Reboot 2003

Chapter 243 022: New Year’s Day (two in one)

the next day.

The third day, the fourth day.

A few days passed, but Miss Gu finally did not agree to this condition, and there was no response to the questions. Others could not wait any longer and went back one after another. Zhou Hongyi talked to the other party again. After making concessions, Miss Gu I still refuse to accept it...

Indeed, as Chen Qin said, Kuai Kan does have sincerity, and there is quite a lot of it.

Not only did ten people come to negotiate with junior high school students, they stayed in Yongshan for three days.

And the conditions are pretty good, with personal remuneration and project sharing almost above the industry average.

But...since there are concessions, there is naturally a bottom line.

Kuaikan is a listed company. No matter what, a company cannot pull up another mountain.

Of course, although this mountain top currently exists, there is nothing that can be done about it. It was forcibly pulled up by outside customers.

The disadvantage is that the impact is relatively large, affecting the stock price. The advantage is that there is only a little girl, and it has not become popular for the time being.

So at this time, of course, we cannot let this mountain grow bigger just for the sake of a game that we don’t know whether it will be successful or not.

Previously, the CEO was very optimistic about this game and wanted to take this opportunity to make peace with the other party.

We can talk about anything else, but A Yue wants this project to be entirely led by her, which is already beyond the bottom line.

So in this way, the negotiation ultimately failed to reach a result that satisfied both parties.

Three days later, everyone was ready to go back to Lin'an. Zhou Hongyi also went back on the last day and did not come to see Ayue again.

But the woman in sunglasses was very enthusiastic. Before she left, she came to see Ah Yue and encouraged her, "Ah Yue, do your best!" and left a business card, saying that if you need anything, you can come back and tell her...

However, Chen Qin said that this person had ulterior motives, and A Yue also did not contact her again.

And just after returning to class...

"So do you want to continue with your game?"

The time has officially entered December, and during the fifth day of class, two friends asked A Yue about their next plans.

"Of course." A Yue told them, "If they don't do it, I will do it myself. Anyway, Chen Qin and I have already finished the demo, and Teacher Qing is helping us. Sooner or later they will regret it."

Of course, she didn't mention her worries behind it. Kuai Kan was wary of her, and she had to be wary of Kuai Kan. Before, she was looking forward to working together to get the company back on track, but now it seems that the outcome of this cooperation has probably been doomed. .

And the problem she is facing now... is not difficult at all. After all, it is just a try, and the big deal is not to do it anymore.

But in the end I am still not willing to do it, but now if I want to make a game, it seems I have to rely on myself.

Thinking of the conversation that day, Ah Yue was still a little nervous.

And the road ahead that Chen Qin mentioned before, 'car to the front of the mountain', seems to have indeed appeared in time.

For example, after saying that, the first thing she met was the blazing eyes of two classmates...

"If you want to develop a game, do you need to recruit people? Can we be included?"

In fact, they had heard it before. The two of them knew that they were not the right ones, so they didn't come to cause trouble. However, now that A-Yue seemed to be in trouble, they were the first to come to help.

A Yue was a little moved, but also a little hesitant. Before she could say anything, Chen Qin agreed.

"Okay, the main thing is what do you two know?"

Guo Yang tentatively suggested: "Just like before, we can write copy, do planning and so on..."

"Copywriting and planning are not simple, and generally require some professional quality." Chen Qin explained to them, "But we use 'agile development'. If you can do it, you might as well take a look for yourself."

As he said this, he asked Ah Yue to demonstrate the project. Ah Yue didn't bring a computer, so she took out her notebook and demonstrated it again.

Guo Yang immediately said: "Does this game require many such player skills? Then we can write it..."

Chen Qin said: "This is indeed needed, but you can't just write the name of the skill."

"What more do you need?"

"First of all, it must comply with the standards. For example, these skills must have a unified description standard, and then according to our requirements, they must have a regional cultural background. For example, we have Longhu Mountain in Gan Province. You can make up a 'Dragon Tiger Heart' Method', designed so that it can restore blood to the character, you have to state its purpose..."

Song Ziyun nodded: "If that's the case, then we have no problem."

Chen Qin added: "Of course this alone won't work. You have to write it into a json file, and write out its damage, weight, code and other tags according to the format. Even if you don't know how to write, you have to leave some Available."

Guo Yang said: "This is the kind you wrote some time ago, Chen Qin, right? In fact, I also wrote it."

"What did you write?"

Guo Yang took out a small notebook from the hole in the table behind him and said with some embarrassment: "I think it's interesting what you wrote like that, so I summarized it according to the martial arts novels. For example, there is Peach Blossom Island in Zhejiang Province next door. For example, the Beggar Clan and Hengshan are in Hunan Province, and the Wudang Clan is in Hubei Province..."

"Yes, that's it!" Chen Qin slapped his thigh, "Just add a variable name and enter it into the computer!"

A Yue was a little hesitant: "If you can do it, then I will pay you wages."

Guo Yang waved his hands and said: "No need, we will help for free. After all, we are too advanced and don't know how to..."

Chen Qin said, "Then let's sign a contract. As long as you are willing to listen to Ah Yue and successfully make money from the game in the future, Ah Yue will give you [-] yuan each!"

Once a pie is drawn, a problem is solved.For 'agile development', what is important is not what your responsibilities are, but what you can do for the project. Because the relationship between rights and responsibilities is unclear and it is not conducive to information confidentiality, this is actually the main reason why large companies hate agile development. one of the reasons.

However, for a small and enthusiastic development team, this seems to be a pretty good method. Two middle school students found a part of the project that they could be responsible for, and after class they went to the school library, which they had never been to, to look up information.

Of course, making games cannot rely solely on middle school students. Not only are Guo Yang and Song Ziyun limited in ability, but Chen Qin himself does not have that much time - before, developing front-ends and input algorithms were still within his capabilities. As for interface standards and server configurations, he also understands them. , but in addition, the player database and network connection are completely manual tasks. Some of them he doesn't know how to do, and some of them he thinks, "It's actually very simple but I don't have time to do it." In short, he has to find outsiders.

A-Yue can draw the UI herself, and the UI she draws is pretty good-looking, but someone also needs to be responsible for the animation of characters, pets, and moves...

"Look for outsourcing. It's very troublesome to recruit, train, and adjust people from scratch, and you can't supervise the work at any time. It's better to let outsourcing directly provide resources for the project."

Chen Qin gave her an idea, and Ah Yue thought the same thing: "Then where should I look for it?"

Chen Qin then said: "You don't need to worry about the code. I will post on CSDN to find someone. I can get it for about [-] yuan."

A Yue didn't understand this and agreed directly.

Then Chen Qin said: "But I don't know about your art field. There are not many mature teams in China now. We first have to come up with a confirmed example of style writing, and then confirm how many resources we need, because flash is a vector animation. , so it is very convenient to use it to make a paper doll system. My suggestion is to make a set of common actions, and then wait for their skills and animations to be written out, and then combine them directly according to the needs. In this way, the art materials and animations can be separated, which can save money. A lot of money.”

Ah Yue followed her example and picked out a few art materials that seemed to be the most suitable for her style as samples from the art materials she used to make demos that day, and then called the outsourcing company that Chen Qin found for her——

It didn't go well at first.

The company I contacted at the beginning was called Scavenger Studio. Ayue called and started to mutter, isn't this our competitor... Scavenger Studio is a company under the name of Simmer Empire. It has been very popular recently. Would you like to contact them? Wouldn't it be good?And even if there is one, it’s very expensive, right?

Moreover, the Scavenging Studio is currently working on another project, and it seems that it is not very enthusiastic about outsourcing.Hearing that it was a junior high school girl across from him, he shook his head repeatedly, and the business ended in confusion.

But that night, she went to Weibo to look for painters. It seemed that she contacted the painters she had followed before, and quickly got feedback from one of them...

During the lunch break, she took Chen Qin to look at the painting opposite. She said that the other person was a personal original artist and could also make vector illustrations. Although he was not a professional, it was cheaper than scavenging and it was not from a competitor.

Chen Qin felt something was wrong and told her on the way that there was no need to worry so much about outsourcing and failing to do a good job. Professionalism was more important than personal skills. Moreover, personal painting skills were not easy to control. In terms of overall cost-effectiveness, large companies were more stable.

As a result, when I saw the painting opposite, I didn't pay attention to the details. After all, Chen Qin is a straight man with science and he really has no aesthetic ability...

However, the opposite person is Huang Guangdao, a game company original artist who has just changed careers.

It's not very popular at the moment, but what can I say.

In short, Chen Qin agreed after seeing the name, and the art problem was solved.

After that, the development plan continued. The weather in December was getting colder and colder, and news came from Lin'an that Yahoo had organized another development team. It seemed that they were preparing to make a strategy-themed web game to match Yahoo China's SNS. Go online together.

When the news reached Longshan, Ah Yue didn't care much at first and continued to work on her "Friends' Music".

Starting from the demo, its version quickly iterated to above 0.70, and the game's completion level was also rapidly improving. Every afternoon, she would go to the third floor of the New Era to discuss the optimization of the game with Chen Qin, who was still spending precious time playing online games. Plan, at the weekend, I will also go to the outsourced art to confirm the progress of the product this week, and discuss with the sound effects teacher who is doing education and training whether it is better to dub the sound effect called 'Tiannu Sanhua' into 'biubiubiu', or '唰唰唰' is better.

In this way, the progress of game development progressed steadily, and 2007 gradually came to an end. After December ends, the beta version of the game is almost ready.

On New Year's Day, it was snowing outside the window.

Last night, Lao Chen called back and said that they would not be going home on New Year's Day. Business in the hotpot city has been booming recently and there are things to do everywhere.

Chen Qin made up a reason, saying that he heard that the circuit would be repaired recently and asked them to stock up on more water and candles. The couple agreed without much thought.

It's a good thing they don't come. Recently, A-Yue's "Friends' Music" has reached a critical stage, and Chen Qin himself has started to get busy.

For him, the appearance of this game was very certain from the beginning, that is, "My Barbarian". However, as a test for A Yue and as a little expectation for the original mode of this game, Chen Qin did not take it seriously. You directly tell Ah Yue how to play the game, or in other words, most of the current gameplay is Ah Yue’s own ideas.

Up to now, its "electronic cricket fighting" element is of course still there, and as for the gameplay, it is indeed moving towards success.

However... the so-called "seeking benevolence and gaining benevolence" is indeed very different from the successful cases in Chen Qin's memory.

For example, A Yue designed quite a few regional elements for this game.

After registering, players will get a local skill based on the province they belong to - which is determined based on the IP number range. However, they can also challenge players in other provinces. After winning, there is a certain probability of getting the opponent's skill.

What is this?Pokémon Go?It is indeed not very new, but Chen Qin is not sure whether it makes sense to put it here.

In addition, the game will match some people based on province labels for a knockout round. Considering the differences in player quality, this matching mechanism may seem a little unclear. However, social games such as Honor of Kings will also have this kind of design in the future. Chen Qin doesn’t know. Is it okay to put it here?

Likewise... the art style doesn't look very Q-version. All players are created through the paper doll system and refer to the players themselves. This seems to be somewhat similar to 'player's pet' or 'player's barbarian'. Due to the difference in positioning, those examples were all 'roles owned by players' rather than 'roles played by players'. Chen Qin didn't know whether this was considered a good innovation.

In addition, due to the legacy of the original design, Ayue added the first few functions to the interface for selecting combat targets - sending flowers, dancing, saying hello, and starting a war.

And she was also thinking about what to name the game. "Friends' Fun" seemed too ordinary anyway... Chen Qin made a few suggestions, and Ayue planned to call it 'Friends' Fun'.

Things seem to be going beyond Chen Qin's understanding. Although the game has not yet been launched, the development work has been completed in general. Guo Yang and Song Ziyun are working hard to compile new content. The skills and pets have the potential to continue to be improved. , but these things can be added in subsequent development...

After brushing his teeth and having breakfast, Chen Qin went out early in the morning. His friends asked him to meet downstairs in New Times.

I put on my down jacket and told my grandma that I wouldn’t come at noon.

When going out, Chen Qin thought that he should almost make a preliminary release version today, and then start debugging. When he went downstairs, the cold wind blew outside, and Chen Qin shivered and put his hand into his trouser pocket.

But at this moment, the phone buzzed and a call was automatically connected.

Chen Qin was a little surprised, but he knew who the call was from. He took out the screen and saw that it was already past eight o'clock.

"Hello?" The girl's voice came from the other side, and Chen Qin asked: "Today is New Year's Day, don't you also have a holiday?"

"I'm going to see Sister Yao today. She invited me to have something to eat. She's in the car now."

"Oh...then you guys have to have a good time."

"Sister Yao is still very busy."

I vaguely remember talking about this in the game two days ago. Chen Qingang was still thinking about "Friends" and didn't know how to answer the conversation for a while.

"By the way, Aqin, I heard that Uncle Chen and Auntie won't be back on New Year's Day?"

"Well, they have good business on New Year's Day."

"What about the Spring Festival?"

"I should be back by then." Chen Qin said.

"Then I will come to Longshan after the holidays." The girl opposite said happily, "I can't do it alone, but my father will come to Lin'an during the Chinese New Year, and I will go back to my hometown to stay."

Chen Qin exhaled a breath of hot breath, and the hand holding the mobile phone was sore from the cold wind. He raised his head and saw snowflakes floating in the white sky.

"When will you come?" Chen Qin asked.

"My dad is coming during the two days of Chinese New Year, but I plan to come early. Maybe I can get there during the holidays."

"You should come with your dad," Chen Qin said. "It's not like you haven't seen the accident in New York. If you come back alone, be careful that the kidnappers kidnap you halfway."

"Okay, my dad said the same thing. I thought you could think of a solution."

"What can I do? These are extraordinary times. Your father is worried about your safety and it is for your own good."

"hey-hey……"

The girl opposite was in a happy mood, and then they were talking about what they were doing today, what the game you were playing recently was, and whether there were any other arrangements for New Year's Day.

After chatting all the way, when we arrived at the door of New Times, our fingers were already a little stiff.

There were few people on the streets, and there were no people in the Internet cafes early in the morning.

Chen Qin reached the third floor and walked into the studio amid muddy footprints. Xiao Gao was adjusting the electric heater he just bought in the corner of the room. A Yue was not very familiar with him, and she did not dare to come alone.

But it's very cold outside today, and Guo Yang is here too. The two of them are already at the computer next to the counter, starting to 'work'.

Guo Yang was typing. He and Song Ziyun wrote things on paper and then entered them into the computer script.

Recently, Chen Qin had nothing to do and told them how to fill in game data in school. Recently, they have begun to learn these tasks - for a game, numerical planning is of course a very important position, it directly determines the game Difficulty and strategic depth, because "Friends" has a lot of random abilities, there is nothing special to pay attention to in numerical design. As long as the game does not drag on for too long, and the design of most numerical values ​​​​agree with the player's intuition That’s it. In the past two days, the company plans to complete the last batch of skills. At least before going online, this is the last batch of data they will provide.

Chen Qin was on fire. After making the call, Xiao Gao chatted with him about the recent affairs of the national server of World of Warcraft. He was thinking about finding some accounts in the national server. Chen Qin said that the consumption power of the national server was not good and did not support him. proposal.

"How is your room?" Chen Qin asked.

"Hey, what kind of house are you buying?" Xiao Gao scratched his head, "Awei and I have already separated."

"When? That girl doesn't know her stuff."

"Just these two days."

"But you should buy it earlier. Our Longshan house is not expensive anyway."

Xiao Gao was a little lonely. Chen Qin talked to him and walked past the computer in the studio.

Guo Yang became happy when he saw him. Recently, Guo Yang started to work here. This sinful place made him a little nervous. However, he only came here to type and left after typing. He was still a good student. style.

Chen Qin walked over to see how he was doing, but when he walked over, A Yue held her back.

"Chen Qin..."

Ah Yue whispered, gesturing to her with her big eyes.

Then he picked up the bag at his feet and pulled him to the side.

But he opened his laptop next to him and found a network cable to plug it in. He didn't know what it meant.

However, after being at the same table for so long, Chen Qin can somewhat understand what she means - others can't see it here.

And A Yue turned on the computer, and there was a web page on the screen.

The webpage is a piece of news, and it is news related to Kuaikan... Recently, Kuaikan Media's stock price has held up - perhaps because of Zhou Hongyi's effective improvement measures, advertising revenue has shown signs of improvement.

In addition, the situation at Kuaiba, the disbanded brothers, is not good - this is because Galaxy Software is fighting fiercely with Apple and Google. Kuaiba, which has just joined Galaxy's circle of friends, has been affected, and its stock price has fallen a lot. Let's take a look at this The fisherman on the border profited.

In short...Kuaikan's stock price is holding firm above two yuan.

Of course, this may be a good thing, but what Ah Yue brought out today in a sneaky manner was not stock price news.

"Look, this is Kuaikan's new game."

The page that opened was an interview about a game called "Three Kingdoms Divine Generals".

Strategy category, web game platform, looks ordinary.The news is an interview with the development team. The development team talked about some game content and expected launch date. It seems to be an ordinary press release.

However, Chen Qin reacted as soon as he saw it. He turned around and saw A Yue with a solemn face and asked her: "Do you think Kuai Kan did this to target your family on purpose?"

(End of this chapter)