Restart the Gaming Era

First day at work.

Zhong Ming waited at the door of the studio with a large red envelope in her hand.

The first person to come was Jiang Wanna, who basically came with Zhong Ming before and after her feet, and was surprised to see Zhong Ming: "Well, you are here so early today."

"What is it that I come here so early today, haven't I always come very early. New Year's red envelope, draw one yourself." Zhong Ming passed a stack of red envelopes in his hand.

Jiang Wanna was pleasantly surprised: "Well, what about the red envelope? Okay, start work. Does everyone have it?"

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes."

"Then it's inappropriate for a boss to issue a red envelope here, or else you should give it to me." Jiang Wanna wanted to take over the red envelopes in Zhong Ming's hand.

"What's wrong with the boss's red envelope? It's only appropriate if the boss gives a red envelope. Or, if you take the red envelope, I'll give it to others." Zhong Ming said.

Jiang Wanna thought for a while: "That's OK, it looks more formal."

She took the red envelope from Zhong Ming and stood aside.

It didn't take long before someone came again. This is the new original painting, Xiao Mu.

Seeing someone at the door, Xiao Mu froze.

Zhong Ming took the red envelope from Jiang Wanna and handed it over: "New Year's red envelope, start work."

Xiao Mu froze for a moment, and quickly took over: "Okay, thank you!"

Squeeze the red envelope, it is estimated that there are three or five hundred dollars in it, the money is not much, but the first day I got a red envelope to go to work, it still made Xiao Mu feel warm.

Xiao Mu received the red envelope and was ready to go inside.

The result just saw the couplet at the door.

"The code for the liver chart is written, employees work overtime and be willing to be selfless dedication to public servants; recharge money and pump boxes, and players sell blood and kidneys to fight for justice, wealth, and love."

"Flop!"

Xiao Mu almost laughed at the time, too much!

It is also very consistent with the essence of the game company.

Moreover, the word is really beautiful, Long Fei Feng Wu, who do not know who wrote it, which master's handwriting.

Soon, within a few minutes, everyone else arrived one after another, and the red envelopes prepared by Zhong Ming soon finished one by one. Everyone was very happy to introduce each other and know each other.

Zhong Ming had already allocated the work stations long ago, and put a sign on each station.

Of course, the place is quite large, so these existing people only occupy a part of it, and there is still room for further staff expansion in the future.

Xiao Mu sat down on his seat, busy installing software, upgrading systems, and so on.

The computer was also asked by Zhong Ming before the holiday, and it was configured according to requirements, but it was bought unopened. Everyone took it and dismantled it. So this morning, everyone was basically busy setting up the working environment.

Next to Xiao Mu is an action art. The nameplate on the station reads Lin Dawei, who is tall and tall. It looks like he should have a good personality.

"Hello, this is the original painting, Xiao Mu. I just came to this company and will take care of it in the future." Xiao Mu held out his hand.

Lin Dawei quickly shook hands with him: "Lin Dawei, action art. Hey, I'm just here, let's help each other."

These two people are relatively easy to become friends, because there is no direct cooperative relationship in their work.

Xiao Mu made the original painting, and after that he handed it to the modeler, and then the modeler gave it to Lin Dawei for action.

Without a direct relationship of cooperation, there will be very few cases of tearing, and naturally it will be easier to become friends ...

"Well, who is our boss, do you know ..." Xiao Mu whispered.

Lin Dawei felt strange: "It's just a red envelope. Why don't you even figure out the boss ..."

"He? I thought he was the lead artist ..."

Xiao Mu was a little aggressive.

In the previous interview, Zhong Ming interviewed him directly, and gave him a lot of guidance. Although it is not a particularly detailed guide, he has benefited a few words.

As a result, the boss is so high?

It's not that impossible, but it ’s really rare for a boss with an artistic background.

Because a lot of fine art artists do not mean that they understand game design. When they come out as producers, they belong to a career change. The layman guides the layman and it is easy to smash the game.

Just being the boss, that ’s not enough. Game design ca n’t participate. Who is this company? Bosses who can't even control the product basically have no sense of presence.

Therefore, many art greats either co-operate with well-informed producers or do art outsourcing companies themselves.

To be an independent game studio, the first premise must be to understand design. Well, such young bosses like Zhong Ming who are proficient in art, design, and so young are indeed rare.

Lin Dawei said: "I am a fan of the boss. I knew him on Weibo. It was great! I graduated last year and then jumped out to open my own studio. I did an answer game, I made a virtual idol, and I made three pieces of independent games. All become ... "

Xiao Mu: "... it sounds a little bit awkward."

"The real thing, so when I saw the recruitment information, I came without asking anything, it was great. Following this kind of boss, I felt I could lie down and win." Lin Dawei said.

Xiao Mu nodded, feeling deeply sympathetic.

The young boss feels very unreliable, but if it is a young boss who already has a successful work, then it will not feel unreliable, but will feel that the future is limitless!

In the morning, everyone was busy with their work, registering internal chat accounts, opening intranet permissions, etc. Zhou Sen was busy for a long time and finally helped everyone get the permissions.

Zhong Ming didn't plan to engage in those imaginary things, like meeting to fight chicken blood, or team building to break the ice.

Perhaps because of personal preferences, Zhong Ming didn't like these imaginary things with a sense of ritual.

Of course, strictly speaking, this kind of ritual is still useful, whether it is to boost morale or close employee relations, so many companies are engaged in, of course, there is some reason.

However, Zhong Ming feels that truly reliable employees can complete their duties with due diligence, and can also work hard to communicate with other people. There is no need to build a group to break the relationship between employees; truly reliable companies, reliable For each project, each person can perform his or her own duties, and there is no need to rely on fighting blood and squeezing employees to make that meager profit.

Therefore, Zhong Ming did not engage in so many imaginary things, but just explained some basic things to the new administrative assistant, such as who should go to the person in charge of a problem in work, reimbursement to find finance, where to go for dinner, etc. . New employees have questions, just ask the administrative assistant.

Zhong Ming said that the little girl of the administrative assistant was seriously recording, nodding her head frequently, and she was quite serious.

The little girl of the administrative assistant is called Miao Zhu. She is slim and has two dimples when she smiles. It is very beautiful.

Miao Zhu previously worked in a large company for a year and has a certain working experience. Moreover, Zhong Ming felt that she was more serious and responsible, so she recruited them.

Of course, Zhou Sen's opinion is also more critical. He strongly demands that this girl must be recruited unless it is better to recruit.

Regarding the ugly face of this appearance association, Zhong Ming was deeply disgusted, severely criticized Zhou Sen, and then sent an admission email to Miao Zhu.

On the design team side, the new world architect is under great pressure.

The new world architect is called Fu Xing'an. He used to do story plots and had no experience as a world architect. However, Zhong Ming is more optimistic about his literary talents. He graduated from the Department of Literature of the Eight Classics, wrote several short stories, and read a lot.

This is of course a good thing for Xing'an. Being a world architect is a solid step towards the main designer, but this is a low-light studio after all. This kind of dramatic drama is, of course, for Alexander Xing'an.

As for the numerical designer, Jia Jia, a graduate student in mathematics, is three years older than Zhong Ming. With the rigor and patience of science students, he especially prefers card games.

These two will be Zhong Ming's left arm and right arm, one to lie to the liver and one to lie, oh no, one for the plot and one for the value.

In addition, there are testing, customer service, human resources, finance, legal affairs, etc., responsible for some other affairs of the company.

However, these people are not part of the R & D team.

...

In the afternoon, Zhong Ming sent a message in the large internal chat group: "At 3 o'clock, all members of the R & D team (design, program, art) came to the meeting room to meet the design plan of the new game."

The meeting room is home-made. You can use it whenever you want. Of course, you don't need to make an appointment. But to many people's surprise, this rhythm is a bit fast!

If in other companies, new employees may not arrange any particularly important work in the first week of their employment. Basically, they are learning-oriented and gradually progress. After all, everyone has just arrived in a new environment, and they are not familiar with anything. Will be particularly smooth.

However, in the low light studio, this kind of thing is obviously not happening. Normal working hours and no overtime as much as possible require high work efficiency.

Soon, people arrived.

There are 16 people in the R & D team.

Although they do not fully understand each other, at least they know the heads of their respective departments. The first time this meeting was held, everyone was also curious.

Zhong Ming stood up and looked at everyone present.

Well, talented people.

These are the people he recruited in person, and of course they are very satisfied.

"First of all, everyone is welcome to join the Weiguang Studio. You do n’t have to say a lot, and there is really nothing to say. You will know after getting along with me for a while. I hate those tedious ceremonies. I just hope that everyone can To do one thing well is to do your own work. As long as you can do it, just wait to lie down and make money. "

"I know that everyone is new to an unfamiliar environment and it takes a while to adapt, including new colleagues, new projects, new ways of working, etc. It doesn't matter, you can slowly adapt to your work."

"The atmosphere of our studio is relatively relaxed. In the case of completing my own work, I can play games or chase dramas. It is no problem in front of me. Of course, the premise is that the work in the work must be completed."

"That's almost all, let me briefly talk about this game we will develop next."

"Taigo painting rolls."

There is a projector in the conference room. The design draft already written by Zhong Ming appeared on the projector screen.

The people below were all confused.

Taigo picture roll?

This name, you can't see the game content at all.

Zhong Ming said: "It's still an independent game and the content is not complicated, but in general, it is a sandbox game with myth and martial arts elements."

"... Sandbox games, do you all understand?"

Zhong Ming was afraid that someone didn't understand, and asked a question.

The people below looked at each other, Jia Jia, Fu Xing'an, and several others nodded and said, "I understand."

Zhong Ming does not mean to look down on this group of people, mainly because everyone's expressions are too stiff, which makes him wonder. What's going on with your expressions? Don't you know sandbox games?

Many people are voicing in their hearts. How can I not know sandbox games, but I didn't expect you to do sandbox games!

The point is still a sandbox game with myths and martial arts elements.

Let's look at the name "Taigo E-roll". Well, this game feels half cold before it starts ...

It's not that you can't do it, but in most minds, this kind of game is not something that independent game studios can manage.

A sandbox means rich content, but it also means higher development costs. Even many large companies, such as Lightwing Interactive Entertainment, basically dare not touch this type of game.

Lightwing Interactive Entertainment has invested a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop a year-long game "Sword of the End", which is not a sandbox game, but a more traditional mmorpg.

why?

Because the risk is too great!

The sandbox game is made, either it is a good applause and a seat, with a life span of several years or ten years; or it is a thin pile of cakes, which is scolded with dog blood, and there are basically no intermediate options.

However, the former is too few.

Most sandbox games draw a very beautiful scene and blueprint for the players, so that the players feel that the game is about to blow out. You can take a look after it goes online, repeat the content of the game, and boring gameplay ~ www.mtlnovel .com ~ All kinds of promised game content instantly turned into empty checks, which caused a huge psychological gap for players, and then induced the collapse of word of mouth and the cliff-like decline in ratings.

Has any independent game studio in the world ever made a classic sandbox game?

Yes, but rarely!

Moreover, it is even more difficult to integrate myth and martial arts elements as Zhong Ming said!

Since there are martial arts, most of them are traditional Chinese games, and it is not a trivial project to integrate these cultural elements into the gameplay.

Moreover, it is not always possible to please, it is possible to rack your brains and do a lot of gameplay. As a result, not only will the players not buy, but they will scold, what the **** are you doing!

Of course, everyone is unwilling to say anything.

There was even a smile on his face, a "boss you are right" expression.

No way, I have to give the boss a face when I go to work on the first day.