The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 15 Ding Nian kills through the headhunting company

In his previous life, Xu had dreamt of a paper-man shooting game.

However, the game didn’t end well in the end: after a brief period of popularity, it quickly faded away.

There are many reasons, but Xu Meng believes that one of the important reasons is——

Misalignment between target users and core gameplay.

Their promotional direction and overall style are both welcoming to 2D otakus to come and play.

However, the core gameplay of the game places great emphasis on competitiveness.

The end result is that the geeks are lured in and slaughtered by the battle-hardened veterans of shooting games.

——Of course there are otakus who are good at playing shooting games, but the overall proportion is quite low.

When the main target users of the game find that the only outcome after entering the game is to become a target for the old potato chips and give away dozens of heads in a game, it is inevitable that the game will become unpopular.

Xu Meng could naturally avoid this by crossing the river by feeling the stones.

"Frost and Snow Project" has a large number of PVE gameplays, and players have plenty of opportunities to get close to their favorite characters. Otakus don't have to worry about having nothing to do if they don't want to fight.

And PVP will also be a light competitive mode.

As long as players are not beaten into pissing cow balls by experts, the two sides can kill each other, and novices can also have fun, the whole mode can survive.

And "surviving" is all Xu Meng requires of this game.

After leaving the level design department, he went to the programming and numerical planning departments respectively to explain this new task to them.

Both groups of people were also very excited.

Especially Peng Linmu, his blood was boiling.

Although their mission is the most complex——

The character needs to be able to switch back and forth between 3D modeling and 2D paper man. After becoming a paper man, it must be able to move along the wall, and when jumping from a high place, it must be able to slowly fall like a kite and fly far away.

Each of these three tasks requires a large amount of brain cells and is both mentally and physically demanding.

But Peng Linmu patted his chest so hard that he was almost issuing a military order.

Apparently, he prefers studying "real technology" rather than how to make the character's breasts and buttocks shake nicely.

Although the former is far more profitable than the latter.

At this point, Xu Meng had completed his day's exercise and slowly strolled back to his office.

After returning, he checked the social network again to check the work results of the operations team.

During the past half month, he was completely immersed in software development, and the work of keeping the heat on "Frost and Snow Project" naturally fell into the hands of the operations team.

The way to maintain the popularity is also very simple - release some materials every two or three days.

Sometimes it’s a new original painting of a character, sometimes it’s a few animated pictures, and from time to time, it answers some of the questions that players care about most.

Thanks to the fact that Konjac Games has been recharging the water army and leading some water army who are unaware of the truth to charge every day, the popularity of "Frost and Snow Plan" has remained good.

Although Song Zhicheng acts somewhat conservatively, he always completes the tasks assigned to him smoothly.

After negotiating with Pili Pili, we obtained more relaxed review conditions on the same day, and thereafter, we released original paintings with a bit of eroticism without any problems being blocked during the review.

Of course, Pili Pili doesn't give many privileges either.

The video review standards are the same as those for ordinary accounts.

But that’s not a problem, just mist the sensitive areas with water when the time comes.

Tasks such as refunds for underage users and orders for virtual anchor partners were also completed in an orderly manner.

Half a month later, Xu Meng slowly felt the sense of security brought by this "controllability".

The evaluation of Song Zhicheng in his mind also changed from "ordinary" to "trustworthy".

Now Song Zhicheng can't display his skills, all because of Eryou's magical circle.

When Dream Building’s next game is not a second game, pull him over and he should be able to show his talents.

After checking his own situation, Xu Meng searched for Konjac games again. Strangely, their new game, which was in direct competition with the remake of "Frost and Snow Project", still hadn't started promotion.

Not even a bit of material leaked out.

In the past half month, apart from another exchange of sarcastic remarks with the Four-Dimensional Game, there has been no movement at all.

"This shouldn't be the case..." Xu Meng muttered softly.

Who would spend money to attack their competitors but not show up to promote their own products for half a month?
What are you picturing?
Too much money and nowhere to spend it?
"Boss, take the medicine!"

"What medicine? Supplements!" Xu Meng corrected.

He had finished the medicine that was originally prescribed to him, and when he went to see the doctor again, the doctor did not prescribe any more medicine, but only gave him supplements and some good advice like "regulate your work and rest schedule and don't stay up late."

"Oh, boss, drink the supplements!" The young assistant followed suit.

Seeing Xu Meng drink the medicine obediently, the assistant felt relieved.

Half a month later, the boss finally no longer looked haggard as if he was about to die of sudden death at any time.

As soon as she relaxed, her lively and bubbly nature quickly returned: "Boss, do you want to hear some gossip?"

"Gossip? What gossip?"

"It is said that Ding Nian alone has defeated eight headhunting companies whose business covers the gaming industry!"

"?" The assistant's sentence was a bit long and Xu Meng didn't react for a while.

After thinking for a few seconds, I realized what it meant: "Huh?"

"I received a call from a headhunting company today." The young assistant said shockingly.

"I thought they were trying to recruit me, but I didn't expect they were asking me for Ding Nian's contact information."

Xu Meng was shocked. Are headhunting companies so reckless nowadays?
To poach someone, call the company's general assistant directly?

But the surprises brought to him by the assistant were just beginning:
"I later mentioned it in a small group and found out that many people had received this kind of call."

"It seems that ever since He Yin's new key painting was released, headhunting companies have been inquiring about Ding Nian. However, her interpersonal relationships are relatively simple, so headhunting companies often inquire about our employees."

"Slowly, everyone will know it."

"But Ding Nian has shown no signs of leaving, so he must have rejected everything."

"As the number of times increased, everyone's focus changed. They started to count the companies she rejected and even made a bet on whether she could reject more than 10 companies."

The assistant thought that since Ding Nian was determined not to leave, this matter would automatically be classified as "gossip and fun".

But Xu Meng had a vague feeling that this matter might be vaguely related to the problem that he was puzzled about.

So many headhunting companies are focusing on recruiting Ding Nian. Maybe Konjac Games is spending a lot of money to poach him!
They are not satisfied with the content created by their own artists, so they want to poach the artists from Dream Builder?
This is too shameless.

So angry!
Why is this company full of shady tricks?

Can't we just have a fair fight?
I really want to use the same method to annoy the other party! But I don’t think highly of the painter on the other side…

The most profitable game of Konjac at present is called "Divine Bird", which is a typical two-dimensional card-drawing game. The biggest feature of the characters in it is that they all have wings of various colors.

She is cute, but she didn’t make Xu Meng think, “She is so awesome, I must recruit her.”

Finally, I can only make one more note in my little notebook:
[On May 5, he was poached by Konjac Games!]
If I have the chance in the future, I will definitely take revenge!

After taking note of the notes, Xu Meng, who had already reached the required amount of exercise and was planning to stay in the office until the end of the workday, stood up swiftly and went to the art department to appease his generals.

For the current Dream Building and "Frost and Snow Project", every painter who can produce high-quality original paintings is very important.

Talents like Ding Nian who have leadership skills and can inspire team potential are even more indispensable.

Although he realized it a little late, it's not his fault.

It’s all the headhunting company’s problem!
"Don't you just want Ding Nian's contact information?"

"I have one too!"

"Why didn't you call me?"

(End of this chapter)