The addition of Xishanju can be said to be a great complement to Rising Sun Game Company. The Legend Development Department is no longer stretched, and everyone is almost working in two shifts.
In addition to strictly guarding against various cheats, the manpower finally has more time to develop more content for the game. And the development of the "Swordsman Love" game is also on the agenda.
As the most self-developed martial arts game masterpiece with Chinese characteristics, Yang Dongxu can be said to have given the greatest enthusiasm and support to the development of Swordsman.
It can be said that if you need people, give people, and no one will poach people for you. If you need money, give money, and if you need equipment, give equipment. And the setting was very high, which made the staff at Legend look a little jealous.
The head of the Swordsman Love development team is Chang Hao, a gentle man with square eyes and a somewhat thin body. He has just turned 31 this year and is Qiu Bosong's protégé.
Now Qiu Bosong is in charge of developing instant messaging software. Yang Dongxu, the guy from Xishanju, has no plans to move, so after talking with Qiu Bosong, he promoted Chang Hao to be responsible for the development of Swordsman after Xishanju's reorganization.
Changhao sits opposite Yang Dongxu in the office of Xuri Technology. When Yang Dongxu looked at him at first, Chang Hao also looked at the new boss in front of him. The first feeling is that you are young, and very young. This made him somewhat pessimistic about his future work.
To be honest, at the beginning, he still had some grudges about Xishanju being packaged and sold by the company, even if his master Qiu Bosong changed jobs with him.
Although Xishanju has not achieved fruitful results since its establishment, it is definitely among the best in the domestic stand-alone game industry, and the studio's profits are also increasing year by year.
Just when he was ambitiously preparing to lead a group of his brothers to stir up troubles in the Chinese gaming industry, the studio was directly packaged and sold.
As soon as the new boss came on board, he cut off the development of all previous stand-alone games in the studio, directly took out Swordsman Love, which was just a concept, and demanded that the development of online games no longer be a stand-alone game.
This sudden change of family has made him feel like he is dependent on someone else. As a result, his son can't bear his own surname, and he can't even admit that he is his son in the future. He has to raise another son he doesn't want to have according to the boss's requirements. How can you make Changhao calm down?
But Qiu Bosong was kind to him, and apart from making him, a programmer, feel like he was being guided by an outsider and being an expert in game development, the new boss did not treat them badly in other matters.
The new company has provided them with single-room dormitories with air conditioning and washing machines, which are countless times more upscale and comfortable than the previous dormitories.
Needless to say, in terms of salary, everyone’s salary has been increased by 50%. All of them have signed formal contracts with five insurances and one housing fund. This is simply the treatment of a state-owned enterprise. If you can work until retirement, you will have food and clothing for the rest of your life.
So Changhao is a little confused now, or he was a little aggrieved at first. All the programmers in Xishanju are a little confused. He didn't even bother to discuss the new boss's instructions with them. They must be dissatisfied with such a domineering approach.
But such sweet sugar-coated bullets came one after another, almost wrapping them in sugar-coating, and many people couldn't muster the courage to refuse. After all, after enjoying the employee benefits of Xuri Technology, no one wants to go back to the previous salty-smelling working environment.
Everyone has dreams, but not everyone will risk everything for their dreams, especially when their current living environment makes them extremely satisfied.
And this kind of person with no ambition is what Yang Dongxu needs now, now, or in the next ten years or so. Although he needs helpers who can stand alone, he does not need ambitious employees with dreams and hard work.
What he needs is a large number of puppet employees who follow the instructions step by step and conscientiously follow his instructions to complete the task. Because there are many classic games in his mind that do not require clever game planning, let alone worrying about market rejection.
So he only needs these employees to make what he wants according to his orders. These people do not need to have their own ideas, nor do they need to be too talented. The more honest the better.
"Are you still adaptable to the working environment?" Yang Dongxu spoke first to break the calm.
"Okay." Chang Hao nodded.
"How is the progress of Swordsman?"
"The game planning has basically been completed, and the game background development skeleton has been set up. Now it's mainly about filling in the details." Chang Hao said calmly.
He is the kind of person who, even if he has resentment, will do his job in a strict manner and will never cheat or cheat as long as he gets a job done. Such a person may be a little unflattering in terms of worldliness, but there is absolutely no problem with his working ability. This is undoubtedly what Yang Dongxu needs.
"We are going to make a paid online game, which means charging cards and not selling equipment like Legend. Therefore, the balance of the game must be done well, especially the economic balance." Yang Dongxu said some of his requirements for the game.
Chang Hao couldn't help but frown when he heard this. After all, every programmer doesn't like that when he has completed the planning or even started to create content, someone suddenly pops up and wants this or that.
"Is there a problem?" Yang Dongxu asked, looking at the frowning Changhao.
"Yes." Chang Hao nodded. "The studio used to make stand-alone games. There is no economic balance problem in stand-alone games. After all, there is only one or a few people in the game. No matter how much money is spent killing monsters or how good the equipment is. It will not affect the game balance, so we have no experience in this area.
There is also the issue of the game content you requested. In the same situation, stand-alone games do not have such strict image quality requirements, and they do not connect to the server after downloading. So there are no network connection problems and the smoothness of the screen. At the same time, the stand-alone game is not too big and can be easily installed. If the Swordsman you mentioned is made into an online game, the configuration it requires is not comparable to that of a stand-alone game."
Chang Hao did not hide anything and talked about all the problems he could think of at the moment. Although they are both game developers, there is a real difference between developing stand-alone games and online games, and it is not small.
This is not something you can simply connect a stand-alone game to the Internet and turn it into an online game that can be operated directly. The amount of work required is no less than if you use a stand-alone game as a template to develop a new game.
"For online game settings, you can ask the Legend Game Group for advice. They have experience in this area. Although sometimes the picture quality of Legend is just like that, after all, they have dealt with problems such as the screen being unsmooth and even the character getting stuck in the map. Experience that cannot come out.
Your main task now is to make the game template, and we can improve it as we go along. Regarding the issues of equipment setting and economic balance I mentioned, you can first create a framework and we can try it slowly.
But this excuse and content must be made. After all, with this thing we can slowly debug it. Without this thing, we will need to make another one and embed it in, which will easily cause new incompatible problems. By then, we cannot push everything to a new level. bring it on?
As for server and network connection issues, just ask Legend for advice, or just leave it to Dongxu Technology. Now they are contractors of our game company. If there is anything they don’t understand or need, as well as various requirements, just list them and let them do it. If they can’t do it, we will discuss the issues that can’t be done. "
Yang Dongxu's solution to the problem raised by Chang Hao can be said to be simple and crude. In short, you can make me what I want. Even if the content cannot be enriched temporarily, this foundation must be laid. After it is completed, we are slowly debugging it. If there is a problem, we will solve it. If there is no problem, we will solve the next problem.
"I need to go back and think about this carefully, and I need to hold a meeting with the subordinates before I can give you an accurate answer." Chang Hao thought for a moment and felt that the things his new boss asked for were complicated and even a bit overwhelming, but it didn't seem that he couldn't do it. It’s just that the workload has doubled compared to before.
"Okay, we don't have to worry about this for now. We can also ask the Legend Department for more advice. We can just start the project this year and develop it next year."
"I'll try my best." Chang Hao nodded. Although the time requirement is a kind of pressure, the time given is quite sufficient. After all, it is only July. If the answer sheet is delivered by the end of next year, there will be one and a half years. Do the work.
"Then go ahead and make a rough plank. I will provide you with the manpower you lack as soon as possible."
Although Yang Dongxu doesn't know much about game development and is considered an outsider, he has studied the general framework of game development. I understand that even if Xishanju comes in and the game company is short of manpower, this number of people is still far from enough. Especially when running two or more large-scale online games.
This cannot be solved simply by renting more servers and finding more programmers. Programmers are the main force in game development, but they are not the only ones.
A game planning department includes main planning, numerical values, plot, copywriting, system, version, script, operation and other subdivided work.
And there is also an art department, such as an art director, scenes, whether you want 2D or 3D, characters, original paintings, flat paintings, videos, etc.
Every position requires people, and every position cannot be handled by one person. At present, the two game departments of Rising Sun Technology have only 42 people combined, including him as the boss. This level of manpower is simply not enough to dominate the domestic game market.
Therefore, the arrival of Xishanju solved the urgent need of Xuri Technology, allowing Legend to stabilize and have some energy to develop other games. But if he wants to make it and do it well, he still has to use the money in his hand to recruit more talents. OK.
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