I am the king of hard rice

Chapter 416 The Little Thing of Happiness

Tang Feng: "Do you have time?"

Lu Shuang: "Have a meal together tomorrow?"

Gao Yuanling: "What have you been up to lately?"

Li Peifeng has a wide range of contacts in Beihua Normal University. Many people know the news of his early graduation. Therefore, not only his classmates but also many old friends want to find him for a break-up meal.But all their invitations were rejected by Li on the grounds that he was busy with work.

It's one thing to be careless, and another thing is that he is really busy.

Not to mention love life, but also writing books, copyright management, shooting admissions promotional videos, graduation-related chores... completely flawless and scruples about others.

Even Wu Ankang and Gao Xiuhua, the couple who came to the capital for tourism, only saw Li Peifeng and his daughter a few times when they came and left. How could Li Peifeng take care of these old friends?

Besides, graduation is approaching, and everyone should return to the crowd!

"The sky can be repaired, the sea can be filled, and the Nanshan can be moved. The sun and the moon have passed, and they cannot be chased back."

This is Li Peifeng's latest Moments post. The accompanying picture is a photo of the sunset on the campus that day. It is intended to tell those old friends to look to the future and live a good life. I don't want to talk about the details, but I hope they can understand it.

And he himself is working harder towards the future.

……

Xizhou Technology Co., Ltd., the predecessor of Menglong, was acquired by Li Peifeng, and He Yimeng changed the name to Xizhou.

Even if He Meng didn't mention it, Li Peifeng guessed that the origin of the name was taken from the poem "The south wind knows what I want, and blows the dream to Xizhou".

Needless to say the deep meaning, he knows her meaning too well.

The two of them don't need to communicate on the phone or WeChat now, why dream of looking for him, just take a picture of him, and Li Peifeng will communicate with each other knowingly.

[The company has expanded its recruitment to 130 people, including a screenwriter, an art director, a chief programmer, and a high-paid producer... Now that the army is strong, I think "Sword and Law" can already be approved as a project. Come over and have a meeting Talk about ideas. 】

【almost there. 】

After a short exchange of thoughts and quantum entanglement, Li Peifeng drove to Xizhou Technology.

After the company changed its name, although the office address remained the same, it rented an additional [-] square meters for expansion, increased the number of workstations, and the employees were busy shuttling around.

"Wow, Yiliangfeng is so handsome?"

"I told you earlier, it's the kind of handsome that shocks at a glance."

"Speaking of which, our proprietress is also very good-looking."

"Hehe, don't use the word boss lady indiscriminately."

"Why, aren't they a couple?"

"It's not a simple couple, it may be a more obscure relationship, understand?"

"Ah... Shh~ someone is coming."

Li Peifeng walked past the work station with a normal expression, thinking that there are so many smart people nowadays, but they will not pretend to be confused, and talk about the relationship between the two bosses in private. It is very difficult to handle...

Walking nonstop, He Yimeng walked into He Yimeng's office. The other party was sitting on the boss's chair and working. When the gatekeeper suddenly opened, Fang raised his eyelids.

"It came pretty fast."

Li Peifeng hummed, and said casually: "Just now I heard employees gossip during working hours. It seems that the atmosphere in our company is very relaxed."

High EQ: The atmosphere in our company is very relaxed.

Low EQ: Are employees too fucking idle?

He Yimeng has been in the company longer than Li Peifeng, has been with these employees longer, and naturally understands the gossip of the people below him better than him, but at this time he just smiled casually: "When the project starts after today, they must be very busy. No time for gossip."

After saying that, He Yimeng picked up the landline on the desktop and called the new game producer to the office.

Li Peifeng and He Yimeng are two good students, not to mention making games. They don’t have much time to play games, and it’s useless to make up lessons later. The two of them can only be the bosses. They really need to find someone who knows how to make games. Do.Check the game planning, R&D, marketing and other aspects, and coordinate and manage the following teams.

This kind of talent is hard to find. Fortunately, the IP of "Sword and Law" is big enough and has unlimited potential. With the generous salary, it is attractive enough for senior talents in the game industry.Even if it can't attract the executives of those big game companies, it is enough to yearn for the talents from small companies.

After He Yimeng released the news, some game producers with very good resumes took the initiative to come to her door. She selected the most suitable one as the producer of "Sword and Law" from among them;
Wang Lianzong, 37 years old this year, worked as a game designer in many large game companies such as Konami and Giant Network. The peak of his career was when he left with his colleague and friend Yang Le and joined the TipsWorks studio founded by the latter. The year before last Produced a buyout mobile game called "Pascal's Contract".

This is an extremely hardcore soul-based action-adventure game, known as the dark soul of the mobile terminal.

Once launched, it became the focus of the industry because of the soul label and the fee standard of the buyout system, and the quality of the game was also well received by the industry and welcomed by the market. One year after its launch, "Pascal's Contract" reached 150 million copies sales.

What is the concept of a game that can sell a million copies?
"Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice" produced by "Father of Dark Souls" Hidetaka Miyazaki sold about 200 million sets in its initial launch, and the well-known soul-like game "Nioh 2" produced by the famous Ninja Dragon Group only sold two months after its launch Reached 100 million sets.

Although the soul game is enough to go out of the circle and the topic is full every minute, from a market point of view, this is not a category with strong enough money-absorbing power. After all, there are still a small number of players who dare to spend money to challenge, let alone the buyout system of mobile games. This rarer species.

Against such a market background, a mobile game produced by a domestic team without the escort of a major player, without IP support, and with a theme of Dead Soul Like, has actually achieved a million-level sales.

Two words, awesome.

However, this honor was given to the game producer and studio owner Yang Le. The benefits brought about by the success of "Pascal's Contract" naturally had nothing to do with Wang Lianzong's deputy.

The increased salary and dividends cannot satisfy Wang Lianzong's appetite. He also wants to develop a game by himself, and he wants more things.

He just heard that "Sword and the Law" is in urgent need of a chief producer for mobile games. Wang Lianzong felt that this was a rare opportunity. He chatted with He Yimeng several times to confirm the salary, and decided to quit.

"Mr. Li, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Teacher Wang, please sit down, please sit down."

Li Peifeng attaches great importance to the mobile game development of "Sword and Law", because it does have the potential to make a lot of money.

As the saying goes, mirrors and wallets can answer what and why in life.

Li Peifeng thought that if he could earn a net worth of tens of billions, even if the parents of the four girls knew about his crimes one day, it would not be completely irreparable...

In order to obtain more profits from the mobile game "Sword and Law" in the longer term, and not to make a one-shot deal, he also paid great attention to the production of the game, and reduced the coding time in the next two weeks. Check in at the company every day.

Either discuss the core gameplay and operating concepts of "Sword and Law" with Wang Lianzong, or brainstorm with the person in charge of the program, art, and levels to determine the narrative angle and presentation style.

It is very difficult to make a role-playing open world adventure game. Fortunately, the structure of the other world is rigorous and clear in the book, and the author himself is adding details, accurate to the economic systems of each camp, and the characters of every important role. images, even exotic flowers and different scenery.

This is the advantage of adapting a game from a mature novel. It takes a lot of time and energy to think of a story from scratch, ranging from months to years.

The existing story avoids this trouble. "Sword and Law" has also passed the market test, greatly improving the success rate of the project, saving costs, and reducing the difficulty of the development team, so they think more about it. How to create a very high playability while restoring the world of "Sword and Law" in its original flavor.

What is playability?Beautiful picture?

Of course, it must not only be beautiful, but also fit the temperament of "Sword and Law".

The figure is too slender and cute, the face is more feminine, and the small and fresh Two-dimensional style is obviously not suitable.The game screen should be more realistic in order to have more audiences.

Elegant and ethereal, some maps can be a bit mysterious and weird. It is necessary to integrate the aesthetics of things, emphasize the use of color, and use large color blocks to splash ink, just like impressionist oil paintings...

"Or like my watercolors."

Li Peifeng narcissistically believes that if the final picture of the mobile game fits with the watercolor painting he made, it will be more popular.

For this point, everyone in the team agrees, so the art direction of "Sword and Law" has been decided without dispute.

But the playability is not only the screen, but also includes all aspects.

For example, levels, puzzle solving, tasks, social interaction, growth, and combat systems, Wang Lianzong is strong in combat design, and there are also a group of programmers who came with him, and they will give a perfect answer when they sign up for a ticket.

In addition to these, there is the most important point in the playability, that is-the sense of substitution, or the plot.

According to the gamification approach of domestic novels, the original work basically exists as a background setting, and at most a few task chains related to the novel's big world view and main plot are designed, but the main gameplay is no different from other online games.

This is called peddling dog meat, and Li Peifeng is unwilling to do it.Really want to copy all the story lines in "Sword and Law" into the game, and make the protagonists in the book such as Wang Chi, Qiu Qing, Lin Shang Huayue, Kito Ivy into NPCs, let them Interacting with the players, letting the characters in the book take risks with the players, that seems to ruin the readers' expectations for the characters in the book...

If you get too close, it's boring!

This is actually a shortcoming of the mobile game of the novel, because there is a natural barrier between the narrative methods of the novel and the game, and this barrier will sometimes cause the opposition between the content and the gameplay.

Therefore, in the face of a given novel, if you want to convert it into a game expression, you must make more efforts in plot reconstruction and gameplay design, or a two-way compromise.

To put it simply, if the plot is not changed, people who have read the novel will feel nothing new when playing the game, which is equivalent to reading the novel again.

If the plot is changed, the original party will greet the whole family of the game producer and scold them for ruining the original.

How to balance the scale, even Li Peifeng has a little difficulty.

In the past week, Xizhou Technology has expanded its recruitment from 130 to 150 people, including many foreign employees. Li Peifeng is the director of many families, and a gathering of talents... In fact, it is a series of meetings, absorbing their ideas, and finally after careful consideration , came up with a great idea.

"Then let's make a free and truly dynamic open world."

"cool!"

"Okay, I knew it!"

After Li Peifeng said this, smiles appeared on the faces of several executives in the audience.

Open world games have three characteristics;
[-]. Free exploration. There is no clear level to ask for balls. Players do not need to be at a certain level to reach a certain map. Even a new player who has just entered the game can "go where he wants to go".

[-]. Non-linear tasks, even if there are, will not force players to do the main story in the game in order to continue playing.There is no need to worry about players not knowing what to do after entering the game, because there are many side missions in open world games, all of which are hidden in the huge map, waiting for players to explore and trigger.

[-]. High interactivity: Players can freely explore and interact with scenes in the game, and can interact with NPCs to gain favorability, etc.But these interactions are limited, and you can only get tasks or rare props under limited conditions.

This is an open world game, and if a "dynamic" is added in front, then the degree of freedom will be further improved, and the player's sense of substitution will be stronger. In simple terms, the growth or every move of each player character will affect the To surrounding changes, and even affect the direction of the game world.

Looking at end games or mobile games, very few online games on the market can really do this. Although the players are the protagonists, they are also foot men. The stories in the game are fixed, no matter how much effort the player makes, the plot will not be changed in the slightest.

And Xizhou intends to use "Sword and Law" to make some innovations, so that players can become the real protagonists...

"Then let the players arrive at the third year of Wang Chi's journey through the past, that is, Chapter 210 'The Fall of the Xianglu Empire'. If the players and the protagonist work together to repel the invasion, then the book will be rewritten." To save the life of General Geng Wu and avoid tragedy... and some regrettable events in the story will also change with the efforts of the players."

"Of course, if the necessary conditions are not met, the novel will have a happy ending, or it may end in tragedy."

"Yes. But the conditions must be set more stringent!"

"Also, Boss, I see that Wan Rong will also be written down in your outline afterward, can that..."

"It can be saved, it can be saved, but it depends on the player's ability."

Li Peifeng chatted with everyone about other plots in the novel that can be dynamically changed. After chatting for a long time, Wang Lianzong muttered in a low voice: "If you do this, the cost and production time may increase."

He Meng has heard similar words from him many times in the past few days, and now he is quite calm: "How much cost will be added, and how long will it be delayed?"

Wang Lianzong pondered: "The current number of people is actually a little short. According to my expectation, 200 people should be enough. Now the game is positioned as a large-scale dynamic open world. If a big factory digs more than [-] programmers with mature skills, it is best to have an architect."

"It also involves changes to the original plot. At least three screenwriting teams, two art teams, a level planning team, a mission planning team... and [-] other relevant assisting members must be recruited."

Facing He Yimeng's sharp eyes, Wang Lianzong gave the answer after calculation: "We need to recruit another 200 people. If it is a team of 400 people, the development time will be about one year...but the development cost will be doubled, about [-] million. "

The development cost of the game is basically personnel salaries, and the budget of [-] million is also worthy of the grand plan of the "Sword and Law" project...

But Boss Li doesn't seem to have that much money, does he?
[Yes, agree. 】

He Yimeng looked at Li Peifeng silently, paused for a moment, then nodded slowly: "I see, you guys go to work first."

"it is good."

The others left the room in a hurry, and when there were only two people left, He Yimeng said calmly: "You spend 8000 million out of [-] million for each person, and spent more than [-] million to buy a villa. In the future, you plan to use the manuscript fee to pay for them, right? But don’t forget, you’re going to get married right after graduation, and you need money to organize the wedding.”

"It doesn't matter." Li Peifeng said with a smile: "The rich woman next to me will make a move... right, Mr. He?"

He Yimeng sneered: "Let me give you money to help you organize your wedding? Thanks to you, you can figure it out!!"

Li Peifeng didn't mean that, he knew that she also knew that he didn't mean that, saying these words was just deliberately humiliating himself, it doesn't matter, he will make a move!
"Give it up, I still have work."

Li Peifeng hugged He Yimeng and hummed: "Listen to you, then do it."

What comprehension ability are you?

He Yimeng was speechless, staggered to the window sill, and closed the blinds...

At five o'clock in the evening, Li Peifeng left the company, returned to the villa, and began to prepare dinner.

Under the relaxed working rhythm, the mobile game project of "Sword and Law" is advancing in an orderly manner, and the relationship between the four girls in the family seems to be less tense after living together for more than a month.

Even quarreling has become rare, only occasional bickering, and most of them can even be called harmonious when they get along, just like the way of getting along in Tong's dream.

But what Li Peifeng expected, the scene of four or even five people sharing the same bed again did not happen. Whenever he tactfully proposed this idea to someone, he would be ridiculed.

And a few days ago, when Zhao Qingge saw that Li Peifeng had really bought a new custom-made big bed and moved it to the master bedroom, he became even more furious and told him to change the bed back immediately.

Even if Li Peifeng replaced the bed with the original one, Lao Zhao didn't talk to him for a day.

In this case, Li Peifeng didn't dare to push too much, but felt that the heat was not yet ready and he needed to wait for the opportunity.

This timing shouldn't be too far away, it could be tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or it could be the coming summer of June...

"The postgraduate defense will be held next Wednesday. Three of the professors who will be judged are from the School of Liberal Arts of our school. You all know them. The other one is Professor Cao Wenbin from Yanda University. You should have heard of it. Play normally, don't be nervous, let's go through the motions Enough."

Before going to sleep that night, Li Peifeng and Zhao Qingge chatted as usual, and the latter gave a few words about the defense, although it seemed to be telling Li Peifeng not to be nervous, but she seemed to be more nervous.

Naturally, I wasn't worried about whether Li Peifeng would perform abnormally in the defense. As long as he didn't slap the judging teacher a few times on stage, Li could graduate smoothly even if the topic was off topic.

What makes Zhao Qingge uneasy are some important matters that the two of them will face after he graduates!
Li Peifeng knew this well, pursed his lips, put his arm around Zhao Duoduo's shoulder and said softly: "Tomorrow is the weekend, if you are fine, let's go to the major photo studios tomorrow to see where the wedding photos are taken?"

Zhao Qingge was silent for a moment, then hummed lightly and shortly, and then asked: "Your parents..."

Li Peifeng had a bit of a headache, thinking that his father must not be asleep at this point, so he simply picked up his phone and went to the bathroom to call.

"Say?"

"Dad, I'm graduating soon."

"so?"

Li Peifeng pondered for half a second, and tentatively asked: "Should you take some time to come to the capital again, propose a marriage to the Zhao family, or let me know by phone?"

Li Qiyuan asked back: "Are you still living with the four of them?"

"……Um."

"Then I'm not going."

"Don't, you promised before, why don't you come now?"

"I just want to accumulate some virtue for your unborn sister."

Li Peifeng quickly grasped the point and said in surprise, "Is it a girl? My sister?"

"Yesterday's pregnancy test, the doctor gave a hint... It's alright, let's hang up if you have nothing to do."

Li Peifeng didn't hang up, and continued to ask him with a smile if he had named his sister.

Li Qiyuan was a little hesitant, probably because he hadn't thought about it. At this time, Yu Huizhi's voice came from the phone: "Fengfeng, which one do you think sounds better, Moyi or Yueqi?"

Li Peifeng suggested: "They are all good, but Yueqi sounds more catchy."

"I took it!"

After Yu Huizhi finished speaking proudly, she hesitated again: "But it seems to have no special features, and it is easy to have the same name."

The mother and son discussed the name issue for a while, and Li Peifeng brought up the matter with his mother again, asking her to persuade his father. At first, the parents of the two sides met and had a good chat. At this time, it is really dishonoring the Li family's reputation to be dishonest.

Yu Huizhi was a little at a loss: "I didn't expect, Fengfeng, you still care about the reputation of the old Li family. Husband, look, the son still needs face."

"He wants face, but I don't want it?"

Li Qiyuan sighed, and took the phone: "Hang up, I'll call Principal Zhao later... I hope he's not asleep yet."

Li Peifeng's heart fell to the ground, he said goodbye again and again, then hung up the phone and walked out of the bathroom.

"How about it?"

Zhao Qingge lay sideways on the bed, his eyes flickering.

Li Peifeng smiled: "You just wait to hold the microphone and say 'I do'."

The corners of Zhao Qingge's mouth were raised slightly, and he calmed down quickly. He lifted his head slightly away from the pillow, let Li Peifeng's arm slip in to hug him, and then curled up in his arms, closing his eyes securely, as if in a dream He whispered: "Tomorrow, go to choose a photo studio."

"it is good."

Li Peifeng lowered his head and kissed her lips, looked at her trembling eyelashes and intoxicated expression, and laughed dumbfoundedly: "Why are you so cute?"

This description made Zhao Qingge very uncomfortable, even a little disgusted, so he stretched out his hand to push him to express his dissatisfaction, but when he found that he couldn't push it away, he hugged him again, and ordered in a slightly forceful tone: "Sleep!"

Li Peifeng didn't want to sleep, and wanted to do something more, but according to the principle of the other party, he would definitely not make a breakthrough. Today, Zhao Duoduo caught up with her menstrual period, so she closed her eyes resentfully.

"Fell asleep?"

After 10 minutes, feeling the breathing of the person next to the pillow became long and steady, Li Peifeng gently raised his hands and got up, tiptoed out of the master bedroom, and came to Huang Tianxuan's room downstairs.

I'm in a good mood today, let's flop one by one!

"You haven't slept yet?"

Huang Tianxuan was wearing light pink pajamas, sitting in front of the computer desk and typing on the keyboard as if she was working. She didn't even look at Li Peifeng who entered the room, she just stared at the screen and said casually: "Writing articles, you are freed from graduation, Dr. Ben This hard day has just begun... sleep in a while."

Li Peifeng sat next to him and waited patiently. There was someone staring at him. Instead, Huang Tianxuan lost her mind. She simply turned off the computer and got up to wash up: "Is Lao Zhao asleep? Oh, Bai Wen, you can't come to me if you are not asleep. .”

The resentment in the words is about to come out~
Li Peifeng coughed dryly: "What do you think is a better name for our son in the future?"

Huang Tianxuan suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at Li Peifeng with a teasing look in her eyes: "Why don't you have a baby with me first, and then think about the longer-term things?"

……

Half an hour later, it was twelve o'clock, and Li Peifeng came to the door of the second daughter Wu Xu.

There was no light in the crack of the door, so the lights should have been turned off, and then the doorknob was turned, and the door opened with a click!
"Haha, Yueyue, look at this."

"It's interesting, you can learn from this routine... Well, I will ask them to do a similar one tomorrow."

The two night owls were lying under the covers, holding their mobile phones each, using TikTok in the dark, when they realized that someone had pushed the door in, Wu Wenyue took a look at the screen of his mobile phone, and seeing Li's face was no surprise, continued Watch the video.

"Make room."

"Go away, don't press my hair!"

"One room is not enough for you to sleep in, right? Why do you come to our place every night?"

"What are you talking about? Don't pretend to be confused, who proposed the condition of eighteen times a week?"

"We want to rest today, go out!"

Regardless of the dissatisfaction of the two daughters, Li Peifeng lay down in the middle, hugging the other on the left and the other on the right. Wu Wenyue sniffled and frowned at the pleasant smell of milk on his body: "This smell of death on you... from Tianxuan Miss that came here?"

Li Peifeng emphasized: "I took a shower, this is the smell of her shower gel."

"Fuck it again!"

Wu Wenyue cursed angrily, kicked her feet, Xu Maning also got up quickly, picked up the thin quilt and covered Li Peifeng's face, and said angrily, "I'll suffocate you, you bastard!"

"Hmm... If you think it's not good to take turns, I can ask her to join you next time."

Happiness is not a single big thing, but a collection of tiny little things.

Although right now Li Peifeng let the two girls beat them up under the covers, but at the moment, he is happy.

"Ah, wives, hurry up!"

The reason for happiness is not simply because he owes a beating! !
(End of this chapter)