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Recently, a leisure and competitive Mini Game "grumpy Little Gaba" brushed the screen in the WeChat group. The game interface is based on the jungle. A chicken named Little Gaba needs to avoid obstacles to make multiple jumps. Jumping to 3000 meters is customs clearance. In addition, players will enter the game according to the location, according to the province team, customs clearance will be successful for the province "plus 1", the ranking based on geographical location also triggered the player's desire to win or lose and a sense of collective honor.

Like other leisure Mini Game, grumpy Little Gaba has the characteristics of easy to use, difficult to clear customs and high frequency of opening. It seems that the interface is simple and the operation is not complex, but the clearance rate is only 2%, which is easy for players to have a sprint mentality of "still missing the last kilometer". Users have left messages, "nervous stimulation", "fun", "addictive". The planner of this small-scale circle-breaking game is Qian Xin, a computer science major in the fall of 2023 from the Shenzhen College of Georgia Technology of Tianjin University.

The first trial of Mini Game development

Small cost input out of one's own pocket

In recent years, Mini Game such as "synthetic Big Watermelon", "Jump" and "Sheep has made a Sheep" have become popular all over the network. Qian Xin, who is not only a player but also a software engineering major, has an insight into the user's preference for "lightweight" in games, that is, with the help of WeChat Mini Programs to open it and build a simple H5 interface and rules of the game to achieve a quick experience of playing and leaving without registering. Out of great interest in the gaming industry, Qian Xin decided to try to develop and launch a Mini Game by himself before this summer vacation.

Lightweight Mini Game needs to grasp the psychology that players want to relax, for the audience to meet the needs of audio-visual entertainment, killing time and so on. So in the design of game elements, Qian Xin chose the characteristic product of his hometown, the chicken in Braised Chicken, Dezhou Style in Shandong Province, as a symbolic image.

A lively, brave, leaping chicken needs to avoid the obstacles of a fixed stone and get a stealth acceleration "escape" on the way; while in the 1000-meter race, the fixed stone will become a random falling stone, and the falling stone speed and density will increase accordingly, thus increasing the difficulty of customs clearance; but with the accumulation of the number of players experience and the number of times to watch advertisements, according to random algorithms and probability, players will also have a greater chance to achieve customs clearance.

Qian Xin said that in fact, the code design of the game is not complex, mainly using the front-end three-piece set to achieve. For him, the difficulties of launching this game are actually more post-positioned, and the time spent is often focused on the late game UI design, music selection, platform code review, operation and promotion, and so on.

From the incubation of ideas to the landing of the design, Qian Xin found his past partners and set up a small team of four people to cooperate with the production of this project. " As the project manager of this project, I need to co-ordinate the whole project from concept to landing, from being a game in mind, to putting it into the report, and then to allocating various tasks to the final shelves. This is not only a novel experience for me, but also a big test. Since I have never been in deep contact with Mini Game development, it is much more difficult than expected to control every detail, whether it is the review and implementation of UI, code architecture, or various materials. "

(Qian Xin on the right, dealing with work affairs)

At present, "grumpy Little Gaba" has accumulated hundreds of thousands of browsing users, with the highest number of daily active users reaching 4000. Qian Xin admitted that this result is not satisfactory to him. Compared with other game manufacturers who spend a lot of money on marketing and publicity, Qian Xin pays more attention to the optimization and iteration of the game itself.

The next step for grumpy Little Gaba is to increase the number of levels, set up more feature links, and further establish user stickiness. But as a summer practice project, it is a happy thing to gain a good reputation from users in a short period of time. I wanted to promote it only in Shandong area, but in the end, I insisted on facing the whole country. I was surprised to observe that there were more users from Guangdong backstage, and in the process, I also gained recognition from peers and classmates, which made me feel happy and relieved. "

A startup company is in the camp.

Study and work projects are multi-handed

Qian Xin, who graduated from the University of de Montfort in the UK with a first-class degree, has been a software engineer with 6 years of experience in the workplace, and has worked in the product field of Baidu Xiaodu. In 2021, he chose to set up a technology-related enterprise on his own, and as a regional service provider of Baidu Xiaodu medical care sector, the company mainly provides software applications, Internet hospital demand docking, product research and development, upgrading, pre-sales and after-sales services.

(Qian Xin used to work for Baidu)

As a corporate legal person, Qian Xin's daily work is to collect the needs of the hospital, iterate the products with the technical team, and deploy the relationship between upstream and downstream; as an engineer, Qian Xin feels that he still has a lot of room for improvement. "engineer is a profession that gives him extra advantages and needs to do different homework for different positions and industry and research content. When it comes to the subdivision of different jobs, you need to make a judgment according to your own preferences and the background of the market. "

After coming to the Shenzhen College of Georgia Technology of Tianjin University this fall, the rhythm of working and studying at the same time made Qian Xin under high pressure for a long time. In addition to day-to-day handling of the company's tedious affairs, but also taking into account the rapid absorption of schoolwork. Whenever employees of the company eat and relax after work, Qian Xin is busy reading all kinds of literature and completing various mentor assignments. His responsibilities in the team also drive him to maintain a keen insight into cutting-edge technologies and market changes.

(the first one on the left is Qian Xin, taking a photo with his classmates)

"Learning at work is not as directional as in textbooks. I used to think that it would be good to be a software company to understand development. As the company's business expansion continues to expand, I began to have a deeper understanding and mastery of business negotiations, corporate finance, legal affairs and business cooperation." Therefore, in the learning process of the Shenzhen College of Georgia Technology of Tianjin University, Qian Xin is also more inclined to autonomous learning and knowledge expansion. On the one hand, he uses the high-quality teaching resources of Georgia Institute of Technology to supplement his own knowledge reserve. On the other hand, he acquires the understanding and cognition of new things through project practice and communication between teachers and students.

When it comes to the future, Qian Xin does not want to continue ploughing in the experienced field of science and technology, nor does he intend to stop in the game industry where he has tried the water, but to face the new wind in the field of educational science and technology, which is also one of the main contents of his preferred course CS6460 (Educational Technology Educational Technology) for graduate students at school.

Like the game setting of "grumpy Little Gaba", when crossing this pass, the scene behind another mountain is attracting Qian Xin, who is going further and further on the road as an engineer.

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