Reboot 2003

Chapter 242 021: Four points (three in one)

After completing the software demo, the next step is to start the project.Project establishment is not a term used in software engineering. Demo itself is also a part of software engineering. However, the company needs to use a series of means after project establishment to allocate resources and determine the relationship between rights and responsibilities.

And this is obviously not an issue that one or two middle school students can take the lead... Of course, for software development projects, this is indeed not a necessary part, but Ayue herself took the 100 million donated by Lao Gu's classmates, which does seem quite good. Not only does it seem to be insufficient, but she also needs the company to help her organize manpower - the development team of this game currently only has three people, and it is still not possible for her to recruit people by herself. It was too convenient, and the company 'Kuaiwan' was completely empty at the moment. In the end, she still contacted the company...

Then people came today.

It's still the same old Zhou who traveled thousands of miles to visit Longshan again.

It seemed that he was already at the station when the call came, bringing with him several senior executives of the company. Anyway, his sincerity was quite good.

Ah Yue came back feeling a little distracted after answering the phone. She didn't really want to meet this person, and didn't that happen last time?

I said so many harsh words last time, but I didn't give anyone face.

In the end, it’s not that I’m asking for help, but now we still have to do business together, which feels a bit...

"As I said last time, people in a company are still a family in the final analysis. Even if they are unhappy with each other, at least don't delay doing business."

She just returned to her seat. Chen Qin didn't even ask what he said and just started talking as usual. A Yue was a little depressed: "I know, since I told them, the project still has to be done together with the company." Well."

Chen Qin asked: "Are you going or not?"

Instead, Ah Yue asked tentatively: "Then will you come?"

Chen Qin thought for a moment: "Okay, I'll go with you."

Ah Yue hesitated again and said: "I heard there are quite a few of them. Actually, I still have a bit of that..."

"What is that what?"

"Would you like to ask Brother Gao to come over?"

"What do you think of business people?" Chen Qin warned her again, "You can think of a large company as a secret society. The less information outsiders know about business, the better. In short, it's just the two of us. You are a girl after all, remember to dress up."

"Dress up? But I don't have a suit..."

"Just the little skirt that day will be fine. If you wear something more formal, it will be a bit sincere."

"But it's already December...you said in October that I was wearing it blindly..."

"Then don't you say it's not cold? If it's too cold, you can put on a down jacket. Of course, you can change into something else if you want. Besides, I'm going to change clothes after school. Where is the appointment?"

"I'll wait for you at your door..."

With that said, the game design topic that was originally half discussed can no longer be discussed.

That afternoon, Chen Qin went out after school, borrowed a bicycle from his classmates, and quickly went home to change his clothes - changed out of his school uniform and put on the plaid shirt and jeans he just bought this year, as well as the With glasses that are not commonly used.

After putting on my down jacket and going out, I was still shivering from the cold.Compared to previous years, the weather this year seems to be a little colder.

Before A Yue came out, Chen Qin waited for a while and a taxi stopped in front of him.

He thought it was A Yue who came to pick him up, but it turned out that there was a strange woman behind the car window... Of course, she was not a stranger either.

"Hey, are you the classmate that Mr. Gu mentioned? Are you from Longshan? Speaking of which, don't you know Mr. Xu from San Diego?"

This is Sister He...not an outsider. Although I haven't met her a few times, she stayed with Kuaikan during the split, and she has already arrived today.

"Where is Ah Yue?"

"Miss Gu, we just picked her up at the school gate. The eating place is next to your school. Please get in the car quickly!"

The taxi was a local taxi, and Sister He was also very enthusiastic. It seemed that Zhou Hongyi was really careful, for fear of offending the hot-tempered Miss Gu again.

Chen Qin made a phone call to A Yue to confirm, and then drove to the agreed hotel. From a distance, he saw A Yue wearing a down jacket and carrying a broadband bag, waiting on the roadside in the cold weather. The sparse General Manager Zhou and a group of high-level men and women also accompanied him in the cold wind.

Then the two of them entered the hotel surrounded by everyone from Kuaikan... Chen Qin counted and found that for this business, Zhou Hongyi brought nine people over, including the senior executives of Kuaikan and the middleman they invited, the BMW woman. It seems that he is an old acquaintance of Gu Wenjie, who has occasional contact with A Yue, and seems to have been invited to be the middleman.

After entering the box, the two sides began to introduce each other.

"This is the head of the investment relations department of Kuaikan..."

"Hello, Miss Gu."

"This is the board supervisor..."

"Hello, Miss Gu, we have met before."

"This is the recently established director of the game operations department..."

"Hello, Miss Gu, I look forward to cooperating with you."

……

The adults introduced each other politely and flattered each other politely. After the introduction, they took their seats one by one, which seemed to be a bit upper-class.

Of course, compared to the last time we met, A Yue seemed to be much more patient this time. Although Zhou Hongyi was afraid that she would be angry and emphasized several times, "We are just here to discuss the new web game you mentioned," A Yue said, "That We can also talk." This made the faces of the adults opposite also light up.

Afterwards, the hostess came into the room with orange juice.

Everyone had a drink together first, except for Zhou Hongyi, whose rim touched the underside of A-Yue's glass rim accurately, but Xiao Chen was a little expressionless and raised his goblet higher than anyone else.

But no one cares - everyone is an Internet company. Although they hang out with people from Alibaba next door and learn a little about socializing at the dinner table, Internet companies are very particular about wearing pajamas to meet investors, so naturally they will not follow As a primary school student, he has ordinary knowledge. Today's situation is special, so just don't make Miss Gu unhappy.

And Miss Gu did look very happy - after clinking glasses, she glanced at the boy next to her, sat down with him, and then sat in her seat cautiously.

It seems like this business can really be negotiated.

Zhou Hongyi was very happy and took two sips of cold orange juice. His subordinates were already flattering A-Yue, talking about the genius girl and the savior of the company. He put down the cup and saw that A-Yue had already picked up the bag next to him. A laptop was pulled out.

"Uncle Zhou, please come over today. Let's get started. Have you seen the demo of "Friends" that we are working on recently? Our goal is to make an internationally renowned social game to save the company. Stock price, before dinner starts, let me demonstrate it first."

As he said that, he opened the laptop that he had opened in advance to the desktop, and then opened a DOS interface program... This is the currently encapsulated server program. It is not user-oriented, so it looks very crude.

Then I opened the friendle swf file on the desktop and started the demonstration project...

In fact, the demo of the game has been sent. Zhou Hongyi has seen it before, but basically no one else has seen it, so he watched Ayue's demonstration carefully. They were not very interested in flash games, but they were interested in social networking. The game is very interesting. The company's supervisor said: "The company's stock price is currently tepid. It is a fatal problem that "Super Run" has entered a downward cycle. However, traditional casual games have been declining, so we have set our sights on it. On casual games on the web platform..."

The supervisor deliberately omitted the word "Kuai Wan", which is very hurtful to mention, but although it is not the most important factor, the problem he mentioned does exist, and everyone nodded. Now that the storm is about to come, Kuai Kan Media has been glorious for a short time in the past, and now But we have to find another way out for the future. Web games are indeed an excellent track - Flash Empire started to develop flash games last year. However, at that time, small games were not popular and were not social subjects. They seemed to be just dependent on the platform. Just a product.

But this year is different - no amount of theoretical analysis pales in comparison to a successful example. Recently, "Happy Farm" has become popular at home and abroad. The development strength of the Flash Empire is of course very important, but this market is undoubtedly quite large. The blue ocean market of imagination space.

So, a table of adults gathered around the dinner table and watched, only the woman in sunglasses moved to the back.

After entering the game, Ayue chose a character, then selected an opponent through an interface, and then the battle automatically started. She began to explain the significance of this game system sacrificing part of the game depth for randomness, and the impact of strengthening randomness on the social system. , and the expected work progress.

They were very interested and watched it carefully for a while. After Ah Yue said the word 'electronic cricket fight', everyone laughed and approved of this gameplay.

Of course, there are also questions - for example, the supervisor asked: "How do you plan to make money from this project?"

"This..." Ah Yue sorted out her thoughts. She had prepared for this question in advance, "We can sell one-time game props to allow players to increase their strength during the fight, and we can also sell costumes."

The boy in a plaid shirt sitting next to him said, "We can also sell some special pets."

A Yue nodded: "Yes, you can also sell pets. We will consider this after we prepare to go online."

The supervisor asked again: "How to maintain player stickiness?"

A Yue said: "Let's use the relationship in the game. In addition, we plan to design some RPG elements."

Zhou Hongyi asked: "Can you add some business elements?"

A Yue was confused: "Why add it?"

"Because management games are more sticky, the most popular flash games on the market are basically management games, such as "Clash of Clans", the ancestor of today's web game wave, and the recently popular "Happy Farm"."

At this time, the boy in the plaid shirt said again: "But wasn't there an example like "Club Penguin" earlier?"

Zhou Hongyi said: "It is a game for young people, with extremely limited profitability and moral hazard."

Chen Qindao: "But we are not "Club Penguin", we are RPG, and RPG is not a game for young people. I just said that web platform games are not only about strategy and management."

The director of the operations department asked: "With this PK gameplay, can we create a large map like an online game? Add some gameplay such as spawning monsters and upgrading, so that player stickiness should be higher."

"Well, this is a social game after all..."

Everyone looked at him strangely, but Zhou Hongyi had no other opinions to say. He glanced at the boy again and didn't raise any other opinions after that.

In this way, we discussed some other things, including spawning monsters and upgrading, but these are not important and can be discussed later.

The supervisor said: "Although we have certain opinions on the subject matter, Miss Gu, you seem to know more about web games than us, and we respect your opinion." Zhou Hongyi also said: "In this case, the company can establish the project and invest resources, investing 200 million Funding and providing all the manpower you need to develop the game."

Ah Yue was relieved after hearing this, but the boy said: "What about the game?"

The supervisor asked: "How to deal with what?"

The boy said: "Copyright, trademark right."

"This is not important." The supervisor said, "In the future, this project will definitely be yours. The company can also sign an agreement. If the game is successful in the future, the development team can be rewarded with the company's options and profit sharing."

But the boy said: "Actually, Ah Yue doesn't care about option rewards or anything like that. It's okay if she doesn't have them."

A Yue nodded.

Zhou Hongyi hurriedly said: "How can this happen? There are many who can do it. Miss Gu's game is very important to the company. Even if it cannot be done, it should not be less."

The boy didn't insist, but just asked: "Did you bring the contract? We still have to go to school, so please sign whatever you need to sign at once."

The director of the Investment Relations Department said: "There is no need to rush. Let's eat first and get in touch with each other. We will talk about work later."

However, everyone seemed to have the same idea as A Yue. Zhou Hongyi asked the supervisor to take out a stack of documents from his bag and handed them to A Yue: "It's okay, then let's settle the matter at once. Although we also want to follow Gu Miss, please talk more, but we have to go back to Lin'an to do business..."

A Yue also took out a pen from her bag and planned to sign the contract, but at this moment, the boy next to her took the contract and read it.

The supervisor reminded: "Ms. Gu, this is an internal contract within our company. For the sake of rules and regulations, it is better not to show it to outsiders."

Ah Yue seemed to feel something was wrong and wanted to refuse, but the boy returned the contract to her: "Then forget it."

The adults nodded, but the boy said: "I will tell you a few items, Ayue, please confirm it yourself."

"First of all, who are these contracts signed with? With you or Kuaiwan? Is Kuaiwan Company involved?"

A Yue started browsing, and Zhou Hongyi said quickly: "It's all with Miss Gu herself. After all, these software are the fruits of Miss A Yue's own labor. Now the two parties to the contract are Kuaikan Company and Miss Gu. As for Kuaiwan Company, Kuaikan Company Its subsidiaries do not have the ability to negotiate independently."

A Yue looked carefully: "It seems that they are all me."

Chen Qin nodded and frowned slightly: "Is there any gambling agreement in it?"

"There is one, but it is independent of the licensing contract." Zhou Hongyi said, "There are two gambling agreements. One is that if the popularity of the game reaches a certain limit, then the company can grant the development team 3% of the total revenue. Company options, as mentioned just now, and another $100 million, which is another gambling agreement, but this has nothing to do with the profit sharing of the game, nor does it have anything to do with Miss Gu’s Kuaiwan Company.”

A Yue looked at it and said, "Well, that's it."

Chen Qin's brows relaxed slightly: "Then the last thing is the intellectual property rights of the project. Should it be completely transferred to the head office, or should another subsidiary be established?"

A Yue was surprised: "Complete transfer?"

"Yes." Chen Qin said, "It's really not good to stay at Kuaiwan. We don't need to give some of the things the company makes to outsiders."

Zhou Hongyi replied: "Yes, it is to establish a subsidiary."

The supervisor also said: "But it is fully controlled by the head office. This is a very common asset allocation plan for project management by listed companies."

A Yue nodded thoughtfully. She didn't understand this, but if Chen Qin said it was no problem, then it was no problem.

However, Chen Qin asked: "So who is responsible for this project?"

The director of the operations department smiled and said: "I will be fully responsible. It's a pleasure to cooperate."

"This won't work." A Yue said at this time, "I created the project and I want to finish it."

"You misunderstood, Miss Ah Yue." The director of the operations department explained, "In principle, I will not interfere with your development work, and those rewards have nothing to do with me. I have another project agreement with the company, and I will not divide it. Take your reward."

Chen Qin asked: "Is it written in the contract?"

Zhou Hongyi explained: "After all, this is your own project, and the company is your supporter. We will provide you with the resources you need for software development, and we will not take away your copyright to the game."

"Then who will be in charge of the later operations of the game?"

Zhou Hongyi hesitated and said: "The company will bear all game operation and maintenance expenses."

"Okay, this is probably the situation." Chen Qin said to A Yue, "If you agree, this game will become the property of the company. Then the company will provide resources and we will contribute. The conditions sound fair, but this After all, it is an online game, and after entering the stable operation stage, the development work needs to be completely led by the company."

"..."

The waitress was already at the door looking to see if the food could be served, but the room became quiet, and the supervisor tried to smooth things over: "Miss Gu, please listen to our explanation..."

"I understand the concerns of uncles." A Yue sat in her seat and said, "The company hopes to use this method to bridge the rift between the two parties and clarify the ownership relationship of the project..."

Zhou Hongyi said: "That's not entirely true. Of course we are willing to believe you now. However, everyone knows the reason why the company's stock price is sluggish. We really cannot let this project continue to stay in Kuaiwan."

The supervisor also said: "To be honest, Yahoo China is preparing to launch an SNS project recently. Because this project is very suitable for web games, this project has caught up with the good time. It is currently a high priority. If you want to get paid , the gambling rewards can be raised higher, and what I mean by higher is that the cash rewards can be increased by more than twice, and sharing and options can also be negotiated..."

A Yue didn't answer, but the contract wasn't signed either.She looked at Chen Qin next to her. Chen Qin looked at his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose as before.

Sister Liu quickly called for the food to be served and said that we would discuss it after finishing the meal. After that, the dinner started. During this period, everyone continued to praise A Yue as a little genius and her amazing games. They also talked about their friendship with Lao Gu before he was attacked... …

After finishing the meal, she was still not interested. The atmosphere at the dinner table was no longer right. After dinner, she grabbed Chen Qin's hand and left in a hurry.

"Chen Qin, what do you think we should do?"

It was already evening, and it was freezing outside. A Yue turned around and looked at him.

"You can see for yourself, I've already told you the stakes."

"Actually, I really don't care about money..." she hesitated, "I don't know how valuable the game I made is. If it is really valuable, I hope it can sustain the company until Dad wakes up."

Chen Qin nodded: "Then you should promise them. I think they are very sincere. After all, this is a world dominated by money. The remuneration they give you is also an affirmation of your contribution, and the so-called company is to unite forces to accomplish great things." "Those who are capable will certainly get a bigger piece of the pie."

"But after creating it for so long, I don't want this game to become someone else's, let alone let others screw it up. They don't seem to understand it," A Yue said.

"Then you can refuse." Chen Qin said, "This is all your freedom."

"What about your opinion? You always say nothing." A Yueha took a breath and looked into Chen Qin's eyes, "If I reject them, you will definitely make a lot less money, and I myself The money is not much, and if I don’t cooperate with the company, maybe the game won’t be produced.”

"Don't get one thing wrong. It's not that you can't make games without the company. It's that the company can't make games without you." Chen Qin looked at her with a smile, "As for game production, you have learned the most. That’s the key part, although it’s complicated, but it’s not complicated if you understand the key, especially when you still have money.”

"But now that we have a demo, we need people, servers, and publishers. And I'm starting to wonder, do I really need these things?" A Yue seemed to have fallen into some kind of melancholy, " I just want the company’s stock price to go up.”

"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. Do you remember what I told you at the beginning?"

"You haven't answered my question yet."

"My answer is anything goes. I'm just playing games and having fun. To be honest, I'm pretty good at it."

"Okay, I remember what you said. If I want to be more greedy, even if I want to do good things, I can't let them take advantage of me... No one can take away my things."

"Yes, yes, it's a bit like a big boss..."

"Also... we have to focus on the project, oh!" Ah Yue stamped her feet angrily, "It's all their fault, and most of the day was wasted. By the way, Chen Qin, I haven't finished talking about what I have to say in the afternoon. Woolen cloth."

"what?"

"That's it. I'm going to make a system related to regions, that is, players in different regions can have initial skills or initial babies, but these things can be unlocked through social behavior, and then put all regional skills here. For example, for domestic ones, add Wudang Changquan, and for foreign ones, add a little bit of Dracula, or Western Cowboys, etc..."

"It's interesting, but...are you sure you want to say it here?"

"what happened?"

"Isn't it a bit cold..."

"Can't wait, for example, you see..."

Outside the Crossroads Hotel, boys and girls started drawing and writing on the ground.

In the hotel, the senior executives of Kuaikan stood in front of the window, looking condescendingly at the two figures outside the window. Someone sneered - it was the board supervisor who came from Yahoo: "No money, as long as the company's stock rises? What if everyone is really like that?" With unity, the company will not be in this situation now."

"You can't say that." Zhou Hongyi sighed and walked inside, "This is Gu Wenjie's company after all."

He seemed to be hesitant to speak, and did not say the second half of the sentence.

The director of operations said: "There is nothing in a company that cannot survive without someone. It's just that the company is in a critical period now, and our time is very tight. Yahoo also needs us to decide on a development plan early, but we don't have time to negotiate slowly here. …”

Their words made the air around the dinner table become somewhat solemn. Zhou Hongyi frowned and turned her head again, looking beyond the street outside the window and looking further away.

But the woman in sunglasses who acted as the intermediary had never spoken much before. She listened to their conversation and smoothed things over: "But they are not adults after all. Maybe she is just a little willful."

The others then relaxed their brows and agreed: "Yes, they are still young after all. They may not have thought about it that much. Maybe they will agree tomorrow."

　Thank you Master Zhouguang Walker for being the helmsman, thank you boss
　　
　
(End of this chapter)