Need for little hackers

Chapter 144 Twists and turns ([-]) Games and life
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Qina and Xiang Yuyao had a confrontation at a dumpling restaurant near the group. Xiang Yuyao wanted Qina to go back with her, but Qina refused again. He doesn't want to be shared, he prefers to be alone.

He bid farewell to Xiang Yuyao, took a taxi, and unexpectedly arrived at the small apartment where Lisa lived in Xiyoucheng, but he didn't go up after all. He just called twice downstairs, but no one answered. People pick up.

Qina felt empty in his heart, thinking that Lisa must have gone to live with her parents when she fell and injured herself, how could she still be living in a single apartment.

He put away his mobile phone and took a taxi again. When he got in the car, the driver asked him where he was going. He was stunned for ten seconds, really at a loss, not knowing what he should do or where he was going.

"General Office Building in General Lane." Qi Na said.That being the case, it is better to go back to the company to work.Maybe only work can suppress the restlessness in my heart.

As soon as he entered the company, he received a text message from Lisa. Qi Na was instantly excited, and then read the text message: "Alex, hello, I am Kong Yun's sister-in-law. She has gone abroad and will come back after a while. Here. In addition, she is in good health, so take care of yourself."

Obviously, the last sentence has a profound meaning, and Qina almost burst into tears when he saw it.

There was no one in the company anymore, Wu Jun pulled Doris to talk, and was a little surprised when he saw him come in, but Qina's face was full of frustration, and they didn't know whether to say hello or not for a moment.

Qina closed the door of the office, sat on the chair by himself, put his head in his hands, stared blankly for a minute, then took out his mobile phone, and carefully read the received text message.

Even read it word by word.

Tears streaming down my face, unable to get up.

This huge loss was going to swallow him up, he just sat in the office like this for half an hour, until Zheng Xiumin came to knock on the door.

Qi Na hurriedly wiped his face with a tissue, seeing Zheng Xiumin forced a smile and said, "Why didn't you go back?"

Zheng Xiumin naturally saw the clue, and didn't say anything, just said: "Didn't you see Mr. Xiang? You're back so soon."

What she said was ambiguous, but the two of them didn't care at this time, because they each had distracting thoughts in their hearts.

"There will be a review meeting the day after tomorrow, and Mr. Gu wants to see my ERP, so I will give him a demonstration." Qi Na said simply.

Zheng Xiumin's eyes lit up, and she said: "Then ERP software can also be sold for money." She heard Dai Xiaolan introduce MyCity's ERP, and recently Doris is also promoting ERP in Life Online Company, and she also sees the excellence of this ERP , I think there must be benefits.

But Qina shook his head and said: "This is a gift, but Mr. Gu will definitely give us a bigger reward, and we don't need to haggle over it."

Qi Na didn't reveal his real calculations, not because of Xiang Yuyao, but because he was worried that Zheng Xiumin would have thoughts about Doris.

Zheng Xiumin's face was full of disappointment, and she said to Qin Na: "It's a pity, it can always be sold for 300 million, so it's just in vain."

Qina hugged her, kissed her gently on the forehead, and said, "It's impossible for us to be so poor all the time. Isn't the game project in your hand a gold mine?"

She leaned against Qina, relaxed, and smiled bitterly. She has been tossing about the game project for half a month, working overtime every night, and the interns have already gone four or five times. Naturally, it is all because of overtime work. I can't go down.It's not good for regular employees to sign a contract and resign because of working overtime for a few days. The enthusiasm in the first three or two days will soon be exhausted.I had no choice but to suffer with Zheng Xiumin.

Qina couldn't help but said, "So, I'll go up and participate too, let's figure out a solution together."

Zheng Xiumin was obviously a little sullen, and said: "Why am I so useless, without you, I'm afraid I really can't move a single step."

Qina inadvertently hit her self-confidence again.

But he reacted quickly and said, "How long have you been making games? It's less than a month, and we're not geniuses. If you want to make a game like a gold mine in a month, it's a bit of a joke. You have high demands on yourself, but Don't be too demanding."

Zheng Xiumin was reluctantly persuaded by this reason.

He didn't go to the game project office immediately, but listened to Zheng Xiumin's job introduction in his office.

In fact, Life Online does not have a product manager, so either Jessica Jung is advancing vertically, or setting up a project team and dispatching people to follow up.

The game project is the former, all personnel are recruited temporarily, and a large number of interns are also collected for research.

Everyone knows that games make money. What kind of games can be played and how can they be made?

Web games seem to require less investment and can be reaped quickly, so Zheng Xiumin's first investigation was web games.

But it was soon abandoned, and RPG and shooting simulation games were abandoned at the same time. The main reason is that a lot of resources need to be invested in the early stage, whether it is early art or post-publicity, which does not match the actual situation of the life online website.Can only give up.

So she started to choose lightweight games, mobile games, that is, mobile games.

This is the hottest field in the past two years.A large number of game studios have sprung up like mushrooms, and every so often, a compelling and creative game emerges.

For example, cutting the rope a long time ago, little crocodiles love to take a bath, and last year’s extremely popular crazy picture guessing, as well as flappybird at the beginning of this year, and the candycrus*** of King Game Company, which was listed in the United States at the beginning of the year, as for the popular Plants vs. Zombies for many years , Crazy Bird needless to mention.

It is conceivable that although online games on the traditional PC platform require less investment and more opportunities, if there is no good idea, the mobile game platform will not be easy to succeed.It's even a black hole itself.

The most obvious one is the flappybird developed by the Vietnamese. It has only been downloaded dozens of times in the appstore in half a year. Then suddenly because of the recommendations of nerds on several forums in the name of sadistic games, it quickly became popular.

It was so hot that it was inexplicable, and even the original author was so frightened that he was so frightened that he took the game off the shelf.

What Zheng Xiumin has to do now is to find the common ground of these popular games and package them with another good idea.

But not only the idea has not been found, but also the common ground of popular games has not been found.

For example, Plants vs. Zombies and Crazy Bird have designed exquisite levels with melodious background music. The latecomer Little Crocodile loves to take a bath is similar to this. There are many levels for cutting the rope, and the ingenuity is amazing, while candycrush is even more amazing. Further, with comfortable music, exquisite levels, and clever arrangement of game progress, it firmly controls the appetite of gamers. In addition to exquisitely designed pictures and ideas, the innovative SNS dissemination of help has created a Amazing viral marketing spectacle, last summer, a part of the traffic of the entire Weibo was crazy guessing pictures and help messages, and WeChat is naturally inevitable.

But if design is important, art is important, and music is important, then what's with flappybird?It’s just a bird flying and flying, the background is even the water pipes of Super Mario, the sound effect is poor, and the picture is sloppy. Even this kind of idea has been around a long time ago. As early as the palm era, there was a similar game of flying a plane into a cave, so it What is the trick?

Zheng Xiumin couldn't answer, and neither could Qi Na.

So Zheng Xiumin slumped on the seat and said to Qi Na: "Aren't we destined to play games!"

Qi Na thought for a while and said: "Otherwise, we will set up a product manager system and promote some employees with product awareness from the existing staff to be product managers, so that you don't have to rush to the front line of creative Ideas, just listen to the product manager. The manager's report will do."

Zheng Xiumin flatly refused: "How can I be a deserter at this time! I will just be the product manager."

Qi Na was dumbfounded, and coaxed Zheng Xiumin again: "Then let me get involved and do it with you."

Zheng Xiumin nodded, and didn't say much, Qi Na knew that she had other ideas, but since she didn't say anything, it should be accepted as acquiescence.

He said again: "Then let's stop here today, go back to rest early, and let go of those who work overtime upstairs. You will die from overwork."

Zheng Xiumin smiled and nodded.

But Qi Na did not leave the office, he was determined to use his determination to develop SPE to break the barriers of game development.

What is the most important point of the game?
Picture, idea, music, perfect flow, Qi Na released a page in front of himself, with four squares on it.But it was quickly marked with an X.

Qi Na covered it with a bigger cube and wrote two words: fun.

A good game needs to be fun, but if it’s not fun, no matter how fine and beautiful the picture is, how unique the idea is, how beautiful the music is, or a story with no gaps in the process, it will not be accepted by players.

In other words, no matter what good idea or other features you have, it doesn't matter. The most important thing is that a certain feature in the game is accepted by players, then the game will have a part of the audience, or if multiple features are accepted Players accept, then this game will become a popular game.

For example, flappybird’s feature is heart abuse. This feature has a certain audience, so it will be popular for a while. The crazy guessing picture is similar, but the popular time is longer, but soon everyone will hate them, because the fun will be fast. disappear.

Especially the crazy picture guessing requires the accumulation of heresy knowledge, but lacks the fun of the game.Sharing through SNS becomes harassment like spam, so the decline is naturally inevitable.

Qi Na thinks about her ambiguous attitude as a product manager and her participation in the project today, and she understands that after Wu Jun, Doris, and Qi Na entered the company, Emily, Meg, Lina and others may also enter the company immediately. In this state, her mentality has changed. She may consider that her position in the minds of employees is gradually falling, and she gradually develops a feeling of unwillingness, or a slight inferiority complex.

She grasped the link of the game, determined to find her support point in the life online website, and not let others look down on her.

But Zheng Xiumin is not such a person in his heart, he still remembers the first time he saw her, a refreshing, neat girl, she has changed so much in less than a year, or this is her original personality face.

Qi Na immediately dispelled this idea, and began to introspect. Zheng Xiumin found out several times that she was very sure that Qi Na had many, many women outside, but she didn't go to a showdown with Qi Na, just pick her up and leave, just like Lisa did. .

But this matter is enough to change her behavior and affect her thinking. She will be able to see clearly if she finds a support point in the company. She is out of anxiety about Qi Na, instead of entrusting the rest of her life to a man who cares It is better to own your own business and be the master of your own life.

Qi Na then corrected his concept.

Zheng Xiumin should be more unwilling to depend on others, but more independent.

The same is true for Xiaoxue. She chose a sales job instead of being attached to her own wings. Maybe she also has a sense of self-reliance. They are very beautiful, and they think that Qi Na can continue to like them, but five or ten years later, when they are old and Jina accepts younger girls, their advantage will be gone.

Qina sighed, this is the inevitable ingenious calculation of the petty bourgeoisie.

(End of this chapter)