Atypical science man has been deeply involved in the industry for 13 years
Chen Bo: Let the rescue hero become the protagonist of the game
West China Metropolis Daily-cover news reporter Zhu Zhu
Loves adventure, likes to be alone, and calms down when things happen. This atypical science man, Chen Bo, is the founder of a game company, and his games are all related to "rescue heroes".
Entered the game industry in 2008, and established Chengdu Dolphin Interactive Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. in 2016. Chen Bo experienced the ups and downs of his career and struggled with multiple choice questions of maintaining his feelings and accepting reality, but he never gave up.
He said that he has a long, long time to do with the game dream of the stars and the sea for nearly 5 years.
Tribute to rescue heroes as a console game with oriental elements
Chen Bo once studied computer science at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Upon graduation, he went to Perfect World to do game operations, and was later transferred to an investment position.
By chance, Chen Bo, who was looking for high-quality game projects at the time, met a game team that was on the verge of disbanding. Their main direction was console games, and console games were what Chen Bo always wanted to do.
In 2015, the ban on domestic console games was lifted, and Chinese players formally integrated with the world. "Based on this opportunity, the core members of this team are almost from joint ventures. With deep console game experience, we hit it off and established a game company, becoming a domestic The first team to apply for development permission.” Since
2016, Chen Bo, the backbone of the company, has led the company through three rounds of financing, and has also obtained a lot of resources. At one time, the team was expanded to 100 people and concentrated on in-depth research and development of console games. He even invested in a motion capture laboratory to capture all the movements and expressions of people and animals in the game, hoping that this high-quality console game made by the Chinese can go global.
In the choice of the theme, Chen Bo thought of a special group of people-rescuers.
"The firefighting and rescue group is a force that has been neglected for a long time, but they are indeed very important." So Chen Bo focused on disaster rescue and wrote the rescue story into the game to pay tribute to this group of unsung heroes.
Give up four years of hard work, the new game was signed by the publisher within 2 weeks
In the past four years, Chen Bo’s team has spent almost all their energy, all manpower, and invested a lot of money in making this "disaster rescue" game, but the level of money burned by making a mainframe game seems to exceed his imagination.
In particular, the emergence of the epidemic has brought greater pressure. “The size of the team was already very large at the time, and the monthly expenditure was very high. Everyone did not work in the same place and could not collaborate better.” This made Chen Bo suspect himself for a while. Do you want to continue.
In order to reduce expenses and continue to do the company, more than 10 people voluntarily stayed and continued to follow Chen Bo to start a business. He also chose to temporarily let go of his feelings, "If you have the technology and the ideas, let's live first."
After rethinking and "weight loss", Chen Bo's team ushered in a new opportunity.
In May 2020, Dolphin Mutual Entertainment established a new game, still with rescue as its core theme, but this time it is a small and beautiful party game. Chen Bo hopes that this game can return to the gameplay itself.
Relaxed, multi-player interaction, "a fun little game combined with a more serious "rescue" theme, presenting conflicts and contradictions, this is a major feature of the game, and meeting very pitted teammates is also a kind of "fun".
Because of previous experience and a large amount of material, Chen Bo’s team took less than 6 months to complete the prototype of the "Live Rescue" game. An internationally renowned publishing company." What Chen Bo did not expect was that in the end his game was signed by the game company 505Games, which he has always admired.
Plowing the industry for 13 years and wanting more Chinese games to go overseas
Just like 505Games, what impressed Chen Bo was that he had participated in various game exhibitions overseas. Almost all the founders of well-known publishers, R&D companies, etc., were gray-haired old men. They might have been there all their lives. Making games, "They even think that a game company that has been established for 10 years is very young."
But this is often difficult to achieve in China, because the Chinese game industry has lagged behind for historical reasons, and this industry has become exclusive to young people.
Chen Bo is deeply inspired by the game tycoons. He believes that the innovation of the game is an important point, but the game is also a craft that requires more time to settle and persevere.
Through the continuous efforts of gamers, just as China is now one of the world's largest game markets, Chinese games have also entered a new "nautical era."
Chen Bo has been in the game industry for 13 years. He clearly realized that the future development direction of the company must be to make high-quality games, return to the gameplay itself, let the originality continue and extend, and actively go overseas.
But what Chen Bo never forgets still hopes to restart the "Disaster Rescue" game one day, "maybe this is the fate of the gamer".
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