My game, you have no right to award

Chapter 86 The Breath of History

However, when Zhou Kuang saw the future plans for Kuangshi Games written by this person, his jaw dropped.

What is this stuff? !

The other party's planning document actually stated that Kuangshi Games should open a few more studios to develop mobile games derived from the IPs of "Netherworld Mountains and Seas" and "Vampire Survivors", and even suggested that he could consider using these two IPs to make a two-dimensional card-drawing mobile game?

This is the Tai Chi World!

Zhou Kuang's hand holding the document trembled.

Putting aside other things, what does it mean to use these two IPs to make a two-dimensional card-drawing mobile game?

One is a dark-style Shan Hai Jing themed action RPG, and the other is a pixel-style rougulike survival shooting game.

Does either of these two games have anything to do with the anime world or even card drawing?
Zhou Kuang seemed to have seen a group of netizens online cursing angrily, criticizing their Kuangshi game to the point of spitting blood.

What's this guy's train of thought?

Zhou Kuang had been quite supportive of this person before, but after seeing this, he didn't know what to say.

Are you saying he did something wrong?

Not really, because after thinking about it again and again, Zhou Kuang was able to understand why the other party wrote that way.

This is caused by the butterfly effect he mentioned earlier.

Two-dimensional mobile games are indeed one of the hottest trends in this world, and unlike where Zhou Kuang came from, this world can still attract fans' money by using IP as a skin.

Many companies' games also have nothing to do with 2D mobile games, but they can be licensed to other companies to make skin-cloning and card-drawing mobile games, and they charge licensing fees and share profits, making a lot of money.

Zhou Kuang sighed, shook his head, and continued to look down.

The person then explained the need for further financing and suggested that Megvii Games could purchase some physical assets, such as office buildings, industrial parks, hotels or apartment buildings.

Cooperate with foreign companies to launch special edition games for repeated sales.

Develop skin dlc, clothing dlc to generate revenue, etc.

After reading this person's plan, Zhou Kuang felt speechless for a moment.

After pondering for a moment, he put his resume and the first one in the pile.

He admitted that this person had some ideas, but he felt that many of them had nothing to do with making games themselves.

You might be in the wrong industry.

I'm looking for a story designer who shares the company's philosophy, not a professional manager.

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind: Could it be that this person wrote the question about future planning as a plot?
Zhou Kuang shook his head and smiled. How could it be possible? He must be overthinking it.

He chose to open the next resume.

This resume is pretty good overall, but the person doesn't seem to be very interested in history, and all he has written are personal works on martial arts themes.

Since there is currently no demand for martial arts-themed works, Zhou Kuang certainly cannot be hired.

Many domestic companies have demand for martial arts-themed online games, so it should be easy for him to find a job.

Then don't waste each other's time.

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After reading all the resumes recommended by the Human Resources Department, Zhou Kuang was a little disappointed.

Almost everyone has some small problems that make Zhou Kuang unable to make a decision.

It seems that finding a good screenwriter in the gaming industry is an extremely difficult task.

He opened the next resume.

This person's name is Chu Mo, he is 25 years old and very young.

My bachelor's degree is not from a 985 or 211 university, but I graduated with a major in Chinese language and literature.

Well, Chinese language and literature... has entered the gaming circle.

This is definitely rare, as if a special card suddenly appeared among a pile of ordinary cards!
Zhou Kuang's eyes lit up. Such a major would be very useful to him!
Majoring in Chinese language and literature is definitely a plus.

Continuing to read on, this person used to work as a copy editor in a small game company, and the project he participated in was a mobile game with a Warring States theme.

Warring States theme?

Zhou Kuang was a little surprised.

He has seen many mobile games on the Three Kingdoms theme, but he has never heard of any mobile games on the Warring States theme.

He had the impression that apart from some old games, there were really no companies willing to develop games with Warring States themes.

Zhou Kuang suddenly remembered that Chu Mo’s resume said “Job seeking status: unemployed”, so he found the company where he had worked before.

After entering the company name into the search bar on the computer, the first result is a related industry news.

Shijie Yiyou, which received 3000 million RMB in Series A funding from Jiutian Entertainment, has closed down.

Well, after making a Warring States mobile game, the company went bankrupt.

Zhou Kuang shook his head.

Although the two are not necessarily related, he still likes to think so.

After reading the most basic information, Zhou Kuang opened the other party's personal work.

Chu Mo's personal portfolio turned out to be a game script. Although it was not long, it was small but complete.

It seems that this is a work produced by the other party in his spare time. Zhou Kuang nodded. Since it is a game script made by an individual in his spare time, it means that this person at least loves games.

Some people working in the gaming industry just want to make a living. If the gaming industry becomes unprofitable or goes into recession one day, their enthusiasm for work will immediately dissipate and they will switch to more profitable industries.

Well, that’s good. I like employees who love games.

After all, I am the same.

Zhou Kuang thought so in his heart.

As he continued reading, he discovered that it was a script for a role-playing game, and the background was actually the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty!
A very hot historical background!

Another good news!
What Zhou Kuang wants to find is employees who can, are able to, and are willing to write historical scripts!
He tapped the table subconsciously, thinking that this period was a good touchstone.

The alternation of the Ming and Qing dynasties created a magnificent historical period. To write about the profoundness of this history is a very challenging task.

If the other party could write with even a little bit of historical weight, it would be amazing.

Many screenwriters who have worked for many years cannot do this.

So Zhou Kuang began to read the other party's script.

The book begins with a description of the political situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In just a few words, it clearly captures the atmosphere of impending doomsday and the collapse of the empire.

The court was in chaos, the suffering of the people was ignored, bandits were rampant, famine and epidemics were constant.

Through the text, Zhou Kuang seemed to see the atmosphere of despair floating in the entire era, and under the ruined mountains and rivers were the emaciated and hopeless civilians.

Zhou Kuang was very happy. Just from the beginning, this person's description of history was very contagious.

At the same time, the ancient charm that comes from the words cannot be ignored.

Obviously this is the professional ability brought by Chinese language and literature.

If his scripts can maintain this quality, then Zhou Kuang must get this person!

Continue reading and the protagonist finally appears.

As a descendant of an imperial official, the protagonist was raised by his adoptive father since childhood, while his biological father had already died in prison due to a wrongful conviction.

The protagonist's biological father entrusted him to his good friend, and the adoptive father, as a close friend of the protagonist's biological father, taught him to read and write since he was a child and raised him as his own son.

He was supposed to take the imperial examination and enter the officialdom, but the chaotic situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty disrupted his plans.

One night, a group of mysterious people broke into his house and killed his adoptive father's entire family. Only the protagonist happened to go to a bookstore and escaped.

In order to find the murderer and take revenge, the protagonist begins to maneuver between various forces, trying to gain greater power, while trying to find a way out for the people of the world.

Zhou Kuang was extremely surprised.

The plot is too large. If a game is really made according to this script, it would take hundreds of hours of content to make the game almost complete.

This is just the main storyline. If the side stories are included, the length of the game will be terrifying.

Perhaps splitting the game into several parts, like the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, would be the best option.

This way the risk can be minimized.

If you produce hundreds of hours of content at one time and the game sales fail to reach the target, the loss will not be tens of millions, but at least billions of dollars.

This is still a conservative statement!
Zhou Kuang even felt a little eager to try it out. If he really had the opportunity to make a game of this scale in the future, he would definitely bet everything on it.

However, the current game is far from reaching that stage.

After spending some time carefully reading the entire script, Zhou Kuang fell into deep thought.

The opening design is indeed well written, but when entering the specific game content later, the young people's inexperience is revealed.

Many plot details are handled very roughly.

Of course, this may also be related to the fact that the plot script is too short.

After all, it is impossible for him to write such a huge world view clearly by himself. According to the scale, it would take at least dozens of screenwriters working together to complete such a huge world view.

At the same time, the shortcomings of Chu Mohan's language and literature major were also revealed.

In some places, it is obvious that the smoothness of the plot has given way to the authenticity of historical facts.

But in a gaming company, this logic is impossible.

No matter what, the plot only serves the game itself and cannot override other elements.

Zhou Kuang guessed that this was a subconscious decision made by the other party. After all, Chinese language and literature studies the literature in real history, whether it is ancient, modern, contemporary or contemporary Chinese language and literature.

Other problems, such as inaccurate portrayal of character motivations and unsmooth plot transitions, are minor issues for Zhou Kuang.

After much thought, Zhou Kuang still believes that despite so many problems, this is still the most amazing personal work he has seen today, especially the historical atmosphere at the beginning, which he has not felt in other people's works.

Zhou Kuang then opened up about the other party's knowledge of Kuangshi Games and its future plans.

This part is far less amazing than the script, but at least it is around the average level.

So Zhou Kuang finally made the decision, and it was Chu Mo who was chosen!

He made a decision immediately and called the head of the human resources department.

"Hey?"

"Shi Han, please take out this resume of someone called Chu Mo."

"Yes, I want to interview him in person. Please inform him."

"The sooner the better!"

(End of this chapter)