Video Game Empire

ps: The first draft, the typo has not been corrected, you can read it later!

"Airplane head, you are getting more and more stingy now. You are not willing to book a private box when you talk to me!" A chubby, small-eyed man sat on the table next to Li Xuan.

The other person who sat down with the fat man had neatly combed airplane hair, and his hair was so shiny that a fly would probably fall off and die when he stood on it. No wonder it was called an airplane head. I saw him squeeze out a bit of a bitter smile: "I'm so poor now that I'm going bankrupt. I'm not as handsome as you are, Brother Chao. Remember that I only invite you to drink soda water, and you have to pay for the rest!"

"You think you call me super brother now, and I will forget the dark history of you insulting my figure and calling me 'fat super'! Even if you asked me to do something, you were so embarrassed to invite me to drink soda water for five yuan. , can you dig a little more, just invite me to drink free ice water!" The fat man known as Super Brother said angrily.

"That's what you said!" The man whose flower name was Airplane Head immediately laughed and laughed. His real name was actually Gu Jinhong.

The waiter who was waiting to take orders for the guests quietly rolled his eyes while listening to their conversation. In the end, the fatter one waved for mercy and ordered two lattes from the waiter.

"You are so courageous that you dare to invest your wife's money in starting a company without making a sound! But your way of playing is not right. Everyone else is going to pull venture capital, so how can you pay for yourself? Yes!" Fatty's name was Wen Zichao, and he opened his mouth and complained to his friend.

"Do you think I don't want to spend other people's money? The problem is that no one is willing to invest in me! Programming outsourcing, no venture capital firm in Hong Kong is interested in my idea!" Gu Jinhong shook his head with a wry smile.

The conversation between the two did not deliberately keep the volume down. Therefore, Li Xuan, who was sitting not far away, could vaguely hear the conversation between the two. Li Xuan didn't care at first, but when he heard the words "programming outsourcing". His eyes lit up, and he became a little curious.

"Your idea is indeed a bit advanced. Most game projects in Hong Kong can be written in a week or two with two or three programmers, so there is no need to ask for help! Besides, it is easy to add game content to outsiders. The risk of leakage, you must know that creativity is more valuable than anything else!" Wen Zichao analyzed it for his friend seriously.

"That's why I had to ask Super Brother for your help! In Hong Kong, we are the only Dongfang Group who may be willing to use outsourcing. It is said that you, Mr. Du, have agreed to develop an epic new game, and the entire project team has as many as 100 people!

But the internal treatment of your Dongfang game company is very good, especially programmers like you, whose income is worth twice that of your peers in other companies! In a large game, a lot of programming work is actually simple and boring repetitive work. Ordinary programmers outside are completely competent, and there is no need to use your precious programming elites to kill chickens! "Gu Jinhong said eloquently.

Li Xuan listened very interestingly. It seems that both of them are employees of the Eastern Group. As the arcade business has reached its peak of glory and began to decline, Dongfang Games has gradually shifted the focus of its next research and development to other hardware platforms, and the most promising is undoubtedly the personal computer.

In the second half of last year, Dongfang Game Company launched a turn-based large-scale computer game with Western Sword and Magic as the background. As a result, it has sold 500,000 copies worldwide in the one year since its launch! To know that the new game has higher requirements on the configuration of the computer, only the latest -5 can run.

In fact, the sales curve of games copied from other arcade and home game consoles of Dongfang Game Company before transplanted to the computer is also very good. Generally speaking, the sales speed of the game. will gradually slow down over time.

However, because the global computer population is in a period of rapid growth, the potential base of computer game users is also growing. Although "Hong Kong Cube", "Tank Wars", "Mario Brothers", "The King of Fighters", etc. have been out for a long time, they still sell a lot of computer game copies every month.

The quality of original computer games is generally relatively rough these days. Instead, they are classic games that have been changed from other platforms such as arcades and home consoles. Occupy a small market share. But as computer performance gets better and better, the space for computer games to play is also rapidly expanding.

Just like the previous test work of Dongfang Game Company on the -5 platform, that game with a Western magic background. In fact, it did not fully exert the excellent performance of -5, but the exquisiteness of the picture is no less than that of arcade games.

And this time Dongfang Game Company is ready to invest more resources. Develop a boutique game that can set the highest benchmark for computer games in the next three to five years. Let all computer gamers firmly remember the brand of Oriental Games.

Du Wenqiang, president of Dongfang Game Company, also specially reported this new game project to Li Xuan. In order to expand its influence as much as possible, Dongfang Games did not build a new game background this time, but bought the game adaptation rights of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit".

The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is hailed as one of the greatest magical epics in the twentieth century in the West, and itself has countless fans. Therefore, Dongfang Game Company specially selected "The Lord of the Rings" for the game adaptation this time, and strived to have the greatest influence.

Of course, once such an epic work with extensive influence fails to adapt, it will definitely be a huge blow to Dongfang Game Company. Therefore, Dongfang Game Company dispatched a large number of elite soldiers and formed a luxurious development team of over 100 people.

This time, Dongfang Game Company strives to present the Middle-earth, which used to only exist in the imagination of readers, on the computer screen as perfectly and shockingly as possible, so the programming engineering of the game must be extremely huge.

Li Xuan couldn't help squinting at the young man on the plane at the next table. His eyesight was obviously good. Because only such a large project will have the premise of project outsourcing. If it's just a small game that can be developed by a few people, why bother to complicate things.

If in the hereafter. Project outsourcing is commonplace in the IT industry. India, for example, is the world's largest supplier of software outsourcing. Lots of software development jobs in Silicon Valley. All were subcontracted to programmers in India.

In China, IT outsourcing is also a big industry. Numerous small companies in various software industrial parks all over the country survive by taking jobs from large companies. Many game companies are even only responsible for the planning of game copywriting, and the entire game software development process is outsourced to other companies.

However, this outsourcing model in the IT industry has only begun to emerge slowly since the 1990s, and then gradually developed into a large-scale industry with a perfect division of labor. Because in the early days of the computer age, most software was relatively simple. And only when the software becomes more and more complex and the labor cost becomes higher and higher in the total development cost, it migrant workers in countries with large human resources such as India and China. It will gradually show its cheap advantage.

"You also know how much the top management of our company attaches great importance to the new project. It can be said that the cost is completely ignored! Do you think Mr. Du and the others will take the risk of leaking secrets and let outsiders join this key project?" Fatty Wen Zichao shook his head. He shook his head and sighed,

"What's more, I'm just an ordinary programmer in the company, and I have no say at all! The only thing I can do is to help you connect with my boss, who is the chief architect responsible for the development of new game technology. One. If you can convince him, he will be qualified to help you go to the top of the company!"

"Brother Chao, thank you, I remember your love!" Gu Jinhong said with some moving. He also knew that things were difficult.

"Among the first batch of people from our it college, your temper is the most suitable for my taste, so don't be so hypocritical! Speaking of which, we have a good chance. There was a serious shortage of people in the group. Now we are recruiting from our game company. Minimum requirements It also has to be a master's degree, only one or two of the recent graduates of it colleges have been recruited!" Wen Zichao said with some sigh.

Neither he nor Gu Jinhong majored in computer programming. And they all left the house halfway. Wen Zichao is a graduate of CUHK, majoring in mechanics, while Gu Jinhong is even better. Originally a top student in the Department of Literature of the University of Hong Kong, he was completely irrelevant to computers.

Both of them are students of the first intensive class of Oriental IT Academy. At the beginning, Dongfang Company was faced with the dilemma of a serious shortage of professional talents. Therefore, in cooperation with CUHK, Hong Kong University and Polytechnic, the Oriental IT Institute, a private professional software programming training institution, was established. Because of their excellent grades, the two were admitted to the Oriental Group after graduating from Oriental IT students.

Wen Zichao joined Dongfang Game Company at that time, while Gu Jinhong joined Dongfang Software Company. Later, after Dongfang Software Company was split, Gu Jinhong was divided into Dongfang System Software Company. Although the two work in different companies, the friendship forged in the it college has not faded.

"I told you a long time ago that office politics is prevalent in big companies, and you must be careful to live a long time. You just don't believe me, and it turned out to be designed by someone!" Wen Zichao began to scold his friends again.

"You also know that I am a person with a strong sense of justice. Who would have known that Zhu Renlin's villain was so cruel. Before I could report to the company's supervision department about his sting, he played tricks and fired me!" Gu Jinhong said indignantly. .

"The company's confidentiality regulations strictly prohibit employees from copying code programs and other materials and taking them out of the company. Your quarterly confidential study meetings are all for nothing? To put it bluntly, you still don't care about the system, and you deserve to be caught!"

Wen Zichao continued seriously, "And with this taint, it actually has a very bad impact on your current plans! Our Dongfang Game Company's requirements for the confidentiality system are as perverted as yours, if I let my boss know about you He was expelled for violating confidentiality regulations, and he probably sentenced you to death directly!"

Gu Jinhong's expression changed, finally showing a very frustrated expression. He used to have a very bad habit when he worked at Dongfang System Software Company, that is, he often likes to take work home to complete. The Eastern Group has always discouraged this kind of situation, especially if it involves taking home important confidential technical information, it will be directly fired once it is discovered.

And Gu Jinhong is the engineer responsible for the development of the east-operating system in the Eastern System Software Company, which is one of the software projects with the highest level of confidentiality in the company. So when someone reported him for violating company confidentiality, he was quickly found out and fired.

"Fortunately, the scumbag Zhu Renlin didn't get any better. The company seems to be preparing to file a lawsuit against him for leaking trade secrets!" Gu Jinhong brought up the person who framed him, and finally arrived a little relieved.

The Zhu Renlin in Gu Jinhong's mouth was his former boss, and Gu Jinhong accidentally discovered the technical data that the other party seemed to be suspected of betrayal. So he began to quietly pay attention to each other's every move, but before he had time to report to the Supervision Department of the Dongfang Group, the alert Zhu Renlin noticed Gu Jinhong's abnormality, so he was the first to clear him out of the company.

But Zhu Renlin still failed to get a bargain~www.readwn.com~ With Gu Jinhong's counter-reporting, his fate was obviously even more miserable. And although Gu Jinhong made a contribution in reporting Zhu Renlin's matter, he did violate the relevant confidentiality regulations within the Oriental Group. So the company just compensated him with a bonus and did not restore his job position.

"Forget it, if it really doesn't work, you have to find another way! There was a small company before, and I hoped I would develop an inventory management software for them! But this is just a small company with only 20 or 30 people. Little Shanzi doesn't like it, it seems that now I can only support myself first!" Gu Jinhong patted his head and said a little dejectedly.

After he was forced to resign from Dongfang Application Software, he thought of starting his own business. The great brilliance of the Oriental Group has made everyone in the group a little more arrogant. Unless he was poached at a high price by another company, it would be a shame to go to work in another company after Gu Jinhong worked in the Oriental Group.

Because of the same position, the salary given by the Oriental Group is almost twice that of other companies in Hong Kong, so the Oriental Group has almost gathered the top industry talents in Hong Kong. Those who have been drained from the Oriental Group generally either go to other companies to serve as middle and high-level positions, or choose to start their own businesses. And Gu Jinhong decisively chose the second one, and set up a small software company by himself! (To be continued...)