My game, you have no right to award

Chapter 12 Gold Gold Gold

Zhao Liang took the document and frowned.

Project: Crab? What the hell?
Zhao Liang couldn't help but lower his evaluation of this project. According to his experience, projects that are named "code names" before they even start are often more hype than actual quality.

Unless it is a precautionary measure taken by a major gaming company to maintain confidentiality.

This type of name is given by large companies for special purposes, and generally involves considerable investment of resources.

For example, it can prevent rival companies from launching similar projects at the same time, or it can arouse the interest of players and pave the way for further marketing.

However, Megvii Games has neither the technical strength nor the marketing strength of large companies. Why bother with this?

After thinking about it, the only thing Zhao Liang could think of was that the boss opposite was fooled by his subordinates and thought that naming the project "Project: X" was keeping up with the trend.

In fact, doing so is not a good idea and will lower players' expectations.

Invest carefully and err on the side of caution.

Zhao Liang thought to himself.

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The marketing director standing by saw Zhao Liang flipping through the document and was full of anticipation.

Then, he soon noticed that Zhao Liang's brows were slightly furrowed. He raised his head, narrowed his eyes and looked at the marketing director, with a barely perceptible sharpness flashing in the depths of his eyes.

The marketing director secretly thought that something was wrong.

As expected, Zhao Liang put it down before even finishing the first page and said, "A single-player game?"

He felt a little annoyed because the first page of the paper said "Game Type: Stand-alone Action Adventure Game" and the sales channel was "Tentatively Steam".

Does the other party think you are a fool?

He is a mobile game channel operator, not a stand-alone game publisher, nor a venture capital company.

He only invests in mobile games, not because he doesn't want to make more money, but because he only understands mobile games.

Kuangshi Games asked him to invest in a stand-alone game. Isn't this irrelevant?
What's more, everyone knows that there are no profitable stand-alone games in China. Even if he understands stand-alone games, he would not dare to invest because of the domestic stand-alone game environment.

"Yes, take a look." The marketing director could only put on a smile again, but his heart was already chilled.

Based on his understanding of Zhao Liang, this matter was most likely to fail.

When Zhao Liang heard his words, he suppressed his impatience and continued reading.

However, he lost interest halfway through, what with the "high difficulty" and "reuse of level maps"!
He only saw the two words "poor" and "chaotic".

This plan is worthless! Zhao Liang made the final judgment in his heart.

After Zhao Liang put it down, he said, "Sorry, we don't know much about single-player games."

"Please take another look..." The marketing director made his last effort, but it was all in vain.

"We don't invest in standalone games." Zhao Liang stood up. "If there are mobile games in the future, we can still cooperate."

The marketing director was stunned for a moment, then realized that the boss across the street was kicking people out, so he said, "Okay, okay, let's work together again in the future."

"Goodbye."

"Goodbye, and thank you."

After the people from Kuangshi Games left, Zhao Liang lit a cigarette and said to his subordinate, "You can go first. Come back to me if you need anything."

"Ok."

Everyone left the office. Zhao Liang took a deep breath of cigarette and exhaled a cloud of smoke after it passed through his lungs.

Stand-alone game?

Ha ha.

Even if he could make back his investment, it would be a blessing for his ancestors. It seemed that Kuangshi Games was collapsing under financial pressure, making a bad move that could directly bankrupt it.

His instinct told him to think about how to profit from the bankruptcy of Kuangshi Games. However, after thinking for a while, Zhao Liang smiled silently. There was really nothing on the other side worth his calculation.

Forget it, we have nothing to do with each other from now on and go our separate ways.

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Zhou Kuang looked at the marketing director in front of him with a sad face and had to comfort him: "That's the only way. Thank you for your hard work."

According to the other party, he has visited all the mobile game distributors and publishers he has worked with in the past few days, and also found some publishers he has not worked with before. Some of these publishers have experience in publishing stand-alone games and even have the ability to publish overseas.

However, almost all companies lost interest as soon as they heard that they were going to make a stand-alone game, and they tried to avoid it.

The good ones at least gave him a chance to describe the project and the game, but the ones that were completely uninterested were rejected without even bothering to read the plan.

completely annihilated.

Zhou Kuang was not surprised by this result, but he was still a little surprised that no one was willing to come to the company to take a look.

Being rejected was understandable, but having no interest at all was unexpected.

Before the release of its first PV, Black Myth: Wukong also faced the situation of no one being interested in it.

However, Game Science, the production company of Black Myth, faces the dilemma of not having outstanding talents willing to join. However, it has the financial support of investment from Hero Entertainment and revenue from mobile games.

On Zhou Kuang's side, apart from Yang Ji, not only did he not have top-level stand-alone game production talent, but even money became a problem.

The funds in the company's account may only be enough for him to support until the game demo is released.

But...done it!
No hesitation!

His dream is to allow Chinese people to play games related to their own culture, and even have players around the world applaud and marvel at their games.

The game competition that year was Swords of Legends 3 vs. Red Dead Redemption 2, and the final comparison was a complete loss.

At that time, he saw the domestic game production team and players sitting dejectedly on the chairs, crying. Zhou Kuang would never forget this scene. At that moment, he was thinking that if he could become the boss of a company, he must win everything.

Now that the opportunity is right in front of Zhou Kuang, he must consider whether this will be the only chance in his life.

In his previous life, he was just a cowardly little planner who had no chance to realize his dream, let alone the qualifications to do so.

However, he is now the boss of the company. If not now, when?
As long as the demo they make is of good quality and can become a hit after its launch, he believes that funding will be the smallest obstacle on their way forward.

Zhou Kuang firmly believed this.

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"Brother Kuang, what do you think of this?"

Ma Tu, with an excited look on his face, went to find Zhou Kuang with Yang Ji, holding the documents.

Yang Ji glanced at Ma Tu beside him.

He originally thought that the other party was just an old-fashioned person who was good at flattering the boss and was just sitting there doing nothing, and only climbed to the position of chief planner with the boss's favor.

However, during the cooperation with each other, Yang Ji was surprised to find that Ma Tu cooperated with him very smoothly, and his ability was by no means low. Many of his ideas inspired Yang Ji.

During his chat with the other party, he learned that Ma Tu has loved playing console games since he was a child, and he even beamed with joy when talking about single-player games, which left him stunned.

(End of this chapter)