Reborn to Make Games: My Girlfriend is a Game Streamer

After they finished laughing, Xu Haoran sat up a little straighter, his joking expression fading, and asked, "Old Chen, any news from the steam platform?"

"I replied to the email." Chen Bainian nodded, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the table. "They'll handle the arrangements. I've asked Zhang Wei to take over the follow-up."

"That's good." Xu Haoran seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and leaned back in his chair.

Although "Changshou Game Studio" has been registered as a company, excluding administrative, human resources, and financial personnel, there are only about twenty people actually involved in the business.

It remains a tiny workshop, no bigger than the rest.

Domestically, the publicity can still rely on the popularity of Chen Bainian and "Getting Over It" and the media and channel resources that Zhang Wei has accumulated, which can barely spread some initial publicity.

However, for those who have put their games on Steam, they certainly don't want to limit themselves to the domestic market.

The overseas market is huge, and they also want a piece of the pie.

Just look at "Getting Over It" and you'll know:

When the game sold 100,000 copies in its early stages, domestic sales still accounted for 50% of the total.

But now, with total sales reaching nearly 700,000, the proportion of users from the Chinese region has dropped to 30%.

The remaining 70% came from other regions.

Of course, this doesn't exclude the possibility that some Chinese people live as "spiritual locals" in enclaves with lower prices, but they are ultimately a minority.

The importance of overseas publicity is already evident.

Lacking funds and resources, overseas promotion is indeed their current weakness.

Fortunately, the Steam platform, which has been operating externally for ten years, also has corresponding service solutions in this area.

As long as you pay money, they can help provide the corresponding services.

During the filming of "Getting Over It", Chen Bainian was short of money.

Now, they can no longer passively wait for the game's reputation to spread and for it to climb the best-selling charts before it can be seen by overseas users, as they did before.

"However, relying on paid services through the Steam platform is always a bit passive." Chen Bainian changed the subject and began to plan for the future. "In the future, we still need to find ways to gradually expand our own publicity channels overseas. We can't always rely on others."

Xu Haoran nodded in agreement after listening.

These words really struck a chord with him. Relying on others for a living is never as reassuring as having your own food.

"What's wrong? Nervous?" Chen Bainian looked at Xu Haoran's expression and had some guesses in his mind. "Are you worried that I won't give you a share of the profits?"

He cracked a little joke, which made the atmosphere between the two of them more relaxed when discussing the topic.

Xu Haoran rarely cares about anything other than his own technical issues; this is the first time he has inquired about game promotion.

"Who's worried about that?" Xu Haoran said with a laugh, "I can see that you're really calm and collected, not flustered at all."

"I have successful experience, what's the panic?" Chen Bainian said calmly, and then added, "Besides, when 'Getting Over It' was first launched and only had single-digit sales, I was worried too."

Even though Getting Over It is a game that has been tested by the market in the previous life, if he were to bring it to this point in time, it might still flop for various unexpected reasons.

Fortunately, we made it through safely in the end.

"After all, this is the first fully self-developed project that I have led and participated in since I left Youlong," Xu Haoran frankly explained his concerns.

After saying it, he seemed more relaxed: "It has a different meaning."

"You yourself have thoroughly tested the demo version you created, and the content quality and gameplay loop are both fine. The promotion and marketing are also progressing according to plan, so there's no point in worrying about these things."

As Chen Bainian spoke, he skillfully steered the conversation toward the specific problems they were currently facing:

Instead of worrying about this, you should spend more time solving the lag issues caused by the monster spawn logic and skill effect stacking in the later stages of Endless Mode.

Once this optimization is complete, it will truly benefit the player experience and our reputation.

"Yes, our programming team has discussed this internally and we have a preliminary optimization plan," Xu Haoran said, his tone becoming more serious.

"We plan to implement dynamic hierarchical management of the threshold for the number of monsters on screen, and at the same time, offload the rendering of some non-core effects to a separate thread."

However, the specific effects and performance costs will only be known after actual stress testing.

"Okay, it's good to have a direction. We'll see the specific effects after testing." Chen Bainian nodded, indicating his approval of the idea.

He looked at Xu Haoran with a slight smile on his face: "Looks like you're not nervous anymore."

Upon hearing this, Xu Haoran realized that his earlier struggle of weighing gains and losses had been unconsciously replaced by thinking about specific technical issues.

He scratched his head and laughed, "You've led me astray. Alright, I'm going back to working on my code. Producer Chen, you continue to strategize."

"Go ahead, Engineer Xu," Chen Bainian said with a smile, waving his hand.

Seeing Xu Haoran refocus his attention on the world of code, Chen Bainian also suppressed his smile and focused his gaze on the schedule in front of him.

Overseas channels, localization, community operations, and the future company website...

Each of these tasks is clearly listed.

We have to take things one step at a time, but at least for now, the direction ahead is clear.

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At 3 p.m., the office area of ​​Game TV was filled with a kind of languid atmosphere unique to the pre-holiday period.

Several workstations are empty. I don't know if everyone has entered holiday mode early, or if, as the rumors circulating in the company lately, they've been "laid off"...

Jiang Yiting, carrying the topic she had chosen for the next episode, walked through the rather quiet office area and knocked on the door of her boss Zhou Xingyu's office.

"Old Zhou, I've decided on the games for next round..."

Before Jiang Yiting could finish speaking, Zhou Xingyu smiled and raised his hand to interrupt her.

"I trust you to handle things," he said, picking up a document from the table and pushing it towards me. "You decide on the topic, but here's a game review player; the company specifically requested to be on your show."

"Old Zhou, why is it another trial version of GG?" Jiang Yiting's brows furrowed instinctively upon hearing these words.

"If you keep stuffing it in like this, the time I actually spend playing console games on each of my one-and-a-half-hour shows will be almost completely squeezed out, leaving less than an hour after cutting off the beginning and end."

Moreover, the viewers who come to my livestream are there to watch me play games, not to see me fail. I've received quite a few private messages complaining about this lately.

Zhou Xingyu still had his usual smiling face, laughing it off: "Yiting, I understand your difficulties."

But you're the station's top star right now, you're very popular, and manufacturers are all specifically asking to be on your show—that's a sign of high commercial value! The capable should do more, the capable should do more…”

Jiang Yiting looked at the document but didn't take it.

She paused for a few seconds, then said, half-jokingly and half-seriously, "Old Zhou, if you keep going like this, I'm seriously considering quitting my job."