game trailblazer

Chapter 89 Old Acquaintances

The next day, when Zhang Lexing woke up, his head felt a little swollen and his body ached. It seemed that he drank a little too much last night.I got up and went to the living room, opened the thermos bottle and tried it. Fortunately, the boiled water left over from yesterday was still not cold, so I took a water glass and filled it with half a glass, and drank it slowly.Then he went to the bathroom and took a shower. Zhang Lexing felt that his energy was much better immediately.

Back in the living room, Zhang Lexing sat down on the sofa, thinking about where to go for breakfast.I just came here yesterday, in a hurry, I haven't had time to look around, and I don't know what to expect in the morning, when I was in trouble, there was a sudden "boom boom" knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Zhang Lexing asked.

"It's me." A woman's voice sounded familiar from outside the door.

Zhang Lexing opened it and saw that it was Chu Jing.

Chu Jing raised the bag in her hand and said, "Wang Bin knows that you are not familiar with this, and he probably hasn't had breakfast yet, so he asked me to bring some for you. I'm not late."

"Hey, it's just the right time. I'm really worried about where to eat it." Zhang Lexing happily took the bag, put it on the dining table, opened it, ha, it's his favorite soy milk fritters.

"Thank you, would you like some more?"

"No need, I'm full from breakfast."

"Then I won't be polite." Zhang Lexing turned around and went to the kitchen, took a pair of chopsticks, and returned to the dining table.After a night of consumption, my stomach has long been hungry and deflated. I wiped out the soy milk and fried dough sticks in two or three times, and my lower abdomen finally felt full again.

After breakfast, Zhang Lexing called Chu Jing to sit down on the sofa, then went to the kitchen and put the kettle on the gas stove, preparing to pour her a glass of water when the water boiled.

Back in the living room, Zhang Lexing sat down on the sofa next to Chu Jing: "You shouldn't be here today just to deliver breakfast."

"Yeah, Binzi told me last night. He said you were going to open a computer game company, and he recommended me to your company. No, I'll have breakfast today, and I'll come for an interview by the way."

"I heard from Wang Bin that you worked in the office. I don't know what kind of work you mainly did before?"

"There are a lot of things. I have done business statistics, report analysis, scheduling, and manpower deployment."

"Well, have you ever used a computer? Know about computer games?"

"I have used a computer before, and I am quite familiar with the Wubi font input method. I can also use WPS typesetting. I don't know much about computer games."

Chu Jing understands these things and is quite suitable to be an administrator. As for which level she can reach in the future, it depends on her future performance.Zhang Lexing agreed that Chu Jing came here more because he knew each other before, and it was suitable when the company was founded, so today's interview was more like a cutscene, and he didn't plan to make any problems.After a brief chat, even if Chu Jing became a new employee of the creative workshop, the contract could not be signed yet. After all, the company has not yet opened, and nothing has been prepared.

Although the contract has not yet been signed, Chu Jing, who is the administrative director of the company, is still working quickly.The most important thing for the company right now is to quickly decorate the office, put some office furniture, and then add some decorations, flowers and plants.Otherwise, there are only a few empty chairs, and if someone comes to apply for the job, they will be scared away.Considering Xiao Donghai's taste in this kind of activity of choosing furniture and decorations, Zhang Lexing directly ignored him, and brought Chu Jing to choose some office furniture first.

Unexpectedly, after asking Chu Jing, I found out that it is not easy to choose some office furniture these days.Because there will be no pictures of many famous furniture cities in the future. If you want to buy furniture, you can only go to places like building materials supply stations or Wujinjiaodian companies. Zhang Lexing couldn't help but miss the days when he used to choose furniture in IKEA and Jimei.After running to several places in a row, even having eaten lunch, Zhang Lexing had to give up. Although the furniture still didn’t suit him, he couldn’t go to Hong Kong to buy it abroad. In the end, he had to choose a few sets based on Chu Jing’s. As for choosing decorations and flowers and plants, Zhang Lexing was no longer interested, so he directly handed it over to Chu Jing, and let her find a way to get it done in the next two days.In addition, he took out a piece of paper with the requirements of the recruiters and handed it to Chu Jing, asking her to do it by the way.

After working hard for a long time, after saying goodbye to Chu Jing, Zhang Lexing dragged his exhausted body and took a taxi back to his community.Having lost interest in buying things to make by himself, and finding inappropriate places to buy them if he wanted to, Zhang Lexing simply found a restaurant that seemed to be fairly clean, and ordered a bowl of beef noodles to deal with the dinner.

Back in his room, Zhang Lexing took a shower, changed into more comfortable clothes, and rested on the sofa, watching TV by the way.I picked up the remote control and pressed it a few times. At this time, there were few TV programs, basically no entertainment programs, and the news was very serious, and it was often about where the leaders inspected, visited, and went. Will have no interest.After leaning on the sofa for a while, Zhang Lexing felt less tired, so he got up and turned off the TV, then went to the bedroom, and took out his notepad that he used to write plans on how to develop the domestic game business.The content of this book has just been written at the beginning, and there has been no time to start writing since then. It is rare that there is nothing to do tonight, so Zhang Lexing decided to continue to think about it.

Zhang Lexing can’t remember exactly when the stand-alone game industry in mainland China started. According to legend, there were some game works made by individuals in 1991, but it’s impossible to know whether it’s true because they didn’t become popular, so mainland games The title of industry pioneer falls on Jinpan Electronics, which launched "Condor Commando". It is said that this game is also sold in South Korea, but Zhang Lexing has no chance to see it.

It was also during this period that several major pillars of the mainland game industry, such as Pioneer, Xishanju, Goal, Creative Eagle, and Totem, also appeared on the stage one after another. Gradually, a golden age of the mainland game industry came.However, with the collapse of leading companies in 1998, the pioneers of the mainland game industry gradually became martyrs, and only a few survived. Most of the game development companies do not belong to the mainland.

However, 1998 was not the year with the highest output value of the stand-alone game industry in mainland China. According to a survey report read by Zhang Lexing, the real peak of the stand-alone game industry in mainland China was in 2001, when the annual stand-alone game market revenue was 2.8 million yuan. Renminbi has produced 397 games, 50 agency companies, and more than 30 R&D companies. This year, the online game industry has just started.By 2005, the annual revenue from the stand-alone game market had dropped to less than 7000 million yuan, and there were only 35 games left in the market for a year, many of which were made-up products, and the agency companies had less than 10 games left. There are very few R&D companies, and the online game industry has exceeded 60 billion yuan this year.Since then, the stand-alone game market in mainland China has gradually moved away from everyone's attention, and has been completely submerged in the hustle and bustle of online games.

Zhang Lexing summed up some reasons why the stand-alone game industry in mainland China experienced a short-term glory and then suddenly sank. The information Zhang Lexing read in the past.The first is piracy, which is not the pain of a family of domestic games; the second is that the strict approval policy leads to a small number of games on the market. Due to the loss of fish in the water, the channel as water gradually dries up; the third is eager for quick success, although there are many Some companies that are willing to make high-quality games exist, but there are always some companies that just want to make quick money and leave. Labeled bad; the fourth is public opinion. I don’t know when, in the eyes of some people, games have become the original sin of all bad things. Any bad things can always be related to games, so some people who don’t understand games , and people who don’t want to understand games, the sunny industry of computer games has been completely overturned, and it has become a dark place with dirty labels; fifth, there are fewer types of games and fewer originals. Apart from RPG games, there are very few other types, which may be related to the fact that mainland game companies are not strong enough to dare to take risks.

In 2008, before Zhang Lexing came to the present, the game industry in mainland China basically only had the online game industry, and there were very few stand-alone computer games left. The game console industry was basically parallel imports and pirated copies. The company has nothing to do with it, which is very different from the foreign game industry pattern that was flourishing at the same time.Zhang Lexing originally thought that as long as he has money and is willing to invest, he can start the game industry. After learning from Yang Xinxin, Hawkins and others for so many years, he realized that the game industry cannot be started by one company. In the development of an industry, it is necessary to strengthen the connection between upstream and downstream and related industries, so as to form a real industrial system.

After these years of investment and struggle, Zhang Lexing already has a lot of assets in his hands, so he doesn't have to worry too much about developing the game industry in China.In the past two years, the 180 billion US dollars made in RB, although more than 50 billion US dollars were withdrawn back and forth, but relying on continued speculative operations in the later period (for example, the Gulf War triggered a surge in oil prices), instead of decreasing, it increased to 47 million $35 million.There is also Honghe Fund. After years of precise investment, not only has it mastered many equity interests with great development potential, but it has also sold some of its equity and has cash on hand of [-] billion US dollars.In addition, there are more than [-] million US dollars in annual dividends from Visual System, which are still increasing year by year, and the [-] billion US dollars in cash held by Orient Holdings plus annual investment dividends of more than [-] million US dollars. Pieces of wages and bonuses or something.Ling Ling finally figured it out, Zhang Lexing didn't have to worry about running out of money in the game industry. In fact, it was more important to consider how to use the existing industry to develop the game business.

VisualSystem Company is the place where Zhang Lexing made his fortune. In the future, because the focus of his work will be shifted to China, he will definitely not have much energy to care about it.However, VisualSystem holds the powerful weapon of the operating system, and Zhang Lexing will definitely not give up. With the technical support of VisualSystem, I believe that the technical barriers to developing games will be much smaller by then.

Blue Dragon Company will be an important base for further training of personnel in the future, and it will also be one of the frontlines keeping up with game development technology. The game research institute will be an important base for directly developing game-related technology.With these two places, Zhang Lexing doesn't have to worry about developing domestically and being out of touch internationally.

The Hong Kong chip factory will be the production site for key components of future game consoles, and will also be the location of the R&D team for the core operating system of game consoles. This will be the place of hope for Zhang Lexing's game console plan.

The game industry includes not only directly related industries such as game development, distribution, and game consoles, but also related industries, such as animation and movies.Kunpeng Animation, which Zhang Lexing set up inadvertently, is a very relevant industry. In the future, not only can the game be adapted into animation and comics to promote, but also the characters in it can be used to vigorously develop peripherals, and mature animation can also be used. The anime adaptation of the game is adapted into a game, but the main task at present is to completely eat up the RB.In addition, DreamWorks in the United States is also a place that can be used in the future. Games can be adapted into movies to expand their influence, and movies can also be adapted into games to increase revenue. The next development goal of DreamWorks will be a comprehensive film industry group.

As for his own internal affairs, Zhang Lexing really has no idea how to develop the domestic game industry, so he can only adjust according to the actual situation in the future. Of course, Zhang Lexing will definitely pay attention to those factors that are said to have affected the development of the game industry, but Right now, I have to start my own company first.

This time Zhang Lexing returned to China, besides the game industry, there is another important thing, that is to integrate these industries in the mainland into Dongfang Holdings, after all, it will be more formal and convenient to operate through the company.At that time, there was only time to complete the adjustment of the part of the United States and Hong Kong, and the industry in the mainland has not had a chance to do it. Zhang Lexing does not want to cause excessive personnel changes due to the adjustment, so it will take some time and management of these industries before the integration Readers talk, communicate.

(End of this chapter)