My game, you have no right to award

Chapter 162 Alienation
"Oh my god, sometimes I really want to open Kuang Ge's brain and take a look."

Feng Qi casually said something very shocking.

"How do you come up with so many good ideas?"

"Sometimes I even wonder if you've ever played these games."

“I can imagine the game just by listening to it.”

“The details are too detailed.”

Zhou Kuang almost broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and spoke vaguely.

"Ha...ha! Luck, it's all luck."

"Alas, the gap between people is so huge. I will never be able to learn this skill in my lifetime!"

Ma Tu shook his head and sighed.

Even Feng Qi felt that Brother Kuang's thinking was different from that of ordinary people and very outrageous, so he was even less able to compare with him.

"So how's it going? Any trouble?"

In order to stop them from focusing on him, Zhou Kuang quickly changed the subject.

"It's not complicated. The most difficult part of this kind of card game is the design and the stacking of art materials." Ma Tu answered without hesitation.

"But now, Brother Kuang has basically solved all the design aspects of the game for us. We don't even need to create original art materials ourselves. We can just refer to existing playing cards and create stylized works."

“This isn’t very difficult.”

Ma Tu explained.

Zhou Kuang nodded and continued to arrange the work.

"Then you should finish up 'Potato Brothers' first. Antarctic Interactive Entertainment is going to port it to a mobile platform. Please cooperate with us when the time comes."

Antarctic Interactive Entertainment had already booked the mobile version of "Potato Brothers" early on, and with the previous successful case of "Vampire Survivor", both parties were very willing to cooperate.

Although Niu Tieming is no longer in Antarctic Interactive Entertainment, Zhou Kuang still handed over the mobile game porting task of "Potato Brothers" to them.

Niu Tieming is still busy setting up his incubator company, and even Zhou Kuang hasn't seen him for more than a week. Naturally, "Potato Brothers" can only be handed over to Antarctic Interactive Entertainment.

"Write out the game plan, improve it, and then show it to me. Once I approve it, we can start development."

After hearing this, Ma Tu nodded quickly and asked.

"So what's this game called?"

"Let's call it the Joker."

Naturally, Zhou Kuang chose his original name.

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Hong Nianlong, who is good at FPS game combat systems, sent an email to the leader of his former company immediately after participating in the interview with Kuangshi Games, informing the other party that he wanted to resign.

The other party hurriedly called across the ocean overnight to ask what was going on.

Hong Nianlong did not hide anything and directly said that he wanted to change jobs and return to China to join a domestic gaming company.

Of course, he didn't say which company it was.

The other party was very surprised and quickly dissuaded him, saying that if he joined a domestic game company in China, neither the treatment nor the future development would be comparable to what he got here, and proposed to give him a salary increase.

"So, can I be a producer?" Hong Nianlong asked directly.

If the other party can really agree, he is really willing to consider it again.

After all, he has worked in this company for seven years and has some feelings for it.

People are nostalgic creatures, and fear of change is a very normal emotion.

However, his leadership failed him.

When the other party heard this question, he did not answer directly, but laughed it off and said that returning to China would be detrimental to Hong Nianlong's career development.

Hearing the other party's perfunctory response, Hong Nianlong gave up.

If he hadn't gone to Megvii Games and stayed in an American game company, he might never have become a producer in his life.

Therefore, Hong Nianlong resolutely chose to resign.

Even when he went home to visit his family, he only stayed there for two days before he couldn't wait to take the high-speed train back to the city where Kuangshi Games was.

After he learned that all the employees of Megvii Games were on vacation, he wanted to quickly form a team while Zhou Kuang was not busy.

Who knows if Zhou Kuang will be able to take care of him when he is busy.

Zhou Kuang naturally also investigated Hong Nianlong's background, and found that it was consistent with what was shown on his resume. He had strong professional abilities, which Zhou Kuang had confirmed from many people in the American gaming industry.

They spoke highly of Hong Nianlong, saying he was a good person, very professional and friendly.

I've never heard of him having any conflicts with other colleagues, and he manages the team responsible for the combat system very well.

Therefore, Zhou Kuang is very optimistic about Hong Nianlong's potential as a producer.

However, Zhou Kuang did not give Hong Nianlong too much power at the beginning. Instead, he was very cautious and gradually delegated power while observing him.

Unlike Feng Qi, Hong Nianlong has no experience in managing large-scale game projects.

Therefore, Zhou Kuang needs to observe further whether he can manage large projects well.

That day, Hong Nianlong came to Zhou Kuang with several documents.

"Brother Kuang, take a look at these resumes."

Within a few days, Hong Nianlong got used to the name "Brother Kuang".

Zhou Kuang looked at the other person's face, which was full of confidence and had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and inexplicably had a good premonition.

"what is this?"

Zhou Kuang took the document, lowered his head and took out a copy.

"These are the resumes of some candidates I'd like to recommend."

Hong Nianlong explained.

"These are some friends in the industry I met there. After I told them about this project, they were all very interested."

"I think they're all pretty amazing. Brother Kuang, take a look and see if they meet our standards...ah, standards!"

Zhou Kuang nodded and started reading.

The first one is a senior level designer for the American New Year shooting game series.

The second one is a senior 3D modeler in a Canadian independent studio.

The third copy...

Zhou Kuang looked through them one by one, feeling a slight joy in his heart. Just as Hong Nianlong said, they were indeed Chinese employees with very impressive resumes.

Not all of them are Chinese, but at least they can all speak Chinese.

There are even Chinese from Malaysia.

However, Zhou Kuang was a little disgusted by the resumes in front of him.

If these people all ask for the same treatment as Hong Nianlong, then the project will be overspent just on recruiting these people.

After all, there is still the main project team of Megvii Games. The scale of this project cannot be too large and the risks must be controlled.

It would be bad if Hong Nianlong's project affected the main project.

Then some people may want to ask: Why does Zhou Kuang insist on opening a dual position for this project?
In fact, the reason is very simple. On the one hand, talents like Hong Nianlong are indeed rare, and Zhou Kuang wants to use his utmost sincerity to bind him tightly.

Just like Feng Qi now and in the past, the other party chose to join Kuangshi Games, wasn’t it because Zhou Kuang showed his utmost sincerity and trust without reservation?

For Zhou Kuang, this is a traditional skill and path dependence.

But he also thinks there's nothing wrong with it. A professional boss should be brave enough to make judgments!

As long as you identify the right talent, you will get a return no matter how much you invest.

On the other hand, he does have plans and needs to start new projects.

Currently, the product line of Megvii Games only includes Megvii Games headquarters, which spends several years meticulously polishing its works, and Qingyan Studio, which has been producing popular short films.

This still shows that the product diversity is insufficient.

If we add Hong Nianlong, who is good at making FPS games, and the three of them work together, it won’t seem too monotonous.

In the short term, there will indeed be some financial pressure, but in the long term, this will be beneficial to the stability of the company's funds.

Hong Nianlong used to have a very high salary in the United States. If converted, his salary even dropped after he returned to China and chose to join Megvii Games as a project producer.

Of course, exchange rates and local purchasing power are also factors involved. After all, you can't make money in one place and then spend it in another place.

However, the average salary required by these employees working abroad is generally higher than that of domestic talents.

If it were other industries, it could be said that the high salaries paid to overseas talents are a certain degree of IQ tax and premium, but this is not necessarily the case in the gaming industry.

On the one hand, the cultivation of talents for the gaming industry in domestic higher education is still too "extensive". Even many students whose initial goal is to enter the gaming industry can only choose similar majors.

After all, there are not many universities that actually offer game-related majors.

This has nothing to do with the education system, but is more because the American entertainment industry has been extremely developed since the last century.

Later, with the rise of electronic games, the United States naturally took over very smoothly in cultivating talents for the entertainment industry.

Therefore, it is very easy to understand that industrial backwardness leads to a scarcity of relevant educational majors.

As long as the domestic game industry continues to develop, these things will catch up sooner or later.

There will be bread, and there will be milk.

On the other hand, Zhou Kuang's positioning of his company is still mainly based on stand-alone games.

It doesn't mean that he will not consider non-stand-alone games in the future, but that stand-alone games are the most reasonable choice for Megstyle Games' current development model.

Whether it is an online game or a game with online elements, it requires operation.

Zhou Kuang neither wants his own company to be responsible for operations nor does he want other third-party companies to interfere in operations.

He doesn't want to run the business himself because that would divert the company's focus.

From how to produce good games to how to better operate a game.

He had already seen what the end result of "wanting to run a game well" was.

Those are the dog planners in China.

For example, if Zhou Kuang asked Kuangshi Games to publish online games, he would divide the company into many groups.

The game development team is responsible for developing games, while the operation team is responsible for operating games.

The development team just focused on making games, while the operations team launched a new event to make a lot of money for the company. As a result, when the money was settled at the end of the month, the operations team won the MVP!

The development team only knows how to make games, use the company's resources, and win without any effort! This month's rating is 3.0.

The operations team sold a lot of gift packs and launched a lot of krypton gold events, making a lot of money! Rated 13.0 Carry game, can it be counted like this?

The idea of ​​operation will alienate the entire company.

It’s not about who makes the better game, provides more gameplay, or improves the game content.

Instead, they compete every day to see who can come up with an activity plan that can bring greater profits to the company.

Although this will not be fatal, it will definitely cause the creative atmosphere within the company to cool down day by day. Even if there are a group of talented producers who love the games they are creating, it will be of no avail.

Woodworms don't disappear just because they haven't eaten through the beams.

When you see a bug, it means that in a corner that you can't see, they have started to huddle together for warmth.

Therefore, Zhou Kuang absolutely did not agree to turn Megvii Games into an "operational" game company.

It is also impossible for him to hand over the operation rights of the game to an external third-party company.

The reasons are similar.

After all, if you can't control something within your own company, why do you think that handing it over to a third party will produce better results?

Zhou Kuang read all the resumes and thought for a full minute.

Hong Nianlong began to feel a little anxious.

What’s going on? The boss thinks these people are not good enough?

Zhou Kuang thought about it before answering.

"Okay, let's have an interview first."

He neither rejected nor agreed.

When Hong Nianlong heard Zhou Kuang's answer, his heart skipped a beat.

The tone clearly shows dissatisfaction!
why?
He didn't quite understand.

He believed that the resumes of the people he brought with him all showed that they were senior talents with sufficient experience in single-player game development, and they would definitely not lag behind in terms of personal abilities.

So what went wrong?
He really didn't understand, and then Zhou Kuang's words interrupted him.

"Do you have any ideas about what kind of project you want to do?"

"Ah! Yes, yes, yes!"

Hong Nianlong came back to his senses and responded quickly.

What excites him most these days is that he can decide what kind of game to develop.

Of course, this requires the boss's approval.

But he also felt that it was a rare opportunity to have such an opportunity.

In the past, he always followed his superiors' orders and did whatever projects the company asked him to do.

Not to mention the right to speak, you can't even have the idea of ​​making changes.

As a member of a large European and American company, he is just a worker on the industrialized game production line. No matter how capable he is, he can only screw in a few more screws or screw in larger screws.

As for how to do it and how to do it, that is something that only the company's top management can consider.

But after coming to Kuangshi Games, the boss Zhou Kuang actually respected his ideas very much and gave him extremely high trust.

This made Hong Nianlong feel like he was basking in the spring breeze and he was very happy.

Therefore, these days, when he was writing the game plan, he took into account many factors, many of which he would not even consider before.

For example, the cost, staff size, time required for the project, etc.

He was determined to be ahead of Zhou Kuang.

Otherwise, if you say you want to recruit a thousand people to work on a ten-year project, you will probably be fired in the next second.

This may be the so-called protagonist consciousness!

Hong Nianlong thought so.

He handed a USB flash drive to Zhou Kuang.

Zhou Kuang took it and found that it was a generic USB flash drive with a plastic shell. He felt inexplicably worried.

The other party put such important files in this kind of USB flash drive. Wouldn’t it be terrible if it broke?
At least buy a big brand USB flash drive made of metal!

For example, Xdi.

But I guess the other party must have backed up such an important file.

While thinking, Zhou Kuang inserted the USB drive into his computer.

(End of this chapter)