Before Chen Ran could react, a text box in txt format appeared on the screen of his mobile phone.
"Hello, I'm Merlin, the mage Merlin."
Chen Ran was so surprised that his brain stopped functioning. As the most popular person in Blue Star, Merlin never thought that he would be able to interact with such a person.
The live performance in Stockholm at the end of last year has become the most played video in YouTube history in just three months.
The combined views of various edited videos alone exceed 10 billion, excluding the popular interpretation videos.
In Chen Ran's perception, Merlin was a high-ranking figure, and he was busy secretly stirring up trouble every day.
Although he is a well-known game producer, his social status is only that of a senior wage earner.
For example, middle-level employees in large factories have high incomes, but their social status and income do not match.
Chen Ran knew that this was unlikely to be a hacker intrusion. He had never heard of such an intrusion method on the iOS system.
Chen Ran took a deep breath and knew that no matter what Merlin's purpose was, the most important thing for him now was to calm down: "Calm down, calm down."
"Hello, Mr. Merlin, what do you want from me?"
Chen Ran tried typing and found a white text box-like area where he could also type text.
Since Meilin only said a word on the phone and there was no face-to-face pressure, Chen Ran quickly regained his basic composure.
"I need to make a game, and I will give you certain technical support and financial support. All you need to do is make the game according to my needs."
Chen Ran had countless questions in his heart. Shouldn't Merlin be a foreigner? Why did you find yourself?
You must know that there are many foreign game producers who are better than him in terms of popularity and ability.
On the contrary, he didn't find it strange that Mei Lin was fluent in Chinese.
Judging from the papers published by Merlin in the Internet, and the recognition of mages in film and television works, it is completely normal for mages to learn and master multiple languages.
"Why choose me?"
“There is no reason, if your work satisfies me, I will give you an extra reward.
The basic reward is that the company, works, and subsequent income are all yours. "
Chen Ran was moved, or in other words, when Mei Lin made the request, he already wanted to agree directly.
Not everyone can get the opportunity to work for Blue Star's only magician.
Not to mention Merlin's so-called extra rewards. If it were a magic coin, Chen Ran fantasized about killing everyone with a magic wand.
"I am willing to cooperate with you, I want to know..."
Before Chen Ran could type the rest of the words on his phone screen, a glimmer of light appeared in front of his eyes.
Although it was a very weak light, it attracted all his attention.
After the dim light went out, a flying insect about the size of a mosquito appeared in front of him, and then approached him with lightning speed.
Chen Ran felt like he was being stung on the neck, and a sentence rang in his mind: "Cooperation is accomplished!"
Four words came to Chen Ran's mind: "Space Teleportation"
He was very excited inside, transmitting a classic skill belonging to the legal system.
Chen Ran tried to touch his neck with his hands, but found that there were no traces of insects at all.
"*****"
"The above is the Bitcoin wallet address, which contains 300 Bitcoins as your start-up capital."
"Remember not to leak my existence. If you do, you will bear the consequences."
"60"
"59"
A countdown appeared in the text box, and Chen Ran realized that the text box would close after the countdown ended.
He quickly copied the btc wallet address.
Chen Ran still heard about Merlin's curse.
Coupled with the bug that just appeared out of thin air and the voice that sounded in his head, Chen Ran didn't dare to tell anyone about Merlin's existence.
Cryptocurrencies worldwide have been driven higher by many factors since mid-2023.
The emergence of Merlin and magic coin have further fueled the enthusiasm of the cryptocurrency market.
Even the mage's economic system uses decentralized cryptocurrency as the basic carrier.
The imagination of magic coin amazed the currency circle.
It's a pity that we don't have this level to come up with theories similar to Heber's constant and Heber's algorithm.
Compared with the Heber algorithm for calculating the coordinate system of the universe, the hash algorithm has fallen behind.
As for the outside world, some people say that Magic Coin is not a decentralized currency at all. It has the central existence of Merlin that cannot be bypassed.
In this regard, an investment tycoon in the currency circle said:
"We can look at magic coin from this perspective. If the coordinate system of the universe you calculated satisfies Heber's algorithm, can Merlin deny your coordinate system of the universe?"
"In other words, Merlin is just a certification party. The Heber algorithm and the cosmic coordinate system have no centralized existence."
"Merlin is giving you a stamp to authenticate your magic coin with him."
"This is just like the London gold market does not recognize the qualification of gold produced by Russian gold smelting plants. But even though the London gold market does not recognize it, can you say that it is not gold?"
"To use another analogy, Merlin disappears and no one can log in. But the magic coin system can still function in Blue Star, right?"
“I’m sure that officials from various countries will launch a blockchain system based on the magic coin mining mechanism.”
"So magic coin is obviously a decentralized cryptocurrency, and this algorithm is very advanced."
After Magic Coin came out of the circle, the price of Bitcoin has been rising all the way, and almost all cryptocurrencies are rising.
After the Stockholm Concert Hall incident, Merlin launched a multilateral currency trading system in the Magic Forum.
This system is a trading system based on the underlying technology of blockchain.
Faced with the gradual demise of the Swift Alliance, there is no way to fight back.
Amerikan's financial nuclear weapons were directly dismantled.
The camera turned to Chen Ran. As a novice player in the capital market, he still has a certain understanding of the value of Bitcoin.
After all, it is reported in the news every day that the price of Bitcoin has reached a new high.
In addition, he works in a major Internet company and has many colleagues who play with virtual currencies. Chen Ran also downloaded a software to watch the real-time market prices of cryptocurrency.
Three hundred BTC, the current market value is equivalent to about 200 million RMB.
With a cost of 200 million RMB, it is a bit expensive to make a 3A masterpiece, but it can still be achieved by lowering the requirements for graphics.
If you make online games, the cost is a bit high.
Chen Ran was thinking about the cost in his mind. He didn't know what Merlin's request was for two hundred million.
In addition, a message popped up in the QQ mailbox on his mobile phone.
An email with the email address merlin@ was sent to his mobile phone, which contained a compressed package of several hundred megabytes.
Gu Jue
When Chen Ran looked at the email address, he knew it was from Mei Lin.
He quickly walked to the study room, turned on his mac, downloaded and decompressed the attachment in the mailbox on his mac.
After he downloaded it, the email disappeared without a trace.
The compressed file contains a detailed story document and a requirements document, as well as a large number of weird plant pictures.
The same plant is clearly visible from all angles.
Merlin's requirements are clearly written in the requirements document. The background story he gave needs to be adopted, and the plants in the game must become the background of the game.
At the same time, Merlin also gave an online address for the game engine in the document.
It is claimed that using this cloud engine can greatly speed up their work efficiency and intensity.
Merlin asked them to completely immerse players into the game world and attract real hardcore players.
Zheng Li hopes to use this to create a game with a complete world view and form a subculture.
To allow players to study the background story of this series of games, it is best to form a large research party.
Maybe traces of magical plants will be found in the future.
Spending two to three hundred million yuan is nothing to him.
The cloud game engine provided in addition is equivalent to lending part of the computing power of the biological cloud to Chen Ran.
As for why he chose Chen Ran, it was because Zheng Li only knew him as a gamer.
The background of the matter is that simple. When Li Miaomiao reported the matter to Zheng Li, Zheng Li was impressed by the plan of Chen Ran and his team.
So after Clark Island took shape, Zheng Li directly found Chen Ran.
As for the worry that Chen Ran would reveal his existence, the injection that Chongzi gave Chen Ran had the effect of making it impossible for him to ever say the word Merlin.
Chen Ran still doesn't know that when his friends talk to him about Merlin in the future, he will find that he can't say the word Merlin at all.
It's as if when it comes to your mouth, your brain will subconsciously tell you not to say it.
After that, Chen Ran's awe for Mei Lin deepened.
For Zheng Li, this is just a casual move after work.
As for now, Chen Ran needs to speed up the progress, replace btc with rmb, and then form a team to get started.
Merlin only gave him one year.
Due to Merlin's high requirements for immersion and the trend of brain-computer connection VR, Chen Ran plans to make a fantasy RPG based on brain-computer connection VR.
Where has the most talent for developing VR games? Of course it's the Goose Factory.
"I plan to resign and develop my own games. Do you want to join me?"
Early the next morning, Chen Ran found Chen Chi and told all his thoughts:
"I have always been unwilling to accept that our project was not selected before. Only recently did I make up my mind to make my own game. Do you want to join me?"
"I'm over thirty. If I don't go out and try my best, I won't have a chance."
There are differences between game planners and programmers. The time when this position will be laid off depends on when you can't keep up with the times.
Some were laid off when they were in their twenties, while others worked until they were forty.
There are people who work abroad until they retire.
After hearing this, Chen Chi looked at him in surprise: "How could a rational person like you be so impulsive suddenly?"
"Did you get venture capital?"
"If funding and projects are confirmed, I'm willing to go out with you and have a try."
"But most of the people in our previous team probably won't go out with you."
Chen Ran nodded: "So I plan to find people from other project teams."
The reason why I won't leave is because the monthly revenue performance of "The Last Hero" is amazing.
At that time, most of Chen Ran's team entered Photon Studio to work on the "Heroes' Doomsday" project.
The amazing monthly revenue of "The End of Heroes" means that they will have a year-end bonus that exceeds expectations.
At that time, there were rumors in the industry of "Onmyoji" that a year-end bonus of 100 months' salary was given. The exact amount is unclear, but this amount is almost the same as the actual bonus.
The year-end bonus of the "Heroes' Doomsday" project team will not be much less.
There is still hope for one-tenth of the suites in Pengcheng.
Chen Ran knew this clearly: "I secured a first-round investment of 200 million, and we have 10% of the shares."
"I will give all of these 10% shares to everyone, and I won't take any of it myself."
"The salary is based on the industry average."
"We need to find the main program and main artist first, and build the team's framework first."
Chen Chi is the system planner and Chen Ran is the main planner, so the game planner doesn't need to worry.
"You can also pay attention to the powerful battle planning and numerical planning, and try to find all the people inside the Goose Factory."
"I will resign first and recruit all the staff responsible for the company's formalities and daily affairs."
The company needs basic finance and personnel. In the early stage when there are few employees, finance and personnel can be handled by one person.
Chen Chi felt ashamed after hearing this, because he had been looking for someone to invest, not to mention 200 million, but no one was willing to invest 50 million to test the waters for him.
Especially in the past two years, there are very few angel investors willing to invest in the gaming industry.
"Black Myth Wukong" has repeatedly been delayed due to lack of investment.
It is difficult to get a version number, causing the game industry to enter winter directly.
"If you give us all your shares, what will you do?"
"Two hundred million dollars is enough to make just one game."
Chen Ran shook his head: "Don't worry about me. The investor's requirement for us is to release the game within a year."
"And there are certain requirements for sales volume and reputation. I signed a betting contract with the investor. As long as the betting conditions are met, he will give me an additional 15% of the shares."
After hearing this, Chen Chi felt relieved for his friend. Starting a business would have meant a narrow escape.
If the game doesn't get made or is successful, the stakes are meaningless.
Ten percent of the shares is certainly enough for the employees of a start-up game company.
Chen Chi said: "The investors gave us a budget of 200 million and a year's time."
"That is to say, we have to burn through 200 million yuan in one year, leaving some follow-up publicity expenses and labor expenses."
"We will maintain a team of about 50 people in the early stage, and then slowly add people later, eventually forming a team of 300 people."
The production scale of a 3A masterpiece also depends on the game. There are development teams with thousands of people, and there are also development teams with two to three hundred people.
"With 10% of the shares allocated to the entire team, I am sure to find some good players."
"You have to know that there are still many people in Goose Factory who really want to make good games."
“All we need to do is get the team together and get to work!”
