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Chapter 418 I am a producer?
The next morning.

Gu Fan, Zhou Yang, Wei Chengjie and Su Tong came to the small conference room. Although it seemed like a small meeting, in fact, it would directly determine the direction of the Against Heaven game in the future, which could be said to be very important.

Gu Fan first distributed some materials to the three people.

"This is the company's current game sales and profit information that I just got from the finance department. You can take a quick look at it first. Don't worry too much about the specific numbers. Just have an idea in mind.

"In short, the biggest problem facing our company right now is how to spend this money."

Of course, this material was prepared in advance by Xiao Mingyu. In fact, the finance department would issue such a report every once in a while. However, in the past six months, Against the Heaven's Glory has been fully committed to the development of various games. Since there is no problem with funding, no one has paid special attention to these contents.

I just feel that the bonuses I get are getting bigger and bigger.

And last night, after General Li made a series of strategic arrangements, she finalized the general direction for the Against Heaven game for a long time to come, so everyone should calm down and pay attention to the parts that they were too lazy to pay attention to before.

Yes, for these core members of the company, they all prefer to focus on the development plans of new games and have little interest in the company's specific financial situation.

So many numbers give me a headache just looking at them.

But when they saw the specific numbers, everyone's faces showed quite complicated expressions.

When did our company become... so rich?

As early as the development of "Ascension", the accumulated development and operation funds on the books of Against Heaven had reached more than 5000 million. This half a hundred million was a bit too much to spend. The development of "Ascension" cost more than 3700 million in total. As a result, the sales volume exceeded one million shortly after its release. Not only did it recover the cost very early, but the subsequent sales remained strong.

After that, games such as "Road Rage Simulator", "Hell Racing", "Shadow World", "Endless Fantasy Tales" and "Doki Doki Dreamland" have also been making money steadily.

Of course, it's not like they made a ton of money.

Because the games of Against the Heaven's Glory are relatively restrained in their charging models. For example, "Shadow World" is an MMORPG game with two very successful versions. As long as it releases a lot of appearances and buys skins, it can greatly increase its revenue. And if "Tokimeki Dreamland" can turn all characters into card draws, it can also attract many players to spend a lot of money.

But Nitiantang did not do so. It basically set its charging standards based on the baseline of not losing money.

Of course, there are benefits to doing this. Although it cannot be called a cash cow, the sales of each game of Against the Heaven's Glory are very stable, and in the long run, the sales are rarely less than three million.

This is already a remarkable achievement for a stand-alone game manufacturer.

So far, even though Nitiantang has done some big things, such as directly purchasing the finished game "Devil's World Dispute" as a buyer, or launching the first generation of Eleos figurines locally at full loss, but in general, the funds on the books are still steadily and significantly increasing.

So far, the accumulated R&D and operating funds in Nitiantang's account have reached nearly 500 million.

Moreover, since the game development cycle of Against Heaven is very short and a new game is often launched every three or four months, the old games have strong staying power. As time goes by, more and more games are making money at the same time, and the money on the company's books will inevitably increase.

For Lilith, her idea is simple: spend all the money as quickly as possible and speed up the production of the game as much as possible!

Because the faster and more games are produced, the more likely it is that someone will be lucky enough to make a fortune from negative emotions.

It was also for this reason that Lilith made all the arrangements and decisions last night, and laid out the next grand plan for Against Heaven.

It can also be considered as the "Anti-Heaven 3.0" form.

If the initial Ni Tian Tang with only a few employees such as Gu Fan, Zhou Yang, and Su Tong was the 1.0 form, and the continuous expansion after moving to the villa and even starting two projects at the same time was the 2.0 form, then at this time, in order to go further, spend more money and gain more negative emotions, Ni Tian Tang must enter the 3.0 form.

Zhou Yang put down the information: "This amount of money is indeed enough to support our continued expansion, and we can even buy out a lot of outsourcing companies."

For outsourcing companies, as long as they have money, any arrangement is acceptable.

It is even completely feasible to completely "sponsor" the outsourcing company and make it a long-term partner or even a subsidiary of Nitiantang.

Originally, everyone was worried that doing this would be too expensive, but since both President Li and President Gu agreed, then just spend the money. It’s the company’s money anyway.

Maybe we can figure out a completely new business model.

Gu Fan continued, "According to what President Li said last night, in order to make Anti-Heaven transform to the 3.0 form better and faster, we have to make the following arrangements.

“First of all, I will continue to be responsible for the physical business of Against Horizon. This time, I will launch a new physical product for the new game.

“As for the specific product, I haven’t decided yet, but it has nothing to do with you.

"Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie, you two need to select a group of people from the company, mainly key employees, including programmers, planners, and artists, and then go to Shanghai and Guangzhou respectively to establish the "Shanghai Studio" and "Yangcheng Studio" of Ni Tian Tang.

"Your task is to find relatively capable outsourcing companies in these two cities and turn them into a part of our game development process. By spending money, we can incorporate them into our development process, thereby achieving President Li's goal of increasing the speed of game development.

“Of course, since this is the first time we have tried this kind of cooperation model, the efficiency may not be very high in the early stage, and even the development progress of the game Blood of Lies may not be improved.

"But as time goes by, our cooperation gradually matures, and the development time of subsequent games should be shortened to a certain extent. "This matter is of great importance, and Ms. Li also attaches great importance to it. I'll leave it to you two."

Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie had obviously already discussed this with Gu Fan in private and were mentally prepared in advance, so they nodded and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Gu, we will definitely get it done."

But Su Tong, who had not paid much attention to it, suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"Eh? Isn't that right?

"Of the three of you, one is busy with the new physical product, and the other two are going to Shanghai and Guangzhou respectively. What about Blood of Lies? Who will be the producer?"

All three of them fell silent, and then said in unison: "What do you think?"

Su Tong pointed at herself in shock: "Could it be me?"

At this moment, she felt like she was just strolling down the street and was suddenly hit by a billboard falling from the sky. She felt a little dizzy.

Obviously before this, Su Tong had never thought that one day she would be the main planner of a game.

After all, she had been working as a test team leader since she joined Against the Heaven Game. And before that, she didn't have much gaming experience at all.

Even after becoming a test team leader, she did play a lot of games, and even built a top speedrunner account on the entire network while playing games like "Sisyphus" and "Ascension", but she still had obvious shortcomings in terms of gaming experience.

You may be very proficient in a single game, but your understanding of game types may not be as good as some hardcore game enthusiasts.

What's more, what if you want to be a game producer?
Gu Fan coughed twice and said, "It's okay, this matter is actually not as difficult as you think.

"First of all, you were chosen by President Li to be the producer of Blood of Lies. She requested it repeatedly, and there is no room for negotiation on this point.

"In order to expand at the fastest speed, Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie are indeed the best candidates to go to Shanghai and Guangzhou. And if we have to choose a producer from the remaining employees, it can only be you.

“As for how to do it specifically, you don’t have to worry too much about that.

“Because the entire design plan of Blood of Lies was completed by the design team, Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie will each be responsible for a part.

“When the time comes, you just need to supervise the production strictly according to the design plan.

"Besides that, as an action game, Blood of Lies actually has some similarities with our previous game Ascension. You are familiar with Ascension, so you shouldn't have any problems adapting to it."

Su Tong was helpless: "Except that they are both action games with a bit of Cthulhu style, how are they the same!"

She had also seen the concept draft of "Blood of Lies". It was obvious that the two games were very different, whether in terms of story background, combat mechanism or special mechanism.

But it was obvious that Su Tong was determined to be forced into a job by President Li.

Gu Fan knew very well why Lilith made such a decision.

Letting Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie set up the Magic City and Yangcheng studios of Nitiantang was just an excuse. In fact, it was because Lilith no longer trusted them either.

After all, the games they were responsible for before had also encountered strange bugs, which had very serious consequences.

There is no evidence, but it is suspicious enough!

So, after eliminating these "three idiots", Lilith could only reluctantly pick Su Tong's head.

Of course, Lilith did not completely trust Su Tong, but she could not really ask someone she knew nothing about to be the producer of this project. After all, the producer must have basic abilities. Otherwise, if the development progress was slowed down and the game was difficult to produce, who would make up for the missing negative emotions?
Moreover, Su Tong had been working diligently and conscientiously during his time as the leader of the Against Heaven testing team, without making any mistakes. He even made contributions in helping Lilith to get benefits from the Hell Front.

Lilith had a beautiful idea: As the test team leader, Su Tong's working mode has always been to follow the design documents in a strict manner. So if she were to be the producer of the new game, "Blood of Lies" should also be able to be developed and completed in a strict manner according to the design documents, right?

In that case, Lilith can thank God.

Even if problems arise, a straightforward test is always easier to deal with than a plan that is full of tricks and is more likely to leave loopholes.

Therefore, Su Tong was honored to serve as both the producer and the test team leader of "Blood of Lies".

"Okay, if there are no other questions, then everyone should hurry up, because Ms. Li doesn't have much time left for us."

Gu Fan stood up and said, "Oh, by the way, it's the same as always. The promotional video and trial demo of Blood of Lies will be released first, and we will warm up while developing it.

“This time, we not only want to bring players an unforgettable experience like Ascension, but also make it clearly different from Ascension, so that players can’t stop playing!”

(End of this chapter)