed his gratitude to everyone who worked hard for this, and like Mr. Xu, who was not alarmed in the epidemic, he said bluntly, "Continue to work, ready to go online!" ”
Another netizen who claims to work in a "small Internet factory" still can't help but open a bottle of beer to celebrate the "New Year" in the epidemic isolation after a period of analysis. Of course, the notebook next to the beer bottle states that after the celebration, the work still has to work.
From this point of view, Mr. Xu's popularity is not only because he is a model for workers to insist on working under the epidemic, but also because he is a true portrayal of the gamer's strong ability to resist blows. With the resumption of the release of the version number, the game people who have kept the clouds open and see the moon can finally have a drink, and then continue to stick to their dreams and work hard.
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