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Director Xie was a little unbelieving: "Is that so? It won't affect us too much?"

Zhong Ming explained: "It will definitely have an impact. Before, we were the only one who did this kind of answer to share bonuses. It was of course very comfortable to eat alone. But now many follow-ups do not mean that we must not do it. In fact, for most people For example, two million is money, and one million is also money. Most of them will participate in both, which will affect our heat, but the impact should not be great. "

"If some of them grab the 8 o'clock with us, then it doesn't matter, we can change the time, 12 noon, 1 o'clock, 7 o'clock to 11 o'clock, it is all possible. Of course, it is not necessarily specific whether to change the time , I don't think these companies will slam us against each other when they come up. "

"What's more, these companies smashed so much money. Basically, there were no sponsors who invested in them in the early stage. They paid for themselves. So we can continue to talk with the sponsors, or the previous price, and earn the money first. Besides, in the future, just take a step and look at it. "

Director Xie scratched his bald head: "Is this ... too passive?"

"It's passive, but there is no other way," Zhong Ming said. "Pencils for answering questions are not high-tech content in themselves, and there is no copyright protection. People can change the rules a little, and they can just throw money at will. There is no solution. I don't think it's necessary to join this money-spreading battle. It's their job to spread coins. We can earn as much as we can. "

Director Xie was a little helpless: "It seems that there is really no good way to listen to you. But the new version is still to be done? The daily research and development must continue."

"Thank you, director, to be honest, I think the project" Learning the World Without Limits "has achieved such a degree. It can be done in the new version, but there is no need to invest the manpower of the entire project. There are one design and two programmers. Just go to work. Why don't we take a longer view and start a new project? "

Director Xie froze: "Starting a new project?"

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes," Learning the Boundless "and the Million Dollar Coin Scattering Campaign continue to be profitable, just to ask the top management for resources and people, let's start a new project."

Director Xie thought for a while: "It's not impossible. The key is, what do we do for new projects? Do we still make educational games?"

Zhong Ming shook his head: "I hope I can do regular games, bracelet games, computer games, anyway, no longer do educational games." Learning the Limitless Seas "was a coincidence, of course, and now this big The product of the environment. But it is basically impossible to do the second "Learning the Boundless Sea." This idea can only be used once. "

Director Xie asked: "Then, if we develop a new project, our staff should still complete it? And most people have no relevant experience and don't know if they can set up a project for us. Let's do this first, I Talk to Mr. Lu about the new project, and then you have a new version a little over the past two days to deal with it. "

Zhong Ming nodded: "Okay."

...

The new version is easy to say, it's nothing more than making some improvements to "Learning the World" and perfecting the gameplay. Zhong Ming also has some ideas, written directly into the design document, the new version of "Learning the World" is completed.

The function is not complicated, the program can take time to do it.

Zhong Ming is more concerned about the new project.

"Learning the World without Limits" is no longer interesting, and it will be nothing more than routine maintenance and improvement, which can be done by individuals. The popularity of this answer-based game will naturally decline. This is a big rule, and it is basically impossible to reverse it with one's own strength.

That's why Zhong Ming wanted to take advantage of the success of the project "Learning the Boundless Sea", and asked Director Xie to ask a high-level project for a new project.

In the afternoon, Director Xie called Zhong Ming to the office again.

"The senior officials disagree."

Director Xie apparently took a lot of words, and the whole person seemed tired and drank water.

Zhong Ming was not too surprised, and asked, "Why?"

Director Xie sighed softly: "I feel that the composition of our project does not have the ability to develop conventional large-scale games. For small bracelet games, the company has enough, and it does not plan to start new projects. In fact, the company I still believe in the potential of our project in educational games, and hope that we can continue to promote "Learning the Endless", or develop a new small-cost game similar to "Learning the Endless". "

Zhong Ming nodded: "I see."

Director Xie originally thought that Zhong Ming would be very disappointed, but now it doesn't seem to be, as if this is also what he expected.

"Zhong Ming, I know you are an idea person, or a genius is not too much. You can do projects like" Learning the Boundless Ocean ", other regular game projects are certainly not a problem. Even you The ability is better than me and more than most directors of Lightwing Interactive Entertainment. If you want to pursue better development, I can tell President Lu that I will transfer you to a better project to exercise, although it is unlikely to be directly Promoted to lead designer, but it is certainly no problem to continue to be a world architect. "Director Xie said.

Zhong Ming shook her head: "No need."

As for why it was not used, Zhong Ming didn't say anything, and Director Xie didn't ask again. It ’s just that Director Xie has a faint feeling. People like Zhong Ming will leave sooner or later. Maybe Lightwing Entertainment is just a place for him to rest temporarily.

"Oh yes, Director Xie, there is one more thing. Can you say hello to General Lu and transfer a program from the" Mecha Age "project? It happens that we are a bit short of staff." Zhong Ming said ~ www.mtlnovel .com ~ Director Xie Yiyi: "Conglao Liu's project is important? Who is it? What is his own wish?"

Zhong Ming said: "He really wanted to come and call him Zhou Sen. I worked with him. The technique is okay and his temper is good."

Director Xie nodded: "Okay, I'll talk to President Lu back. If the new project does not come, a procedure should be fine."

...

Zhong Ming returned to her work station, finished her work, and paddled daily.

The high-level rejection was in his expectation, but Zhong Ming still had such a slight fluke, and felt that Lu always agreed.

Of course, the reality is cruel.

Lightwing Interactive Entertainment, like many large companies, has a procedure for the establishment of a project. After all, each project is equivalent to the company's provision of resources for the project manager. In the end, it loses money. The main reason is that the company bears the loss. Bonus, some salary should not be less.

Whether the project can be approved is nothing more than whether the company's senior executives are optimistic about the project, which mainly depends on the quality of the game design draft or DEMO, the experience of the R & D of the supervisor and the project, the investment and risk assessment, and so on.

According to the general project approval process, the main designer and supervisor make a draft of the design concept for the new game, or find a program to make a DEMO (sample) and show it to the responsible leader. At this time, the company's senior management will comprehensively evaluate the game's prospects, risks, approximate investment, etc. If it is appropriate, do it, and change it if it is inappropriate.

Of course, for some celebrity producers, these steps can all be omitted. After all, people are famous, there are well-known games, and there are a large number of fans among players. As long as he says what he wants to do, the company will immediately give money.

But for most supervisors, especially those like Lao Xie, it is not entirely up to them to decide what projects they want to do.