Chapter 59 Unsolved Mysteries: Hua Xiao's Explosive Death
Gu Feng's good mood for the day suddenly disappeared.
Staring blankly at the phone screen.
After a long time, he hesitated and replied with an explanation.
[Maple: That’s not a love letter.]
"Ah?" Gu Lan was slightly startled when she saw this reply.
After reacting, she quickly shook Clivia's arm: "Junjun! We made a mistake! This is not a love letter!"
Seeing that her mind was confused and her red eyes were full of water, Gu Lan simply handed her the phone to her to see.
"Look, Gu Feng said this is not a love letter."
After speaking, she bent down and picked up the white envelope from the trash can. After opening it, she took out a stack of folded papers.
I opened one at random and looked at it.
"Piano score?"
"Ah?" Clivia kept paying attention to her, and when she heard her muttering, her confused expression became even cuter.
Gu Lan looked at the other pictures and found that they were all simple piano scores, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Okay, these are all simple piano scores. Don't worry about it now. I've put them on the table for you."
Hearing the sound of Gu Lan going to the balcony and closing the door, Clivia sniffed hard and quickly pulled out a piece of paper to wipe her tears. She felt that she was really embarrassed tonight.
I haven't cried a few times since I was a child, and I haven't cried once since I became an adult. As a result, not only did I cry today, but I also cried in front of Gu Lan. It would be fine if only Gu Lan knew. Just now Gu Lan broke the news
When he showed it to her, she clearly saw that Gu Lan had already told Gu Feng about it.
After all, Gu Lan also had good intentions to help her vent her anger, so she couldn't blame her for this.
When Gu Lan came back after washing up, she saw that Clivia had changed her expression and was looking at the musical score, as if the tearful person just now was not her.
Clivia's piano skills are not inferior to her singing skills. She can probably hum the tunes in her mind by looking at the simplified music scores. As far as her personal sense is concerned, these nine pieces of music have different styles, but the quality is surprisingly good.
"Gu Feng will definitely have a bright future if he studies music. Well...but it's not a waste of his talent if he chooses games." Clivia thought to herself.
After reading all the musical notations, she suddenly remembered that when Gu Feng handed the envelope to her, he told her to go back and read it before speaking. After hesitating for two seconds, she still sent a message to Gu Feng.
[Bite the rabbit ear: Why did you give me so many piano scores? 】
Gu Feng was in a very low mood now, and when he saw Clivia's reply, he was no longer as excited as before.
[Feng: Didn’t I tell you just now that I am making an Asian music game? These scores are all going to be used in the game. My senior’s piano skills are the best among the people I know, so I want to invite you.
Do me a favor, if you have time, can you go to Fuyao Recording Studio with me tomorrow, and by the way, you can record the original dream together.】
Clivia's beautiful eyes were filled with shock.
There are generally three modes of charging for recording studios, charging by the hour, charging by the day, and charging by the number of songs.
An ordinary recording studio costs about 100-500 an hour, and a full-day package costs around 600-3,000. The price fluctuations based on the number of charges are slightly larger, ranging from dozens to thousands to tens of thousands, depending on the recording requirements.
to what level.
In the Imperial City, professional recording studios generally cost more than 400 an hour.
The Fuyao recording studio mentioned by Gu Feng is not comparable to these recording studios at all. As the best recording studio in the country, it has enough space to accommodate a large symphony orchestra of more than 200 people. Its control room is equipped with 72-track, 64-channel
The mixing console has the best multi-channel movie sound effects system and the most advanced computer multi-channel sound pickup and identification system.
It has all kinds of musical instruments, and the total value of the equipment and musical instruments alone exceeds 30 million, making it one of the top three top recording studios in the world.
Almost every year, famous songs are born here. In terms of status, Fuyao Recording Studio can definitely be regarded as one of the holy places in every musician's heart.
The price of such a top-notch recording studio is naturally not cheap. As far as she knows, recording a song with the lowest specifications here costs 50,000 yuan, which is really not affordable for ordinary people.
[Bite the rabbit ears: I’m just recording game music, no need to go to Fuyao, right?]
[Brother Pigeon: When funds are sufficient, game designers only need to consider quality when making games. What’s more, this is an audio game.]
[Bite the rabbit ear: Okay, but not tomorrow. I have to practice these piano scores in advance. Is it okay the day after tomorrow? 】
[Brother Pigeon: It’s up to you. I’ll meet you at the door of your dormitory building at nine o’clock the day after tomorrow.]
[Bite the rabbit ear: OK.]
That night, both of them couldn't sleep.
Clivia thought a lot. Too many things happened tonight, especially the experience of crying when she received the envelope, which made her understand her own heart.
The guy who was three years younger than her seemed to have really broken into her heart. If not, why would she lose her composure because of an envelope?
When she thought that Gu Feng might confess to her at any time, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow, their relationship would need to be talked about one day, she felt full of tangles in her heart.
If she really agrees to the invitation to start a company with him, can she still refuse when he confesses his love in the future? If she really refuses, the three of them will most likely break up on bad terms. In this case, the company will probably
We also have to face crises.
Thinking of this, she became more cautious about opening a company. In her mind, whether she agreed to open a company as a partnership and whether she was willing to be Gu Feng's girlfriend could be regarded as a question.
The next day, what they didn't expect was that a live video of Clivia singing "First Dream" went viral on the Internet.
Many netizens are asking about the title of the song and who is singing it.
People actually inquired about it. After all, Clivia is quite famous in the Imperial Art Academy. Many insiders also posted Clivia's Vagabond account, which also caused the number of Clivia's Vagabond fans to increase four to five times in one day.
Especially looking at her past activities, there are some who sing, some play the piano, and many who play games. Who wouldn’t love such a versatile girl who likes to play games? This is why many people will click to follow her after visiting her.
s reason.
It's a song. A bunch of people asked there for a long time, but no one could name it. I entered the lyrics and searched online but couldn't find any information.
There is no doubt that this is a new song that has not yet been released. Since Clivia Vagabond has many original songs on its record, netizens are speculating that this is also one of her original songs.
As a result, a large number of netizens rushed to leave messages on her vagabond page, begging her to release this new song as soon as possible.
Clivia naturally noticed this, but she was not in the mood to pay attention to these things for the time being. One day, she spent ten hours in the piano room practicing the piano music sent by Gu Feng.
On Monday, Gu Feng arrived ten minutes early to wait downstairs at Gu Lan and their dormitory. Because she was a little afraid of being alone with Gu Feng, Clivia invited Gu Lan to come with her. Gu Lan was considerate, and she also knew the best recording studio in China.
Out of curiosity and yearning, I agreed.
Along the way, the atmosphere was not as lively and relaxed as before. In the past, it was Clivia that enlivened the atmosphere most of the time.
Seeing that the atmosphere was slightly awkward, Gu Lan, who was not that good at lively atmosphere, naturally couldn't watch it. She was forced to go to work, and she finally felt extremely tired until she reached her destination.
Fortunately, Fuyao Recording Studio is worthy of its reputation as one of the top in the country. The three of them just followed the staff for a brief tour and it was an eye-opener.
The two girls, who are obsessed with music, were immersed in admiring various high-end equipment and high-quality musical instruments. At this time, Clivia completely forgot about their recent worries.
Gu Feng chose Baotian Recording, and the three of them recorded for seven or eight hours before finally recording all the songs, including "The First Dream" to the most satisfactory level.
Of course, since Clivia was the only one participating in the recording, she was the most exhausted at the end of the day.
On the way back, Clivia still had lingering nostalgia on her face.
Throughout the whole recording process, Gu Lan was responsible for accompanying her to analyze where there were deficiencies and what could be improved, helping her with reference and making some suggestions.
Gu Feng, on the other hand, has been waiting silently by the side. When she was tired from recording and needed to rest, she would hand over the water as soon as possible. From time to time, she would also give some personal suggestions, but they were basically suggestions based on her feelings.
After all, he wrote the music and made the game, so it’s up to him to decide how you want it to feel. As for professional issues, he doesn’t need to consider them.
On the way back, Gu Lan was finally no longer forced to open the business. Although the relationship between the two was still a bit subtle, it was much better than when they arrived in the morning.
The time soon came to the end of the month, and Gu Feng was very busy these days. He went to go through all the procedures for graduating from school. The process was so complicated that it made people want to scold him.
When he had a little free time, he would rush back to the store as soon as possible, because there were a lot of things going on in the studio recently.
"Monument Valley" in Wen Meng's hands has entered the final debugging stage, and a closed beta version will be launched in the store soon.
The art work of "Dancing Line" is also in full swing, and everyone is very enthusiastic about work. Although Gu Feng does not encourage overtime work and requires them to get off work on time at six o'clock when there are no urgent tasks, but because there is no one during working hours
Moyu, in this high-efficiency working state, the game development progress is still advancing faster than Gu Feng imagined.
But after all, no matter how detailed the requirements are, the actual things produced cannot be exactly as he expected. Gu Feng needs to keep an eye on their progress at all times, correct some misunderstandings in a timely manner, and try to avoid wasted work.
An interesting thing also happened during this period.
On Monday, the day Gu Feng and Clivia went to the recording studio, Garden Game announced its belated first month results.
This result directly surprised everyone who was optimistic about it earlier.
The number of downloads broke the first-month download record of 10.31 million set by Kaixin Xiaoxiaole. The daily retention rate has dropped compared to the beginning of the launch, but it is still higher than Kaixin Xiaoxiaole, at 76%.
Just looking at these two data, no one would have thought that Huayuan Xiaoxiaole's performance in the first month could be so outstanding.
Not to mention that the monthly retention rate exceeds 52% of Kaixinxiaoxiaole, it is almost less than half of others, only 27%.
The monthly revenue is even worse. Compared with Kaixin Xiaoxiaole’s first-month revenue of 8.19 million, Huayuan Xiaoxiaole’s first-month revenue is only 2.66 million, which is less than one-third of Kaixin Xiaoxiaole’s.
Comparing the first-month results of the two games together, even people who don’t understand the game can see that Huayuan Xiaole is completely beaten and crushed.
To describe Huayuan Xiaoxiaole's performance as "high and low" is a euphemism, it may be more accurate to call it "high diving".
This result has directly sounded the alarm to some game designers and game manufacturers who still want to follow suit. The success of Kaixin Xiaole seems beautiful and tempting, but it is obviously not as easy to learn as imagined.
In the past few days, countless people have been analyzing the reasons why Huayuan Xiaoxiaole died. However, apart from pointing out some irrelevant issues, no one has figured out the fundamental reason why Huayuan Xiaoxiaole lost to Kaixin Xiaoxiaole.
After all, regardless of the exquisiteness of the game's picture quality, the richness of the gameplay, the intensity of the game's promotion, etc., Garden Fun is obviously better than Happy Fun.
No matter from which angle you look at it, there is no reason for Garden Xiaoxiaole to fail.
But this is the fact. Even if the ranking mode copies the ranking mode of Happy Xiaoxiaole in time, Garden Xiaoxiaole still cannot hide its decline.
On the other hand, Kaixin Xiaoxiaole seems to have not been affected by its competitors at all. Two and a half months after it was launched, the number of downloads has continued to rise and has exceeded 30 million. And judging from the popularity of discussions, it must have a lot of monthly active players.
If there is any trace of Warrior Legend's defeat to Dead Cells, it is, after all, a dimensionality reduction blow in terms of gameplay. Then Garden Match's defeat to Happy Match has directly become a major unsolved mystery in the current gaming world.
At least until the reason is analyzed and understood, no one will dare to follow this trend.
In this way, Huayuan Xiaoxiaole not only did not cause any trouble to Happy Xiaoxiaole, but actually helped Gu Feng dissuade a bunch of followers.
As the only person besides Gu Feng who knew the truth, Wen Meng's admiration for Gu Feng almost overflowed.
She clearly remembered that during the interview, Gu Feng had predicted the results of Huayuan Xiaole in the first month.
She remembered very clearly that what Gu Feng said at that time was that the number of downloads would exceed 10 million, the monthly retention would not exceed 30%, and the monthly revenue would be 3 million.
The actual results now are not completely consistent with his predicted results, they are almost exactly the same.
Thinking about it, there has never been a game like Kaixin Xiaole before. The audience is players of all ages and regardless of gender. How to make money for middle-aged people by playing games directly touches the blind spot of the industry.
There is no precedent.
Being able to make a game without precedent and succeed is what Wen Meng believes a top game designer should have.
She was extremely glad that she had made the decision to stay here.
She firmly believes that by following Gu Feng, she can learn far more than what is taught in school or what she can learn in other companies.