Chapter 745: Go Ahead Whether You Have Any Questions or Not
The addition of Xishanju can be said to be a great supplement to the Rising Sun Game Company. The Legend Development Department is no longer stretched to the limit, and everyone works almost in two shifts.
In addition to strictly guarding against various plug-ins, there is finally more time to develop more game content. And the development of the "Swordsman Love" game is also on the agenda.
As the most representative martial arts game with Chinese characteristics and self-developed, Yang Dongxu can be said to have given the greatest enthusiasm and support for the development of Swordsman.
It can be said that people are given when you want them, and no one will poach you. Money is given when you want money, and equipment is given when you want equipment. And the goal is set very high, which makes the staff of Legend look a little jealous.
The person in charge of the Swordsman Love development team is Chang Hao, a man with square glasses and a thin body. He just turned 31 this year and is Qiu Bosong's favorite student.
Now Qiu Bosong is responsible for the development of instant messaging software. Yang Dongxu has no intention of moving Xishanju's people, so after talking with Qiu Bosong, he promoted Chang Hao to be responsible for the development of Swordsman after Xishanju's reorganization.
Chang Hao sat opposite Yang Dongxu in the office of Rising Sun Technology. When Yang Dongxu looked at him at first, Chang Hao also looked at the new boss in front of him. The first impression was that he was young, and very young. This made him a little pessimistic about his future work.
To be honest, he still had some grudges in his heart about the fact that Xishanju was sold by the company, even though 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 ambitious and ready to lead his group of brothers to make a big splash in the Chinese game industry, the studio was directly sold in a package.
The new boss cut off all the previous stand-alone game development of the studio right away, and directly took out the Swordsman Love, which was just a concept, and asked to develop online games instead of stand-alone games.
This sudden change of job has made him feel like a dependent. As a result, his son cannot take his surname, and he cannot even admit that this is his son. He has to raise another son that he does not want to have according to the boss's request. How can Chang Hao calm down?
But Qiu Bosong has been kind to him, and except for the game development that made him, a programmer, feel that he was guided by an outsider, the new boss did not treat them unfairly in other matters.
The new company has equipped them with single dormitories with air conditioners and washing machines, which are many times more advanced and comfortable than the previous collective dormitories.
Needless to say, the salary of all people has increased by 50%, and all have signed formal contracts with five insurances and one housing fund. This is simply the treatment of state-owned enterprises. If you can work until retirement, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.
So Chang Hao is a little confused now, or it can be said that all the programmers of Xishanju are a little confused. They must be dissatisfied with the new boss's meddling and even his intention to discuss with them.
But such sweet sugar-coated bullets came one after another, almost wrapping them with sugar coating, and many people could not muster the courage to refuse. After all, after enjoying the employee benefits of Rising Sun Technology, no one wants to return to the previous salty work environment.
Everyone has dreams, but not everyone will do everything for their dreams, especially when the current living environment makes them extremely satisfied.
And this kind of unambitious person is what Yang Dongxu needs now, now, or in the next ten years. Although he needs a helper who can take charge of one thing, he does not need ambitious employees with dreams and fighting spirit.
What he needs is a large number of puppet employees who are honest and follow the steps, and seriously follow his command to complete the task. Because he has many classic games in his mind that do not require brilliant game planning, let alone the problem of market rejection.
So he just wants 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 have too high talents. The more honest the better.
"Are you still adapting to the work environment?" Yang Dongxu spoke first to break the calm.
"Okay." Chang Hao nodded.
"How is the progress of Swordsman?"
"The game planning is basically completed, and the game background development framework has been set. Now the main problem is filling in the details." Chang Hao said everything.
He is the kind of person who will do a job in a strict manner even if he has resentment in his heart, and will never cheat or play tricks. Such a person may not be very popular in terms of human relations, but there is absolutely no problem with his work ability, which is undoubtedly what Yang Dongxu needs.
"We want to make a paid online game, which is to collect point cards and not sell equipment like Legend. So the game balance must be done well, especially the economic balance inside." Yang Dongxu said some of his requirements for the game.
Chang Hao couldn't help but frowned when he heard it. After all, every programmer doesn't like someone to suddenly jump out and ask for this and that when he has completed the planning and even started to work on the content.
"Is there a problem?" Yang Dongxu asked, looking at Chang Hao who was frowning.
"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. Neither will 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 that 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 dig out more talents. OK.