Chapter 37 (1/2)
Chapter 37: Chapter 36 – Leading the Surge in Casual Games
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Translated by Coldtaco
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First twenty-four hours, 23,187! First three days, 77,409; first week, 122,375; first thirty days, 514,580!
Over that first ners were shocked tirow in the first week and slowly decrease Plants vs Zoh the fourth week!
Five hundred thousand sales in the first month! What did that ame in just one month!
This number was insane for someone fresh to the industry, so much so that a like a virus, the sales nu!
Many players fories for Plants vs Zombies, in particular the endless mode, as the leaderboards shi+fted day to day
The video game media had new articles every day, with different industry professionals analyzing the success of ners were discussioning the very same topic, even in ine discussions
How did Plants vs Zombies become so popular?
Can its success be replicated? Can it be used as a reference?
The level design, combat system, code, tutorial, art, music and soain and again, becoaner released a long Weibo post, detailing what made Plants vs Zombies</eame industry was about to have its renaissance
In his Weibo post, he said: To be honest, I quite admire Chen Mo, the creator of </ener, he has provided us video gaames with an important lesson</eaaners use theames like these were never able to have extended playtirow tired of thee losses</ea elements to theer puzzle games
However, Plants vs Zombiesaaest probleames were solved by Plants vs Zoa that was limited!
Not only that, </ee ames aren’t niche, but can cover the entire ht an iners: even if you have lower resource limits or worse skills, it doesn’t matter Doesn’t everyone claio ahead and ame like Plants vs Zoaner!
a and auarantee that he will beconer in China!</eame media, player discussion… all of their evaluations were positive There was nothing like what had happened with aer at Plants vs Zombies and said it was bad
Once in a while there would be a hate e, but they would be drowned out by the fans
Chen Mo knew that he ht choice, for both fame and fortune After ames chart, Chen Mo was now the word on the street